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>> i'll defer to my colleagues but just as a point of information, we sent a letter to you, mr. chairman, seven days ago regarding the committee confidential nature of the documents and i ask that they would not be designated committee confidential. as another point of information, it is my understanding there are 6 million to 7 million pages with regard to this nominee. you've only requested 10% to 15% of the total. i appreciate that there are a lot of pages of documents, but we have to have this conversation in the context of the total and the fact that we've only been given, by your request...

That has not been the case here where 147,000 pages have been designated by bill bourke as outside the reach of the american people and the senate judiciary committee. that's a further example of why this whole process is gone astray and i think your explanation ignores that. >> mr. chairman? >> mr. chairman? >> who wants the floor? >> the new senator. >> go ahead. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, can you tell me again how many documents have been produced? >> 488,000 other than 28,000 pages that justice kavanaugh included his own opinions. >> are we in executive session? >> we're hav...

Press and make whatever comments they want to the press and tell the world how they feel about this, but the fact is its hard to take it seriously when every single one of our colleagues in the senate judiciary committee on the democratic side have announced their opposition to this nominee even before today's hearing. so its hard to take seriously their claim that somehow they can't do their job because they've been denied access to attorney client or executive privileged documents when they've already made up their mind before the hearing. there's nothing fair about that and we would just as...

Grassley that ran those hearings, i would like to run this hearing the same way of doing it. how long do you want to go on? >> mr. chairman, i'd like to make one more point before we proceed if i might. >> the accusation that this was a mob rule hearing was made by your colleague. i think you have been conducting this in a respectful way. my concerns that i want to renew given the exchange you just had with senator leahy who has participated in more confirmation hearings than any other senator here, was how the documents was handled for justice kagen, a request was sent to the archives, rankin...

Give me the courtesy of doing it. how long do you want to go on? >> mr. chairman, i would like to make one more point before we proceed if i might. the accusation that this is a mob rule hearing was made by your colleague from the state of texas. i think you have been conducting this in a respectful, appropriate, deliberate way. my concerns that i want to renew given the exchange you just had with senator leahy who has presided over more supreme court confirmations than any currently serving member i believe was over how the document request was handled for now justice kagan. a request was sen...