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Not a republican on the bench? >> well, chris, i'm confident because having worked with judge kavanaugh day in, day out for over a year, i know that he's very independent and very firm minded. he's never going to prejudge an issue based on who the parties to the case are. he has certain core commitments that he applies in every case. those commitments have led him to roll for a lot of different parties, whether they're criminal defendants or corporations. in every case that comes before him on the court, he's going to take a hard look at the facts of that case, what the law says, and try very ...
What do we know about abortion and roe specifically. >> the d.c. circuit even though it is the most powerful federal appeals court in the country, it has a strange docket. it doesn't get hot button divisive social cases, it has virtually no immigration docket. so there are a lot of issues where judge kavanaugh hasn't written as much. with regard to abortion in particular, the texas case you mentioned, the issue was such a specific question about procedure and about whether the government should be allowed time to try to make arrangements for minor pregnant women in immigration detention so i d...
It didn't matter if it would make the right wing, how. whenever the president named a popular policy, more spending on education, more money on medicare, he was for it and he would attack the president for things that were unpopular. so the question becomes can you effectively tie mitt romney to the republican party and its core commitments, both how it acts in the house and the things he has said during the republican debates. and that never really happened tonight. but those of course are the facts of the matter. the idea that mitt romney won't cut taxes on people at the high end of the inco...
I was stunned tonight. rash elyou just mentioned about time, the president needs to get in and fight for that time. there's people that expect him to fight for that time. >> i thought the one thing that mitt romney did tonight that he has not done for the duration of the campaign and was very effective was just lop off the right wing of his party. he didn't care about them tonight. if something was popular, more money for community schools, he was for that. it didn't matter if it would make the right wing, how. whenever the president named a popular policy, more spending on education, more mon...