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Pivotal player on the court, despite how he looked coming in under reagan as a rock conservative politically. >> if you remember from 1987, the first nominee that reagan put up was robert bourque, and it was only have three tries that he was able to get kennedy on the bench but he was approved unanimously, so probably there were enough democrats that thought maybe under that exterior we might get a few votes we like, and they have. >> that's a big question for tonight, once you get the name will the democrats go all in on this time or wait for the next one and not waste their firepower and cha...

Little bit about the historical precedent of the saturday night massacre. we are now on to a new level of expectation with this story. the new kt aing attorney general the one installed tonight after sally yates was fired he immediately rescinded her order which told department of justice lawyers that they shouldn't defend their refugee and immigration executive order in court. that means he has rescinded that order, he is effectively oshding the department of justice lawyers that they need to go to court and defend this thing. >> right. >> do we expect that her resistance, the principled stan...

>> i should note the saturday night massacre a reference to the attempted firing of key department of justice officials by richard nixon which essentially was the end of the end. >> well, they did fire them, they got down to robert bourque who would take care of the job for them. but that's not going to happen and we won't let that happen in this administration unless president trump wants to go the same way nixon went. >> those are strong words and i want to talk about -- i'll let you -- you gentlemen referred to as a constitutional crisis, which you, ambassador, referred to. it bans emolumen...

They got down to robert bourque who would take care of the job for them. but that's not going to happen and we won't let that happen in this administration unless president trump wants to go the sa way nixon went. >> those are strong words and i want to talk about -- i'll let you -- you gentlemen referred to as a constitutional crisis, which you, ambassador, referred to. it bans emoluments for american officials. sheri dillon issued kind of fro from the bench her constitutional ruling, quite clear about what is and is not an an emolument. here's what she had to say. >> since president-elect tr...

Robert bourque. the senate rejected robert bourque, but at least they acted on him and that seat was open, let's say, for about 200 days. then if we go back further in '69 and '70 it was actually a whole year that a seat remained open after abe fordice stepped down but, again, the senate was acting on people, rejeblgting th -- rejecting them but acting and i think it's amazing that the political pressure allowed -- there was not enough i think, once we get into 2017, things might change that way. and face it, this is a court that was designed to have nine seats. nine people. we might even see,...