but, yeah. this is like the american top 40 here. amy klobuchar, i believe this is her first week in the top five. yeah. why has she risen so much in your eyes? if we can back, she was at six, she is now at four. i think there are a few things about amy klobuchar that i like. look at her reelection margin in minnesota. she ran for senate this past time around, she won by a larger margin percentage point eyes than liz warren won in massachusetts. minnesota is more towards the center of the electorate than massachusetts is. clearly amy klobuchar is doing something very right in the eyes of the midwest voters. she did a very good job during the last supreme court nomination hearings with brett kavanaugh, so that was very key, and i think she plays in some way. if you talk to some people in washington they are skeptical of this. i was talking to one of our colleagues he said she should be all the way down at ten.
impeachment should follow if the president fires the special counsel given he was nominated by trump? no. i don t think he does. here s the thing. i think people, when they re not in their nomination hearings, say what they think, not in the hearings. what he said in successive law review articles was he rethought his views about the special counsel and the power of the executive and that he thinks now, after going through the process with clinton, that the executive should have more leeway and generally the process should wait until you couldn t indict a sitting president and it should all wait until after the presidency is over, unless, of course, impeachment comes up. he had a very different view when he was with the star people and upon reflection. that s going to be his view. here s the thing, people say things when they re not in the nomination, when they re not trying desperately to be president, and we should listen to them. for example, the republican
clarence thomas before he had all the information about clarence thomas, before the thomas confirmation process got upended and the nomination hearings had to get reopened, all because of serious sexual harassment allegations against thomas, allegations that had been known internally at the judiciary committee and kept quiet and confidential there, but then the allegations leaked to the press and npr s nina totenberg obtained the affidavit from anita hill in which hill laid out her allegations against thomas. that became public via nina totenberg s reporting. a big firestorm ensued. and those hear wrgs reopened and the confirmation of thomas was delayed and the country honestly went nuts with the drama of all of it. here is a brief news clip from the time, from right when the thomas nomination was being stopped and reopened to consider these new allegations. just listen to the howl of anguish here from senator alan dixon, from al the pal, this
problem is that al dixon had made that promise to president bush for how he would vote on clarence thomas before he had all the information about clarence thomas, before the thomas confirmation process got upended and the nomination hearings had to get reopened, all because of serious sexual harassment allegations against thomas, allegations that had been known internally at the judiciary committee and kept quiet and confidential there, but then the allegations leaked to the press and npr s nina totenberg obtained the affidavit from anita hill in which hill laid out her allegations against thomas. that became public via nina totenberg s reporting. a big firestorm ensued. and those hearings were reopened and the consideration of thomas was delayed and the country honestly went nuts with the drama of all of it. here is a brief news clip from the time, from right when the thomas nomination was being stopped and reopened to consider these new allegations.
in 1991, when president george bush nominated clarence thomas to the supreme court, this democratic senator from illinois, alan dixon, he made a personal promise to president bush that he would vote yes. that he would vote for that supreme court nominee. it s interesting. senator dixon didn t make that promise public at the time. years later he would explain that when the nomination was initially made, he had made that promise to the president, but his constituents didn t know that at the time. and it probably wouldn t have been an issue. what ultimately made it a problem is that al dixon had made that promise to president bush for how he would vote on clarence thomas before he had all the information about clarence thomas, before the thomas confirmation process got upended and the nomination hearings had to get reopened, all because of serious sexual harassment allegations against thomas, allegations that had been known internally at the judiciary committee and kept quiet and confiden