promise. yes. i am not sure i would credit the president with having a elaborate compass auto view of the constitution. he once talked about a judge signing a bill when he meant opinion but he s been counseled by people who do have a doctrin doctrine. he is going to produce somebody from a list of people who are thoroughly vetted by the conservative movement. for many, many years, conservatives have been stewing over the appointment of david souter by president george president george w. bush who turned out to be pretty much of a liberal on the cards. bound and determined that no such thing whatever happen again. there s very little danger of another david souter being produced from this list but what s fascinating is the way in which there s a conflict developing over whether it would be safe enough to go with someone like brett kavanaugh who is a dyed in the wool conservative on the d.c. circuit
say that she s kind of a scalia model, very conservative, or more in that, you know, kennedy was often a swing vote on many of these key decisions? who would you say she s closer to in her judicial style? i would say that judge barrett is her own person. she s just a really remarkable talent in every way. she s consistently excellent. she s an outstanding scholar and judge. she s a great colleague. she s a wonderful mother and wife. she s a great friend. and so i would just put her in her own category of just a really extraordinary person. i believe that, and i know you know her well personally and have worked with her. on the key issue, which is really going to be the key issue here, is what are her judicial beliefs? where does she stand on the spectrum? can you give us insight into that? is she a true guard in the wool conservative, or is there more wiggle room there? is she less easy to define?
that is definitely true. i think that in some ways you get a situation here where there s political hay to be made. what s interesting to me is there s a fairness argument being made by trump and it s the kind of argument that is pretty anathema to republicans. right? so the actual amount of money we re talking about, talking about the carried interest loophole, it s pretty small. it s not going to plug any huge deficits. it s not going to pay for a new social program on the grand scheme of things on the government balance sheet, it s pretty small. what it is, it s a fundamental populist argument about fairness. and i do wonder whether from your perspective as a dyed in the wool conservative, someone who spends his time around conservatives, whether there s any traction there in the base or not. well, i ll answer the broader question which you were referring to earlier about sort of wall street. do they get special benefits that upsets conservatives? and the answer is yes. i don t
lower rates. that is definitely true. i think that in some ways you get a situation here where there s political hay to be made. there s a fairness argument being made by trump and it s the kind of argument that is pretty anathema. the money we re talking about is pretty small. it s not going to plug any huge deficits. it s not going to pay for a new social program on the government balance sheet it s pretty small. it s fundamental argument about fairness. and i do wonder whether from your perspective as a dyed in the wool conservative, someone who spends his time around conservatives, whether there s any traction there in the base or not. well, i ll answer the broader question which you were referring to earlier about sort of wall street. do they get special benefits that upsets conservatives? and the answer is yes. i don t know if the answer was yes before september or october of 2008 when you had george bush with the help of barack obama
the face. i don t recall saying any of that. isn t that the preface in the green room you were saying. don t really care about guns. don t really care about kids. arkansas, on the fence. in the wake of sandy, nra s argument is this is rare. this never happens. if they do happen, they re going down. the one thing that is going up is unintentional shootings. from 2005 to 2010, 6,000 people were died and injured. were died. were died in the wool conservative. if you let me finish my sentence. by my mind, that would mean in every classroom you ve got a gun. i would assume there would be more instances of people getting shot if every teacher was armed. 6,000 people out of 300 million people. it s still a lot more school