elena kagen, extremely smart, extremely talented. judge sotomayor was a reasonable choice to make. as far as senators' evaluations of her, that will be determined by the process where she gets to answer, or i hope she gets to answer their questions. my view is she was a reasonable choice for president obama to make. >> you mentioned early on that one of the factors that may have weighed in to president obama's decision to choose judge sotomayor among the different finalists you mentioned was she had a long tenure as a circuit court judge and that was one of the results of judge souter, justice souter's tenure on the court, the president might want to have someone with more record to examine to see how they'd make a decision. do you think we've reached a point where if someone has not only not had a long record as a circuit court judge maw but maybe hasn't served as a judge, we're not going to see that person nominated, we won't see people who are governors or who have other kinds of experience nominated as justice for the court and do you think that's a good thing or bad thing? >>