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The contract was terminated, HHS said, because the department “was not sufficiently assured that the contract included the appropriate protections applicable to fetal tissue research or met all other procurement requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists use fetal tissue in medical research because it grows quickly and is highly versatile and long-lasting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It allows us to answer specific questions that can’t be answered by adult tissue, which is far more specialized,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NIH Associate Director for Science Policy Carrie Wolinetz \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/29/444214443/research-on-fetal-tissue-draws-renewed-political-scientific-scrutiny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told NPR’s Rob Stein\u003c/a> in 2015. “Fetal tissue can contain information — about structural features, or the architecture of organs — that cells in a dish alone can’t provide. 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Use of fetal tissue is antiquated research, and [HHS Secretary Alex] Azar should redirect those funds to modern science and better alternatives, including adult stem cells.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Science\u003c/em> notes that on earlier this month, 45 groups opposed to abortion \u003ca href=\"https://www.sba-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Group-Letter-to-Azar-FDA-and-fetal-tissue-FINAL-with-Signatures.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to Azar calling the FDA contract for fetal tissue “shocking” and “unacceptable.” A few days later, 85 members of Congress \u003ca href=\"https://chrissmith.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2018-09-17_-chs-hartzler-walker_letter_on_fda_fetal_tissue_contract.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to the FDA’s commissioner, urging the agency to cancel the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Institutes of Health, which also falls under HHS, spent $98 million last fiscal year on research that involved human fetal tissue. The NIH said it “concurs that it is important that research involving human fetal tissue should be consistent with the statutes and regulation governing such research and that it is important to have adequate procedures for oversight.”[contextly_sidebar id=”xJs8IF14XoPynhHrniTrS5E5qgAhyVmm”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Use of fetal tissue in research has been controversial for some time, \u003cem>Science\u003c/em> magazine reported on Tuesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“In 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://energycommerce.house.gov/news/press-release/house-creates-select-panel-investigate-handling-infant-lives/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican members of the House of Representatives\u003c/a>, led by Representative Marsha Blackburn (TN), \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/fact-checking-congress-s-fetal-tissue-report\">produced a report\u003c/a> that urged the federal government to transition to obtaining fetal tissue from miscarriages and stillbirths. But opponents of fetal tissue research have failed repeatedly to pass legislation that would end funding for research using tissue from electively aborted fetuses — most recently earlier this month, when language prohibiting such funding was stripped from a 2019 HHS spending bill.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://trentcenter.duke.edu/node/221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ross McKinney\u003c/a>, chief scientific officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges, says fetal tissue was key in the development of major medical advances such as vaccines for polio, rubella, measles, chickenpox, adenovirus and rabies, as well as treatments for diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, cystic fibrosis and hemophilia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The unique characteristics of this tissue are essential to the study of fetal diseases, like those caused by Zika virus, and hold promise for advancing biomedical research in other areas as well, bringing hope to patients struggling with diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and multiple sclerosis,” he writes in an email to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fetal tissue continues to be an important resource for biomedical research, and the Association of American Medical Colleges fully supports its availability as one of the scientific methods that could save and improve lives.”[contextly_sidebar id=”GY9wMG5EY8EjMrFWoS2AArgcQmiE5UTu”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/01/28/464594826/in-wake-of-videos-planned-parenthood-investigations-find-no-fetal-tissue-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 2015 brouhaha\u003c/a>, the Obama-era HHS \u003ca href=\"https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/3514/4709/3497/HHS_Letter_2015_08_14_-_FT_Research.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to two Republican senators calling the use of fetal tissue in medical research “an instrumental component of our attempts to understand, treat, and cure a number of conditions and diseases that affect millions of Americans,” noting that scientists in the U.S. have been working with fetal tissue \u003ca href=\"https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44129.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">since the 1930s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR science correspondent Rob Stein contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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Use of fetal tissue is antiquated research, and [HHS Secretary Alex] Azar should redirect those funds to modern science and better alternatives, including adult stem cells.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Science\u003c/em> notes that on earlier this month, 45 groups opposed to abortion \u003ca href=\"https://www.sba-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Group-Letter-to-Azar-FDA-and-fetal-tissue-FINAL-with-Signatures.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to Azar calling the FDA contract for fetal tissue “shocking” and “unacceptable.” A few days later, 85 members of Congress \u003ca href=\"https://chrissmith.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2018-09-17_-chs-hartzler-walker_letter_on_fda_fetal_tissue_contract.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to the FDA’s commissioner, urging the agency to cancel the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Institutes of Health, which also falls under HHS, spent $98 million last fiscal year on research that involved human fetal tissue. 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If they did not reply, Grassley said, the committee would move ahead with a vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney for Ford called the deadline “arbitrary” and asked that Ford be granted an additional day to consider her options. “[The deadline’s] sole purpose is to bully Dr. Ford and deprive her of the ability to make a considered decision that has life-altering implications for her and her family,” attorney Debra Katz wrote in an email to the committee’s Republican staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before midnight, Grassley tweeted that he had \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1043344767684366336\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">granted an extension\u003c/a>, telling Ford he wants to hear her testimony. He directly addressed Kavanaugh in a tweet, too, saying, “I hope u understand. It’s not my normal approach to b indecisive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1043348132657025025\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1043341000989712384\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1043344767684366336\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee has asked Ford to testify about her allegation on Wednesday, Sept. 26. Ford’s lawyers and Senate Democrats have pressed for more time, arguing the hearing should take place next Thursday, among other conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of tweets earlier Friday, Trump cast doubt on Ford’s charge, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043126336473055235\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mentioning her by name for the first time\u003c/a>: “I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043126336473055235\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, according to Department of Justice statistics, as of 2016 only 23 percent of rapes or sexual assaults were reported to the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> host Mary Louise Kelly, Kirsten Leimroth, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/21/650508344/friend-of-christine-blasey-ford-says-she-struggled-months-before-she-came-forwar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a close friend of Ford’s\u003c/a>, said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people that things like this have happened to and they don’t talk about it. You’re embarrassed and ashamed and you don’t think people will believe you. So I don’t think someone will believe you … I don’t think it’s unusual at all that she didn’t tell anyone back them. She did … tell a therapist several years ago, and I know that was one of the things this summer, she was waiting to get a hold of them to see if they had written it down, because she wanted something to back up that she wasn’t just making up the story right now. And so I know she was glad that the therapist did have notes on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043130170612244481\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In another tweet\u003c/a>, Trump said that “radical left lawyers want the FBI to get involved NOW. Why didn’t someone call the FBI 36 years ago?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043130170612244481\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s tweets follow \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4OjEksiJA4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an interview\u003c/a> he gave to Fox’s Sean Hannity on Thursday night in Las Vegas, where he appeared at a rally, in which the president first questioned why the FBI hadn’t been called at the time of the alleged assault (which would likely have been handled by local law enforcement).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You say, why didn’t somebody call the FBI 36 years ago?” Trump asked. “I mean, you could also say when did this all happen, what is going on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To take a man like this and besmirch — now, with that being said, let her have her say and let’s see how it all works out. But I don’t think you can delay it any longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an appearance in Portland on Friday, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressherald.com/2018/09/21/collins-appalled-by-trumps-tweet-criticizing-kavanaugh-accuser/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said she was appalled\u003c/a> by Trump’s tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First of all, we know that allegations of sexual assault – I’m not saying that’s what happened in this case – but we know allegations of sexual assault are one of the most unreported crimes that exist. So I thought that the president’s tweet was completely inappropriate and wrong,” Collins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4OjEksiJA4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s tweets came amid ongoing negotiations over whether and how Ford and Kavanaugh might testify before the Judiciary Committee. The committee initially scheduled a hearing for Monday and had invited Kavanaugh and Ford to testify. In a letter to the committee, Ford’s lawyers said that she would be open to appearing before the panel, but that an appearance Monday “was not possible.” Ford’s lawyers and Democrats on the panel want the FBI to investigate the charges, a move Grassley and other Republicans have dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford does not want Kavanaugh in the room when she testifies, and her team does not want an outside questioner on the Republican side to be brought in, a source in Ford’s camp tells NPR’s Nina Totenberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Grassley’s camp agreed to the demand that Kavanaugh not be in the committee room, but rejected her request to only allow senators to question the two witnesses, saying it was within committee rules to permit staff attorneys to conduct the questioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley’s Friday night letter to Ford’s attorneys setting a deadline also rejected two key requests discussed in a conference call with committee staff from both parties on Thursday: to have Kavanaugh testify first and for the committee to subpoena other witnesses like Mark Judge. Ford alleges Judge was there at the time the incident took place when they were in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford says that Kavanaugh groped her and tried to forcibly remove her clothes during a house party in Bethesda, Md., in the early 1980s. Kavanaugh has denied the accusation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another tweet Friday morning, Trump called Kavanaugh “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043121858797686785\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a fine man\u003c/a>,” who he said is under assault “by radical left wing politicians who don’t want to know the answers, they just want to destroy and delay.” Trump continued, “I go through this with them ever single day in D.C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043121858797686785\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaking to conservative activists at the Value Voters Summit in Washington on Friday morning, expressed confidence Kavanaugh would be confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve watched the fight. You’ve watched the tactics. Here’s what I want to tell you: In the very near future, Judge Kavanaugh will be on the United States Supreme Court,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump also lashed out at Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 11 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate Judiciary Committee will move forward with a hearing scheduled for Monday on sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, despite a request for further investigation from his accuser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision follows the release of a letter sent to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley from attorneys representing Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assaulting her more than three decades ago when they were teenagers. In the letter, Ford's attorneys said an FBI investigation should be \"the first step in addressing her allegations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford's attorneys argue that an investigation is necessary so that \"the Committee is fully informed before conducting any hearing or making any decisions.\" Ford's attorneys also say that since she went public with her allegations, \"she has been the target of vicious harassment and even death threats.\" They also complained that the committee scheduled Ford to \"testify at the same table as Judge Kavanaugh in front of two dozen U.S. Senators on national television to relive this traumatic and harrowing incident.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley declined Tuesday night to delay the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The invitation for Monday still stands,\" Grassley said in a statement. \"Nothing the FBI or any other investigator does would have any bearing on what Dr. Ford tells the committee, so there is no reason for any further delay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley's decision echoed the sentiment of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. \"The FBI does not do investigations like this. The responsibility falls to us,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/senorrinhatch/status/1042216779043491840\">Hatch tweeted. \"\u003c/a>We should proceed as planned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And retiring Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., suggested that if Ford did not appear at Monday's hearing, Senate Republicans should proceed to move forward considering Kavanaugh's nomination. \" If we don't hear from both sides on Monday, let's vote,\" Corker posted on Twitter late Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from Ford's attorneys and Grassley's response capped a day of uncertainty about the next step in the Kavanaugh confirmation process, which has spiraled into turmoil in recent days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford's attorneys stop short of saying Ford will refuse to appear before the committee, while objecting to the rushed timeline and comments from Republican senators who seemed to question her accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hearing was scheduled for six short days from today and would include interrogation by Senators who appear to have made up their minds that she is 'mistaken' and 'mixed up,' \" the letter reads. \"While no sexual assault survivor should be subjected to such an ordeal, Dr. Ford wants to cooperate with the Committee and with law enforcement officials.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, issued statements supporting Ford's concerns about the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I strongly support Dr. Ford's call for an FBI investigation before a hearing is held,\" Schumer said. \"Dr. Ford's call for the FBI to investigate also demonstrates her confidence that when all the facts are examined by an impartial investigation, her account will be further corroborated and confirmed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, also weighed in to support Ford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should honor Dr. Blasey Ford's wishes and delay this hearing,\" Feinstein said in a statement. \"A proper investigation must be completed, witnesses interviewed, evidence reviewed and all sides spoken to. Only then should the chairman set a hearing date.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the day, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the Senate Judiciary Committee would offer Ford the opportunity to testify in either an open public session or behind closed doors about her allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She could do it privately if she prefers, or publicly if she prefers,\" McConnell said, adding, \"Monday is her opportunity.\" He stressed that Kavanaugh is eager to provide his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic aides have privately floated the possibility of boycotting the hearing if Republicans choose to proceed without Ford present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley's committee staff has already begun conducting preliminary interviews by phone with alleged witnesses related to the incident that \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?utm_term=.a4d85614fef9\">Ford described to the Washington Post\u003c/a> as having happened in the early 1980s when she and Kavanaugh were teenagers living in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. Aides plan follow-up sessions as needed to obtain additional information ahead of Monday's planned public hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford named Mark Judge, a classmate of Kavanaugh's, as a witness to the incident at the high school party, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.weeklystandard.com/john-mccormack/kavanaugh-classmate-named-in-letter-strongly-denies-allegations-of-misconduct\">Judge told the Weekly Standard\u003c/a> earlier this week he doesn't recall the episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley's office released a letter from Judge's attorney on Tuesday with a statement from him saying he has \"no memory\" of the incident. He also says, \"I have no more information to offer the Committee and I do not wish to speak publicly regarding the incidents described in Dr. Ford's letter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats have rejected the GOP process and are refusing to participate in any committee phone interviews. They are insisting that the hearing be delayed to further explore the allegations. They want additional witnesses beyond Kavanaugh and Ford to be added to the planned hearing Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their primary demand is one that Ford asked for her in her letter Tuesday night — that the FBI conduct a full evaluation before any hearing is held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a proposal President Trump himself rejected earlier Tuesday prior to the release of the letter from Ford's attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not what they do,\" Trump said. \"They have done now, supposedly, six background checks as Judge Kavanaugh has gone beautifully up a ladder.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday a spokesperson for the Justice Department indicated that the FBI does not get involved in matters unless a federal crime is alleged and that it had completed its work related to Kavanaugh's background check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a joint news conference with Polish President Andrzej Sebastian Duda, Trump said Tuesday he feels \"so badly\" that Kavanaugh is going through the ordeal of the accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel terribly for him, for his wife and for his beautiful young daughters,\" Trump said. \"I feel terribly for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington state Sen. Patty Murray, the No. 3 Democrat in the Senate, told reporters that an FBI investigation is necessary to ensure a full and impartial assessment of the accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Scheduling a hearing for Monday, a week from when Dr. Ford made her accusations public, is a shameful attempt to jam this through without giving anyone the time they need to investigate and put together the questions that need to be asked,\" Murray said. \"This is a test for the United States Senate on how we handle accusations of sexual harassment and assault.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murray and other Democrats are drawing a direct parallel between the claims against Kavanaugh and those raised in 1991 when Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court. At the time an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee aggressively questioned Hill in televised hearings, cast doubt on her accusations and ultimately voted to move Thomas' nomination to the full Senate, which confirmed him to the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That incident inspired a record number of women to run for federal office that cycle, including Murray, who was elected the following year. Murray told reporters that America — and women in particular — will be closely watching how Ford's case is handled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Republicans attack Dr. Ford and this turns into anything like what we saw in 1991, women across the country are going to rise up and make their voice heard and Republicans will pay a very huge price,\" Murray said. \"I am here today to say, once again, women are watching, we are not going allow that to happen again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Ford asked for an FBI investigation, McConnell and other leaders said they wanted to hear directly from Ford but were standing firm on their expectation that she appear before the committee on Monday, blaming Democrats for creating a disorderly examination of Kavanaugh's record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Next week Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh will testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee under oath,\" McConnell said Tuesday. \"We should not have gotten to this point. That this process has played out with so little order and so little sensitivity lies solely at the feet of Senate Democrats.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have accused Feinstein of concealing details of Ford's accusation for several months after it was sent to her office in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein referred the information to the FBI but did not discuss it until Ford went public over the weekend. She defended her decision to keep the letter private Tuesday, saying she was respecting Ford's own request for anonymity and following procedure for working with federal investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we were trying to do was get an investigation,\" Feinstein said. \"We were going through all of that process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans are warning that the Judiciary Committee has to tread lightly and handle the accusations with respect, regardless of their timing. Retiring Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>California's top lawyer is calling on the Department of Justice to invite Democratic as well as Republican attorneys general to an upcoming meeting on alleged bias against conservative views on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Department officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/05/justice-department-consider-allegations-censorship-facebook-twitter/?utm_term=.482af5e9b555\">have said \u003c/a>that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants to talk with state attorneys general about whether social platforms \"may be hurting competition and intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas on their platform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has accused the tech platforms of suppressing conservative viewpoints. The companies have rejected the allegation. And evidence for anti-conservative bias is unclear. 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Since then, \"the interest has been overwhelming\" and attorneys general of both parties have inquired about participation and received the same acknowledgement of receipt, the official said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the only attorney general to confirm to NPR his plans to attend is Texas Republican Ken Paxton. Spokesman Marc Rylander said in a statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"We look forward to participating in the DOJ's upcoming discussion regarding growing concerns that conservative voices are being suppressed on several social media platforms. This matter involves both the central tenets of our country's free market economy and the guaranteed freedom of speech. We must work together to ensure that online economic competition operates fairly and transparently, so that Americans across the political spectrum can make informed choices and the public discourse can flourish.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>There's a reason why Justice Department officials would be interested in talking with state attorneys general, who can have broad oversight power over social media, thanks to their consumer protection purview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Consumer protection law in each state is extremely broad and allows them to basically protect consumers — that is citizens, people — from what they believe to be untoward conduct,\" said Doug Gansler, a former Maryland attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, several state attorneys general have been investigating the tech companies. Cases have focused on the collection and use of \u003ca href=\"http://fortune.com/2018/04/02/facebook-missouri-cambridge-analytica-invesitigation/\">private data\u003c/a>, disclosures of sponsors behind \u003ca href=\"https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/attorney-general-bob-ferguson-sues-facebook-and-google-over-political-ad-records/\">political advertising\u003c/a> and how advertisers might exclude people from seeing ads such as those based on race or religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, state attorneys' cases against companies focus on violations of law or terms and conditions, deception or fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it is rare for the DOJ to summon state attorneys general for a meeting to direct their focus to a particular part of the industry, said Gansler, a former president of the National Association of Attorneys General.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department has not said anything about the plan for the meeting beyond interest in concerns that tech companies may be \"hurting competition and intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas.\" It's unclear how much of the goal is to facilitate a conversation about the allegations of anti-conservative bias versus the antitrust concerns about the size and reach of the leading tech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either way, simply having federal and state officials digging under the hood of the tech companies and requesting incisive details of their algorithmic secret sauce could threaten their business models, said Dipayan Ghosh, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and former policy adviser at Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the internet companies are quite concerned about this — and they should be,\" Ghosh said. \"This is recognition that state attorneys general have tremendous power ... to start a discussion with industry about standards on privacy, standards on security or standards on transparency. I would hope that these can be done in a way that is not politicized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The politics, however, has been an unavoidable part of the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1034456281120206848\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump in recent weeks claimed that Google \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1034456281120206848\">\"rigged\" search results\u003c/a> to surface \"bad\" stories about him and cited his loss of Twitter followers, which coincided with\u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-21/conservative-twitter-users-lash-out-over-disappearing-followers\"> Twitter's purge\u003c/a> of bots and spam accounts. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"515\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/4vGW0oEiLpg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 7:40 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh weathered another long day of questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was pressed once again for his views on presidential power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., sought a promise from Kavanaugh that he would be willing to serve as a check on the president who nominated him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Give us some reassurance about your commitment to the democratic institutions in this country, in the face of a president who seems prepared to cast them aside,\" Durbin said. \"Whether it's voter suppression, the role of the media — case after case, we hear this president willing to walk away from the rule of law in this country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one is above the law,\" Kavanaugh replied. \"I've made clear in my writings that a court order that requires a president to do something or prohibits a president from doing something under the Constitution or laws of the United States is the final word in our system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on September 6, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11690850\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on September 6, 2018. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, complained that the Supreme Court had been unduly deferential to President Trump this summer when it upheld his travel ban, despite what she called the administration's \"obviously bogus\" justification. She pressed Kavanaugh on when the high court should question a president's national security claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"National security is not a blank check for the president,\" Kavanaugh said, pointing to a number of cases in which the court had overruled the administration. \"Even in the context of wartime, the courts are not silenced. Civil liberties are not silent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh told lawmakers he is so committed to judicial independence, he stopped voting in national elections after he became a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Kamala Harris again asked Kavanaugh if he'd ever spoken with anyone at the law firm of Trump's personal attorney Marc Kasowitz about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, renewing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/05/644948708/kavanaugh-hearings-day-2-more-protests-as-senators-press-on-precedent\">a line of questioning she'd opened Wednesday night.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The answer is no,\" Kavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he's done throughout the hearing, Kavanaugh declined to answer a series of questions from Harris about issues that might come before the high court, including abortion, same-sex marriage, and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh was asked repeatedly during the televised hearing about whether he would support opening the Supreme Court to TV cameras. He promised to keep an open mind, but said he would also want to consider the views of the eight current justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's session began with Democrats on the committee in open revolt over the handling of documents from Kavanaugh's tenure in the George W. Bush White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some documents have been withheld altogether. Others have been provided to the committee on \"confidential\" terms, meaning senators can see them but they can't be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats object that the confidential label has been applied to a wide swath of records, many of which contain no personal or sensitive information. They also complain that classification decisions were made by former President Bush's attorney, William Burck, a former deputy of Kavanaugh's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18249034520767booker_wide-211a02665e529d7038dd7c3d7d267b232ebed392-s1600-c85-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. — sitting next to Sen. 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Cory Booker, D-N.J. — sitting next to Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. — questions Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Jacquelyn Martin/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4834171-Kavanaugh-Confidential-Documents-Released-By\">Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., released some of the confidential documents\u003c/a> Thursday morning. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Hirono also released \"confidential\" documents, drawing a stern rebuke from Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who called them \"irresponsible and outrageous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is no different from the senator deciding to release classified information,\" Cornyn said Thursday morning. \"No senator deserves to sit on this committee, or serve in the Senate, in my view, if they decide to be a law unto themselves and willingly flout the rules of the Senate and the determination of confidentiality and classification.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4834231-Kavanaugh-Documents-Released-By-Hirono\">the documents released by Sen. Hirono here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4834307-Kavanaugh-Documents-Released-By-Leahy\">the documents released by Sen. Leahy here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all the theatrics on both sides, the debate over documents fizzled by Thursday afternoon, once it became clear their release had been authorized by Bush's attorney overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We cleared the documents last night shortly after Senator Booker's staff asked us to,\" Burck said in a statement. \"In fact, we have said yes to every request made by the Senate Democrats to make documents public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And an aide to Grassley told NPR that \"counsels for the senators who requested waivers last night/this morning for particular documents were notified that their requests had been honored beginning at around 3:50 this morning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a spokesperson for Hirono said the senator was not informed that the documents released by her office Thursday morning had been approved to be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not clear whether Booker knew the documents he released had already been approved before his statements Thursday morning at the beginning of the hearing — when he said that his decision to release the documents was a form of civil disobedience and that he was aware he was risking expulsion from the Senate for making the documents public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cory said this morning that he was releasing committee confidential documents, and that's exactly what he's done,\" Booker spokeswoman Kristin Lynch said in an email to NPR. \"Last night, he was admonished by Republicans for breaking the rules when he read from committee confidential documents. Cory and Senate Democrats were able to shame the committee into agreeing to make last night's documents publicly available, and Cory publicly released those documents as well as other committee confidential documents today. And he'll keep releasing them because Republicans are hiding Brett Kavanaugh's record from the American people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents released by Booker include a batch of emails concerning racial profiling, affirmative action and other race-conscious government programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2002 email, Kavanaugh wrote that security procedures adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks should ultimately be race-neutral, though he acknowledged that developing such procedures could take time. Others in the White House suggested racial profiling might be legally justified if it enhanced security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2001 email, Kavanaugh addressed a legal challenge to an affirmative action program within the Department of Transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fundamental problem in this case is that these DOT regulations use a lot of legalisms and disguises to mask what in reality is a naked racial set-aside,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh had sidestepped questions from Booker on Wednesday night about the circumstances in which government can and cannot use race-conscious measures to address past discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He conceded that hopes he expressed nearly two decades ago for a color-blind society have not been fulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see on an all-too-common basis that racism still exists in the United States of America,\" Kavanaugh said. \"Our long march to racial equality is not over.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/us/politics/kavanaugh-leaked-documents.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage\">The New York Times\u003c/a> reported on leaked emails from the \"confidential\" file. One is an email drafted by Kavanaugh in 2003, in which he questioned whether the Supreme Court's 1973 \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> decision legalizing abortion should be described as \"settled law of the land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein and Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) engage in a debate with fellow members of the committee during the third day of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11690866\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-1200x808.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-1180x794.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-960x646.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-375x252.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/DiFiKavhearing-520x350.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein and Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) engage in a debate with fellow members of the committee during the third day of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pressed on that email by California Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Give us some reassurance about your commitment to the democratic institutions in this country, in the face of a president who seems prepared to cast them aside,\" Durbin said. \"Whether it's voter suppression, the role of the media — case after case, we hear this president willing to walk away from the rule of law in this country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one is above the law,\" Kavanaugh replied. \"I've made clear in my writings that a court order that requires a president to do something or prohibits a president from doing something under the Constitution or laws of the United States is the final word in our system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on September 6, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11690850\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Kav1920-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on September 6, 2018. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, complained that the Supreme Court had been unduly deferential to President Trump this summer when it upheld his travel ban, despite what she called the administration's \"obviously bogus\" justification. She pressed Kavanaugh on when the high court should question a president's national security claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"National security is not a blank check for the president,\" Kavanaugh said, pointing to a number of cases in which the court had overruled the administration. \"Even in the context of wartime, the courts are not silenced. Civil liberties are not silent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh told lawmakers he is so committed to judicial independence, he stopped voting in national elections after he became a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Kamala Harris again asked Kavanaugh if he'd ever spoken with anyone at the law firm of Trump's personal attorney Marc Kasowitz about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, renewing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/05/644948708/kavanaugh-hearings-day-2-more-protests-as-senators-press-on-precedent\">a line of questioning she'd opened Wednesday night.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The answer is no,\" Kavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he's done throughout the hearing, Kavanaugh declined to answer a series of questions from Harris about issues that might come before the high court, including abortion, same-sex marriage, and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh was asked repeatedly during the televised hearing about whether he would support opening the Supreme Court to TV cameras. He promised to keep an open mind, but said he would also want to consider the views of the eight current justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's session began with Democrats on the committee in open revolt over the handling of documents from Kavanaugh's tenure in the George W. Bush White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some documents have been withheld altogether. Others have been provided to the committee on \"confidential\" terms, meaning senators can see them but they can't be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats object that the confidential label has been applied to a wide swath of records, many of which contain no personal or sensitive information. They also complain that classification decisions were made by former President Bush's attorney, William Burck, a former deputy of Kavanaugh's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18249034520767booker_wide-211a02665e529d7038dd7c3d7d267b232ebed392-s1600-c85-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. — sitting next to Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. — questions Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11690843\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18249034520767booker_wide-211a02665e529d7038dd7c3d7d267b232ebed392-s1600-c85-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18249034520767booker_wide-211a02665e529d7038dd7c3d7d267b232ebed392-s1600-c85-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18249034520767booker_wide-211a02665e529d7038dd7c3d7d267b232ebed392-s1600-c85-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18249034520767booker_wide-211a02665e529d7038dd7c3d7d267b232ebed392-s1600-c85-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18249034520767booker_wide-211a02665e529d7038dd7c3d7d267b232ebed392-s1600-c85-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18249034520767booker_wide-211a02665e529d7038dd7c3d7d267b232ebed392-s1600-c85-960x539.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18249034520767booker_wide-211a02665e529d7038dd7c3d7d267b232ebed392-s1600-c85-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18249034520767booker_wide-211a02665e529d7038dd7c3d7d267b232ebed392-s1600-c85-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18249034520767booker_wide-211a02665e529d7038dd7c3d7d267b232ebed392-s1600-c85-520x292.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18249034520767booker_wide-211a02665e529d7038dd7c3d7d267b232ebed392-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. — sitting next to Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. — questions Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Jacquelyn Martin/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4834171-Kavanaugh-Confidential-Documents-Released-By\">Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., released some of the confidential documents\u003c/a> Thursday morning. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Hirono also released \"confidential\" documents, drawing a stern rebuke from Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who called them \"irresponsible and outrageous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is no different from the senator deciding to release classified information,\" Cornyn said Thursday morning. \"No senator deserves to sit on this committee, or serve in the Senate, in my view, if they decide to be a law unto themselves and willingly flout the rules of the Senate and the determination of confidentiality and classification.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4834231-Kavanaugh-Documents-Released-By-Hirono\">the documents released by Sen. Hirono here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4834307-Kavanaugh-Documents-Released-By-Leahy\">the documents released by Sen. Leahy here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all the theatrics on both sides, the debate over documents fizzled by Thursday afternoon, once it became clear their release had been authorized by Bush's attorney overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We cleared the documents last night shortly after Senator Booker's staff asked us to,\" Burck said in a statement. \"In fact, we have said yes to every request made by the Senate Democrats to make documents public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And an aide to Grassley told NPR that \"counsels for the senators who requested waivers last night/this morning for particular documents were notified that their requests had been honored beginning at around 3:50 this morning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a spokesperson for Hirono said the senator was not informed that the documents released by her office Thursday morning had been approved to be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not clear whether Booker knew the documents he released had already been approved before his statements Thursday morning at the beginning of the hearing — when he said that his decision to release the documents was a form of civil disobedience and that he was aware he was risking expulsion from the Senate for making the documents public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cory said this morning that he was releasing committee confidential documents, and that's exactly what he's done,\" Booker spokeswoman Kristin Lynch said in an email to NPR. \"Last night, he was admonished by Republicans for breaking the rules when he read from committee confidential documents. Cory and Senate Democrats were able to shame the committee into agreeing to make last night's documents publicly available, and Cory publicly released those documents as well as other committee confidential documents today. And he'll keep releasing them because Republicans are hiding Brett Kavanaugh's record from the American people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents released by Booker include a batch of emails concerning racial profiling, affirmative action and other race-conscious government programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2002 email, Kavanaugh wrote that security procedures adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks should ultimately be race-neutral, though he acknowledged that developing such procedures could take time. Others in the White House suggested racial profiling might be legally justified if it enhanced security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2001 email, Kavanaugh addressed a legal challenge to an affirmative action program within the Department of Transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fundamental problem in this case is that these DOT regulations use a lot of legalisms and disguises to mask what in reality is a naked racial set-aside,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh had sidestepped questions from Booker on Wednesday night about the circumstances in which government can and cannot use race-conscious measures to address past discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He conceded that hopes he expressed nearly two decades ago for a color-blind society have not been fulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see on an all-too-common basis that racism still exists in the United States of America,\" Kavanaugh said. \"Our long march to racial equality is not over.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/us/politics/kavanaugh-leaked-documents.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage\">The New York Times\u003c/a> reported on leaked emails from the \"confidential\" file. One is an email drafted by Kavanaugh in 2003, in which he questioned whether the Supreme Court's 1973 \u003cem>Roe v. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 10:21 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is presenting himself as an open-minded judge who is guided by the law but not indifferent to the effects of his decisions, during a marathon day of confirmation hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't live in a bubble,\" Kavanaugh told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. \"I base my decisions on the law, but I do so with an awareness of the facts and an awareness of the real-world consequences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee's ranking member, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., pressed Kavanaugh on that, as she probed the judge's views on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/04/644105543/kavanaugh-confirmation-hearings-to-focus-on-6-hot-button-issues\">hot-button issues such as abortion and gun control\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh said he understands the importance that people attach to the Supreme Court's 1973 \u003cem>Roe v. Wade \u003c/em>decision legalizing abortion — a ruling that was reaffirmed two decades later in \u003cem>Planned Parenthood v. Casey\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an important precedent of the Supreme Court,\" Kavanaugh said. But he stopped short of saying whether he believes \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Casey\u003c/em> was correctly decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh was later asked about his dissenting opinion last year in a case involving a teenage immigrant who sought an abortion while in federal custody for crossing the border illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh said he would have allowed the Trump administration to require the young woman be placed with an \"immigration sponsor,\" though he added the administration could not use that as a ruse to block the abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Consider the circumstances,\" he said. \"She's a 17-year-old, by herself in a foreign country in a facility where she's detained and she has no one to talk to and she's pregnant. Now that is a difficult situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh also defended his dissenting opinion in a case involving a ban on semi-automatic rifles. He argued the ban should have been found unconstitutional, citing a decision by the late Justice Antonin Scalia that only \"unusual\" weapons can be outlawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Semi-automatic rifles are widely possessed in the United States. There are millions and millions and millions,\" Kavanaugh said. \"As a judge, my job was to follow the Second Amendment decision of the Supreme Court, whether I agreed with it or disagreed with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh stressed that as a native of the Washington, D.C., area, he is well-aware of the danger posed by gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course, the violence in schools is something that we all detest and want to do something about,\" Kavanaugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., challenged Kavanaugh over a dissenting opinion in which he argued that slaughterhouse workers living in the country illegally were not entitled to form a union, despite the express language of the National Labor Relations Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You claim over and over again to be a textualist — to be carefully weighing every word of a statute,\" Durbin said. \"So why did you go out of your way to interpret the word 'employee' in a way that benefited this horrible business and disadvantaged these exploited workers?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh insisted he was simply following Supreme Court precedent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no agenda in any direction,\" he said. \"I'm a judge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh allowed that from time to time the Supreme Court reverses its own precedents. He pointed to once such reversal — \u003cem>Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/em>, which ended the \"separate but equal\" doctrine — as \"the single greatest moment in Supreme Court history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18248513765908kavprotester_wide-8b86ce130be401935fd02eeec3d0f692b8b3b25f-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A protester disrupts the proceedings as Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11690571\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester disrupts the proceedings as Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>( J. Scott Applewhite/AP )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the second day in a row, the hearing was repeatedly interrupted by protesters. But questioning quickly resumed as demonstrators were hustled out of the hearing room by U.S. Capitol Police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barring a surprise, Senate Republicans have the votes to confirm Kavanaugh in time for him to take his place on the high court when it begins its fall term next month. Both supporters and opponents believe he would tilt the Supreme Court to the right, cementing a 5-4 conservative majority for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the committee's chairman, highlighted Kavanaugh's experience as an appeals court judge, then asked whether he would have any trouble ruling against the president who appointed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one is above the law in our constitutional system,\" Kavanaugh replied. \"Under our system of government, the executive branch is subject to the law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh pointed approvingly to several examples of Supreme Court justices who ruled against the presidents who appointed them. He also highlighted his own decision as an appeals court judge, rejecting a military tribunal for terrorism suspect Salim Hamdan, even though it was a \"signature prosecution\" of the George W. Bush administration in which Kavanaugh served before joining the federal bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You'll never have a nominee who's ruled for a more unpopular defendant,\" Kavanaugh said. \"You don't make decisions based on who people are or their policy preferences. 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He stressed that his writing on presidential immunity was meant as a recommendation for lawmakers, not a preview of how he might rule as a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were ideas for Congress to consider,\" Kavanaugh said. \"They were not my constitutional views.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like previous nominees, Kavanaugh avoided answering questions that might come before the Supreme Court, including whether he would uphold a statute requiring insurance companies to provide coverage for pre-existing medical conditions and whether a president can offer a pardon in exchange for someone's silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also ducked questions about the president's tweets this week criticizing the prosecution of two GOP lawmakers, as well as his comments on the deadly white supremacists rally in Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think we want judges commenting on the latest political controversy,\" Kavanaugh said. \"That would ultimately lead the people to doubt whether we're independent, whether we're politicians in robes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, grilled Kavanaugh over a legal brief he'd co-authored raising questions about whether native Hawaiians are entitled to protections similar to those granted Native Americans on the mainland. She suggested his reasoning might also affect the treatment of native tribes in Alaska. 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Dick Durbin, D-Ill., challenged Kavanaugh over a dissenting opinion in which he argued that slaughterhouse workers living in the country illegally were not entitled to form a union, despite the express language of the National Labor Relations Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You claim over and over again to be a textualist — to be carefully weighing every word of a statute,\" Durbin said. \"So why did you go out of your way to interpret the word 'employee' in a way that benefited this horrible business and disadvantaged these exploited workers?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh insisted he was simply following Supreme Court precedent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no agenda in any direction,\" he said. \"I'm a judge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavanaugh allowed that from time to time the Supreme Court reverses its own precedents. He pointed to once such reversal — \u003cem>Brown v. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 12:59 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee vented Wednesday morning about what they called the shortcomings of major tech firms, which they argue have led Americans to become vulnerable to foreign disinformation campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What is under attack is the idea that business as usual is good enough. The information your platforms disseminate changes minds, hardens opinions, helps people make sense of the world. ... That's how serious this is,\" said Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified about the work they're doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch the hearing below.\u003cbr>\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE1-Jyt2Src\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Burr and his Democratic counterpart, Sen. 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That's on us. This interference was completely unacceptable,\" Sandberg conceded. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some use of Facebook by automated or fake accounts continues. About 3 to 4 percent of accounts on Facebook's platform today are \"inauthentic\" users who do not represent real people, Sandberg said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than 2 billion users, that suggests there remain tens of millions of such accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey, meanwhile, said he wants Twitter to be a \"public square\" where almost anyone can say almost anything, but that he also recognized how much it has been exploited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We aren't proud of how that free and open exchange has been weaponized and used to distract and divide people, and our nation,\" he said. \"We found ourselves unprepared and ill-equipped for the immensity of the problems that we've acknowledged.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Human rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Sen. 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We would only operate in a country when we can do so in keeping with our values,\" Sandberg replied. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing cases in Turkey, Rubio asked Dorsey: \"How does blocking the accounts of journalists and an NBA player [keep] with a core tenet of freedom of expression?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would like to fight for every single person being able to speak freely, and to see everything, but we have to realize that it will take some bridges to get there,\" Dorsey responded. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"This is fine\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's hearing was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/02/634682228/this-is-not-fine-new-evidence-of-russian-interference-meets-inaction-frustration\">second time\u003c/a> this year that the intelligence committee has convened a public session on how social media platforms can be used to further foreign influence operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee also heard from social media experts back in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some feel that we as a society are sitting in a burning room, calmly drinking a cup of coffee, telling ourselves, '\u003ca href=\"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-is-fine\">This is fine\u003c/a>.' That's not fine,\" Burr said in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should no longer be talking about if the Russians 'attempted' to interfere with American society. They've been doing it since the days of the Soviet Union, and they're still doing it today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The past six months have been eventful as social media companies and tech giants have repeatedly announced the disruption of various influence operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late July, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/31/634319520/facebook-says-it-removed-pages-involved-in-deceptive-political-influence-campaig\">Facebook announced\u003c/a> that it had removed 32 accounts involved in a political influence campaign with links to the Russian government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft said it discovered and stopped an attempted cyberattack tied to Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Facebook made another announcement: It had shut down hundreds of accounts linked to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/21/640696857/facebook-shuts-down-652-iranian-backed-and-some-russian-backed-accounts\">Iranian-backed global disinformation campaign\u003c/a>. Twitter then \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1032055161978585088\">followed suit\u003c/a> by deleting accounts linked to this Iranian campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of all these alleged information operations, the Democratic National Committee reported that it had stopped what appeared to be an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/22/641005248/democratic-national-committee-says-it-caught-cyberattack-in-the-act\">attempted cyber intrusion\u003c/a> into its voter data systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what looked like an attack was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/23/641189337/dnc-says-attempted-cyberattack-wasnt-russia-it-was-a-test-from-michigan\">actually a security test\u003c/a> by friendly volunteers for the Michigan Democratic Party who didn't communicate that with the main DNC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrats' cybersecurity specialists have compared themselves to combat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress following the deep embarrassment to the party after it was the victim of Russian attacks during the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we all still have PTSD from 2016,\" Raffi Krikorian, chief technology officer at the Democratic National Committee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/30/642676228/heres-what-keeps-the-democratic-party-s-technology-boss-awake-at-night\">told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The miscommunication within the DNC showed the current state of alarm: Big tech, social media companies and politicians are on red alert about the issue of foreign intrusions and cyber operations. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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Mark Warner, lamented that Google did not send an appropriately senior executive to appear — the company had offered to send its chief legal officer, Kent Walker, but a bipartisan consensus on the committee was that he was insufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm deeply disappointed that Google, one of the most influential digital platforms in the world, chose not to send its own top corporate leadership to engage this committee,\" Warner said, ticking off how Google search, YouTube and Gmail, which it owns, were relevant to discussions about foreign influence operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warner had held out the possibility as late as Tuesday afternoon that Google could still change its mind, but the company did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google posted a copy of what it called \u003ca href=\"http://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/kent_walker_testimony_senate_select_committee_on_intelligence_09052018.pdf\">Walker's prepared testimony\u003c/a> on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it, he hit the notes that other tech bosses sounded in their hearing: They appreciate the importance of fighting \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/25/586099619/the-russia-investigations-what-you-need-to-know-about-russian-active-measures?preview=\">active measures\u003c/a>, they're tightening their internal security and other practices, and they're prepared now in ways they weren't for the big influence campaign of 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey and Sandberg both said how badly they were caught off guard by foreign influence operations in the last presidential election campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were too slow to spot this and too slow to act. That's on us. This interference was completely unacceptable,\" Sandberg conceded. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some use of Facebook by automated or fake accounts continues. About 3 to 4 percent of accounts on Facebook's platform today are \"inauthentic\" users who do not represent real people, Sandberg said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than 2 billion users, that suggests there remain tens of millions of such accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey, meanwhile, said he wants Twitter to be a \"public square\" where almost anyone can say almost anything, but that he also recognized how much it has been exploited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We aren't proud of how that free and open exchange has been weaponized and used to distract and divide people, and our nation,\" he said. \"We found ourselves unprepared and ill-equipped for the immensity of the problems that we've acknowledged.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Human rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida also questioned the duo about their operations outside the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These principles of our democracy, do you support them only in the United States? Or are these principles that you feel obligated to support around the world?\" Rubio asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We support these principles around the world. ... We would only operate in a country when we can do so in keeping with our values,\" Sandberg replied. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing cases in Turkey, Rubio asked Dorsey: \"How does blocking the accounts of journalists and an NBA player [keep] with a core tenet of freedom of expression?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would like to fight for every single person being able to speak freely, and to see everything, but we have to realize that it will take some bridges to get there,\" Dorsey responded. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"This is fine\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's hearing was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/02/634682228/this-is-not-fine-new-evidence-of-russian-interference-meets-inaction-frustration\">second time\u003c/a> this year that the intelligence committee has convened a public session on how social media platforms can be used to further foreign influence operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee also heard from social media experts back in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some feel that we as a society are sitting in a burning room, calmly drinking a cup of coffee, telling ourselves, '\u003ca href=\"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-is-fine\">This is fine\u003c/a>.' That's not fine,\" Burr said in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should no longer be talking about if the Russians 'attempted' to interfere with American society. 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"content": "\u003cp>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has gotten fed up with all the speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is the least important question you could ask,\" she told NPR, \"with all due respect to your list of questions there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question, of course, is whether Pelosi would have enough votes to retake the Speaker's gavel if Democrats win back control of Congress in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have focused their advertising fire on Pelosi this year, and as a result, she and many Democratic candidates are hearing that question a lot. \"You wake up each day thinking, what can I do to advance what I believe in, to make the future better. And then some reporter comes up and asks you: 'who are you going to vote for for leader?'\" Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most important thing is, what does this election mean for the American people?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fundraising Focus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Democrats want voters to focus on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/13/619672927/why-democrats-now-see-health-care-as-a-winning-political-issue\">health care costs\u003c/a> and access, jobs, and say a new Democratic majority will provide a check on President Trump's power. In order to amplify that message, Pelosi has spent the election cycle traveling the country and raising nearly $100 million for Democratic candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week she was in Laguna Beach and San Diego in her home state, fundraising and campaigning for Democrats Harley Rouda and Mike Levin. The two candidates are running for the types of seats that will likely decide control of the House: high-income, high-education districts that have historically been safe for Republicans, but have trended more blue in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that Democrats could win the Orange County and northern San Diego County districts would have been hard to comprehend when Pelosi was California's Democratic Party Chair in the 1980s. But on a Tuesday night, she was standing in the backyard of an oceanside mansion, pulling in $100,000 for the Rouda campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Will it be a tsunami or will it be a wave?\" she said, assessing Democrats' chances of winning back the House. \"Either case it's tiny little drops of water, and all of them close races.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting in Levin's campaign headquarters the next day, Pelosi told NPR, \"I have every confidence that we'll win. Not because I'm taking anything for granted, but because we're not yielding one grain of sand. This is urgent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Democrats Governing Agenda: a Check on Trump\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The most immediate, high-profile — and perhaps with divided government — most consequential result of Democratic House control would be aggressive oversight of the White House and executive branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats would be able to set the committee schedule and issue subpoenas, and use that power to examine everything from President Trump's tax returns to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/26/606153411/lawmakers-ask-epa-chief-scott-pruitt-tough-questions-amid-ethics-allegations\">former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's countless ethical scandals\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You will see us use every arrow in our quiver to find the truth about what's happening in public policy, what they're doing to the environment,\" Pelosi stressed. \"We see this as a culture of corruption, cronyism and incompetence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That focus on ethics is reminiscent of the last time Pelosi led her party to take control of the House in 2006 — a goal she's intent on repeating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/643985147/644447064\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pace and scope of any Democratic-led probes – most significantly, whether or when to begin impeachment proceedings – would be one of countless strategic choices Pelosi or another Democratic leader would have to make. Every single one could pit members from the more center or right-leaning districts Democrats are trying to win against an increasingly energetic progressive movement within the national party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That constant intramural battle was on display at a campaign volunteer meet-and-greet Pelosi conducted with Rouda before the fundraiser. One woman pleaded with the California Democrat to swing the party toward the center. A few minutes later, someone else volunteered a triple-bank shot scenario where Democrats impeach Trump and Vice President Pence, and a Speaker Pelosi becomes president. (Pelosi politely dismissed the speculation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's, you know, creative tension, as we call it,\" Pelosi said afterwards about the two competing pressures. \"There may be some differences in approach, but there's no difference in what our purpose is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of intra-caucus differences, the next Democratic speaker would also have to take into consideration a grassroots movement filling up with many political newcomers who flirt with or embrace socialism. These new members would likely be opposed to the types of compromises and deal-cutting Pelosi has built her career on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn't quite see it that way. \"You're just hanging out on the fringe,\" she said in a response to a question about growing \"blow it up\" sentiments in both parties' bases. \"That's not really what we hear even in the most progressive districts. I represent San Francisco. Yes, people want us to use our leverage to have solutions come closer to their point of view. But people want us to get the job done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm a liberal progressive from San Francisco,\" she said. \"But if it is going to be sustainable, you have to find some common ground to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't run into a lot of people who want to blow things up,\" Pelosi said. \"If they do we can't accommodate them. You can have as big a tent as you want but people have to want to be in the tent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11688253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PelosiStudio-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in the KQED studios on Aug. 22, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11688253\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PelosiStudio-800x564.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PelosiStudio-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PelosiStudio-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PelosiStudio-1200x846.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PelosiStudio.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PelosiStudio-1180x832.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PelosiStudio-960x677.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PelosiStudio-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PelosiStudio-375x264.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PelosiStudio-520x366.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in the KQED studios on Aug. 22, 2018. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Pelosi's Future Hinges on Midterm Margin\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The best job security Pelosi may have is the fact that no other Democrat appears to be as well-versed as she is at navigating all those cross-currents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Who's going to keep the caucus united? Who's going to govern? Who's going to be willing to travel the country relentlessly for candidates?\" asked former New York Rep. Steve Israel, who once ran the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee under Pelosi. \"I don't know of anybody other than Nancy Pelosi who has been able to knit together the coalition necessary to reflect the fundamental values of Democrats and get things done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel dismissed the Pelosi-focused Republican attack ads as a \"weak and ineffective strategy\" in a campaign cycle dominated by questions about President Trump's popularity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's clear the pressure – and the constant media focus on whether Democrats will support her – have many candidates worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as he held a fundraiser with Pelosi, Harley Rouda has not said publicly whether or not he'd vote for her as leader. And before the meet-and-greet with campaign volunteers, a Rouda staffer reminded the audience \"not to post anything on social media\" about the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the Republican pressure, there's a vocal call for new leadership from several incumbent Democrats and first-time candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Pelosi batted away questions about any sort of vulnerability. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have 430 candidates. How many have you heard from?\" she asked, when NPR posed the question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-opposing-pelosi-n899536\">latest count from NBC News\u003c/a> stands at more than 50 Democrats saying they wouldn't support her. That doesn't appear to be enough to worry her — especially since it won't be clear until after Election Day which Democrats, and how many of them, will be voting for their next leader. There will be an internal vote using secret ballots for the top Democratic leadership spot in early December and then a public vote on the House floor in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm a numbers person when it comes to counting votes for legislation,\" she said. \"Passing the Affordable Care Act, the Recovery Act, the list goes on — Wall Street reform and the rest. And I'm a numbers person when it comes to my own possibilities in Congress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for the next two months, the most important number for Pelosi is 23. That's the net number of seats Democrats need to pick up to take back control of the House. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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This is urgent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Democrats Governing Agenda: a Check on Trump\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The most immediate, high-profile — and perhaps with divided government — most consequential result of Democratic House control would be aggressive oversight of the White House and executive branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats would be able to set the committee schedule and issue subpoenas, and use that power to examine everything from President Trump's tax returns to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/26/606153411/lawmakers-ask-epa-chief-scott-pruitt-tough-questions-amid-ethics-allegations\">former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's countless ethical scandals\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You will see us use every arrow in our quiver to find the truth about what's happening in public policy, what they're doing to the environment,\" Pelosi stressed. \"We see this as a culture of corruption, cronyism and incompetence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That focus on ethics is reminiscent of the last time Pelosi led her party to take control of the House in 2006 — a goal she's intent on repeating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/643985147/644447064\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pace and scope of any Democratic-led probes – most significantly, whether or when to begin impeachment proceedings – would be one of countless strategic choices Pelosi or another Democratic leader would have to make. Every single one could pit members from the more center or right-leaning districts Democrats are trying to win against an increasingly energetic progressive movement within the national party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That constant intramural battle was on display at a campaign volunteer meet-and-greet Pelosi conducted with Rouda before the fundraiser. One woman pleaded with the California Democrat to swing the party toward the center. A few minutes later, someone else volunteered a triple-bank shot scenario where Democrats impeach Trump and Vice President Pence, and a Speaker Pelosi becomes president. (Pelosi politely dismissed the speculation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's, you know, creative tension, as we call it,\" Pelosi said afterwards about the two competing pressures. \"There may be some differences in approach, but there's no difference in what our purpose is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of intra-caucus differences, the next Democratic speaker would also have to take into consideration a grassroots movement filling up with many political newcomers who flirt with or embrace socialism. These new members would likely be opposed to the types of compromises and deal-cutting Pelosi has built her career on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She doesn't quite see it that way. \"You're just hanging out on the fringe,\" she said in a response to a question about growing \"blow it up\" sentiments in both parties' bases. \"That's not really what we hear even in the most progressive districts. I represent San Francisco. Yes, people want us to use our leverage to have solutions come closer to their point of view. But people want us to get the job done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm a liberal progressive from San Francisco,\" she said. \"But if it is going to be sustainable, you have to find some common ground to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't run into a lot of people who want to blow things up,\" Pelosi said. \"If they do we can't accommodate them. 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