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Bill to expand the courts to -- so we are in 2022 and apparently things we've been able to depend on for decades, centuries this this country are not the case anymore. so we have an opportunity to look at where we are right now in this time and i think everything should be on the table because people's lives are at stake. >> and on this discussion of precedent after former president barack obama went on twitter to criticize the supreme court for overturning the precedent of roe versus wade, a republican senator john cornyn of texas perhaps you saw this, he replied, now due plessy versus fergus...

All of these things about reporting, about people, about the sources he meets, getting to know these people. i mean, when i was 18 -- there's a lot of civil rights in the book. i grew up in jim crow washington, in a city i went to segregated public schools until brown vs. board of education. and covering civil rights one of the first things i did, unfortunately, was to meet with rita swarner while her husband was being searched for in mississippi and, of course, a few days after i met with her, his body and those of cheney and goodman were found under a levee in mississippi. that's the kind of...

Booster. where am i going to get it? you had my vaccine shots in my barbershop. that's no longer there. that's what we have to address in america. brown vs. board of education proved separate was equal was not constitutional. in the medical system, there is bias, there's medical racism. existing in the walls of the hospital. we need to address. just like we have been addressing law enforcement. it does not happen. it's not put in the forefront. like it is in other -- police brutality. that was largely talked about. did we talk about the fact that you are less likely to get medical treatment if...

>> well, thank goodness the supreme court has been willing to revisit its precedent or we'd still be living with plessy vs. ferguson or dred scott. one of the things senator whitehouse and i agree on is, he and others frequently ask nominees for the supreme court, do you think brown vs. board of education is settled law? and believe it or not, some nominees won't answer the question. i mean, it boggles the mind. i tend to think that nominees for both parties tend to be overcoached and not -- and told you can't be -- if you don't answer the question, you have a better chance of being confirmed....

Basically rule america when they decide that something is an unenumerated fundamental right. let me -- in the 1:48 i have, ask you about a specific case. you remember a u.s. vs. brown? this was a guilty plea where you were asked to assess a punishment. and at one point in the proceedings you said, i'm going to state for the record, however, that this court has a longstanding policy disagreement with the criminal history guidelines with respect to the application of the two-point enhancement. do you remember when you said that? >> i don't remember that particular statement. >> how is that polic...