system. and what should democrats do about it? david leonhart at the new york times is not prone to this type of argument but he s makin it now. he says democts should not weigh this nomination the same way they ve weighed previous ones. this one is different. the presumption should be that neil gorsuch does not deserve confirmation because the process that led to his nomination was illegitimate. i realize this sounds aggressive and partisan and it makes me uncomfortable to make such an argument but democrats can not play by the old set of rules now that republicans are playing by a new one. the only thing worse than the system the republicans have created is a system in which one political party volunteers to be bullied. joining us now is david le leonhart. thank you very much for being here. a pleasure to have you on the show. thank you for having me. it ee s a pleasure to be here. you stated explicitly and it s palpable you aren t comfortable making this argument, that this
what you think and what is true are not necessarily the same thing. i m trying to figure out what you can say is true and not. you cannot take issue with any specific that we have reported. i ve yet to hear you say specifically that is not true. it s not true. not true those were in the briefing documents? categorically? it s true you have no evidence other than unnamed sources you don t have the briefing documents. they would not have access to the briefing documents. you don t know who the sources are but there are multiple. tell them to come forward. they can have this chair anytime. this is a red herring. you re trying to distract from my question which is you do not have information whether it s true or not. you can use pivot, distract, red herring all you want. the media have a 16% approval rating for a reason. it s been earned. it ee s crap like this that is
it ee emotional as well as strategical. i was going to say. it s personal, the animosity on display and what they were saying like, all right, if the israeli prime minister is going to be out there claiming that they had evidence they did something and share it with the next guy who s not even in office yet, they can t find any proof, fierngs we re going to take our gloves off and tell use how we ve been feeling all this time. you really sense how obama is frustrated and how trump and his people, steve bannon, jared kushner, they re upset with the white house. the president did call trump in the last few days and trying to
don t forget romney was the one who said that russia was the number one foreign policy problem facing the united states and if you look at what donald trump has said about vladimir putin i think he s kind of at the other end of the spectrum. so there would be issues upon which they might have very, very difficult time dealing with each other. well, let s also throw under the republican establishment columns south carolina governor nikki haley. not only that, ryan lizza, she was the first indian american woman to become governor of south carolina. she endorsed several other candidate, cruz, rubio until ultimately she said okay to trump. do you think they are giving her a good look? it s one thing to be governor, it s another to be secretary of state or this a pump fake? i don t know on haley. it ee s puzzling she would be a candidate for secretary of state given she doesn t have any background in that world?
it s not a large group. tsarnaev brothers our case in point. they came in. that s a good point. muslim country. i wouldn t take young single men but you tell all the worlds. think about that to a religious test, some are saying, like trump, we ll just take the chris kwoons. it s a better idea to just not take them. when we have a record number of americans looking for work, when we have sank chew ware cities run amuck, bill, i live in paris. i speak the language fluently. let that be a lesson. these communities, i m telling you, they don t assimilate. and now they cannot remember, 10,000 is nothing. bill, if you actually agree that the democrats are going to take 10,000, hillary wants 65,00. it ee s not what i believe. it s just a case-by-case basis.