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Court opinions. >> is there any factor more important ultimately for the nominee, whoever he or she is, than age? or is the first question going to be how many of your ancestors lived to be 100 or more? >> they really want as long a run they can get out of this nominee. it's very, very important. there's no way of knowing what the democratic presidencies are going to look like 20 years from now, 30 years from now. so age is very important. and again, that -- that liberal -- you know, the liberal who's hiding under the cover of whatever this person has lived at -- lived as for the last 20 years...

Being a supreme court nominee and being on supreme court removes you from politics and influencing policy day-to-day. they should look at someone who is more interested in that. >> what about the climate? looking eight statement from mitch mcconnell, he says it's careful the president will -- the republicans will make a sustained and vigorous case for judicial restraint. orrin hatch tells the president, another leading republican from utah don't pick an activist. jeff sessions thinks last time they proved and even got justice sotomayor in his opinion to say forget the empathy standard that can...

Sonia sotomayor's confirmation hearing. >> i fear that this empathy standard is another step down the road to a liberal, activist, results-oriented, relativistic world where laws lose their fixed mean, unelected judges set policy, americans are seen as members of separate groups rather than as simply as americans. >> and the outrage, that particular outrage, it conflated empathy with sympathy. we can agree that judges should not rely on gut feelings or the tugging of heartstrings. that's not what empathy is. empathy is able to see going into a crumbling, ill-equipped school while the white sch...