would that be possibly something that should be a consensus pick, suggested by both parties in the judiciary committee. lawrence, i think if there was ever a time for a consensus pick to get somebody who was a career prosecutor, to get somebody that was, in effect, above pressure, but that was suppose to be the deputy attorney general who now we ve seen written frankly laughable letter explaining the firing for comey was because he didn t treat then secretary clinton nice enough, whoever believes that, maybe there is a piece of real estate i can sell you in russia or in south florida. but, you know, i think more than ever now we need that kind of consensus pick, but what we ve not seen from this administration at any turn is this move to the center, or this move to rising above the story of the day. you know, there s a whole lot of dots, lawrence, that we ve got to connect. boy oh boy if you look at the
judiciary committee. lawrence, i think if there was ever a time for a consensus pick to get somebody who was a career prosecutor, to get somebody that was, in effect, above pressure, but that was suppose to be the deputy attorney general who now we ve seen written frankly laughable letter explaining the firing for comey was because he didn t treat then secretary clinton nice enough, whoever believes that, maybe there is a piece of real estate i can sell you in russia or in south florida. but, you know, i think more than ever now we need that kind of consensus pick, but what we ve not seen from this administration at any turn is this move to the center, or this move to rising above the story of the day. you know, there s a whole lot of dots, lawrence, that we ve got to connect. boy oh boy if you look at the timeline of people being fired. if you look at the timeline of ms. yates testimony yesterday, you look at the actions today, you look at the fact that we were moving forward with
make this stuff up. i think it s i have concerns about the fbi sh so that s why i believe we need a special prosecutor. but boy oh, boy, lawrence, more than ever, this senate investigation, which i ve been frustrated sometimes at our pace. but it becomes more absolutely essential than ever. and we ve got to keep it as much as possible bipartisan and we ve got to follow the facts because this is now been elevated to a you picked the defcon level than it was. earlier in the day, as we heard, an update on this investigation and we had not actually director comey appearing before our committee on thursday. the questions and the tension level just builds. senator, do you have any suggestions to the white house about how to choose the next fbi director. would that be possibly something that should be a consensus pick, suggested by both parties in the
from a democrats point of view, they had a nominee, merrick garland, s not only highly qualified, he was a consensus pick and confirmed and so many offices by republicans that he was denied the opportunity. martha: gorsuch has the same description. i don t doubt that you could argue that bashar gorsuch was d but garland was distinguishing his position. i wanted to pick on something dash go martha: that is why they didn t vote for him? the point was that they denied. this is the power the point i wanted to pick up. this is the power of obstruction. the republicans obstructed president obama s nominee, i think jeff merkley of oregon called at the theft of the century. you have a situation where david is saying, going forward, you can have a 7-2 conservative republican majority. what that says to you, martha,
who is not making the decision. there are democrats in line who voted for trump. it is clearly a personal choice for a lot of these people. we have been talking about the politics a lot, but there s substantive reasons why donald trump s supreme court nominee needs bipartisan buy-in. and that you need a consensus nominee. his campaign was under fbi investigation. he s day after day declared policy that is unconstitutional like the muslim ban. and he suggested to change liable laws, which could be an unconstitutional amendment of the first amendment. this is the time when we need the strong judiciary with a consensus pick. last word to you. that s exactly what neil gorsuch is, a strong cone census pick. he s proven in case after case that he presents a fair hand of the law. and you want a fair nominee? that s neil gorsuch.