senator schumer vowing to vote in record speed, the high court took under a month for the trump nomination to go to confirmation. now as for the court s direction going from a clinton appointee to back in the day to biden appointee would not be an automatic swing in the competition of the court. that s a contrast to what we know about that can happen with replacements. take, for example, when trump replaced the pick justice ginsburg which moved the court immediately to the right. here s the other thing, biden 2022 could still be a long ways from clinton 1994. biden has a liberal democratic party coalition that is really a long way from what clinton was doing with a centrist party in the 90s. then you have recent history, republicans used raw power to shape the high court with donald
you could make that argument. i m a little wary about calling anything a success at this point. what has been a success is if you look where we are today versus a month ago, the situation has definitely had some of the air taken out of it. we were almost at a crisis point if you look at the rhetoric a month ago. that has certainly de-escalated. from that perspective yes, i think the administration is handling in a way that s good today. eric: what can they do? president clinton 1994 had the oil and food negotiations and look, north korea completely lied. president george w. bush removed north korea from the terrorism list as a carrot and they give us the stick. what do you see the trump administration doing that could get them to the negotiating table? the thing they re trying is not just maintaining a credible threat of military force but actually putting that sort of forward in a way previous