investigation and both testified for hours and hours and hours. you brought up the dna evidence, we could have had that if we had had an investigation. laura: wait a second, wait a second. will, i adore will, michael, hold, on i adore will but he said we might have had dna evidence? we have had more evidence, not dna. laura: i didn t think so. will i mean, michael, again, the aclu, when i was at dartmouth we got in hot water with a college newspaper working for the dartmouth review. i remember when ira glasser who was, i think, executive director of the aclu, stood up for us, student journalists. i m sure he didn t like the stuff we were doing, we were acting sophomoric, we were sophomores in college. but they stood up for us. that gave me a sense of what the aclu is all about. it wasn t partisan. they used to stand for nonpartisanship. never took a position for or against candidates for office or nominees for the court. now, it s different.
word regardless of where the facts lie. but for all of their screaming and tiresome chanting, the left basically come up empty this time. most americans don t see themselves as victims. we re not powerless or weak. we re strong and independent. this was the democrats miscalculation. they thought emotional extortion and protester histrionics to block a well qualified supreme court nominee. once again, they let their rabid political ideology blind them to the fact that the americans are fair minded, have a basic goodness about them, and they re optimistic about the future. they don t need an activist supreme court to see the light. to know where we are as a people, to see our future. that s the angle. laura: joining me now is code pink s co-founder me dea benjamin and former kavanaugh
you, essentially, when you vote for them, you want them to deliver on their promises by these tax cuts and deregulation and now what we are seeing with our economy doing better, we have delivered on our promises. harris: i have a real quick last question and i m going to ask my team to hang tight just a second before we go to break. we are seeing gerrymandering, redistricting around the country and pennsylvania is one of those areas where republicans could get hurt because democrats have such an advantage. what will you do? well, it is judicial gerrymandering. it s an activist supreme court that has taken the maps that the legislature drew with the republican governor and the voters elect the legislature, and they have said we don t like what you did. we don t like that the voters chose to you make these maps so we re going to recreate it i think that they are going to take it to the supreme court. i don t know where that s going to go. but it is a real concern that a judicial bran
time, congress has gotten a pass on all of these issues and the debate in washington to me can be almost silly because we re not taking ownership over these decisions. i hope they plan to come for authorization. i think the assad regime would be totally idiotic to take any additional steps in the short term relative to additional chemical warfare. they can start but hopefully as soon as we get back, congress will take up an authorization for this. it s the right thing to do. that s what the american people expect their elected officials to be involved in. i m sorry i didn t hear the second question. that s okay. it wasn t that good of a question anyway. senator bob corker, thank you so much. wow. really appreciate it. you all have a good day. i m going to get back to my day job but i ve enjoyed being with you a few moments. we love having you. coming up next, is this the most activist supreme court ever. justice ginsburg has tough
here with us now from washington, new york times supreme court correspondent adam liptak in yesterday s new york times adam wrote about the 80-year-old justice ruth bader ginsburg writing in part this she vowed to stay on the supreme court as long as her health and intellect remained strong. saying she was fully engaged in her works as the leader of the liberal opposition on what she called one of the most activist courts in history. on friday she said repeatedly that the identity of the president who would appoint her replacement did not figure into her retirement planning. where obama to name justice ginsburg s successor it would presumably be a one for one liberal swap. if a republican president is elected in 2016 and gets to name