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There's a new list and you're on it. i don't know about that. i don't think -- you didn't know. i don't think -- we were all surprised. anyway, we are where we are. >> okay. tell me about the process that led to your nomination. did anyone ask you to make any promises or assurances at all about your view on certain legal issues or the way that you'd rule in certain cases? >> senator, i think you'd be reassured by the process that unfolded. i try to live under a shell during the campaign season. watch baseball and football. go about my business. but i did hear lots of talk of litmus tests from ...

>> mr. chairman, you are right, there were two lists, as i recall, over the summer. i was not on the first list. i remember having breakfast one day with a friend, who may be here, brian? there you are. you remember this. >> i do. >> we were having breakfast one day, and he said neil, you are not on the list. i said, you are right. i am not on the list. he said you should be on the list. i said i love my life in colorado. i wouldn't change a thing. i am a happy man, i have a loving wife and beautiful home and loving children and a great job with wonderful colleagues and i'm a happy person. wal...

Presidents of both parties decline to answer questions like these. that's because, as the nominee put it, quote, a judge sworn to decide can offer no forecast, no hints for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of this particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process, end of quote. now you probably know that's what justice ginsburg said at her hearing. and it's what we call the ginsburg standard. the underlying reason for this is, of course, is that making promises or even giving hints undermines the very independence that we just talked about. i'd like ...

Prepared to make it seem like he is answering questions and not to alienate democrats. >> if he is asked about travel ban 2.0, constitutional, not constitutional, he will respond? >> that's an issue that might come before the court, i can't address that. >> i suspect we will be hearing that a lot. >> get ready. >> two or three versions of that. >> here's the chairman, senator grassl gra grassly.

For instance, that brown versus board of education which finally overruled a repugnant separate but equal stand is the textbool example of this. so with these things in mind, i'd like to explore the approach you'd take to supreme court precedence. could you tell us what you believe is the value of precedent in our legal system? >> absolutely, senator. if i might, mr. chairman, go back just a moment to promises. i have offered no promises on how i'd rule in any case to anyone. and i don't think it's appropriate for a judge to do so, no matter who is doing the asking. and i don't because everybo...