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Voters. its not like the right wing is going to say, you know what? were going to start investigating these police and get something done. black people arent that dumb. so as the democratic party good? at best, yes. but at worst, the lesser of two evils. >> staffers want to pull the party in a more conservative direction, probably not going to get a chance to do it anytime soon as long as you have people like trump and others with their grip on the party. >> lets be clear. the republican party h...

Mccarty did choose to stand by his members. hes absolutely correct about that. whatever you think of jim jordan, he has quite a bit of support there. he used to be associated with the far-right fringes of the house gop, but he is now the ranking member on the house judiciary committee. jim banks chairs a group called republican study committee, which is aiming to push the caucus in a more conservative direction. so mccarthy made a decision that he had to stand by them and looks like this committ...

Democrats? >> its definitely going to be a motivating issue for both bases, right? it really does generate enthusiasm among both the republican and democratic bases, but brianna, i will tell you, walking around this hotel with all these democratic activists during the lunch break here, when the news was out there ruth bader ginsburg, there were a lot of nervous democrats of course wishing her the best with her health, but concerned that if theres a vacancy before they have the chance to rile up ...

This president choosing a supreme court justice for this vacancy. they dont like the idea that the court may be going in a more conservative direction. and they decided to use every tool at their disposal to attack him. and whats happened in the last two months is hes been out there. hes had his hearings, where his views were mischaracterized on things like executive power. he was basically called a liar which i thought was unprecedented of a treatment of a nominee. now we have an uncorroborated...

Discount what jim was talking about. this president is, you know, barring some truly momentous event, going to be able to put his mark on this court and change it on the social issues that jeffrey was talking about, affirmative action, abortion rights, same-sex marriage, death penalty cases in some instances, and change it in a more conservative direction. one of the reasons senator blumenthal was president trump for outsourcing in his terminology, this to the federalist society, its because the...

Next justice will be more conservative and thats going to have really significant effect on i think a number of areas of law. abortion is probably the one people are going to talk about the most. affirmative action and many other areas of law could move in a more conservative direction for better, for worse. >> let me ask you something really quickly, daniel, about the issue of lasting legacy. do you think that may have been a factor in the way justice kennedy or the timing of when justice kenne...

Precedents on abortion, civil rights, gay rights, affirmative action and even the death penalty? >> well, inevitably, its going to potentially shift the balance. remember, he is replacing the next candidate he or she will be replacing a justice who is a swing vote. didnt always go one way or another. wasnt clear where he would go. but the stakes are high. it will move the court, probably, in a more conservative direction. certainly thats what everybody anticipates. and it will just change the co...

>> right. >> but you dont believe the president is a conservative. >> well, no, i dont. being a conservative. >> you voted with him -- youre probably in the top five of people who voted with the president on policy. >> well in terms -- when you look on the policies -- most of what the senate does in the first year of a presidents time is vote on his nominees, filling out his cabinet and then court picks as well. im a conservative. and so i do vote to put the judiciary in a more conservative dire...

At a meeting at the white house, anything that you all send over to me, i will sign it. thats clearly not the case. i think youre seeing the president sort of be pulled back and forth in a couple directions. one, of course, is his great desire to make a deal. thats why in a setting like that hes inclined to sign anything they send his way, but then i think there is sort of the dynamic of listening to the last person in his ear, so whether thats the more moderate republicans who say we have to fi...

Problemed based on what they saw thursday will tell us about what is in this bill and when we find out what the top line numbers are and the medicaid spending and things like that look like on monday and if the bill comes out thursday it might lag a few days. that is extremely telling of where this thing goes next. >> monday it is. that is the day were watching. thank you very much. i want to bring in now former governor levitt. let me ask you this. you heard garret talk about this cruz amendmen...