kavanaugh s views on reproductive rights and environmental protection have been under a microscope since the moment he was nominated, but one senator on the judiciary committee, senator ben sasse says opponents hysteria has nothing to do with kavanaugh and everything to do with congress. judge kavanaugh doesn t lust after dirty water and stinky air. no, looking at his record, it seems to me that what he actually dislikes are legislators that are too lazy and too risk-averse to do our actual jobs. the hearing resumes today at 9:30 a.m. usually, these battles are fought over visceral issues abortion, education, discrimination, not document requests. but we ll see where we go on day two. another battle on the hill. time for early start on your money. high-level players from facebook and twitter will face congress today to respond to accusations of political censorship and lack of security against foreign interference. the senate intelligence committee will grill facebook ceo
York. this was day 355 of the trump administration, and that new book on this presidency called fire and fury has apparently torched its first victim. steve bannon is out as the head of breitbart news. we ll have the latest on that just ahead, but also out tonight, 10 hours in all of testimony from the co-founder of the company behind that trump-russia dossier. that testimony came from glen simpson, that man right there, who appeared before the senate judiciary committee back in august, and the 312-page transcript of that event gives us a much more detailed look at what the research firm fusion gps was doing and what u.s. authorities knew and when. it s complicated, but let s get to it. the firm s work has taken center stage in this partisan battle on the hill over the russia investigation, and this glen simpson has called on the committee senior republicans to release his testimony. well, today the judiciary
York. this was day 355 of the trump administration, and that new book on this presidency called fire and fury has apparently torched its first victim. steve bannon is out as the head of breitbart news. we ll have the latest on that just ahead, but also out tonight, 10 hours in all of testimony from the co-founder of the company behind that trump-russia dossier. that testimony came from glen simpson, that man right there, who appeared before the senate judiciary committee back in august, and the 312-page transcript of that event gives us a much more detailed look at what the research firm fusion gps was doing and what u.s. authorities knew and when. it s complicated, but let s get to it. the firm s work has taken center stage in this partisan battle on the hill over the russia investigation, and this glen simpson has called on the committee senior republicans to release his testimony. well, today the judiciary
Is a facile argument and here s why. fbi agents are trained in close-quarter battle how to take down an assailant and all those kind of things. the fbi director, their job is battle on the hill, in the oval office. and i think out of the seven fbi directors, full-time, appointed by congress fbi directors i served under four of them only one of them, louis freeh, was a former fbi agent. i just don t think that needs to be part of the calculus for saying this guy or woman s going to be good for the job or not. there was a fascinating interview done with fbi director james comey not this week, not last week, in 2014, but it reared last night on 60 minutes, and it is worth taking a listen to this part. you say that the president wanted independence from his fbi director, but the justice department answers to the president. it does, but it has to maintain a sense of independence from the political forces. i don t mean that as a per
The traditions has not said whether he ll pull the nuclear lever. but he says that gorsuch will be confirmed. elizabeth: with more on the battle on the hill, a correspondent for the washington examiner and she s been watching the high-stakes move and our go-to when we break things down. when we look at doug s reporting, i want to start and talk about the fine line the democrats are walking right now. it s risky to hold the filibuster for a number of reasons, but they have to make the decision obviously before it comes to a vote, am i right? i think it s a political calculation, they have to decide how things are shaping up for them in 2018 and i think at this point, they re looking at their base, the base is excited and opposed to donald trump. and i think that they look at this upcoming vote as a decision about whether to stop gorsuch or to allow him to go forward. and i think at this point, it looks like they, at least from