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Neil gorsuch to the supreme court. he took the first oath this morning, the constitutional oath in a private ceremony at the supreme court sworn in by chief justice john roberts. he is now going to have a second swearing in. the judicial oath which will make him officially a justice of the supreme court. the 113th administered by justice kennedy his former boss. the pair will be the only people to serve together at the same time on the court. a beautiful day at the white house. >> bill: as we await the appearance by president donald trump, why don't we bring in our folks working the story with...

John boehner is he did care about the institution. he recognized that nobody gets 100% in our democracy. i won't say that he and i were ideal partners but he and i can talk and we could get some things done. >> he and i could talk? we could get some things done says the president on "60 minutes" yesterday? maybe they could. there was a fair bit of evidence they could not get things done. john boehner took control and i use that term loosely of the house in 2011. as speaker he's had the dubious distinction of presiding over the least productive congresses in modern history. the 11st congress pa...

100% in our democracy. i won't say that he and i were ideal partners. but he and i could talk and we could get some things done. >> he and i could talk. we could get some things done, says the president on "60 minutes" yesterday. okay, maybe they could talk to each other. but there was actually a fair bit of evidence that they could not get some things done. john boehner took control, and i use that term loosely, of the house in 2011. and as speaker he has had the dubious distinction of presiding over the least productive congresses in modern history. the 112th congress passed 286 bills. the 1...

Nancy pelosi as house speaker probably the most productive session of congress since at least the '60s. adding, "it's all the more impressive given how polarized the congress has been." the pelosi congress achieved passage of health care reform after 100 years of democrats trying. plus the repeal of don't ask/don't tell. the stimulus that pulled the economy out of the abyss and a new start nuclear treaty with russia. most of it in the lame duck session between congresses, despite setting the record for the most filibusters by a senate minority. which brings us to house speaker john boehner. wh...

Especially these bread and butter issues, like unemployment compensation, which can really hurt in the reddest of districts. and so i think there's this balancing act of a short-term extension, but also trying to figure out a long-term strategy, to balance these two factions. >> so you brought up boehner. and i'm wondering, is there any reason to think that over the holiday, boehner got better at his job? and all that i mean by that is in his ability to move that republican caucus towards being able to actually make policy. because what we know about the 113th is that for the most part what th...