Transcripts for MSNBC Weekends With Alex Witt 20200919 16:44:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
attack liberals harris: i want to piggyback off what you re saying, lisa. when ginsberg said that about president trump, she apologized and said she shouldn t say. what is one apology okay, but another is not a question mark she s got an op-ed. a jake: that s not why. harris: it s an expedition of who he is going to be and who he was last week under extreme circumstances. we didn t even get that from ginsburg. what made her circumstances so extreme to get political against the sitting president? jake: when justin ginsburg makes a compliment and appalls apologizes for it, that s different from hers and he wrote his 40 minute statement and wrote it out including saying that this was a left-wing plot. harris: wait, wait, wait. why does she get a pass for owning her own words? jake: she did, she apologized and did right
but we maybe know how this is going to go, right? i wish i knew. i read with a lot of interest his concurring opinion in the travel ban case just a couple days ago where he seemed to be expressing some hand wringing saying the world has to know that we care about the constitution. but then feeling like there is nothing that he can do about it. and maybe he feels like he is tired. he moved up his law clerk reunion last year. a lot of us thought that was a signal that he was retiring last year. that doesn t happen. but i think a lot in his network started getting the impression that he was tired and didn t want to keep doing it. i don t know how much he is thinking about the election. justices tend to not do that as much as maybe they should. justin ginsburg didn t do that when obama was president because she wanted to keep doing the job. and so it is very hard job to give up.
we get our talent from you universities. if you stop the universities from actually producing diverse candidates, then we re going to be set back in our quest for both diversity and remediation. i don t think that the two ideals can be seen at loggerheads with each other. we re not put to the choice. o connor is part of the difficulty. she said i think in 25 years, we won t theed this anymore. i want to go directly towards o connor on this. in part, she says we expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interests approved today. this number drives me crazy. where does this 25-year number come from? it comes that she s deciding this case in 2003 and that was 1978. that was 25 years. i kid you not, that s how she gets the 25 years. justin ginsburg says we re really talking about 50 years or
to see what happens thursday night when vice president joe biden goes head to head with congressman paul ryan in the vice presidential debate. of course, our anticipation is heightened by the loss that the champ took in round one on wednesday night. president obama pulled a lot of his punches in his debate with governor romney, so if the original strategy was for biden to go in with a soft touch against paul ryan, we can be sure that that is going out the window. he is coming out swinging. gloves off. now, romney was able to dodge blows against his economic plan because actually there s not much of a plan there to jab at. take his strategy for economic recovery, to fill the revenue gap for a result from tax cuts is an exercise in shadow boxing futility. he hasn t yet told us what it is he s planning to do. but by hitching his wagon to paul ryan and endorsing ryan s budget plan, he attached himself to clearly articulated policy and a record that leaves the whole ticket exposed