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To believe those reports, and i hope they re not getting their hopes up by hinting that they re going in that direction. because clearly it doesn t matter who he puts up, republicans are going to make a big stink about t so he might as well do something to solidify his legacy, play kate the base, make us happy into this upcoming election, and putt a injujurist the court that will be progressive for this country. do you think there s a chance that today s move by republicans on financial reform might tellment ttell tellment tempt the president to lean more in their direction on the supreme court nominee? i hope not. i don t think you can argue that republicans are coming aboard on the financial reform stuff because obama s reaching out and watering down the legislation. i think as you and chris were talking earlier, democrats came out with fairly strong legislation, not perfect, but stronger than i think i would have expected. ....
Gotten in return is a lot more conciliatory behavior. i think there s a lesson there about how you kind of forge compromise or consill yation from the other side. it s not sort of reach out a hand, it s to actually imperil them politically. what might it mean for the democrats legislative agenda going forward after financial reform? well, that s a really interesting question. in some senses financial reform is generous because the banks blowing up the financial crisis, it is so much kind of its own thing. and the banks are such villains in the public imagination, that it has a special kind of political resonance that maybe other issues such as clean energy don t. i do wonder if this is going to muddy the waters a little bit for the message the republicans are going to try to run on the midterms, which is that the president everything the president touches is horrible and he s a foreign socialist who s going to take away your guns. if they re voting with him on ....
Actually fairly low cost politically way to do it. because, you know, by in large the american people in general don t really pay attention to these sort of nomination battles the way they might to health care reform or financial reform. there s a new poll that says a majority of americans trust the president to make this kind of choice. when republicans look at a poll like that, does that give them second thoughts about some of the filibuster threats that have been leaking out of the senate? no, i don t think they care about things like that. you know what the republicans are good at, they re good at changing the reality of a situation. it didn t matter that polls showed that the public option was popular during the health care debate, they were able to convince a large enough segment of the population that obama wanted to kill their grandmother. in this case, like i said, it doesn t matter who they put out. it could be zombie ronald reagan and republicans will make it sound like ....
And dared the republicans to oppose it. suddenly they re not so confident anymore and they re sort of falling in line. so i think in this case, supreme court justice battles are fairly contentious events and i don t think we can expect the same kind of falling in line we re seeing from republicans on financial reform. and in an election year with the conservative group judicial watch now coming out and saying that all of the names on the president s short list are unacceptable, isn t that as clear a signal as the white house could ask for, that republican senators are not going to be allowed, especially republican senators running for election, they re not going to be allowed to get on board an obama nominee for supreme court? i think obama could nominate zombie ronald reagan and these guys would still oppose that kind of nomination. the fact is they make a lot of money, they do a lot of fundraising and make money off these supreme court battles. it s a way to motivate the base, ra ....
go [ bleep ] yourselves countdown is out of time. the rachel maddow show show is next. good evening, rachel. good evening, lawrence. i could listen to the chorus all night. i don t feel we need to be in any rush. i don t feel i have a right to be in the same tv box as jon stewart. that is genius. at some point you and i will do a dance number that involves a bleeped gospel choir. it will happen, lawrence. i m ready. all right, thanks, lawrence. appreciate it. thanks to you for staying with us for the next hour. do you remember how in the health reform fight we covered a bunch of groups that tried to look like citizen power, grassroots organic outrage but they were secretly funded and organized by corporations who didn t want health reform? looks like that same thing is going on now with wall street reform. meet the old fake boss, same as the new fake boss. that story is ahead. the interview tonight is richard clark. the man who s right in his warnings about al qaeda ....