well, look. different people up for judgeships and to become justices bring different judicial philosophies to the table, and it s no surprise that those who come under democrats take ruth bader ginsburg. she s rewritten laws without wrefrns to the law itself, and the constitution. and that s common often the left much. do you agree with that? i don t. ruth bader ginsberg is one of the best justices on the court. you try to make sense of what congress intended. i do agree we don t decide the constitution by popularity polls. i think the most respected supreme court justices are the ones who try to get to the heart of the matter. you have someone like justice suitor, who would have been a
is the country better served to have a justice before the mid-terms. there will be a new justice before the mid-terms. they should not be governed by popularity polls which can change over time on any issue, abortion included. arthel: one woke from tomorrow, as you well know, president trump wants to select a candidate, understanding that the president has had time to sit with his list of candidate provided by the federalist society. would this give the senate ample time to vet, review past recordings and ruling, hold hearings, then confirm the president s pick before november 6. sure. i want to push back on one thing
toiling and trump is banging him publicly. it is having a huge impact among some americans. smerconish, poll on mueller is meaningless. judges, firefighters do jobs by popularity polls. this is where you are wrong. to the extent remember what will happen. mueller will hand rosenstein a report. the numbers are indicative of the public s willingness to be fair when they judge the report. if the cake is baked and people don t want to the hear it because they think it is fruit of a poisonous tree it is all very relevant to where he ends up. still to come, when i left the republican party in 2010 i was ahead of the curve. this week the gop operative who
25 seats, ten in deep red states that went for a trump. but the house ain t bad. jon: lisa, typically an off year elections, the party that controls the white house does lose a bunch of seats. it tends to go in line with the president s popularity polls. this president s popularity polls at this moment are not all that great. what do you think the chances are? i agree with a lot of what jessica said. a surprisingly. of course, republicans have the house and the senate and the white house. republicans could face some losses heading into the 2018 midterm election. i m a little more worried about the house then i am the senate for the reasons that jessica laid out. look at the senate map for republicans. democrats are defending 25 seats, i think republicans are defending eight. if you are republicans you are
that s not entirely true but i think it s largely true. then of course there s fox in this separate category all together of being just sort of an arch propaganda network. there was a long period of time to take the watergate analogy. ultimately it persuaded the country. nixon was at 22 or 23% by the time he left. do you think those same conditions hold now? i think it s happening. if you look at the popularity polls of the president and his policies, the tax bill for example, we re seeing a gradual erosion in the support for him and the level of trust, but i pay much more attention to the base, the approximately one-third of the electoral that seems to be for him no matter what he does.