meals in the community through his church. so you re not a fan, just kidding? so justin, what were your impressions working for him? well, you know, to everything that jennifer just said. you know, getting to work for judge kavanaugh was an amazing honor and it was exciting to be in his chambers. it was exciting to be around someone who has that kind of reverence for the constitution. someone who takes mentoring and family as seriously as he does. and someone who was always an independent thinker. every case they came to is whether the litigants were right, left or center, regardless of whether the government was involved, criminal defendants, corporations, plaintiffs, he just wanted to know, okay, what does the law say? what s the text? what is the structure? and so it was just a great learning experience. and like jen, i think the world of him. so, jen, having been around him so much, do you have a sense of how he will vote if a
he ll approach it in that kind of in the way he s been approaching issues on the second most important court in the country for the past 12 years. yeah, sure. i m not really asking for your predictions. i m asking for you guys to share your experience with him. and jennifer, how can you help us understand why he seems to have had an about face in terms of that particular issue? well, as you re asking on this particular issue, justin and i both had the opportunity to clerk for various justices on the supreme court. after clerking for judge kavanaugh. lay people would be surprised about with the supreme court is there are many issues actually that don t end up reaching the supreme court. many issues that do are issues that have broad base agreement along the spectrum of all the justices. they more frequently reach unanimity on issues. i think some of these questions about how judge kavanaugh would rule on this or that issue, some of those issues are not necessarily going to come be
right now from atlanta. johnny, good morning to you. good morning, steve. steve: so you know justin. how was he injured? so justin was a marine infantryman. he was stationed in afghanistan around the same time i was, 2010-11. steve: okay. injured by ied, a roadside bomb. took both of his legs above the knee. quite honestly his injuries were bad or worse than mine. a young man who served his country every day of his adult life to join the marine corps. he got injured during his recovery, became aught path the paraolympics and warrior games and recruited by ice and works every single day a full time job he doesn t have to and really shouldn t have. to say for them to come after him is disgusting. steve: today he works for ice. today we saw that image is it extraordinary that the fact checker for the new yorker had put that out that it looked like that particular inappropriate symbol but the new yorker did apologize. and apparently the fact
gop-backed jobs bills that have already cleared the house. do you agree with that? yes. i do agree with that and at the same time, i think that he should encourage senate democrats to take up some of those bills that have been sent over by the republican-controlled house and i also think that again, he should be very careful about how he uses executive power. one of the biggest detriments to job creation is the heavy hand of washington, d.c. on americans and the job creators across the country. so i think he needs to be very careful in terms of what he does because the answers aren t in washington, d.c the answers are outside washington and this economy was doing a lot better if there weren t so many regulations, laws, executive orders and things like that coming out of washington. justin, let s talk about that. let s break that down. let s break it down. good bills come out of washington, we create jobs. transportation bill, the last highway bill that passed, for every billion
board. exactly. congress needs to get on board. at the end of the day, this is what it boils down to, when you look at it, the president won this election. i just don t understand why republicans can t get it through their heads that the president won this election and he wants to govern and unfortunately, the house republicans refuse to allow him to govern. they will shut down the government for 17 days, forcing him not to be able to govern. they ll do everything in their power to make sure he doesn t govern, even though usually five years ago, ten years ago, the bills that we re talk being are bipartisan ideas. a transportation bill used to be an easy pass in this city. not anymore. okay. so justin, representative marlin, indiana republican, he said that the democrats in congress are focused on bigger government and less opportunity and if the president truly wants to make this year a year of action, that he should encourage senate democrats to vote on