about his years on the appeals court. hours before the hearing a lawyer for former president george w. bush turned over an additional 42,000 pages of documents from kavanaugh s service in the bush white house. the move angered senate minority leader chuck schumer who tweeted, quote, this underscores just how absurd this process is. not a single senator will be able to review these records before tomorrow. the senate judiciary committee responded a few hours later tweeting, the majority staff has now completed its review of each and every one of these pages, adding that committee chairman chuck grassley and his team are ready for today s hearing. switching gears and heading overseas for a moment, an american service member was killed on monday in what officials say was an apparent insider attack. another american soldier was
hearing. no, the fisa warrant application process is nothing like anything you would see in any other court and, in fact, the strange thing about it is while it doesn t have an actual hearing, instead what it has is arguably a more exacting process. as a criminal defense attorney you always want to hear and you want things to be in public but realistically with the warrant process and particularly with the fisa warrant process, that must be done in secret. people who apply for fisa warrants will tell you that the process requires a ton of approval up and down the chain of command. they work together almost with the judges chambers and go back and forth with lots of questions, concerns, you have to fix this, you have to beef this up so that the final product, at least according to them, is highly vetted by both the judge, the judge s assistants, the doj, investigators, everybody involved. there s a lot of accountability even if it is all on one side of the prosecutor s side. yes, s
they were in the tank. they had a bias against trump and for clinton and if you had done what she had done, we would not be talking. laura: would you still be a member? i would be court-martialed. people sitting in jail, i want somebody to look at how the content email investigation was conducted, why it was dismissed, and the fisa warrant. every american should be concerned about the rule of law and i think the fisa warrant process was horribly abused and may be in a criminal fashion. laura: could the judges who were sitting and reviewing that application for the search warrant, for the wiretap of carter page, is there any process within the fisa courts to review that again? if i were the judge, and theyt didn t tell me that the opposition candidate not just an opposition but the candidate paid for that dossier, which was a critical part, if not the most critical part. there s a footnote in therel that is a reference that this guy may have political motives. they never t
joke. laura: from the beginning. they were in the tank. they had a bias against trump and for clinton at nephew had done what she had done, we would not be talking. laura: would you still be a member? i would be court-martialed. people sitting in jail, i want somebody to look at how the content email investigation was conducted, wide was dismissed, and the fisa warrant. every american should be concerned about the rule of law and i think the fisa warrant process was horribly abused and may be in a criminal fashion. laura: could the judges who were sitting and reviewing that application for the search warrant, for the wiretap of carter page, is there any process within the fisa courts to review that again? if i were the judge, and they didn t tell me that the opposition candidate not just an opposition but the candidate paid for that dossier, which was a critical part, if not the most critical part. there s a footnote in there that is a reference that this guy may have p
the chairman and i have looked real close at the fbi investigation of the clinton e-mail scandal and i ve come away believing that it was sodly done, that there were conflicts of interest that may have resulted in giving clinton a pass. the steele dossier was paid for compromised him. and we believe the fisa warrant process was reviewed. i call on us appointing a second counsel to investigate the vet ors. y investigators. you are supposed to do the whole truth. the only remedy is second special counsel. the fbi and department of justice won t be putting handcuffs on their receives. sources telling us tonight