Hopefully going to come alon i hope so. Lou what will he do . Senator rand paul has the answers. Hes among my guests here tonight. Also tonight Supreme Court nominee judge neil gorsuch says judges must stay out of politics, but he is caught at the center of the biggest partisan political battle in years. When i became a judge, they gave me a gavel, not a rubber stamp. The question now, what are his chances of winning over eight democrats to meet a 60vote threshold . Well take up the judges full day of confirmation hearings, and constitutional law professor Josh Blackman join me, and the Trump Administration ordering airlines to ban electronics larger than a cell phone on flights from eight muslim countries. But will the hysterical left and the national leftwing media call that technology bigotry . The president says making america safe again is his number one priority. Good evening, everybody. President trump today making a huge push for ryancare telling republicans in a closeddoor meeting they could lose seats and the House Majority if they fail to repeal and replace obamacare. The president predicting victory as he left the meeting. Terrific people want a health care plan. [inaudible]. Lou the president s appearance on the hill coming a day after Republican Leaders made several last minute adjustments to the speakers bill to win support for reluctant conservatives. Among the changes, allowing states to require medicaid recipients to show proof of work and allowing states to choose a medicaid block grant over the current cap system. Our first guest tonight predicting the republicans obamacare light measure will fail to pass in the house thursday. Hes fighting for full repeal. Joining us tonight senator rand paul, a member of several key committees, including foreign relations, health, education, labor and pensions. Senator, great to have you with us. Thanks, lou. Lou start with the president calling you out nicely. He seems to be a rand paul fan. He likes you very much. He would like your vote. Is he going to get it . Well, you know, i have a lot in common with the president. We both ran on repealing obamacare. Conservatives across the country, we won in 2010, 14 and again in 16 on repealing obamacare. I think that brings us altogether. But we ran on repealing it, not replacing it with obamacare light. And i think paul ryans plan one, wont fix the problems. I think it will continue to allow the insurance premiums to skyrocket, and i just dont think it fixes the problems. We didnt run on replacing obamacare with obamacare light. So im a no vote and will continue to be. I think there are enough conservatives in the house to bring this to a halt, and my prediction is that ryan will pull the bill within the next 24 hours or hell take a vote and hell lose. At that point, conservatives will have earned a seat at the table and can negotiate on a real repeal, and we should replace it with Market Forces that bring the price of insurance down. Lou those premiums,s a point out, will rise in the first two years according to the ojections by t congnabudget oice. Also a great concern to conservatives. The penalties that are being paid to Insurance Companies as a result of not taking on insurance, there is a very limited window here to create an architecture for Market Forces, is there not . I think its an acknowledgment theyre predicting the failure of obamacare light even if they pass it. They billed into it bailouts for Insurance Companies. Im not interested in bailing out the Insurance Companies. Im interested in empowering the consumer to make the consumer king. So my replacement strategy is let everybody in america join a buying group. Imagine the 37 Million People that are members of aarp, what if they had one person negotiating for them . Can you imagine the Market Forces of 37 Million People bringing down prices . Thats what im for. Im not for subsidizing and keeping the prices up for Insurance Companies. Im for giving everybody the ability and freedom to join a group to bring prices down. Lou and to be clear, the tax credits that are envisioned under the speakers bill would do precisely that, which is move money toward the Insurance Companies are rather than to the individuals. Its a remarkable design, as you say, perhaps flawed. What else can be done to get passage in the senate and in the house . I think the only way this can get done is you need to separate repeal and replace. We need to have a clean repeal. Done with obamacare, repeal as much of it as we possibly can, and then lets have a separate replacement bill. I frankly think can you get democrats onoard to vote for buying pools or co ops to let people have more freedom to join a group to bring down prices. Its the only thing that will really bring down price. You got to get rid of insurance mandates and join a pool to bring down prices. If you look at what going on, theyre admitting failure, 100 billion to bail out the Insurance Companies. Insurance companies have doubled profits under obamacare. I am not feeling sorry for the Insurance Companies. Theyve doubled profits and the ryan plan will continue that. What i really want to do is empower the consumer so we bring down the insurance rates and bring down the ability to the Insurance Company to make money off the taxpayer. Lou if i may say, senator, you have defined the conflict point that is driving, motivating so many conservatives and that is the involvement of the Insurance Companies centrally in this plan. Let me ask you, Mitch Mcconnell, the majority leader saying that as he put it, i would hate to be a republican to vote that prevented us from repealing obamacare. May include dave bratt in the house, jim jordan, mark meadows, leading the freedom caucus, they say there may be as many as 50 no votes against the speakers bill right now, that includes of course moderates as well as conservatives. How many votes against it in the senate by your tally . Well, i have my count 30 to 35 conservatives in the house, and i think between 3 and 6 conservatives in the senate are nos. Possibly more. I will tell you the people i know opposed to obamacare light are the strongest opponents of obamacare. So no one is going to accuse us at home or otherwise of not being sufficiently against obamace. Werfor repealing it. Werjust not for replacing it with another federal government program. We want to replace it with freedom, choice, competition. We dont want another program. And one of the things about the ryan program is that the subsidies they give to families may encourage businesses to drop their insurance and dump people into the individual market where you dont have very good protections on price or very good protections of a member your family gets sick. Lou senator rand paul, always good to talk with you, thanks for being with us tonight. Thanks, lou. Lou were coming right back, much more straight ahead. A lot more. Stay with us. Supreme Court Justice nominee judge neil gorsuch in ten hours of confirmation hearings. I have no difficulty ruling against or for any party, but theres no such thing as a republican judge or a democratic judge. We just have judges. Lou we take up day two of the gorsuch hearings with the Judicial Crisis Networks carrey saboreno next. And President Trump ordering nasa to refocus efforts on deep space exploration. Will we finally see a manned flight to mars . Well be right back with that and much more. Stay with us. 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Do you share the view of the democratic attacks that originalism is somehow a quaint and outdated notion of reading the constitution for what it says . No one is looking to take us back to the horse and buggy day or quill pens or to turn back the clock on anything. The point is to apply the law in a way that allows us to be able to say as judges, its not what we wish. Its what the law was understood to mean. Lou the interaction with senator cruz among the highlights of the day. Then there were low lights, if you will, senator ben sass of nebraska talked for five minutes and 48 minutes before his question mark appeared. Lets engage in a little thought experiment. 30 or 40 years from now, when you retire and hang up your robe and youre out fishing or sitting on the front porch of your surely lovely home, and you look back over your career, how will you know if you were a good judge . Lou penetrating, dont you think . Joining me to discuss judge gorsuchs testimony today, carrie severino, chief Council Policy director for judicial crisis network. Former Supreme Court clerk for Justice Clarence thomas. Carrie, great to have you with us. I have to say there were moments like that with ted cruz which there was a master class it seemed to me going on in law, that is that part of it which i could comprehend. And then to see al franken and ben sass and their nonsense, it was frankly stultifying, appalling, your reaction . Carrie actually, i thought there were educational moments that came out of the interchange with senator sass as well. I have to agree, i thought senator franken was as usual not really hitting it clear with the points. He seemed to, you know, like all of the other democrat senators we saw today. Trying to lay the groundwork for gridlock. Hoping to find something they can point to and say this is why i want to block a vote with this guy. Thats what the base is pushing them to do. At the end of the day, they couldnt lay it on him. He clearly explained why so many of the cases they nitpicked and cherry picked out of his records werent that unanimous or explained why the law compels his results, and i his judicial independence, no one is above the law, including the president , and trying to explain how you have to look at it as about the politics. At the end of the day, if they cant vote for neil gorsuch, i dont think there is anyone this president is going to put up that thdemocratwill willing to vote for. Lou the judge said he had wrtemillion words or participated in them over the course of his career, and then there are sorts of i thought many were insipid questions, lazy questions about what was in the 6 million words. No one seemingly willing at least on the democratic side to take time to read them. Gorsuch today said a good judge doesnt give a wit about politics or the political implications of their decisions, and then occurred this at the end of the day. This exchange between senator blumenthal and judge gorsuch. And when anyone criticizes the honesty or integrity, the motives of a federal judge, well, i find that disheartening. I find that demoralizing. Senator, i cant comment on specific cases, and i cant get involved in politics. Ive gone as far as i can go ethically. Lou blumenthal asking him, again, the question about the response to the president s criticism of District Court judges. By the way, ive been critical of three District Court judges who wrote decisions against the president s executive order, the travel ban order, the extreme vetting orders, depending how you style them. Your reaction to his statement about being disheartened by criticizing the federal court system . I think that was a reasonable statement. He had to be very clear for ethical reasons as he said hes talking in general about attacks in judiciary, that could apply to something trump has said and something president obama said. Remember his state of the Union Address when he took the Supreme Court to task for Citizens United that rated mostly false, they have to take it. So mostly President Trump is not the first president to criticize the court. He wont be the last, and im sure judges dont like it when they get criticized. That said he was careful not to comment on the specific case, it could easily come before the Supreme Court. It could come before the Supreme Court, i wouldnt be surprised. Lou the idea that a person sits on the high court, i have no problem frankly with president obama criticizing courts or President Trump. I have a problem with justices or judges who think theyre above criticism and the First Amendment. I take that very seriously, and im disheartened, as the judge would put it, by such language and a willingness to try to stultify those who would exercise the First Amendment. I cant abide it. Carrie well, he certainly cant block him from saying it. Its a First Amendment right to say all of that. He was careful. Senator blumenthal tried to get him over and over again what about trump specifically said this, cant you criticize that . He said no, i cannot. He was careful to draw the line. A lot of things we would love for him to say, he cant ethically comment on. What would he do with roe v. Wade . Cant comment. All of these things are likely to be argued before the court. He simply cannot comment on them. He can talk about his record, he did a lot of that. Lou the District Court judges who stayed the president s executive order, i dont like them, i accused them of partisan politics, closing his jucialtatements and orders. There, carrie, i did it again, and feel so much better and hope judge gorsuch will forgive me. He was brilliant today, i have to say. And it looks to me like democrats are going to pay a tremendous price if they vote against this guy . Their base is trying to make sure they pay a price if they dont vote against him. Theyre going to primary you if you dont do everything to block this guy, gridlock all the way and the majority of the states are states that went for trump and theyre up for reelection in 2018. I hope they see the light. Lou theres a whole saturday night live routine, by the way, and senator al frankens questioning of judge gorsuch. That was hilarious. Carrie, thank you very much. Carrie have a good night. Lou be sure to vote in our poll tonight, the question is cast your vote on twitter wed like to hear from you as always, follow me on twitter, like me on facebook and instagram. Well, lou dobbs tonight is the place. President trump signing a bill into law boosting nasas budget by 200 million to 19. 5 billion. The bill asks nasa to create a plan to send humans, humans, people to mars in the 2030s, known only as humans in the 2030s. The president giving senator ted cruz the pen after he signed that bill. Texas home to the Johnson Space center, and the president wouldnt mind having senator cruzs vote on, well, the speakers Health Care Bill either. On wall street today, stocks posting the worst performance ever the year, the investor view is that there is some uncertainty about health ca legislation. The dow plunging 239. The nasdaq down 106. Volume 4. 2 billion shares and the yield on the 10year dropping to 4. 23 . Shares of apple hitting an alltime high, a