remarks, he mentioned neil gorsuch. ence: by nominating judge neil gorsuch, president trump has kept his word to nominate a justice to the spring court who will keep faith to the constitution and who will and hold -- uphold the god-given liberties that are enshrined there. [applause] week.ce: you saw it this my daughter was off work. she got to watch a lot of judge gorsuch's testimony before the senate. three days of powerful testimony before the senate. judge gorsuch made it clear why donald trump nominated him to the highest court in the land, then it he -- didn't he? is, america's all this week what president trump saw when he made that decision. judge neil gorsuch is one of the most respected, qualified, and mainstream nominees to the supreme court in american history. [applause] it is true. it is true. but remarkable, this week, senator chuck schumer and the in his party in the senate actually announced that the democrats plan to filibuster george gorsuch's -- a judge gorsuch's nomination to be an associate justice

here this money to support neil gorsuch and his nomination. mole cell what to say it and see what the committee has to say, what questions they're going to ask him. quite frankly i don't see how we doesn't get, not nominate but confirmed by the senate. >> who are you with? >> i'm sorry? >> are you with a group? what do you do for a living? >> i'm sorry, i'm an internet just asked for the morning off to come over here. >> where do you entered? >> i'm interning with the young leaders program at the heritage foundation. >> and tell us what you like about judge neil gorsuch. what if you learned about him that you think you should be confirmed? >> i really like that judge neil gorsuch is a constitutional conservative. one of my favorite quotes find that came up recently asked a judge if the like all your decisions are almost certainly a bad judge. basically just speaking to the fact that you can have the law your weight and you can't just put your own feelings, your own emotions and what you think is the correct interpretation of the law. the corre

one, neil gorsuch is donald trump's judge. and in that respect his record reflects those of many of his cabinet officials. if you look at his views on corporate rights, hobby lobby his views on allowing right to choose access to reproductive health services, his views on corporate rights, consumers environmentalists, he's very much in line with many if not most of trump's cabinet initials, number one. number two, we always expect at the beginning, when a candidate is going around and meeting senators that that candidate will be most polite, that the press will focus on those interviews, not so much the subs of the inter-- substance of the interviews but the presentation, how it looks, how he presents so i think we aren't yet at the point, and we will be approaching it next week, where we begin to focus on his record. and i think that once the democrats, once the public has an opportunity to learn about judge gorsuch's record, they will come to the conclusion that he is not fit to serve on the supreme court. that he will, if co

that's how careful neil gorsuch is. obviously, the best clues from one kind of justice neil gorsuch will be are in the 800 published opinions he's issued as a judge of the united states court of appeals to the 10th circuit and with us today are three distinguished former law clerks to judge, soon to be justice gorsuch, who are going to describe for you what those opinions tell us about his way of being a judge. i will tell you we've been fortunate enough, our little firm, to work with two of those three. sorry we missed out on the third, and neil has done a fabulous job early on in his tenure as a judge of really taking care to find the very best law clerks. they sent a lot off to the u.s. supreme court. he gets great people, helps him do a great job, and that's something you should take note of. on the supreme court, he's likely to do the same thing. think of it, neil has written 800 majority opinions. that's about 80 a year. the u.s. supreme court takes up roughly merits cases a year. so, you learn a lot from the opin

neil gorsuch talking about bringing people together. >> judge neil gorsuch whose hearing is underway in the senate, i urge members of both parties to swiftly approve his nomination. he is an outstanding man. >> i have participated in 2700 appeals. my law clerks tell me 97% of those 2700 cases i have decided were decided unanimously. i have been the majority 99% of the time. >> democrats get their first crack at questioning neil gorsuch today, across examination during day 2 of these hearings, they will try to paint him as a tool of corporations was he will push back by saying cases he stood up for disabled students which he will make the case he is not just a consensus builder but all about applicability. abby: watching the first hundred days, martha commented that he is a fisherman so he has that. >> a humble guy in washington, you don't hear that very often. talking this morning, slamming democrats for putting politics over their own voter base as a reason to vote against neil gorsuch. >> reality is there is a guy in front of us who knows what a judge's job is that he should be con

neil gorsuch. i know his name and i worked with him for a decade. we practiced civil trial law together. across the united states. a variety of cases. and i'm happy to be here today to tell you what that experience might suggest to you and to the public about the kind of supreme court justice neil gorsuch is likely to be. unlike our president, who is going to be turned out either four years from now or eight years from now, he can't serve longer than eight years, neil gorsuch, who is being appointed, nominated and is confirmed to the supreme court, could be there for 40 years, 50 years. think about it. neil is only 49 years old. he's in great physical condition. do not let that gray hair dye fool you. he's been applying that since georgetown prep, just so he could be considered for a supreme court nomination. that's how he is. [laughter] obviously the best clue for what kind of justice neil gorsuch will be are in the 800 published opinions he's issueds a judge es cou united statrt o appeals to the

all eyes were on neil gorsuch yesterday. senator cruz's expression, some describing it as respect, and kyle griffin on twitter saying, ted cruz looks at neil gorsuch and falling, you could replace neil gorsuch with anything, holding a stack of hamburgers with this photo of paul ryan working out so it looks like ted cruz -- it appears congresswoman maxine waters president trump's time in office will be short-lived and california democrat sending this week, get ready for impeachment. waters didn't provide any context or confirm she was referring to president of specifically each and comments was osmosis joe asked did you gather the evidence? until james comey comes back with definitive charges against donald trump, impeachment is a damn pipe dream. eric says this lady is bonkers if she thinks trump will be impeached, he committed no crimes. rof l which means roman on the floor laughing. learn something new every day. this has me questioning a lot of things, new pink kitchen products, you can't do that, no pink it's products. k

neil gorsuch is anything but an ideologue. he's as fine a judge as we have in this country, albeit conservative in nature. he has as fine an academic background as anybody on the court ever. and he's a terrific human being on top of all that, a good husband, father, a terrific judge on the tenth circuit court of appeals. to be honest with you, i thought it was really nice to have somebody picked from the west. it might bring a western perspective of freedom into the judicial system. and i have no doubt that neil gorsuch will do that. now, to make this a big political issue it seems to me is beyond you00 -- 100%. mr. president, as we all know now, this chamber will consider the nomination of neil gorsuch to serve as the next justice on the united states supreme court. yesterday i talked a little bit about his qualifications, his background and his temperament. and as the nation saw back during the 20 hours of hearings that we had before the judiciary committee, i think people saw the real neil gorsuch, somebody who, again, by v

that's how careful neil gorsuch is. obviously, the best clue is what kind of justice neil gorsuch will be are in the 800 published opinions issued as a judge and court of appeals to the tenth circuit and with us today, three distinguished former law clerks and judges, soon to be justices to describe what those opinions tell us about his way of being a judge. i'll tell you we've been fortunate enough, in our firm, to work with two of the three. sorry we didn't his omiss odut think third. we sent them off to the supreme court and a virtuous cycle. he gets great people and help them do a great job an on the supreme court, he's likely to do the same thing. think of it. written 800 majority opinions. that's like 80 a year. the supreme court takes up roughly 80 merit cases a year. so we learn a lot from the opinions and neil writes well. there's a lot of commentary. he is a good, careful writer and tells us what he thinks, why he thinks it. you could pull down those opinions and many scholars have done or will do. i want to t

confirmation hearings get underway for judge neil gorsuch they really had a clear path to the bench. we will take a look. lauren: 19 points on friday after slightly on the week. u.s. stock market futures at the moment starting a new week with down aerospace seen slight weakness at the last check in the futures market. nicole: japanese markets closed for holiday and will give you those numbers as well. lauren: volatile oil prices and a half a percent less we continue to be vital. nicole: over loses jeff jones after just six months on the job. lauren: march madness after usc fails to mount a comeback against baylor which is headed to the sweet 16. we will have the highlights for you. nicole: 5:01 a.m. in new york. we welcome you to "fbn:am" on this first day of spring. your first look at what's living in today's markets in the latest breaking news. lauren: i sure hope it feels that way today. a major congressional hearings set to begin today into russia's hacking attack on the democratic national committee. fbi director james comey to testify before the committee. the chair of that com

supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. garrett tenney is live for us at the white house, how much resistance do we expect to see from democrats? >> not as much as you typically expect, democrats had been so busy keeping up with the other political battles over the past few months, everything from the confirmation hearings to the health care bill as well as the president's travel ban. but there has been a bit of renewed saber-rattling over the last few days by senate democrats, many of whom are still upset with republicans over president obama's supreme court nominee merrick garland who never got a hearing. they are threatening to return the favor so to speak, by filibustering, threatening to filibuster any vote to confirm judge neil gorsuch. republican leadership plan to get him confirmed by any means necessary, though, which is a not so subtle reference to willingness to use the so-called nuclear option. that would change senate rules so judge gorsuch could be confirmed with 51 vote instead of 60. that's why this morning

[ laughter ] i know neil gorsuch, and i worked with him for a decade. we practiced civil trial law together, across the united states, in a variety of cases, and i'm happy to be able to tell you what that experience may suggest to you and to the public about what kind of supreme court justice he will be likely to be. unlike our president, who can't serve longer than eight years, neil gorsuch could be there for 40, 50 years. he's only 49 years old, and he's in great physical condition. do not let that gray hair dye fool you. obviously, the best clues for what kind of justice neil gorsuch will be are in the 800 opinions he's published as a judge for the tenth circuit. and we us, are distinguished clerks who will tell us about his way of being a judge. we've been fortunate enough to work with two of the three. i'm sorry we missed out on the third. and neil has done a fabulous job of taking care to find the very best law clerks. they send a lot of them off to the u.s. supreme court. and think of it, neil has written 800 majority opinions. that's about 80 a

amy: supreme court confirmation hearings again today for neil gorsuch. we will look at his record, what it means for workers, women, and voting rights. plus, we look back at his time as the student activist when he criticized anti-apartheid protesters at columbia university. then we go to vermont where the immigrant community has been shaken after ice detained three prominent immigrant rights activists, including a member of the state attorney general's immigration task force. >> when i was detained, they stood up for me in the mobilized the community to fight for my freedom. and i was freed. so now i am here to fight for of these men because they deserve their freedom, too. amy: and recent spike in casualties in u.s. airstrikes abroad and nearly 49. in syria with the u.s. struck a mosque and iraq u.s. air sex continue in mosul. often coast of yemen, saudi arabia is accused of using a u.s. apache helicopter to kill refugees on a boat. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. con

judge neil gorsuch. on the first telephone call judge gorsuch received about his nomination was not from the white house.se it was from the federalist society. one of those republican advocacy groups. eventually judge gorsuch it to the interview stage with president trump's inner circle meeting with steve bannon, reince priebus and president trump himself. those men each took the measure of judge gorsuch gave him theire approval to study for a lifetime appointment on the highest couro in the land to president trump who had announced numerous litmus test for judicialap nominations appeared area satisfied with neil gorsuch as his nominee. i the present chief of staff reince priebus said and i quote neil gorsuch represents the type of judge that has the vision of donald trump closed quote. there is certainly no political certainty and that the dilation but after judge gorsuch's phoneician with amounts dark money shifted. national campaign costing at least $10 billion was launched to support the gorsuch thee

neil gorsuch begins monday 11:00 a.m. eastern. you can see it live on c-span2. we look back to the opening statements of all 8 current supreme court justices at their confirmation hearings. the program includes remarks from senators introduced the nominees. this is under two hours. >>

neil gorsuch was one of those names. donald trump promised he would nominate a judge in the mold of justice scalia. hillary clinton, on the other hand, promised a very different kind of justice. she promised a liberal judicial activist who would vote to undermine free speech, to undermine religious liberty and to undermine the second amendment, the right to keep and bear arms. this election was, a referendum on the supreme court. that has no precedent. the degree to which the voters knew precisely what they were getting, and what i would suggest to you as the overwhelming election results in november as the american people chose the direction, it gives this nomination a super legitimacy. it's not simply the president's choice but it is the president's choice that has been ratified by the american people voting in a national election where they were choosing, do they want a liberal judicial activists or do they want a principled, originalist on the court who will protect free speech, protect religious liberty and protect

neil gorsuch, i agree with you, the pet goat is so, so difficult! i hear you, neil gorsuch! i hear you completely, neil gorsuch! ( applause ) now, the whole neil gorsuch nomination is a fascinating story because you have a judge who, on the surface, is more than qualified but, because of trump's taint -- can i say that by the way? the democrats want to block him, but they also want to kind of make out with him because good lord that guy is handsome. look at that face. i could spend all night looking at his face. but there is no time to look at his face because of this earthquake in the media business! >> conservative talk show host tommy lahren has been search rarely suspended from glen beck's the blaze network after airing pro-choice views last week. >> i am pro-choice. i i am someone who loves the constitution and for limited government. so i can't be a hypocrite and say i'm for limited government but i can't decide what women do with their bodies. >> trevor: she's talking so fast, how do you hear what she's saying? but jokes assayed, honestly, this is not cool. if you're

we want to have our say about neil gorsuch. so even if he is on his way to confirmation, they want to make sure that they leave their mark. that there's no democratic base that says, you guys, you democrats in the senate, you are such wimps. you just let yourself get run over. >> dana: chris, what about the politics of it from the left? in some ways the left has to figure out, how do we want to lose? okay? quickly or do we want to drag it out. >> well, i think juan is quite right, that a lot of this is rookie theater, designed to placate democratic base. right? so you got to make noise. you got to be upset. look very concerned so that in the end, when gorsuch becomes the next justice of the supreme court, which he is quite likely to be so that you can say, we fought the good fight. they have a tactical question they have to make for themselves which is, if they decide to filibuster gorsuch. if they decide to set that 60 vote threshold, in that case they are going to lose that filibuster on the supreme court nominee. there is no

gorsuch. >> brown: what is known of neil gorsuch's views? among his early writings: a book on assisted suicide arguing against the practice and for the "inviolability" of human life. and a "national review" article, from before he became a judge, critical of liberals who "have become addicted to the courtroom rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda." in a prominent and contentious case, judge gorsuch sided with "hobby lobby stores," which objected to a requirement under the affordable care act that it provide contraception coverage. that decision was later upheld by the supreme court. but he's also written on the needs of low-income litigants and prisoners, calling for more affordable legal services and better representation in death penalty cases. gorsuch was personally close to justice scalia. in a speech last year at case western reserve, he spoke of being on the ski slopes when he learned of scalia's death. >> i immediately lost what breath i had left. and i'm not embarrassed

they do exactly those names in neil gorsuch was one of those 21. donald trump promised to woody lacked a judge in the most dubious but hillary promised a liberal old judicial activist who would vote to undermine free-speech, undermine religious liberty and the right to keep and bear arms and this was a referendum on the supreme court. that has no precedents and what i would suggest is the overwhelming election results as the american people show a super legitimacy it is the president's choice to be ratified in a national election. do they want an activist or principal the bridge analyst who will protect free-speech and religious liberty and the second amendment corrects that nomination was ratified by the american people and will be confirmed by united states senate. >> a former clerk to judge gorsuch speaking on behalf of all former clerks, the recent hearing before their judiciary committee that we know firsthand throughout the hearing he had a profound command of of what in response to the committee's questions on aggressive legal topics. questi

day two of questioning for supreme court pick neil gorsuch. to say it's a busy day would be yet again an understatement. kasie hunt is over at the white house --

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is president trump still confident neil gorsuch would be willing to overturn roe versus wade? >> live coverage of the briefing will continue on c-span.org. take you life to the senate floor for gavel to gavel coverage on c-span2. res. 69. the presiding officer: which the clerk will report. the clerk: providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8, title 5 of united states code and so forth. the presiding officer: the question occurs on the motion to he proceed. all those in favor say aye. all opposed, say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report. the clerk: providing for congressional disapproval under

neil gorsuch to the tenth circuit court. senator leahy, a member of the judiciary committee did not object to judge gorsuch. senator feinstein, another member of the judiciary committee didn't oppose neil gorsuch. senator durbin, the minority whip, did not oppose neil gorsuch 11 years ago. senator cantwell, senator carper, senator menendez, senator murray, noun of them opposed judge gorsuch's confirmation to the tenth circuit court. senator reed, senator wyden, all of them are here today. none of them objected to neil gorsuch. it's even more than that. then senator barack obama did not object to judge gorsuch's confirmation. then senator hillary clinton didn't object to judge gorsuch's nomination. and then senator joe biden helped pass his confirmation, his appointment, make sure it cleared on a voice vote. and so to hear the partisan bickering here is extremely disappointing and disingenuous. and so i hope this chamber will do what we do best in this country and that's come together on issues of doing our job of confirming

a beta battling judge neil gorsuch. it is believed ultimately he will be confirmed. the reason why they have given up trying to fight it and opted not to invest in ad campaigns to sway public opinion against him. democrats are still insisting the latin asking a lot but questions. some are collecting to block a vote by filibustering. mitch mcconnell said republicans will get gorsuch concerned by any means necessary. on face the nation, senator ted cruz echoed those remarks. >> judge gorsuch will get come in. he will either get 60 votes and be confirmed or whatever procedural steps are necessary, i believe within a month or two, neil gorsuch will be an associate justice of the supreme court. reporter: neil gorsuch spent the last month may be one-on-one with 70 senators over the last few days we've been going through session known as deciding to replicate the high-pressure scrutiny during those confirmation hearings. the question one actually begin until tuesday. tomorrow is your opening statements from all 20 senators on the senate judiciary committee. judge gorsuch wi

the author of these insightful words sits before us, neil gorsuch. that statement is an excellent lens through which to view the work of the committee this the court work of over the next century and beyond. i would make three overlapping pointshe about that judge's bla robe. it changes the way our eyes see the court. it reiterates the calling of the judge to the judge and 3, it gives us a special opportunity to teach our kids something about their constitution. the enduring paper that defines what our government can and cannot do.r when you look at the 9 justices sitting together in their robes, they blend in with one another, hard to tell them apart and calls attention to the office rather than the person. when the judge puts on his or her robe it forces their personalities into the he background so that we can focus on the important but modest job they have to do which is to drill down on facts and law. facts are objective. they don't change based on your personality. they are evaluated against writtenst objective laws, not against what the judge

you're not going to hear any detail from neil gorsuch. and no matter how uh many different angles they try to hit him from, he's not going to reveal it. >> jonathan swan, great to have you with us this morning. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> an emotional day in the court yesterday in the officer charge in the death of killing a 6-year-old boy with autism. his father is accused of leading the officers with a chase with his son inside the car before they opened fire. jacob rascon has all the details. >> reporter: police body camera footage captured the shooting and the moment officers realized there was a boy in the car. 6-year-old jeremy martis who is autistic die in the front seat shot four times. his father chris few was critically wounded speaking publicly about the night for the first time. he told the jury, officers gave no warning before they opened fire. i had my hands in the air, few testified. i put my hands out the window. they kept shooting. several witnesses also told the jury mr. few had his hands up which body ca

we will see neil gorsuch on the hill. >> i believe within a month or two neil gorsuch will be the new member of the supreme court. >> have you seen any evidence of any collusion? >> i will give you a very simple answer. no. >> there was circumstantial

they will grill neil gorsuch. not only about his judicial philosophy, but they clearly are intending to make this confirmation as much about donald trump as they can. >> you will have your hands full with this president. he will keep you busy. it is incumbent to demonstrate he or she will serve as a check of balance on the presidency. >> reporter: this is anticipated for a few days. the chairman of the committee senator grassley expects to vote in the next couple weeks. if confirmed through committee, he will go to a full senate vote. dave and christine. >> sunlen serfaty, thank you. >>> some passengers flying into the u.s. will be required to check almost all of their electronic devices. u.s. officials tell us the ban will cover nonstop flights into the u.s. no specific airlines or airports yet. flights from the middle east and africa. devices larger than a cell phone checked. a state department official says embassies have been notifying countries and airlines. officials say the directive is to ensure security m

yes, host: what was your takeaway of neil gorsuch? i was hearing he t some of the cases that oversight and judge thorn and he was for the corporate americans, i mean, he for the corporate people. he was for, you know, the and not for the employees and i think he's a like all of the place, that trump put in they are billionaires and illionaires and they don't understand the problems of the poor people, just like he tried obamacare or the healthcare, know, strip a lot of poor peep and he will give the rich people more money, so -- bring it back to the hearings last week, what did judge gorsuch say that would you think he's a racist? his -- the use of made for ions that he employees, he was for the people.te so to me, if he's for the opposed to ople, as regular people, to me, i think that makes him a racist. why would that make him a racist? caller: makes sense, does it? all right, i will retract that. that doesn't make him a racist, that back.ake i just think he's for the rich for the regular everyday working people, working-class peopl

who is neil gorsuch. we have his former clerk on the show who knows him well, conservative legal scholars who think he's great. we have civil rights leaders, law professors, pete williams fromnbc. i don't want to be overl promotional, but we have some of the greatest legal minds on all sides of this issue. it's going to be excited. 5:00 to 7:00. >> fantastic. >> richard, on your advice, i am going to dress up more and put on a time by 5:00 p.m. >> it's going to be a great show. i always watch it myself. thanks for stopping by. >> thank you. >>> again, ari's two-hour special on the eve of the confirmation hearing for judge neil gorsuch. it's called "supreme confirmation clash" starting at the top of the hour on msnbc. >>> more now on the issue of neil gorsuch, leading democrats are criticized about the newly released e-mails adding more fuel to the fire. that raises questions about his role in helping the bush administration advance its policies on torture and the guantanamo detainees. the new documents co

today neil gorsuch was willing to play the game. he couldn't possibly offer his opinion about the case because of that meaningless and false and relatively short senate confirmation tradition that says you can't possibly be a fair supreme court justice if you've ever thought about any case that may come before you in any form. of course exactly the opposite is true. presidents are looking for highly educated lawyers who have already been through the senate confirmation process at least once and sometimes twice as federal judges and appeals court judges. and that they're the kind of people who think about this stuff every day. but in the senate confirm ago -- confirmation hearings, they have to pretend they haven't and they have to pretend there's no hypothetical case they could ethically answer in their conformation hearings pause then no one would believe they could be fair in a case resembling that came to the supreme court. here's neil gorsuch today playing that game. >> it's a blanket religious test. is that consistent with the

he will continue to speak to neil gorsuch. we have a long day in front of us, so we will immediately turn to members questions. it's my intention to get through all members first round of questions today, so it's important we all stick to our time limits so we can stay on that schedule. 10 hours is a long time for you to sit there and answer questions from 20 of us, r to you when you may need a break. in the meantime, i would anticipate a break about 30 minutes for lunch time. i would hope members of the committee -- i have not made up my mind on this yet -- but we have a vote scheduled at noon -- i'm sorry, we had two votes at noon. it may be appropriate to use that time for our lunch break. i will make a decision on that later on. with that understanding with you, to accommodate you because you are the person that has to sit there and answer questions, so whatever your needs are, let us know. , started yesterday morning judge an audience, with justice scalia's comments that our government of laws and not men is the pride of

"democrats have come up empty tractive to find something scandalous that no gorsuch have -- neil gorsuch has said, so they are blaming him for what he won't say. to wit, they want him to declare how he would rule in specific areas of law, questions that every supreme court nominee declines to answer." without objection, i enter that into the record. senator hatch. sen. hatch: thank you, mr. chairman. my goal in his confirmation process is to get an onerstanding or a handle your understanding of the proper role of judges in our system of government. you gave an interesting lecture last year at case western reserve school of law about justice scalia's legacy. justice scalia, you explain, emphasized the difference between judges and legislators. legislators us that may appeal to their own moral convictions and to claims about social utilities that shaped the they think- laws should be individual, but judges should do none of these things in a democratic society. i think that accurately describes justice scalia of's -- justice scalia's view. is that also your own view? judge gorsuch: senator

>>> this fourth day of the confirmation hearing for neil gorsuch to be supreme court justice now in a break so there can be a vote on the senate floor. some news from capitol hill meantime senate democratic leader chuck schumer today announcing that democrats will filibuster judge gorsuch's nomination. here is what he had to say. >> now on the subject i wish to speak about this morning at length and that is judge gorsuch. well, mr. president, i've had the opportunity these past three days to watch judge neil gorsuch in the judiciary committee, review his credentials and record on the tenth circuit and before that. i particularly like to recognize the outstanding work done by every democratic member of the judiciary committee. they were just outstanding in questioning judge gorsuch despite his lack of candor and desire to answer. i would like to particularly call out our exceptional ranking member senator feinstein who has done a wonderful job leading the committee. i've thought long and hard about this nomination and what it means for the supreme court and the future of our country. w

but the hearing for neil gorsuch today does take place. several callers mentioned merrick garland this morning as well. let's go to fort washington, maryland, independent line. and -- sons i punch the button, apologies. hi there. caller: hey, good morning. how are you doing? host: fine, thank you. caller: thank you. thank you for c-span, right? so here's my take on it. republicans control the house and they have presidency. so honestly, i don't see the argument -- i mean, they're going to get their way no matter what. we're talking about the investigations. we're talkg about everything that he wants. even the whole tax -- the last time i heard, republicans want to get the tax, not just their rate but just the tax coated is clarified and simplified. i don't see them working on that. and the funny part is everybody keeps talking about obstruction for democrats but you got all this time to create whatever you want to create and push it through. they are not really going to have too much blowback from anything they do because they've got -- fr