00:00This process with Emile Bovey started with my own learned and servile helplessness.
00:11I will now go to voting because we have competing markups and other committees and people have to leave here soon.
00:20We'll go to Bovey's nomination. The clerk will call the roll.
00:23Mr. Chairman, point of personal privilege.
00:26Mr. Chairman, according to rule four of the committee, we have the right to continue to debate this nomination.
00:35I'm invoking rule four of the committee. We have the right to debate this nomination.
00:40I'm seconding Senator Booker's demand for a vote on his request to hear from the whistleblower.
00:46Mr. Chairman, you should at least acknowledge my rule four point of order.
00:51You're out of order. I don't understand this. What are you afraid of about even debating this, putting things on the record, hearing from every senator?
01:00Dear God, that's what our obligations are. It's to state our reasons for debate, at least address the rule four point of order that we're calling.
01:11There's no needs to rush this. What are we afraid of?
01:13We're not pressing for the two hour rule like you all did when you were in the minority.
01:18We're simply asking for a credible amount of time to air our concerns before the vote.
01:24We respect each other in this committee. We respect the understanding that we have things to say.
01:29But yet we're doing this in a way and procedures of this committee.
01:34This is outrageous that you're not allowing senators to have their fair say before a controversial nominee is being done.
01:42This is unbelievable. This is unjust. This is wrong.
01:47It is the further deterioration of this committee's integrity with a person like this.
01:51What are you afraid of? Are you afraid of hearing from Chris Coons?
01:55From hearing from one of my colleagues? From hearing from Adam Schiff?
01:59What is the fear here?
02:01Take the time.
02:02What is the thing that you are so afraid of from hearing from my Senate colleagues?
02:08This is a kangaroo court. This is wrong to violate your own rules without going by the mandates of the parliamentarian.
02:23This is unbelievable.
02:26There's a way to do this.
02:27If you want to force this through, if you want to ram this through, there's a way to do it in accordance to the rules as spelled out by the parliamentarian.
02:37It is simple.
02:39It is clear.
02:40There's a pathway to achieve what you're trying to achieve.
02:43But, sir, this lacks decency.
02:45It lacks decorum.
02:47It shows that you do not want to simply hear from your colleagues.
02:52This is absolutely wrong.
02:54And, sir, this is to me one of those moments where we are not showing common respect for each other on both sides.
03:02I have sat here when we were in the majority and listened to my colleagues' arguments, listened to their passionate statements, and then we voted.
03:10This is not that.
03:11Some of the least controversial people in the Senate, some of the people that worked the hardest to find bipartisan common ground, have just walked out of this committee.
03:23And you don't even seem to care, but I know you do.
03:26I know you're hard.
03:26As to Emil Boeve, let me start with this nominee.
03:33Having told a room full of Department of Justice lawyers that if the federal courts didn't back off on restricting unlawful deportations,
03:45they would have to tell courts, F you.
03:50I hope we can agree that telling courts, F you, is not an attribute we want in someone seeking to be a judge.
04:06We know that he said it because it is so abundantly corroborated in real-time communications among the lawyers present.
04:20Senator, I'd like to respond to what you said about it, Epstein and Senator...
04:26I feel very strongly about that.
04:29So, did somebody reference something in a meeting or did somebody say something between friends?
04:34I don't know, but even that would be disqualifying and that yet has not been presented for this nominee.
04:40So, I challenge all of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle.
04:43That's a disqualifying event for me for the remainder of my time in the U.S. Senate, which admittedly is only 18 months.
04:49A lot of things happen in 18 months.
04:51Do your homework on finding a hard example and count me in to refuse confirming that nominee.
04:58But don't finesse it when you simply don't have the facts on your side.
05:03Thank you, Mr. Chair.
05:04Before I call on Senator...
05:05The Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case is baffling.
05:09Thank you.
05:17This is hundreds of reasons why we make someone known.
05:18I will buy those statements in this country.
05:21I will not gather those statements now in Juma.
05:24I will not think for those statements.
05:25But if you do not guess there is only one that could continue to agree with them,
05:28but I can feel this intimate thing around this country.
05:30Please do not care as much, Mr. Speaker.
05:32And we end up here with Thompson, who becomes reasonable investor.
