interesting. clearly, ariane, put a lot of time and thought in interviews with you and others, frustrated when asked that question but here he gives a lot of time for the president to make that choice, if the president chooses to take that time. it appears they re not, on the senate judiciary committee, to have a meeting on the books to come up with a confirmation strategy. what more can you tell us about that strategy? reporter: dick durbin is meeting 11 members including him on this committee some time today. they ll meet virtually for the process. a questionnaire that goes to the nominee after the president picks his nominee and then there will be an opportunity for the committee members to meet with that nominee. there will also be, of course, the hearing, which will potentially happen quickly. that s what chuck schumer wants to do and following that amy coney barrett timeline which took a month between the time the nomination was made until
new day. a new opportunity to overturn existing precedent that i find offensive. and not aligned with the constitution. hardiman who there are suing begs he may be more like john roberts who balances precedent a bit more. kavanaugh has a record of threading the needle as it were. that can frustrate conservatives. can make conservatives happy at times. but that would actually make him harder to confirm because he has such a paper trail which leads me to my question for you, jeffrey, what s the president s best confirmation strategy here? is it to pick somebody who is unoffensive and sail through the senate and get this out of the way or is it better for the republican position to pick somebody who engages conservatives who enlivens the base ahead of a probably a difficult election year even though this will be out of the way by september or october. a great question.
and the willingness to have these comments published. congressman, these are democrats coming out saying this. are you saying that democrats chuck schumer, democrat senator blumenthal are in coordination with the white house? no, i m saying it might have been quite calculated in terms of what judge gorsuch said. it may have been very well choreographed. he may have had very specific intention to use those terms knowing that essentially they would be leaked to the press. that might have been part of the confirmation strategy. i don t know. but i can say this, on the merits of whether he ought to be confirmed, that my own view is that given the tactic that was used by mitch mcconnell, given the fact that they did this deplorable thing to a co-equal branch of government by leaving it open for a year because they wanted to deprive president obama of the ability to appoint a justice, that tactic cannot be
interviews prior to the election. more than 200 people since the election have sat down with what we call our tiger teams for full vetting and full review. i m happy to say the american interest in this administration has been overwhelming. over 4,000 candidate referrals. on the eve of the inauguration, our beach head teams are ready to land and go to work in these various agencies of the incoming administration. on legislative affairs, we organize more than 90 volunteers to create and execute a confirmation strategy to support the 27 publicly-announced senate-confirmed nominees and designees. so far, we ll continue to work very closely to support their efforts as they move toward confirmation. there s been work on agency
election have sat down with the tiger teams for full vetting and full review. i m happy to say the interests of the american people in this administration has been overwhelming. more than 86,000 resumes have been submitted to the transition and over 4,000 candidate referrals. on the eve of the inauguration our beachhead teams are ready to land and go to work in these various agencies of the incoming administration. on legislative affairs we organized more than 90 volunteers to create and execute a confirmation strategy to support the 27 publicly announced senate confirmed nominees disig niece attended so far more than 370 visits with senators and we ll continue to work very, very closely to support their efforts as they move toward confirmation. there has been work on agency action as i mentioned. policy implementation has always been very brisk in the