a woman named kristin clark and back in 1994, she wrote that black people were endowed with "greater mental, physical, and spiritual abilities," and here is how judge garland responded when asked about her assertion. >> declaring that one racial group is superior to another for statements like that relevant to an evaluation of whether such a person should be put in charge of running the department of justice civil rights division. >> i read in the last few days these allegations on kristin clark his views on civil rights division, i have discussed with her, and they are in line with my own. >> they are in line with his own views apparently. this is getting more interesting by the moment. remember they were trying to sell merrick garland as a moderate a few years back. >> and really, again, they are dumbing down the standards, the undersecretary of education is similar, he was as san diego public school system when 20 percent of blacks got d's or f's versus 80 percent that didn't. what he did was instead of trying to find out what was working with the 80 percent and then of wiat-ii th

meanwhile, let's bring it to kristin clark for a second.ngs she writes, created dare i say controversy, blank infants sill, crawl, sooner than whites. medical la anyone endows blacks with greater mental, spirit all first call abilities. that does help with civil rights? >> those statements are clearly indefensible. judge garland trying to answer senator lee's answer provided a non-answer. he was kind of squirming because he knows those statements are indefensible. who else said they were indefensible, the run publication that ran kristin clark's letter, the "harvard crimson." in fact they really searched in vain to see about there is any hint of sarcasm or irony in her assertions. they found none. they felt that in fact the statements she made were racist. so all these years later, we know that what we are seeing now is that judge garland can't defend those statements and kristin clark has not been able to defend those statements. steve: kristin clark said her letter she wrote back in 1994 has since been misinterpreted. that is her official

the number 3 at doj, i regard her as a person of great integrity and kristin clark, civil rights divisionis a person of integrity i do not believe she is an anti-semite. i know you wanted to hear something more forceful from him. a number of questions to him about the term investigation, where that is going to go. i have to speak with mister drum, figure out where it is going. i believe in transparency but i have to talk to him and understand the nature of what he is doing. we we see the result of that investigation? >> i hope so. it would be dangerous for him to say we are going to drop that investigation. it would be highly suspicious and raise a lot of eyebrows and for that reason should he be confirmed which i suspect he will be, it would be unwise and unlikely to drop that investigation. as for group the and clark, i will continue to ask him to answer the question. i think he is a good person, he is an honorable man, he's been a decent judge, but he needs to answer the question of whether he supports these crazy statements. miss clark has associated herself in the past with an statem

and gupta said i record her as a person of great integrity and kristin clark.ntegrity who i do not believe she's an anti semite. so i know you wanted to hear something more forceful from him. there were questions to him as well, two about the durham investigation, where that will go. he says i have to speak with mr. durham. i'm a great believer in transparency but i have to understand what he's doing. you think we will get the results of that investigation? >> i hope so. i think it would be really dangerous for him to say no, we're going to drop that investigation that would be highly suspicious. would raise a lot of eyebrows and for that reason, i don't -- should he be confirmed, which i suspect he will be, i think would be unwise and very unlikely for him to drop that investigation. as for gupta and for clark, i am going to continue to ask him to answer the question. look, i think he's a good person. he's an honorable man. a decent judge. but he needs to answer the question of whether he supports he's crazy statements. mrs. clark has associated herself in the

judge garland: i have read in the last few days these allegations about kristin clark, who i have also gotten to know, who i also trust, who is a person of integrity, whose views about civil rights i have discussed with her and they are in line with my own. i have every reason to want her. she is an experienced former prosecutor of hate crimes and we need some of you to be running -- sen. lee: i'm asking about the statement, not her as a person. what, in the abstract, someone who has made that comment, with that comment be relevant to whether that person, having made that statement, should be put in charge of running the civil rights division? judge garland: all i can tell you is i have had many questions -- i have talked to her about her views on that civil rights -- sen. lee: what about anti-semitic -- judge garland: no one needs to question those i -- i want you to know i'm a pretty good judge of what an anti-semite is and i do not believe she is an anti-semite. i do not believe she is discriminatory in any sense. sen. lee: you are a man of integrity and one who honors and respects

judge garland: i have read in the last few days these allegations about kristin clark, who i have also gotten to know, who i also trust, who is a person of integrity, whose views about civil rights i have discussed with her and they are in line with my own. i have every reason to want her. she is an experienced former prosecutor of hate crimes and we need some of you to be running -- sen. lee: i'm asking about the statement, not her as a person. what, in the abstract, someone who has made that comment, with that comment be relevant to whether that person, having made that statement, should be put in charge of running the civil rights division? judge garland: all i can tell you is i have had many questions -- i have talked to her about her views on that civil rights -- sen. lee: what about anti-semitic -- judge garland: no one needs to question those i -- i want you to know i'm a pretty good judge of what an anti-semite is and i do not believe she is an anti-semite. i do not believe she is discriminatory in any sense. sen. lee: you are a man of integrity and one who honors and respects

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