were disqualifying answers that went all the way back, that this was a process like none other. not like, you know, the ordinary job interview, not like a criminal case, not like all the other analogies that people are drawing. there s just another thing here which is the notion of timing. we re under a constraint of time, the fbi is, the senate is, that was manufactured by senator mcconnell. when you think about the year in which merit garland s nomination didn t even get a hearing, this is an artificial i mean, this is really an artificial timing, that i ve never seen before. i mean, i was my nomination took ten months. that s about normal. ten months? ten months, that s right, a supreme court nomination here that is essentially proposed in august, and now they re voting on it, you know, after two months. this is extraordinary. and suggests that it s really a hollow exercise. yeah, do you feel that way about the timing as well, joyce?
we re under a constraint of time, the fbi is, the senate is, that was manufactured by senator mcconnell. when you think about the year in which merit garland s nomination didn t even get a hearing, this is an artificial i mean, this is really an artificial timing, that i ve never seen before. i mean, i was my nomination took ten months. that s about normal. ten months? ten months, that s right, a supreme court nomination here that is essentially proposed in august, and now they re voting on it, you know, after two months. this is extraordinary. and suggests that it s really a hollow exercise. yeah, do you feel that way about the timing as well, joyce? i do. i think it s just, you know, completely artificial and manufactured. i have wondered this afternoon whether the fbi is sending either deliberately or perhaps just because of how little the white house has permitted them to do a message of their own with these stories that we re hearing that they may complete their invest
they pretended the nomination didn t even exist. it s an unprecedented thing on the republicans part what they did to merrick garland. and further they started arguing if hillary clinton ended up winning the presidency, they would never fill that seat. they would hold it open for the entire time she was president. judge garland waited for 293 days for a senate hearing. the longest any supreme court nominee has ever had to wait. until his nomination ended without him ever getting a hearing. it stayed open for 14 months so republicans could wait until a republican was in place and they could get a republican candidate in that seat. we ve never ever gone through a process like that before in this country. we ve never filled a supreme court seat like this in this way. ever since justice scalia died, since the day he passed away, the process of filling this seat has never been normal. today we found out who will fill that seat. republicans got rid of senate
defense secretary, cruz expressed alarm for hagel s support for the nomination and wondered if he had be paid by foreign governments including north korea. i don t know if mr. hagel received funds directly or indire sources, extreme sources. but his refusal to provide disclosure. senator cruz has gone over the line. he has impugned the patriotism of the nominee. cruz denied that insisting he was asking questions. even john mccain who opposing hagel s nomination didn t buy it. senator hagel is an honorable man. he has served his country, and no up with on this committee at any time should impugn his character or integrity. that only had another liberal piling on cruz. this guilt by association reminds us of senator joe