. >> next on booktv is afterwards christopher scalia, son of the late supreme court justice antonin scalia shares his father speeches on law, eighth and virtue. .. >> it was one of the most powerful court opinions, he wrote a lot of zingers, but this not about court opinions, it's about speeches. his court opinions are memorable and i'm often said they went to his opinions first for that reason, they were so crispy written and evocative and powerful and his speeches have the same qualities as his opinions do. he could let more of his personality shine through for one thing. he was a great performer, a little bit of a ham. he played macbeth in a high school production and i think the president of georgetown theater club so that shined through in the speeches in the way it doesn't in the opinions. and court opinions are necessarily-- they have to follow certain conventions that are asked to turn off the average person who is not a court person or a law student. so we wanted a collection that would be of interest to the layman, really. so it'd be interesting to the average americans and not j

up next on booktv afterwards christopher scalia son of the late supreme court justice antonin scalia chairs had his father speeches on law, faith and vur chew and interviewed by los angeles times supreme court correspondent david savage. >> christopher scalia your father justice angt anyone scalia one of the most powerful writer of the supreme court opinions, he wrote a lot of decent with the real zingers, great for people like me quoting them but this is not a book about court opinion but a book about speeches so why speechsome >> as you said his court opinions are memorable and i'm a often told by law students and reporters that they liked they went to his opinions first for that reason. they were -- so crisply written and powerful, and his speeches are -- are have some of the same really all of the same great qualities that his opinions do. but i think the advantage of the speech is that -- he could let more of his personality shine through or for one thing. he was a great. performer a little bit of a ham he played in the high school production of that play. and he was -- i think

[inaudible conversations] >>host: christopher scalia your father justice antonin scalia was one of the most powerful riders with the supreme court opinions, writing dissents with the fingers but this is not a book about that but speeches. why? >> supreme court opinions are memorable writing his opinions first for that reason. but his speeches have the same great qualities but the advantages to let more of his personality shine through he was a great performer and played mcbeth in the high school production and the president of the georgetown theater club but in the way it just doesn't in the opinion. i think they have to follow certain conventions that are asked to turn off the average person if you are not a court follower or law student but we want a collection that to be of interest to the average america american. >> like well-adjusted normal people? >> they will need a writeup of an opinion. but one of the advantages of the speeches especially about the law is my dad could explain his approach on interrupted without having to focus on a specific case without bringing in multiple c

and he said, if you keep on calling me justice scalia. i'm nino.and that was really the purpose of the book, to memorialize him and write a tribute to the man, but also to share with the world among people who are interested in this fascinating man, just what was he like day-to-day? what was it like to appear on stage with him? what was it like to write books with him? that was the purpose of writing the borke, really. brian: did he have a sense his days were numbered? it seemed sudden to us. for him, did he feel healthy? >> yes. in fact when we returned to the united states eight days before he died he was in good health. in fact we commented on the fact none of us had had a cold in this long tour of asia, over two-week period. there is a very eerie thing that i recount at the end of the book. we did discuss when his death would occur in two conversations. one, i said you know, i know you're going to live for another 20 years, you need to have literary executor. i recount that conversation in the book but the most remarkable thing nine days before

and the significance of this, the history of this beforere scalia died. >>>> justice scalia and justiceinsburg were quite close goioig backck to their days togogethern the u.s. court of appeals for the d c circuit in the 1980's, admired each other as kind of intellectual sparrrring parartn. and really liked and loved each other as s friends. they both loved opera. they both had a lot of other intellectual interests in theater and literature. and the fact that they disagreed so vehemently on the law sure nearly seemed to have made thehm closer to one another. i itdid not deny that sometimes wasn't exactly pleasant. one example that the justice had talked about is, you know, after bush the gore when they were -- could not have been more opposed to each other's point of view when the stakes could not have been higher, at one point at the end of the evening, he gave her a call and said "ruth, go home and take a hot bath and we will see each other again in the morning." gore, they might have become familiar with the results? >> the supreme court decision that ended the recount in florida and

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come on. >> antonin scalia: would i lie?t trust me, who can you trust, right? ( laughs ) >> clarence thomas: this is what we spent our time doing this, still got it. ( laughs ) >> kroft: scalia's fellow conservative, justice clarence thomas, grew up poor in georgia. indoor plumbing? >> thomas: no, goodness, no. there was an outhouse that we shared with some other families. >> welcome to your old neighborhood. >> sonia sotomayor: gracias. >> kroft: justice sonia sotomayor; her parents immigrated from puerto rico. she grew up in a public housing project in new york. >> pelley: you know, your brother told us that, more than once in this neighborhood, he got beaten up. >> sotomayor: yep. and more than once, i beat up the person who beat him up. ( laughs ) >> why don't you just stop filming now? >> kroft: "60 minutes" has done its fair share of exposeÉs, lare and small. congressman! congressman! we blew the whistle on insider trading in congress. >> we'll make a deal. okay. >> kroft: and the never-ending parade of small-time cons

we're meeting with the usual international friendly rusher and as well a few others but not till scalia and as agreed to meet for an hour. can you look see my show the door locks we want to keep these dialogue channels i've been with the. some of the greatest things created on this planet is through friendships and noddles good night i'm on the seal his face take me he would say yes i've had several correspondence with him i've been communicating on this other level but face to face first time. ambassador i mean. they're. really really you know the friends i don't want just. a. lot of i. want a. very strong that's why you. know i really feel. like. we truly want to say this if. you're. really like i don't know or you know it's just. so basically we just come out of the the meeting with send a scalia in that he's going to pass on i guess a summary of our conversation to senator brandis and the prime minister's office. he would encourage them that when they come to you dinged territory to sit down with us for at least half an hour get an opt out but that initial sit down and talk more tha

i remember when justice scalia said shouldn't you look at the other side. this a junior far city voter dilution claim. in any event, the supreme court found a republican legislator engage in racial gerrymandering and they were using the voter rights act as a pretext. race and party were overlapping, the recent african-americans are being shoved in smaller districts is because they were reliable democratic voters. is that racial gerrymandering, is that racial discrimination, is that just normal politics? these cases kept coming up. in response, republicans cap looking for ways to avoid creating racial gerrymander. what happened in north carolina toer their dishes were found be a racial gerrymander, they said they will draw sky-mobi will not look at any racial data. the representative in charge of the redistricting made the statement. i diagnosis will be a political gerrymander, we will use political data, it is to gain arson advantage, i am making clear our intention to use this data is to have an advantage. what sounds like it should be a indication of liab

son of the late supreme court justice antonin scalia shared selection from his fathers speeches. in the coming weeks on "after words" republican national committee spokesperson will report on the grassroots populist movement in the u.s. black lives matter cofounder will discuss the birth and growth of improvement. this weekend on "after words" women's march in washington cochair reflects on the 2017 march and what's ahead for the movement. >> we felt bad, the democratic party of democrats in general were too busy focusing on vote for us because we're not them. vote for us because they are racist. vote for us because they are the deplorable spec that's not how people are moved and i think about often, unmoved by things i care about. unmoved by communities that i love. i am moved by the idea i had a role to play in protecting the most marginalized. what we want to bring forth to this people attending the women's march this is not just about we're here because were anti-trump. at the trump. trump is just the manifestation of the unfortunate diseases that have plagued the nation for

could have paired at that point, justice scalia had written the most effective opinion next many the agency was perfectly fair and equitable. these are just my completely speculative excellent nations, that he had some difficulty coming around to a broad overruling of abud, having written the strums defense of it in the early 1980's. written a strong defense of it in the early 1980's. it appears a leave skepticism about abud. he saw the light as time went on. amy: do any of you have any ideas of what they will do if they rule for janice, as people believe they will? will they say abud is overruled? ramon: in this case, if you look at the language, it walks right up to the line. it could have just distinguished abud and said this is narrow and we don't need to address that. but it went out of its way to talk about -- think of all the adjectives -- derogatory adjectives were directed at abud. in addition, the court went out of its way to reject some of the arguments, some of which every in their beliefs and in our briefs. not mine person, but the government's. it went out of its way to

and this weekend on "after words," christopher scalia, son to have late supreme court justice antonin scalia, will share selections from his father's speeches. >> he delivered -- i think i know the stump speech you're referring to. it's a speech he delivered about originalism and why it's superior to what's called the living constitution approach -- >> right. >> -- to jurisprudence. and i heard him deliver that speech too in madison, wisconsin, in 2001. and it's one he delivered very often. it was his stump speech. i was looking forward to finding a written version of that because i loved that speech. i thought it was great. >> right. >> it included a wonderful passage where he compared the living constitution approach to a it's commercial from the 1980s where a -- a prego commercial where somebody is making pasta, just heating up store-bought pasta sauce, and the husband says to his wife, what, you're using this store-bought sauce, you're not doing it homemade? what about the oregano? and the wife says, it's in there. what about the pepper? it's in there. the garlic? it's in there. a

, son of antonin scalia shared collectioned of father's speeches and astronaut scott kelly discussed-setting space year. black lives matter cofounder patrice will discuss the birth and growth of the movement and this weekend on afterwords former clinton administration officials peter will argue that u.s. courts are using fines and fees to exploit the economically impoverished. >> the bigger thing is actually not the made up things or the very low kinds of violations, it's there, the bigger thing is driver's license suspension. more than half of -- of these low violations or whatever they are relates to that. not necessarily something they did driving their car by the way. they use it for a variety of things. >> disorderly conduct. >> in some cases if they have a driver's license they could move for something like that. that's absolutely right. whether or not the particular state california which doesn't put people in jail for doing these things but what it does do is that garnishes and takes tax refund, using bill collectors to go after these people and in california they've taken fo

justice scalia thought it was fresh to have a candidate pretty much unfiltered and frank.om the early days of the presidential campaign. agi pi said he will make sure something like what happened in hawaii will never happen again when somebody accidentally pressed the warning button. pi said they're looking at issues nationwide. >> part of the issues we're looking at, are there steps we need to take, federal officials working together to make sure something like this doesn't happen again. we're looking very closely at some of the steps we need to take to make sure the vulnerability we saw in hawaii on saturday is not replicated throughout the country. we need to make sure there are no more false alerts in any state in this country, and that's what we're intending to do. >> that would abe great result but hard to say if that's any consolation to the people of hawaii who spent 38 terrifying minutes believing this might be the end, that nuclear war had begun and that they would be the first casualties. that's how long it took for that oops message to go out saying that alert

christopher scalia, son of antonin scalia shared collections of his father's speeches. scott kelly talked about his record-setting year on the international space station. in the coming weeks will discuss the birth and growth of the black lives matter movement. former clinton administration official, will argue that u.s. courts are using fines and fees to exploit the economically impoverished. >> the bigger thing about the fines and fees is not these made-up things are very low kind of violatis. the bigger things his driver's license suspension. more than half of these violations relates to that. not necessarily something they did drive in their car. these it for a variety of things. >> that's right. in some states, they can lose it for something like that. whether or not the particular state, california which doesn't put people in jail for doing these things, but it does garnish the wages. it takes tax refund. he uses bill collectors to go after these people. in california they've taken 4 million driver licenses away from people. goes around the country, well over a mi

so basically we just come out of the the meeting with senator scalia and he's going to pass on i guess a summary of our conversation to senator brandis and the prime minister's office. he would encourage them when they come to cherry tree to sit down with us five least half an hour get an opt out but that initial sit down and talk more than in result of a formal agreement or treaty really needs to be ratified and pipe aside a space. such that i am hidden somewhere special to the russian. ambassador's residence and hopefully. his excellency but i mean morris of except this gift sons are unknown warrior my son and i travel. to his mother's country and sleep in the car near the beach and this particular spirit figure all came to me and decided to paint it this is the one of the first. so it's piece of me it's a piece of my son and it's a piece of this land. it's my dream to give every human members a painting a gift of peace from me an injury to the rest of the world. we had a very successful meeting. and we talked a lot about peacekeeping and we had a cup of coffee in russian biscuits so

the senate confirmed justice neil gorsuch to replace the late anton nin scalia on the supreme court.may, james comey, that lead to robert mueller to reason the investigation into russia's election met ling and possible collusion members of team trump. the investigation lead to the indictment of fommer trump campaign chairman paul man na for and the former campaign ad rick gates and the former national security advisor general michael flynn plead guilty lie though fbi but the contacts with the russian ambassador answered is now cooperating with the special council. also, in may, deadly terror take onary and ga gran day concert in england. 22 people killed. dozens more hurt. just one of several attacks against western countries through the the year. in june, a shooting at republican congressional baseball practice outside of d.c. the majority whip steve scalise the most seriously wound t. three months later, he gat standing ovation as he returned to congress. >> you have no idea how great this feels to be back here at work in the pom's house. [cheering and applauding] in july, the libe

and christopher scalia son of the late supreme court justice angt anyone scalia shared selections from his father's speeches. coming weeks kaelin are report on populous movement in u.s. black lives matter patrice will discuss the birth and growth of the movement. and this weekend, on afterwards, women's march on washington co-chair linda reflects on the 2017 march. and what's ahead for the movement -- we felt that the democratic party or democrats in general were too busy focusing on vote for us buzz we're not them. you know, vote for us because that i racist or they're the deplorable and that's not how people are moved and i think about how i'm moved but by things i care about and community that i love. i'm moved by the idea that i have a role to to play in -- protecting the most marginalized people so what i wanted to bring forth not just buzz we're anti-trump. trump is manifestation of the unfortunate diseases that have plagued this nation for a very long time but we wanted people to feel they were marching for something that we have value and principles that we stand for so we went

in seventh, it's scalia speakes, a collection of the late supreme court justice antonin and ally ya's speeches edited by his son and his former law clerk. after that, former house speaker newt gingrich gives his thoughts on the 45th president in "understanding trump," followed by president george w. bush's portraits of courage, a collection of his paintings of veterans. and wrapping up our list is fox news' laura ingram on president trump's political agenda and his relationship with the republican party in billionaire at the barricades. those -- most of these authors have appeared on booktv. you can watch them on our web site, booktv.org. ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> as we were downstairs getting ready to start the ceremony, captain yellin was asking me, do i stand for the army? or do i stand for the air force? because he was in the army air forces. [laughter] i said, sir, you're 93 years old, you can stand for anybody you want to. [laughter] [applause] captain jerry yellin is an army air forces veteran who served in

neil gorsuch to the supreme court he delivered on a key campaign promise to replace the late justice scalia with solid conservative. >> got to go for trump. supreme court justices. >> reporter: in 2016, 56% of republican voters said the supreme court was the most important factor in support. the white house is making its mark on the lower courts where the president is looking to fill 145 vacancies nationwide. >> the president is doing with the courts is truly transformative. >> leonard leo outside adviser to the president on judges helps lead the conservative federalist society. >> these are people who believe in self government, most of the big issues need to be decided by the people and their elected representatives. >> there have been missteps as the district court level. >> ever tried a jury trial? >> i have not. >> civil? >> two nominees. >> forced to withdraw over questions over their qualifications. on appeals court, highly credentialed. conservative powerhouse what you expect from a traditional republican president. democrats say it is not qualifications but their philosophy that co

they detail the relationship between antonin scalia and david brian.they offer a critical look at the trump administration and how it's reshaping the political landscape. in broken, they weigh in on partisanship in the senate. virginia eubanks looks at algorithms and automated programs have impacted the poor in automating inequality. look for these titles in bookstores and watch for many of the authors in the new

. >> next on booktv is afterwards christopher scalia, son of the late supreme court justice antonin scalia shares his father speeches on law, eighth and virtue. .. >> it was one of the most powerful court opinions, he wrote a lot of

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the late scalia wrote that. he said anyone who is brave enough to stand up and talk about politics has to be brave enough to disclose who they are. number stthree is conflict of interest. if you're a registered lobbyist you cannot make political contributions. they have upheld the constitutionality of that law for more than 20 years. why should you be allowed to give me money on top of that? it looks like bribery. it would basically turn the finance committee into a committee that would be to study and regulate the finance industry. the last one is you to put a better -- they gridlock on every issue. only little things get enforced. we are piloting this in a bipartisan fashion. check this out. >> good morning. i'm representing miami-dade college down in south florida. it seems to me one of your main points today is bipartisan ship and really the american government towards part -- partisanship are favoring what has shaped the great moments in american government in the 1940s and whatnot. what can we do to preven

jillian: antonin scalia found donald from refreshing according to a new memoir out today.account of the friendship between eno brian garner, speaking about donald trump in the early days on the campaign trail calling him unfiltered and more genuine than a candidate whose every utterance is airbrushed. >> personal cell phones will no longer be allowed in the west wing of the white house, phones not issued or authorized by the white house monday through friday from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, working hours, reporters can only bring phones for work or escort, the band will prevent the leaks of classified information from this administration. >> a wonderful surprise from the white house coming in the mail for one newly married couple. rob: they get this congratulatory letter from donald trump and first lady melania after they decided to mail their wedding invitation to the oval office. >> the letter say, quote, we join your family and friends in celebrating this joyous occasion and your love and commitment to one another. >> turning to extreme weather, massive mountains of thick ice pili

if her nor the reason, keeping the neil gorsuch seat open pad and salvage the scalia seat. are more issues that are important to conservatives. >> dana: mo, the president told bret baier that he wants to try to unite the country. we've heard that from him before but are the democrats going to buy any of that tonight? >> it depends what he does. and more importantly, what he does after tonight. he's going to give a fine speech tonight. he will deliver the speech well because he knows how to do that. he's a performer. but we've seen a fine and well delivered speech but are his actions coming out of them, do they stoke the partisan divide and the fissures in our country even more than before he went into it? >> dana: one thing they are going to talk about is immigration and going forward. the follow-through is so important and senator marco rubio tweeted "great seneca passed bill that deals with daca, border, nuclear family and lottery but we need a plan b bill which would be just daca in the border." charlie, what will conservatives think about that? >> is probably the most i

we have appointed a supreme court justice to replace the late and great anthony scalia.e isn't judge neil gore such. he will uphold the constitution of the united states. we believe, especially the people in it tennessee. i know you people soll well. and that peace through strength, that is what we are going to have. and we are taking steps to realize that our allies pay their fair share. we haven'trt begun a dramatic effort to eliminate a job killing federal regulations like nobody has ever seen before. slash, slash. we are going to protect the environment, we are going to protect people's safeties, but let me tell you. the regulation business has become a terrible business, and we are going to bring it down to where it should be. we sacrificed her own middle-class to finance the growth of a foreign countries. but to those days, ladies and gentlemen of kentucky, are over. is that okay? those days are over. it's crazy. you know what that is? much more than 60,000 factories. it is like if you have a map how do you put that many doubts in the middle? more than 60,000, but

unusual because he's going after the supreme court but i don't know if you noticed there, justice scaliaand said, no way. >> never good reaction when you have something like that happen and the supreme court no expression during state of the union. where i will jill thank you for joining us. we will see what happens tomorrow night in the state of the union. rob: something to headache the highlight, thanks so much. 18 minutes after the hour, incredible video as brand-new jeep bursts into flames, what happened moments before to help the soldier inside escape just in time? ♪ >> we remember that this country was built by dreamers. >> he had a long-time fear of being poisoned. rob: weren't grammy's about music, they used to be, political punches, carley shimkus joins us with the most outrageous moments of the night. if you're 65 or older, you may be at increased risk for pneumococcal pneumonia that can take you out of the game for weeks, even if you're healthy. pneumococcal pneumonia is a potentially serious bacterial lung disease that in severe cases can lead to hospitalization. it may hit q

teaching at george mason university's antonin scalia school of law.serving as a member of the national labor relations board, working as the us attorney for the southern district of florida and serving as the dean of the florida international university school of law. college of law, excuse me. that breath of life experience served as an excellent foundation for his current job as united states secretary of labor, where he works to foster, promote and develop the welfare of wage earners, job seekers and retirees of the united states. it's an enormous responsibility, secretary acosta manages 7000 federal workers charged with this task across our nation. i was pleased when secretary acosta came to south dakota for the first of our four workshops and i've been impressed with his commitment to working on behalf of today's labor force and for his vision for the workforce of tomorrow so please welcome our guest speaker, secretary alexander acosta, the us secretary of labor. [applause] >> thank you for the introduction and thank you for the invitation to join you again. as some of you know, g

the late antonin scalia a, in the citizens united decision, wrote that. he said anyone who is brave enough in the public square to talk about politics should be brave enough to disclose who they are. in the state of south carolina, if you are a registered lobbyist, you cannot make political contributions. this is a conservative state and the conservative state supreme court held up that law for 20 years. the idea being that come if you are a lobbyist and you announce that, you have a next to grind with the government, so why should you be allowed to give me money on top of that? that looks like bribery. it looks like quid pro quo. instituting some kind of a law like that in washington would be amazing. it would turn the finance committee into a committee whose job would be to really steady policy and regulate the finance industry as opposed to suck up money from the finance industry. in the last one is you have to put a better cop on the beat. with the federal election commission, it has been a gridlock commission for years. the commission is comprised of

one of the theories about elena kagan and justice scalia's relationship was that when she was the deanshe would invite conservatives to come to harvard and teach. how tolerant are the professors in the harvard law school and the can -- and the students to the conservative point of view? noah: we are extremely lucky at harvard that we have genuine diversity on our faculty. our new dean is from a conservative background and is committed to the idea that we have ideological diversity. the students believe in that and i believe my faculty colleagues to too. we have a genuine right and left on our faculty. we have a lot of moderate many of in the middle, whom have made important contributions to u.s. constitutional history. i like to think we are tolerant and we try to teach our students that. >> how many classes do you teach per semester? >> i always teach a big constitutional law class. i teach a big first amendment class around the same number. and i teach a seminar or smaller class on whatever i am working on at that particular time. sometimes they teach that jointly with professors in

he clerked for justice scalia and went to dartmouth college. congrats.s for -- that is it for us tonight. shannon bream takes it. >> shannon: pretty impressive. >> laura: take care. >> shannon: here is what we have coming up tonight. president trump said he's looking forward to speaking with robert mueller's team under oath. ed henry is tracking the latest developments, as concerns grow about a so-called secret society of top fbi and dod officials. some believe are committed to bringing down the president. plus illegal immigrants tell chuck schumer. colorado republican senate cory gardner a key member of the negotiation joins us live with the debate over

he clerked for justice scalia and went to dartmouth college. congrats. that is us for -- that is it for us tonight. shannon bream takes it. >> shannon: pretty impressive. >> laura: take care. >> shannon: here is what we have coming up tonight. president trump said he's looking forward to speaking with robert mueller's team under oath. ed henry is tracking the latest developments, as concerns grow about a so-called secret society of top fbi and dod officials. some believe are committed to bringing down the president. plus illegal immigrants tell chuck schumer. colorado republican senate cory gardner a key member of the negotiation joins us live with the debate over daca and how close congress could be to reaching a deal. we will also have more with my visit to israel, including a look at a controversial security fence there and what lessons the u.s. could take from it. ended former secretary of state john kerry urge palestinian leader mahmoud abbas two resist president trump? john bolton is here to help us dig deeper. ♪ hello and welcome to "fox news @ ni

conservative supreme court justice, gorsuch, is appointed way to the right, even of justice s justice scaliais theft disguised as a tax bill, this wealth transfer from the poor to the rich, again, i don't know -- >> let me push you on that and say, certainly, it therethere's difference between a federal appeals court judge who had been supported by both parties who rules in a certain way, and i think what neera's getting at, which is the rank, direct, blaring racism or name-calling that is different than a policy debate. >> well, again, if you're doing what paul ryan is doing, which is trying to take health care away from poor people, who will die without that kind of asis tax, agai tans. i don't know how different that is from trump calling somebody a name. they're contriving the lies. >> neera helped write obamacare. >> i think the idea that the president says words like this are not just deeply hurting to you and me, but, you know, haitian american children have to hear those words and think about whether they belong in a country like that. i think that is a special harm that the rpreside

. >> it is not the case that the president has absolute power, even if you subscribe to justice scalia's famous theory and the president is the king of the executive branch, the point that he can fire these people, it doesn't matter that he can do it a lawful act. if he does it with a corrupt purpose and if that's related to any personal motive. the other thing i would add, this investigation is not solely about potential russia collusion. in fact, it came about after the firing of comey. and bradford knows that there may be no underlying crime. there may be no collusion, but that's the nature of obstruction. if there was no underlying crime, you can still obstruct justice if you get involved in an investigation. it's not the case the president has unfettered absolute power to fire, because even if he does so lawfully, he may violate another law in doing so. >> that's the purpose of having different executive branches in this country for checks and balances, so that's not able to happen where the president can do whatever he wants. bradford, final question, how far did you get on "the ap

the senate confirmed justice neal gorsuch to replace the late antonin scalia on the supreme court n maymp fired the fbi director james comey. that led to the appointment of a special counsel robert mueller. to run the investigation into russia' election meddling and possible collusion with members of team trump. the investigation led to the indictment of former trump campaign chairman paul man any fort and campaign aid rick gates. also the former national security adviser general michael flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with the russian ambassador. he's now cooperating with the special counsel. >> also in may, a deadly terror attack an ariana grande concert in he know. 22 people killed. dozens more hurt. just one of several attacks against western countries throughout the year. >> in june, a shoot tag republican congressional baseball practice outside d.c. the majority whip steve scalise the most seriously wounded. three months later -- [ applause ] >> -- he got a standing ovation as he returned to congress. >> you have no idea how great this feels to be back