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For people seeking asylum here in the u.s. or people in the process, how would this address this massive backlog? >> well, it is not a bill primarily to address the backlog. it is primarily to address the rule of law. right now immigration judges are appointed by the department of justice. and their decisions, they set in a courtroom, they see the facts, they make a decision and that can be overturned administratively by someone who has not even looked at the facts. it is not really what we think of when we think of a court. so this has been an issue for many years. we had a hearing a number o...

>> do you believe that in light of the don jr. e-mail and other allegations that this whole thing about trump campaign and russia is a witch hunt? is that a fair description of what we're all dealing with in america? >> well, senator, i can't speak to the basis for those comments. i can tell you that my experience with director -- >> i'm asking you as the future fbi director, do you consider this endeavor a witch hunt? >> i do not consider director mueller to be on a witch hunt. >> by the end of that hearing a number of senate democrats signalled their support for ray. now, according to nbc ne...

Base. teachers' unions are pushing for them to go after betsy devos, and labor unions are powerful in the democratic party so it's natural this would be one they would focus on. >> does it have to do with ant - anti-puzder or what puzder represents? >> i think it's both. other nominees would have had an easier time than puzder. because of his financial baggage, his ethics baggage, they've delayed the hearing a number of times, democrats have an opportunity that they wouldn't have had if president trump had chosen someone else that would have been confirmed more easily. >> chances that he'll be...

You saw it reached a boiling point back with baltimore and ferguson. we may see that step up again. >> clearly something else that will probably continue to step up in 2017 the dnc leaks in russia's involvement in the election just yesterday we had president obama speaking out about that and saying he is going to release a retaliatory plan against russia. >> that's right. we still haven't gotten to the bottom of the depth of rush shae's involvement in the election. obviously democrats are furious about this in part because so many more democratic e-mails got leaked. we don't know the extent to...