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Out over these first two, three months, that it wasnt as easy as it looked on tv. quite frankly, thats something that barack obama figured out. you needed more than a speech to make things happen in washington, d.c. donald trump is learning the same thing. unfortunately he doesnt have the discipline, personal discipline that barack obama did and were all paying for it as a country and as a world. >> when you lob a lie at someone during the campaign, it may play to your base. but when you bully a...

Bashar al assad will remain in power but millions of syrians and other arabs throughout the middle east north going to accept that and its going to make it harder for us to achieve our goals in isis and iraq and confronting iran as well. >> senator cotton, harold ford. colleagues saying something similar, we should create safe zones. you said unsafe zones. lets take it a step earlier. are we prepared as a nation to confront militarily if zones are declined or breached by mr. assad? two, what is ...

When the law so requires. so i want to ask, can you give me an example of a supreme court case that you believe was wrongly decided under the law, but that you will continue to follow if you are confirmed because the precedent is so strong? >> senator, i think thats just another way, honestly, of trying to get at which supreme court precedents i agree with and i disagree with. >> i dont think it is. its about -- its something that you actually said when the president nominated you. you said it i...

Margret? >> sean, president talked about the need for this health care plan to pass. you talked about the importance of tax reform and the rest. at what point do you think that this agenda could be in peril as you look at the vote? you are also going to have to fight to get any of this through the senate. >> at what point will the vote count? >> it just seems to be such a center piece for the rest of the presidents agenda. given that its still not -- there is no certainly in terms of passage, ho...

So, you know, i think for everyone, its sort of a seat of their pants. certainly democrats are united. i dont think that -- its great for representative scalise to tie this to a pelosi issue, but certainly every democrat is against it. but theres a huge number of republicans who still are as well for totally different reasons. this bill is really not what the point being, this is not what should be coming out after seven years. there should be something thats been negotiated, that is much more c...

Follow through, people who agree or dont agree with the agenda at least give him high marks for keeping his word and promises and thats one thing hes made very clear this morning, we pledged to the american people at the congressional level, senate level presidential level to go do something and this bill while probably not everybody gets everybody they wanted does exactly what he said repealing and replacing all the aspects we discussed in a lot of cases back to 2010. one things he made clear t...

Agree or dont agree with the president in terms of his legislative agenda, at least give them high marks whether or not they subscribe to his agenda for keeping his word and his promises. thats one of the things hes made very clear this morning. we pledged to the american people at the congressional level, at the senate level, at the presidential level, to go do something. and this bill, while they got everything they wanted does exactly what they said. its repealing it and replacing with all of...

You did right in that case also. something that i thought showed a fair amount of reflection on the plight of the plaintiff in that case writing by all accounts, the plaintiff was a good teacher, sufficient firing a wretched year, close quote. you were aware of her plight. this is hardly the kind of statement made by a judge who is unsympathetic. this is in context with the kind of statement made by a judge who understands the deeply human context of every case and also understands the deeply sa...

In his rally. >> lets see how the week goes. >> sean, when we hear the president talk about the need for the health care plan to pass he talked about the important tax reform and the rest. at what point do you think this agenda could be imperilled as you look at the vote count, because you are going to have further fight to get any of this through the senator. >> at what point will the vote count? >> it seems to be a centerpiece of the rest of the presidents agenda. given there is no certainty i...

Antithetdical to their own policy preferences when the law so requires. so i want to ask, can you give me an example of a supreme court case that you believe was wrongly decided under the law? but that you will continue to follow if you are confirmed because the precedent is so strong? >> senator, i think thats just another way, honestly, of trying to get at which supreme court precedents i agree with and i disagree with. >> i dont think it is. its about something you actually said when the pres...