concealing by this procedure? what are they afraid the american people will see, what are they afraid we would be asking of this nm knominee if wd all of those documents that have been denied us in this sham and charade? senator lee? then senator tillis. to senator booker s point, the document has been approved through the committee process. it has been made public. i pledge to work with every one of you. if you have a document as to which a privilege has been asserted such that it s not public yet, i will work with you to try to make it public. let s do it. i think we can do this. it s not that difficult. we have done it several times. at least three times now. we can do it more. the privilege thing is real. this is not our privilege we re dealing with. this is the privilege that belongs to somebody else. the privileged nature of documents has been around for a long time. since the early days of the