You have done in a lower court. Thats the best basis for knowing whether or not you ought to be on the Supreme Court. We have 307 cases that this nominee has written decisions on as a basis for that. Weve had 488,000 other pages. Maybe the senators havent read them, but their staff is fully informed. Last night, before 11 00, on the 42,000 pages that have come to our attention, the staff on the republican side has gone through them. Sir, why did you ask for the white House Counsel documents . They were not germane to this hearing. Why would you ask for them . Senator feinstein . For the record, thats a rate of 7,000 pages per hour. Thats super human. Yeah. Theyre amazing. Theyre amazing. Mr. Chairman, if i may . Yeah, proceed. Ive been through Nine Supreme Court hearings. Is this your Opening Statement . It is part of it. Why dont you make your opal statement. Shall i . Yeah, would you, please . Mr. Chairman, i ask for an opportunity to respond to my colleague from texas because he is
Whats being done to keep things from getting out of hand. Well start with new reaction from Omarosa Manigaultn manigaultnewman about explosive claims shes making about President Trump including allegations that a tape exists where the president uses the n word. Heres what she told chuck todd in an interview on meet the press earlier. After i closed the book i had an opportunity to go out to los angeles and sit down with the person who has a copy of the table and i heard his voice. You have heard the tape . I have heard the tape. Since publication of this book . Absolutely. So you know it exists . When he talks that way, it confirmed he is truly a racist. Omarosa also defending the timing of her new book. What i know now i didnt have the bennet in 2003 or 2004 or 2010 and so, yes, its hindsight but i will say this to you i was complicit with this white house deceiving this nation. They continue to deceive this nation by how mentally declined he is, how difficult it is for him to process
The truth is. We are literally trying to get at the truth here. Between now and any vote on confirmatio confirmation, there is the right in my view on the part of every member of this committee to release documents that she or he believes are appropriate. And 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 when this part of the discussion started last night, i was concerned that as with any witness in any courtroom or any proceeding before this committee, i want to make sure that when a witness is questioned about a particular document, the witness has access to that document. Its not fair to the witness, a witness who over the course of his career been involved in the creation, authorship, review of not just hundreds of thousands but many millions of documents in his lifetime. Its not fair to this witness or any other
Who was the first republican senator to say that trump lacked the fitness for the presidency had this to say last night. I mean, i think this is what all of us have understood to be the situation from day one. So, again, its not it didnt reveal much to me. I understand this is the case. This is the case. The president is reportedly in a volcanic move over the oped. Thats based on reporting from nbc news and the Washington Post. Hes lashing out on twitter saying, quote, the deep state and the left and their vehicle the Fake News Media are going crazy and they dont know what to do. But his own aides are sounding a very different tune. Axios reporting under the headline, snakes are everywhere, quote, two Senior Administration officials reached out to say the author stole the words right out of their mouths. One told axios, a lot of us were wishing wed been the writer. I suspect, i hope trump knows, maybe he does, that there are dozens and dozens of us. Washington post reporting, quote, th