oft: this is carrie severino the judicial crisis network. she's here to talk about the upcoming supreme court confirmation involving judge amy coney barrett. thanks for being with us. guest: good morning. host: remind our viewers about the organization and where you stand politically. guest: we are looking to get judges confirmed to our committed to interpreting the constitution and the laws as they are written. you have any active role in the president's choice for supreme court? guest: that's the president's call and it is done through the white house counsel office but i'm thrilled, i felt like everyone he was looking at closely was really well-qualified. i felt like i couldn't be in a better position. i would have been happy if it was amy coney barrett or barbara lagoa, he had some great choices. host: i suppose the question you are asked a lot these days is about the overall impact on the court and how it changes when it comes to the justices themselves. how would you answer that? guest: it's a shift in perspective and how we look at th

host: carrie severino joins us. the judicial crisis network. let's go to california, stephanie, you are next up. caller: good morning, c-span. system of checks and balances has been broken. i do believe the sitting president should be the one who chooses the next appointment on supreme court. i want to remind you that mcconnell did not allow obama's pick for the court to go through and the system is broken. that is why harry reid invoked the nuclear option. that was a mistake because now we are paying the price. it doesn't matter who sits on the supreme court and who gets picked on the supreme court. that is to be chosen by the american people and the american people who put the next president in office. i want to ask you, are you part of the federalist group? thank you. guest: i am a member of the federal society. i think you talk to most lawyers, they would say the same thing. it is a great debate group and an opportunity to speak up and have really interesting exchanges with the people i have debated there. going back to the question of the

here now on this breaking news carrie severino, the president of the judicial crisis network and co-author the kavanaugh confirmation" and the future of the supreme court. carrie, we all saw what brett kavanaugh went through before he finally got to the supreme court. if our information is correct, and amy coney barrett is the nominee, what can she expect to endure? >> well, one of the things mollie and i learned writing the book is the attacks on the nominee often have less to do with the nominee himself than the stakes of the seat. weave know the stakes of the seat here kavanaugh was replacing kennedy. here the nominee will be replacing justice ginsburg. that's going to be a huge change and approach to the constitution. although i would say still it's going to be a woman who is an impressive role model and someone that is a trailblazer like justice ginsburg. i think we will see attacks probably like we haven't seen before. whether it's an anti catholic line of attack. whether it's something different. people may be even making threats as you saw people banging down the doors of the supre

let's talk about this on our round table with chris christie, rahm emanuel, kate shaw, and carrie severino, let me begin with you. it seems like all through the summer nothing changes in this race. not the conventions, not the other revelations. is the passing of ruth bader ginsburg different? >> i would say the short answer is no because the force of this election is donald trump. obviously four years, and nothing changes. the race stays incredibly stable in these most uncertain of times and that's because at the end of the day, donald trump hasn't improved one iota over his job approval or disapproval, and that's where this race is. in his recent polling, and it goes back to january and moves within a bandwidth of a point either way. and you'll also find going from 2018, 2019, 2020, the energized electorate. this will have more impact on the senate races. if i can, george, one other thing. a lot has been said about ruth bader ginsburg. i worked for president clinton when he nominated her about hurt -- her judicial mind, her experience as a woman, how it influenced her life and also being

carrie severino was with the judicial crisis network. let's start with barbara lagoa. has a compelling history, compelling personal story and obviously politically. in florida, cuban-american. probably would help the president in the electoral process. >> sure. apart from that she's a trailblazer in many of the ways justin ginsberg was. coming from a minority race herself and her parents having fled cuba. she tells a beautiful, compelling story about how they came here because of the rule of law, wanting their children to be able to live under a system where it wasn't just someone making it up as they go. that's why she's so committed to reading the law and the constitution as it's written. >> bret: i have talked to a number of different people. people say it's between amy coney barrett and barbara lagoa and that barrett perhaps is the front runner heading into the weekend. >> well, obviously she is, we know the president has with before and has interviewed her again today it sounds like. i think we still don't know. barrett herself obviously has a huge following natio

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carrie severino, carrie, thank you very much. >> thank you. steve: 7:26 here in new york city. dining to resume in a couple of weeks. but our next guest. a restaurant owner, still suing the governor and the mayor saying it is too little, too late. ♪ don't do me like that. ♪ brian: all right, here we go. big news for restaurant owners in new york city. the governor announcing indoor dining can resume later this month one day after making these comments. >> if you go to indoor dining, you are roughly doubling the number of places that you're going to have to monitor. if we have the enforcement mechanism in place, then we can talk about opening restaurants. brian: really? okay. the next day a flip flop. good news for restaurants, kind of. next guest argues it is still not enough. restaurant owner suing the governor and mayor. here with more bringing their case front and center, the on or about of de lucca's restaurant in staten island rob de lucca and his attorney james rodriguez. he said you can open 2u7 5% and no one at the bar. rob, how do you feel about that. >> we're happy th

oft: this is carrie severino the judicial crisis network. here to talk about the upcoming supreme court confirmation involving judge amy coney barrett. thanks for being with us. guest: good morning. host: remind our viewers about the organization and where you stand politically. guest: we are looking to get judges confirmed to our committed to interpreting the constitution and the laws as they are written. you have any active role in the president's choice for supreme court? guest: that's the president's call and it is done through the white house counsel office but i'm thrilled, i felt like everyone he was looking at closely was really well-qualified. i felt like i couldn't be in a better position. i would have been happy if it was amy coney barrett or barbara lagoa, he had some great choices. host: i suppose the question you are asked a lot these days is about the overall impact on the court and how it changes when it comes to the justices themselves. how would you answer that? guest: it's a shift in perspective and how we look at the law

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cast carrie severino, it was across the spectrum. on a regular basis and there are rules. you don't talk politics or talk about the cases. you talk about books you're reading, grandkids, kids, trips you've taken or are going to take. they make it a very concerted and purposeful effort to have those relationships outside the bench. >> sandra: ruth bader ginsburg breaking one final barrier today becoming the first woman and first jewish american the lie in state in the united states capitol as this private ceremony continues on capitol hill. you saw jill biden, joe biden just a moment ago paying their final respects. saying their final goodbyes as we remember the life of ruth bader ginsburg. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ it's official: national coffee day is now national dunkin' day! celebrate with a free medium hot or iced coffee with any purchase on september 29th. to save you up to 60%. these are all great. and when you get a big deal... ♪ ...you feel like a big deal. ♪ priceline. every trip is a big deal. rioting is not protesting. loot

former clerk to supreme court justice clarence thomas and president of the judicial crisis network carrie severino. steve: okay so, once again, the democrats have been talking about packing the court a number of times this year. and suddenly it has become more urgent, hasn't it. >> well, give me a break, guys. you have been wanting to pack the court for months here ever since frankly 2018 with kavanaugh they have been talking about it. so they are looking for any excuse think have. and, believe me, whether the seats were filled or not, you know, whether this vacancy happened or not, they would be wanting to packet court. what they want is are judges are ho are going to be using their politics first, not just interpreting the law. what's so ironic is justice ginsburg herself said packing the court would be a horrible idea. tried by fdr, rejected even by his own senate saying this is a bad idea it. could lead to a cycle of one party and the other party increasing numbers of the court. that would be horrible for the institution of the court. horrible for the country. i think the democrats know that b

coming up tuesday morning, talk about the upcoming supreme court confirmation battle with carrie severino, chief counsel for the judicial practice network and , and aizabeth wydra discussion about the history of presidential debates with mitchell mckinney. watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning, and be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages messages, and tweets. the first presidential debate between president donald trump and former vice president joe biden is tuesday night at 9:00 eastern from cleveland. watch live on c-span. >> his campaign is really reckless and all of this is for political reasons. is catastrophic shut down. biden: again, and his own words, quoted by bob woodward, the president knew back in february that this was an disease. dangerous think about it. how many empty chairs around those dinner tables, because of his negligence and selfishness. >> watch the first presidential debate come alive from cleveland , tuesday night on c-span. stream live or on-demand at debate, or listen live on the c-

carrie severino is from the judicial crisis network. great to see you. i'm curious. lindsey graham had said he would not support a supreme court nominee in an election here and sent the letter to democratic members of the senate judiciary committee and he said the following. compare the treatment of robert moore, clarence thomas, samuel alito and clear there is one set of rules for a republic president and another set for democratic president. it is important we proceed expeditiously to process any nomination made by president trump to fill this vacancyment i'm certain if the shoe were on the other foot you would do the same. your thoughts on that, carey? >> yeah, we don't have to wonder whether the shoe was on the other foot would do the same thing. we had people like joe biden and chuck schumer saying they've got two different positions on this. the kavanaugh confirmation is when lindsey graham got woke on this idea. someone tried to reach across the aisle so many times. talked about during the kavanaugh hearing he voted for sotomayor and kagan. the democrats were

. >> sandra: let's bring in judicial crisis network president carrie severino. being here. as we await the big debate you have the countdown clock on. next tuesday night will be nothing but huge for the outcome of this election. we'll all be watching that. ahead of that the president's pick will be 5:00 p.m. saturday and now the pressure is on joe biden to name names. "wall street journal" says biden refuses to say if he would go along with his party's court packing scheme and mr. biden in the name of letting voters be heard is demanding republicans surrender and not confirm a new justice but giving voters no idea who he would appoint to the court beyond an identity politics pledge. he won't tell voters if he would resist his party's court packing scheme that could blow up its legitimacy. how much pressure will be on biden to name names? >> well, we can see he is cracking under some of the pressure already. this represents multiple flip-flops for him. back in 2016 he thought when he was vice president he thought president obama needed to have a hearing and vote

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