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>> give me the principled loser every time. i'll tell you why. once you start to treat things like the first amendment as something to barter you validate the views of the other side. you suggest that it's all fungible or fluid. i would rather have justices that state the constitution as it is, at least as i believe it is, that the first amendment may not be absolute. but it's the thing that holds us together. and compromises are dangerous. we saw that with the fourth amendment where so many exceptions occurred there was more holes than cheese in parts of the fourth amendment. we can't afford ...

Going on the floor and saying she has no experience as a l litigator when she's solicitor general, the top litigator in america. >> reporter: yeah. what's interesting about it, her most significant litigation experience really does come in the last year. you know, her first oral argument before the supreme court as solicitor general, as i understand it, was her first oral argument ever. and yet even people who don't, you know, agree with where she's coming from ideologically, if they know, which is hard to tell from the paper trail, don't doubt her intellectual abilities. and that's something ...

She is a democrat with a capital "d." how much of a democrat she is, how liberal she is, that's kind of a mystery at this point. when you look at the big issues before the supreme court, abortion, affirmative action, separation of church and state, she has never written or spoken out about any of those issues but i think it is safe to assume that idealogically, she will be similar to john paul stevens. >> how is the audio situation? did we get the echo out of your ear? >> no but let's keep going. >> hang in there with me. let's talk about the impact of what she will have on the court, personal...

Consensus building. i think she's the most likely choice. she's also the youngest of the people on the short list, at 49 years old. and that is a very good thing for a president who wants to leave his mark on the supreme court. >> that is like being an infant on the supreme court. >> you know what -- i love that 49-year-olds are being called young and spry and healthy, so i'm all for it. >> right. >> let me ask you this, gloria, you are saying some conservatives saying that sonia sotomayor is not as advertised and she's more liberal. and roland martin are saying the democrats want to play the ...

Making enemies. and he's not very good at making friends. and that's one of the reasons why this administration is having such a hard time getting things done, because what has to be done now deals a lot with open dialogue, and consensus building and compromise, and you can't compromise when someone is coming at you with a finger in your chest. megyn: in that interview, massa also said that he did grope his male staff, one in particular, but in a manner that was rough housing, not sexual. in fact he said it was a ticklefest. i don't know. i don't know. what do you think? i mean, what did you t...