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Wants me to come out declare for her, yes or no. well, i don t make snap judgments before hearing the evidence, before hearing the testimony. let s think about an average democrat in pennsylvania who knows you voted for thomas, voted for alito, voted for roberts, voted for scalia, but you re still up in the air on whether to vote for kagan. what did those four gentlemen have that you re wondering what kagan has? in each of those cases i attended the confirmation hearings. i asked a lot of probing questions. i talked to my colleagues and i came to a considered judgment. and that s the way i operate on an independent basis and i ll continue to do that. and i m not going to make a knee-jerk reaction and respond to my political opponent in the senate campaign because he wants to make political capital. i m not going to do that. so you re not going to make any confirmation, prediction on your vote even through next tuesday? right through tuesday you re not ....
Wants me to come out declare for her, yes or no. well, i don t make snap judgments before hearing the evidence, before hearing the testimony. but think about an average democrat in pennsylvania who knows you voted for thomas, voted for olito, voted for roberts, voted for scalia you re still up in the air on whether to vote for kagan. what did those four gentlemen have that you re wondering what kagan has. in each of those cases i attended the confirmation hearings. i asked a lot of probing questions. i talked to my colleagues and i came to a a considered judgment. and that s the way i operate on an independent basis and i ll continue to do that. and i m not going to make a knee-jerk reaction and respond to my political opponent in the senate campaign because he wants to make political capital. i m not going to do that. so you re not going to make any confirmation, prediction on your vote even through next tuesday? right through tuesday you re not going to endorse elena kagan? ....
Vernlings is in the over a year now, this long standing battle in congress over something called the employee s free choice act which would essentially make it easier for unions to organize in nonunion industries. mr. becker believes the national labor relations board, which again he could be one of the next members appointed to, if confirmed, can unilaterally make changes to that legislation, conservatives and republicans oppose his nomination, saying he is a union labor radical, if you will. we should see a vote on his nomination, a procedural one, later today, that will decide whether his nomination can go forward. jon: and then scott brown went to washington. how does the arrival of the new junior senator from massachusetts, how does that affect mr. becker s prospects? well, when senator brown arrived here on capitol hill at the end of last week, he was asked specifically about the becker nomination, senator brown said he would have to review the quall physicians of the nomine ....
Why they had to write it down. why couldn t it have been part of a verbal briefing to say we are aware of this, this is in the public domain and you should know about this and think about how you want to deal with it. why make it part of the appendix when it could be leaked i think is something that makes him angry and i think that s legitimate. i think when he has his own people in there he will have a different tune but it s not going to change this dynamic of people being offended within the community and secondly he s still going to have real tension with congressional republicans who agree with the intelligence community about the nature of the thereat from russia and the fact that trump isn t taking it seriously enough. he wants to come in and try to reset this. it could be a month, two months and interest could be a very different tune from trump about russia but his snap judgments in all of these cases i think should also be worrisome in terms of what he puts in the public doma ....
okay. how about elena kagan for solicitor, you voted against her. have you decided, i mean, you re very discerning in these things. you ve made some mistakes. is that a mistake? no. she would not answer important questions. the nomination for supreme court is very different. you can t ask a supreme court nominee how they re going to vote because of judicial independence. i asked her when she if she was solicitor general, what would she do with the case where the holocaust victims were suing insurance companies? she wouldn t answer. i asked her, what would she do in a case where survivors of victims of 9/11 were suing high-ranking saudi officials and sovereign immunity did not apply? okay. and she wouldn t answer. and that was the different situation. listen, my political opponent wants me to come out declare for her, yes or no. well, i don t make snap judgments before hearing the evidence, before hearing the ....