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Opportunity to shape the court for generations to come. pamela brown, cnn, washington. >> joining us is npr legal affairs correspondent nina totenberg and also george washington university law professor jonathan turley who's written extensively on constitutional issues. professor, as far as nominating as the process goes, i think people assume it's going to be easy for trump to get his choice confirmed, he's got a majority in both houses of congress. is that actually the case? >> well, remember, this is not a wide margin. even if he picks up the seat in louisiana, you'd have 52 republican sena...

With one open seat and an aging bench, president trump has the opportunity to shape the court for generations to come. pamela brown, cnn, washington. >> joining us is npr legal affairs correspondent, nina totenberg, and jornl washington law professor turley. as far as nominating, as the process goes, i think people assume it's going to be easy for trump to get his choice confirmed. is that actually the case? >> well, remember, this is not a wide margin. even if he picks up the seat in louisiana, you'd have 52 republican senators. you can throw in on a tie vice president pence. but that is not ...

Basically continuing president bush's policy in iraq, not senator biden or senator obama policy. >> bret: mort? >> you know, it's not absolutely a lead pipe cinch that iraq can exist as a central government. this is still at issue. the election results haven't worked themselves out yet. and the kurds are largely independent of the rest of the country. so i'm not sure that in the end biden version one is not going to be correct. but now we have biden version two. some day, i hope it doesn't happen that way, but if the thing falls apart, how biden will explain that when bush created the success ...

Basically continuing president bush's policy in iraq, not senator biden or senator obama policy. >> bret: mort? >> you know, it's not absolutely a lead pipe cinch that iraq can exist as a central government. this is still at issue. the election results haven't worked themselves out yet. and the kurds are largely independent of the rest of the country. so i'm not sure that in the end biden version one is not going to be correct. but now we have biden version two. some day, i hope it doesn't happen that way, but if the thing falls apart, how biden will explain that when bush created the success ...