she has a tremendous reputation. i spoke to the federal judges who think the world of her and she brings a couple of things that are refreshing. she was a trial court judge. that s a perspective missing often on the court. she was a federal public defender and most of the justices don t have that type of litigation experience. those are all pluses for her. and i think she will do quite well in responding to these questions. harris: just in case somebody happened to tip in murder boards are those phony mock question periods, non-literal in the meeting just want the say that. i know people tuning in wait a minute. i want to get to this. according to msnbc the fact that hawley asked about her sentencing record she was accused of trying to have her killed which i wrote about on my blog today is that it s bizarre. she can easily answer these
across town to get her here today and she has been very busy since being announced. meeting with various senators who will eventually vote on her and murder boards where they try to prep her for what she will face this week. republicans are raising questions, josh hawley one of them, who said he wants to probe her on whether she is soft on crime and sentencing decisions she made as a judge for child porn convicted offenders. his take on that. to the extent we can find her cases she has had 10 we believe with child porn offenders. in every one where she had discretion she sentenced below what the federal recommendation was and what the government recommended. the white house pushing back on that. andrew baits saying it is toxics and weakly presented misinformation that is cherry picked elements of her record out of context and buckles
sentencing questions. i think she will have a nimble response and substantive response to senator hawley s concerns but this commentator thought this was a literal threat on her life to raise these questions. harris: we ll move on. andy mccarthy, former assistance u.s. attorney said this about what we might hear from republicans. let s watch. change the trajectory of the court, number one. number two there isn t a lot of drama to this. it appears she has the votes to get confirmed. so i think if the republicans are smart, i think the way they should play this is for purposes of the upcoming mid-term elections and to set up the presidential election, the kind of nominees that president biden wants to put on the court. harris: that is plain speaking from andy mccarthy. what is your take? well, from the very