i will have my life back. and all of this hurt has brought my family closer together, my wife and i, my mother, but that is notso there is no pity for me. i think the country has been hurt by this process. i think we -- process. i think we are destroying our country. we are destroying our institutions. and i think it is a sad day when the u.s. senate can be used by interest groups, and hate mongers, and people who are interested in digging up dirt to destroy other people and who will stop at no tactics, when they can use our great political institutions for their political ends, we have gone far beyond mccarthyism. this is far more dangerous than mccarthyism. at least mccarthy was did. senator hatch: judge, i have a lot of other questions to ask you and i think they are important questions. i think you deserve the opportunity to tell your side of this and you have done it here so far. and i have to tell you this has come down to this, one woman's allegations that are 10 years old against your lifetime of servic

>> i have ten minutes on my time. i will give you whatever time you want to respond to it, and i will make sure you are not interrupted. >> just, a few seconds. look at me, will you please, i'm if guy that gave you the time. >> oh, yes, sir. >> if you committed to deciding a particular case, which includes committing to whether i would participate in a particular case, all i would be doing is demonstrating that i don't have the independence of the judiciary that is, judging that is necessary to be a good judge, because all of the nominees who have gone before, have declined to commit because that would be inconsistent with judicial independence. >> senator taylor. >> thank you, mr. chair and judge calf kkavanaugh, if you w look at the chair, you can, he gave me the time. i want to introduce documents for the record, and first is from 13 state's attorneys general who among other things said that judge kavanaugh has a unshakeable respect for the proper role of the courts within the constitutional structure. you have an o

i have seen all sides of this. i us will have a completely open mind on the constitutional issue. and briefs and arguments, i think i have also shown a capacity to if i'm presented with a better argument than something i have had before to adopt the better argument, i have done that. a good example of that in the national security context in the first case i pointed out how i reconsidered is something i had written before. but the larger point is is that i have not taken a position on constitutionality before. >> well, i'll just come back to a point we have now talked about several times. in several different contexts in several different ways, you have chosen to make a constitutional point either expressing enthusiasm for overturning a 30-year-old precedent or arguing for the executive theory or i'll give you another quote in a different speech. you said there scalia never wrote a better opinion and may have been commenting object the quality of his writing. but you go on to say you believe his views will one day be the law of the land. i assume you're talking about the constituti

[laughter] david: i have something i would like to sell. r] david: now that you own the -- "the washington post," sometimes there are people who criticize some things the post" says,ngton and you have been remarkably quiet. jeff: i have no idea what you are talking about. [laughter] david: you have been remarkably quiet in not defending yourself. jeff: i do defend the post. it is a mistake for any elected official in my opinion. i don't think this is an out i don't think this is an out there opinion, to attack media and journalists. [applause] jeff: i believe it is an essential component of our democracy. there has never been, i was going to say it never been an elected official who like to their headlines, i think there has been no public figure who has ever like their headlines. it is ok. it is part of the process. if you are the president or governor, you don't take that job thinking you will not get scrutinized. you are going to get scrutinized. it is healthy. somebody very, you know, what the president should say is, this is right. this

but i have one high heels. i like them.and there's the little frog, the coqui, which is a symbol of puerto rico. and in my hands, there's a tee. and that's what thisbook is about . the key to successful, to success in my life. it's the secret that i want toshare with kids . it tells and explains this book how i became successful. and what's the answer? i could tell you to read the book . i hope you will anyway. what i know is that i'm here as a supreme court justice only because of books. because reading books -- [applause] -- opened the world to me so this is what it's all about. >> i'm going to tell everybody, i don't get to endorse books much now or anything like that but let's just say i lovedthis book . i got an advance copy, it's one of the first. and i couldn't -- it was so evocative of what the power of reading cando. you started with your grandmother . and i had a grandmother that read to me . >> i'm going to start by telling you that probably the most important person in my life was my grandmother. whe

a little worn, but i have still got it. i wanted to take a second and talk about one of the themes in the president's remarks tomorrow. i have been around long enough to know that i will not step on any of his lines. but he will elaborate his views on sovereignty. i wanted to explain this is why this is so important for americans, because many people consider sovereignty kind of an abstract concept. it derives from the word "sovereign," meaning the monarch. but it is one of the reasons i think america's exceptional. that is, we understand sovereignty not to be vested in the head of state. the framersd it as set it in the constitution itself. we, the people, are sovereign in america. infringements on our sovereignty are not infringements on abstractions or the government, they are an infringement on the people themselves. we express our sovereignty through the constitution, through our political process. that is why that is so important. and it is why we believe, and i'm speaking in secular terms, that the constitution is the

i know it is hard. issue, we have put out a plan and i would agree we are very different on the issue. when you end obamacare and cut all of oure employer-provided health care, when you throw unions that have negotiated with kaiser, when you end the v.a. and do medicare for all, it affects all of our health care, including seniors. it will rob senior fun. with your plan, have do you come up with $32 billion? who are you going to tax beyond the taxes you propose to come up with $32 trillion? supports --ry plan jerry brown supports this plan. i have a plan, and i have been putting our issues out there. we have an access issue in the value. we've always had a shortage of doctors. thatroduced the amendment doubles our residency program. we have been trying to push for years to get medical schools in the valley. all of the medical schools say, why would we have more people graduate from our medical schools if you have no residency program for them to go to to work out? so we doubled the residency program, we have added tea

i have complied with the rules. i responded to a document request that produced over 30,000 pages of documents, and i have testified for five full days under oath. i have endured this ordeal for 103 days reporters sneaking into my garage to examine books i read, reporters swarming over papers looking for dirt, unnamed people starting preposterous and damaging rumors, calls all over the country specifically requesting dirt. this is not american. it has got to stop. it must stop for the benefit of future nominees and our country. enough is enough. i am not going to allow myself to be further humiliated in order to be confirmed. i am here specifically to respond to allegations of sex harrassment in the work place. i am not here to be further humiliated by this committee or anyone else or to put my private life on display for purient interest other other reasons. i will not allow this committee or anyone else to probe into my private life. this is not what america is all about. to ask me to do that would be to ask me to

don't i will be here than i have. for me somebody without me or i would out so i chose the latter. >> here america is the book is available september. the event we met a lot of time of time reading the gradebook book called in for frank as he walked out of that constitutional vengeance to keep the government great book also finishing up a life abraham lincoln two volumes. it is better. being from the way with the greatest president of the challenges for those victories get through so you please ask me what it meant that i have going through washington i had in my mind what that looked like it was pretty different i am doing well. want to understand history for a privilege have a living country through difficult time confident we can make it through challenging times as well.. k [inaudible

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i have been told you have indicated you are the youngest in the family. e, like all families, they have been of great assistance to you. tell me again your educational background. to primary, elementary, and secondary school . morris junior high school reverse order. oklahoma state university, starting in 1973 and graduated in 1977. a degree in psychology. attending yale law school. jdraduated, received my @ in 1980.s r r r r s r a d r r a job afters your first law school? dc law is a washington firm. >> the first interview took place at yale law school. i don't remember the names of the interviewers. i was called to washington for i was interviewed and iumber of people accepted an appointment with them. process washat .receded by work at the end of the summer associate chip, i was asked to work there full-time. who is your immediate supervisor? >> a number of individuals. >> it would depend on the project i was- working on. >> what type of work did i -- did you do? was it specialized? i was a fairly new associate. most of my work was basically was availab

chairman, i will proceed under protest. we have had a lot of rhetoric, so far, about rules and norms and i am regretful that the chair has adopted this stance which in my view contradicts the basic rules and norms, but i will proceed. mr. chairman -- i have fears about what this nominee will do with respect to our rule of law, but also about basic rights that have been established by past supreme court precedent. the only way to test what his fidelity to the rule of law is in fact is to ask as i have asked every judicial nominee coming before me when i have served on the committee in hearings, whether he believes past decisions of the supreme court were correctly decided. so i'm going to be asking you, judge kavanaugh, what you believe roe v. wade was correctly decided. i'm going to be asking you -- >> mr. chairman, may i ask a question -- i am under the impression that each of us had 10 minutes for opening statement, and we will have 50 minutes for questions. >> let me clarify. >> and then plus i would ask, mr. chairman, the vario

i have been since the seventies. i am here to tell you that negotiated settlements that have been made over the past 30 years have not worked. i produced a film about the san joaquin river which had so much water to get out of it, as you no kak that sections of it, literally run dry. i have been swimming in the bay and i can tell you that the bay itself is saltier than it used to be because we get less water flowing down from the rivers. i i urge you to support the state water board's plan because it is adaptive management. it is a compromise. it is science-based. and it will work to protect the environment and the cities. i have been sitting here for several hours listening to people's say things about your plan and it almost feels like, if you say it often enough, it it will be true. but that is not the case. so i am kind of embarrassed as a san francisco resident that you are taking this position to try to thwart this plan that has been in the works for so many years. if you took a survey of san francisco residents

i don't have are the date. i would have to pull up my et e-mail to find out the date of her e-mail to me saying that -- it was right before the hearings that she was going to maintain the confidentiality of the letter. >> say that again. it was until right before the hearings? >> that's my memory, but i can look it up if you'd like the exact date. >> i want to make sure i understood what you said. >> that document has been turned over in response to a request for documents. you have it. >> thank you, counsel. you want to make sure i understood what you said. was it your understanding it was going to be kept confidential up until right before the hearing? >> it was my understanding that it was going to be kept confide confidential, period. >> okay. between your polygraph on august 7th and your receipt of the letter from senator feinstein, did you or anyone on your behalf speak to any member of congress or congressional staff about these allegations? >> i personally did not. >> so my question was did you or anybod

i had to adjust. we have to adjust to president trump. --in, your specific question was, how the president affects that. president makes it harder institution to do these jobs. all presidents, no president wants unwelcome news. i think this president institute jobs. all is more unwelcoming with regard to unwelcome news than any president in history. that causes us to delay going in there with information he would otherwise get because you know, it is not going to work until you build up a stack of evidence that is almost inarguable. what happens is, the information you can give to the president in a time -- in time for the president to take responsive action is reduced. i argue that this president's is destructives for the purposes of the president. to the presidency. not just us. >> let me press you on this a little bit. let's be a little more blunt than that. it's not that you stare at a stack of documents and you don't hear it. he watches fox and friends. there's a big change between the sources that he trusts in the sources that are tr

if i didn't have internet in the home i would have to give up more time with my kids. the main reason i left the military. everybody wants more for their kids, but i feel like with my kids, they measurably get more than i ever got. and i get to do that. i get to provide that for them. >> martha: historic hearing should be behind us but you never really know in this story but we all will be more familiar with this person arizona sex crimes prosecutor rachel mitchell who is tapped by the g.o.p. to question both judge kavanaugh and his accuser kristin blasey ford. mitchell us face scrutiny as the battle facing the supreme court nominee becomes increasingly polarized. kristin fisher is in washington tonight with the back story on who this prosecutor is good evening, kristin. >> martha, most americans have never even heard of rachel mitchell. that will change tomorrow because she is expected to ask most of the questions for the republicans on the committee they are all men and she just finished meeting with them on capitol hill. she is a power house sex crimes prosecutor in

that is exactly what i have done. and what could have been done easier if senate democrats had not kept the information to themselves. and then my last one will deal -- sedgwick allegations. two days ago we became aware of the allegations of julie swetnick. she claimed that judge kavanaugh was involved in a gang rape ring around washington, d.c. area in the 1980's. my staff has been trying to obtain evidence of her claims and interview her since sunday, three days before she made her allegations public. her attorney so far has not cooperated in. -- in the investigation. by her own admission she regularly attended parties where she knew girls were being raped. instead of telling authorities about this serious criminal activity, she continued to attend them and somehow the f.b.i. missed judge kavanaugh's six full field background investigations while he worked in high-profile position in the white house and the judiciary. the fact that he was a regular participation in these gang rape parties. that ought to get a lot of

i can tell you without hesitation i have not. i did not read sotomayor opinions' or kagan's writings. but what i chose to do was look at the people who knew them the best. i think bob bennett, who defended president clinton during impeachment, i know him very well, said that bread is the judge's judge, someone who does his best to follow the law rather than his policy preferences. i have yet to find anybody that i find credible, really anybody at all, that suggests you were unfair to litigants. i have yet to find a colleague that thought you were a politician in a robe. but you are a republican, is that true? >> i'm a registered -- yeah. >> the only reason i'm glad to hear you say that, it makes a lot of sense, given who you work for. >> i haven't -- well, i'll let you finish your question. >> you work for a lot of republicans, like the president was a republican. >> president bush, yes. >> the state of our country is at stake. >> i'll tell you what i remember when she leaves. so i asked alana kagan about a statement brad craig ma

i will have my life back. and all of this hurt has brought my family closer together, my wife and i, my mother, but that is notso there is no pity for me. i think the country has been hurt by this process. i think we -- process. i think we are destroying our country. we are destroying our institutions. and i think it is a sad day when the u.s. senate can be used by interest groups, and hate mongers, and people who are interested in digging up dirt to destroy other people and who will stop at no tactics, when they can use our great political institutions for their political ends, we have gone far beyond mccarthyism. this is far more dangerous than mccarthyism. at least mccarthy was did. senator hatch: judge, i have a lot of other questions to ask you and i think they are important questions. i think you deserve the opportunity to tell your side of this and you have done it here so far. and i have to tell you this has come down to this, one woman's allegations that are 10 years old against your lifetime of servic

i have to get up. if i take care of myself and reach average maturity of a male in the united states of america, i should have about 20 good years left. i don't want to spend them here. i love my colleagues. this institution, but it of the gut allows me to do everything i can. and i don't make up with the with theon't wake up same level of happiness and joy that i did 26 years ago. so you have to ask yourself, what is it in your life that is meaningful? and if you have one chapter left, don't you want to write it well? you have the rest of them in the book, they are done, i will be editing a little bit but they are done. so i want to spend time on 2020 and after that i will work on immigrant integration across my dream is tout one day go across america helping 11 million people take that step to american citizenship. i can't do that as long as donald trump is president of the united states. that is not going to happen. puerto rico is never going to be rebuilt to 21st-century standards, as long as he is

i want to ask. we do not have a lot of time for each person, so if i looked nervous and want to move it along, do not be offended in any way. i want to get everybody involved, and we will end up starting at the back and moving our way forward. do you feel better about that now? [laughter] mr. lamb: this is -- relax. this is supposed to be fun and a chance for you to talk about what you do for a living. it is a chance for us to learn. that is why we ask you to come here. it helps us find out what the best way is to use our product with education because that is the number one reason that we exist, for education. when we start here, we are just getting warmed up. i will ask each of you again the name, school, what you teach, and a couple of questions i will ask, and i might shift after i get started, when do you know a student is beginning to learn? when do you know a student is beginning to learn? another one we will get into, possibly, is what is the social media impact on your students and on you? i want to make

this has much doubt -- this has worked out much better than i have thought. ow i can put my money where my mouth is. inc. use much for being here today. if you will join me up here, we can get our discussion started. >>> it is my pleasure, i have been here in the recent past, i spent a year in a symbolic role at the department of veterans affairs as the nerd and residence. they do not need my help with technology at all. they already knew what they were doing pretty well. the help they needed was just talking about it better. but i seriously am a nerd, that is my specialty. >> let's talk a little bit about the markup come this range new project of yours. i'm sure everybody here in the room is very interested in finding a little bit more about it. can you explain to us your thinking about the need for investigative journalism outfit -- excuse me, -- >> my contribution to the markup is minimal. >> it's $20 million. >> but i'm not a journalist. journalism is hard. writing a deadline every day or something, and in some places, worrying about the -- or something of

i have said before already that -- >> [ inaudible ]. ill take this opportunity to probably say that you said i didn't get all the documents i requested. you probably heard the first sentence of something i said after our break and that was that i could -- i first started talking about expecting a million documents and we end up, i think, with 488,000, but then i went on to explain that the process with all the software and everything else that can speed things up, duplicates were eliminated and et cetera, et cetera, and so we've gotten all the documents i requested. just to correct you. >> sir, and to my understanding -- >> go ahead with your opening statement. >> i just want to make a point to that if you don't mind. you requested a limited set of documents of his time in the white house counsel's office. we have not received all the documents from his time, they are still being vetted slowly through a system of not a representative from the committee, but the bill burke individual is still reading through those documents as we speak. i

i have no idea. i don't have any insight into your souls or brains. i know my wife pretty well but i try not to speak for her either. >> david, washington examiner. >> there was an idea about the election, looking back at some of the midterms that you saw the presidents party in a lot of trouble. recently, even going back further, 82 republicans lost a lot of seats and the reagan turnaround had not taken hold. in 98 the economy was going well for the presidents party. in 2002, the presidents party -- it was reflective of how people felt about the president. and then what we saw what happened in 2006 and 2008. but if you look at 2010 and 2014 there was a lot of angst. in the presidents party. they suffered. you have 4% growth. maybe it has gone down lower but it was 3.9% last month unemployment. >> it is under four. >> you are still, if you look at all of the data, you could retain the majority but you're having to fight tooth and nail. your having to spend a lot of money and clf. probably has been responsible by spending close to $100 million. with an

i wish i would have been able to. i would have had the best cars, the best shift, but the city would not make that available to me. i decided to stay in the industry only because i knew that after a certain amount of time, about 13 years in my case, i was going to receive a medallion, for being a grizzled driver, basically. now they're trying to do the classic take from peter to pay paul, by excluding all of us who did play by the rules that the city established, from going to the airport. that is going to be the value of all the k medallions to basically nothing. because nobody is going to want to drive any of those cabs. it's going to have additional adverse impacts. the city is not going to be served. because if all the people, the shrinking pool of drivers is going work with the prop a medallions so they can go to the airport, you're not going to have the residents of san francisco being served. so this could have such a terrible impact on the -- [bell ringing] -- prop k medallion owners and most especially on the

could we have order? >> in fact, i would agree on the order. the order would be we go back and forth, and apparently, you can have two republicans speak and one democrat. is that what the chairman is doing? >> absolutely. after i get done, and i'm not giving an opening statement, i'm explaining as the chairman ought to explain, the work of the committee to people that don't seem to understand it. i'll call on senator hatch when i'm done, and then i'm going to call on you, senator leahy. when i learned of ms. ramirez's allegations, i acted immediately to investigate them, unlike our democratic colleagues, some of who sat on her story and apparently conducted their own private investigation rather than share it with the chairman. i first learned of her allegations when they became public in the article "new yorker" published late sunday evening, september 23rd. my staff immediately contacted her counsel asking when she was available for an interview with committee investigators. the next afternoon, monday, september 24, her counsel responded that

as a general matter, i have affirmed -- i followed the precedent of humphreys. the example you are talking about, the congress established a new independent agency that did not follow the traditional model of independent agencies of having multiple members. that's all i thought was problematic there. i did not invalidate or say the agency should stop operating. i said the agency can continue performing its important functions on behalf of consumers. either it had to be restructured or the president had to be able to remove the single head at will. >> the limited set of documents we have received indicates that you were heavily involved in the bush white house's response to congressional investigations after the enron scandal. is that accurate? >> that is accurate. we had a document request for senator lieberman's committee. i was one of the lawyers that had to help gather the documents from people within the white house and then had to negotiate documents -- i had to negotiate documents with senator leiebermn lieberman's staff. >> it was one of the greatest corpo

i have been in places with no internet access. while, is the dialogue i am hearing different than the world of just spent. part of me was asking myself why? why is this big disconnect? for example, the op-ed piece. nobody asked me. on the other hand, i was back in ..c. for 48 hours it strikes me as bizarre. question around, to protect those institutions, what would be helpful? would be understanding that they are the thing on the line? would it be helpful if the president stopped attacking the intelligence community and the fbi? let's focus on the things we control. i would argue here are the things we need to do to keep moving forward. we did ask ourselves how can we strengthen these institutions? have him in major they are part of the problem. if they are part of the problem, this is our structure. if we don't believe in the usucture's ability to give the outcomes we want, we are in a hurt locker. this is the structure that the founding fathers created. so we have done over time and how we generate great things for our nation. it

i have something i want to say to the committee but before that, we have been here approximately eight hours. you had a lot to hear today and listen to. i think it's very noteworthy that no one has seriously questions your qualifications to receive a promotion to the nation's highest court, and they have learned a lot about you, being an exceptional teacher, coach, volunteer, and dad in addition to being an exceptional judge. i thank you very much for your statement. questions for the record are due monday, september 10, at noon. we will notice judge kavanaugh's markup meeting for thursday, september 13, this timeline is consistent with how we have handled past supreme court nominations. i want everybody to know that right now, so that members and their staff can be working on written questions throughout the week. with that, we will recess until tomorrow morning at 9:30 when we will start the first round of questions. again, each senator will have 3d of questions. and i intend to go like we have with gorsuch. people will have a chance to ask the questions they want to ask. we start ou

>> i have wanted a hearing and i said i would welcome anything. i am innocent. this thing was held when it could have been presented in an ordinary way. it could have been held confidentially at first, which is what dr. ford's wishes were. it would have not destroyed my family like this effort has. an fbi investigation will help all of us on both sides of the issue. >> senator graham asked for the floor. meore he does, it seems to that if you want to know something, you have the witness here to ask him. secondly, if you want an fbi report, you can ask for it yourself. i have asked for fbi reports in the past, in the 38 years i have been in the senate. senator graham. at 9:23 on thee night of july the ninth, the day you were nominated to the supreme court, by president trump, senator schumer said i will oppose judge kavanaugh's nomination with everything i have. i hope a bipartisan majority will do the same. high forare simply too anything less. if you weren't aware of it, you are now. did you meet with dianne feinstein on august 20? >> i did meet with dianne fein

i have time to work on this. i did not have to do daily stories. host: are you the sole person when you are crosslicensing -- cross referencing sources and material or their -- or are there other people with you? guest: that is as important question. i have an assistant, evelyn duffy, and there are hundreds of hours of tapes and we will go through it and make sure that we have represented from the andments and notes interviews, what we call the best obtainable version of the inth and she is dogged saying wait a minute, this is ,he word or let's clarify here as you caneticulous and it is a great asset and i thank her at the beginning of somebody wholyn, in spirit and commitment was effectively the co-author of this book. host: we have a lot of calls lined up, so we will start in plano, texas with chris, independent line. you are on with bob woodward. good morning, go ahead. caller: good morning, mr. woodward. i am about two thirds through the book and i enjoyed very much. it paints a great picture of the white house. i hate using the word, but i had

i have described the events publicly before. i summarized them in my letter to ranking member feinstein, and again in a letter to chairman grassley. i understand and appreciate the importance of your hearing from me directly about what happened to me, and the impact it has had on my life and on my family. i grew up in the suburbs of washington, d.c. i attended the holton-arms school in bethesda, maryland, from 1978 to 1984. holton-arms is an all-girls school that opened in 1901. during my time at the school, girls at holton-arms frequently met and became friendly with boys from all-boys schools in the area, including landon school, georgetown prep, gonzaga high school, as well as our country clubs and other places where kids and their families socialized. this is how i met brett kavanaugh, the boy who sexually assaulted me. during my freshman and sophomore school years, when i was 14 and 15 years old, my group of friends intersected with brett and his friends for a short period of time. i had been friendly with a classmate of bre

i have ended most of it. i do not like what is happening in cuba and i do not like what is happening in venezuela. >> you said that you had a call to action to ask of the leaders around the world to end socialism. would you like to be recognized -- president trump: i would like to say that socialism has not been working well around the world. venezuela is the one that is most obvious. socialism is not exactly riding high. go ahead. >> if you do not mind, after we are finished if one of our female colleagues could go after me, that would be great. president trump: what do you mean by that? explain. >> i think it would be great if a female reporter would ask you a question about this issue. president trump: i would not mind it at all. >> if i could follow up on john and his question, why is it that you always seem to side with the accused, and not the accuser? you have three women who are all making allegations and asking for their stories to be heard. if you look at the case of roy moore or one of your staffers

as i might have been through google search back. i saw those have been in place. f course you know the time lines. i mean, we have talked about it a lot so you guys are aware of the timelines after that. one thing i want to point out, as a tenant here, from my point of view, and i'll be a tenant here and a tenant in other buildings, what i'm seeing is my landlord, he acquired the building last year and he has a notice of violation. actually, i'm not sure of the process but when you are going through this i learned many details here. he got a notice of violation. as a landlord, he had a lot of options and paths to go down but the first thing he did is this is a fire and safety issue i'll bring it up to code. no matter the cost and whatever, right. and he went ahead and he taught best and tried to upgrade the windows and then the whole process started rolling. now it has been kind of -- now if it turns out that this n.o.v. has been trying to make the windows fire safe, it's penalizing him in some way and punitively punish him it sets a bad precedent for anyone else w

i do not really have anything to add to this case. i am available for any questions that you may have. think you. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, commissioners, this matter is submitted. >> commissioners? >> i did not feel this met the criteria for a rehearing. i did not hear anything that was different. >> president fung: or that couldn't have been submitted earlier. >> commissioner honda: i agree. although i empathize with the project sponsor, this has not reached the bar for manifest in just. >> president fung: i am not in full agreement, but i am sensitive to the fact that the president, you did say, you didn't address the variance. but that was their opportunity. that was their opportunity as commissioner lazarus. they didn't do it. >> commissioner honda: in my case, even if they did, i don't feel my opinion would have changed. >> president fung: is there a motion? >> commissioner honda: i will make a motion to deny the rehearing request on the grounds that there was no manifest in just. >> so we have a m

i have given speeches on this. at i'm introduced as a nice introduction, but what you should know it is my name is major garrett. i am a semi-well-known member of an industry with record low popularity and approval and declining market share. and everyone laughs. because i'm being self-deprecating card but also making a point. this industry has to reconcile itself to those two fax. this is long before donald trump came along. as defined by democrats, republicans, and independence for the last decade, before 2016, was on a steady descent. among republicans, but still study among independents and self identified democrats. what was happening simultaneously? market share was decreasing. i asked out loud repeatedly come is that a coincidence or a cause? our industry has to come to terms with that. story approaching every with the same level of curiosity in both her actions and rendering that story that our audience can were believe is credible and believable and bankable. not necessarily true to them. but true and defen

i have them come to my office, i look them in the eye and ask them questions i have. i wait until the hearing is over. based on all of that, i make a decision. i have appointed judges to the virginia supreme court. i have tried cases in all courts, including the supreme court. i take this very seriously. with justice gorsuch, i was concerned he had an -- had a habit of going out of his way on one particular topic. women's freedom and healthcare decisions. he would go out of his way to be a judicial activist and i didn't think we needed him on the court. what i did was i did my homework. you don't see me coming out of the gate and trashing somebody for calling them a name, before i even know the fact. >> 60 seconds, mister stewart. >> it is not just judge gore search and judge kavanaugh. it is 17 appointments by the president of the united states to the cabinet and other appointments. tim kaine automatically points -- automatically votes no. when i say this, politifact, which is not a friend of mine were most republicans, even they say it is true. tim kaine votes automa

i listed people i have talked to . a president trump acknowledged in one case and kellyanne conway who was in the room. because i you tell me went a long time with kellyanne conway going through what i wanted to ask the president about and it is either the president or some aides decided he should not talk to me or breakdown, as i call it, a nervous breakdown in the white house where information is not getting to him. there was maximum effort to try to go over these things with him because he is really the focus on the book. you use unnamed sources in my you go toecause people, get out a microphone and say, this is on the record and you will get the press release version of reality. if you establish a relationship to know and say, i want what is real, i want to talk -- i have to be very careful so i test everything i get and if you -- theseugh the book writingome from people them down, all kinds of specific themes. do you want the press release version of what happened in the white house, which, unfortunately, and as i

this was excited, i have to say. you know, when i'm reading this, i'm very touched by the fact that our efforts are incrementally making a different in people's life. i want to commend everybody, not only the staff but the city in achieving these results. the part that interested me, as i mentioned earlier, was in the western addition. as we know, that's a very desirable, if you will, location and district for c.o.p. holders for obvious reasons, to have folks come and buy back homes -- buy back their homes, right? i would love to be able to see more -- more stories like this. and so then, when i moved over -- i was very happy when i read that and then, i went over to the other report, to the shipyard, and i go wait a minute, no c.o.p. holders apply? >> yeah. >> why is that? >> i -- that is a really good question. we target to the c.o.p. holders, c.o.p. holders that have been over income at the rental opportunities, we write little notes specifically on their postcards saying this would be a really good opportunity fo

i joined the chapter and i have been active ever since i joined the sorority if 2002 and since i have joined, i joined for a number of reasons, but one, i am very passionate about serving, not just our local communities, buspar nationally. i do--but internationally. i do travel to support efforts through africa and the anlly as native of richmond, california, it has alls been a passion of mine to--always been a passion of mine to serve the community, the greater community. >> i was pastor of easter hill united methodist church r 13 years back in the 70s to the 90s. >> awesome. >> and what about you. >> oh, well, i was initiated in back in 2014, so i came in what we call graduate chapter. i am a native of the peninsula, and so the same, so we are just coming to the community and serving the community, not just your local community, but the bay area. so i live in the east bay, being from the peninsula and got involved. >> so you went to high school? san mateo? >> yes, and i went to oakland. i was born in oak hand, raised in richmond and my patientings worked in d--my parents worked in o

i have never sexual assaulted dr. ford or anyone. again, i am not questioning that dr. ford may have been sexual assaulted by some person in some place at some time but i have never done that to her or to anyone. dr. ford's allegations stem from a partyll that she alleges occurred in summer of 1982, 36 years ago, i was 17 year's old between my junior and senior years of high school at georgetown prep, a rigorous all boys catholic jesuit high school in rockville, maryland. when my friends and i spent time together at parties on weekends it was usually with friends from nearby catholic all girl high school, visitation, emaculada, she did not attend those schools, she was a year behind me. she and i did not travel on the same social circles. it is possible that we met at some point at some events although i do not recall that. to repeat, all of the people identified by dr. ford as being present at the party have said they do not remember any such party ever happening. importantly, her friend ms. kaiser has not only denied knowledge of the party. ms. kaiser said under penalt

the answer is no. >> have you asked your staff quick. >> i just did. >> jennifer reminds me i have asked her before. >> will somebody leaked it if it wasn't you. >> i'm telling you. i did not. i was asked to keep it confidential. and i am criticized for that also. >> mister chairman can i ask a question? the committee has a process if there is an allegation against any nominee to assess that in a confidential forum rather than in the public as doctor ford requested to be kept confidential is there a process for considering confidential allegations quick. >> but as the senator pointed out the document i pointed out to show all theen things. >> so what would you have done on july 30th if the ranking member raised this allegation. >> we would have done like we have done with every fbi report that comes from the white house from the nominee and then subsequent to that the fbi got done with it three months ago we go through the fbi or information comes to us then we have the investigators in a bipartisan way both republican and democrats to follow up and that could be worked out. >> so bipart

that is exactly what i have done. that is what i will continue doing. moderator: representative o'rourke, texas values. congressman o'rourke: only one of us has been to each county in texas and would have an idea of what texas values are. within months of being sworn to service, your senator ted cruz was not in texas. he was in iowa. he visited every single one of the 99 counties of iowa. he went to new hampshire, south carolina. he went to the republican presidential primary states instead of being here. he shut down your government. for 16 days in 2013. too many people were getting too much health care in the united states of america. in 2015, he missed one quarter of the votes in the united states senate. in 2016, he missed half of the votes in the united states senate. tell me, who can miss half the days at work and be rehired for this aim job going forward -- be rehired for the same job going forward? that is not what texans want. they don't want somebody who was captured by corporations and political action committees and special interests. because

i have one in the back, and i have one up here. you.ank my question is we talk about gettysburg and vicksburg, but didn't john -- have a lot to do with the gettysburg popularity and his dedication to bringing that? matt: the gentleman is referring to john batchelder, and if you do not know who he is, he is "the first historian of the battle of gettysburg." out of the five original parks, i can't name the original historians. but every park had a veteran that came up and took an interest in it. batchelder was the first. he got to gettysburg in 1863 before there was any thought of a park. and he started researching. we have what are called the batchelder papers. vicksburg had a guy named william t. rigby. he corresponded with the veterans. antietam had a gentleman named carlton. and so forth. anyway, these people paved the path. the question was did bachelder pave the way for gettysburg to becoming so important? in a way, he did. he definitely facilitated, to a greater extent, our understanding of the battle, because he is already cor

>> yes, i just have to slow down a minute, because i might have been confusing. so there were two separate incidents where it's reflected in my medical records. i reflected about it more than those two times, but therapists typically don't write down contempt, they're typically tracking your symptoms. i just happen to have remembrances of twice, the first time was in couple's therapy, in the quibbling over the remodel. and then in 2013 with my individual therapist. >> so if someone would have actually done the investigation, your husband would be able to say you named his name at that time? >> correct. 2012. >> i know you've been concerned with your privacy throughout the process. and you first requested that your account be kept confident 14 -- confidential, can you briefly tell us why? >> as i stated once before, i was unsuccessful in getting my information to you before the candidate was chosen. my original intent was to get the information when there was still a list of other candidates available. and once that was not successful, and i saw that persons wo s w

obviously, i would love to have a farm bill. i think, again, the issues being discussed are very important issues. when we look at the unemployment rate of the u.s. now, there are more jobs and people applying for jobs and we have waivers within the state that allow people to stay on. these are able-bodied people who can stay on a generous and compassionate foodstamp program indefinitely. i think the american people do not understand that. americans are generous, they are compassionate. but we have always lived by the principle that we want to help people who want to help themselves. that is what education is about. the president has been insistent. we have communicated the fact that we want the ability to manage these waivers in a fair way without having to grant them because of the statue of revisions now. so we want the ability to enforce what has been on the books since welfare reform in 1996. but we cannot do that with the waiver process as it is. i am a former governor. i can tell you, if i am a governor with no skin in the

but i hope you can see i have recovered. [laughter] so one of the things that happened that i discovered taking the medication for seizures but it made me happy is what is wrong with that? but if you are laughing at what people a saying and is not supposed to be funny. it is distressing. and something but then they are also viscerally but then to take that emotion. then and to then with this very traumatic memory was uncovered even if it did not happen exactly the way i wrote it down it is part of my life. going into this ptsd moment but that thought process is the emotional memory. so you startedng this book by looking at letters and though whole lifetime.he and to love the expression. to have an image. but these were books of memorabilia. and to be desperate to finish the book writing one chapter a day. and then to finish that and for months it was an experiment.ut but it would be a letter from my letter to me. but she said she would kill herself and i wrote something. but what they said toes underlyin underlying. and i sud

i don't think you guys have any idea what's in your inventory. holy [bleep] ...and create a few products. welcome to your new store. man: oh, my god. channa: i owe my life to this company. lemonis: that is the reason that i'm here. i spend hundreds of days a year working on these companies. why didn't you do it? man #2: i thought that we did. lemonis: holy [bleep] but we can't always fit everything i'm thinking into the show. so tonight i'm gonna give you an inside look at an episode from our first season, la dogworks. did you think neil was out of line? andrew: no, not out of line, just did a stupid thing. a thing that nobody else would do. lemonis: who talks to their people that way? over the next hour, i'm gonna take you behind the scenes to share with you what i was actually thinking during filming... i need to know that you can transform yourself. andrew: okay. lemonis: let's go to work. that was maybe one of the few moments where i felt like i was dealing with a normal person. ...share some secrets... andrew: this isn't good sam, this isn't