>> it wasn't that many years ago that he was the vice president of the united states. he has a good understanding of the senate and that's some of the things on his mind and for me to speak the state of his mind, i will tell you what i have seen. that's an erosion of the institution. majoritarian culture where the tribalism we see in the politics, zero sum gain politics is beginning to infiltrate a body that used to have more comity and sense of consensus. we are seeing the judiciary branch which used to be a place where you saw a moderation. now you are seeing a branch lurching to the extremes and people trying out for the judiciary, waving extremism and writings and speeches that they give trying to show how extreme they are. the trump judges that don't need