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It's a fishing expedition. yes, if it's a document that he authored or a document that he was involved with as associate counsel, certainly, or certainly as a judge, that's totally appropriate. again, more documents are being offered than any time in history. i think we thethere will be ple documents. i don't think that's the that many democrats have with kavanaugh. the issue is not the number of documents they will look at. they decided they will be against him. i think he would be a terrific justice. he is a good person. he is humble. he is a good listener. he is compassionate. my hope is he...

Lifetime tenure, an confirmation? >> relevant information is a good thing. it's my understanding that chairman gas rassley, has offer up more documents by far than any other supreme court nominee has ever had, because he did serve in the administration as associate counsel of the president. he has a long record as a judge. issuing over 200 opinions. anything that's relevant to his legal thinking, how he goes about looking at some of the issues is appropriate. that will be there. the question -- >> what's schumer doing? >> what senator schumer is saying with regard to his role as staff secretar...

Across that way. it may be though the only chance they have to humanize him to the jury. right now, actually, it's very early in the trial. i think things are going well for the defense at the moment. >> i can't tell if it's early or towards the end it. it's moving so fast. what do you think of the fact there was a question if gates was going to testify and they say they are going to bring rick gates to testify. what's this about? >> i think that was actually the judge's pressure affecting the prosecutor. under pressure, he was trying to rush him on a particular document relevant to gates, why...

Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on today's top stories.

Out of the oval office and presents things to the president and explains them to him when it's time to sign them, signing statements, executive orders, drafts of speeches and so forth. grassley is saying, we'll go for the first files, the lawyer files, but we're not interested in those files from '03 to '06. we're not going to ask the national archives to turn them over because we think that that person essentially is a traffic cop for other people's documents. it wouldn't illuminate their own thinking, that's the argument. democrats say, no, we need to see those, too. in part, because they sa...