[background noises] student can you hear me with the song . Snack absolutely. Thank you guys are being here today. Iron a half ago, before all this debate was going on about the Supreme Court and the nominatio nomination, we predicted that it was the agenda for the democratic ready to support. Youre in a half ago. But i chuckle when i hear them said they move over the barrett we are going to pack the court. They were going to do that anyway. They were going to do that anyway thats why this amendment was filed the year end a half ago. Our instant attention too solidify with them. Thats why without i dont think you have to wait to hear directly from joe biden running for election they expand the court and try to pack it eventually you be able too get a vote. We can, a good idea too destabilize one of the three branches while branches of government with a Court Packing scheme that designed to do nothing but tilt the direction for outcome purposes. That is not our system should work. We are hopeful this calls attention to what we think is coming. We can take action on it before it is too late. I now turned over to my colleagues who may want to add to that. Some excellent sickness operates back you gotta put it on. Okay. Heres the deal. Lets was done a year end a half ago. I can think of a more stable intent destabilizing events and change the number of judges on the Supreme Court every election cycle. The traditional debate is who fills vacancies . Its not like about many you would have. Eventually were screwed up enough on our side of the Constitution Forward were fighting each other, site. I just want to urge all of my colleagues to support senator rubios efforts to solidify that we are sticking with nine. Nine has served us well i know people are mad and judges are very emotional. The thing i can tell you about the court is you never know. A lot of criticism about roberts on her side, that just comes with life tenure. My belief is life tenure is a good thing. My belief that nine has served the nation well. Thats going too destroy the independence of the judiciary senator feinstein is a good person she someone you can do business with preachy approaches issue from a progressive point of view. What has happened to her, by showing just seven human kindness, should make us all concerned. Can you imagine what would happen to a democrat if they voted for barrett . I voted for send meyer and. [inaudible] and im still standing. I dont know if thats possible the modern Democratic Party. A word of warning here. If you think they are kidding, you are making a mistake. Out hate to be the senator that said no i do not want to pack the court on the democratic sid side. Because if you think it was bad for senator feinstein your world would come to an end. We need to get the fever to break. And its good to have the country keep up with the constitution, nine is the right number. Thank you. Scenic i support senator rubio. Its moving forward. This is an unprecedented. What senator rubio is unprecedented power grab by the democrats. Moving the Supreme Court to 11 or 13 justices is exactly what schumer should do. Combined with adding two more senators for the district of columbia with statehood and two from puerto rico, the statehood. Means the Supreme Court is a check and balance on the power of the United States senate. In the stopple theoretical agenda put forth by Chuck Schumer and the democrats. Second is an attack on the montana way of life. When Justice Ginsburg passed away on the front page of the great falls tribune, one of montanas larger newspapers, it said justins ginsburg vacancy put the Second Amendment on center stage. This will be an attack on the Second Amendment. It will also show when you put liberal activist judges on the benches. Theres a liberal judge stopped the Keystone Pipeline part it was liberal judges that stop timber projects. They dont allow logging to stop catastrophic wildfires. And third this absolutely undermines the separation of powers of our Founding Fathers envisioned. We have a 151 your precedents in this country of protecting the Supreme Court with nine justice justices. Our Founding Fathers would roll over in their grave if they saw what has happened and being discussed by Chuck Schumer and the democrats. Last week we had the opportunity to have judge Amy Coney Barrett in front of us in the judiciary committee. And what was abundantly clear to those of us who sat through those hearings she is very wellqualified. Shes a very fair jurist. And she has been commended by liberals and conservatives across the spectrum, prior to being named as the nominee for Supreme Court justice. So we know that she will be a fair Supreme Court justice. But what we see coming from the left is because they cannot attack her on her qualification qualifications, they know theyll be moving forward with this nomination. And even as senator rubio had stated, they had this idea of months before Justice Ginsburg had passed. Their idea would be then to pack the court or expand the number of seats on the Supreme Court. With they want to do, they being the democrats is too establish a super legislature. Will need to be afraid of that. This is our third branch of government. Our judicial system is at risk. By giving them power whats currently established even truth beta ginsburg who i greatly admire that nine is the right number. We have had nine Supreme Court justices over 150 years. Im very supportive of these efforts to pass this amendment, passed the resolution and enshrine our rich traditions so again, lets come together lets support the resolution. Have a super legislature. Civic the things i will underscore. First of all thank you all for covering this now. Marco and i and others have been pushing on this for a year end a half. We have to do more to instore passages will trust in our country and our government. This is not news since it has become a campaign issue. Im glad joel starting to cover it now. To the lenses of this moment and this election have a lot of work to restore institutional trust. Its really two new two of three branches of government. The declining Public Trustee conversation is about nuking two of three branches but its about turn descent into just another House Speaker of representatives. A simple majoritarian body that on 5149, 49, 51 swings every couple of months to try to remake more and more is the opposite of the founders vision for what it is for. The purpose of the senate is to have a long debate, deliberation and allow passions to cool. The idea but nuking the senate, ending his deliberative structure for the purpose of nuking the Supreme Court is a much bigger deal than is being publicly understood right now. So many of the conversations that dominate political cable news are always about the presidency. Its always about President Trump with the reality is the issue on the belt on november 3 in america is for control of the United States senate. In the question whether old remain a deliberative body and whether there will be three divisions of government that check and balance each other. And third, all of us not just the republicans. Today but all 100 democrat and republican senators have taken an oath of office to a constitutional system that is delicate and fragile. The purpose the founders had in mind with limited government was too recognize the center of American Life is not in government. The center of American Life is the neighborhood where americans are living, and working, worshiping and raising their kids, and coaching little league. The center of life in america is not washington d. C. And the lid is this nation of more of life in washington and the capital, will not be good for American Peace and the longterm deescalation of the politicization we face. Glad all of your covering this issue. I think its critically important that if we had down this pathway of a majoritarian senate that changes a size and structure of the Supreme Court every election, you are not just when have 11, or 13, or 15 Supreme Court justices. Twelve months youre going to have a Banana Republic structure prayed for every time their selection people try to politicize the judiciary and turn it into the super legislature. And that world of the popularly elected than to pretend that there are somehow the apolitical branch of government. The reason we have justices that wear robes, is because they are symbolizing the cloaking of their partisan preferences. If you are going to have judges who are super legislatures, than they should not have lifetime tenure. They should have to stand for election because its the only way the American People can have accountability over them. Our constitution with two branches or people stand for election. In apolitical branch that less politicize less majoritarian structure. Thanks. Spheric im really pleased to be earth my colleagues pernod into particular thanks senator rubio for his leadership of over a year on this very important issue. It is certainly come to light in his campaign season. Anticipating this and knowing what is the best for the American People is very emblematic and what we are trying to say here today. And that is too politicize our judicial system, to not try to restructure. That is what the democrats are saying now. They are talking about restructuring. Why are they saying packing . Because that sounds worse prayed that his action with they want to do. What do pack the core the preordained decision and already say what that decision would be because it is in the political realm. And so i think the American People rejected packing as they would reject restructuring. Because they are actually one and the same. The other thing i would say in us and pointed out for my colleagues more than a few time times, the sensitivities of the checks and balances of our system are something to marvel at. To watch out, through one in 50 years nine people in our Supreme Court, we have had the ebbs and flows of decisions from the very impactful decisions from the Supreme Court. And how they have moved from maybe right of center, left of center, at times. And as the policies would dictate. And i think that is what you want. I think you want a thoughtful, impartial set of justice to judge us as policymakers, to judge the president as the executive. And every check and balance the court brings to us, keeps us from veering too far from what the American People really want. So im justices weve had it for over 150 years. It has works pretty doggone good. Lets just put that into the constitution to make sure it is permanent. Thank you. Well thanks for it and what to say thanks to senator rubio again for over a year ago raising this issue. The democrats have demonstrated they wanted to pack the court. They have now found an excuse. I just met with judge barrett. I am so inspired by her. This truly is her calling. She is a gift to our country when she is confirmed too serve in the Supreme Courts. Look i have put my life on the line for our freedoms in the way of life. Jodi has as wellin those in the military. Oath of office of the constitution to give it all to protect america and its freedoms. With these americans want to do with the left is to fundamentally destroy the foundations of our country. The institutions of our country at all costs. It doesnt matter its all about gaining cower at our power at all costs. Thats not what america is about, that is not what america is founded on. That is not what the men and women who served with me and did not come back give their life or. Thats not those with the wounds of war. At best at what i give my life for. They want to trust her institutions more not less. We do not want politicians around power grabs to somehow get their way. The Judiciary Branch is very clear about its role. Amy Coney Barrett gave everyone in america a lesson on that in her hearings last week. Every school child in america, every classroom, every adult should have turned into her part, her answers. Not the campaigning it was being going on on the other side. Its a reminder to all of us of how important we are. At this moment in time. We cannot allow one extreme element to fundamentally destroy and transform our institutions like this. Justice ginsburg said it herself grade nine is a good number, lets solidify that in our constitution. Provide more opportunities for people to meet their full potential, live out their godgiven freedoms the way our Founding Fathers intended it to be. Senator rubio thank you for advancing this, thank you all for being here. I agree with all of my colleagues just said pretty want to talk about the probability of this occurring page two weeks ago Chuck Schumer stood on a stage with aoc incentives not going to waste the majority. We all know aoc who could potentially be a democrat senatorial private candidate and a couple of years in the state of new york, is demanding more from that we expand and pack the courts. They are demanding more from which is a Nuclear Option on the filibuster. So if anybody here thanks this is a hypothetical or a political stunt to raise awareness of this issue, this is a clear and present danger depending upon what happens in november. I believe that Chuck Schumer will reduce the threshold to a simple majority part i do believe Chuck Schumer will move forward with an expansion of the Supreme Court. And it after it has expanded will be packed with liberal activist judges and the cycle will go on and on and on. When into raise the threshold for the Supreme Court and this is a step in the right direction. But the American People need to know this is a real threat. Dependent upon the outcome of the election, it that is what we will rue the day if in fact Chuck Schumer delivers on his promise. The last thing i will leave you with is the vice president. Vice President Biden said i will tell you my decision on packing the courts after his distant while after the election. Hes one of two things hes either not telling the radical lefties not going to supreme or is not tiny moderate left that he would. We deserve an answer to that as well. I do believe this is a good step in the right direction. Markley thank you for your leadership. Everyone is abandoning ship here. No you need to go understand racemic. [inaudible] [inaudible] senator schumer would do this if they got the majority dont you think and awed. Republicans are going through Supreme Court justices take some of the norms you do have. There actually is not a plan right now. There is no plan. On the second point, if its not a thing they should say it. Just come out and say no we dont want to do. Is a than i. Not just vice President Biden or former vice President Biden but multiple candidates refuse to take a position on this issue but including those running for state senate. The senate seats around the country they just wont answer the question. What vice President Biden is said is he wants to wait and see how this nomination plays out before he lets voters know before election day parts ultimately, my whole point is if you believe the court needs to be expanded, say it. I can say this, all of the energy in the Democratic Party that comes radical elements in that and the money being pulled over the activism its demanding more from it. I found this a year end a half ago before there was a vacancy to the seats. Before judge barrett. Its unrelated to that its more broader point that we need institutional stability for our system of government to function. Meaning we have a determined number of house seats based on district v of the population of the states for a bit two senators. State. And there needs to be some stability. It cannot be, cannot be we decide to change a number on the court every time the outcome that youre getting from the court do not favor your policy present is not the purpose of the corporate. What is that . Why the concern now . Soon because they are not say they are forward and plenty of activists including prominent voices in the Democratic Party that are asking for and demanding more from it. Not now, year end a half ago. None operates. You now have cats who wont take a position on or are avoiding it. This is clear colette as you claim, why not just say it . Why not just say we will not do this. I say Pretty Simple if your predicate is correct they will not commit to not doing it. Theres a reason for that. The lesson i heard him speak about it and that includes the townhome very recently where he was pressed on it, he said that he wants to wait and see how this process right now plays out before he makes a pronouncement on it. That is what he said. I watch the debate, the original debate ralph refused to take a position on it. He had a chance to do them. Thats not just him to activism in his party demanding more from this british no way theyre not going to build to speak to those voices and make those voices happy if they take the majority. But bottom line is, if they are not for thats great than where they co sparking my mm it . I dont think we have it angle cosponsor to my amendments. More opening this to any democrat too think its a bad idea that should cosponsor the amendment so they can be all on the same page basement before go to another topic you should keep in minus one of 61 sanders assigned a letter saying i would never vote for the Nuclear Option on the legislative filibuster right now there are people who signed that letter just a couple of years ago that say publicly now may be the time for you to go back and read that letter go to every member who signed it, asking where they are today. And you can determine whether not they are still a threat. Democrats would take the set if into powered. [inaudible] the last several years have been a lot of precedent breaking in the senate including the 51c. [inaudible] why should things change now . And definitely since your best argument now in your own reelection rate is to make sure there is a publican on the presidency of the senate . Him he the first question where there are two separate issues here. The filibuster the member the Supreme Court. On the number of Supreme Court which is what my amendments about its not about a filibuster its about that. Its about institutional stability buried on the issue of the filibuster, look at photos of terrible thing for harry reid to do what he did. I thought is unfortunate for the senate that followed up by ultimately becoming the Supreme Court as well. But that speaks to the decay of the institution and the way we behave. Going back 20 or 25 years, have a controversial nominations but they did not get filibuster they got their votes. That is change, the nature of politics of change in the senate. The reason im against it from the legislative standpoint, changing on a legislative standpoint which i believe the senator speaking to is because if ill it takes is a simple majority in the House Speaker and senate to pass legislation , it undermines the very purpose of the senate in the first place. The reason they created the tenant was to have a place to move slower and more deliberate in their thinking. That is why have never signed onto even, listen, anytime on the losing side issues, the losing side argues of get rid of the filibuster. We have people on our side that say get rid of the filibuster. But when i explained to people and ultimately what hope everybody understands the reason the system was designed this way is because the senate was intended to be a place at slow things down. Because they knew that sometime the passions of the moment would overcome the politics and you end up making bad decisions. The filibuster is an expression of that, it is a senate rule. It can be changed. Its very different. Think it is important, but its very different from the number of justices on the court. Because if we are going too get into a position where every time someone wins in the geordie and they dont like the direction of the court they had to work members to change the ballot, we will end up pointing at 25, 30, 35 justices. The kind of things you see in chaotic countries. It is a terrible idea. That is what my amendment is about right cement before iran is the best target would have done less five years and 14 years in office. Turning the North Carolina economy around. Voting for tax cuts which actually create an economy before kobe that was historic. Record low item employment. That is the argument im making to the people of North Carolina. At the same time i have an opponent is going to try to clear up a number things up to and including investigation with the department the army. Reporter do you think you need to get a relief package done now . We need to get a relief package done. I had some and asked me about this today. This isnt about politics its about people expected it for months. As a followup to my opponent said he would vote against it and we need to do more. People are falling into poverty absolutely. Funding for states that have been affected they have demonstrated they have, absolutely. Bailing out california and new york, the states of schumer and feinstein, absolutely not. They were in trouble to begin with. If we can find a way too provide resources to any state they have been affected report a followup to the cares act as well. Extending unemployment, providing funding for educations they can open up safely, provide funding for vaccine, providing liabilities before we have an epidemic of losses are all things we need to vote on. Im prepared to stay here through election it abode on it again. Thank you all. Thank you for covering. [inaudible] thank you for wearing the mass we appreciate. I always wear the mask. Stomach thank you, thank you