John Cornyn: “Whether or not you actually own the venue, you do have effective influence and maybe in some cases outright control over…”

There’s nothing we could do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund and he wishes it still exists, but the fact of the matter [is] it’s dead, and that’s all we could do under these circumstances.

We want to express our gratitude to Mr Blanche and his staff for working with us on this, and we look forward to voting to advance his nomination out of the Senate Judiciary Committee soon.

Liberating is how he described his negotiating power.

All I want them to do is to confirm what he said in his sworn testimony before the Judiciary Committee.