some republicans praising his comments. sounds like neil gorsuch might be a good judge. but democrats. it s a step in the right direction. including bloomenthal himself are still skeptical of the nomination. he has to come to the defense of the american judiciary. maybe he is moving in that direction but it has to be much stronger and more direct. this as the president continues to lash out at the judiciary. i don t ever want to call a court biased so i won t call it biased and we haven t had a decision yet but courts seem to be so political. be littling the three judge panel set to rule any day on the immigration court. anybody would understand. any class of aliens as immigrants. mr. trump also claiming he initially wanted to delay
public, condemn president trump s unprecedented outrageous abhorrent attack on judiciary publicly and clearly. and that s what i would suggest my democratic colleagues should ask of judge gorsuch but also to address some of the other issues that i raised with him because the president has said he will apply a litmus test to any nominee appointed, a litmus test that requires his nominee be pro life, professional-second emt amendment, and quote conservative, enquote. and i would urge my democratic colleagues to ask very specific questions and insist on clear answers. the judge clearly is going to be asked those questions at a confirmation hearing. he is unlikely to answer questions we just tried kasie hunt tried to ask him a question in the hallway going from meeting to meeting but he is not going to saying in pub will he but you and senator schumer are saying he should
television and watched their hearings and there was a lot of stuff, and that it was political have you seen this kind of attack on the judiciary before? yes. you know, it sort of reached its credits endoi think several years ago when republicans in congress were especially critical of some federal rulings and said the judges out to be impeached that the judiciary was out of control. there was a time that newt gingrich rich led a group attacking the judiciary questioning whether they should have lifetime appointments and all kinds of thing. it s unusual to have a president criticizing judges while the white house has a case in front of a court. but you know, franklin roosevelt was pretty critical of the supreme court, too much of i think the other thing is there is sort of an instinctive recoil from whenever anybody attacks judges. guess what, judges have pretty thick skin. they can take it. i think what the judiciary is
of course this is a president who does not shy away from conflict. not surprising he would respond in that way to sort of spin this in his own way. as you rightfully point out his advisers confirmed those observations. the only thing to do at this point would be to withdraw the nomination. that won t happen. this is a nominee he want to get confirmed. right now he is going to be moating for lench lunch with four democratic senators from red states who are vulnerable the white house feels to being picked off base on some of the confirmations, specifically on this one. let s talk about jeff sessions now, the new attorney general. there is lot of concern among civil libber tearians and others about the attacks on the judiciary. coming from the president, pete, suggesting that if there is a terror attack, it will be at the judges the judge in seattle, and now the appeals court judges who have not yet ruled. the way he said he watched
most concerned with is consistent attacks that question the judiciary s role in the system. that s what concerns them. i suspect that s what behind the comments that judge gorsuch made. but it s not unusual for a president to be upset about judges. then also the president versus john mccain. a question you were asking sean spicer about the yemen attack the yemen raid and whether it was a success or a failure and the disagreement with john mccain. and there was a series of exchanges. we interviewed john mccain yet on the hill. and he went offer rebutted what sean spicer had said. now overnight you have got the president ginning in and the president tweeting senator mccain should not be talking about the success or failure of a mission to the media. only emboldens the enemy. our hero, ryan died on a winning mission according to general mattis not failure.