are necessary i believe within a month or two, neil gorsuch of the associate justice in the supreme court. nicole: for more on this, jameel jaffer at georgeason university school of law will join us for this. also a former clerk for judge gorsuch. lauren: white house press director mick mulvaney describing the budget proposal. >> .net more money for defense, war to secure the border and law-enforcement and things like veterans affairs, veterans health care in private and public school choice and that is where we spent more money at the same time. the president was very clear he did not want this to add to the deficit this year. we added the $54 billion for defense. we took the money from other places. lauren: in order to pay for it. a detailed version of the budget released in may will lay out plans to eventually raise u.s. deficit. lauren: three u.s. soldiers shot and wounded by an afghan soldier inside a base that the u.s. military and coalition forces killed the afghan soldier to have that attack. the afghan army claims the soldiers did not fire deliberately. meanwhile, president donald trump hosted iraq's prime minister at the white h

gorsuch at the law firm and later as his law clerk and has remained a friend. jaffer now teaches at the antonin scalia law school at george mason university, named for the man who neilsuch may replace. >> one of the interesting things about judge gorsuch is that he really is a judge's judge, you >> brown: what does that mean, exactly? >> yeah, so he's not looking to get a particular outcome. he doesn't have a particular policy view that he wants to impose upon the law. it's applying the laws congress wrote, applying the constitution as the people who wrote it understood it. and not going outside those bounds. and so maybe that's a conservative philosophy in the sense that it's originalist, it's textualist, in the mold of, i would say, justice scalia. but also very mainstream in the sense that when you apply it to any given case, you're not going to necessarily like all the outcomes. >> brown: i understand, but it also sounds a little maybe naive in the political context we're talking about, right? >> sure. >> brown: scalia was a lightning rod on all kinds of social and all kinds of political issues. >> don't get me wrong. judge gorsuch is surely conservative. but i

neil gorsuch did serve time in the george w. bush administration.hat is one place where people got to know him as a conservative. his record all the appeals court has satisfied those groups that think long and hard about this, that he will be the justice that they like. david: what about senator dianne feinstein asking if he referred to roe v. wade as super offensive? greg: he would not adopt that phrase, but it has been reaffirmed by the court multiple times. and he talked about you know, with all presidents and including rope, the reliance interest. it is a ruling that people come to depend on. states have allowed abortions to be legal. they have not tried to outlaw it in most cases. so he is not making any promises on that, but he is at least saying what he needs to say to sort of get past that hurdle of roe v. wade. david: and looking at the timetable going forward, i hadioned the ruling today more throughout this week, what will we hear from the chair? greg: he wants a committee vote by april 23, and that would be enough time for them to have a

george washington university, professor jonathan turley. great to have you with us, professor. >> thanks, lou. lou: neil gorsuch't heard greater accolades for anyone, well, since antonin scalia. and for him to be obstructed, if you will, bork --ed, which seems to be the view of schumer that he would like to carry out, it just seems criminal to me. >> well,s it is, i think, unfair, and i think it's also unwise for the democrats. i was called to testify at the gorsuch hearings -- lou: right. >> -- and i supported enthusiastically his nomination. in fact, gorsuch something relatively new in that he's someone who has participated in tough questions. and one of the things i told the senate judiciary is i don't like the fact that we've had a long history of sort of blind date nominees, people selected because they've never had an interesting thought or written an interesting thing in their lives. gorsuch is not like that. he was not a pedestrian. he participated. his work is very, very good. even if you don't agree with him, it's a very high quality. and he, he participated in that debate. that's a good thing, and i

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george masons, and history from xavier university. please join me in welcoming elizabeth slatery. >> thank you, john. >> on january 31, donald trump announced his vacancy pick, judge neil gorsuch. in his ten years on the bench. judge gorsuch has written countless opinions and tries to the -- meaning, during his confirmation hearing, he explained each case deserves the complete attention of the judge without being diverted by personal politics policy preferences or what he ate for breakfast. he promise today physicd to fol ten years on the bench he's done just that. the commit will hold a hearing in two weeks, we have with us today a panel of distinguished experts here to discuss judge gorsuch's most significant rules in the areas of administrative law, free speech and religious liberty. in order to get to our panelists i'll keep their introductions very brief. first we'll hear from ambassador bodien gray. he served in a number of positions in the reagan and george h.w bush administration. in addition to his government service and 25 years in private practice ambassador gray has been an adjunct professor. a graduate of harvard. next mike carcarvin, he focuses constitutional lit

neil gorsuch. getting underway tomorrow and you can expect pushback from democrats. hello i am,. >> , eric and reporting live this afternoon from the george bush presidential center in dallas. were on the campus of the houma presidential library and the bush institute. an office proposers on the policy of the trump administration. will has special coverage of the work being done here and the presidents continue message of post 911 vets. now on exhibit mr. bush is a portrait of courage painted by those who served. first, the news. >> uma: president trump wrapping up his we can afford it and headed home to d.c., where battle over the healthcare bill is looming. they're facing a challenge in the house this week with about supper thursday. house speaker, paul ryan is now saying that he is willing to talk about the builder an appearance on sunday. christian fisher is joining us from the presidents mar-a-lago estate in florida with more. >> president trump is returning to washington and the role that he was very good at as a businessman, the closer a big deal. now comes the first real test of how good of a closer he can be, as president. speake

neil gorsuch. getting underway tomorrow and you can expect pushback from democrats. hello i am,. >> , eric and reporting live this afternoon from the george the campus of the houma presidential library and the bush institute. an office proposers on the policy of the trump admini

yes, we have neil gorsuch in his first confirmation hearing, but i think the biggest story next week will be the house vote on thursday for health care. georgens? >> they don't know yet because usually in legislative deal making it's an additive process, i support x if you support y, i'll support you if you support me and that's how coalitions work, and in this case addition is subtraction and the heart of boomcare is the expansion of medicaid. 20 republican senators represent states that expanded medicaid. add synthetics bench and they have huge holes in their budget and they're a problem. >> asa hutchinson, john kasich, brian sandoval and three republican governors all over the ideological spectrum, yamiche, signed a legislation saying be careful with this medicaid cut. >> he came out and saying all of these people would lose their health insurance it sent shock waves into the party and there are some things complicated for voters to understand. losing insurance is not complicated. it's either you have it or you don't and while trump supporters didn't like the idea to be force tr ed to have insurance, and not having it is scary for a lot o

george w. bush's rating after hurricane katrina. on capitol hill, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has scheduled a vote on april 7 on whether to confirm neil gorsuch as a u.s. supreme court justice. senate democratic leaders have vowed to filibuster the vote, setting up a confrontation with republicans, who've threatened to change senate rules to allow gorsuch to be confirmed by a bare majority, rather than 60 senators. in iraq, a suicide truck bomb struck a police checkpoint south of baghdad wednesday, killing 17 people and wounding about 40 others. meanwhile, fighting raged in western mosul where civilians remain trapped amidst fighting by u.s. backed iraqi forces and isis. on wednesday, the head of u.s. central command committed to a house committee the united states probably played a role in the deaths of as many as 200 civilians in an airstrike on mosul on march 17. at the whi hou, president trumsaid tuesday eveng the battle to retakeosul was going well. pres. trump: we're doing very well in iraq. our soldiers are fighting and fighting like never before. the results are very, very good. amy: meanwhile, amnesty international continues to criti

yes, we have neil gorsuch in his first confirmation hearing, but i think the biggest story next week will be the house vote on thursday for health care. georgehis headed for republicans? >> they don't know yet because usually in legislative deal making it's an additive process, i support x if you support y, i'll support you if you support me and that's how coalitions grow, that's how government grows. in this case, however, addition is subtraction. because the big issue and the heart of obamacare is the expansion of medicaid. 20 republican senators represent states that expanded medicaid. add synthetics bench and they heart of obamacare is the expansion of medicaid. 20 republican senators represent the state to expand medicaid, absent that expansion, human holes are in the budget. three republican governors all over the ideological spectrum. they say, hey, careful of the medicaid cut. >> mainly because only people lose their health insurance, is that shock wave into the parties because there's some things that are complicated for maybe voters to understand. losing nor health insurance is not very complicated. either you have it or you don't.

george bush's last two nominees. the answer isn't to change the rules, it's to change the nominee. >> with that, democrats appear ready to do anything they can to keep neil gorsuch off the supreme court bench. chuck schumer suggesting the democrats will try to filibuster the confirmation vote complicating the hopes of confirming him before the easter recess and before the court concludes the current term. i want to bring back robert erhlich. i want to start with you. over the weekend, mike bloomberg put out a piece saying democrats don't make the mistake republicans did. try to find a middle ground here, don't block him. >> he was asked a series of questions where he outlined the judicial philosophy to the right of justice scalia. that's raised concerns. this is a lifetime appointment. every nominee put forward by president obama had to declare a 60 threshold vote. the democrats are saying you have to do that, too. they should have reached out to the democrats and reached out. >> you know he's not going to and you could get much worse. >> actually, i think when you look at the votes, judge gorsuch will vote just like any other far right justice. that's really th

george w. bush was not elected with the majority -- >> you know it was 3 million votes? >> yeah, whatever, california. >> californians are not americans. >> let's get to the question about whether or not neil gorsuch should go forward, and not only should it go forward, he will get confirmed. he is going to get the votes. if the democrats want to filibuster him, which will be the first time in modern history they go after a supreme court nominee, and what will happen is the threshold for the supreme court nominees will get dropped to 50, and there's one or two other openings coming up within a year, and if they want to be partisan, they would be unwise but they don't listen to me. >> matt brings up a good point. is that the right move for democrats and then you change the game and the person to get nominated next could be far scarier. you have to play the long game here. >> here's the thing about that, mitch mcconnell can do that anytime he wants to, and if that's what he wants to do it he will do it, and what democratic voters want, and the millions of people out in the streets and the women's march, what they want from democrats two things, they want courage and vision. they want the courage of

george best search -- judge gorsuch with fordham law professor zephyr teachout who recently ran for a congressional seat in upstate new york. her recent piece for the "washington post" is headlined "neil gorsuch sides with big , business, big donors and big bosses." zephyr teachout, explain. look, all of us are going to be part of sort of unearthing all of neil gorsuch's opinions, but import parts to look at our where he expresses his philosophy. and what he is done in antitrust cases and also in one money and politics case is show he is going to be at least as bad as scalia, and we can't forget how bad scalia was, and possibly worse in favoring -- elite favoring corporate power and favoring the power of big donors. so there are two to antitrust cases that are really important to look at. i know antitrust consume like this arcane area, but if you look around the world right now i'm a look around america, you see this incredible concentration of power in office supplies, with amazon, with monsanto, comcast, and oil and gas, you see this incredible concentration. a lot of that comes from justice scalia and other people in the believing that we should got antitrust and basically allow th

flex a supreme court nominee neil gorsuch prepares to testify before the senate judiciary committee, they look at the a current members. george w. bush nominated john roberts to take the seat of retiring justice sandra day o'connor. he was put forward as a nominee chief justice. he was confirmed by a vote of 78 to 22. he served as principal deputy solicitor general. at his confirmation hearing, john roberts was introduced by john warner. >> i firmly believe that john roberts shares in the ethical duty to give back to the community. the hundreds and hundreds of oors he spent working bono cases are a testament to that. he didn't have to do any of it. the bar doesn't require it. he did it out of his heart and obligation. those who know him best can also attest to the kind of christian is. throughout his legal career, both in private practice. those attorneys know him well and typically speak with one voice when they tell you the dignity, humility and sense of fairness that are the hallmarks of this nominated. i take a moment to remind all presidents and those listening and following that this exact week, 218 weeks ago, the found

neil gouch. this is an extraordinarily strong letter of recommendation. thank you all. [ applause ] >> now we hear from the panel of judge gorsuch's former law clerks. first up is jamil, adjunct professor at george mason scalia law school where he founded national security institute and directs the national security law program. jamiel worked in the office of legal policy and the white house counsel's office during the bush administration and chief counsel and senior advisor for the senate foreign relations committee and senior counsel to the house intelligence committee. he was one of judge gorsuch's first law clerks and also for edith jones of the fifth circuit. he is a ucla graduate, university of chicago law school and united states naval college. and then her scholarship focuses on national security, criminal procedure and executive power. she previously served in the office of legal counsel during the obama administration and as an associate at kellogg hanson. jane is a graduate of harvard law school as well as harvard college. she clerked for judge gorsuch and then sonya sotomayor and then matt owen, staff director and chief counsel and chaired by senate rob portman. he previously served

as supreme court nominee neil gorsuch prepares to testify before the senate judiciary committee, c-span looks the court's eight current members. push push push -- president george w. bush nominated john roberts to take the position of sandra day o'connor. he was put forward as chief justice following the death of william rhenquist. at miss confirm nation hearing, john roberts was introduced by virginia senator john warner. >> i femur firmly believe that john lawyers shares in the believe the lawyers have the ethical duty to give back to community by providing free legal services particularly to those in need. the hundreds of hours he spent working on probone in the cases artestment to that. he didn't have to do any of it. bar opportunity require it but he did it out therefore great-ness of his heart and obligation. those who know him best can attest to kind of person he is. throughout his legal career, both in public and private practice, his pro-bono work he has worked with and against many lawyers lawyers and they typically speak with one vice happy the talk about the dignity, and fairness or the hallmarks of this nominee. in conclusion, mr. chairman, i take

nominee neil court gorsuch prepares to testify committee,judiciary we take a look at the eight current members, president george w. bush nominated john roberts to take the seat of retiring justice sandra day o'connor. he was put forward as a nominee for tuesday justice following the death of william rehnquist and was confirmed by a vote of 78-22. judge roberts was unanimously confirmed to his previous post, i seat on the d.c. court of circuit appeals. at his confirmation hearing, john roberts was introduced by virginia senator john warner. i firmly believe that john roberts shares in the belief that lawyers have a duty to get back to the community by providing free legal services, to those in need. of hundreds and hundreds hours he spent working on pro bono cases are a testament to that. he did not have to do any of it, the bar does not require it, but he did it out of the graciousness of his heart. those who know him best can also attest to the kind of person he is. throughout his career, both in frolic and private practice, his with and against hundreds of lawyers. opponents said no man well speak with one vo

neil gorsuch. it's an extraordinarily strong letter of recommendation. thank you all. >> now we hear from a panel of judge gorsuch's former law clerks. first up, an adjunct professor at the george mason university scalia law school, directs the national security law program. jamil worked in the office of legal policy and in the white house counsel's office during the bush administration, and he served as the chief counsel and senior adviser for the senate foreign relations committee and senior counsel to the house intelligence committee. he was one of judge gorsuch's first law clerks. he also clerked for edith jones of the 5th circuit, graduate of ucla, university of chicago law school, and the united states naval war college. second we'll hear from jamie nitsa, where her scholarship focuses on national security, criminal procedure, and executi executive power. she previously served in the office of executive counsel during the obama administration. jamie is a graduate of harvard law school, as well as harvard college, clerked for judge gorsuch and sonya sotomayor. then matt owen, previously served as chief counsel to senator mike lee, as a bristol office in the and is a gradua

>> as supreme court nominee neil gorsuch prepares to testify before the senate judiciary committee, c-span takes a look at the court's eight current members. president george w. bush initially nominated john roberts to take the seat of retiring justice sandra day o'connor. he was put forward as a nominee for chief justice following the death of william rehnquist. and was confirmed by a vote of 78-22. judge roberts was unanimously confirmed to his previous post, a seat on the d.c. circuit court of appeals. he also served as principal deputy solicitor general during the george h.w. bush administration. at his confirmation g, john roberts was introduced by virginia senator, john warner. mr. warner: i firmly believe that john roberts shares in the belief that lawyers have uneth -- an ethical duty to give back to the community by providing free legal services, particularly to those in need. the hundreds and hundreds of hours he spent on pro bono cases are a testament to that. he didn't have to do any of it. the bar doesn't require it. but he did it out of the graciousness of his heart and obligation. those who know him best can also attest to the kind of person

george bush's last two nominee the answer isn't to change the rules it's to change the nominee. >> shannon: joining me now lindsey graham of south carolina. you question the nominee neil gorsuchensely and you like him and you have voted for their nominees and say it's time for them to suck it up essentially. >> in terms of the qualifications of neil gorsuch i voted for alito, sotomayor and he's as qualified as those and he's been a circuit judge ten and a half years and has been reversed one time by the supreme court and everybody in the circuit voted with him and 99% of the time he was in the majority. the american bar association gave him their highest rating. a 900-page report over500 lawyers have interacted with this judge and give him an "a" rating and president trump made a selection and senator schumer has become i think a destructive force for the united states senate when he filibustered bush's nomination. this about the left taking over the democrat party and this man is as mainstream a judge as you'll ever find on the conservative side. we could not have picked a nor qualified nominee and i voted for obama nominees because i think they're qualified. the democrats c

eastern, c-span numb will provide live coverage of the supreme court confirmation hearing for george neil gorsuch. about tvs were asked coverage of their confirmation hearings. tells me best friend that holds and cameras are nothing to be afraid of. but i do not have a set view on that. i do think it is something i would want to listen to the views, if i were confirmed, to my colleagues. >> issa just then to the chairman that we move quickly to that bill before he has an opinion on it. >> i think it might make me and my colleague behave differently would otherwise keep perhaps they would become accustomed to it after a wild. of our press as part environment. we cannot really excise it from the environment. but in the courtroom, i think has been thattion we not have that outside distraction. that iclined to say uld not want them in appellate court chambers. >> it would be good for the american public to see what is going on in there. i do not know how long they would be interested in what goes on in appellate argument. not so -- it does not rivet your attention, except perhaps the cases that have

but she has been on capitol hill frequently throughout the last couple of -- actto act as george as neil gorsuch's so-called sherpa. throughbeen guiding him capitol hill. she has been handling a lot of the logistics. and a lot of it is just former clerks on the 10th circuit of appeals that have been helping to get him ready for what will be the biggest moment so far of his career. host: as far as preparation, isn't more about learning specific cases and how he ruled on them are more about the philosophy behind those cases or how he would react if such a case came before him? guest: i think it is a lot of all that. if you look at judge gorsuch's paper trail, he has been involved in 2700 cases and has opinionsbout 240 himself. that is a lot of paperwork to go through and a lot of decisions you have partaken in. he has to familiarize himself with all that again. he has written a lot of al op-edsd, a lot of articles, speeches in the matter. he will be grilled on his record. it is a lot of going back and reviewingwhat you -- what you have done, looking at current case law and major hot button issues. a