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>> i just want to close, mr. chairman, by thanking senator durbin. in response to his questions about the judiciary, the role of the judiciary, he gave me a book when we met, a biography of frank johnson. that friday night after a lot of senate meetings and a lot of practice sessions, i went home, read the whole thing, and i appreciate it. it's a good model of judicial independence. it's a great story about someone who was a judge in the south in the civil rights era who stood firm for the rule of law. so a good model, and i thank senator durbin for giving me the book. >> thank you, judge kava...

Questions about the role that he gave me a book, a biography of frank johnson. and that friday night, after a lot of senate meetings and a lot of practice sessions, i went home, read the whole thing. and i appreciate it. it's a good model. judicial independence. it's a great story about someone who was a judge in the south, in the civil rights era, who stood firm for the rule of law. so i thank senator durbin for giving me the book. >> and q, judge kavanaugh. i am glad that the nationals are not playing. the [laughs] because thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for your willingness to answer our...

Never had the opportunity to work for a better man. he is as barack obama solicitor general said a brilliant jurist and his approach to the law is in the mainstream and i would encourage the american people not to believe the chuck schumers and chicken littles the sky is falling and peddlers of panic out there. the more they learn about brett kavanaugh the more they will like him. >> you helped neil gorsuch go through the murder board where they practiced what his hearing would be like but for those hot lights and coverage it has to be difficult for the nominee even when it looks like they wil...

>> there's no doubt they have those kinds of practice sessions where there on 24 hour alert, they literally can go at any time and periodically will have exercises and no notice times to see how fast the pilots can go from there ready rooms into the plans and into the air. you see the results. as a military army guy, we used to have those things when we were in the cold war on the east-west border. we would have those where we would jump into tanks and move to positions. so i was very familiar with that. once you get into the your mindset you can respond pretty rapidly. the american people sho...

The heat joe was just talking about, they're feeling the humidity here in brooklyn. the women had their competition about an hour. miki suto, five-time winner. 37 hot dogs in ten minutes. and the men are up in just a few minutes. joey chestnut has won this competition 10 of the last 11 years, and he says in his practice sessions recently, yes, practice sessions, he's been hitting the mid-70s in ten minutes when it comes to that record. last year 72 in ten minutes. if you do the math on that, it works out to roughly 17,000 calories consumed in a span of ten minutes. i can't say all of those cal...