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>> yes. i think in a certain sense he is certainly going by the gorsuch model which i take to be an elite, well respected, quite conservative appellate court judge. right? and all the people that he's seriously considering meet that general model. and they are all people who will provoke a significant fight with democrats in the senate, will energize both the republican and democratic bases. and will fulfill the president's promise to nominate a certain type of person to the supreme court. so i think he is following the gorsuch model in significant respects. >> a significant fight, you talk ab...

Without putting it behind him. the further problem is legal. that's if you force mueller to issue the subpoena, you litigate the subpoena and you lose, then all of your negotiating leverage disappears. the reason is president has negotiating leverage right now is that he can threaten as his lawyers are doing, to refuse to appear for an interview and to litigate against and fight a subpoena. the moment you litigate and fight against the subpoena and the courts rule against you, you lose the ability to make that threat. >> okay. let's move now to the president's upcoming supreme court justice an...

Doesn't seem at all coincidental that donald trump is out there right now. tester voted against the gorsuch nomination last year. joined democrats in trying to filibuster that nomination. is he seen -- is the attitude here that he can be persuaded because of his re-election? >> this is going to put john tester in a difficult position, no matter who the president picks. he didn't just vote against gorsuch, he voted against mike pompeo, gina haspel and known to the president for being the main person who stopped ronny jackson to be veterans affairs secretary. tester's re-election campaign is pre...

Inside the white house and outside of the white house who see him as the kind of pick who would follow in the judge gorsuch model on the supreme court which holding the president up and we've reported this at the post is his connection to george w. bush. judge kavanaugh worked as an adviser in the bush 43 white house. >> and caitlin, the objectships, let's take a kavanaugh then. the objections from conservatives, how deeply held is that view on the right and how much influence could that ultimately have here? >> the objections now that are being voiced publicly and privately are because there ...