WATCH: Kennedy says Jack Smith isn't 'Bambi's baby brother' in hearing clash with Durbin

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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., clashed on Tuesday during a Senate Judiciary Committee with former special counsel Jack Smith, who led investigations into President Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents and the Jan. 6 attack. Kennedy repeatedly cut Smith off as he questioned whether Smith chose only to subpoena the phone toll records of Republican lawmakers in his investigation into Trump's role on Jan. 6. Kennedy said Smith violated the Speech or Debate Clause in the Constitution, which grants immunity to members of Congress over official duties. He mocked Smith, asking whether he was “in the quad playing frisbee” during his law school’s constitutional law class. “Anybody who knows a law book from a J.Crew catalog knows that this violates the Constitution,” Kennedy said. Durbin stepped in, saying Smith “should be allowed to answer the questions, complete a sentence.” Kennedy rebuffed the suggestion, asking committee chair Sen. Chuck Grassley,

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