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Announce the reelection on inauguration day, he has already thinking about it, so in axios, they write today that president trump is only worried about one person, that would be joe biden. do you think that he has anything to worry about? >> i think that there is some consents to that. nancy pelosi has a single verse numbers on any politician that we have seen in decades. i would love her to be the democratic nominee for president. joe biden has this nonradicalized democrat to lane, that i think...

Is in some condition to tell democrats what to do with their nomination process. shannon: we see alexandria ocasio-cortez who conceded a very established -- in the primary. comparisons are being drawn between democrat strongholds in massachusetts where a sitting member is facing a primary run being described as having a lot of similar qualities. dan ripples, the cons guy, says this. i like presley. it is cool that shes running and more people should like her but i wish he was running against one...

Security analyst at msnbc. what are your biggest concerns regarding kavanaugh? >> first, im so concerned that were even thinking about moving forward with a nomination process and a confirmation process in the midst of what we know is one of the most if not the most embattled presidencies of our country. >> do you think because donald trump is under investigation he should not be able to nominate anyone? >> absolutely. its not just that hes under investigation. this is an unprecedented investiga...

The court should leave the public to make those decisions themselves. on this question of garland and how that unfolded, the argument that leader mcconnell made -- joe biden made this argument in 1992, that you shouldnt make a decision about a supreme court justice when the person who appoints that justice is running for election or running for re-election. thats not true here. donald trump, the person who appoints the supreme court justices is is not up for election in 2018. he will be in 2020 ...

Perhaps his next one if justice ginsburg retires that maybe he will put judge barrett on the court next time. i think hes thinking of this one as today but not his final choice for supreme court nominations. >> with kavanaugh, theres obviously long track record, a lot of decisions that kavanaugh has made over the years. that can present some challenges if democrats, you know, wade through them, try to use it to slow the nomination process down. >> i dont think so thats correct. i think his long ...

Two or three cases that have touched on it in the past, well never understand it from the nomination process. >> ever since robert bork in 1987 -- >> who was too honest. >> exactly. nominees, you know, they asked robert bork cuff questitough qu about his vuiews, and he answerd them, a mistake that no subsequent nominee has made. so we can anticipate the pleasant stonewall that every subsequent nominee has given. so basically were going to have to listen to partisans from both sides extrapolate f...

Which would ill serve the public interest, especially in times of financial or national security crisis. some have interpreted this as opposition to the indictment of a sitting president. skrch cnn has learned the trump team was aware of the comments during the vetting. on health care and abortion, kavanaugh has made controversial decisions. last year, he sided with the trump administration, to block an abortion for a pregnant immigrant teenager in federal custody. noting the governments permiss...

Fair and impartial way. >> you alluded to the causticau nature of this nomination process early on. i want to play for all of you part of what mitch mcconnell said today on the senate floor about how the sky is always falling when a republican nominates someone to the court. lets watch. >> we are looking at the destruction of the constitution of the united states, as far as i can tell. its hard to keep a straight face when you hear stuff like thatat. please, give the american people some credit....

A judge must interpret statutes as written and a judge must interpret the constitution as written. informed by history and tradition and precedent. >> a little bit of color as to how this went down, the president made the decision last night when he got back from the white house. he telephoned brett kavanaugh to say you are my choice to be the nominee for that supreme court and then called donald mcgahn and the vice president. today he called justice kennedy who was traveling in austria and info...

Applied the constitution through his 12 years at the d.c.o circuit and a man of the highest integrity he will be a good justice to the supreme court of the united states. now they are on to the nomination process and that willou be bruising to make at this point veryru predictable john roberts thank you. right here on fox news chief national correspondent usually in the white house but at the edit clock hour you are trying to fill in on every hour. what he said about repairing the constitution l...