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Exercise for me to go through the most -- thousands of supreme court opinions and say which ones are right and which ones are wrong. >> senate judiciary democrat richard blumenthal made a point of asking trump's educational and justice department nominees to answer a question that should be a no-brainer. was the supreme court right to strike down separate but equal doctrine 65 years ago today? lately a whole slew of nominees have been dodging that very question. yesterday the republican-controlled senate confirmed one of these nominees who you just heard about, wendy vitter, to the lifetime po...

Show. >> [laughing]. >> if i had a tissue i would give it to you now. i could sing and you would cry. >> up until susan collins gave her speech did you think there was a chance that the republicans might not get this confirmation done? >> when it comes to senate nominations for judicial positions, the republicans have only one speed: go ahead and get it done. we saw with garland. he didn't get a hearing. we saw with justice gorsuch, he got a hearing. they got it done. three democrats walked across the aisle to support him. look, i am not going to sit here and belittle the women who have come f...

They would react very well. i wonder what their temper mmentment would have been. i think he reacted exactly the way most americans would react to be smeared. >> i have to challenge that, scott. >> no, no, no. if somebody said those things about me, i would ask somebody to step outside. outrageous. >> here's the difference, scott. this is a person running for a lifetime -- not running but being considered for a lifetime position. the fact is, this is washington. this is politics. but political candidates have been accused of horrible things for years and it becomes -- >> gang rape? >> how do y...

Through the years. he was critical of himself. he stood up and owned moments where he knew he had stepped over the line. he wasn't about to be nominated to a lifetime position. in fact, he said to the people of massachusetts, if you think i shouldn't stay here, then, and he took the returns and he was elected another six times. that's a very different thing from a lifetime of confirmation to the supreme court of the united states. >> juan: judge, let's take the conversation to cory booker. i'm sure my colleagues here want me to call him spartacus. let's take the conversation there. he is not a...

Context is key. and this is, again, what we're likely not going to have when the next report comes to congress, because it's not going to be publicly released but before i get there, laura, this -- christine blasey ford came forward with her allegation, there wasn't any talk in his -- about problems in his background like this. who's going to clear this up for everyone now? >> well, that's the problem with innuendo, when you don't have clarity, it's ambiguous, and you have people who are essentially tarred and feathered in the public square without any opportunity to defend themselves or to bo...