i appreciate chair grassley trying to get there. [indiscernible] two more questions. >> who asked about the schedule? i have to give you the same answer that i gave you the last two weeks, sometime in september, because we need to make sure that the flow of the documents that are now starting from the george w. bush presidential library, very shortly some of those will be here. we already have enough documents for people to get into right now, that we got to give time to go through what comes from the presidential library. so maybe in a week i can answer your question, but now i want to say sometime during the month of september. [indiscernible] >> i will answer the question, but it is very much unrelated to this come and i am not going to respond to what the president aeets because i do not get chance to read all those tweets. i will tell you what my position is, and it has been this way for a long time. i think robert mueller should proceed and get it over with and she -- and he should have gotten over yesterday, but if not yester

grassley: meeting adjourned. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> also on thursday, senate minority leader chuck schumer of new york city democrats are ready to sue the national archives for documents regarding supreme court nominee judge 's appointments senator schumer's comments came on capitolaring hill.

who charlesf grassley is, his support for whistleblowers. thoughts, i will never forget when gurnee fitzgerald the senatorhone, was rushing off to a vote. said to pass on one thing, and the senator john 8:32, senator grassley responded back, know the truth and the truth shall set you free. [applause] senator'srtainly the guiding light. right, i hado the to come here a lot, there is a plaque that has all of the senators' names on it. probably a dozen. this building is not that old. it is probably from the 1950's. sll of the other senators' name are fated, long gone in terms of what they did and impact. senatortell you for grassley, because of his work, more than anything, his work the whistleblowers is work, false claims act, all of the protections, that work and his work will live on for this republic. every time a child is getting a drug, that is being protected. every time a cop is protected by theylet, all those things, are going to look back, a nursing home, all that is due to charles grassley's work on behalf of whistleblowers. not only

. >> dan, what happened in the last 19 years to chuck grassley? >> interesting question. you could say the same about lindsey graham. lindsey graham during the time president clinton was being impeached said the american presidency has to be about honor and integrity, honor and integrity. i ask any reasonable person to consider whether what we're seeing and hearing out of the white house now have been hearing and seeing for quite some time meets the standard of honor and integrity. >> there is chuck grassley citing the idea that george washington never told a lie, and therefore there is the standard that presidents have to live by. there is not a single senator now in the senate who voted for the removal of bill clinton from office, who has said one thing this week objecting to anything they learned about donald trump in federal court on tuesday when michael cohen pled guilty. >> and that's the reason we should not underest kate donald trump going forward. he's not a knock down these last 48 to 60 hours. we're now about to found out what kind of fighter he is. while it ma

senator grassley another attack : on judge kavanaugh is that he is hostile to abortion rights. this attack misrepresents his record on the d.c. circuit. there judge kavanaugh acknowledged that the court must decide the case on roe v. wade. he applied the precedent, as precedent requires judges to so do. we hear the same fear mongering over abortion every time there is a supreme court vacancy. i remember from 38 years ago when sandra day o'connor was going to be the first woman appointed to the supreme court. there was a real worry then that roe v. wade was in jeopardy. but she is one of those that preserved it in a case 12 years later as she got on the court. yet roe v. wade is still the law of the land. justices have a way of surprising us. i think justice kennedy, now leaving the court, was one of those because even though we did not pursue this in depth with him at his hearing, those of us who are pro-life, and i am one of them, was assured kennedy was one of those votes to override roe v. wade. and yet the 1992, in the case, kennedy was one of the majority that voted not to

chuck grassley, no problem with president trump getting rid of chuck grassley's dear friend jeff sessions replacing him with an attorney general who will protect the president and stop the mueller investigation over the president. senator chuck grassley is one of the current republican senators who voted to convict bill clinton in his impeachment trial in the senate and remove him from office. and here is what senator grassly said then about why president bill clinton had to be removed from office. >> i was brought up in an era and i hope we still have that era today that presidents tell the truth. george washington didn't lie. whether that's true or not, i don't know, but that's the way i was led to believe that public officials ought to set a standard, a high standard. and telling the truth obviously is the easiest thing a public official can do because if you tell the truth you never have to worry about what you told somebody else. >> joining our discussion now dan rather, the current president of news and guts and host of axs tv's "the big interview". >> dan, what happened in the last

grassley said some are trying to stall the nomination for political reasons. dianne feinstein of california and patrick leahy of vermont spoke about the move to limit the request and called for full transparency leading into judge kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. this is about 40 minutes. >> before we turn to today's his agenda, i would like to briefly speak on the supreme court nomination. i mentioned last week that judge kavanaugh's confirmation hearing will begin september 4. senators will have had by then 57 days between the announcement of judge kavanaugh's nomination, and the start of the hearing. this is a longer time than we had for justices kagan and gorsuch. this longer time is how, this is a time and another example that this is the most transparent confirmation process of all time. in 12 years on the d.c. circuit, judge kavanaugh issued more than 300 opinions and hundreds more. as senator schumer and way he said at the justice's confirmation hearing, in nominee's judicial record is the best way to evaluate a nominee. judge kavanaugh also submitted

chairman grassley expects it to last three or four days. once on c-span, c-span.org, or listen live on the free c-span radio app. tonight on "after words," retired marine corps general kate germano. she is interviewed by "new york times" reporter taught south. -- todd south. todd: this is not really cater to in terms of the developer going into boot camp, coming out of boot camp. how does it affect the perception by your colleagues? are slowerar men that told that they are women, that they are the p-word, so it becomes normal to say derogatory things about women. that is part of the dilemma that women have in the marine corps wednesday graduate -- when they graduate. tonight oner words" c-span at 9:00 p.m. eastern. the c-span bus has arrived by for the 39th stop about 50 capitals tour, along the island of oahu, visiting the capital of honolulu. to have youited here. i think this is a great opportunity for showcasing hawaii across the nation. welcome and aloha. >> i want to give a warm welcome to the cable satellite network, better known as

grassley: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: i'm glad to join my friend in this effort because this fits into a lot of things we're trying to accomplish that congress has done for decades, trying to give consumers information. remember maybe 40 years ago, i don't think it's 50 years ago, congress passed legislation that you had to have a window sticker on cars of the cost of the cars so consumers wouldn't be -- go back and forth between dealers. you can't go to a gas station without knowing what it costs. and then the -- even the pharmaceutical companies themselves want to educate consumers with these ads, and i've always supported the advertising of -- of these pharmaceutical drugs, but they want to -- they want to educate you not only about the value of their drugs but down to the bottom and then half the ad usually tells you if you take this drug, what the side effects are going to do, maybe implying that it is even life dangerous. that is a very important thing to educate the public about. so all we're trying to do

so jay, why now on opening and lindsey graham and chuck grassley. are they vying for the job?he difference right now and today if you will, than two weeks ago when we weren't hearing such talk from senators in. >> well i think i would be surprised if either wanted that job. i can't imagine many people in american want that job, to stand between donald trump and bob mueller and tread that fine line. i do think there is -- we should note importantly there is a caveat in what both chuck grassley and lindsey graham are saying and they don't believe this new nomination should come before the mid-term elections so while grassley did say he would have time in his schedule and would have to first wait until the confirmation of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court and then maybe after the -- the actual elections in november they could consider perhaps holding hearings on a new attorney general. but this is clear that this case, that this investigation is yielding incredible fruit. it is actually having huge impacts. and i think you see with michael cohen this spawning other kinds of in

grassley: senator booker? sen. booker: i'm grateful the panel is here and it meant a lot of folks who work under you, and i have addresses amount of respect for the service that they had given to the country. but i have concerns about the policies that we have, a lot of them stemming from white house, that have caused a lot of harm and do not represent who we are or our best values for i went down to texas recently, in the first thing i did after landing around midnight was to drive to the port of entry nearby, and i crossed over into mexico, walking in the dark, the length of the bridge across the rio grande into mexico. as soon as i got there, the mexican officials were warning me about the danger of going further into the community. i am a big guy. but they were concerned. "cuidado, esta peligroso." that was not my intention to go to the community. i really came back around to walk back in and see how people who were looking to present themselves for asylum were greeted. i was surprised because as and as i got t

they made no effort to make their requests any less reasonable and senator grassley rightly rejected them. by now americans are starting to see through the rouge. the ridiculousness of this these demands is to delay. delay. judge kavanaugh's hearing to delay his inevitable confirmation. last week senator grassley announced that the hearing for judge kavanaugh would start on september 4, immediately democrats insisted that the committee is rushing to hold judge kavanaugh's confirmation hear. but the hearings for the last three nominees, justice sotomayor, sonia sotomayor, elena kagan, and neil gorsuch were held 48 or 49 days after the president announced that his nominations. by comparison judge kavanaugh's hearings will start 57 days after his nomination was announced. aprairntly the -- apparently the judiciary committee are in such a rush they gave the democrats an extra week to review the records. they are saying that republicans are -- progressives are doing this in an attempt to muddy the waters. they are hoping that the people will focus on the arts rather than diving into judge

that a small but significant shift of grassley.h and no love lost of grassley and sessions and openly feuding over criminal justice reform and could have played into it. graham, as well. cracks, if you will, in the republican defense against sessions, especially notable as at the time where trump is really escalating the feud with his attorney general. >> talk to us a little bit more about the timing then. is it looking like the midterms is a factor in all of this? >> reporter: yeah. we have heard that from republican leadership yesterday after the very notable comments of graham, the notable comments of grassley. again, not connected specifically to sessions but indicating some openness at the possibility of the firing and every context you hear republicans say after the midterm elections. of course, firing sessions, that potential ramification of that to not help republicans in midterms and caveat and they include in every step of the way. >> sunlen, thank you. >>> up next, we'll stay top of the breaking news. granted immunity in

senator grassley: senator tillis? senator tillis: i'm trying to figure out if i can get these normalized. people accepting the answer that rest suits the narrative. can you explain to me again, one, the number of children who have not been yet reunified with her parents? >> yes, sir. senator tillis: and i want to talk about the reasons why. >> of the children in our care, at the time of the judge's decision who were determined to have been separated or we had indications of separation based on our analysis, 1961 -- excuse me -- 1992 of those as of this day are no longer in care. 559 remain in care. senator tillis: 559 are the number of children who may be able to be reunified with her parents present information you have that have not yet? >> that would include both those who we have not yet reunified, but maybe eligible for reification, such as the remaining miners who might have parents that have been released into the interior or the remaining wants that might have parents who have returned to home country, but it

grassley is upset because they've had a good relationship aound. that in terms of russia, i don't think it's any moment in terms of the judges, they have to find a new person to work with grassly and keep plowing through these judge appointments. >> julie, that leads me to my question for you to michael's point, politically, what itself the impact of someone leak don mcgahn leaving the white house? >> any time you have a senior official in a white house who leaves, there creates a little instable as the west wing sorts out who will replace them, if they will take that job in the wrong direction. to the point that sarah made earlier the impact is broader than that. he has been somebody in the west wing who conservatives on capitol hill have looked tworsd as someone who is essentially representing main stream conservetism in the west wing. we know trump is not particularly ideological, mcgahn is there, also the broader reshaping of the judiciary across the country that we've seen, it's something that mitch mcconnell, chuck grassley has given the coun

chuck grassley expects the hearing to last three days to four days. we will have live coverage on c-span3, online at www.c-span.org, and streaming on the free c-span radio app. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] will take you to austin, texas, for the so-called resurgent gathering, a conference of grassroots conservatives posted by erick erickson. attendees heard from gary marx, one of the founders of the judicial prices network, which helps compose president trump list of potential supreme court nominees during the campaign. >> all right. those lights are bright. but we are glad to have this opportunity to talk about the supreme court. we obviously have a very consequential, probably, two months ahead of us here, and we have great experts here to talk about the supreme court. gave brief bios. glad to introduce minor ds -- mario diaz. anappears in media and is expert on constitutional law. glad

senator grassley, the current judiciary dhar, reversed course in what he was saying, which is that the judiciary committee had no time to confirm a new a.g. now he is saying, yes, they do have time. so lindsey graham and then there is chuck grassley, who are saying maybe it's time to get somebody new in there. when you hear this, charlie sykes, i don't see republicans running for cover with the president and all of the convicted felons that now surround him. trying to find a way to it seems help the president push back on all of this. >> and the timing is awfully interesting. you have donald trump's own swamp turning against him at the same time he is giving interviews where he sounds like a mob boss and he is clearly at cross purposes with his own attorney general. this would be the moment i would think for republicans congress to say, okay, mr. president, we will stand with the rule of law. there are limits, but again as we have so many times, you know, in the past seen, they are not doing that. they are apparently very, very comfortable with donald trump's swamp. i'm afraid that lin

i have to say senator grassley is somebody who's a decent man but he is not holding up the flag of the senate in an admirable way by what they are doing rudy giuliani yesterday declared that the united states might not comply with the subpoena and all the more reason that we need to know cavanaugh's record on these things because cavanaugh has said so many negative things about limiting presidential power in holding presidents accountable. it matters what. per capita things about this is the case they come to the civil court relatively soon. before we elevate someone to the civil court we may have to rule on the issue of presidential subpoenas, the senate and the american people deserve to know what the nominee thanks. we have unprecedented in historic obstruction by senate republicans and they use to demand transparency and we gave it to him. the issue is not how many documents but the percentage. we gave them all of kagan's documents and all of the mayor's commands and they are giving us 7% of cavanaugh's documents. the question that looms what's in the 93% they don't want to show us

judiciary committee chair, chuck grassley expects the hearing to last 3 to 4 days. watch it all live on c-span3, c-span.org or listen live on the free c-span radio app. >> white house press secretary, sarah sanders, today announced president trump was revoking the security clearance of john brennan. the former cia director under the obama administration. the statement from president trump came at the top of a press briefing for reporters at the white house. this is about 20 minutes.

now senator grassley has said we can't see all of those. he is saying the judiciary committee is making a determination that about 60,000 can only be seen by judiciary committee members, and only in private and they're not allowed to tell anybody what's in them. this is outrageous. i have to say, senator grassley is somebody who is a decent man, but he is not holding up the flag of the senate in an admirable way at all here. by what they're doing. rudy giuliani yesterday declared the united states may decide not to comply with a subpoena. all the more reason that we need to know kavanaugh's record on these things, because kavanaugh has said so many negative things about limiting presidential power and holding presidents accountable. so it matters what brett kavanaugh thinks about this, because this case may come to the supreme court relatively soon. before we elevate someone to the supreme court, we may have to rule on the issue of presidential subpoenas. the senate and the american people deserve to know what the nominee thinks. so we have

thanks, chuck grassley. appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> dana: now let's bring in bret baier, anchor of "special report." a couple thoughts about senator john mccain, if you will. the details are set. senator mcconnell saying he's setting up a bipartisan group to look at all the ways that we might honor john mccain. >> the senators on both sides of the aisle will find something that they agree on. i'm not sure it's going to be renaming the russell senate office building, although that's what chuck schumer and jeff flake and others have said that they have signed on to. there may be other tributing that the senators come to agree on. i think we're going to see over the next few days a lot of outpouring, a lot of stories, a lot of remembrance. a real traditional funeral for a guy that really attracted a lot of attention in american politics and throughout the last decades. >> dana: indeed, the next several days. a fitting sent off to senator john mccain. on another topic that i just spoke to senator g

the letter to chuck grassley indicated they wanted a fair bipartisan process. 2 reveal all of this. nothing is warranted. anything in terms of delaying the process and their assertion that somehow the manafort and the cohen issue that has nothing related to trump are absolutely baseless. >> the judge has in the past suggested that the sitting president cannot be indicted. that is the doj guidelines. dupree cavanaugh on the bench and the critics said it'll be in. >> well, brett kavanaugh has had a very stellar judicial record. over 300 opinions show his infidelity to the constitution in his capacity as a supreme court justice, what he would ultimately rule is not supposed to be part of the senate confirmation hearing. the fact that democrats use that as a particular tactic not only undermined the credibility of the justice that has had a very long track record to the constitution, but also the senate has more document than almost any other judicial nominee previous. >> 30 seconds left. what is your prediction? they have the most of the nomination will go through

during the time we were away from washington this last week, chairman grassley said that the confirmation hearing for judge kavanaugh will begin on september 4, which will be 57 days after president trump's announcement of the nomination. this is entirely consistent with justices sotomayor and kagan and gorsuch. hearings for those nominees occurred 48 or 49 days after the president's announcement. we continue to hear new lines of attack developing, or i should say trying to develop. one i heard involved judge kavanaugh's role as a staff secretary in the white house, an important job to be sure, but one more like a traffic cop, in this case for documents, than a substantive policymaker. as staff secretary he didn't contribute to the documents, he didn't make the policy articulated in the documents, he just made sure they made their way properly vetted through the white house to the president for signature. that's what the staff secretary does. others have said they wonder what role judge kavanaugh played in developing administration policy regarding detention and interrogation of suspected

we know, for example, that chairman grassley already sent a request to the bush library to recover many of the records that pertain to the nominee's service when he worked at the white house counsel's office. this was a unilateral request, unfortunately, because our democratic colleagues refused to join it, even after two weeks of negotiations trying to find a way both sides could agree. this is, unfortunately, i think another sign of obstruction, which is basically all of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle who are opposing this nomination have left. many of the democrats on the other side have made clear they really aren't interested in the nominee's qualifications. as i mentioned previously, five of them came out against the nominee before he was even named. in other words, taking the position that any person nominated by president trump would not be able to earn their support. 15 more, after the nominee was named, came out in opposition. so 20 democrats have already announced their opposition to the nominee without even taking a few moments to even meet with the judge or g

grassley and his colleagues have kept sessions in his jobben an appeared to give him the green light to go forward. on the parred question, it's interesting the president didn't talk to the pardon attorney or an attorney but his own personal attorney. thanks for making the time. >> thanks a lot. >>> does michael cope's plea agreement jeopardize the trump organization? the legal exposure of the president's business and the trump kids right after this. >>> in the wake of michael cohen's plea deal, there's been a lot of discussion about president trump's possible personal legal jeopardy and whether a sitting president is insulated from indictment or prosecution by the fact that he is the president. we do know with some certainty who would not be so insulated, officers and employees of the president's company, the trump organization if it had participated in any illegal scheme. if you listen carefully, the prosecutor describing how michael cohen sought reimbursement for his hush money payments, that prosecutor is talking about the trump organization which he refers to simply as the candi

i'm told their staffs haven't been talking at all and feinstein and grassley typically get along.hink the key to understanding is that that she's running for reelection against kevin de leon, democrat from state government in california who is running to the left and saying, you should do anything you can, even shut down the government to stop. >> all of the senators are under pressure and in their local races, i do think the republicans got some good news this week in a poll that came out of missouri where senator claire msk call is up for reelection, heidi heitkam and manchin and donly voted for gorsuch before. the latest poll shows her race is dead even with the state attorney general there in recent poll. so if that holds true, you could see another democrat really weighing whether they need to vote for judge kavanaugh. paul: what do you think of shutting the government down over kavanaugh? >> i love it. we are considering a nominee to the supreme court, the ultimate symbol of the rule of law and they want to shut down government to stop him. paul: so you're saying it would be

senator grassley. what are you hearing? >> reporter: what we are told right now is at least on the staff level, the judiciary committee has reached out to michael cohen and his lawyer lanny davis to get an early read on what michael cohen pled to a couple days ago. basically, the decision being whether or not the judiciary committee is going to look into that. here's why that's really interesting. when you talk to republicans on capitol hill, and we've seen this over the course of the last 24 hours, they're already ready to move on from this issue. if a republican-led committee dug into what happened, obviously the clear implication of the president here, that would make this issue very, very relevant in the weeks and months ahead. i do also think that it's yo noteworthy coming from chuck grassley. it will be interesting to see where this goes from here. initial steps is what we're told at this moment. if this escalates, it will be something to keep an eye on. >> we're all counting. phil, thanks for that report. rachael, i'

grassley: i ask that the calling of the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: before i speak, i ask unanimous consent that akash singh, immigration counsel with my judiciary committee staff, and robert shiftlett, detail from the department of homeland security, be granted floor privileges for the duration of today's session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: today i come to the floor to speak about a recent tragedy that has deeply impacted my home state of iowa and i think all of the country because of cable television is well aware of this. yesterday authorities announced they found the remains of a 20-year-old university of iowa sophomore, mollie tibbett of brooklyn, iowa. after searching tirelessly for months, state and local law enforcement announced the unthinkable. mollie was murdered in cold blood. i'd like to commend the efforts of all involved in searching for this remarkable young woman, including the iowa division of criminal investigation, the f.b.i., homeland security, an

two people in particular and i hope you join me in showing your appreciation for chairman chuck grassley and republican leader mitch mcconnell, thank you for delivering. for a american tradition -- for a principled american judiciary. the men and women in this room have been supporting judicial nominees, you've made your case is in our states, and in public debate. we are grateful for everything you've done. i know you're particularly grateful that we've also nominated a number of members into positions in cords around the country, including one who ended up serving with distinction on the 10th circuit court of appeals, a former member by the name of justice neil gorsuch. in nominating just as gorsuch president trump kept his word, toappointed a justice replace antonin scalia a. and in the early days of his tenure, justice gorsuch has proven himself. commitment to the constitution and the principles of limited government, president trump and i could not be more proud of of justice gorsuch. we also cannot be more proud of , judget justice kavanaugh. i don't have to tell members of the rep

grassley and his colleagues have kept sessions in his jobben an appeared to give him the green light to go forward. on the parred question, it's interesting the president didn't talk to the pardon attorney or an attorney but his own personal attorney. thanks for making the time. >> thanks a lot. >>> does michael cope's plea agreement jeopardize the trump organization? the legal exposure of the president's business and the trump kids right after this. adults are just kids with much, much better toys. introducing the 2018 c-class sedan, coupe and cabriolet. the thrills keep getting better. lease the c300 sedan for $399 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. now i know you're thinking, "i don't want to hear about insurance." cause let's be honest, nobody likes dealing with insurance, right? which is why esurance hired me, dennis quaid, as their spokesperson because apparently, i'm highly likable. i like dennis quaid. awww. and they want me to let you know that, cue overdramatic music, they're on a mission to make insurance painless. excuse me, yo

and senator grassley can do it with the flick of his pen. and i would appeal to him, as a man again who has stood for disclosure and openness, who has probed and gotten angry as executive branch members on both parties for withholding information, and now of course we have this 180-degree it un. it is not like the best of chairman grassley. and i hope he'll change his mind. certainly there's an offer to allow senators to view these documents, but they ought to be released to the public. we don't have secret proceedings when we choose a supreme court justice. it's not the senate going into the old chamber and debating among themselves. these documents should be made public. the senate should not be in the practice of shrouding the eyes of the public from crucial -- from the crucial business of learning what a supreme court nominee will be like. i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. i'd withhold. the presiding officer: morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume con

thank you to leader mcconnell and senator grassley for your steadfast report -- support for my nomination. i want to extend my appreciation to everyone today. you have encouraged me all the way. whether in high school, law school, private practice, or during this confirmation process. i will do everything in my power to live up to the faith that you placed in me and the responsibilities of judicial office. i will respect the constitution. i will exercise the fortitude and humility of a judge and i will always support the rule of the and the independence of the judiciary. [applause] >> that's it. we do it quick here on the dz circuit. -- d.c. circuit. congratulations to britt, congratulations to her parents. what a great day. thank you. former week, a panel of clerks to supreme court justice nominee brett kavanaugh discussed working with him on the dz circuit court of appeals. p.m.ve a hearing at 12:00 eastern on c-span. >> 1973 roe versus wade decision inlikely to be discussed confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. we will show you an episode of roe v. wade from

chairman grassley is working tirelessly to make the vast p majority publicly available as quickly as possible. i appreciate and applaud his transparency. i recognize the politics and these creative but misguided attacks. so does the american public. judge cavanaugh's experience in legal background are not in dispute. his readiness for the supreme court is not contended. law clerks bow for him. lawyers who argue before him command his justice, judgment, fairness and temperament. he is a judges judge. in fact, nearly every one of his former clerks signedll a letter discussing the qualifications he has, his virtues and his temperament. so widespread was the support of their former mentor that only those who were prohibited by their employer from signingni off were left off. n news paper editorial boards from across the country have endorsed his nomination. here are some of the dozens of glowing testimonies about him. wall street journal, judge cavanaugh has an exemplary record that suggests he will help to restore the supreme court to its proper more modest role in american politics and

chairman grassley has a long reputation of credibility for vetting judicial nominees.e is proving it once again. he is also putting guardrails of reasonable expectation around document production. we are grateful for that. think about this, during the confirmation of elena kagan, the obama administration turned over 3000 pages. by contrast the senate judiciary committee has received 440,000 pages for judge kavanaugh, more than any other supreme court nominee in american history. and some in the democrat minority say it is still not enough. the truth of the matter is, we are going to do all that we can to support this nominee, we will provide the senate the opportunity and resources to review the record in detail. when you look at his record and his character, you should know judge brett kavanaugh deserves the support of every member of the united states senate. we're going to fight to take his case to confirmation. [applause] we need your help. we need your continued engagement. we need the rnla, not just those of you who came to lunch but the 6000 members, leaders in

but senator grassley and senator mcconnell have given us every confidence that they have led the way on the gorsuch nomination and others that they will get this done, they will get this done in early fall. it may be early october, right when the supreme court is coming in the session, but i believe it will be done, and he will be ready to listen to cases and join the supreme court when they go into session on october 1. >> we have an intense two-month period ahead of us, setting the confirmation hearing, proceeding perhaps later august. we will talk about the timeline, but then the senate debate potentially in september so it can wrap up by the end of the month before the first monday in october, when the fall term begins. if you do not have that and you have a 4-4 court potentially on some issues, that would leave the issues to the lower courts. let's talk about the ginsburg standard and dig in on that. that is something we will see on our television screens when the confirmation hearings are happening. this goes back to ruth bader ginsburg. it is effectively the idea that a suprem

, the committee president, my friend grassley omitted every single record. from judge government very contentious years as staff secretary, over one million of them. this was an astonishing omission, even that judge kavanaugh himself describes his time as staff secretary as the most formative for him as a judge. he provided advice on any issue that may cross the president's desk. it is bad enough and the story gets even worse. for every supreme court nominee professionalte, archivists with the national archives have reviewed any associated white house record to the nominee, and provided them to the senate judiciary committee as required by statute. something that began because of what we learned in watergate. before president trump's nominee, our committee, for the first time ever, is sidelining this nonpartisan process and save for the first time since watergate, we put back in a partisan process. a limited record the chairman has requested, national archives have stated, it is only completed a third of its review before the confirmation hearing, meaning tw

>> i do think it's a positive step forward by chairman grassley. trump nominee is released another tranche of documents, but from our perspective, there is still a significant body of work. that way we have very little insight into at all. we say we have only seen six or 7% of the total documents of his work in the executive branch, whereas the chairman is saying, here's the total number of pages. are we taking the time to do our advise and consent role right? one of the concerns that many of us have that i in particular have about judge kavanaugh, his argument over the recent years in the number of opinions on the d.c. student, the president should be able to -- >> you will get an opportunity to question him. about those things. there will be time to ask him those questions, but he may also be called upon to decide whether this president should face possible investigation or an indictment for criminal wrongdoing. do you think you are getting ahead of yourself there? >> when he worked for judge starr, judge kavanaugh had one perspective. on the use

thank you to leader mcconnell and chairman grassley and senators isaacson and perdue for your steadfast support for my nomination. finally, i want to express my appreciation to everyone here today. you have encouraged me every step of the way, whether in high school, at the white house, during law school, in private practice, in service to georgia, for during this confirmation process. i will do everything in my power to live up to the faith you have placed in me and the responsibilities of judicial office. i will respect and protect the constitution. i will exercise both the fortitude and humility required of a judge. and i will always support the rule of law and independence of the judiciary. thank you. [applause] judge kavanaugh: that is it. we do it quick here in the d.c. circuit. reception across the hall. congratulations to britt grant. congratulations to her parents. what a great day. thank you. [applause] announcer: this sunday on oral histories, we continue our series on women in congress would former republican congresswoman sue myrick. onone thing we learned early with women

mike: judiciary chairman chuck grassley, doesn't see precedent for delay, he calls it absurd, are -- right? >> i think so. it doesn't connect him to russian collusion or michael cohen or anything like that, it's not like some president under some cloud is i -- illegitimate, it's not like richard nixon. until and unless trump is impeached, this nominee continues and he's going to be processed in the normal course. he's being processed about the same pace that the last five confirmed justices have been. >> yeah, typically 66 days for nomination to confirmation, what about the challenge for senate democratic leader chuck schumer, how necessary is it for him to show the base that he's willing to fight, fight, fight? >> he's between a rock and hard place, it was certainly not advisable for the democrats to force the republicans to get rid of filibuster for neil gorsuch, they would like to have filibuster now to replace justice kennedy and not justice scalia, they don't have it, the base wanted blood and schumer had nowhere to go, now, they are basically pounding the table and trying to ma

and chuck grassley is mad.s he got sessions confirmed, he's helped protect him, and sessions is still in the way of his major legislative initiative. i think there's some of that figuring in there and sending a message that you need to go along with what we're pushing here. >> abby, the president face to face with sessions yesterday. what did he say? >> nothing about this. this was a meeting about prison reform and by all accounts they didn't discuss this at all, which is typical of this president. he will attack you on twitter, he will attack you in interviews, but to your face, not necessarily. >> mum's the word. >> this is the pattern. these members of congress are correct. it is not sustainable for the president to be warring openly with his attorney general. at some point, that has to be resolved. and it can't happen now because they have too much on their plate before the midterms. >> we'll see how this ends. thanks for joining us on "inside politics." wolf picks up our special coverage right after a quic

has not produced the materials that senator grassley said the committee needed.he george w. bush presidential library is turning over some documents involving brett kavanaugh. but those documents are being screened by attorneys for the bush presidential library including one who has represented steve bannon, reince priebus and don mcgahn in russia-related investigations. joyce vance is back with us. turns out this paper trail is enormous and is not going to be in place, apparently, if time for confirmation hearing. >> it is enormous. and the problem with that is we're now looking at a process where instead of using the archivist, a nonpartisan process that was really created in response to excesses during the nixon white house to screen documents, we have a process where lawyers who represent president bush in his personal capacity will make decisions about what gets turned over to the senate for review. >> it seems to be designed by republicans to deny the senate and the american public the information needed for this incredibly important confirmation. what's so