priebus was talking about? respectfully, mr. priebus doesn t speak for me and i don t speak for him. i am a judge, i am my own man. reporter: gorsuch was also asked to comment on president trump s criticism of federal judges. he said he finds it disheartening and demoralizing when anyone attacks the honesty and integrity of judges. including the president, he said, and anyone is anyone. thank you so much for that. president trump spoke at a washington fund-raiser for the republican congressional committee raising a $30 million for the gop s efforts in 2018, that s more than $20 million the same dinner raised last year. in his remarks, president trump invoked the legacies of abraham lincoln and dwight eisenhower for launch cross-country infrastructure projects. our first republican president, abraham lincoln, ran his first campaign for public office in 1832. when he was only 23 years old.