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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170201:16:05:00

Provide support for. he said he, quote, provided assistance and guidance, unquote. and, quote, cooperated with doj lawyers. not quite personally handled. if you ask me. and i suspect that s why he felt the need to file the supplement but notice how senator cruz explained the supplement during the hearing. senator cruz, let me point out, here is how you describe your involvement in your written submission to this committee. and here s senator cruz quotes from the supplement. quote, for the cases described in 2, 4, 8th in 9, these are the four cases that senator sessions claimed to have personally handled, my role, like most u.s. attorneys in the nation, and with noncriminal civil rights cases, was to provide support for the department of justice civil rights divisions attorneys. i reviewed, supported and co-signed complaints, motions and other pleadings and briefs ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170201:16:08:00

These cases at all. senator cruz did not mention that. nine 86 and now that caused the four civil rights ces to take on new significance for the nominee. it s hard to say. senator cruz is a brilliant attorney but he doesn t have a case here. and the fact of the matter is that senator sessions misrepresented his record. by proclaiming to have personally handled cases he simply did not handle, and the supplement he filed doesn t explain that misrepresentation away. it lays it bare for all to see. senator sessions would not have ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170201:16:00:00

He voluntarily corrected an error that he discovered himself. the committee did not catch him in a lie. he did not try to pull one over on the united states senate. that s not what happened. as i noted, mr. hebert originally testified that he had, quote, a fuzzy recollection about the incident in question. upon refreshing his recollection, he immediately and voluntarily corrected the record. but if you didn t know better, after listening to senator cruz, you d think mr. hebert was caught lying and that the entirety of his testimony was discredited. again, this is just nothat happened. mr. hebertidhat a good lawyer does when he discovers he made a mistake. he forthrightly admitted his error n expeditiously corrected the record. but back to the transcript. senator cruz. indeed the basis of senator franken s attack is he claims you were uninvolved in several civil rights cases that were ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170201:16:49:00

Do you think democrats should be concerned about him from a political standpoint? you know, i think it s a question that i struggle with. i think that judge gorsuch should be confirmed. i think he certainly will reach conclusions in cases that i m sure i will disagree with, that other democrats will disagree with. but i don t think that can be the standard in the confirmation process. he s obviously qualified. he is a brilliant man. he s a beautiful writer. he is the kind of person who would make a good supreme court justice. in this instance, i think particularly since he s replacing a man with very similar ideology, it would be a mistake for the democrats to give up political capital fighting this man who is clearly an incredibly qualified judge. i think a lot of people are saying, of course, that they re going to hold their political capital and fight out the next fight over the next nominee. there s been so much written now about how gorsuch of course ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170201:16:06:00

As u.s. attorney. i provided assistance and guidance to the civil rights attorneys, had an open door policy, that s the key, with them, and cooperated with them in these cases. senator cruz continues to quote the supplement. for cases described in 6, i supervised litigation and signed the pleadings. now, that is consistent with the 1986 testimony that you provided, helped every step of the way; isn t that correct, he asks senator sessions. well, i think so, yes, senator sessions says. now, this is very important. cases 2, 4, 8, and 9 are the four civil rights cases at issue. the four cases that senator sessions claimed to have personally handled but in fact did not. in the supplement, senator ....

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