amy cohen barrett went in for like just a few days before the election.ion, kavanaugh was held off until the election was over. i mean a whole year obama was not able to appoint somebody. i mean all of that leads -- it's not so much the polls that scott's talking about. it's really the court and its moral authority. and once you start getting away from acting like a court and start basically giving what people perceive as political pronouncements, that's when you get into trouble. >> i don't want to -- i want to raise two points and i don't want to be too provocative with my friend here. part of the cynicism and part of the polarization and part of the sense of all of this stems from the fact president obama appointed merrick garland to the supreme court. he was never even allowed a hearing. he was never even given an opportunity to appear before the senate because senator mcconnell held up the nomination for the better part of a year. president trump nominates amy cohen barrett and she goes through the speed lane and in a matter of weeks she's on the sup

supreme court justice, amy cohen barrett, she rejected a request that will block the biden relief plan. that was a surprise to me, you? >> this was a bogus lawsuit, steph. every day of the week, but not surprised that justice barrett even bother showing it to her colleagues. and just deciding it to yourself. the reason is that this lawsuit was just a political agreement. it had no special legal interest that people claimed. the basic lawsuit was that hey, i'm a taxpayer, and i don't have as government money's being spent which is not a legal claim. i think the comedian, dimitri martin, who said how did the sanitize way. when someone becomes a sentence, as a taxpayer, i believe that person is going to be someone they are generally not going well with. >> >> there you go, michelle sender, katie benner, no cocktail, i want to talk longer. but in 40 minutes, taylor swift new album drops. and i know neil is positioned to download it, to listen to it, to dance to it. so we need to give him some time to prepare. ladies, thank you all, neil enjoy tea swift. before we go to break, we've got to