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but it also raises se broader questions about his suitability, his temperament, werehe to take a seat. >> that's a gat point. in the zero sum political game, they say that performance is what gave republicans -- in real-time we saw this with lindsey graham. they dispeed what the republic -- >> rachel mitchell -- from arizona. and they decided to speak up in his report. today we saw the political center of gravity shift back to jeff flake. and so now they have leverage and the whole thing has just shifted. robert: molly, i want to ask you about this republican anger. during t hearing, kavanaugh didn't hold back his anger ait r did lindsey graham. >> t confirmation process has become a national disgrace. the constitution gives the senate an important role in the confirmation process. but you have replaced advice and consent with search and destroy. >>his is not a job interview. this is hell. this is going to destroy thef abilityood people to come forward because of this crap! your high school year book. you have interacted withon profes women all your life, not one accusation. you're su

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were going after communications of powers that were viewed as rivals or time they werehe targeting the communications of the military and the diplomatic corps. by the time world war ii happened, most of that traffic was encrypted. so this was the bread and butter for nsa for the vast majority of the cold war going after those kind of [indiscernible] communications revolution we have now and take for granted, this was a new thing in the late 1980's and 1990's and it represented a want to govent at i to you, if i recall correctly, you were at the pentagon when the first world trade center took place in 1993, do i have that correct? were you at the pentagon then? >> yeah, this is what i have flashbacks especially with yet another anniversary coming up in a week. i was amended of that on my way here to this event. i was an intel officer assigned to the pentagon. officerserve intel during all sorts of intelligence , the national military joint intelligence center. i was assigned to the cia but we worked with all the other agencies that were represented plus others. i recall when i was there

. >> what werehe >> the first one was that misse a's relevant.kind of, you know, started agned the me too movement. and the third one was this is about well-educated women, gretchen went to stanford, i went tobrown. but i wanted to talk about my impact in the community, with the make-a-wish foundation, with children's hospitals miracles, talk about education aro a university graduate. there was all of these vorspectives i wanted to do and use my e. and unfortunately, i was given those set talking points. and you know, it's all right because we're going to make sure at for this nex girl, she's able to go out and talk about whatever she's passione about. cara, do you think gretchen carlson should be in charge of the miss america pageant? >> you know, it was interesting. prior to my letter even goi out, there was 22 states who had a petition asking f a leadership change. and so, my letter never ignited any of thisis as done by the states. and as miss america, i serve as representation of them. i wouldn't be a local contest t , wouldn't be a state co

we analyzed the data that was , and we werehe fec able to look at this list to come up with the 15 biggest. these 15 organizations do not disclose their donors. we have figured out that there are a number of backdoor avenues that sometimes you can find information about who is funding these groups through obscure public records. the research team at issue one look at filings with the department of labor, the internal revenue service, the fec, and a number of other records to try and figure out do we know percentages of the money coming into these groups, and over the course of a year, we cataloged every transaction that we could find. ultimately published a searchable database online that contains about 1200 records from about 400 unique donors and the donor organizations. these donors contributed about $760 million to these 15 organizations over the last eight years or so. that only represent one in every nine dollars that these groups have raised. a dollars of every nine dollars, the public has no idea what that money is coming from. is still darky the spite our best efforts are trying t