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House several times and has spoken to the president by phone. when rod rosenstein thought he was going to be fired several weeks back and "the washington post" reported that whitaker was trying to get his boss's job, jeff sessions. this idea that nobody knows him and he's not a known quantity is simply not true. >> appreciate that important reporting. let's come into the room. i talked about remember when the party cared about deficits. they create three coequal branches of government. we will see how he does in the job. among the many things and some inferior thing and shouldn't be treated as...

Practicing civil rights lawyer that brown versus the board of education is likely to come before the supreme court any time soon. it's the cannon that constitutes the center of our justice system. no one questions whether mar bury versus madison was decided. people talk about dread scott -- >> do you see it as a judicial dog whistle? >> i think it's a signal. recall when neil gorsuch was asked the question, he didn't want to answer it but he finally came across and answered the question. there are other conservatives that answered the question. it's not a question of whether you're conservativ...

Do that. presidents have done that throughout our history. you can go back to the very founding of our country when marberry versus madison came out thomas jefferson let john marshall enforce that opinion. this is as long as our history. i think there will be a fight for judge gorsuch but i tell you this, in nine weeks we'll be calling judge gorsuch without any doubt we'll call him justice gorsuch. i have no doubt he will be confirmed as the replacement for justice scalia. >> melissa: it was eye opening to listen to the conversation between the judges. if people haven't listened to it i encour...

Reach if confirmed to the supreme court. history shows over the better part of a century the committee created something of a new norm. a norm in which members demand that nominees speak about specific cases in return for favorable treatment from the committee as the jurists are going through the process. nominees for the most part, have gracefully resisted confirmation in exchange for promises about how they will vote in particular cases. to give two famous examples, justice scalia refused to say whether mar bury versus madison was settled law on the ground it could come before him and sure e...