they cannot review all of those documents in time, but committee chairman chuck grassley claims his staff has reviewed the documents. we have a preview of the confirmation fight ahead. reporter: christine and dave, expect the hearing to be bitter. brett kavanaugh is up for the seat of justice anthony kennedy. he was the swing vote on hot button issues. abortion, affirmative action, lgbt rights. kavanaugh is not only more conservative, but younger. he is poised to move the supreme court to the right for decades to come. democrats have several lines of attack. they will press him hard on his views. they say they have been denied thousands of documents when he was serving in the days of the bush white house. and serving his views of a sitting president should not be indicted. they want kavanaugh to pledge to recuse himself if any of the current investigations concerning president trump make it to the supreme court. republicans are on the other hand confident he will be confirmed. christ
democrats plan to target four areas portraying him as misleading and evasive. democrats will take aim at his candor painting him as untruthful and the affordable care act and pre-existing conditions. they will probe his opinions on executive power and investigations of sitting president. on the eve of the hearing, the senate judiciary committee received more confidential papers over his time in the george w. bush white house. committee chairman chuck grassley claims his staff has reviewed the documents. we have a preview of the confirmation fight ahead. reporter: christine and dave, expect the hearing to be bitter. brett kavanaugh is up for the seat of justice anthony kennedy. he was the swing vote on hot button issues.
ever since the confirmation fight over robert bjork the rules have changed. anything you can do to prevent this seismic shift democrats would do. we saw republicans do it a few years ago with the nomination of merit garland. molly: is there anything the democrats can do to stop it? they don t have the numbers alone. they would need at least one republican. is this is there any drama here? well, i think there will be some dramatic speech-fileing. the outcome is pretty much assured. the democrats best hope is to delay it until after the election giving red state democrats an opportunity to vote their conscience and vote against the nomination. if there is any way they could delay it beyond the next election and win the senate, then you would have the bloodbath i was describing earlier. that s a fairytale. the likelihood of that happening is very slim.
err on the side of transparency and disclosure in deciding which of the bush era documents could be released. why the white house? the trump white house saying they re still going to hold those back. we don t really know. they haven t fully explained what is behind that, other than that they are asserting executive privilege. but we know that democrats are really eager to make this a fight about these documents, about the mueller investigation, and what kavanaugh s confirmation could mean for that. because, frankly, they re not playing a particularly strong hand in this confirmation fight. and they know it. they don t have control over the senate and they re trying to tap into something that they hope will appeal to really republicans and democrats who are concerned about the sanctity of the mueller investigation. yeah, there are so many different angles about the brett kavanaugh hearing and various themes that come up when we talk about a kavanaugh confirmation in terms of what he m
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