perspective, too. because i ve had a lot of friends that have young sons that are worried about this right now. neil: dan, looking at what happens here and then the next supreme court nomination because the average age of the other justices is what, 112 or something like that? i m joking, it s 111. but it s going to happen again and we will have raucous hearings again and i think we d see the same crowds even without dr. ford and allegations. we ve set a dangerous precedence. let s go back to the founding fathers. they built a pretty good system that we are now there were three branches and they re mixed together. let s not forget. 225 years ago george washington warped us about the danger of political parties, more loyalty to party than country?
gingrich because we ran against the extreme partisanship. today, everybody seems extremely partisan. the democrats were cruising in, they now look just as partisan as the republicans. neil: but i m looking at it in the presidential context mark and very very closely that s where i think it could give an edge to someone whose far far far left. well that s because of the caucuses that really should be eliminated in favor of primaries , that give activists such an edge. i think the democratic primary candidates have been playing into this, and i think they are also going to be in for a rude shock when they get through the rest of the primaries after iowa , that there are a lot more moderate democratic voters out there than they think. neil: we ll see if this california is upfront in that primary process. mark, always good seeing you thank you for taking the time. thank you. neil: all right, on the whole collusion issue and russia investigation, it s always been sort of a rule of thumb
right now, i don t, like nobody was really talking about it. it was on the floor making fun of how long this speech was going on for. literally. neil: it was a long speech one of the things all i m getting at is i know the markets like some degree of certainty, i think the uncertainty if he was doomed, would obviously you d have to get another candidate going and all of that. would that have been sort of like one of these so-called black swan developments of the markets that they didn t see it coming? yeah, i think so. i really think that in spite of there were some blips along the way neil i think the market really expected this was ultimately going to go through and as a result of that, as it started to go that way, the market started to show that, but it wasn t like we had a super drop here, where there was so much concern. neil: no by far the issue is interest rates and worried about the strong economy that s the bigger thing. exactly there s other things really largely driving
night. we ll be here for you. neil: thank you very much. kevin corke. you ll find our gillian turner. and the crowds to the prediction are beefing up today. since the last time i speak to you about an hour ago, thousands more protesters have descended hereupon capitol hill. i m standing right across the street from the supreme court. you can see the protesters there over my shoulder. i have to tell you, i have encountered every type of protester so far this morning, men, women, old, young people, conservatives, liberals, lots of families. i ve fun into at least 100 families, some with children and babies, some with dogs, that have come here to gather to protest judge kavanaugh. what i can tell you, neil, i ve been here since 5:00 in the morning, six hours, i ve net to encounter a single pro kavanaugh protester today. i encountered them yesterday, but not a single one.
supreme court. so it s going to be a circus and everyone was going to put on a show and the democrats were going to say what they want today say for their audience, for the constituents and the g.o.p.s it does seem like professional wrestling and the prescripted part and i don t know that the president necessarily did it. they were getting ready and knew this was coming up and dr. ford came forward and that turned everything upsidedown. neil: the unsung hero is mitch mcconnell, and i don t know if that s the catalyst but merrick garland, and didn t take up the nomination, and how he paved the way to make sure that neil gorsuch would get a vote and handled this even when it looked like it was falling apart. he knows the business, he rules the senate probably better than anyone and he made this happen. that s my opinion, what do you think? yeah, i completely agree we re seeing much more backbone from mitch mcconnell than in the past. if this would have happened