says the people that want to become justices don't answer questions. i think this gives republicans in particular an opportunity to hold her to what they are going to call the kagan standard, which is that they want to get some direct answers to questions from her. that should provide for very interesting and hopefully illuminating hearing. >> we hope. when we heard her crack the jokes. we have heard her direct talks. it should be interesting. bigger picture, what do americans want in a nominee? can we even narrow it down to specifics at this point? >> it is interesting. i think you have heard the president talk a lot about empathy. somebody who has real world experience. he will say that elena kagan has that kind of empathy because she has not spent a lifetime on the bench. her opponents will argue that while she hasn't been on the bench, she hasn't been on the real world because she spent a lot of her time in academia, the

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