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Kennedy warned Menashi, as he tried to get him to weigh in on a hypothetical, that "I don't want you dodging my questions."



"You're really a smart guy but I wish you would be more forthcoming. This isn't supposed to be a game. We're supposed to try to understand not how you're going to rule but how you're going to think," he said.

When Menashi offered to answer a follow up question, Kennedy noted that he was "out of time."

"You took a lot of it by not answering my questions," he said.

Menashi also got pushback from Feinstein and Durbin when they tried to find out what immigration policies Menashi worked on in the White House counsel's office. Menashi is a special assistant and senior associate counsel to the president."My role was to provide advice to policy advisers to the president. I did sometimes provide advice ... on issues related to immigration, and he was a policy adviser to the president," Menashi told Feinstein after she asked about his role in an immigration group and if the group was led by