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Sentenced the pizza gate guy? that was ketanji brown jackson. she sentenced the pizza gate guy to four years in prison. his lawyer asked for 18 months. the prosecutors asked for 4 1/2 years, so she was lenient to the pizza gate guy. but they're mad at her for that. that's where this stuff is coming from. you need to know where it's coming from and democrats need to know how to defend her from this stuff. >> first of all, yes, you're right. it's an important point you make too because the types of cases that will be coming before this court, she does not change the idealogical balance. donald t...

During the government shutdown. you look at public polling, and time and again, the public seems to side with the idea of adding some sort of resolution to daca or d.r.e.a.m.er kids. >> guns, transgender issues, so sexual preference issues. the court saying not now. what's it tell us about this court? antoni kennedy is gone. more importantly, john roberts now, does he have the freedom of idealogical balance? >> going to her point about antoni kennedy, they could either go to culturally war issues, but the chief is it in front but his vote is not fluid that way. he will not be with the court on...

Whether it was shutting down the government, blocking everybody that they could. there's a fundamental underlying reality here. these folks do not accept the legitimacy of barack obama's presidency of the united states. so they're going to use every tool they can to try to disable this administration. and they don't even care about whether or not what they say is remotely truthful. the republicans kept saying the federal circuit doesn't need anymore judges because their caseload is comparatively light. that's not true. they have the most complicated cases in the entire federal judicial system....

Gop has always gone in the direction of so-called idealogical balance. is that where you see this going this time? >> first of all, there are as many theories about how the vice president gets picked as there are people mentioned to be the vice president. but yeah, i do think this kind of idealogical mixing does have some real heft to it. mccain was in a similar position to where romney is now. won the nomination but distrusted by the conservative base and he picks palin. in 2000, bush picking cheney was more of a gravitas pick, but i don't think bush could have picked somebody like a tom ridg...