the man arrested outside kavanaugh s home said yesterday he planned to break in and kill him. bill: dhs warned it could happen. the liberal group that leaked the address online held another protest outside his house last night. only hours after the suspect s arrest. it s prompting a wave of outrage from republicans. not just the fringe left but democratic leadership inciting violence. one reason for protestors to show up outside the home of a public fixture to say we know where you live. nancy pelosi said i m perfectly okay to go to justice s home to change the view. when you send this kind of message, it just undermines the legitimacy of the united states supreme court as an institution and this is what it leads to. do you think just to be clear, you think some of the democrats rhetoric is to blame for what happened this morning? of course. bill: just last month the senate passed a bipartisan bill to increase security for the justices and their families. spe
gets to appoint a successor to chesa boudin until next year and voters choosing another one in the november elections. the point is democrats can be for criminal justice reform. the biggest criminal justice reform law in decades was pushed by republicans and former president donald trump when he was in office and so this is movement that has been supported by both parties and democrats i think are making the argument that we can believe in reforming police practices while still being tough on crime and reducing crime rates. maybe those things are incompatible. we ll find out. even republicans. you just had tom cotton on. one of the notable opponents of the criminal justice reform bill that trump signed but even republicans believe you can be tough on crime while reforming sentencing and police practices and things of that nature. i think we ll have to see how it plays out. bill: nice to have you back. let s see what happens in san
they had this arrest, last night they were back outside of the same home at kavanaugh s house. it addresses intimidation in the law. this from 2020, the now majority leader in the senate on the steps of the supreme court chuck schumer said this. i want to tell you, gorsuch. i want to tell you, kavanaugh, you have released a whirl wind and you will pay the price. [cheering and applause] you won t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions. bill: how do you receive that message? what i say is i think rhetoric has been really both sides have done a lot of rhetoric over the years but i think the american people are wanting our government to work. i think they want all the blame game to stop. i think what they want to do is
of congress talking about passing one bill and not the other. the other one that has been ready to go for months. this country is in trouble. democracy is in trouble. we need to have our leaders stand up and say we re going to lead because the rule of law isn t the rule of law for just republicans or democrats. it isn t just the law for independents. the rule of law is the rule of law for all of us. our justice system is in trouble and judges stand on the front lines protecting democracy. if i sound, you know, upset or motivated or flabbergasted probably, it is because i am. daniel has been dead for 21 months and 21 days. my only child. i just don t know why members of congress aren t working together and trying to pass
both these bills together. it blows my mind. dana: we hear your strength and confidence and incredible courage for all that you have gone through, you and your husband in the 20 months and 21 days and we appreciate you being here to talk to us about this. i had another question. in addition to these bills that are being passed, as i understand it, it is against the law to protest at a federal judge s home. so why instead of just having security, not arrest people who are protesting outside of a federal judge s home? why won t the justice department do that? i will tell you that i am not ready to i haven t read the laws. i don t know that. what i m ready to do and trying to do this whole time is focus, focus on members of congress on what can be done. focus everyone, focus the