the wto. it would have to be a bill and there was a draft piece of legislation which is making the rounds now but nobody on capitol hill is saying they would sponsor this legislation which would give the president the kind of authority over trade which he does not have right now. there is no rush on capitol hill to give it to him. eric: does he have a point with his complaint or are the actions detrimental? with the wto when the president says they ve been unfair to us his own administration and the united states trade representative in the 2018 economic report said that 85.7% of cases brought to the wto by the united states have ruled in favor of the united states. and that beats the average which is 84% for other countries and 66.7% for china. bottom line with the wto. i used to live in cleveland, ohio, there was a wto case regarding steel. sometimes you might win the case but you have already lost the industry. i watched lots of my friends
are people who are committed to that. eric: who jumps out at you? amy coney barrett, lot said about her and he is interviewing here today. all the people on the list have great potential. i like amy coney barrett as a potential nominee. i think she would be terrific. any one of these people. they ve already been vetted and looked at by their experience on the bench and their writings. i think any of them could stand up to pretty much anything except the fact we have to accept that the democrats will oppose any person that the president puts forward and whoever puts forward i do not envy them going into that lion s den. they need to go into the hearing room with a pistol, chair and whip. they ll need it when they are facing those democrats on the judiciary committee. sandra: the press secretary confirmed big news that mike
temperament. those are the big things the president is looking for in a candidate. sandra: he has a big job to do. governor, he is currently conducting those interviews at the white house. it s a very smart young lady you just had on. i think she is spot on when it comes to determining what the president should do. i tell people all the time i m not interested in the appointing a conservative justice because i don t want the person to be ideological. i want him to be somebody who is pure to the original words and text of the constitution. if a person comes with an ideological bent liberal or conservative they will be looking at things as if to legislate from the courts. we have a legislative body called congress. the judicial branch has no right whatsoever under the constitution to legislate anything to originate a law and we need somebody who will be a purist when it comes to the constitution. i hope the president sticks to that. i think he will. i think the names on his list
eric: lawmakers are gearing up in washington for a battle on capitol hill over president trump s nominee for the supreme court. this of course comes amid mounting pressure on democrats to oppose whoever the president picks to replace retiring justice anthony kennedy. the main sticking point is abortion rights. bill mcgurn has written about that today. here is part of what he wrote in the journal saying the obvious reality is that roe remains one of the most unsettled decisions in the history of the high court. after all, if one seat change will really mean the death of a nearly 50-year-old precedent, the ruling can t be as settled as claimed. bill joins us now and also a fox news contributor. as you point out in your analysis constantly settled law and a firm precedent. you take issue with that. i take an issue it s settled. one of the arguments for settle is society was reached a consensus even if it was badly decided in the beginning.
his pick monday and interviewed people and will interview more. the comments that susan collins made they doesn t want an activist judge. she is one of the people democrats are looking to pick off and vote against someone who would be an activist justice. so i think that was sort of foreshadowing a battle and signal to president trump if you pick someone who is extremely right, extremely right wing she may not vote and he needs her vote. i think that in the end based on how the last supreme court pick went president trump will get his way. i just don t know how smart it is of democrats to make it a huge issue and spend all this money. if it is a done deal by the mid-terms it may not be a factor. eric: how does the president thread the needle on this with the candidates that we ve heard about? i think bottom line it s a political winner for president trump. even some of his most harsh critics are thrilled that we have a republican president who has a second supreme court justice tha