because a lot was on the line. having said all of that, do you worry that the court then is always seen through that political prism and it s not going to change? maybe it goes back to 2000 and gore-bush? i don t know. yeah, there s definitely going to be a microscope on what the supreme court does here on out and kavanaugh especially as we move forward, but i think that the judgments that come down the line, once he is in his seat, can redeem him and the court. so, i m hopeful that we can get away from this politicalization. neil: and not to make this a sexist issue, many of the protests are women, will not trust any judgment he makes on women. do you feel that way? well, i mean, i think just take the other side. what if you re a female with sons, all of a sudden your sons could suddenly be accused of these sort of, you know, sexual assault violations that, you know, without due course? without any corroboration? so, i mean, i think you could see both sides from a woman s
they want to stop this president from getting any people on his list for the supreme court or the lower courts. whether it s impeaching judge kavanaugh, impeaching the president himself, their agenda is to seize power and overturn the 2016 election results. we cannot allow that to happen, if we do, we don t have a democracy. neil: if you head to washington and win this, would you want to make mitch mcconnell your leader? . i said i m not going to pledge my vote to anybody. i am for the people of missouri. i go there as a voice for them and i don t think it s right to pledge your vote in advance for this person or for that person so i m not pledging votes to anybody in leadership. i m pledging to stand up for the people of missouri and to do what they want to do, to do what s in their interest and to be a fighter for them. neil: all right, does that mean that you d be looking just as equally to alternatives to mitch mcconnell? look, we ll see at the time. let s win this election first
before president trump, they would have had brett kavanaugh withdraw his nomination. neil: i respect your opinion and i think that mitch mcconnell has more moxie and quiet shrewdness than he gets credit for and he stuck with the system and urged the president to be patient with the system when not so cooler heads at the white house were going bat you-know-what. they needed this, needed kavanaugh before the midterms. neil: i think that the president should think twice about yelling and screaming at this guy. i think in the future he might scream at some at some point. neil: if you want to know victors and those who made this happen if not for mitch mcconnell, i don t think it would have happened. i agree. and mitch mcconnell and his wife elai elaine chao has been victims of this. neil: i love the way he responded and his wife
join you, neil. it s a little tough hearing you just so you know there s massive crowds behind me. the thing about these protests, neil is it s only 10 a.m. in the morning and they have grown, i ve been here since 5 a.m. in the last hour, we have seen thousands of people pitch up here on the lawn in front of the capitol building right now i m nestled kind of directly equal distance between the supreme court and the capitol building and the reason all these protesters are outside today is because the senate building are officially closed to the public. it s an interesting note i spoke to capitol police earlier this morning, and they told me the reason that this is happening, the reason they closed the buildings is because they are at capacity. they don t believe that after pulling 20 hour shifts all day long over the past week, they can actually handle the amount of protesters they re anticipat ing showing up here today so everybody is now convening in various groups outside here. the g
law school of successful efforts to ban him from teaching at harvard law school. that reminds me of the mccarthyi sm that i experienced when i was a student at brooklyn college. if you suspected someone having been a communist in his 20s that was enough and that s what the students are saying. suspicion is enough to deny him the ability to teach. he had superb teaching evaluations the students loved him and the idea he can t any longer teach or coach his daughter in basketball that s not who we are as a country. we have to look forward and not engage in punitive actions against people whose philosophy we may disagree with. i m not sure i m going toric him as a justice of the supreme court. i don t know whether i would have liked him as a professor. it s all beside the point about fairness and a single standard of justice and assuring that precedents aren t established that today are used against him and tomorrow it will be used against people on the other side of the political spectrum