and yet, they respected the fact that they didn t own every document. other people might own them. we don t own these, so we have to go through the process. a process ordained by a law that we passed. that only we have the power to change. let s follow that law. we can follow the law and respect the process and respect the rights of each of our colleagues, and the rights of the american people to review documents that might be relevant here. but let s go through the appropriate process to do it. mr. chairman? i think i will be fair to the republicans. i think you should, too. go ahead, senator. thank you, mr. chairman. i took nearly 17 years to get my college degree. i went to five different institutions. i m pretty sure none of them have been elevated to the ivy league. that s right. i don t ever plan on running for president in 2020 or at any point in the future. i want to make one more comment, and then one request. the comment, as i hope everybody
that does not exist this time. i have documents that are not personal, not classified, not confidential, not sensitive, that are nevertheless covered under this senator kennedy. i was in the chair last night when this issue came up. i made the call, and i wanted to explain why i made it. my colleague raised the point, i allowed senator booker to continue, sometimes patients ceases to be a virtue, but i didn t think of these hearings following the chairman s example that that was appropriate. senator booker examined judge kavanaugh about the racial disparities in this country. i gave judge kavanaugh i think i was 6 minutes and 39 seconds to respond, uninterrupted. i was trying to be, and will continue, was trying to be fair
administrations. they are supposed to be nonpolitical. i hope they are nonpolitical. they are civil servants. we should respect their judgment as they tried to take care of the privacy of people as they try to read directly into the night social security numbers, phone numbers, cell numbers, and all the sorts of things. then we also have senator whitehouse. but i want to go and let him comment. senator grassley, may i be recognized? yes. mr. chairman, thank you. i was disappointed to see last night that some of our colleagues are unwilling or unable to conduct themselves in this hearing with regular order and accordance with the rules of the committee and the rules of this centage. i know last night some of our colleagues even tried to cross examine the nominee about documents, but refused to let him even read them. members of the senate and
sandra: okay. i think we lost the texas attorney general. we think and for his time. he started by weighing a nonthese hearings, and he s been looking on on some of the intense exchanges on the last couple of days. bill: local commercials are not supposed interruptus. sandra: [laughs] we apologize to the attorney general for that. bill: chuck grassley, he said we are not going to dip into begin a cover today of brett kavanaugh s hearing as we continue. we ll see where we left off last night as we start now. 9:40:00 a.m. on the hill. to reduce this, but i think we have the department of justice cooperating with that. before this day is over, members will have the documents that they need to ask the questions that they wanted to ask. before i ask my questions and
at the truth here. between now and any vote on confirmation, there is the right, in my view, on the part of every member of this committee, to release documents that she or he believe are appropriate. to delegate this decision to an unappointed and unconfirmed, and largely unknown figure, bill burke, who used to work for the nominee, is the height of irresponsibility. thank you. i want to start by pointing out that what this part of the discussion started last night. i was concerned, as with any witness in any courtroom or proceeding for this committee i want to make sure that when a witness is questioned about a particular document, the witness