jessica snider has more. >> reporter: in the midst of a ten-hour day of questions.ed of supreme court nominee who refused to be pinned down. >> when i became a judge, they gave me a gavel. not a rubber stamp. and nobody comes to my court expecting a rubber stamp. >> reporter: senators pressed judge gorsuch on views and future rulings. instead he pointed to respect out of legal opinions. >> my personal views i'd also tell you mr. chairman belong over here. i leave those at home. >> judge gorsuch rarely referenced prumpb directly, but firmly rejected the notion his nomination was based on litmus test. >> did he ever ask you to overrule roe v. wade. >> what would you have done. >> i would have walked out the door. it's not what judges do. >> democrats seized on gorsuch's decisions. they say favor big business. >> how do we have confidence in you that you won't just be for the big corporations? that you will be for the little men. >> i participated if 2007 opinions. over ten and a half years. if you want cases where i've ruled for the little guy as well as the big guy,

jessica snider has more for us. >> reporter: carter paige and roger stone are already under investigationrussia known to u.s. intelligence. now they'll go before lawmakers. paul man fort resigned amid questions about his previous lobbying for pro russia contacts in the ukraine. cam tan foreign policy advisor carter paige denied allegations that he secretly met with putin associates. he told the committee i would look forward in engaging with you in finally ending this rouge. and stone is anxious to talk. stone told cnn, i acknowledge i'm a hard ballplayer b was thing isn't in my bag of tricks, treason. former national security advisor michael flynn is also rnd investigation but his spokesman had no comment on whether he would make the similar offer. former acting attorney general ally yates and former cia director. the ranking democrat on the committee accusing the white house of meddling in the process. >> there must have been a strong pushback about the nature of monday's hearing. it's hard for me to come to any other conclusion. >> reporter: he want it is fbi director and national secu

jessica snider joins me now. this is a huge development from congressman schiff. >> it is. member schiff isn't revealing the content of the documents. but he has expressed dismay that they're the same documents seen by nunes more an a week ago. schiff said it was represented to me that these are the same documents. the the white house has yet to explain why senior white house staff apparently shared these materials with but one member of either committee, only for their cents to be briefed back to the white house. so of course schiff is still taking issue with the fact that the white house released these materials to nunes first, saying the white house effectively laundered the information thu the committee to avoid the true source. erin, tonight the house committee is trying to get back on track. we know that nunes and schiff met face-to-face this week. they say they're committed to moving forward. >> thank you very much, jessica. speaking of chairman nunes, this comes as he breaks his silence back home in california. kiuyl la joins me. two white house staffers were his so