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And want to put again country over party. >> richard, you as probably longest serving member of the republican party, is that the disconnect that you feel? it does feel strange as somebody who is old enough to remember when ronald reagan existed, that this posture toward russia that is washing over the party and part of the base, it is weird. and i wonder how had you sort of receive it as a republican. >> well, i'm old enough to remember, i was 12 years old when nixon was forced out of office. i'll tell you, he did a lot of damage to the republican party but the damage being done by donald tru...

Produced better justices than john marshall or oliver wendell homes, both of whom did not have confirm's hearings and had not been subject to fbi background checks because the fbi had not been invented yet. the first senate confirmation hearing was at the beginning of the 21st century when president wilson chose the first jewish nominee, louis brandeis, the supposed gentleman of the senate then were taken aback by a jewish nominee and decided we better slow this thing down and ask a few questions and so they had their first confirmation hearing. louis brandeis was then confirmed and went on to...

Hearing. louis brandeis was then confirmed and went on to become one of the great figures in american risprudence. there were only two more confirmation hearings before the television days and both to address suspected scandals and both were then confirmed. william o. douglas was the longest serving member of the united states supreme court and possibly its most influential and its most liberal. most liberal member ever. he lived a romantically scandalous life for his era as a supreme court justice. he was married four times while serving on the supreme court. excerpts of an article he wrote a...

Across the border from mexico. it never happened. congressman duncan hunter never apologized. at one point, he even started giving local media interviews to southern california tv stations, denouncing the department of homeland security for denying his story! that was last year. serving member of the u.s. house, duncan hunter. also last year, there was the joni ernst one. during her campaign for a u.s. senate seat in iowa. republican candidate joni ernst insisted that she, too, had access to secret information which proved something that you might not otherwise believe. she was speaking with t...

Up for me in phoenix were hazing americans. the tweets got a big reaction online including one from longest serving member in congress john dingle. he tweeted at trump, quote, delete your account. president obama went where no sitting president has gone before to a federal prison. the president met with half a dozen inmates and kaed off the week long push to overhaul what he calls a broken criminal justice system. he's not the only politician raising the issue. senior white house correspondent chris jansing has more on the historic visit and bipartisan push for reform. >> it's a dramatic ima...