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Spartacus. brian: cory booker. >> it's outrageous that he would do that in that hearing setting. i can't imagine what these people will do today. ainsley: chuck grassley hopes to prevents that and prevent a circus-like situation. brian: not much press. >> it takes common decency and i haven't seen much of that from senate democrats. ainsley: his word and her word. there isn't any evidence. thank you. >> thank you. ainsley: hand headlines over to jillian. jillian: illegal immigrants charged in a string of deadly attacks is now pattern of interest in his family member's disappearances. escobar h...

Roy cohn who was elected by no one, participating in the questioning of witnesses and being rough about it. >> yeah, that's exactly right. there is a precedent for this. and it could politically help republicans if they had an outside counsel. it would give them a little bit of independence from the situation. it would prevent the appearance of an independent investigation. it could create more of a trial setting. it could make it seem like dr. ford is on trial as opposed to sharing her testimony in a hearing setting. so it's very dicey and these are all the dynamics that the republican leader...

Roy cohn who was elected by no one, participating in the questioning of witnesses and being rough about it. >> yeah, that's exactly right. there is a precedent for this. and it could politically help republicans if they had an outside counsel. it would give them a little bit of independence from the situation. it would prevent the appearance of an independent investigation. it could create more of a trial setting. it could make it seem like dr. ford is on trial as opposed to sharing her testimony in a hearing setting. so it's very dicey and these are all the dynamics that the republican leader...

To sharing her testimony in a hearing setting. so it's very dicey and these are all the dynamics that the republican leadership, especially mitch mcconnell who is trying to protect his senate majority in the election seven weeks from now, are grappling with at this hour. >> jeremy from the mccarthy hearings fast forward to the present day, you last wrote a piece on the religious right and their involvement in this, and i was taken aback by it. i had to read certain paragraphs twice. i've never claimed to be that bright, but some of it read like a kind of polite threat. it read like the through...

Questions. they deserve to have those questions answered and it needs to have an open hearing setting. i have a number of questions. i've had a good working relationship with her the last year but rightfully there's questions to be asked. >> reporter: one of the black sites where there were water boarding and enhanced intelligence techniques and intelligence committee program wrote a scathing report on the program with john brennan taking the unusual step of publicly defending officers, including haspel in what they had learned. >> it is our considered view that the detainees who were subjecte...