judge antonin scalia. i plan to fulfill my responsibilities to nominate a successor in due time. this nomination will be filled by the next president elected in november. you might wonder when exactly scotus nominations grew so politicized. it is a it wasn t for clarence thomas, the disputed allegations of sexual harassment, you have to go all the way back to a friend and nominee of lyndon johnson who was forced to resign after the nixon white house leaked details of financial misconduct. they rejected president nixon s nominate to fill the opening. haynesworth was qualified but they were furious about the fortas debacle. i thought he was a big manedn the supreme court. the senate quickly rejected his second choice who had a history of racist remarks.
yes, that s true. but that s the possibility. ted cruz is not in charge of the senate, he s not the only person there, and we have had mitch mcconnell and every other republican basically saying we will give the next nominee, the next president a chance to fill this seat. so i think politically, they are more or less obliged to hold hearings but they are not obliged to vote for him and look, supreme court nominees have lost before. there have been two in a row defeated. nixon lost with haynesworth and carswell. reagan lost with bourke and ginsburg. there is the possibility of multiple rejections. what s not possible i mean, there s no precedent for just leaving a seat open indefinitely. one thing cruz, when he was talking to reporters about this, he said, he pointed to breyer s comments that the court has continued to operate in the absence of nine justices on the bench.
reporter: i think it s a step in the right direction in terms of reaching a compromise. the big question remains while we have heard that harry reid signed off on the deal, where do republicans the key republican negotiators in this whole deal, where do they stand on the issue? in the house as well as in the senate. well, we re still obviously looking to get guidance on that. we have heard from one top senate republican leadership aide who said at least at least right now they re not there yet saying the agreement is not done and that they re still working on it. so it seems that while harry reid, he s onboard. seems at least for the part of senate republicans, seems there needs to be a little more work to be done before to get them onboard as well. okay. a little more work. do you have any idea about the timing? or we just don t know? it happens when it happens? to be honest, i don t think anyone really knows about the timing. this story has changed from moment t
does it put more pressure on you? i just kind of laugh and understand it goes with the joev chris: what makes the job even tougher, the redskins weren t very good last yea winning four games and losing 12. hut! chris: how do you change the culture of a team and an organization? when i first camedi in, i looked at the weight r tm. didn t like the weight room. didn t like the training room. ithchris: what was wrong w it? it just wasn t clean. not something i look forward to come here every day. y jou literally said let s clean up and get the junk out of the hallway? if you want people to come in, you don t want to lo like a 4-12 building. you want to look at 12-4 building. y. chris: it t transition hasn t been that easy. it s a battle between mike shanahan and haynesworth who showed up out of shape. how do you impose discipline? you want people otime and want people with the same goals and ambition and work ethic. chris: shanahan had haynesworth take a fitness test o
go to the nixon nominee haynesworth and cartswell and reagan nominee of judge doug ginsberg who is on the local appeals court here in washington. bill clinton s nomination or choice of two attorney general nominees that were knocked off. these things happen. we know so little about her that a great deal more information will pop up. we know that she is fairly inexperienced. in recent years almost all the nominees has had judicial experience, which seems to help. if some republican president nominated somebody with no judicial experience and somebody who had lived in the rarefied air at the top of the legal establishment in america, which is where she has been, all the democrats would be, they would be on a rampage against the nominee. the republicans are going to