Theyve already helped him make this pick and go through this process, but they are now going to get out there and work the roots for the votes, especially for the democratic votes he needs and the more conservative states out there. This is how you do a rollout. Whether you agree or disagree with something, and after the last few days, how can Something Like the travel ban be so rocky and so confusing where Government Agencies are not talking to each other, and they do this again. Whether you like the judge or not or a president from a marketing and branding standpoint. Thats perfect. This is the Dividing Line in the white house. The travel ban was ushered into being by Steven Miller and steve bannon who are disrupters by nature. They create this sort of environment of chaos as part of their governing philosophy, but the Supreme Court pick is a very conventional washington thing. This is a Reince Priebus operation. It was done by the book. It was contrary to what everybody thought it w
they were still on tender hooks up to the last second. they thought maybe he is going to surprise us or disappoint us, even though we knew who the finalists were, even though in the end they ended up being extremely pleased and republicans and especially conservatives are ecstatic about this pick. they couldn t be sure that he was going to follow through on it until he actually did. and a republican rallying moment after days of even republicans mostly being polite in public, but some of them not only disagreeing with the travel ban, but how it happened. the heavy use of executive actions in the early days also alienating the congress. a rallying point there. if you missed it, let s go back into the east room. the president of the united states and his new choice to fill a seat on the supreme court. the qualifications of judge gorsuch are beyond dispute. he is the man of our country and a man who our country really needs and needs badly to insure the rule of law and the rule of jus
republican administration. he might serve as a check on, you know, a strong executive power, which could be very important for democrats. and conservatives are hoping. it s the opposite that he is a former clerk to anthony kennedy, who is the swing vote on the court, and you have the more conservative guy, who is very close to justice kennedy. maybe he pulls him the other way in the decisions. let s unpack what we heard from the president at the top of the show. he talked about he wanted a dignified process. again, the senate will decide whether judge gorsuch gets confirmed. i want to give him some props here. for ten months judge merrick garland was waiting for a confirmation hearing. the republicans refused to get him. the first call judge gorsuch made was to call judge garland. clearly trying to say, look, i m sorry. that not my doing. it s a club. the judges are a club just like the congress and the senate. the last part, let mitch go nuclear if he wants. that s the president d
the hearings. we know who that person is. and you bring in the groups. president obama had the same kind of thing, the same players when he had his nominees. this is something that is not hard to figure out. when you are doing something that has not been done before, at least in modern times, like a partial travel ban, travel restrictions, whatever you call it, and you want to do it fast, and you want to do it by executive order and you want to disrupt, as you say, that s a completely different thing, and we saw that there were big problems with that. i think what was most noticeable last night was how normal the roll-out was. the president introduced mr mr. gorsuch. didn t talk about himself at all. he just mentioned that the voters had a choice in november and they chose to go this route, but he didn t talk about his victory. he didn t talk about himself. he talked all about the nominee. that to me was fascinating. he also even though democrats didn t attend, he invited democratic
this debate will end in 70 days brsh that s the average run time for a nominee. sometimes they look very different at the end than they do at the beginning. go back in your history books. how you frame the beginning matters. listen to the senate, the majority leader mitch mcconnell trying to set the standard here. judge gorsuch received a unanimously well qualified rating by the american bar association when he was nominated to his current position on the court of appeals. he was confirmed without any votes in opposition. that s right. madam president, not a single democrat opposed judge gorsuch s confirmation. not senator barack obama, not senator hillary clinton, not senators joe biden or ted kennedy. i don t know if that history will matter, but that s well played, including senator obama then senator obama, now former president obama, was a classmate at harvard with judge gorsuch. it also underscores the