this is "nightline." >> tonight, "inside 30: supreme court pick." a decision that could shape generations to come. >> i'm keeping another promise to the american people. by nominating judge neil gorsuch. >> the youngest nominee in 25 years. >> i'll do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the constitution and laws of this great country. >> his conservative credentials have some calling him scalia 2.0. will democrats block his nomination? >> this is a very bad decision. >> high drama at the high court. brave wilderness. >> let's go, let's see what we can find. >> he may have millions of fans on youtube -- >> i'm about to enter the sting zone. one, two, three -- arrgh! >> but his job bites.

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good evening. thank you for joining us. it was an announcement that could shape the fate of our nation for decades. president trump revealing his nominee for supreme court justice to thunderous applause of his base. judge neil gorsuch could be the conservative judge they've been waiting for. but the democrats are mounting opposition. here's abc's terry moran in our series "inside 30." >> byron, let the battle begin. there's a small protest over here on the supreme court steps. a sign of things to come. democrats spoiling for a fight and so much at stake. for president trump it's a promise kept. he said he would appoint someone who was "a replica of justice scalia." neil gorsuch, he doesn't quite have that, but he's got someone who's very conservative, very well respected. for democrats likely hard to beat. >> was that a surprise? was it?

>> reporter: in the east room tonight, president trump enjoying the primetime spotlight as he announced his supreme court pick, judge neil gorsuch. >> judge gorsuch has outstanding legal skills, a brilliant mind, tremendous discipline, and has earned bipartisan support. when he was nominated to the tenth circuit court of appeals, he was confirmed by the senate unanimously. also -- that's unanimous, can you believe that nowadays with what's going on? >> reporter: judge gorsuch stepping forward, speaking of the honor of the moment. >> standing here in a house of history and acutely aware of my own imperfections, i pledge that if i am confirmed i will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the constitution and laws of this great country. >> reporter: the colorado native has a top-tier pedigree. undergraduate degree from columbia with honors. law degree from harvard also with honors. doctorate from oxford. he went on to clerk for two supreme court justices,

including justice anthony kennedy. at 49 years old, he is the youngest nominee to the supreme court in 25 years. >> a judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge. stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands. >> i studied every aspect of his life. he could have had any job at any law firm for any amount of money. but what he wanted to do with his career was to be a judge, to write decisions, and to make an impact by upholding our laws and our constitution. >> this event just ended and it really had a total lights, camera, action feel. this was a campaign promise he'd made, talking about nominating a supreme court justice. he's hoping, he says he has more than one. >> reporter: the response to president trump's pick came in fast and furious tonight. just minutes after he began his remarks the democratic national committee issued their own statement. we cannot afford a supreme court

justice who doesn't have the utmost respect for constitutional values of liberty, equality, and justice for all." other democratic leaders also weighing in, expressing their strong concerns. from senator chuck schumer to house minority leader nancy pelosi who addressed the pick in a cnn town hall. >> he's come down against employees' rights. clean air, clean water, food safety, safety in medicine and the rest. if you care about that for your children, he's not your guy. >> reporter: throughout the campaign the court a critical issue for president trump and his supporters. >> you have to vote for me anyway, you know why? supreme court judges! supreme court judges! >> reporter: the court has had only eight justices for nearly a year, since the death of justice anthony scalia, known as a towering icon of conservative ideology. the vacancy ignited a political firestorm. last march president obama announced his nominee. >> today i am nominating chief judge merrick brian garland to join the supreme court.

i have fulfilled my constitutional duty. now it's time for the senate to do theirs. >> reporter: senate republicans stonewalled for ten months, denying judge garland even a committee hearing. >> i do not believe the president should appoint someone. >> we're not going to give up the u.s. supreme court for a generation by allowing barack obama to make one more liberal appointee. >> reporter: causing garland's nomination to languish and expire with the end of the last congress. >> i say to you, do your job. vote for a supreme court nominee. >> reporter: president trump's pick replacing justice scalia won't tip the balance of power on the court. if confirmed, neil gorsuch will join the four-man conservative bloc squaring off against the four liberals, three of them women, with justice anthony kennedy, 80 years old, the crucial swing vote. neil gorsuch. what do you make of him? what's he like? >> he's a very impressive person. i think he's someone going to be difficult for the democrats to stay unified in opposing.

he's young, 49 years old. you can see him serving three decades if confirmed. very conservative, a judge in the mold of scalia, which is what donald trump promised to do. >> you look at scalia and you can do that, duplicate that as far as i'm concerned, it would be absolutely perfect. >> reporter: big night. >> yeah, huge. >> reporter: tamil jaffer is one of the judge's first law clerks and the a personal friend who's spent time skiing and fishing with him. he was at the white house at his mentor's nomination. >> what was it like over there? >> awesome, a really neat moment. there was a lot of suspense in the room. >> what can you tell us about neil gorsuch? >> this guy is a normal dude. right? the guy you go out for a beer with, right? he skis, he fly fishes, he's a normal guy. he's got a wonderful wife, two beautiful daughters. just a family man. just a kind human being. really genuine. >> conservative? >> conservative, absolutely. mainstream. right in the heartland of mainstream, right? you're not going to get a nonconservative judge from president trump. >> hey, hey, ho, ho, gorsuch has

got to go! >> we hear this crowd of protesters. this is a process that demonizes people no matter who you are. how is he going to handle that? >> he's going to come here, do his job as a judge, find the right case, decide the case on the law, on the merits, and move forward. >> reporter: while the ninth seat has remained unfilled the supreme court has been evenly divided between conservative and liberal justices, resulting in deadlocks. >> if he is confirmed how does he fit in? he joins this divided court. >> he'd essentially restore the balance on the court that existed before justice scalia's sudden death last february. no major upheaval in the law is likely as a result of this nomination. the big question is if there's another vacancy. >> reporter: the justices who sit on the court have long had a lasting impact on the cultural fabric of our country. during the obama administration, affirmative action was upheld. gay marriage was legalized. and the constitutional right to abortion was defended.

the court's agenda in the coming years expected to address some of the most controversial and historically significant issues of our time. from abortion rights cases to battle to overturn roe versus wade still raging. >> abortion rights, the debate about contraception, they're very, very old questions that most people think should have been settled. the anti-choice movement is proving they're not settled and that's going to put it front and center. >> we're not out there to reduce abortion, we're out there to end abortion. we want this to be over. >> reporter: the court is also likely to hear cases of grave magnitude driven by president trump's nationalist agenda. >> this is what democracy looks like! >> reporter: immigration and refugee issues, including the president's controversial executive order. several federal cases aimed at blocking it could end up in the nation's highest court. and voting rights. especially as the president claims massive electoral fraud. and the scope of presidential powers. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: for president trump, as for any president, the nomination of a supreme court justice is one of his most lasting legacies.

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coyote peterson has gained millions of fans posting videos of dangerous animals biting and stinging him, literally using his own body as click bait. i would say don't try this at home but you probably don't have an alligator snapping turtle. here's abc's nick watt in our series "social stars." >> this is the most nervous i've ever been to take a sting or bite from anything. >> reporter: real life as one of the millions of kids who watched this dude might say. >> i'm coyote peterson and i'm about to enter the sting zone. arrgh! i can't move my arm! >> reporter: this is his job full-time. >> some will think it's crazy. >> reporter: fairly lucrative. naturalist, wildlife show host, connoisseur of venom and bites. >> aah! geez, yeah. >> reporter: he has his own youtube channel, brave wilderness, with over 5 million subscribers.

he posts a new video twice a week, every week of the year. >> that feels like big needles going into my forearm. >> reporter: obviously, don't try this at home. he researches and there are medics on hand. >> the pain kept lasting and it would come in waves. like this rushing heat going through your arm. >> reporter: coyote does not exact revenge. >> you're not killing anything? >> absolutely not. there is never an animal ever injured on any shoot that we have done. >> eww! >> bam! >> reporter: and these are kids posted by fine brothers entertainment on facebook -- >> that must be painful. >> reporter: reacting to coyote's antics. bullet apt, anyone >> why is he doing this? >> reporter: his viewers are apparently also hearing a message. >> you will take away a more understanding perspective of this overly vilified arachnid. really the goal from everything we're doing is to introduce the younger generation to animals. there are a lot of kids that don't have the opportunity to go out in some of the environments we explore in. >> reporter: he's trying to get

kids interested in nature, but first he lures them in with a little click bait. >> aah! >> the term click bait makes it sound like you're going to click on something and not see what it is that's being promised. we give you a thumbnail. we're saying, stung by a bullet ant! you better believe coyote's going to be stung by a bullet ant. >> reporter: he's a self-taught naturalist driven by enthusiasm and curiosity. >> for me it really started when i was about 4 years old. and i've loved animals ever since then. a lot of times my friends would be out going to parties, playing sports, and i was actually in the woods behind the house catching snapping turtles and snakes. >> reporter: outside columbus, ohio. not exactly where you'd expect america's steve irwin to hail from. is the hat really necessary? >> yeah, absolutely. it defines exactly what we do. because you remember. you remember the hat. >> reporter: and he's not really named coyote. >> my real name's nathaniel. >> reporter: coyote's taking me tide pooling in san pedro, california. >> real gentle.

right in the middle. >> reporter: i put my finger inside a sea anemone because coyote told me to. i mean, he's done this. could i really be scared of a squidgy anemone? >> aah! >> you flinched. >> i did flinch. so it's a wild animal putting its things right in my hand. what's wrong with you? >> there's nothing wrong with me at all. it's actually not something we intended to do, to get bitten and stung by things. in arizona i got stung by harvester ants. >> ah, one on my neck! >> we thought, it would be interesting to show people what the reaction is to a human body to certain stings. then our audience actually kept asking for, why don't you try this, try that? we're like, uh, don't know if that's a good idea. >> aah! >> then when they really felt like, this is good for us, this is educational. >> yep, he definitely bit me. >> reporter: back to those tide pools. >> the coolest thing we could find would be an octopus or

brown sea hair. all sorts of creatures living underneath there. >> reporter: we're pulling what looks like alien life forms out of the brine. little stars. >> like a sea star with a little more ambidexterity. >> reporter: sea stars. >> run your finger through, feel how soft those legs are. it won't bite you. >> something gross? you want something gross? >> oh, yeah. yucky like a massive, fat slug. >> it's like a big booger, isn't it? isn't that crazy how its body completely goes bla they do ink. see that? like this joker from batman purple ink. >> that's a beautiful purple color, my word, look at that. >> actually, there's two more right here. >> is that not one of the ugliest creatures you've ever seen in your life? sorry, mate. you are a bit ugly. >> reporter: ugly but not scary like the tarantula hawk. that coyote encouraged to bite him. >> do you get haters, people saying you're an idiot in a hat

and you shouldn't be doing this? >> yeah, there's a fair share of people saying, oh, this isn't the right way to be presenting animals. people are always going to have an opinion. believe it or not our positive rating on youtube is somewhere around 98%. >> reporter: back in the tide pools -- >> start rolling, he's got an octopus wrapped around his arm, come, come. oh, geez louise! >> that's the biggest octopus i've ever caught. oh, man. wow, that is a really big two-spot octopus. don't bite me, don't bite me, don't bite me, don't bite me. that is a monster octopus right there. let's have you hold it. >> no, no, no, no, no -- >> put your hands out flat. >> you said he has a beak, i'm not interested in beak action. >> nick, you can see he's not beaking me at all. >> reporter: that's the secret to coyote's success is enthusiasm is totally infectious. >> that is one of the weirdest feelings i've ever -- and not unpleasant. >> reporter: next up, coyote's off to south america and australia where he hopes to be bitten by a whole new bunch of

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