allowed to discuss openly and publicly and which documents we cannot. who is this man? by what authority could he possibly be denying to the american people information about a man who's seeking a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land? the national archives is usually the starting point of this process. i put in the record yesterday a statement from the national archives disavowing this whole process saying this is not the way we have done this in the past. we usually initiate this, please give us a few weeks to do it in an orderly way. the decision was made by the white house and the administration not to go down that path. not to take the same course we have on previous nominees. but instead to allow to this gentleman, bill burke, a private attorney, the authority to decide what the american people can see about the background of brett kavanaugh in other capacities. who is bill burke? all they know of him is he was