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i'm martha maccallum. back in new york at fox news headquarters today. this is "the story." john kirby, mike pompeo, clay travis all here on the big stories of today. but first, former president trump's big win in new hampshire has team biden claiming that the race is on. from politco today, biden's re-election team took trump's win as the starting gun for what will now be the longest and most grueling general election campaign in modern american political history. with that, we bring in marc thiessen, former speechwriter for george w. bush and lisa boothe, host of the truth with lis...

Candidates, nominees from president republican president s have learned a lot about how to deal with the hearings. When you heard kavanaugh say as he did, talking about the parties to the case that theyre Flesh And Blood Human Beings and we need to have empathy for them and real world consequences of the court are very important. As a political matter, great stuff. A legal matter, its nonsense. Were youre an Appellate Judge and an issue comes before you, the issue is not the parties. Youre to resolve the legal issues. Its a purely legal matter. The parties may happen to be the case that they p...

Donald trump -- you heard senator hirono separating children at the border. the more they make this seem this is anti-trump, the more it will hurt their efforts to say kavanaugh has a serious credibility problem. they need to keep the issues separate, focus on kavanaugh or risk making it look incredibly partisan. >> martha: the horse is out of the barn on that. senator hirono has said that she doesn't care what happened that night. she said what she cares about is based on his judicial decisions in the past, she thinks he's guilty. senator koonce has said the burden is on him to prove he didn'...

That really is a question for the house and the senate. >> let me move on. this is about actual opinions and really along the same lines that i know senator coons will talk to you about. but in the seven sky v. holder case, i quote, this is you, "under the constitution, the president may decline to enforce a statute that regulates private individuals when the president deems the statute unconstitutional even if a court has held or would hold the statute constitutional. so you told me when we had the comment in my office that you attempted to clarify your views two years later in the aiken coun...

>> that was a proposal to be considered. it was not a constitutional position. i did not take any constitutional position on the issues you're raising. i want to underscore that. if a constitutional question came to me, i would have an open mind -- >> there's no clear text in the constitution that speaks to the question. so these are your own recommendations based on your own views and experience. would that be a fair -- >> there's two different things going on. the one is about special counsel investigations, for example, our criminal investigations. and/or civil lawsuits. that is a question ...