as she says. after this break we will be joined by a group of congressional experts who know the confirmation process well. wendy sherman, lisa graves, mika oyang. alright, i brought in new max protein .to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don t. i ll take that. [cheers] 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. new ensure max protein. in two great flavors.
we are concerned about a rush to judgment that threatens both an integrity in the process and the public s confidence in the court. those at the fbi or others tasked with such an investigation must have adequate time to investigate facts. some questions are so fundamental to judicial integrity that it senate cannot rush past them without undermining the public s confidence in the court. joining our discussion now ambassador wendy sherman under secretary of state. 27 years ago she helped anita hill deal with the senate judiciary committee hearings, which she describes in her new book not for the faint of heart. mika oyang, a former staffer on the house intelligence committee and importantly here, former chief of staff to ana eshoo who was the first member of congress who dr. ford communicated with
way, mika oyang. let me put up what sort of things the president is declassifying. 21 pages of fisa warrant documents to surveilled carter page. we know that s been a big talking point among republicans. and almost this, another big talking point, text messages related to all of these individuals in the russia investigation, andrew mccabe, bruce ohr, lisa page, peter strzok and james comey, unredacted text messages. what is the intention here, ken? look, clearly the intention is political. it is an outrage, katie, because donald trump is the subject of this investigation and yet he has oversight authority and is able to order around the people investigating him. but there is some good news today, katie. as i have been reporting on this and talking to intelligence officials, intelligence officials are perceiving this order to allowing them to conduct a declassification review. even though the president has the ultimate declassification authority and he could make it public tomorrow, t
us in making sure that we can restore some dignity and civility and decorum to the process rather than just have another repetition of what we saw during judge kavanaugh s earlier hearing, which is basically having a judiciary hearing by mob rule. we only got the end of what senator mitch mcconnell said but i can reiterate it for you. he said the democrats not participating, i guess, in the witness interviews or trying to delay the process of this hearing is all just a political tactic, and he wants to have a fair hearing for judge kavanaugh. we will come back to this conversation, but let s go back to the one we were having before that, and that was about the declassification of documents related to the russia probe. joining me, reporter deny delaney and the vice president of national security at third
sekulow. but he s openly saying this is politically motivated, politically motivated, not motivated in the interest of any sort of national security concerns or in the interests of being transparent with the american public. they are using this, mika, to try to undermine the entire investigation. that s right. and what you saw on capitol hill was a very strong defense by pete strzok about the unbiassed nature of the fbi investigation. look, they can t argue the facts in this case. they can t argue that the russians were trying very hard to get as close to the trump campaign as possible. so they re coming up with these allegations of bias by looking at people s personal, political views and their concern that was shared widely in a bipartisan fashion about donald trump becoming president before the election to claim that it was somehow biassed against him, when we ve seen in the reviews of the inspector general and the testimony of fbi agents that wasn t the case. when you look at the