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Marks, so we've got to get this done. i think it's an appropriate thing to have that hearing. at the end of the day, we have a constitutional responsibility for oversight of our justice system and we have to make sure that our top law enforcement agencies are not acting with poll bias or that they have some sort of political agenda that's critical to our institutions to our rule of law, and we take that seriously, so we're looking forward to that. trish: and you've got questions for loretta lynch too? >> absolutely. i mean, at the end of the day, the attorney general is where the buck stops an...

Say there is such a thing left anymore, how would that person view this democratic front-runner? >> i'd put him just left of center. he voted for hillary clinton. he was a clinton supporter in the primary here last year. his ads and his rhetoric are a lot about make trump furious, stand up against donald trump. but at campaign events, he rarely uses the word trump. he rarely talks about donald trump. instead he talks about more moderate leaning ideas like cutting spending and fixing but not repealing obamacare. >> has he been open about his resume? has he explained who he votes -- i don't know...

If house speaker john boehner isn't the world's greatest boss, i don't know who is. first he started the week with a day off on monday. now he's letting his colleagues off the whole of next week as well. the ninth recess the house has had so far this year. of course, there are some people like democratic leader nancy pelosi who think that's too many. in a letter to speaker boehner, she warns that congress has lots of unfinished business. that's what we're about now with representative johnson who joins us from washington. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. thank you for having me. >> you've sc...

This past tuesday and he was told that my confirmation hearing was pulled. johnson, state representative from natchez, informed me that he had talked with the senate chairman and that my confirmation was being pulled at the 11th hour by the lieutenant governor. he had every -- he, the senate chairman, had every intention on having the confirmation hear this past tuesday and he was

Told that my confirmation hearing was pulled. and so while on the phone with representative johnson, i got a call from the associated press reporter, asking me why my nomination had been pulled. so, obviously, you're dismayed and outraged at the prospect of a major governmental institution not having enough decorum to allow a fairly simple process to move forward. so it was strictly the -- really, i got more information from the reporter, because she had already interviewed folks in the lieutenant governor's office and the governor's office and from her investigation, it seemed to have come fr...