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That? >> i did think about that. those were my words. senator harris asked me about that last night. the president, and this is trumpet. we were there, my family was there, he and mrs. trump were very gracious. i was very impressed with during the 12-day period between justice kennedys announcement of his retirement, and the announcement of my nomination, i was impressed as a citizen, as a judge, with the thoroughness of the process. i did look into your point directly and thought about -- looke...

American people elected. listen, i didnt vote for donald trump. i think hes a nightmare. but this is not democracy. this is not how its supposed to work. we do have legal processes for moving a president out, whether it is the 25 amendment, whether it is impeachment, whether it is his party rising up and demanding his resignation. so i dont put too much stock in this persons fidelity to constitutional principle, and i am a little concerned that this is just a cya in a very dramatic fashion. >> "...

>> claiming they saved the world while they were there if there was still a world when they came out. what i did not expect was someone would do it from inside the administration in a "new york times" op-ed piece in real time. >> im with jason on this. i dont think this is particularly brave. by the way, the person goes out of the way to make a very peculiar point, which is we didnt want to create a crisis by invoking the 25th amendment. we have a crisis. its a crisis when the elected president ...

Executive not to follow the processes and systems by which the executive branch is supposed to work. and what we have here is a person at a switch board frantically pushing buttons and turning knobs and throwing levers, and its not connected to anything underneath. thats a violation of a lot of norms, some of them norms about the deference and obedience that the branch owes its leadership. >> the question is, i mean, i think this is what were all debating whether its a question of the adults in ...

Universal right to abortion. that was something created by the courts. >> tucker: so voters did not do that? >> no, voters did not do that, and at the time that it was done, i do not think that voters would do so. that is the same with gay marriage recognized as a right. that emanated did it all from justice kennedys abuse -- there was a kind of dignity vibe that he discovered in the constitution, probably looking there for hundreds of years on notice that gave rise to a right to gay marriage. i...

Katy bar the door, youre going to have more and more doing this. is it a vendetta? i dont know. >> do you think it was written in the last 24 hours? it could have been weeks in the making. >> youd need more vetting than that, from my point of view, from the logistics of this. >> you would assume this is a week-long project, at minimum? how much would you vet this. >> i would vet it a whole lot. >> even if you immediately knew the person, a pretty high level person. >> if it was john kelly callin...

Partisan processes in senate history and only after the majority deployed the nuclear option to end the filibuster for supreme court nominations this brings us, judge, to today and your nomination. when justice kennedy announced his returmt i once again called the white house and urged through white house counsel that president trump consider selecting someone for the seat who could win broad support from both sides of the aisle and, judge kavanaugh, im concerned you may not be that nominee. you...

Both of these parties are really, really lame in teaching basic cervix to our kids right now. people on both sides of the aisle regularly talk about the supreme court like they are public injustices and democratic processes. kavanaugh today said something great. he said i want to be a part of a team of nine. there is no i am on the supreme court and there are no private caucus rooms because judges put on a black robe to cloak your personal preferences and policy preferences from the past. they d...

With respecting the norms, and they feel like they should go at this flu those processes. and they are aggressively attacking kavanaugh and will sit in the hearing room today and tomorrow asking pointed questions to ultimately let the process move forward. >> gene robinson, when the documents were dumped last night, senator schumer said they couldnt possibly process this. the hearing will start in about two hours from now. and at the end of the day despite the announcement on friday of labor day...

Me about the suicide rates. now people are saying this is histrionics, this is not life or death. i know these things are. often a matter of life or death when our insurance rates go down, more people without health care often lose their lives. there are, there is not one senator on the republican side or democratic side who has not seen, ive only been here five years and ive seen the culture of washington change. because of the obscene amount of dark money pouring in to our political process, c...