and that is she s made it very clear over and over again. sean, your answer about the context doesn t make sense when you think about what senator ben sasse said today and this morning on tv. he said that he asked judge gorsuch specifically about the president s so-called judge tweet and in response this is the fourth time i asked and answered. this is a different context. i understand that. this is directly about i have said what senator ayotte said about it. i understand. thank you. sean, i m going to continue on this line despite what is happening there. why isn t the white house why isn t the president concerned about the influence or the appearance of the influence on the independent judiciary? why isn t he he is free to speak his mind. where has this outrage been for the last 100 years? i m talking about this president. part of the reason the
now. i also want to mention to our viewers and i hope you re still there that we just saw neil gorsuch walking the halls of the capitol today. he s meeting with senators. if you are still there, i want to get your reporting on one other topic because you also were able to ask sean spicer about this ivanka tweet. donald trump yesterday going after nordstrom saying how dare they drop my daughter s line. this is political. kellyanne conway this morning going on fox news and then saying i m going to give a free commercial. go out and buy ivanka s clothing. it s great. it s online. jason chaffetz saying that s clearly over the line. you were able to ask sean spicer about that. i want to play your exchange right now. questions have been raised after kellyanne conway did an interview, i believe, with fox news this morning where she appeared to from the confines of the brady briefing room promote the products of ivanka trump. do you believe that she crossed
the president will continue to speak like this? of course he will. the president will speak his mind. the idea of one branch commenting on another branch is as old as our republic. sean spicer talking about the tweet that called the seattle judge a so-called judge. we ll go to john hoeven now who joins us now from capitol hill. senator, thank you for being here. let s get right into it. i know this is not what is traditionally done. neil gorsuch or supreme court nominees don t get in front of the public and speak their mind. eseil gorsuch have an obliti in this circumstance? this extraordinary circumstance to not just speak to senators behind closed doors and ask them
earlier this week is that the president doesn t comment on everything. so i want to contrast the president s repeated statements about nordstrom with the lack of comments about some other things including, for example, the attack on quebec mosque and other similar environments. why is the president when he chooses to you just brought that up. i stood at this podium and opened a briefing a couple days ago about the president expressing his condolences. i opened the briefing about it. so for you to sit there and say why are you asking why he didn t do it when i stood here and did it? the president s statement i don t understand what you re asking. the president doesn t have time to tweet about everything. he s tweeting about this. he s not tweeting about something else. i came out here and actually spoke about it and said the president the president s time. what are you you re equating me addressing the nation here in a tweet? that s the silliest thing i ever hear
to help shepherd judge gorsuch through the hill released a statement confirming those same remarks disheartening and demoralizing. this is what senator ayotte said. judge gorsuch made it clear in discussions with senators including senator blumenthal that he could not comment on specific cases and that judicial ethics prevented him from commenting on political matters. he emphasized the importance of an independent judiciary and while he made clear he was not referencing any specific case, he said that he finds any criticism of a judge s integrity and independence disheartening and demoralizing. there s a difference between commenting on comments made in the tweet and his general philosophy about the judiciary and respect for fellow judges. i think the senator s comments were very clear about how those are two distinct issues. the judges comments relayed throughe erer erers others w