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Our job is to listen to our communities. our job is to serve our communities. and when we are not serving our communities by making sure that we are vetting justices, that we are pursuing due process, that we are listening to sexual assault survivors in our communities, then we aren't doing our job. and these folks are not doing their job. >> how are you going to get along with these people in washington? i mean, i think you're going to win. that's a prediction i'm making. >> thank you. >> i don't know. i mean, until the bell rings. but you're in a very heavily democratic district. you're goin...

This was a case of mistaken identity. >> this is a little bit more inside baseball but i think that was a turning point. donald trump, people know who donald trump is. people, sort of baked in the cake. but i think that kavanaugh had turned a corner. it was starting to look like dr. ford and democrats were playing this game of delay. she said she wanted to come forward and then once, you know, grassley and mcconnell were like, okay, let's set the date and started it back. i felt like republicans turned the corner. kavanaugh was gaining momentum and then that weird conspiracy theory about the m...

Of things that the committee is so hungry to try to get, and it makes it, i think, much harder for the judge to say, now, well i can't discuss the correctness or what i believe about any opinion. he's right now saying clearly, i think nixon was correctly decided. on the specific back and forth there, they're talking about, he suggested at this roundtable that maybe it was wrongly decided i actually think he, here, i've read it carefully, has a good point. he was making a real inside baseball argument about justicy ability. and i understand why he wasn't taking the heretical position. but the b...

Is something that will be interesting to see how it plays out. he started out in an investigation that a lot of democrats think was going off of the rails and then later changed his view of that same investigation of the inquiries that he was helping to lead to say that he believes the president should be more protected from those kinds of things. so he's had an interesting history and has had his hand in some of the most controversial moments of the last 20, 25 years in politics, not just in law. >> and as a result of that, there's a massive paper trail that he has produced from being a judge...

Things michael cohen. laura, what do you have? >> well, brooke, we are getting a little bit of inside baseball, if you will, how some of this came about, including how the southern district of new york worked with the justice department to make all of this happen. and as it turns out, the tax division at the justice department, you don't hear from often, as well as the irs, had to sign off on the deal. it's plea agreement but related to tax related issues. we also have learned that the public integrity section which typically investigates campaign finance issues and the criminal section as wel...