Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Friday, September 7th. In today's news, President Trump raises the prospect of impeachment at a rally in Montana.

American troops will stay in Syria indefinitely.

And Senators cut a deal to fight the opioid crisis.

But first, the big idea. Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court

confirmation hearings continued for a contentious and sometimes chaotic

third day on Thursday with President Trump the focus of questioning as

much as the nominee. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee including some

Republicans pressed Kavanaugh about the judge's expansive views of presidential power.

They focused in particular on his past writings that concluded civil suits

and criminal investigations of presidents would be better delayed until the

chief executive left office.

And a newly surfaced email from Kavanaugh,

written when he was a top lawyer in George W Bush's White House,

raised questions about whether he actually believes his statement

that the Supreme Court's landmark abortion decision Roe v. Wade is settled law.

He said privately in a 2003 email that it is not.

Kavanaugh carefully picked his way through a minefield of queries and steadfastly refused

to engage with any criticism of the president who chose him.

He declined to comment, for instance, on Trump's personal attacks

against Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

or on the president saying that the Justice Department

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