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Detention and entire gags policies. so this is the george w. bush era. this is guantanamo, torture, he was asked what he knew about a key architect of those policies. kavanaugh said he had no idea and he was not involved. >> senator, i was not involved and am not involved in the questions that the rules governing detention of combatants. so i do not have any involvement with that. >> i do not have any involvement with that. it turns out that was not true. it turned out he had been personally involved in white house discussions about that issue, according to a report published about a year afte...

Published about a year after cav noou got confirmed to the d.c. circuit court. when the report came out, senator durbin wrote brett kavanaugh a letter. dear judge kavanaugh. by testifying under oath, it appears that you misled me, the senate judiciary committee and the nation. months later when he became chairman of the judiciary committee, senator patrick leahy actually wrote again and basically referred to those alleged misstatements by judge kavanaugh during his confirmation, referred them to the justice department for possible prosecution. he wrote, false testimony by any witness is troubl...

Gets to decide when and how to apply that. laura, on the issue of testifying under oath, the president volunteered. he said he would be willing to do it. if he decides maybe that's not a great idea, can he be compelled? >> now that he volunteered to do so and if the memos have been forwarded to mueller as he suggested in his testimony, suggests he is now perhaps the subject of whether or not there should be an allegation or investigation into obstruction, he could certainly be compelled to do so. he is compelled politically as well. by volunteering, he wrote a check that he didn't have the cap...

One. this is a snake pit. it can only go wrong. i would never advise a sitting president to sit for a deposition. he should fight it tooth and nail. by the way, allen is 100% correct when he says as long as the president is acting within his constitutional wheelhouse, there's absolutely no way he could be prosecuted for obstruction of justice. beyond the statute simply being inapplicable here, there's a larger constitution. and it's not a situation where the president is above the law. i've heard that a couple of times. he is the law -- >> yes. absolutely. except that the check on that is -- i...

A short time ago in defense of the sweeping collection of phone records inside the u.s., fbi director robert mueller testifying under oath that if the same program was in place before 9/11, the intelligence community could have made the connection between 9/11 hijackers who arrived in san diego in january of 2000 and al-qaeda safehouse in yemen. he came to the u.s. before 9/11 ringleader atta, and he's credited with laying the groundwork for the plot. a leading democrat on the committee was not convinced by the fbi director. >> if we had the telephone number from yemen, we would have matched i...