was it the bork nomination?the history of the senate is written, this chapter will be a flashing red warning light of what to avoid. truly, judge kavanaugh's confirmation is a low moment for the senate, for the court, for the country. >> the senate over the years has slowed down supreme court nominations, taken its time to get to them, bring them up. but ultimately the broad flow of historical practice is to bring them up and vote them up or vote them down. that's what the senate owes the president. >> supporting the nominee, modern vice presidents are chief lobbyists for the president on capitol hill, an evolution from the single duty the framers give the position. >> the senate being equally divided. >> the vice president votes in the affirmative. >> every time i vote, we win. it's remarkable. it works like a charm. >> the vice president votes in the affirmative. >> i have clearly a constitutional responsibility. the only one, actually. >> they are next in the line of succession to become the nation's chief ex

fact that bork, who was on the d.c.ircuit at the time that he was nominated -- lamb: and so was ab mikva. wax: and so was ab mikva, so they were both on the same court and bork, still, was hearing cases, were very close friends. they had gone to law school together, at chicago. and so, bork was frequently in the office, consulting with ab mikva about the whole ordeal that he was going through. we, of course, the clerks, were not privy to these conversations but it was striking that they, clearly, were very close friends. and i know, robert bork trusted ab mikva, his wisdom and his acumen and his advice. lamb: so how did you get your job in the solicitor general's office of the -- which president? wax: it was reagan, and charles fried was the solicitor general at the time. this was towards the end of his tenure as the solicitor general, that i was hired. i had been -- i had lucked into a summer internship at the solicitor general's office while i was at columbia law school. i had a professor who was a visiting professor

target to be carbon neutral by 2050 pence borking report from adopting this is official policy that's not going down well in poland but the country's deputy foreign minister is accused of the lecturing and it is perhaps difficult to swallow such a lecture when france itself has been accused of calling behind tackling the climate emergency france's misson emissions targets in 3 or 4 big sectors a wise person once said people who live in cost houses shouldn't throw bricks advice some may council to take charge even ski r.t. paris. for britain's prime minister boris johnson just found out officially these broken the law when he suspended parliament earlier this month the u.s. the u.k. rather supreme court has just ruled in the last half hour or so about pro gay sion of parliament was in fact lawful the prime minister's advice to her majesty was. void of no effect. this means that the order in council to which it led was also a little full void and have no effect and should be quashed a prayer or a geisha was also void and of no effect parliament has not been wrote. rather promised to sus

from the far right party the speaker is and they are skull bits the party's lead candidate in brandon bork and according to german media a man linked to neo nazi groups he denies some but not all of the claims the f.t. is popular in several areas of this state where unemployment remains higher than the national average and towns like lugar have an aging population although the immigrant population here is tightly count it says message is uncompromising on their part than still are we demand criminals so-called refugees who can only deported must 1st be in prison and one thing is clear integration means you adapt to the country it does not mean the country adapts to you. the f.t.'s closest rival is the governing social democrat party whose vote share has been shrinking for years when silent thought of i don't need reliability cohesion and strong leadership i stand for that let's stand together to make sure our land stays in good hands in the future. polls show the race in brandenburg is very close perhaps know what more so than here sure and i say by barely in a leafy commuter town of over

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think back to judge bork and justice thomas this didn't exist before.o much else of this didn't exist before either. in reporting out search and destroy, i expected the advice and consent process to unfold as it had with merrick garland, president obama's pick, that the senate rejected and with justice senate confirmed was president trump's pick. what i found was a search and destroy that began before judge kavanaugh was selected. >> what does that mean? >> the left had said from the very beginning we are going to oppose whoever, whoever trump picks and demand justice, a new organized dark money group on the left pledged to spend $5 million opposing whoever the pick was around that group is run by brian fallon, a hillary clinton campaign flack. and he said at the time it wasn't so much about cancelling which ever nominee was picked, it was about building the muscle memory to organize around the corps look forward to 2020. >> tucker: what a loathsome extremist he is. ryan, congratulations on the book. >> thank you. >> tucker: lisa boothe joins us tonight

i mean, by any realistic standards, judge robert bork was absolutely and unquestionably qualified for the job, and we're talking in the '80s. so that standard has been abandoned for a long time. and it was abandoned first by the democrats, then we kind of went back, you know, and we tell some of the story in "justice on trial." i think there are many times when republicans were hoping they could kind of return to that. you saw justices breyer and ginsburg had almost unanimous confirmations, and i think what we have seen is it's taken a while for republicans to realize that that standard hasn't been followed. and, actually, you saw a little of from frustration coming from lindsey graham who is one of the people who absolutely ascribes -- >> host: he wasn't the only one. >> guest: recall his outburst at the final confirmation where he said tell justice kagan and sotomayor hello, because i voted for them, and you are not following that standard. i think he's frustrated because he would like that to be the standard. that simply isn't the standard that's being followed. i think there shoul

bork showedobert how the internet -- social media has sped up the process described as -- as a result, we have experienced the depressing proliferation of violent homegrown extremists, mass shootings, and domestic terror attacks. another dramatic shift was illegal immigration -- in 2011, unaccompanied children -- months into this fiscal year, more than 69,000 unaccompanied children from central america and 432,000 family members have been apprehended with most claiming asylum and being allowed to stay. i use these examples to highlight problems we face and our inability to effectively address them. unfortunately, there are not as many solutions as effective as hardening the cockpit doors. as chair of this committee, i have attempted to guide us through this process, gathering information, properly defining problems, identifying root problems, establishing achievable goals. then, only after completing that work, begin to design workable solutions. too often in the political realm, solutions are directed towards unachievable goals and do not reflect reality. the 10th anniversary report

in his book, robert bork illustrated how the internet provided an opportunity for previously isolated deviants to connect to others. social media has sped up the process daniel patrick moynihan described as, quote, defining deviancy down. we experienced a proliferation of homegrown violent extremists, mass shootings and domestic terror attacks. another dramatic shift involves illegal immigration. in 2011, only 3098 unaccompanied children from central america were apprehended on the southwest border and the phenomenon of families exploiting our laws, we were not even keeping track. 11 months into this fiscal year, 69,000 unaccompanied children from central america, 432,000 family members have been apprehended with most claiming asylum and being allowed to stay. i use these examples to highlight the evolving complexity of the problems we face and our inability to effectively address them. unfortunately, there are not many solutions as easy and effective as hardening. the chairman of this can be, i have attempted to guide us through the problem-solving process, gather information, proper

there are voices left, right, and center when the people often referred to as warren burger, robert bork other people not known as left-wing judges saying that the second amendment did not protect an individual right. today it does and that is in part as as a result of this movement outside the court. but he came to come back to my agreement with erin, congress alone can't do it. popular opinion and pulse alone can't do it. it's got to lead to something that we recognize as constitutional change. >> if i can pick up on something joseph was saying. one of the reasons you had the shift in thinking is in part to go back to what we were just talking about, which is in the same time we thought content saw courts moving to this notion of interpreting the constitution in a manner consistent with the historical scope of what the provision of the constitution were intended to protect when they were put into the constitution. it was really a big part of the movement and the shift in thinking was you started having a bunch of historical scholarship about the second amendment and initially became mo

brian: a woman borks full time with rob in the morning wants to take the ball from her.,000 feet in just minutes. issues with cabin pressure causing oxygen masks to fall on the delta flight as it made an emergency landing in tampa, florida. passengers as you can imagine panicking. one man hugged his son, told his family he loved them. the flight from atlanta was supposed to land in fort lauderdale. no one was hurt. it is unclear what caused problem. >>> france rejects edward snowden's request for asylum. the former nsa contractor has been living in russia where he can avoid prosecution from the u.s. he faces charges for leaking sensitive u.s. intelligence documents since 2013. france said nothing has changed since they rejected his first claim. the. >>> an injured hiker rescued after crawling for help after two days. neil parker is recovering in the hospital after slipping on a rock and falling 20 feet down a waterfall in australia. parker says he broke his arm and leg. he says he tried to use his cell phone to get help but he dropped it in a creek. after splinting his l

>> i think it started with the assault on robert bork.because -- clarence thomas, 5-4 would have changed things. wait until ruth bader ginsburg leaves the court. maria: they're going to go nuts. >> it will make what they did to kavanaugh look like kindergarten. >> when the court began to make legislative decisions and they began to do what congress didn't have the guts to do, whether it was brown, board of education. they made many decisions that really were political decisions. i think that was the beginning of this and it's become more and more -- >> brown versus board of education shows the supreme court can make a moral ruling that it can do the right thing when the political branches lack the courage and lack the will to do the right thing because they're worried about getting voted out of office. brown versus board of education is one of the greatest decisions in the history of the r court. the legislature had the guts to do it. >> the legislature should have, they didn't, the court interseeped and becam -- intervd and became a legi

men who don't l, men who don't understand how women's bodies bork, men who don't understand how preventive care like birth control works. it's time for men to stop trying to take away women's health care. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: the presiding officer: the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of john rakolta jr. of michigan to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary -- ambassador of the united states to the united arab emirates, signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of john rakolta jr. of michigan to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the united states of america to the united arab emirates. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: has any senator not voted? does any senator wish to c