bret cavanaugh, a former clerk to justice anthony kennedy, former deputy to ken starr during the clintontration. in the white house counsel's office under george w. bush. teen of other appeals court judges, tom griffith of the d.c. circuit. some of those names were on the heritage foundation list that came out earlier this year that trump's people said they looked at. mark: there is a range of ages here, but it seems to me some of the people he left off are on the younger end of names that people consider. is that a big issue for conservatives, that they want the next republican president to nominate younger justices so they can stay on the bench for a longer time? pete: absolutely. i would say this is really not a federalist society list -- that has been one of their things, to put younger people, get them nominated to the courts of appeals. if you look at recent democratic nominees, they are all pretty young. of course, john roberts was young when he was nominated as well. that has been the trend -- to try to get younger justices on so they can serve longer. one surprising name on this

and now here we are two years later, anthony kennedy says i can't decide. >> the accommodation, catholichospitals, catholic universities, charities, they say the federal government says we have to sign this form in order to get this religious conscious accommodation. >> and you don't have to pay for it at all and the insurer covers it directly. to that they object. they say it still triggers contraceptive coverage and they object. >> the court with four members on, quote, each side, reading between the lines sort of said we can't decide this, we're tied. >> right. >> so all of the appeals courts but one said, no, you have no argument. when a religious objector can't say no going to the army, they can't say, no, someone can go in my place. the supreme court, first they asked for another round of briefing, then they said we can't figure it out right now, you should come up with a compromise, birth control and women's access to health care is important, religious rights are important, you figure it out. so everything will depend on when this case comes back from the courts of appeals and th

but in 1988, as i just described, he led the senate in confirming justice anthony kennedy. further in 1987 and 1991, when president reagan and bush submitted the highly controversial nominations of robert bork and clarence thomas, the senate judiciary committee chaired by then-senator biden held nominations, held hearings on the nominations and took them to the floor for up-or-down votes. so when senator biden chaired the judiciary committee, he always provided a republican president supreme court nominees with a hearing, a vote in committee, and a vote on the senate floor. it is also important to consider the overall point that senator biden was making in 1992. the supreme court was about to adjourn, which is a time when justices frequently announce their retirements. senator biden was arguing that there should not be a trumped up retirement designed to create a vacancy for which the president would submit an ideologically extreme nominee as part of a campaign to make the supreme court an agent of an ultra right conservative social agenda which would lack support in the co

kennedy anthony: the systems are in pretty good shape. >> 200-plus years.have had some bad leaders and dysfunctional governments. our government today is reasonably dysfunctional. a lot of checks and balances. our framer sort of got it right. i'm not particularly worried about the outcome. anthony: how would you rate the health of the u.s. economy? >> we live in new york and i would say the people view the economy depending on how the dow jones trade week to week. but if you look at the numbers, the economy is pretty healthy. facts are sometimes inconvenient. but if you look at the job numbers. it's pretty good. wage increases. if you are the average person, things are getting better. the fed think raising rates. gary: it's an interesting week we just had, the idea that the fed may start to tighten again in june has come back in play. what did you think about the feds raising rates in december and do you think they should continue on this path. >> i'm personally in a big believer we are in a very low inflation environment for a long time. i think the global

kennedy anthony: the systems are in pretty good shape. >> 200-plus years. we have had some bad leaders and dysfunctional governments. our government today is reasonably dysfunctional. a lot of checks and balances. our framer sort of got it right. i'm not particularly worried about the outcome. anthony: how would you rate the health of the u.s. ecomy? >> we live in new york and i would say the people view the economy depending on how the dow jones trade week to week. but if you look at the numbers, the economy is pretty healthy. facts are sometimes inconvenient. but if you look at the job numbers. it's pretty good. wage increases. if you are the average person, things are getting better. the fed think raising rates. gary: it's an interesting week we just had, the idea that the fed may start to tighten again in june has come back in play. what did you think about the feds raising rates in december and do you think they should continue on this path. >> i'm personally in a big believer we are in a very low inflation environment for a long time. i think the glob

kennedy anthony: the systems are in pretty good shape. >> 200-plus years. we have had some bad leaders and dysfunctional governments. our government today is reasonably dysfunctional. a lot of checks and balances. our framer sort of got it right. i'm not particularly worried about the outcome. anthony: how would you rate the health of the u.s. economy? >> we live in new york and i would say the people view the economy depending on how the dow jones trade week to week. but if you look at the numbers, the economy is pretty healthy. facts are sometimes inconvenient. but if you look at the job numbers. it's pretty good. wage increases. if you are the average person, things are getting better. the fed think raising rates. gary: it's an interesting week we just had, the idea that the fed may start to tighten again in june has come back in play. what did you think about the feds raising rates in december and do you think they should continue on this path. >> i'm personally in a big believer we are in a very low inflation environment for a long time. i think the gl

brett cavanaugh former clerk to anthony is kennedy and to ken star during the clinton administration. other appeals court judges tom griffith of the d.c. circuit. some of those names, cavanaugh and clement were on the heritage foundation list that came out earlier this year that trump's people said they looked at. >> the ones i'm familiar with, there's range of ages here. it seems to me that some of the people he left off are on the younger end of names that people consider. is that a big issue for conservatives that they want the next republican president to nominate younger justices to stay on the bench for a longer period of time in. >> absolutely. i would say this is not a federalist society list. you would see clement and brett cavanaugh on it. put younger people and get them nominated. the obama nominees are pretty young. john roberts was young when he was nominated as well. that's been the current trend to try to get younger justices on so they can serve longer. i got to say one other thing about one surprising name on this list. donald willett who is one of the state supreme c

. >> anthony: that was unbelievable. >>> president kennedy: good evy fellow citizens. this government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the soviet military buildup on the island of cuba. >> anthony: this is the cuba i grew up with. >> narrator: mankind teeters precariously on the brink of a thermal nuclear war. >> anthony: the missile crisis. duck and cover. hide under your desk, kids, cover yourselves with wet newspaper, because we're all going to die. >> narrator: the flames of crisis burn far stronger, fed and fanned by the bitter tirades of fidel castro. >> anthony: and this guy, always in the fatigues, underlining with every appearance that we were two nations in a never-ending state of war. ♪ >> president obama: today, the united states of america is changing its relationship with the people of cuba. we will begin to normalize relations between our two countries. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la

. >> anthony: that was unbelievable. >>> president kennedy: good evy fellow citizens. his is the cuba i grew up with. >> narrator: mankind teeters precariously on the brink of a thermal nuclear war. >> anthony: the missile crisis. duck and cover. hide under your desk, kids, cover yourselves with wet newspaper, because we're all going to die. >> narrator: the flames of crisis burn far stronger, fed and fanned by the bitter tirades of fidel castro. >> anthony: and this guy, always in the fatigues, underlining with every appearance that we were two nations in a never-ending state of war.

anthony machi on this. it's amazing how johnson committed suicide almost politically. a friend of mine from georgia reminds me, the strongest vote in the entire country for john f. kennedy in 1960 was georgia. the south was the solid south for the democrats. they voted for stevenson. it was that good a vote in the south, gone. johnson had it right starting in '64. they could never do it again. >> definitely. i mean, i think that was one of the things he realized what he was going to have to give up in order to make this work but i feel like what is so great about lbj and able to do was he sacrificed everything for what he believed in. there were many -- i always say there were many other men out there that could have done what dr. king and lbj did but none of them stood up and did it. and i think that's the testament to the men they were. >> let me ask jay about saturday night. why saturday night for a debut? what's the thinking there? tell me something about television i don't know. why would you take a major film like this and open it on a saturday night? a question. >> sunday nights are pretty busy with game of throwns and silicon valley, great shows and saturdays ar

reagan with a vacancy on the supreme court, president reagan in his last year in office nominated anthony kennedy to fill that vacancy on the supreme court, sent the nominee to this chamber in the senate. when it was controlled by the democratic side. what did the democratic majority say to the republican president trying to fill the supreme court vacancy? we know our responsibility, and that senate under the control of the democrats took up the name offered by the republican president, approved him and sent him to the supreme court, 1988. so to argue that this is just typical politics, don't make a lot of noise, we do this all the time, let me make it clear. what the republican senate majority is doing today has never -- underline that word "never" -- happened in the history of the united states of america. this is disrespect for a constitutional provision which is explicit. this is disrespect for a court which now sits with eight members on the court, a court which could find itself and already has in several instances tied 4-4. how important is it? let me read a you quote back in 1987. every d