judge. and i will tell you what, it is not going to happen like this anymore.e. chris: chief justice roberts responded with this statement. we do not have obama judge his or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. we have the next ordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. your reaction, sir, to this between the president and the chief justice. well, first of all, it is clear that there are a lot of bad opinions that come out of the ninth circuit. that is why the get turned over at a rate higher than any other circuit in the nation. and it is legitimate to talk about that. but the chief justice is right. we do not have obama judges and bush r r judges or trump judges others we have judges that take on a black robe were supposed to shield their partisan
from the moment that george w. bush 43 was elected in 2000. understandably, it was a contested election, a lot of people thought he was in the legitimate president. president trump is to a large extent a private product of to this point. instead of trying to bring those sides together, he s only further dividing. i think if we want to restore civility, we need to start from the top and that needs to come from the president of the united states. chris: matt? i think this is larger than trump. one thing that is worrisome to me is that the polarization, i don t think most americans polarized but in the political class it s taking on a geographical dimension. if you look at those election results, we saw suburbs voting like suburbs whether they were the north or the south. we saw several areas voting like rural areas whether
i think it would be devastating not just for all the reasons you ve described in the human rights abuse, it would be devastating for the u.s. military who i guarantee you as an all volunteer force under enormous stress, we have folks not getting paid and getting evicted from their homes because they can t get paid on the gi bill and we are going to ask them to shoot women and children at the border, i would be shocked if mattis allows this to happen. president trump and chief justice john roberts were locked in a war of words over the u.s. jude shall system. the spat started after president trump complained of bias by a, quote, obama judge who blocked the president s migrant asylum policy. making a rare statement to the associated press just before thanksgiving justice roberts decided to openly rebuke president trump s comments. chief justice roberts said we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges, what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated ju
obama judge who blocked the president s migrant asylum policy. justice roberts decided to openly rebuke trump s comments. he said, we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. the president then tripled down on his assessment of appointed judg judges. we don t have the right laws and we have people interpreting the laws and they always give us a bad interpretation. hopefully we ve shone some light on the ninth circuit. i know chief just sice roberts saying a little bit about that. i like him and i respect him,
underscoring everything that the president was saying, i don t think he would have an issue. his only issue here is that he can t direct the courts to do what he would like them to do. i, for one, am grateful. president obama criticized a supreme court decision. that s different from saying there are obama judges, bush judges, there are mexican judges. that was his attack during the campaign. criticize them if you don t like their decisions but not because of who appointed them. mississippi, a run-off for the remaining open senate seat. the president is traveling down there to campaign for the republican cindy hyde-smith, who is facing maybe a stiffer challenge that n a republican should. she has had some controversy including a picture from 2014. cindy hyde-smith, wearing a confederate hat, carrying a