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First female law dean and serving as adviser to president clinton do not count as real world experience of nominees that have not served as judges. >> the american people want a nominee with the requisite legal experience. they know a lifetime position on the supreme court does not lend itself to on-the-job training. of course one does not need to have prior experience as a judge before being appointed to the country's highest court. but it strikes me that if a nominee does not have judicial experience, they should have substantial litigation experience. ms. kagan has neither. unlike justice r...

Republicans politically should go to war on this. tell me -- make it -- because -- >> i'm talking about the recruitment issue at harvard specifically because that symbolizes so much of the divide between left and right. >> does it symbolize so much or is it an opportunity to make it symbolize so much? >> mika, i've already said if i were a united states senator, and i said this with sotomayor, i would have voted up, i would have voted for kagan because even though i'm a conservative, i believe you defer to the president of the united states, be it republican or democrat and if their qualified ...

Remembe remember, you look down the line at who she worked for, president clinton, president obama, they both have great faith in her ability to do the job. >> i do worry about a candidate for the supreme court who already made up their mind on this key issue coming to the court. mitch mcconnell going after kagan for usual partisan reasons. this guy is like the no man. let's listen. >> of course one does not need to have prior experience as a judge before being appointed to the country's highest court. but it strikes me that if a nominee does not have judicial experience, they should have subs...

You look down the line at who she worked for. president clinton, president obama, they both have great faith in her ability to do the job. >> thergood marshal. i worry about a candidate for the supreme court that's already made up their mind on this key issue coming to the court. mitch mcconnell going after kagan for usual partisan reasons. this guy is like the no man. let's listen. >> of course one does not need to have prior experience as a judge before being appointed to the country's highest court. but it strikes me that if a nominee does not have judicial experience, they should have subs...

Hearings, and ultimately will be a question of debate probably on the floor. >> certainly she will have an opportunity to answer some of the tough questions out there but looking at her record as it stands, are you impressed by her record? >> well, at this time she doesn't have much of a record. her record is she has very little litigation experience. she has no experience as a judge as we've discussed. she has had really only a very limited experience in academia and there not an awful lot of writing. so i would say the record, itself, will have to be established to some extent by the way in ...