it's about clarence thomas.as, was involved with drugs, did clarence thomas do x, y, z? just every kind of scurrilous possible rumor. >> the thomas hearings still resonate to this day and remain a source of controversy for presidential candidate joe biden, and of course the #metoo movement. at the show is called high-tech lynching. if you can watch it on fox nation. dana buried >> i'm going to talk about fox nation as well. i did an interview with tyrus, he has a show, he likes to talk to people at all sorts of things like her childhood, et cetera. he asked me why it is a positive mind-set so important, i talked about that then he asked me this question, what is your favorite emotion, and this is what i came up with. >> i think my favorite emotion is pride in other people. being happy for somebody else is probably when i feel the happiest. especially the tv business, and politics, if you can't be happy for somebody else's success, you will feel constantly diminished. >> my colleagues are barfing. >> get real. >>

i'd live long enough to see it twice in my lifetime, but it was very similar to the way that clarence thomas iowa knee eta -- anita hill revelations came out after the first round of thomas hearings, and i covered those first round of thomas hearings, and nobody remembers that. everybody remembers the second. you would not think it could happen twice in 30 years, but it did. well, thank you very much. it was great to talk with you, and the book is "justice on trial: the kavanaugh confirmation and the future of the supreme court." good luck on the book and thank you very much. >> guest: thank you. >> guest: great to be here. >> this program is available as a podcast. all "after words" programs can be viewed on our web site at booktv.org. .. the

clarence thomas is a senior member on the court. they killed him -- lou: luckily they didn't kill him. >> they tried to. lou: his character and his strength. he's quite a man to handle all that. >> it's going to take someone like trump to stand up to this. most of people would in the fetal position long ago. lou: having surrendered. neither clarence thomas nor president trump men of that sort. up next. president trump's trade policies strangling the chinese economy. are we nearing a new trade deal? we take that up with michael pillsbury. stay with us. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ of all the moments you share with your best friend, the greatest could be the moment you save her life. every second counts in cardiac arrest. learn hands-only cpr and be the difference for someone you love. lou: president trump suggested a new list of investigation for the house judiciary committee. president trump suggesting they might want to look into obama's million dollar book and nets fliks deals and the slush fund used to pay off sexual miscon

clarence thomas is a senior member on the court.killed him -- lou: luckily they didn't kill him. >> they tried to. lou: his character and his strength. he's quite a man to handle all that. >> it's going to take someone like trump to stand up to this. most of people would in the fetal position long ago. lou: having surrendered. neither clarence thomas nor president trump men of that sort. up next. president trump's trade policies strangling the chinese economy. are we nearing a new trade deal? we take that up with michael pillsbury. stay with us. we'll be right back. ♪ here i go again on my own ♪ goin' down the only road i've ever known ♪ ♪ like a drifter i was-- ♪ born to walk alone! ...barb! you left me hangin' on the high harmony there. if you ride, you get it. geico motorcycle. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. "have you lost weight?" of course i have- ever since i started renting from national. because national lets me lose the wait at the counter... ...and choose any car in the aisle. and i don't wait when i return, thanks

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clarence thomas did not go in that night to get confirmed. he went back to that hearing. whether he got confirmed or not, i don't think he cared. he was furious. >> he believes that he was the first supreme court justice elected by the people. despite those allegations, americans were still with him. but here's the thing. he said, "buddy, the liberal media will stop at nothing to change the minds of black people. i give you 15-20 years, and i guarantee you, their opinion of me will be unfavorable in the community." >> she said, i have it all figured out. don't you? >> you can see the full reports beginning wednesday on fox nation. up next, we will take you to the scene of the nation's oldest and largest political stump. first, here's what fox village around the country are covering tonight. i town official in farmington says a propane gas explosion has destroyed a building and killed a firefighter there. at least six other people injured. the building was evacuated after someone smelled gas. the explosion occurred after firefighters. these next images may be disturbing. a

shannon: justice clarence thomas who served since 1991. >> i have a memory of justice thomas as a lawber him drag his library card to conference. like a third grade teacher's name tag saying justice thomas. i kept thinking why does he has a tag when he has a life appointment. i walk out my chambers and i see justice thomas dragging a name card with the same slide card. shannon: he then clerked for justice kennedy. and kennedy became the first justice to serve with one of his former clerks. kennedy had long been the court's swing votes. he was introduced by him to originalism. >> i never heard the word originalism from a professor. justice scalia spoke and talked about originalism and it had a profound effect on me. shannon: interpreting the laws according to how they were written. >> the rights given then are rights today and they can never be taken away. judges making it up through a living constitution, who would want nine older people in washington, d.c. governing a continental country of 330 million people to defend the rights the people agreed to. we the people, that we agreed to

is the least likely to do that and now have so many judges and i say a prayer every day from clarence thomas. [laughter] >> hang in there. [laughter] let us join hands in prayer. [laughter] >> it is an amazing story that the great grandmother was free of the slave in 1779. >>. >> so that mixed rates didn't have all of the rights but they were freed but that is an example of somebody who can change as the judge does there are two examples and i would say that is the stories in my book and this is what changes over the course of the lifetime and in 1876 addressing the republican national convention the first black man to do so and told them he called it yourhed constitution your decision to enfranchise them and said how do you follow through on what you have accomplished? that is the message that people need to hear we always have the power how do we follow through? >> thank you for coming out and showing your knowledge. and to professor gates so can syou share with us the stories about the achievements of the reconstruction legislature that have several black members quick. >> i can do that q

. >> this is back to the 90s when clarence thomas was the nominee. >> hi tech munching, they thankedhemselves. they have different ideas and it's a message that unless you count how to an old order, this is what will happen to you. >> next revolution, radio talkshow host, larry. in my opinion, you will look back at this and this will be t very critical up as. new york times probably has the best reputation of all the newspapers out there. they got caught with their pants down, exposed for not practicing paternalism but this was a hit job and thank got caught. then they tried to cover it up. but the american people know they are now wires and they can't trust anything in the new york times anymore. think about all the other crucial bits of information that would tell from the russian investigation to the trump spy gate investigation. how do we know if they are not withholding information about everything they run against the republican? >> it reminds me of a friend of that if there's ever a story in the new york times, then you know about the people involved, it's bound to be wrong. w

a republican senator who try to humiliate anita hill for sexual harassment now supreme court clarence thomas furcal i put out a video to say and then i was 40 points down but it came at a cost. and then i did go home but i was very fortunate. my daughters brain cancer came back last year. she's probably the only one that has beat the 8 percent chance. [applause] it was june and was in the safe harbor during that time the same surgeon came out of retirement to do her brain surgery. i had to pay back my country a second time i owe it. but i honestly believe to beat mister trump. i get that. but if we do not unite this country so if anybody that can remind america come all americans to defeat the defining challenges of our time without being united i am running to beat mister trump and then to convene the world. think about climate change even if we pass the green new deal. it won't matter. because 85 percent of the damage of greenhouse emissions it has 8 percent air-conditioning today in 2050 it will have 50 percent. and then that would be two thirds of the amazon and less we have the amendmen

. >> reporter: then there is justice clarence thomas who served since 1991. >> i remember his boomingagging a library card which had a name tag on it like a third grade teacher's name tag saying justice thomas. i kept wondering, i think he has a life appointment, why had does he have a name tag? heading into my first conference as a justice, what do i see? justice thomas with a library card. >> reporter: after working for white back in the day, neil gorsuch clerked for kennedy. >> talk about civics and civility. >> reporter: kennedy became, after neil gorsuch was confirmed, the first justice to serve as one of his clerks. kennedy was long the swing vote. course such was expected to be more in the mold of antonin scalia who happened to introduce him to the legal philosophy known as original is him. >> i never heard the word originalism. justice scalia coming to speak, he talked about originalism and it had a profound effect on me. >> reporter: the concept sounds simple, interpreting the law according to the original intent of those who wrote them. >> the right in the constitution given

they did it the clarence thomas for this reason and they're doing it to brett kavanaugh. >> you right if you throw enough mud it leaves a stain. you might be right about that. the president last night the new mexico thinks he can win that state here's part of the reason why. >> every major democrat running for president, they want to abolish all production of oil and natural gas. in other words, the democrats want to completely annihilate new mexico's economy. yet for whatever reason is been quite a while since the republican won this state but i think were going to win this state. >> five electoral votes, 1 of 4 1 of four they want to flip from 2016 hillary clinton one new mexico by eight percentage points. >> looks there's two aspects of this. one is the trump people obviously realize they can't just run the same playbook. the last time they took the hillary team by surprise winning in pennsylvania and michigan and ohio, these places. they are looking at the map and they are looking for places they can pick off. they want to be aggressive, not just defending what they have. second i

he also worked for a supreme court justice, clarence thomas. he is a distinguished chair at the university of trento, the university of chicago, chapman university. he has written several books and hails from philadelphia. when his wife doesn't want to go on trips his mother is keen to go and they are going to machu picchu in peru soon. please welcome our two panelists. dr. steven hayward and prof. john yoo. [ applause ] >> i think we are just using this one. >> it is live, okay. i thought we would have a bit of a conversation. i will throw out initial propositions and we will have back and forth, you can throw out your own propositions and we will take some questions from the audience and see where those. sal gave me a few headlines and i think i will dilate them slightly. so be on the headlines i think are, let's put it this way. one of mild mentors used to have a lot of insufficient paranoia which says no matter how bad you think things are it's in very the case that when you look closely find out things are even worse than you thought so wi

she brought sexual harassment claims against clarence thomas. i said he doesn't belong. so i ran against my very fine president and all the establishment with the generation. that wouldn't have occurred. but back then, i was 40 points down and people republican and democrats agree and i won. but it came at a cost. with little support in the general election, i did go on. but i was very fortunate. my daughter's brain cancer came back last year. she's probably the only one they know of who has beaten an 8% chance to win twice. it was june when we finally decided she was in a safe harbor. during that time i sat with her, at that same therapy machine in massachusetts, the same surgeon came out of retirement to do her brain surgery. i had to payback my country a second time. i'm not kid iding. i owe it. this time it was for a different reason. the reason is that i honestly believe we have to beat mr. trump. i got that. who doesn't? but my god, if we do not unite this country, if we do not have someone who actually can remind americans of who we are and what we stand for, ther

this back which when clarence thomas was -- >> for blacks any way deem for themselves to do for themselves -- to have different ideas and it is a message that unless you count down order this is what will happen to you. joining me now host of the next revolution steve hilton and radio talk show host larry elder in any opinion you're going look back at history of the media, and this is going to be a very critical episode because "new york times" probably has the best reputation of all of the newspapers out there in the mainstream media, and they got caught with their pants down. exposedded for not practicing journalism but this was a hit job and they got caught and then they try to cover to up and look other way but american people know these are now liers and couldn't trust anything in "new york times" anymore and think about crucial bits of information they withheld from russia investigation to the trump spy gate situation. i mean, how do we know they're not withholding information about everything they run against the republicans? >> that's right jesse it reminds me of a friend of mine w

judge clarence thomas in 1991, he said to a friend, the reason that he got confirmed is because african-americanshim was his quote. he said that in 15-20 years, i project that i will lose that support and i will fall into disfavor because of the special interest groups that will stop at nothing to get their message. >> dana: what you think about that, juan, because you know justice thomas. >> juan: yeah. i know a lot about this, so it's hard for me to talk without, but i just think that there was a sense right at the time that the black community was initially supportive of justice thomas, and it was once you had a lot of people who were concerned about the abortion issue pressure fellow liberal or left wing, however you want to college among the black leadership backing away. the first thing to say is that, obviously, and i've said this in the first segment, people in 25 plus people try to reach out saying, yeah, they never get back to me. it's not a matter of phone calls. it's like, hey, if you are going to investigate, don't say don't go beyond this period. let them investigate. >> emily: they

important that kavanaugh recognizes this and kavanaugh, in a sense, take the page out of the book of clarence thomas. remember that these are the people who tried to do this to him. the good news is he now has a lifetime appointment on the bench and he has a long time, in a sense, to teach these people a lesson they will never forget. >> laura: the president has another supreme court pick. what should he take from this experience? be careful, moderate judicial temperament. >> you don't negotiate with terrorists. do not give into this kind of behavior. in fact, he should just keep doing what he has been doing. we need to appoint judges that are going to be faithful to the constitution and continue to buy them for what we all know they need which is courage. any courage on the bench to stand up to these kind of attacks and make it through the confirmation process. if they have done this to kavanaugh, what did they do the next time? especially if he is replacing a liberal judge. heads exploding. >> laura: notre dame, notre dame professor, how would you put her in the pantheon of judicial conservatives

. >> with gore stage and civil justices in clarence thomas who has been very good on these types of issuesbut this is also the problem with mass surveillance. of course you should go after bad guys and we should only target really bad people but the problem is, when you put so many people on the list you divert resources away from finding people who mean to do us harm. and that's partly what the judge address. also for viewers, it was unconstitutional and that micro sense was there really was in evidence for being known or suspected terrorists. they're basically swept up in this overbroad list. but the reason why the list was ruled unconstitutional is that the ability and the process for these guys to challenge whether or not they were on the list, which they were not confirmed the government does not confirm your placement was inadequate. that was part of it. i also want to make sure people know that 18000 agencies, different law enforcement agencies in department 60 foreign governments and 500 private companies have access to that database of 1.2 million individuals. it is incredibly vas

. >> stahl: supreme court justice clarence thomas fit that category. >> this is what we spent our timet. ( laughter ) >> kroft: do you, um... ? he's had a stroke, can we stop? oh, sorry, i was ready to jump in with the paddles. >> kroft: those are really the ones that are the most fun, because you get to see them over in different settings. samuel l. jackson was like that. >> you got like eight pages of stuff. >> kroft: i know, man. >> i am not that interesting. >>roft: dustin hoffman was like that. this is stardom, this is what stardom gets you, this is pretty good. >> yes. >> kroft: tom hanks was pretty much up for anything. are you nervous now? >> very nervous, because you're here. >> kroft: i can remember doing a profile on jerry seinfeld. >> stahl: it was hilarious. >> kroft: it was hilarious because he was hilarious. >> steve-- ( laughter ) >> kroft: he liked being interviewed, he loved the idea of being on "60 minutes" because his mother was a big fan, and there wasn't anything you couldn't ask him. >> stahl: but there was one moment where you did ask him what could've been an e

humiliate anita hill when she had dropped her sexual harassment claims against now supreme court clarence thomas . i put out a video and said he doesn't belong in our ranks. i ran against the president and all the establishment here it wouldn't have occurred back in i was 40 points down and people tend to agree republicans and democrats and i won. with a little support in the general election i did go home. but i was very fortunate . my daughters brain cancer came back last year. she's probably the only one they know who had an eight percent chance to one. >> it was june and we finally decided she was in the same harbor and during that time i sat with her. at that same therapy machine in massachusetts, the same surgeon came out of retirement do brain surgery. i had to pay back my country and i'm not kidding. i always. this time though is for a different cause. the reason is that i honestly believe that we have to to be mister trump. i've got that. but my god, we do not unite. if we do not have someone who actually can remind us americans, all americans of who we are and what we stand for when un

clarence thomas. that will show you a little bit of the change because even at the level of controversy there is still a democrats who voted for him and rub against voted against but i think the challenges how do we get past that and justice scalia we quote him injustice on trial talk about it and he says judges are acting like politicians. it makes sense to have this as a political thing. if the nation's top policy agents are being decided by the support how to be expect them not to be tweeted this way. this is why i think it would be a healthy approach for justices across the board should take because what you're doing is looking at the text of law and that's a law passed by democrats or republicans it doesn't matter the content of law will often have justices who embrace regionalism and were not like the results of the loss they are enforcing but feel like they are having to keep closely to the tax. those are our elected representatives and that the constitution plays. we all know it will be sausag

he also clerked for supreme court justice clarence thomas. he's been a fulbright distinguished chair, in law at the university of trento in italy, the university of chicago, chapman university. he's written several books and he hails from philadelphia, and when his wife doesn't want to go on trips with him, his mother is very keen to go and they're going to peru soon. so please welcome our two panelists, dr. steven hayward and professor john yoo. [ applause ] >> you want us to put on this lab mic or -- >> i think we're just using this -- >> okay, good. >> and, yes, it is live. okay. does this mic work? that old saying. so i thought -- what we thought we would do is have a bit of a conversation. i'll throw out a few initial propositions and then we'll have some back and forth. you can throw out your own propositions and then we'll take questions from the audience and see where it goes. i thought that was better than just giving your standard speeches. so sally gave me a few headlines. i think i will dilate them slightly. so the college scene t

he clerked for supreme court justice clarence thomas.e has been a fulbright distinguished chair in italy, the university of chicago, he has written several books and he hails from philadelphia. when his wife doesn't want to go on trips with him, his mother is very keen to go. they are going to machu picchu in peru very soon. please welcome our panelists. dr. steven hayward, and professor john yoo. [applause] >> are we using this might? -- are using this mike? yes, it is live. what john and i thought we would do is have a bit of a conversation, i will throw out a few initial propositions and we will have some back-and-forth. then we will take some questions from the audience and see where it goes. i thought that was better than just giving standard speeches. sally gave me headlines and i think i will dilate them slightly. college today, beyond the headlines -- one of my old mentors used to have sufficient paranoia, which holds that no matter how bad you think things are, it's invariably the case that when you look closer, you find out tha

clarence thomas decides, even though he is only 71, that he wants to step down a good president to givepresident trump an opportunity to name a younger version than him, mitch mcconnell, the filibuster change, all he needs is majority to do it. >> i think he would try to sell a vacancy if it occurred on january 19. >> that is my point. >> not try want to leave that as final word. [laughter] >> eight am on january 20. [laughter] >> please join me in thanking our spectacular panel. [applause] thank you to the audience. >> former defense secretary recounts his military career. offers his thoughts on leadership in a discussion about his book. live coverage begins from george washington university this evening at 7:30 pm eastern on on c-span two. online c-span.org. listen live on the free c-span radio app. watch c-span campaign 2020 coverage of a democratic residential candidate at the new hampshire democratic convention. our live coverage is saturday 9:00 a.m. eastern. online or listen with the free radio app. saturday on book tv. our interview with disability rights attorney and author in

recently mitch mcconnell said if he could see easily trying to push someone through in 2020 if clarence thomas decides that he wants to step down and give president trump an opportunity to name a younger version of him. that's mitch mcconnell with the filibuster change, and all he needs is a majority to do it. >> i think he would try to fill a vacancy if the vacancy occurred on january 19. >> i'm not sure i want to leave that as the final word. >> join me in thanking our spectacular panel. [applause] thank you to the audience. thank you. did nothite house release a weekly address from the president. catherine cortez gave the democratic address discussing the need for universal background checks for guns. the address was given as the nation approaches the two-year anniversary of the mass shooting in las vegas. senator masto: my hometown inspires me every day

recently mitch mcconnell said if he could see easily trying to push someone through in 2020 if clarence thomas decides that he wants to step down and give president trump an opportunity to name a younger version of him. that's mitch mcconnell with the filibuster change, and all he needs is a majority to do it. >> i think he would try to fill a vacancy if the vacancy occurred on january 19. >> i'm not sure i want to leave that as the final word. >> join me in thanking our spectacular panel. [applause] thank you to the audience. thank you. >> be sure to watch washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern on sunday morning. join the discussion. our c-span campaign 2020 bus team is visiting key battleground states in the presidential race. asking voters what issues they want candidates to address. i want to see candidates talk about health care. there is a lack of health care in the country right now. people are not going as far as i would like into the details of how they would handle that. i hear a lot of general ideas. i would like to see where that goes. >> i would really like for the candidates to

recently mitch mcconnell said that if he could see pushing for someone in 2020 if for example clarence thomas decides even though he is only 71 that he wants to step down and give donald trump an opportunity to the name a younger version of him that mitch mcconnell, the filibuster change, all he needs is a majority to do it. >> he would try to fill a vacancy of the vacant occurred on january 19th. >> the final word -- >> that happened at 8:00 am. >> please join me in thanking our spectacular panel. and thank you to the audience. >> live tuesday on c-span the u.s. house returns at 12:00 pm eastern for general speeches. at 2:00 pm the house takes a child safety builder legislative business, and motion to instruct negotiators for talks with the senate on defense authorization. on c-span2, the senate returned that 10 am eastern for work on executive nominations. later at 7:15 p.m. the national press club hosts a spelling be between members of the press and politicians, 10:00 am on c-span3 a4 him on the future of us hong kong relations. at 1:00 pm the house judiciary committee considers instructio

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before entering academia john served as a law clerk to justice clarence thomas and also practiced at the law firm kirkland and ellis. max frank is the director of the simon center on religion and the constitution at the witherspoon institute and professor emeritus of science at radford university. he's also a visiting lecturer in politics at princeton. matt has written a number of books and articles about the court and constitutional law and anthony peacock is a professor of political science and department head at utah state university. he's also the director of the project t on liberty and american constitutionalism at utah state. tony has written books and articles about the court, the federalist papers and voting rights panelists will come up to the podium and it a minutes and then we will open it up for discussion and audience q&a so with that i'm going to turn it over to tony. >> . >> thank you elizabeth, i'll try to state my 15 minutes. i got my watch here, let me know if i go over and i'd like you thank joe postell and the claremont for inviting me to appear before this disti

and yet today we have a justice clarence thomas who is an originalist, a textualist and he believes the constitution has to mean what it was understood to mean at the time of ratification. and if we don't like that, that's why we have the amendment process, mr. speaker. and that's the nominee, justice brett kavanaugh, and that's nominee, justice neil gorsuch, and i believe that's the case also for justice alito and most of the time i think it's also true for chief justice john roberts. but if we don't have an agreement, a guarantee from our constitution, we don't have a foundation for america and our government and then that puts it into the hands of the willy-nilly attitudes of what might be a majority in the supreme court, or the will of the people here on the floor of the house of representatives, sometimes we just turn our -- in terms of turning our back on the constitution. the contract of the constitution has to mean what it was supposed to mean at the time it was ratified. so, why was the big fight then pushing back against brett kavanaugh when he was before the united states sen

clarence thomas. nothing can get him off the court.an collins says about this. maybe it will rebound in the election campaign in maine. in political circles, it is still seen by many republicans as the democrats kpoecomposure bad for democrats. claire mccaskill said she wasn't re-elected because of the kavanaugh hearings. there was the perception this was good for the republicans. >> leigh-ann, last question to you. the partnership of public service in washington, d.c. classmate of brett kavanaugh and deborah ramirez as well. what does he add to this understanding on of what happened in 1983 in new haven? . >> david, he says this happened a second time as well. that according to the new york times. we heard rumors about this and we were never able to corroborate, so we didn't move forward with reporting it. the "times" reports that max desire saw him do this to another woman. i'm sure reporters will be looking into this immediately, david. >> hasn't commented on the matter. leigh-ann, thank you very much for walking us through this thi

so not joe biden, but he is the guy arguing to put clarence thomas on the supreme court, and for women, he has expressed empathy for women, and somebody who occupies the working class space for americans, and that is why he is relatable. he's in this weird place in american politics where the future, the younger generations, and i'm talking about genx and younger are not about the nostalgia that he spoke about, because it was a wonderful speech, and deeply personal, and you can tell that he feels this stuff in the heart and the gut, and he is a good man, but the past that he wants to take us back to doesn't exist. a lot of the younger, particularly black and brown and non-white americans know full well that nostalgia is for something that is not real. and the past was horrific for people who look like me and people of your and my gender, and the past is not some great thing to bring back. so when the older voters say that we want that restoration, and that is what joe biden is, many young people don't, and they don't want to restore something that they believe is false in the premise.

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that's when it became the most devastatingly political effort because -- clarence thomas, 5-4 would havet. 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 legislative would city. dagen: this is what the democrats do when they don't get their way. they lost the ele

joining us to discuss, the former law clerk to justice clarence thomas, carry sef reno.of people talk about the supreme court. that was one of the reasons a lot of people voted for president trump. what about the lower court appointments? why are they so important? >> it's right to emphasize the supreme court. but people don't realize 98% plus cases end at the lower courts. and we've seen troubling behavior in the lower courts, looking at the immigration case bs, the sanctuary city courses where you have the lower courts saying they've created a law that's special for president trump. this is not the rule of law where you apply a different standard to president trump than you would to any other president. we need judges to apply the same law across the board and that's the kind of men and women we see president trump putting on the court. they're committed to the law as written. >> if you look at the federal circuit court appointments in the first two and a half years, you look at president trump, 43, president obama 20, bush 27, clinton 25. so trump is far ahead what 43

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any allegation and to protect all the parties specifically what happened with anita hill and clarence thomas so there is a process that she didn't re- field reveal this because of the request for the confidentiality to put the fbi back on file, honored by the white house and the senate and why that wasn't followed went against the interest of every single person involved the only benefit from that that would have liked to see a media circus in a national fiasco created. >> right it hindered the investigation process as well because later the ideal way is to investigate separately then you don't have to worry if the witnesses have already been tainted by what they have read and it made it much harder to get to the bottom of what was going on and that was a real shame. >> great to be with you. thank you for all your effort what an incredible story on your book fentanyl inc. let's dive right in my interest in this is i come from new hampshire and i started the bipartisan task force on the opioid epidemic we have 100 members of congress working together and we have been hit very hard in our stat

when she brought sexual harassment claims against now supreme court judge clarence thomas, i have sistersi ran from 40 points down, and the people of pennsylvania agreed with me, but it came at a cost. [applause] because accountability, doing what's right, comes at a cost. today in the me too generation no one would have accepted that tenable into our party. i came from a generation where no one would have accepted that man into the party. i was fortunate. my daughter's brain cancer came back. it was the same brain cancer that took john mccain. with single-digit odds and only a percent of children have ever survived. i swore as i held her hand during radiation that if she made it into safe harbor, i would run again. and she did in june. [applause] so i entered this race for a different reasons. i have never forgotten democrats and republicans who voted for the tragic misadventure in iraq. had little understanding. the military can stop a problem but we can never fix a problem. those democrats and senators, you had better understand how it will end before you decide to begin. they have let

it was developed specifically because of what happened with anita hill and clarence thomas.re's a process and i know senator feinstein said she didn't reveal it because of the request for confidentiality it's putting the fbi background file honored by the white house honored by the senate so why that wasn't followed i think that went against the interest of every civil person involved. the only benefit from that is for those who would have liked to see a media circus and national fiasco created. it hinders the investigation process as well because even when the fbi was later back during its investigation process, the ideal way of doing that would be to be able to talk to these people separately before they've all read about it in the paper then you don't have to worry have the witnesses all been tainted by what they've already read much that wasn't done and it made it much harder to get to the bottom of what was going on here. that was a real shame. >> molly hemingway and carrie severino new book is "justice on trial". you can watch the full conversation by visiting our webs

we see clarence thomas as more of a cnn phenomenon than almost anything else. and my question is, what do you expect not so much the new technologies to bring, but you expect the new technologies to change the dynamic in any way? the reason i ask is i'm really struck by how quickly the question of same-sex marriage turned. you know, barack obama at the beginning of his administration was against it politically, and by the end he was in favor of it. that's a really short time for something as dramatic as a realignment of the entire civil sphere. so will the new technologies, do you think, make a change in any of these dynamics? is there a possibility for, in essence, bridging those gaps further, or is this only going to be another example of exacerbating the problem of americans siloing themselves? >> that's a great question. you know, i will say on the same-sex marriage, this question of it changing so quickly, which is a fascinating phenomenon. it's been remarked on a lot. i do think that one factor in all of that is that marriage, you know, the cause itself c