i think that s a message that clearly democrats would love to have collins vote for this nominee and/or murkowski, but i m just not sure it s there. i do think that this is not going to change the arc of the elections, as historic as this is. it s not. it s a big deal, but i don t think in november this is going to be determinative. if there s another seat that composite open, that s a different case, but i think in this case the impact will be limited, but democrats talking about anything but their failures is good for them. right. it buys time. the real supreme court news that could change this election is a ruling in june on roe. pete williams, in your cursory review of the short list here, do you see any potential yellow flags? there s clearly no red flags here for anybody as far as do you see any yellow flags? no, i don t. i mean, ketanji brown jackson will certainly be asked about
persuasive case on virtually any topic, encyclopedic in his learning. and the court will miss him. but mooib has a superb opportunity to put his own stamp on the court and i m excited about that. a great description of breyer as learned. i feel the same way, like, my god, he s just one of these interesting people. he is the perfect dinner party person, and i say this not as anything other than you just can t believe the level of knowledge that he has. let s move to what president biden wants to do. look, we re going to have an african american nominee. he s promised that. what is the importance of identity to you and the court, number one? and then what s the next criteria you re looking for? the reason the identity issues are important is the court for so long only pulled from a very tiny part of the american talent pool.
and what president biden has done already in his appointments to the lower courts is he sort of broadened the professional background, federal public defenders are getting on the bench. that wasn t the case. private practitioners who did civil rights work are on the bench. that wasn t so often the case. so before we even get to issues, i think looking at people s diversity, not just as demographic diversity but diversity in life experience and their professional careers are really important. let me ask you about the state of the democratic party, the state of the democratic senate and how s everybody getting along. is this an opportunity to sort of calm the waters? do you view this as an opportunity to sort of lower the temperature, maybe build back better can get negotiated without everybody watching, while everybody s attention is on this? is this a useful interruption, if you will? you said it better than i would have. really, i was really
where he oversaw the operations but did not engage directly in, say, interrogating witnesses or actually writing the report. i think the notion of having an encyclopedic, photographic memory level of fluency in terms of the detail, the 448 pages, was a bit much anyway. so i think he he did pretty well. he made some points that i think needed to be made. i think he brought life to the report by virtue of the fact that he was appearing live on television and people could watch that. i do think he made some points. it might have been better had the house intelligence committee session gone first, which dealt with russian interference, which i think is something he is both passionate about and knows about more. it did seem as though he warmed up as the day wore on. but as i say, i m sympathetic.
exotic animals unknown to most of his viewers. despite a grad of ill will the people didn t have the opportunity to see wild animals in captivity for the foreseeable nothing like hippopotamus i or an elephant the salesman it s mean can says he if you look at his painting of the hippopotamus hunt he will think what had a dreadful beast what a monster the bones to be of more as it happens rubens modeled his portrayal on an exhibit of a baby hippopotamus displayed in florence s museum of natural history the opposite of us the no there. there was nothing rubens wasn t interested in and his knowledge was encyclopedic. but evidently the taxidermist in florence had never seen a live hippo and rubens can t be blamed for the imaginative portrayal.