i think goodwin lou. >> he was filibustered. it is different to filibuster someone for thh supreme court. you really have to talk. the way the senate works, i mean, it is so completely dysfunctional is that a senator who objects to who is going on said i'm going to filibuster and they just simply give up. a supreme court is such a high-profile kind of vote that the senate would simply wait them out. >> the old days of reading from the phone book to stall. >> well, they would have to do that. i'm not sure they could sustain. >> the senate regardless of the president, the senate that is likely to be in next session is going to be divided. >> quite divided, as it has been the last two years. >> the last line of your book, i will try to remembbr. the whole thing is great. the last line stayed with me. inevitably inveriably, the constitution lives. >> yes. >> i walked away hopeful. that everything that has been pplarizing for the country, that somehow the court is not the constitution's interpretation will always change, depending on

goodwin. good to have all these pulitzer prize winners with us. >> and me! [ laughter ] lous turn to syria today. we heard general jack king earlier, layout what seemed to be a pragmatic view of what is happening in the administration. what will be result of the administration's decision not to intervene militarily. do you concur with what he said in. >> i think that general cain is one of the great experts on syria in particular, he has watched so closely, i think what is happened and happening on the ground, since we have no good options, the least worst option we could have, i think keeping bashar al-assad there until chemical weapons are cleared out is not a bad option. lou: you aplayed the administration? >> i do. lou: and michael? >> no, i do not applaud the administration for handling this i think we've become partners with a man we called adolf hitler just two weeks before that idea that bashar al-assad will ever reform, will stop slaughtering his own citizens and russia will be our friend, this is a fiction that will explode. lou: looking like a candy rock mountain