Addon advantage. Discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip. Only when you book with expedia. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live every sunday from washington from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Tonight, critical mass. Thought our politics were explosive before . Try replacing the swing vote on the Supreme Court. Well talk about the wild conjecture and whats actually about to happen. At the same time, democrats take stock after a top member of leadership is upset in new york. Rising stars ben jealous and jason candor join me live to talk about what their party should do next. And later i travel to utah
to talk with mitt romney on the campaign trail. Hes set to become the republican senator in the age of trump. Plus, do not congratulate. Russia stuns spain at the world cup. But first the interviews, the Lobbying Effort and even the ads are underway to replace Justice Anthony kennedy on the Supreme Court. The president is back home after spending the weekend at Bedmin
and justice kennedy got the nod and he was a pretty conservative guy. and they looked at all of his writings and they were concerned about his some footnote that he wrote about respect for privacy, but they decided to overlook it and there were people in the administration later who didn t like the fact that they had overlooked it. i mean, they thought that was a bad thing. and just i would add two things to that. number one, remember that justice kennedy we talk about today is not the one that came onto the court back in 1988. secondly, you had this sort of more moderate push. once bork got shot down, the next nominee was conservative. the democrats controlled the senate. it s not like you go from conservative to more moderate. they re all pretty mainstream conservative.
was, you know, it was time. and justice kennedy got the nod and he was a pretty conservative guy. and they looked at all of his writings and they were concerned about his some footnote that he wrote about respect for privacy, but they decided to overlook it and there were people in the administration later who didn t like the fact that they had overlooked it. i mean, they thought that was a bad thing. and just i would add two things to that. number one, remember that justice kennedy we talk about today is not the one that came onto the court back in 1988. secondly, you had this sort of more moderate push. once bank of new york gork got next nominee was conservative. the democrats controlled the senate. it s not like you go from
this. heidi heidkamp is taking a lot of heat. you re virginal politically. just get in office. democrat winning in a red state. don t make your first big vote against what seems to be the local attitude. i can understand i understand. i think, you know, politicians act like politicians. then we re shocked about that. they re politicians. they want to win they re also supposed to represent their states. they are supposed to represent their states. as you can see from that kentucky poll on background checks, there s a you know, there s just abject fear of the nra. so people have to begin to feel for heidi heidkamp it s going to be awfully hard to beat her. she s with the nra. you think it was a smart vote. very smart vote. on immigration, this is tricky for all kinds of reasons. this ad by americans for conservative it s not what it sounds like. a moderate push.