while i was in flint, september, two months before the vote police started arguing and ca ken stiles shot and arrested. five days later he was dead from a blood clot, making him the 40th police officer in america in 2016 to die slowly line of duty. i knew him about a bankruptcy city. let me say if bad cops were truly the problem in urban america, if bad cops are truly the problem in urban america then, men like ken stiles was certainly the solution. he was the squad leader of an elite unit that hunted the worst of humanity. murders of children, the terminal insane. his crew often found themselves in dark alleyways and abandoned houses, the only , on his 20 years on the job yet never discharge his firearm and had no discipline or misconduct complaints of any kind in his file. he died trying to catch a man who had tried to murder his own father and was rampaging across the city across the town. someone called the police and sergeant style answered. no questions asked and now he was dead. i learned a long time ago in the aftermath that 911 that a reporter knocking on the door the grievi

ken starr with whom kavanaugh worked with in the mid 1990s. this is getting a lot of scrutiny because kavanaugh said separately that he does in the believe a brez can president caues of regular citizens. people wonder what this may mean for his views on the mueller investigation. mueller is a special counsel, not an independent counsel, so they're governed differently under the rules. but it could have implications if this ruling were overturned. when he spoke to this conservative group two years ago, he said this -- >> i think justices of all stripes agree that stare decisis is important but not an inexorable command. it is not inflexible. it is not absolute. >> can you think of a case that deserves to be overturned? >> yes. [ laughter ] >> would you volunteer one? >> no. actually, i was going to say one. morrison v. olson. >> that's the independent counsel statute case. >> it's been effectively overruled but i would put the final nail in. >> reporter: wolf, the republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee chuck grassley told me earlier he does not view this has a big deal but democrats trying to press him on this very hard in his confirmation hearing