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Appreciate you being with us. thank you. sam. i want to go back to you on that point, i don t understand why the democrats are showing up. they have been talking about this lack of transparency from the very beginning. they fire on the committee. one of the most important things that came before my committee in my career, which is this kavanaugh appointment, which could fundamentally alter the balance of the supreme court for the next generation, and the republicans refuse to be transparent about it. you know, i would certainly recommend everybody around me not show up for the hearing because, as they said, you know, they think it s like a banana republic, if they think they have been lied to, if they think the documents have been kept from them, they did a document dump on labor day, 42,000 documents. you don t participate in a process that is that flawed. you review the documents and ....
Fascinating few days we ve had. because we had those two funerals which were, the aretha franklin funeral and john mccain funeral both sort of portraits, pageants of america. they were as american as they could be. yeah. the america we know we live in. absolutely. and then we have donald trump. right. who is this sort of alien force that has the powers of the presidency right now, and is very difficult to dislodge. queen of soul versus the soul of america versus some sophomoric joke that pretends to be president. got to cover it, but it s over. alover the weekend the president launched a report as the conservative watchdoing look, judicial watch reported friday the justice department admitted the surveillance court held no hearings on the fisa ....
enough pigs for you, mika? it s never time to move on. honestly, joe, i think all of us really stopped this past weekend, because the magnitude of mccain s funeral, i think it was so powerful, that in a way i kind of walked away from it going well, first of all it was so john mccain, the message of it. it was a salute to america and a very different gesture to the forces behind people like donald trump, who you wouldn t even want to mention in the room but you could just feel it, and yeah. for me, i kind of move on knowing, this presidency, in many ways is over. and we re just getting through it, and goodness will prevail. that is a really strong statement. i think most of the trump administration and his supporters in the press would strongly disagree with you. one thing is for sure. you did really see representatives of america s constitutional government, republicans and democrats alike, ....
Republican strategist steve schmidt. also with us, an nbc justice security analyst, matt miller. so much to get to this morning. what a great panel, joe. oh, incredible panel. we have so much to talk about. i m just curious, i want to ask mark leibovich, we were talking about the nfl before, the new yorker festival, they invite steve bannon, disinvite steve bannon, what is your take on that? i think look, it is stunning the way these there s like a cycle here, it is sort of amazing they did this. to begin with, they could see the backlash. i do think once you have invited someone, you should probably just stick with it, especially if you couldn t have seen this coming. but look, it s unfortunate and probably good that they get out of it quickly. it is great for steve bannon. i m sure he will take this as a great badge of honor and we ll be hearing a lot from him on ....
Very closely. they hear you guys say this is illegitimate, they hear you note that the president is under a co-conspirator crime with an investigation going on, this shouldn t proceed. yet the democrats on the committee are not taking the most aggressive steps, they are not stepping out of the hearing as joe illustrated and not releasing the documents that are supposedly committee confidential. what is the disconnect here? why are you guys not fighting this more aggressively if you think this is such an existential threat? because, i can t speak for others, but i think the committee process is the best place to make these points. i don t think americans frankly respect people very much who walk out of their jobs when there s a fight to be had. and i think it s important we take this forum and have that fight. other people disagree and i think that s a very fair disagreement. i m not criticizing them. but my feeling is when there s a fight in front of you, go have it. all right. she ....