Larry, just kind of disappears into the night. Welcome to the nightly show. Im larry wilmore. Cosmo c. E. O. Joanna coles joins us tonight. cheers and applause very excited about that. Well, the latest news in the circus that is the republican nomination for president is that there may not be a clear winner, and this fight might go all the way to the convention. Trump has not yet sealed the republican nomination, raising the spector of a brokered convention. Brokered convention. , yes. Larry not to be confused with a broker convention, when a bunch of Real Estate Agents go buck wild at a duluth doubletree. Do not get that confused, you guys. But what is a brokered convention . Heres rapper 2 chainz to help us understand in another installment of 2 chainz explainz. hiphop sting and singing 2 chainz explainz. Hi, im 2 chainz. A brokered Convention Goes down when no single candidate has the 1237 delegates needed to win the republican nomination. Now, if this happens, the Convention Goes h
Wouldnt pick him because hes too moderate, and back in 2010, hatch called garland a consensus nominee. Well, g. O. P. , obama picked the moderate, so does that mean Senate Majority leader and oldage mutant ninja turtle Mitch Mcconnell will relent in his blockade against an obama nominee . No, it does not. According to his spokesperson, mcconnell called garland today to let him know, since the senate will not be acting on this nomination, he would not be holding a perfunctory meeting, but me but he wished judge garland well. Larry called him . Mcconnell broke up with him over the phone . as mcconnell hi, ms. Garland. Uh, is merrick home . Hey, merrick. This is mitch. Hows it going . Yeah, me, too. Look, i dont think ill be able to see ya. Well, i just got out of a long relationship with another justice. Yeah, i do think it was murder. No, they never found the pillow. Look, merrick, its not you. Its me. Im just kind of a petty asshole. Gotta go cheers and applause okay, congress, can i t
Please. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I like each time they say, larry, just kind of disappears into the night. Welcome to the nightly show. Im larry wilmore. Cosmo c. E. O. Joanna coles joins us tonight. cheers and applause very excited about that. Well, the latest news in the circus that is the republican nomination for president is that there may not be a clear winner, and this fight might go all the way to the convention. Trump has not yet sealed the republican nomination, raising the spector of a brokered convention. Brokered convention. , yes. Larry not to be confused with a broker convention, when a bunch of Real Estate Agents go buck wild at a duluth doubletree. Do not get that confused, you guys. But what is a brokered convention . Heres rapper 2 chainz to help us understand in another installment of 2 chainz explainz. hiphop sting and singing 2 chainz explainz. Hi, im 2 chainz. A brokered Convention Goes down when no single candidate has the 1237 delega
President. ni well talk about the pick in a moment. First lets bring in nbc justice correspondent pete williams. Pete, what do we know about hima what message the president sending with this copick . The message is hes trying to make it harder for senatew3 republicans to oppose someone well liked and has a goodr expect, matt and savannah, to hear from judge garland when the ceremony beg but the white house is already saying he has more federal judicial experience than any other Supreme Court nominee in history. Pete, that brings me to chuck. Fa certainly, the white house is tryingni to put Senate Republics who vowed nojd to bring any nominee up for acoxdn vote in a tighter spot saying this is known as a noni] ideological judge, a centrist. xlr t hahp this is the best youre going to Supreme Courtdjn appointee. We were told sixwmzvqp s ago, h is the perfect pick if they have 4a lo and niae old, ac republi senate. Anthony kennedy. Right . More center left andq we were discussing before
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