the late mark hatfield, a revered figure in oregon, chairman of the senate appropriations committee. and my former colleague, gordon smith. two republicans. nobody ever thought gordon smith and i would work together. we had had a race in 1996. i won by a little bit. he won the next one. nobody ever thought that we would work together, but we worked together on those judicial nominations literally hand in glove. a democrat and republican. senator merkley, who defeated senator smith, brought exactly the same approach to this. and he said, well, how did it work in the past? and i said, well, we had a judicial selection process that was bipartisan, and we'd have all our offices represented, and i remember when i was the junior senator and mark hatfield was the senior senator, and bill clinton had been elected, i said, senator, i can't imagine that you and i aren't going to find common ground through our selection process and the effort to come together around judges that made sense for our state and our country. and we did. and year after year that's been the case, for almost 20 years. m

i worked with the late mark hatfield on this. now i have the pleasure to work with senator merkley and the bipartisan efforts that we have had produce this selection process, and mr. bounds misrepresented, in my view really lied as he covered up disturbing, intolerant writings from his past. among many hateful matters he wrote about, he defended homophobic vandals who damaged a gay pride monument. he argued against efforts to protect the survivors of sexual assault on college campuses because he wrote that he just didn't think that would guarantee absolute safety. and, madam president, as i indicated here earlier, what really outraged me and shocked me was his comparison of organizations that promote multiculturalism and tolerance here in america to nazi rallies. i am the child of jewish parents who fled nazi terror in germany. not all of our family got out. my great uncle max was among the last to be gassed at auschwitz. for mr. bounds to compare groups that lift up minorities in america to nazis is an extraordinary and dark sta

hatfield and mccoy's between my family and his. i think we need to be more compassionate to voters. marke of the things that none of us understood, i think i can speak for you and this donald trump saying your father was not a war hero. he drew the ire of so many americans and he's held on to win the nomination. he apparently called you to tell you that he was no longer going to disparage your father. how did that occur? meghan: i was with my husband. i was in the shower and i came out and got a voice message that said president trump would like to speak with you. please call this number. and i was like, oh, no. i don't know what i did. [laughter] meghan: i called my dad and i said, what do i do? he is theu call him, president of the united states. i had a lovely conversation with him and melania. he was very come from entry of my father. i was under the impression that we would be -- i think we are going to put this behind us. to comments are never going be ok with me. especially at this moment in my life. i am never going to forget it. i'm never going to move on from it personally. i a