want to thank also all of the people that worked with us. where is leo? is leo around here? where is he? he s got to be here. where is he? he has been so good. but from and also from heritage, jim demint. it s been amazing. those people have been fantastic. they ve been real friends. [ applause ] the federalist people. where are they? are they around here someplace? they really helped us out. i kept my promise, and now with your help, our brand new justice, and he is really something very special, neil gorsuch sits on the bench of the united states supreme court. [ cheers and applause ] for the first time in the modern political era, we have confirmed a new justice in the
take the stage in any moment. lee greenwood is singing behind me singing the song that introduced a lot of his campaign events. people here are thrilled, and when they endorsed president trump, it was an anti-clinton, this is what will happen if hillary clinton takes office kind of event. the trump campaign warned that if she were to take office, she would take away all the guns, destroy all the magazines and put everyone on an administration. he talked about how proud he was of neil gorsuch and about how proud he was of general mattis and the other appointees of president trump. that s what i heard from a lot of people, a couple dozen of them, before the event actually started. they said maybe they ll see more action on the second amendment going forward, but right now they re just happy to have a president speaking at their event for the first time in 30 years. craig? what about the protestors
questions asked. he also addressed the appointment of neil gorsuch to the supreme court. but he also, and one would assume this was something that wasn t scripted, this was something not in the prepared text. he went on this bizarre tirade, and once again referred to senator elizabeth warren as pocahontas. why do that here? i don t know. look, when you go to the nra, you re definitely going to have a friendly audience and they re not going to like elizabeth warren. one of the things donald trump lacks is his ability to reach toward the middle. recent polls show about 96% of trump supporters are still with him, and another poll 7% said they wouldn t, but basically he has his base. if he wants to keep that for reelection, he s gt ot to learno reach out to someone besides people who voted for him. this is all just a part of what the president said a few moments ago. take a listen.
conservative democrats. people did cross party lines. that seems like a long time ago now. it wasn t necessarily that long ago in years but it seemed like an awful long time ago. we are where we are. it s a much more partisan, polarized time. i think the senate ultimately is going to reflect that. so mark halperin, is this what every trump nominee is going to look like? are we going to see this happen three or four times over the next four years. once they change the rule, they are not going to change it back will i think the temptation for the president, for conservatives around him is going to be to nominate someone more conservative than judge gorsuch and to assume they can hold all the republicans. this is an incremental change in some ways. harold, this is kind of the last step. once he changes supreme court nominees, the senate is more like the house. it s just about a majority rule. you begin to see a parity develop between the two places.
out over these first two, three months, that it wasn t as easy as it looked on tv. quite frankly, that s 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 doesn t have the discipline, personal discipline that barack obama did and we re 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 and lie about people as president of the united states, you hurt our country and you hurt our credibility around the world. still ahead on morning joe, senator tom cotton joins us as the senate closes in on a vote or neil gorsuch for supreme court justice. at the same time senator murphy, a democrat is talking live on the senate floor. he s been going through the night by himself to hold off