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>> joining us now, the legal dolly olific legal correspondent and senior editor from slate.com. thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. >> democrats opened these hearings with an unexpected show of force. they did everything they could to try to get these hearings delayed. to get them knocked off course. things did get delayed by a couple of hours. what do you make of how things went today? >> i've seen six of these now, supreme court confirmation hearings. it was like nothing i had ever seen before. the protesters, somebody being dragged out of the chamber. chuck grassley really ...

It begs the question that will follow her through the next couple weeks. why would president trump hire her? >> a good question there. there's another excerpt we are seeing from slate.com where she writes about the president using abrasive language describing his son, don jr. about the details and the trump tower meeting. do the claims match up with the white house? >> the claim about don jr., obviously, this is omarosa's account and you are seeing reports as the book comes out, either conflicting some of these accounts or providing some evidence. this one, ime not sure. it is important becaus...

Argued that presidents should not be subject to criminal investigations during their presidency. but he did specify in that article that it would take an act of congress to change the law to specifically prevent a president from being the subject of a civil lawsuit or a criminal investigation and prevent the president from being indicted or put on trial in a criminal courtroom until after leaving the presidency. that article might turn out to be the basis for the most challenging questions brett kavanaugh faces in the senate judiciary committee. joining our discussion now, dahlia lith wik, sen...

Be the basis for the most challenging questions brett kavanaugh faces in the senate judiciary committee. joining our discussion now, dahlia lith wik, senior editor and legal correspondent for slate.com. also joining us, matt miller, former spokesperson for attorney general eric holder and an msnbc contributor. dahlia, i've been studying that "law review" article, and last night i was absolutely virtually almost completely certain that what he was saying in that "law review" article is that only the congress can protect the president from being investigated, from being indicted, from actually b...

List of two dozen choices who has been explicit on that point, is that the signal element that we should see here in this choice? joining us once again, dahlia, legal correspondent at slate.com. to this point is senator booker correct that kavanaugh has an explicit and overt record that might appeal to the president because of his own legal woes? >> i think if the president were pouring over the writings of every person on the list, judge kavanaugh would have given him most succor. i want to clarify one thing. in the article where he talked about this, he didn't say as a constitutional matter,...