WEBVTT - Supreme Panic! 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.040 The Threat is a new hit podcast from Azzi Media 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.480 that explores history surprising connections in order to discover how 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:09.400 one thing leads to another, like how John Lennon's murder 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.200 connects all the way back to communist leader Vladimir Lenin. 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:27.640 Get it on iHeart Radio or wherever you listen. You 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.840 are entering the Freedom Hunt. It's a glorious week to 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:35.040 be an American. My friends. The Libs are at def 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:39.520 Con one, full on panic mode because a Supreme Court 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.400 vacancy has been announced, Justice Kennedy will retire. This means 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:47.240 it will be an all out political throwdown to see 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.320 who will replace him. Coming on the heels of a 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.600 very good week for conservatives at the Supreme Court and 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:56.560 an overall fantastic week for President Trump, looks like the 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:58.680 Libs are on their back heels. We'll talk about that 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.360 and what's coming next next on The buck Sexton Show. 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:05.399 This is the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:09.600 mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.160 Make no mistake American great, You're a great American Again. 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:24.520 The buck Sexton Show begins. Analyst Kennedy is a swing boater, 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.640 which side sometimes with the Democrats. So his vote is 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.000 really important if you're on the left or if you're 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.600 in the middle, But it terrifies people in the middle 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:34.840 and on the left because it has the potential to 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.200 swing the Court in a different direction. Some friends say 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.600 he's been thinking about stepping down, and if he does, 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.600 that would allow President Trump to make the courts solidly 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.679 conservative for decades. If he decides to retire, and there 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:47.760 are signs that he would, it would be a war 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.000 for this court like nothing seen in the past thirty years. 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:55.000 Since the nomination of Robert Bourke was defeated and Justice 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.080 Kennedy took his seat, everything changes in Washington. If he 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.920 retires would be just seismically. He a moderate conservative, So 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.120 if he goes, that's gonna get President Trump a massive 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.839 opportunity to move the court further to the right for generations, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.760 and Democrats would basically be powerless to stop it. The 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:14.880 Democrats have to fight this tooth and now they have 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:18.000 to use every process opportunity they have to stop this 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.960 until next year we have a new center. Are you 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.760 guys ready to maybe rip up some of the rules 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:29.160 that have limited Democrats. Democrats would digging fork here. You 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:34.320 do everything they conceivably could do to block this nomination, 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:38.120 any nomination for going forward. It's time for Democrats to 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.720 throw down. We need to play by street rules. I 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:42.560 think this is gonna be the fight of the century. 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.480 I think the Democrats have to say no way, non 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.799 pass Sario, no one passes this line. I think it's 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:53.440 gonna be almost like Spanish Civil war stuff. Oh man, 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.000 lives are terrified. Welcome to the buck Sex and show 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.320 everybody it has been such a good week. You know. 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:05.480 They they thought they have the administration cornered with this 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:09.680 whole parental separation at the border thing. They they thought 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.880 they'd be able to just hammer Trump on that going 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.519 into the fourth or July holiday and then heading into 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.480 the recess. And we all we hear about is you know, 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.240 Oh Trump is so mean, He's so evil, He's the worst. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:25.720 We'll guess what. It has been quite a week for 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:30.040 this administration for conservatism, and as I like to say, 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:34.040 for America, it's a good thing, my friends, very very 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.119 good thing. Indeed, you had this big decision come down 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.040 today that, to borrow from the words of the left, 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.680 gutted public sector unions or will gut in time public 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:48.720 sector Unions, which I think is long overdue, very strong decision. 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.800 They're very much a worthwhile deep dive for us coming 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.320 up on on some of those, uh, some of that, 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.280 some of what came from from all of it um. 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:05.480 And now we also have, uh, the Kennedy battle Royal 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.800 that has expected you had big things happening today. You know, 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.720 no one's even paying attention. I think, isn't Bolton meeting 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.400 with the Russians, you know, to talk about US Russia policy. 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.440 I mean, there's there's other stuff that's going on that's 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.560 not even on the radar right now because of what's 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.920 happened at Supreme Court this week and and the panic 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.680 over Kennedy. That what what is by the way, what 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.320 is the strategy the Democrats have for trying to win 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.040 in the mid terms. They had they had they had 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:35.640 one thing they were gonna try to They're hoping for 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.359 depressed Republican turn out and that they could get the 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.279 base fired up for Democrats in enough places to take 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:47.039 at least the House. And now now that Republicans, by 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.479 the way, no conservative, no conservative can look at what's 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.560 going on right now and say, yeah, you know what, 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.880 I don't like Trump still I'm still anti Trump. Oh really, 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.719 you're gonna stay home with the Court at steak after 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.760 what Trump gave us with Gorset, Now you're going to 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:09.080 decide to be Mr. Principal or Ms Principal and allow 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:15.040 the Democrats to take control and put some quote consensus candidate. 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.120 So here's the thing, folks, I can tell you from 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.240 the history of the Court and the way that it 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.560 has always gone, the left always stays left, just like 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.000 the Democratic Party doesn't doesn't eat its own. They they 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.039 have a unified front when it comes to the acquisition 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.080 of power. I mean, they will squabble among themselves, but 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.240 they always are unified against the enemy, which they view 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:40.920 as the Republicans. Centrist jurists are people that tend to 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.200 be appointed by Republican presidents and then go against the right. 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:48.360 But they they'll call them centrists right, um, and but 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.720 but the left on the left, you got the Ginsburg's, 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:55.520 the suitors, uh, the Soda Mayors, by the way, the 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.120 worst justice on the Supreme Court. Right now, look Kagan, 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.800 I of credit where it's due. You read Kagan, and 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:04.479 you read her opinions. You say to yourself, all right, 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.600 this lady, you know she's she's making an argument. I mean, 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.400 I'm I'm gonna tear apart her argument on the whole 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:14.240 public sector union things. A little silly, little silly Elena, 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:18.760 come on, but so do my Your stuff is just 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.200 it's like I'm reading out of the teleprompter at MSNBC. 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.839 It's just, you know, I hate this and I liked 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.440 this other thing. So the law is whatever gives me 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.080 the thing that I like. It's like you're on the 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.599 Supreme Court, Justice Sodomoyer. Come on, you can do better 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:35.360 than that. It's not even making arguments. He's just just 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:41.279 putting words to emotions and to preferred political positions. But this, this, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:45.200 this creates a whole different set of calculations for the 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.679 mid terms. And I think that you're going to see 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.960 uh this through that they should have been prepared for 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:53.920 this a little bit. But don't be surprised if we 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:55.719 are to find out that turn up the d n 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:59.240 C is not really it wasn't wasn't really ready for 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.960 this one. I've been alluding to this, by the way. 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.479 I've been hearing from my sources for many days now 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.120 that this was coming. So I've been alluding to it 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.560 on my new TV show at Hill dot tv slash Rising. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.000 But you can all check out at your leisure um 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:14.440 and in fact, if you do, I'll even call it 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.080 leisure because I'm not from the UK and that was weird. 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:23.160 But the Kennedy retirement announcement has just turned this summer 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.960 from a yeah, you don't have much in the Mueller probe, 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.680 you don't have a lot of you know, to oh 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.760 my gosh, this is the fight to end all fights. 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.600 Trump has already let it me know that he's got 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:42.400 an excellent listed judges Blake clip fifteen. Please, we have 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:46.720 a list of people that I actually had during my election. 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.640 I had to twenty and as annointed a trial a 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:54.640 little while ago. So we have a very excellent list 0:07:54.680 --> 0:08:01.200 of great, talented, highly educated, highly intelligent, hopefully tremendous people. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.040 I think you see the kind of quality that we're 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.200 looking at when you look at that list. I added 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:10.560 five additional people to the list, so it will be 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.240 somebody from that list. So we have now boiled a 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.400 down to about you know, he's he's adding adding some 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.400 amazing the list. It would be great to see see 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.160 some names on there, some fun names too, you know, 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.560 Supreme Court Justice Janine Pierrot. I don't know, could be 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:31.680 he would He would defer by the way, if I 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.160 were to say that, he would be like, oh, Buck, 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:34.800 come on, you know, I just want to write Collins 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:36.840 play baseball and go on TV from kind of time. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:38.600 You know, it would be a great Supreme Court justice. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.480 Andy McCarthy, I want to start the Andy for Scotis 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.360 Andy for Scotis hashtag. He's he's such a good guy, 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.880 such a good legal mind and an honest guy. You know. 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:50.760 One of the things I really like that Anie McCarthy. 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.240 And you know, he's a Fox picked him up, which 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.560 everyone it's it was amazing to see somebody get a 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.559 contributorship at Fox, which is very hard to come by, 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.920 and just see universal praise and acclaim for the decision 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.760 from the right. I mean, every every conservative note was like, yep, Andy, 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.720 and he earned it, and he's and he's doing the work. 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.880 He's a good guy. You know, he's about the contribution 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.520 to the conversation. He's not one of these you know, 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.200 dirty pool players or something out there in media. There's 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.800 a lot of those. They worked for CNN, um, but 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.679 you know, and he would be a great choice, I 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.439 think for Supreme Court judge would be a lot of fun. 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.760 Judge Need is great man, she's feisty. Um, you've also 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.320 got I'm not gonna say on a more serious note, 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.240 but on a more likely note, the possibility of Mike Lee. 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:38.920 I think Mike Lee be on there. You know, I 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.120 interviewed Ted Cruz what a week or two ago. It 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.680 all blurs together now, And I asked him about this 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:50.440 and Ted crew said, no interest, no interest in being 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.839 a Supreme Court justice. He wants to stay in the 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.079 political fight, which I viewed as a Ted Cruise way 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.680 of saying he is going to run again. So there 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.720 is that at which, you know, who knows where the 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.520 party will be at that point in time. But I 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:09.040 can I want to spend a little more time marinating 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:14.200 in the in the general panic, in the general panic 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:20.600 over at CNN when this was finally announced, please play seventeen. 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:26.760 This could potentially transform the Court for generations. And you know, 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.120 when you think of Justice Kennedy, you do think of 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.280 someone who's a moderate. But his vote was crucial in 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.640 a few areas. And let me just tick them off. 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:40.320 Same sex marriage, access to abortion, and affirmative action. Okay, 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.840 so those are three areas in which he was a 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:48.439 very key and deciding vote. And now with his retirement, 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.720 of course, the president is going to get an opportunity 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.640 to name another conservative to the bench. It will cause 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.960 an uproar, I can tell you on Capitol Hill. You're 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.000 heading into the mid to our elections here, Brooke, and 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.880 so once again the Supreme Court will become a huge 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:13.040 issue Democrats. It is gonna be huge, baby, you know 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.640 what I mean, it really is. It's gonna be gonna 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.480 be gonna be crazy stuff over the Supreme Court fight. 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.880 You'll notice what they're really worried about is abortion on 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:28.520 affirmative action, because they're clinging to a very flimsy legal 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.480 fiction on both of those. Abortion is flatly not a 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:36.520 constitutional right just and I know honest leftists who will 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.200 say that, In fact, the most famous professor of jurisprudence 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.480 that my own college would be like he he was, 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.120 you know, abortion is absolutely a woman's riot. And you know, 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.720 and even in college, I was like, I found the 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:51.439 one pro life professor on campus to be my my 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.720 mentor and friend. Right. I mean, that's so this stuff 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.080 has all been obvious that some of us for a 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.160 long time. But This guy was rapidly pro choice. He 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.840 was like, Oh, no, road you wait is crap crap law. 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:03.920 It's not a good it's just not a good decision. 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.520 It's just, Oh, I want this, so I'm gonna I'm 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.720 going to right this in such a way that I 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.120 can have what I want. Oh that's like what Soda 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:15.320 Mayor does on every case, every case. I've never seen 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.720 that she is the most consistently and completely wrong justice. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.959 She reminds me of this. I had this teacher in 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.480 high school, And do anybody from Regius High schools listening 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:27.800 to this, you know exactly who I'm talking about? Who 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:29.520 who would make this offer to you that on a 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:33.720 multiple choice test, if you could get the most wrong 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.960 answer every the most wrong, not just wrong, because there 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.360 are four options, right, the most wrong answer for the 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.439 whole test, I think you would get instead of a 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.319 hundred points, you would get like two hundred or something. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.559 But if you got uh more than two of them wrong, 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.760 you got a zero. That was so it was quite 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:52.720 a gamble. I never knew anybody took that up, but 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.000 Soda Mayor takes that gamble all the time. In this 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.520 sense that she's the most wrong on each Supreme Court 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.280 decision that comes down. It's like you took a panelist 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.640 from MSNBC and we're like, hey, just you don't have 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:05.800 any legal training, just write something about this. What do 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:07.480 you think about that? Well, who do you want to win? 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:11.480 You know, what are you thinking? That's what she does? Uh, 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:15.280 So that's going to be very interesting, my friends, this 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.040 is going to be very interesting. Oh but abortion, firm 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.640 of action, those are both on legally flimsy ground and 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:23.319 they know it. They know it. Um a firm of 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:28.040 action in particular, gotta go, gotta go now. Abortion is 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.600 a more important issue. It has to go to. But 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.920 just understand this, I believe looking into this now and 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.280 we're we're about to get into the whole fight and oh, 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:41.319 all the filibuster stuff and who's responsible for the propaganda 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.240 effort that is about to be mounted by the Democrats 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.280 on the issue of this judge is going to do 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:51.080 it will, mark my words, the propaganda effort from the Democrats. 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:56.079 All this Supreme Court nomination will make the Mueller collusion 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:02.560 fantasy look aine and rational by comparison. I mean, this 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:07.559 is going to be the knockdown, drag out fight of 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:10.320 the only I mean, the only I can think about 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.280 that might come close would be the you know, the 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.640 fights over the Iraq War. You know, I mean, I mean, 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.600 it's this is gonna be a whole other level, folks 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.560 of nastiness. I mean the fact that we were having 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:24.640 trouble with civility before this came down. Think about all that. 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:27.640 Do you think things are gonna get more civil now? 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.640 I mean we just if civility was at a was 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:32.760 at one on a ten point scale, it's about to 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.280 go negative five. This is gonna get crazy. But we 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:39.000 should talk about the filibusters. We should talk about where 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.800 this is all gonna go and what's at stake here 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:43.640 for the left and for the right. Also, I've got 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.400 some thoughts on the border still at cartels, the tying 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.160 to cartels. You know, that's a topic I've been talking 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.520 about here for a long time. I've got more thoughts, 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:55.480 more research that I've been doing into that. And we 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.600 just have a rock and show for all of you. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:02.560 That's us promise eight or four nine to eight to 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.200 five eight four four stare right there. We'll be back. 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:22.800 The Senate should reject on a bipartisan basis, any justice 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.360 who would overturn Roe v. Wade, or undermine key health 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:33.520 care protections. The Senate should reject anyone who will instinctively 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:39.239 side with powerful special interests over the interests of average Americans. 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:44.440 Our Republican colleagues in the Senate should follow the rule 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:49.440 they set in twenty six not to consider a Supreme 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:53.960 Court justice in an election year. Senate stands ready to 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:59.040 fulfill its constitutional role by offering advice and consent on 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:04.840 President Trump's nominated to fill this vacancy. We will vote 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:10.840 to confirm Justice Kennedy's successor this fall. As in the 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.480 case of Justice Gorsuch, Senators will have the opportunity to 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:18.880 meet with President Trump's nominee, examine his or her qualifications, 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:24.720 and debate the nomination. You know, the Democrats are gonna 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.960 get shameless on this one, more so than usual. So, 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.160 I mean, there you have Chuck Schumer, who's they're just 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:33.480 gonna rewrite history, and they're gonna shout down anybody that 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.160 the talking points on this are gonna come fast and furious. 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:40.080 They're gonna be re writing history on this stuff and 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:44.160 acting like they didn't open the door to eliminating the 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:48.080 filibuster for judicial nominees they did. It was them they 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.960 made the move. In fact, I know people say Mitch 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.120 McConnell reminds them of like Myrtle the Turtle. You know, 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:59.240 I know people say these things. You know McConnell, you 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.200 know is you know he's But I gotta give the 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.440 guy some credit. I don't know, I don't know where 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:06.960 Myrtle the Turtle kim in my mind, but you know 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.439 it's there's something turtle been with the glasses. He just 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.760 seems like if you had, if you've picked up a 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.440 spirit animal for Mitch McConnell, I think a turtle would 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:19.560 probably be in the uh in the mix a tortoise. 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.359 John says, it's better. It's probably true. Now, remember the 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.399 tortoise and the hair tortoise. Maybe slow, the tortoise may 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:29.199 not be sexy, but the tortoise wins the race. And 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.480 with Mitch McConnell, guys, I'm people, you know he's a 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.719 swamp creature, blah b by blah and all that stuff. 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:38.399 Guess what, Mitch held the line on this, and you 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.000 gotta give the guy credit. He got a lot of 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.520 heat for it, and the Senate colleagues and all this 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:46.720 other stuff. Whatever. Mitch held the line. You could say 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.120 anybody would have, but I don't. I'm not sure about that. 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.000 I don't Rebufflicans gave on a lot of stuff Mitch, Mitch. 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.840 He could have gone along with a Merrick Garland thing. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.040 Oh he's a centrist. Let's go with Marrick Garland. It 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:01.200 will make everybody happy. Bipartisan. Yeah, right, So we gotta 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.720 throw a little freedom on high five to Mitch McConnell everybody. 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:08.439 He deserves it, just saying. Plus his wife is fierce. 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.000 You see that, dude, that clip. You gotta find somebody 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.800 who loves you like Elaine Child loves Mitch McConnell. When 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.080 those when those thugs came near him, she wasn't she 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:20.480 wasn't playing games. Proud. I was proud of her, proud 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:25.760 to see that. H dude, she'd she'd be good by 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.000 the way. I actually, I'm not sure we'll get into 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:29.440 because we're gonna have a lot of talk about the 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:34.040 different nominees, different possibilities. But I actually think that, uh 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.240 one of the very best candidates right now is in 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:40.399 fact a very a conservative Catholic female. Uh. So, not 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:44.879 that we pick people based upon their gender identity or 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:49.840 just their gender. But just just saying that'll be interesting. 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.960 That'll change some of the dynamics because they are. There's 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.520 gonna be all out of sault On if it's a conservative, 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:57.600 and it better be by the way, I don't think 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.399 it will. Trump knows. Trump does this, he seals his 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:16.359 legacy no matter what. He's holding the line for America 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:20.040 buck sex in his back. But if he gets replaced 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.639 by a hardline social conservative, it is there. The Democratic 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:27.480 leadership will have hell to pay. They cannot let this happen. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.400 They have to play hardball. They've got to do exactly 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.160 to the other side what Mitch McConnell did to them. 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:38.359 Play hardball and win. They must prevent the Republican control. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.080 Send it to pick another justice on this hard right. 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.520 Quick look at the decisions starting with Bush Gore. Look 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:49.199 at the decisions starting going onto the Howard case. They 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:52.320 look at the case on citizens United with the people 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:54.720 the most money when all the elections, and then that 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:58.760 got off of the decision yesterday, which is based they 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:01.520 voted right down the line and five for in every case. 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.040 The Democrats have got a fight for that fifth sea 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:08.360 with everything they've got, got a quiff Matthews to put 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:12.320 down the bourbon. Why is he always shouting? Why is 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.760 Chris Matthews always shouting because he have an inside voice. 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:19.520 Use your inside voice, Chris, use your words. He's just 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:22.560 always bye bye bye, blah blah. I gotta get the 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:24.320 guy credit that he's got a longevity in this business, 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:25.960 been around for a long time. And actually met him 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:30.439 once true story, cocktail party in the DC area. It 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:35.200 was fancy. Uh, he was boring, but nice, you know, polite. 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:37.119 We talked for like twenty seconds. So maybe I'm being 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:39.320 too harsh on the boring this. He needs a haircut 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:44.720 more than I do. Bam, Well, well played, John, True story. 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:48.920 So you know they're saying all kinds of crazy stuff. Now. 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:51.120 The problem, folks, is that we live in an era 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:54.960 when any of us who want can via the the 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:58.800 the the Google machine figure out what the Democrats used 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.320 to do and how they played this game when they 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:04.399 were in power. And this is all part of the 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:08.879 necessary corrective that the Trump administration provides after eight years 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:13.560 of obama Ism. Obama went scorched earth first three first 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:17.720 two years. Not a single vote for Obamacare he put 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:25.320 through sod Mayor and Kagan to just hardcore leftists as 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:28.240 his Supreme Court picks. By the way, one of them 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:32.720 was in a mid term election year and she was confirmed. 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.040 So guess what this argument you're seeing about, how, oh, 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:39.120 it's an election countal election. No, no, no, no, it's 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.560 not a presidential election year, the mid term election year. 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:47.399 And the Republicans did not try or did not, you know, 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:52.480 lay down in the proverbial railroad tracks to stop Obama 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:56.000 from getting his picks. The people voted for Obama. Obama 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:57.920 won those two elections, right, he got to put into 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:01.400 Supreme Court justices, and they are they are hard left. 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:05.440 As I said, Kagan has some intellectual heft, so do Mayor. 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:10.280 You know. It's it's like you're stepping into the MSNBC 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:13.200 green room to hear somebody give legal opinions who's never 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:15.320 been to law school. It's just it's just the way 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:18.879 it is. Uh. I'm speaking of that. We got to 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:20.760 talk about this union case. I will get to the 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:22.480 union case. I'm not trying to delay on that. That 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:25.760 will be coming up, if not right after this segment, 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:31.560 that will come up in the next break. And yeah, uh, 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:33.960 but Matthews knows that this is gonna be a huge fibe. 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:37.040 And as I was saying a few moments ago, abortion 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:39.440 and affirmative action are the two areas where they are 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:43.720 they feel there the most vulnerable on abortion. What could happen? 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:46.320 And it will take years, folks. And this assumes that 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:51.159 we actually get a conservative justice through. But if it 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:55.600 is no longer considered a constitutional right, which it is not. 0:22:56.840 --> 0:22:58.600 I mean, technically they've made it one, but it is 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:00.520 not actually in the Constitution, as we all know, it's 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:05.720 not a constitutional right. If that happens, then it'll get 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:08.560 pass back to the states, and you will have states 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:13.760 that will clearly outlaw abortion. In fact, Jeffrey Tubin, when 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:18.480 I think, is a particularly unreliable legal analyst on CNA 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:21.240 just in terms of his predictions, and and he's just 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:23.240 a partisan, right, He's a partisan that they pretend as 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:26.080