Eric the president made it clear about the billing his constitutional requirements. There are no caveats. Exemptions include for election years for the presence last term in office. So i acknowledge your skepticism here, because we do know this is a republican congress. This is a Republican Party leadership that shut down the government in 2013, that brought us to the brink of defunding the department of Homeland Security just last year, and just last week announced they will not even have a hearing on the president s budget, but i also want to point out that this is not the first time that republicans have come out with a lot of bluster only to have reality set in. Republicans have threatened to keep sequesterlevel funding for the government. They have threatened to not raise the debt limit. They have threatened to not reauthorize the import export bank, and they threatened to up ease the deal with iran. They tried to play politics, but ultimately, they were not able to back up their threats, so ultimately, we believe in those fell back republicans when their positions are not tenable, and we are only asking members of the United States senate to do their jobs. Some of you were fortunate the urinetalk about in this country of elected officials to be able to put aside what is in politics in order to fulfill the core responsibilities of their job. That is all we are asking for today. John . John some of the things they backed off of, does the Administration Believe there could be consequences for republicans if they continue this line, and what do you think those consequences might be, and what leverage do you think the president has to try to make this happen . What do you think is the real leverage that he has, and what do you think are the real consequences . Question, ron. There are absolutely consequences on the court. There are a number of cases not going toi am speculate how this particular tragedy will affect the rulings, but the court. I will say, as you all understand, the effect of a 44 split is to affirm the decision of the lower Court Without a precedent going forward, so a lot of those cases, some of those the administration had won, and some of them, the administration is appealing, but your point is a good one. We need a fully staffed Supreme Court, that there are, indeed, a good number of important cases be book and affect law and peoples lives. This only underscores why it is important for the court to have a full complement of nine justices. In 1980 at, when president Ronald Reagan was advocating for his own nominee against the democratic senate, he said every day that passes with the Supreme Court below wall street below. Strength in peds things. Appealing to voters in swing states where there are elections coming up. Engagedlooking at how it will be, and what do you really think is the consequence that the republicans will face if they persist . The president is already engaged free you and he has been with his team. White house officials have been engaged with congressional offices, primarily on the senate side, both democrat and republican offices, and those have been preliminary in nature, but the signal, we plan on conducting a robust engagement. Im going to resist the urge to talk about the politics of this. In fact, if you go back to the president s speech in springfield, he talked about moments that are too important to play politics with. Thethe Supreme Court, highest court in the land, seems to be one of those moments. Has talkedident about regretting how divisive washington has become. The otherach out to side, or is the white house just been for a fight to get their nominee through . Eric that is a clever way to ask me to handicap potential nominees, which i will resist the urge to do. If youre looking at the type of judge that the president would select, i encourage you to go back to the several hundred nominees that the president has put forward for the federal courts. You are right that the president a betterd for functioning politics and more constructive politics. Ar the president , that means federal government that is more responsive to its citizenry, and we hear often that republicans matter andlections that the people should have a say in who is on the Supreme Court. We could not agree more. That is why the president was reelected on november 6, 2012, and yet i think you would find a republican saying that this could have an impact on the wast, and, again, that november 6, 2012. We have 11 months to go in the president s second term. That is just under a quarter of our term, and if you go back through history, and you look at the average time spans for how long a Supreme Court justice takes between getting nominated and confirmed, it is about 65 to 70 days. We are well within that to get this done. Politically charged due to the timing and impacting the president s own decisions . Again, we are in an election year, so i i am not going to pretend that is not part of it, but the president is doing his job. This is not something you have to take my word for. Laid out inthing the u. S. Constitution. This is respecting the rule of law, and we expect republicans to do just that. Fromember a piece mcconnell, gaining control of the senate, he said he wanted to get congress functioning again, getting it moving again. That is all we are asking for here also. David . David any potential nominee would obviously face a very divisive affirmation and one that could be fruitless in the we are to believe the leader of the senate. Is the president concerned whether the best candidates might not want to go through with that and would reject outright any kind of offer, and has the white house heard or talk to anyone who has expressed a concern like that . I have not heard a thing all along those lines, but again, confirming a nominee in the election year, and even when the congress is not controlled by the president s party. There were three republican appointees, and a number 11 have been confirmed in nonelection years. In the most recent, as i think some of us have remarked, was nominated by republicans and democrats, kennedy, february 1980 at, just 65 days after his nomination. At that point, every single republican voted to confirm Justice Kennedy despite it being an election year. The only thing different right now is that barack obama is a democrat. I want to read this to you, and you might find it entertaining. Let me say this. We should reverse the presumption of confirmation with respect to the Supreme Court, at least. I will recommend to my colleagues that we should not confirm a Supreme Court nominee. These were the words of chuck 2000 seven with 18 months remaining in the term of president bush. When you read comments like that and compare it to today, is it not hypocritical the way some are trying to play this and say, look, we should get this done in a very speedy fashion, when, in fact, many of the socalled leaders on the other side participated in the same sort of rhetoric, if you will, back then . I have seen a lot of quotes moving back and forth. For the present, this goes to silly very simple, the president doing his job. 300 and 40 days before the next president takes office. Everyone appointed to the Supreme Court has been given a prompt between within 100 days. Justice kagan went from nominee to appointment at 88 days, Justice Sotomayor fewer. All we want is for the same paid we alsop by think it would be irresponsible and unprecedented to let a vacancy stand into 2017. If so, the Supreme Court would preside well over a year with a vacancy. Not only would that span two terms but would be wholly unprecedented. Since the 1980s, there has never been any vacancies spanning more than one term. We have said that the president wanted to in light of the senate being out of session this week, the president wanted to take a little bit of time and go through this process in a thoughtful and rigorous way, so i suspect that when they return, the president will identify a nominee. Course. Based on what you are saying, is it your expectation that the senate, despite its rhetoric, well, in fact, give an up or down vote on a nominee question mark the reason i asked that is if we believe that is a process that should go forward, and we believe it is not necessary then to fill the vacancy by recess appointment, that it is your expectation, i imagine, that they will, in fact, vote up or down, or am i over reading . Now, our expectation is that they will do their jobs, which is including republicans, who take their oath of office seriously and take their fidelity to the United States constitution seriously enough to do their jobs. Thank you. A nominee tering one senator joined 24 colleagues in order to fill a bust Justice Alito to filibuster Justice Alito. Eric i think what we have seen is republicans abjectly objecting to even the president putting forth a nominee, so we believe, and i do not know if anybody in here will disagree, but we do not believe anybody has seen anything like that, which is why we believe it would be wholly irresponsible, especially considering the them, andwork before the consequences of that, you do not have to take my word for it. President reagan said every day the court is shortstaffed impairs the work of that important body. Yes . Thank you. Let me go back to the meetings. [indiscernible] message are you going to deliver . And also, that the United States asks asean countries to play a role does thed of United States expect . Thank you. Eric sure. I know ambassador rice address this and will have more to say on it in the next 36 hours, so i am not going to get ahead of the president. Our message is not different than it has been over the last weeks and months, which is that we support the freedom, and we are going to stand by our and makein the region sure that International Norms are respected. Right, one more. Just a followup question. On asia. And cambodia. Obama with the summit instead of the white house . C yes, the president has had this here at sunny lands. There is a little bit more of a stiffness. The president wanted to afford the World Leaders to have a more candid, relaxed conversation. Whats with the Supreme Court issue, is he going over specific lists . Is he looking at that . Like where is he in this process . again, we are only a few days old. I am not going to be able to be able to release the details of those conversations, but the president is engaged, and the answer to that is yes, and for a starting point, that means working with his team, both white house officials who are back at the white house and back here to make sure that this process is moving forward. And when you say that you guys have been reaching out to democrats and republicans on the hill, you mean on the Judiciary Committee . Who . Imagine we are hearing from all a lot of folks on the incoming, and we are also proactively reaching out to key offices. I do not have a list here to think in the coming days, that engagement will become more extensive. Guys said when the president will sign the sanctions on north korea . Update do not have an for you on that, but i can check. When he returns to washington . Eric i am not sure we even have a bill yet, but as soon as we get an update, i will get it to you. Take you all. Thank you all. Announcer cspans wrote to the white house coverage continues this afternoon, when former president george w. Bush hits the campaign trail for republican candidates and brother jeb. They both speak in south carolina, and we have it live at and when it is over, we will get your reaction and phone calls, and Justice John Roberts on how rulings are crafted by the high court. He also discusses the Public Perception of the court and the process for selecting justices. It is at the new England Law School in boston and was recorded before fellow Justice Scalia died last weekend. You can see the chief justices comments tonight on cspan. Announcer tonight on the communicators, the fccestserving commissioner, including the options and costs. The net a rules, and the unlimited streaming of some video by internet providers. She is joined by a reporter. The mission of always be evolving, always improving, and always attempting to bridge gaps so people can help themselves. This is about enabling individuals to help themselves, providing them with the technological means and getting in touch with that so that it can improve, to have educational option where they might not have certain language for a certain course in their schools, to bridge those gaps, so not just ,he debate Digital Divide but the opportunity divide. Announcer goleman watch tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Announcer tomorrow, and indiana congressman looks at how Congress Plans to govern in 2016, a president ial election year. He currently serves as the republican policy chair and speaks at the National Press club in washington. Live tuesday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. The u. S. Digital services rotates tech experts to washington to help solve government Information System problems. Houseis the man the white got from google to fix the healthcare. Gov website. The Computer History Museum in mountain view, california, explaining what they now wrong with federal Government Systems and how to help fix the government website. Here is that event now. [applause] host and now, for tonights program. In october 2013, the Obama Administration faced a very large mastic crisis. Thethcare. Gov, the portal United States was supposed to use to sign up for insurance under the Affordable Health care act, was in shambles and over budget. Work likeand did not the internet of 1996, and the consultants and experts who built it for the government were warning it would take millions more and more weeks if not months to fix, and then something quite amazing happened. Largely due to the creativity of the president himself, and Entrepreneurial Team of young engineers and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley came to working at a headquarters in maryland, they completely rebuilt healthcare. Gov in a few short weeks, the total cost in the single digit of millions, and the version 2. 0 was a success. 18 million americans have signed up for health care because of it, and there are two government efforts which obama calls the 21st century equivalent of the peace corps. One is the u. S. Digital service. Called 18 f. They are looking to lift the 21st century 20th century government and bring it to the digital century, and the effort is taking it by storm. Experienced it say they will never go back to the old way of doing things. Today, we have three owners with us along with a Digital Services officer to sign assigned to the department of education. We will explore this revolution with them. Please join me in welcoming them. [applause] host hi, guys. Hellow. That they aresee not all in tshirts, and they are not all guys. In fact, this is the most unique panel that we have had tonight for a number of reasons, and we are really glad to have you here. To describef to try what youre doing, but why dont you just introduce yourselves briefly . And i would like you also to add what you were doing just before you started doing what youre doing now. My, if i could start with you. I am might dickerson, an administrator of the u. S. Digital service, a government , andthat means manager right before i got there to do this, if you count this as the healthcare. Gov story you are talking about a second ago, the moment before that, i was working just across the street with google. I was a cyber liability engineering manager there. Host hillary . Hillary hi. I am hillary hartley. At the end of my fellowship, we launched 18 f. There is a much more dramatic story there, but i have been working with government for, gosh, about 20 years, which is crazy to me, but it started from the outside, and so i found out ,bout the president ial division it was where i was in my career an abouti wanted to do these Cyber Services you all use in your daytoday lives, and it failed like a right fit for me, so i came to government for a short stint and have been there ever since. Host a short stint. Hillary yes, and did not go home. Host lisa . I am the chief Digital Services officer at the department of education. I have been in government a whopping several months. My first date was april 6. Right before this, i was running digital for Black Entertainment Television network, viacom network. Host haley . I am with you with ds, and before you sds, i was breaking a few phones to get the you sds set up and created. Host that is great. Thanks. And what is the problem . It is hard to be describing. The Biggest Issue is that the private sector over the past two decades has spent an incredible amount of time and Energy Improving itself and getting really, really great at building Digital Services for citizens and people across the world. There are those that we do not think of as innovations anymore that have taken place in the decades,uild your design, cloud, all sorts of things, and the biggest problems is all of those gigantic transitions have skipped over