Entire time to the nominee and he didnt even ask her one question but he certainly went through all of the hot wire issues of this campaign i mean it is that we find the entire process and even ask her a question absolutely just. Because of the question of. This one question you have to have the best. Interest of the passes and embedded i suppose that were never going to have a situation where. Theres an exit have been some of. Their. Jobs or whatever but of the past a sad. And an end of a kind of these things have less to. Bring them good. Dressing. Room. To do is make sure. We have one of the best. With them and. Well get there but i mean ok i agree i mean wear green on one point you know there is that level of politicking but the the the role of the senate in this whole process is by consent ok if it used to be when you and i were younger men lets put it that way you were basically the senates job was to determine if the nominee was capable they were if they had a good judicial mind but thats not what we saw on display during these hearings here it is much more trying to pin someone down on a political issue and we all learned since bork its not going to happen anymore go ahead. Yeah well what what the big elephant in the room here that were not discussing is for many years now the democrats have been using the courts to try to change not just american law but American Culture they couldnt when at the ballot box for example referendums in the most liberal states in the country like california they would lose to the voters and so it was important for them to get judges who would override the will of the voters and impose laws which is what happened and i work for a president George Herbert walker bush back in that day the republicans would appoint a conservative and then to be nice theyd appoint a liberal because the democrats couldnt get their own on the Supreme Court so david souter was put on the Supreme Court but you dont have that today donald trump was elected because he said ill put conservatives on the Supreme Court was one of the main reasons people voted for him many oldham upset in the election so hes kept his promise hes kept his word and hes got the votes so hes doing it so when you say conservative judges and its i think we may should make it clear were looking at original lists ok now not not using the constitution to get the laws you want but to in to interpret be. Laws as that was defined by the constitution so i think we have always have to make it clear you know. Conservatives tend to be originalists obviously were able it would speak to their i mean and for me i throw a plague on both parties if you cant get what you want to the legislative process both parties throw it to the courts is that a good idea and it doesnt make the court dysfunctional and become more dysfunctional theres going to talk about hacking in the 2nd half program so i mean it seems to me as an abdication of responsibility from the congress a big cant get it done they just go ahead oh completely. I think i better read something so. Much better than sure. About. American people whatever. The conservative justices were too generous and. It was better than. My marriage to get married to or to be American People. And so i was traveling was trying to do. Understanding that. The mentioned that together we had to start them better than conversations might exist simply instead of several so matt matt sees that the markets are theres a bad american majority in this some 2 of them actually better than the because weve been campaigning to be a stranger in political elections. That we would be quick to become the tire breakers and thats what would become and. Thats a terrible terrible place to be and but having said robert you know i im still very very angry how the democrats treated kavanah i thought that was unconscionable behavior on National Television destroying a mans reputation without a shred of evidence in front of his family and this is what the courts have gotten down to is some kind of you know. Drudge for thats being played out here joe i mean how does that influence the perception of the court because if you only enough and youre angry enough and you start islands that was the case some people being pushed around here i mean i thought the Supreme Court was the place where that exactly that kind of stuff exactly doesnt happen. Yeah i think that in the case of cavanagh it backfired on the democrats they realized that thats why their tactics its changed this time they didnt know what they may call the parents she just sits there like mona lisa. I dont think the silence has ever spoken so loudly as that as through her she doesnt seem to react if the questions are friendly are if the questions are hostile she just expresses on her face intelligence an irony and i think shes the perfect appointment for this ball but i think they did a good job in making her brilliant cant make robert it in looking at some of the questions that were asked by the Democratic Senators senators you would get the sense that the entire Supreme Court is about a womans right to choose the how many abortion i mean and as far as i understand theres nothing on the court docket right now that even has anything to do with abortion rights whatsoever why is that isnt just a red button issue that the Democrats Use to whip up the base and whip up interest in this whole process. I think thats. Sort of down to the pats baboons are so many good. Men to. George and i had a better. Time so. The intention of going to have some help from republican majority im sure that would try to move those routes so it was meant as a. Request and. Just like hammock question round trip with. The kids and i think thats so. Sad to. Say what you said. And theres time and then bits of the bench and American People and in chairs that list im trying to determine. The temperament of this justice every step of terms of justice so you have to ask and searching questions and. You mentioned the rest of the social. So. You know robert i am so glad you brought up the commerce issue because it seems to me. As the republicans and the democrats you know they fight these cultural wars so many of these judges you know go under the wire you know under the radar and so much of what they actually do has to do with commerce and with the economy but again the way the Media Projects the court its about j. Writes its about abortion rights but theres a whole lot more to it ok and i think that you know we like with calvin i have no idea what he thinks about those things because all they talked about was his yearbook ok and well see what they do with amy ok i mean this senator from hawaii had a very bizarre question of the judge im not to repeat it here because i thought it was so disgusting but you know there are they disagree more does a whole lot of things but the way its betrayed in the media you wouldnt think so what do you think. Well as to abortion as you know the whole question is moot. Beyond the initial polls favoring a womans right to choose when you have these visual moments where a baby is delivered and set out on a table and then a governor from a state such as the baby can be executed or killed that thats an abortion for the babies already exit at the womb youve reached an area where the polls would not necessarily sustain a right to choose so that issue but you really at a point we dont talk about chi have its not a good point and i want you you have a good answer but i have to get a hard break were going to go to a break right now kind of notion of your discussion on the Supreme Court say. Over forward to talking to you will. That technology should work for people. I robot must obey the orders given a human being to accept where such orders to conflict with the 1st law. Your identification for should be very careful about official intelligence and the point on v. S. E. Is to create trusts in the shia. Who claim to take on various jobs and with Artificial Intelligence will summon the demon. Obamas protect its own existence is. Not going to just say no but the catalyst ill just. Keep on going to one mccain i want a quiet while hes not. Out of the. Clear we hope to be but there are here are some friends of the us are still but the so youre hoping to do something to see. Which. They value about the possible alibi going in the most simple put them on them that you know were going to. Welcome back to crossfire all things are considered im Peter Lavelle remind you were talking about the Supreme Court. Well lets go back to doug doug very very much my heart break you were going to bring up a good point and im waiting for it now go ahead. Well the the elephant in the room the thing were not discussing is the fact that this is all about big corporations of america that are babbling and the big corporations want regulations they depend on regulations thats what freezes out the mom and pop shops and the Big Companies cant afford regulations so theyll get behind any special Interest Group on the left or the right it doesnt matter theyll fund them as long as theyve got more regulations to freeze you and i from starting our own business if we wanted to start a business wed have to pay a lawyer thousands of dollars just to read the regulations let alone an act the youll notice even with the shutdown it could target didnt shut down cosco didnt shut down the Big Companies walmart they continued it was the mom and pop shops the restaurants that are wiped out and thats why the big mass mo b. D. s supports the democrats they hate donald trump hes the dean regulator hes the man that came in and busted all the regulations and allowed the Small Businesses to thrive its why billionaires supported hillary 20. 00 to 1. 00 and billionaires right now you can google this is a look at up support biden 14 the want because the big corporations want Big Government regulations you know but at the same time let me go back to robert here i mean even the conservative vote with anomaly what people call conservative judges they tend to have a bearing strong business preference ok and its something that is not pointed out in the open and im really glad that we were talking about here because i think it gives the gives it cover again fighting these culture wars are going to get their temperature up but you know what about the condition of the economy and the Supreme Court actually plays a very Important Role that and i and before we go on. If hacking identity think that a lot of liberals conservatives can find common cause if we focus on this part of the courts work and not always on all these cultural war its ok ok i already mentioned the word packing i know a lot of democrats that maybe they wont say it out loud but they do like the idea that a court in parent gets the what do you think robert. Thing or the nonsense argument i think as well one of things that pops up you know we all know were going to eliminate the Electoral College were going to end the filibuster were donald trump animals before and both say they want a little eliminate the filibuster were going to the court the ori letting your concepts that have no bearing on reality because in order to do any of those things you have to have the sort of political majority that would. Make those things look good tort that if you get 70 votes you may extinction if you get a majority of house representatives if you get the white house if you get state legislatures behind you in order to do Something Like the courts or in the filibuster or to get rid of the Electoral College and he wouldnt need to do those things because you have the sort of political majority that would be a bailable to fix the problems you know thats not in the case of packing the court and doesnt that doesnt apply i mean Electoral College we separate but doug and you know i mean that its a pretty the constitution does not determine the number of justice is this matter by weve had more than 9 at one point in time in history ok though the consensus for a very long time it was 150 years now its been 9 now we know that Franklin Delano roosevelt in 137. 00 tried to do it and his own party ball it him but biden becomes president there is nothing in the constitution would bar him from appointing more justice that he can do its ok its not even equal job where you are the yeah yeah thats the scary thing yes i agree with robert about the Electoral College anything that would require changing the cost. To sion but this is like a loophole and its a loophole that out of respect the 2 parties have not used but its pretty clear that things are getting tough the battles getting tough and this is an opportunity for the democrats to go for broke and take take over the whole country for another lifetime it would be it would not be socialism in the european sense it would be an american corporate socialism with some some more favored than others but whats new but its a real possibility it isnt robert it is a real possibility and one of the things i find interesting is that the fact that joe biden wont say any much about it because he knows it was just a by coalition going into the election and you know its politically smart that way ok i totally disagree with everything about him and his entire career in politics but hes smart by keeping his coalition together however theres a lot of promises or implicit promises as hes made you know you know weve got rid of all the Abbott GovernmentBernie Sanders and the progressive theyre saying well what about up ok and i do think that is the to the buyer if hes in the white house in january its going to be a real temptation to you to appease that part of his base dont you think from an ingenue understanding of the question of retail politics so what do you do on the question of who gets what when but on this idea of core pecking at this thing its an unremitting of religious solution because as we saw with ending the in the need for 60 votes for judges of ending the filibuster when it comes to print Court Justices what weve seen is just a continue race to the bottom these rules that were previously in place for there for reason that some of this will be the cooling saucer. Being the most deliberative body in the world so if you start and. The justice that the republican president Justice System and the democratic president will have justices and you know the court will just like the congress with nothing still getting done what we really have to do is start thinking about what already brought across the board political and social solutions that can bring the country together instead of fighting about the things that brought us apart and weve been governing in this 5049. 00 version of america for a few decades now and it is not advantageous to any of us we keep bouncing the ball back and forth so instead of talking about packing the court instead of mcconnell and Lindsey Graham simply said we will not give merit girling a hearing but just are working on the things that can actually get things done for americans and not simply for the politicians and as doug said the people who are proffering most of those or the corporations you know just these owes them the most dont really care who the president is because theyre they will be billionaires under obama theyre even bigger billionaires under from the corporate elite in this country thats one place where we can all agree are not screwing over the little guy so the focus on those those issues at the home the. More ridiculous ludicrous idea such as Court Packing into the filibuster getting real the Electoral College and was at work on the breast the American People care about you know i thought my goodness said it better however robert let me go to doug right now i dont see that i think this polarization is in the in the way there are so many of the members of the political elite and probably across the aisle is that this is existential that this will be the moment if there is a democratic now a Democratic Senate and and why now they are there are many people that want to completely remake this country not be conciliatory to the minority but you know the go for the long stretch and they wouldnt have the power that would be nothing that would stop them and of course the liberal media will share all the way ok i find this very worrying and i i think every other episode of procmail just. Will read the bet release bay press because the founders were very worried about the the the tyranny of the majority and we were seeing a constellation of forces where the myth that the journey of the majority couldnt actually be put into play. And you know all the. Hits thats whats scary my friends on the left are saying oh oh socialism in america youre so afraid its not going to be bad at all we have socialism already on american campuses all the cloyd theres no free speech on american campuses says Isaiah Berlin said in his lectures that the voice of the individual should not drown out those voices of the community thats the rationale that socialists use to eliminate free speech but i have a question for you kedar and for you robert and that is were missing this right now statehood for washington d. C. In puerto rico does that require a constitutional amendment are can that be simply voted by Congress Vote 1st of all i think would be in violation of the constitution because there is a car away from washington d. C. A very specific one where it would not become a state ok about puerto rico that is something completely different as far as i understand it was under gerald ford now youre