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Opinion. what is wrong with making your opinion as a private citizen when you have taken an oath to uphold the constitution? >> martha: let me ask you one more quick question, with regards to the transparency issue, it will be the department of justice that decides what will be released. what are your feelings on that given all of the history over the past few years, do you believe that the american people should see the report in its entirety? >> yes, absolutely, and i believe that barr has indicated that to other senators maybe even any statement that it ought to be. but i look at it from a ...

Was a situation where donald trump was speaking out all across the united states. he was saying putin is a strong leader. we need to have good relations. it's important for our country. he said that was putting america first. now we saw evidence yesterday what this was all about was donald trump putting his bank account first. >> so you were on that committee. michael cohen is one of many people that come before you. i thought the richard burr comments were interesting, and i know you can't elaborate, but i guess i'll ask you this. do you think everyone before your committee has been entirely ...

The republicans understood much more than the gore democratic forces did in 2000. and they found that even having bob dole sit at recount stations when they were looking at chads -- thank god we don't have chads any more. they have a higher rate of finding republicans for doing that. that's one reason we see people coming out -- republicans coming out. and senator nelson also filing lawsuit because they know that it's not irrelevant to make a fuss about it. >> no. the r campaipr campaign is a hu of it. >> and it was really about transparency. yes, there is more counting going on. but the repop...

So i think the safest thing to do here is to follow the constitution. i'm not going to get into whether two days or three days or it should be monday -- that's the senate's role here. i think that dr. ford should be given an opportunity to appear and to make the case. i think that judge kavanaugh should be able to respond to that. i think that's appropriate. by the way, doesn't mean it has to be done publicly. they could decide -- look, i understand the transparency issue, but if dr. ford wanted to do it privately, i think she would have the right to do that. there's no question -- >> they hav...

I think that judge kavanagh should be able to respond to that. i think that's appropriate. by the way, doesn't mean it has to be done publicly. they could decide -- look, i understand the transparency issue, but if dr. ford wanted to do it privately, i think she would have the right to do that. there's no question -- >> they have. i get the sensitivities. she has the threats. she's got kids. her family is not living at home right now. i totally get that. >> sure. >> for the full complement of senators to make an assessment for the rest of us to have any confidence in what happens there, especi...