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Exempt from accountability on either criminal or civil law while in office as a way to ensure that he's able to focus entirely on the business of running the country. that's interesting given his history with the ken starr investigation. i believe he was the lead author of the ken starr report. this would seem to have implications for the president's potential liability not just for the mueller investigation, but also for any liability that may attend to the trump foundation, or the zervos lawsuit, or the emolument cases that have been brought over the last year and a half. >> we know this pre...

An aggressive view of certain parts of the constitution, especially executive power, what kind of things the president can and can't do. and -- and this is going to be hard for democrats to try to explain to the american people, but he wants to shrink the sort of administrative state, the alphabet soup of the epa, et cetera that have so much to do with people's lives on the ground and that he thinks have had too much power basically since the new deal.

Absent something going really wrong, i think mcconnell is feeling pretty good continue. >> and mcconnell, criticizing the democrats with a straight face. a few of whom said, i don't care who the president puts up, i'm going to vote against them. mcconnell, famous for having blocked president obama's nominee, which could have been william rehnquist, he was going to block the nominee until the republican became president. >> you're right. he blocked merritt garland, said it was nothing personal. he just wasn't going to put anyone forward in a presidential election year. he made up a new rule t...

Mcconnell, of course, is not swayed by the logic. and there will be a vote, and very likely, a confirmation. >> the president faced a choice. had some rookies of the federal bench under consideration. the president and his staff are known to believe they may get another choice or two on the court, depending on the route of his presidency. he chose a young 53-year-old veteran of the federal bench. that means there's a paper trail. he has written 300-some-odd opinions that we're free to pour through. and look for any mines in the road ahead. >> huge point. and mcconnell, remember, actually advis...

Have raised. what is your take? >> i think this is, from the president's point of view, from the point of view of conservatives, is a smart choice. you saw a very graceful, gracious nominee. not nearly as stiff as neil gorsuch was. somebody who is used to washington. who has already been mauled by the senate judiciary committee at least once. and somebody who is likely to be able to handle it. on the other hand, if he's confirmed, one assumes that he will be an enormously influential member of the court and very quickly. if you have already written 300 opinions in the d.c. circuit which handle...