easily, at least as well qualified as any other federal judges in the country, his up or down vote. they re going to do that for political reasons having to do with the base of the democratic party but he will be on the court i think by easter. you- look, i would is this smart democrats? here- you can t have a conversation about this without saying the democrats remember that for almost an entire year, a highly qualified man, gorsuch, himself, said is highly qualified, didn t get an up or down vote. merrick garland. there was at least as many americans who said he should get an up or down vote as well. so democrats are angry about that, but here s the strategic question. it s more than just an about it. it s legitimate to say you didn t give us a vote, why? but what i think merrick garland is completely was completely qualified and gorsuch is. especially replacing scalia. i d probably vote for him. they re entitled to say, my god, we listened to you saying not g
entire transcript of their private interviews so they can evaluate the context. we have the right to have a vote on this. and they have denied us a vote on it. representative adam schiff, thank you very much. joining me now is gubernatorial candidate wendy davis who today endorsed hillary clinton for president. your response to kevin mccarthy s comments about what he sees as the saltory effects of the impanelling of the longest congressional investigation in history. much like the congressman said, just a moment ago, i don t think any of us are truly surprised that that was the purpose of these hearings, this investigation. what we re surprised about is that they were blatantly admitting that that s what their purpose was. and, of course, the saddest part about it, the most disgusting part about it is that taxpayer
to give you another example, when they subpoenaed a witness and this is a chairman who said he won t leak transcripts, won t leak interviews, after almost all of the interviews there have been profound leaks from the committee, and when democrats said if you re going to leak the statements of the witness, why don t you release the entire transcript. if you re going to leak e-mails from this witness, release the entire transcript of their private interviews so they can evaluate the context. we have the right to have a vote on this. and they have denied us a vote on it. representative adam schiff, thank you very much. joining me now is gubernatorial candidate wendy davis who today endorsed hillary clinton for president. your response to kevin mccarthy s comments about what he sees as the saltory effects of the impanelling of the longest congressional investigation in history. much like the congressman said, just a moment ago, i don t think any of us are truly surprised that that wa
candidates up there saying, i m going to do this. i m going to do that. the only way you re going to be able to really change this country is by putting together a bipartisan consensus in washington. i know that. you know, i was governor of this state for 12 years. i had a state assembly where there were 103 democrats and 47 republicans and yet i was able to get through a sweeping conservative agenda in this state, by putting together that bipartisan consensus. i know if i have the chance to lead this country i can do that in washington. let me push you for a second. wouldn t bipartisanships say now you don t have the votes in the iran agreement. it s going to happen. focus on the policy going forward? wouldn t that be a bipartisan i don t think so at all. congress over 90 members of the senate voted to say that we should have a voice on this. we should be able to vote up our down and that was a bir partisan over 90 members saying, give us a vote. and now they re saying we don t
we re willing to do it. okay. but what we want when we get there, we ll give them the time we ll give them the space, the path. give us a vote for one year of funding for homeland security and this issue goes away. one of the possibilities, congressman, we understand right now is house leadership, the republican leadership is thinking about is putting a plan on the floor in the next hour or so to fund homeland security for a few days up to a week. are you saying to me right now you would support that? if i knew that we were going to in that week get a vote on full funding for the department of homeland security to protect my constituents for a full year, yes, i would support that. all right. well there may be a window there. you re saying one week is different than three weeks. actually explain that to me. why is funding it for five days or one week different than funding it for three weeks? because we get a vote on funding it for a year and that s what the american people