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This is -- this is the facts this is where we are, guys. the president put out a list today, that list is not a list of mainstream jurist, that is a list of conservative ideologues. if the folks in the administration supporting the president and come to the table what -- >> i got to run. even if you think however you feel about the nominees, it's his to pick. elections have consequences. >> where was this when president obama was in office. this is a bunch of bs -- >> i'm not in washington. maybe democrats should have had a better strategy. maybe they should have fought harder. maybe some of t...

Report. let me start the with gorsuch. the senate actually changed the senate rules in order to confirm him. he will be the only one of the 1999 sitting on the supreme court that did not get 60 votes. what are the implications of that? >> well, it's actually not true. clarence thomas who was confirmed by a narrower margin, but we all know there were more complicated things going on with that. >> what was clarence thomas's margin? >> 52-48. that had to do with the scandal around the elected sexual harassment of anita hill. with gorsuch, this was politicked. you have on the one hand, republicans...

Concurrences or dissents on his decade on the circuit, has met with 72 senate tours and so far in person. he is making a pitch that he is a mainstream jurist. >> the m.o. for republican nominees in the supreme court has been to sabotage their nominees. that is not going to happen with gorsuch. he is so beloved. the hit that they tried to pull out on him, he had a wealthy quiet he served well. he engaged an ethics question in an ethics course. it is sad to watch. when you see people saying they will vote against them when they have no actual reasons to vote against them, it looks like partisan ...

Concurrences or dissents on his decade on the circuit, has met with 72 senate tours and so far in person. he is making a pitch that he is a mainstream jurist. >> the m.o. for republican nominees in the supreme court has been to sabotage their nominees. that is not going to happen with gorsuch. he is so beloved. the hit that they tried to pull out on him, he had a wealthy quiet he served well. he engaged an ethics question in an ethics course. it is sad to watch. when you see people saying they will vote against them when they have no actual reasons to vote against them, it looks like partisan ...

He's a real judge, serving on the federal appeals court. i'm glad we cleared that up. in your view, is he political? >> he was an active republican before he took the bench. however, for all of us who have been in public service, once you accept that position, you leave your politics at the door and judge robart has done that. when he was an active republican here in washington state, he's what we call a mainstream republican, a moderate republican. again, that stopped when he took the bench in 2004. he is a good, solid judge, a mainstream jurist, we're lucky to have him. >> the president's re...