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The confirmation hearing for brett kavanaugh is beginning tomorrow. the white house siting executive privilege, but democrats are accusing the white house of a cover up. chuck schumer is saying we're witnessing a friday night document massacre. joan, it is great to have you here. you authored a fascinating article on cnn really laying out the stakes and the documents were handed over friday night, but as you describe it, what they handed over are schedules been really meaningless draws of

More then 100,000 pages of documents. they are siting executive privilege. the hearing begins a few days from now. let's bring in the panel justice walker. the process sore of law greg was a former chief nomination. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> so, greg, you were there the last time. this would have been a decade ago. you have insight into what the last week or so might have been like. what do you think it's been like? >> his previous confirmation hearings on the d.c. circuit. at the time he was severing in the bush white house. hose used this as a way to attack the ...

Too. >> i thought so. he said -- he didn't answer any questions about what donald trump said or did but he did not site executive privilege. he just said confidentiality which is a made up legalal concept which has no basis in law. >> he tds was long standing darnlt of justice policy. >> that he could not identify in writing and not known to me or many people in that hearing. so the white house got the secrecy they wanted, the disclosure -- nondisclosure of conversations involving the president but didn't have to take the political heat of siting executive privilege. >> and executive privilege...

That the prargs is withholding some 100,000 documents related to brett kavanaugh's work in the george w. bush white house siting executive privilege. so even though republicans with their slim majority in the senate really have all the leverage here, you can see you both sides are really digging in for a fight. >> jeff bennett, thank you so much from the white house for us. i'm going to bring in chris wilson, a republican pollster and ceo of wpa intelligence. chris kafenas, glen kushner, and joe winebanks. joe, you don't support kavanaugh. make the case. what do you expect to hear from democra...