they did it when they spent millions more to promote neil gorsuch to fill that seat. now that the court is poised to deliver a massive blow to public sector unions and workers, their investment paying off big time. the stakes here couldn't be higher. millions of teachers, nurses, firefighters, police officers are looking to the court for a fair hearing of the case. holding out hope that their freedom to come together and to stand up for themselves in the workplace, their freedom to fight for higher wages, their freedom to fight for more generous benefits, and their free doom to -- freedom to fight for a better future for themselves and their children will be preserved. unless we make real change, working people are just going to get kicked again and again. and we can make change. we can make the change right here in washington. we can stand up and fight for our democracy, and we can start by demanding that everyone in our government is accountable, including the president of the united states and the supreme court of the united states. thank you, mr. president. i yiel

choose judges in the mold of justice scalia, justice gorsuch. [applause] intouch cannots be overstated. he reminded us the law consists solely of the words and the people's representatives. those words must be interpreted as they would have been understood by the public at the time they were enacted. the can be no secret meetings or agendas. ismany ways, justice thomas recent decisions are the driving force behind the recent regulatory disciples. forth hisomas set view of the modern administrative state. this should be required reading for all law students. and original -- iques even justice stevens had critiqued it. this is not an issue that is particularly aligned with one party or another. or one school of thought or another. his lesser-known dissent, industries rejected the notion that decisions administered by tribunals could have an effect on lawsuits filed on federal court. -- in federal court. justice thomas's decision was clear. both justice scalia and justice thomas, the interpretive principles interpreted by justice scalia are the bed

mcgahn: i knew quoting gorsuch would make me sound -- [laughter] mr. mcgahn: on behalf of him, thank you for applauding his words. layer on top of that, the supreme court's decision which held that congress can limit the president's authority and many of the most significant policy decisions and legal rules lie entirely in the hands of unknown -- unaccountable agencies. bureaucrats who claim of being the moderne -- regulatory system makes a mockery of the finely wrought system of checks and balances the founders baked into our constitutional design. the framers separate government power, both between the branches and between the state and federal governments, to preserve liberty. when we abandon the design altogether, we invite the regulatory despotism that judge gorsuch now so eloquently criticized. moderneats posed by the administrative state are unprecedented, but are rooted in the international struggle that has existed for a long time. the variouslooks at competing schools of thought in greek philosophy, the differences between the american and fr

hoose justices in the mold of scalea, and now gorsuch. [applause] impact ce scalea's cannot be overstated. consists d us the law of the people, those words must would rpreted as they have been understood by the public at the time of their enactment. meetings, be no secret no hidden agendas harbored in lawmaker. of the justice thompson's opinions are the driving intellectual force behind so many of trump's legal regulatory principles. in 2015, justice thomas issued impressive set of dissents setting forth his view of the modern administrative state. reading be required for all law students. opinions in g michigan versus epa, advanced critiques -- it's inconsistent with the separation of powers. justice stevens, author of the seven ron decision, it, equently had critiqued so this is not an issue that's particularly aligned with one other.r the or one school of thought or the other. in ice thomas's concurrence the amtrak case called for the nondelegation doctrine to be meaningful enforced. acquiescence of congress's unconstitutional transfer

you've got neil gorsuch on the supreme court. but for no hearings, no votes, we would have lost the supreme court for a liberal majority. why does steve bannon want mitch mcconnell to be his opponent? >> i don't know. you'd have to ask him. look, this is about winning elections, and the only way you make policy is you win elections. i remind people, people lose go into a different line of work. the people who win come here and make policies. so that's what this is about. and also the whining about the senate, the senate's in the personnel business, the house is not. there were 1200 executive branch appointments subject to confirmation in the senate. i not only didn't allow the supreme court vacancy bill to be filled during the last year of barack obama, i also didn't allow a lot of other federal judgeships to be filled. when president trump got elected and we held our majority, we have the largest number of federal judicial vacancies to be filled since the early 1950s and the president is sending up spectacular nominees. barack o

that will reach far into the future because these nominees are young and they believe, as justice gorsuch said when he was in my state last month, judges don't wear red and i don't wear blue, they wear black. those are the kind of people the president is sending out. >> shannon: you know that terrifies the critics. i hear from a lot of them, i'm sure you do, too, a left-leaning coalition is now pushing back because of the indictments that came on monday, saying this. the idea that trump, whose top aides are under federal indictments by the justice department for conspiring against our nation should be able to appoint lifetime judges who will have huge influence over this nation for generations to come is beyond outrageous and defies common sense and they are calling on you to stop all nominations. >> that's an absurd argument. the president was duly elected. he has full authority to make these appointments and the fact that some of these people have been indicted is completely irrelevant. the judicial system, the special counsel, will do whatever they are going to do. it has no relevance

now, should we put an asterisk by neil gorsuch's name. should even a 5-4 decision with gorsuch in the majority even carry weight in our society? because this is the seat that for the first time in u.s. history was stolen from one president and delivered to another. the majority of this body right here stole the seat undermining the integrity, dishonoring the oath, responsibility for advice and consent, and damaging the legitimacy of the supreme court. and it was done because it was a strategy to enable the 1% to rip off ordinary working americans. and the prize for that was a position on citizens united that now allows the wealthiest americans to continue to fund campaigns across this country, to drown out the voice of ordinary people, and this case, the janus case, this case that says we will take one organization, that of the workers and divide the rewards from the rights. now, we know who is behind this strategy. it's the koch brothers through their organizations, the national right to work foundation, the liberty justice center. they

we did report on neil gorsuch. we did -- when things -- when some of the relief began flowing for hurricanes, i think the administration got some credit for that. but let's face it, any president is going to have to answer for what doesn't work. robert: how do we look at the staff shakeups? reince priebus, gone, steve bannon, gone. sean spicer, press secretary, has left the white house. john kelly, the general, is in there at the president's side as a confidante but a lot of tumult in this first year. >> unprecedented. there have been staff changes. i covered the clinton white house in the first years and it was one thing after another but you've not had so many gone and it shows a lack of both respect and and understanding of the process and we sound like washington insiders which we are but there is a certain knowledge base that you need to come in and be the chief of staff. robert: has kelly studied the scene inside the white house? >> you would know this better than any of us. >> what's your take? >> i think he

and kneel gorsuch is considered the most of important jurist to join the court since antonin scalia. with building the border wall. fate wall prototypes recently completed. zes mighcompleted. -- despite ae accomplishments, the congress refuses to follow his agenda. tax cuts in jeopardy for the middle class and business, republicans in the house and senate should not miss what i believe to be a clear signal of yesterday's elections. voters have had it with establishment figures, their failures and the status quo. wor anything else than the trump agenda. ralph waldo emerson said to be yourself in the world where they are trying to make you something other than yourself is the greatest accomplishment. ed gillespie loses in virginia after he refuses to address president trump's populism and policies. what do you get when 217 skydivers get together way up there. a world record of course. we'll have the incredible video lou: senatormen menendez accused of accepting money next change for political influence. back with me now, ed rollins. we are joined by michael good, i. great to have you h

the irony is that neil gorsuch would not be on the court but for mitch mcconnell who held that seat open for an entire year by not giving barack obama a vote. and i have to say, i continue to this day to be puzzled as to why the conservative right, the evangelical right, does not give mitch mcconnell more credit. >> proxy war. >> he can make a credible cause that he's a big reason that president trump got elected. buzz in the suburbs of philadelphia and other cities, republicans who are moderates and might not have liked donald trump very much went to the polls and voted for him anyway because they said this is about the supreme court. there's an opening on supreme court. that was engineered by mitch mcconnell. >> does dough jones, the democrat, have a chance? >> looks like it. one of the best, we call them live caller polls done this week on behalf of fox news by a bipartisan firm, found him ahead. and also curiously if you dive into the numbers, if you look at the favorability ratings for the president, jeff sessions, luther strange, incumbent who lost the primary, and former president

processing the president's judicial nominees, beginning with the president's selection of judge neil gorsuch to serve on the supreme court. chairman grassley and members of the judiciary committee continue their important work today as the committee holds a hearing for three more of the president's judicial nominees, including two well-qualified nominees to our circuit courts, justice david strauss and mr. stuart kyle duncan. the committee's hearing today is particularly important because it means that one member of this body, in this case, the junior senator from minnesota, cannot single-handedly block the committee from considering an extraordinarily well-qualified nominee to serve on our circuit courts. that nominee is minnesota's supreme court justice david strauss. justice strauss is an extremely qualified, widely admired member of minnesota's highest court. he was raised by a single mother. he is the grandson of a survivor of the nazi death camp at auschwitz. justice strauss graduated first in his class at the university of kansas law school. he has clerked on the court of appeals and

. - wasn't the gorsuch pick presented, yeah? - trying to keep you in suspense. - the gorsuch pick, i seem to remember him setting up like it was the last episode of the bachelor. (audience laughter) - that, and... - tune in to see who... - vice president pence was the same way when he announced him. it was building a sense of drama, making sure that this was going to be th center of attentio donald trump knows one thing really well, and that's how to produce a show. - sure. - and he understands tv production, so when he would say, you know, "you're not turning the cameras," "that camera right there is never turning." he knows full well that camera is never supposed to turn, that camera is a camera that is trained on anybody who is on a stage so that we can capture everything he says in the moment that he says it. but also if anything happens to him on stage, that camera's going to be sure to get it. everybody else, it's one camera at the pool goes to everybody, everybody else has their own cameras. abc, cbs, nbc, cnn, fox news,

not only justice gorsuch, who is doing fantastically on the supreme court. but we have many judges being approved at the federal district level. and court of appeals judges. to the approval of 145 federal judges. appeals, 17 at this moment. we have a big percentage of the court will be changed by this administration over a very short time. other than when they started the whole process, i don't believe anybody has come close. we will have 145 and that number will be increasing, 145 judges and 17 court of appeal judges. i must tell you the wall street journal give us great reviews on the really fantastic. a lot of people don't know it. tomorrow is a big announcement we will have another announcement pretty early. i will see many of you on the trip to asia. thank you. i thank you. >> i would certainly consider that. send them to get now. they say he came in through that program so we will see. it is very simple. what we are demanding is merit-based immigration. we want people that are going to help our country. we want people that are going to keep our country

it has been since 2010 until the gorsuch appointment that there was no protestant.nd he is an at this the palin, of course. episcopalian, of course. it is primarily anti-semitism. in 1916, woodrow wilson nominated brandeis. brian: host: let me put up the numbers and you can see the protestants, 91, out of 113. unknown is 1. there is a justice who turned catholic after he left the court. where did you get the idea of doing a book on this? david: i am an ordained rabbi. i have been an author and a scholar of american jewish history and my field is american jewish political history. i have written a book called the presidents of the united states and the jews and articles about the presidency. those articles focus on cabinet appointments and ambassadorships. i am fascinated by the supreme court. years ago, i went to brandeis university and, over the years, many biographies of brandeis, cardoza, and frankfurter made it occur to me that it would be interesting to have a book on the jewish justices. there would have been 9, had merrick garland been confirmed. there were s

that nobody is paying attention to but you will see it this week are federal judges not only justice gorsuch who is doing fantastically on the supreme court, but we have many judges that are being approved at the district level, federal district judges and court of appeals judges. at this moment we will be up to fairly soon the approval of 145 federal judges, district. and court of appeals about 167 at this moment. so we will have a big percentage of the court will be changed by this administration over a very short period of time. i don't believe other than perhaps when they started the whole process, i don't believe anybody has come close. so we will have 145. and that number will be increasing with time. 145 district court judges and 17 court of appeals judges. i must tell you the wall street journal gave us great reviews on that, really fantastic reviews. i think it is a very important element because a lot of people don't know it. again, tomorrow is a big announcement and we will have another announcement having to do with tax cuts out tomorrow pretty early skpm. and i appreciate it and

. >> neil gorsuch i'm sure his grateful. his name id is off the charts in south korea.on't blame the president. he's overseas. i'm making fun. of course, he wants to talk about a year ago. he won a historic victory. we're learning a year later sometimes the glow doesn't last very long. it's hard to believe it was only a year ago that election night. let's talk about a couple of things. number one, the president did say and you heard as we went to break, applaud hillary clinton for her service. i mean this seen sirely. he said in that speech on election night he wanted to unify the country. if you look at the numbers and reaction in the virginia election, the voters in charlottesville, people don't believe he has done that. >> and he has actubly not done it. i think a lot of people would argue he has actively tried to be divisive and being divisive along cultural and racial lines, along ethnic and religious lines. almost seeing that as a strategy. you mentioned charlottesville, going after nfl players, going after jameel hill feuding with a war widow wasn't helpful to th

>> well, certainly the president is going to mention neil gorsuch early and often.today in his tax speech he also -- he said not in a brag doegs s way as if to say i'm about to be brag doegs s as if he's accomplished more in ten months than any president ever, but the reality is that the tax legislation moved in the senate. there was real progress today from the white house's perspective. it's not a done deal, but they are closer than they've been in a very long time to having, like, a major legislative accomplishment. there are many hurdles to come before that becomes, you know, something the president can sign. but, you know, don't discount that republicans in congress are highly motivated on that. >> let's ask the members of our panel to stay with us as we go over into our first break. >>> still ahead, later on in this hour we're going to talk about another major media figure fired after sexual misconduct allegations. this one hitting home for a lot of here at 30 rockefeller plaza in new york. >>> and up next the new reports that jared kushner has talked to muell

being able to celebrate with justice gorsuch was a remarkable thing. it was a near run thing. i'm proud that trump delivered on his election and his commitment to the kind of judge that we all believe is the kind of judge we need in this country. i admired him and appreciate the federalist society from the beginning. i was aer back when young attorney in my early 30's when you got started. advisors being a pair of the doj veterans, what a good thing that was and remember that in following your work. toever had a group around me go and attend meetings but i read the material as you can be sure. sometimes we felt a voice in the wilderness. aremember cheering as he stood attorney when firm for some important law enforcement principle. the worldver change we are on '\ ;\ --? we had a deep belief in the constitutional order, the classical understanding of the role of a judge in the american system. largely thanks to you we are no longer a voice in the wilderness. today there are some 70,000 federalist society members across america. they are in the academy, the courts, the law offi

make no mistake, being able to celebrate justice gorsuch last night was a remarkable thing. delivered on his election and his commitment to the kind of judge we believe is the judge we need in this country. i have admired and appreciated the federal society from the beginning. i remember when i was a young united states attorney, your faculty advisors being a pair of doj veterans. what a good thing that was. i remember joining and following your work. i never had a group around me to go and attend meetings. i have written materials, you should be sure. we felt like a voice in the wilderness. i remember cheering as an assistant united states attorney when there was an opinion eight to one and he stood firm for some important law-enforcement principle. and i was wondering, do we ever change? is this the world we are on? original is him and -- original is hism is about as fashionable as disco but we had a deep belief and the constitutional order and the understanding of the role of a judge in the american system. and largely thanks to you, there are 70,000 members. and once aga

. >> i neil gorsuch do solemn swear. >> reporter: neil gorsuch was confirmed and sworn in as a supremeice, a trump campaign promise kept. trump also ran a campaign on building a wall with mexico. >> who's going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> reporter: that begins our list of promises that haven't happened yet. >> i promise we're building the wall and mexico will pay for the wall. i promise. >> reporter: but the trump administration is now asking america taxpayers to pay for the border wall. >> is your plan still to have mexico pay for the wall? >> yes, one way or the other mexico will pay for the wall. >> reporter: another pledge donald trump made to voters that hasn't happened yet. >> on my first day i am going to ask congress to send me a bill to immediately repeal and replace disastrous obamacare. >> reporter: the president tried to use his force of personality, but the republican-controlled senate has repeatedly failed. >> repeal and replace obamacare. that will happen and it will happen quickly. >> reporter: well, not that quickly. it hasn't happened yet. >> i'm not going to b

the economy and i don't mean just the stock market, gorsuch is on the court, the border is largely under. these are massive macro accomplishments not even a year into the term so things have gotten done but you're right, more needs to be done and you're also right and we shouldn't be surprised. what happened last november a year and a day ago was a shift. we shouldn't expect that the washington establishment both republican and democrat would die easily. its proven my favorite steven se gal movie, hard to kill. the beast in washington the swamp. it's hard to kill. we are going to kill it. steve bannon, donald trump, people like me we're going to kill this beast. it's not easy. >> charles: i never had a favorite steven segal movie but let me come back to you on this because i think the trump-ian republican party is what the america wanted and reflected in a major upset that was pulled off a year ago and those who are fighting against it, i think do so at their own pair ill and let's face it ed gillespie was not running as a trump candidate until well in the election when he was down in th

we have a party saying neil gorsuch is one thing. testified against his nomination if that is what was able to be compelling to let trump's indiscretions and abuse of power go, fine. we are talking about roy moore as a pretty much everyone acknowledges that there is credible evidence that he was a child molester. the reason why kellyanne conway and other members of the republican infrastructure are saying we have to let this man walk into the senate is so that we can cut taxes on the rich. that is deeply immoral. >> where is the floor if it is not child molester? where do we go next? >> i think that is what we are trying to figure out. what is bottom here? >>> when we come back we will talk to a woman who knows as much as anyone on what it is like to make a harassment claim against a powerful man. anita hill joins us next. us. it's what this country is made of. but right now, our bond is fraying. how do we get back to "us"? the y fills the gaps. and bridges our divides. donate to your local y today. because where there's a y, there's

being able to celebrate what -- being able to celebrate justice gorsuch was a remarkable thing. it was a near run thing. but president trump develop -- delivered on his election and he delivered on his commitment to the kind of judge we all believe as they kind of judge we need in this country. i admired and appreciated the society from the beginning. i remember the fed stock back when i was young and my early 30's when you got started, your two faculty advisors being a pair of doj veterans, what a good thing that was. i remember that. and joining and following your work, i never had a group around me i don't think to go and attend meetings, but i read the materials, you can be sure. sometimes we felt a voice like a voice in the wilderness. i remember cheering when they wrote an opinion 8-1, and he stood firm for a printable. i was wondering, could we ever change the world we are on? i remember those days. there was original is in, intellectualism. but, we had a deep belief in the constitutional order and the understanding of the role of a judge and the american system. largely,

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the stock market is booming, and justice neil gorsuch sits on the supreme court. but many campaign promises remain unchecked, including a massive border wall, the repeal of obamacare and, so far, tax cuts. there are mounting foreign policy challenges, the russia probe, and the power struggle between trump's inner circle and the republican establishment. what everyone agrees on is this -- president trump has thoroughly disrupted washington and his own party. we discuss the first year and look ahead with peter baker of the "new york times," andrea mitchell of nbc news, michael duffy of "time" magazine, and ann compton, veteran of abc news. >> celebrating 50 years, this is "washington week." funding is provided by -- >> their leadership is instinctive. they understand the challenges of today and research the technologies of tomorrow. some call them veterans. we call them part of our team. >> additional funding is provided by newman's own foundation, donating all profits from newman's own food products to charity and nourishing the common good. the ethics and excellen

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trump has followed through on appointing a conservative supreme court justice in the form of neil gorsuch. i don't think this is a coincidence at all. it's like dangling a carrot to conservative vote who are are caught between these allegations but at the same time wondering if they could ever vote for a democrat. >> erin, the polls seem to favor roy moore's opponent right now. so what is the convention untal wisdom on this race? and it's coming up december 12th. >> right. and the longer this story stays in the news, the more of a problem that is for republicans. and senate republicans have very few good choice at this moment. if roy moore is their candidate, they could vote to expel him once he gets in the chamber. they could refuse to seat him. all of those things would create more division in the party. remember, roy moore is steve bannon's candidate. he won the primary against luther strange. this would just further divide voters in the state. and alabama is a state that went nearly 2-1 for president trump in the last election. that's an even wider margin than the state voted for mitt

today i'm keeping another promise to the american people by nominating judge kneel gorsuch to be of the if united states supreme court. i think there is blame on both sides. and i have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either. jesse: that was the charlottesville news conference, that really hurt the brand. you have lower regulations but no atlantic lay touch accomplishments to speak of. sean: this week on my show i did a mini monologue. ii addressed it to the senate. we lost virginia, new jersey and washington, a bluee state. the republicans do hold their destiny in their hands. the senate fails miserably on repealing and replacing. if they fail on this economic plan and fail to get the economy and its potential growth, they are all risking their future. jesse: your taxes are going up, sean. sean: it seems the republicans have abandoned republican supply side economics. i'm not a nationalist pop latest. i'm a reagan conservative. saw that cutting the top marginal rate, 20 million new jobs created. at the time it was the longest period of peacetime growth in history

i think we'll see a justice gorsuch come to the side of the 4th amendment along with the far more liberal members of the court and the conservatives. in my case my personal buddies deterrenting. -- dissenting. >> the 4th amendment prove texts purses -- protects purses, house and effects. what do you call this. an effect. kennedy: it's the reality and the evolution of society. >> is there enough evidence to convict shim without violating his rights? there absolutely is. sometimes the constitution protects the criminality of a few to insulate the sprief i of a few -- the privacy of a few of us. kennedy: a terrorist attack on a months income egypt. a newly formed alliance vows to wipe terrorism off the face of the earth. can they do here's to the heroes -- america's small business owners. and here's to the heroes behind the heroes, who use their expertise to keep those businesses covered. and here's to the heroes behind the heroes behind the heroes, who brought us delicious gyros. actually, the gyro hero owns vero's gyros, so he should have been with those first heroes. ha ha! that's better.

70 bills have been passed and many of them very important -- in addition to that we have justice gorsucho is fantastic. we're putting in tremendous numbers of federal judges, which is the great unsung thing that we're doing, we're opening up the regulations. now we're going for the massive tax cuts. i mean we've done really a lot. and i'm very proud of it. we've had, i think, a great nine months. sharyl: the current head of the irs, john koskinen, gave false information to congress and the targeting of conservatives , disobeyed a federal judge's order to provide documents, presided over the irs when subpoenaed documents were destroyed and taxpayers were hacked, awarded a lucrative contract to equi credit bureau failed to protect the credit of 145 million americans. why is he still the head of the irs? pres. trump: well, a lot of people have been asking that question from long -- previous to me -- this is taking a long time ago -- we're just picking now a new head of the irs and he will be looking at that, i'm sure. but i have just made my decision as to who it is. it will be announced ve

particularly their cause on capitol hill causing constant distractions from their legislative agenda judge gorsuch don't encompass a few legislative successes he swept away regulations he's confirmed the supreme court justice and that's really about it the word that comes to mind is chaotic i do think there is a side of this president that is much more interested in top of mind reactions and his own gut instincts rather than policy planning and strategic. efforts he continues to see to believe he is loved and adored throughout the country that may be true but according to polls and ever decreasing number of people i love this country. thank you. the high point of support was one year ago tonight won the presidency on fischer al-jazeera washington. the us has announced new restrictions for americans traveling to cuba and the jews are coming to effect on thursday they include a ban on americans doing business with around one hundred eighty cuban government entities holding companies inters and companies the u.s. says the aim is to stop cuban firms with links to the military benefiting from terrorism

until been since 2010, the gorsuch appointment that there was no protestant. it is primarily anti-semitism .nd that i in 1916, woodrow wilson nominated brandeis. put up the numbers and you can see the protestants, 113.ut of unknown is 1. there is a justice who turned catholic after he left the court. where did you get the idea of doing a book on this? guest: i am an ordained rabbi. and a been an author scholar of american jewish history and my field is american jewish political history. i have written a book called the presidents of the united states and the jews and articles about the presidency. on cabinetles focus appointments and ambassadorships. i am fascinated by the supreme court. to brandeis went university and, over the years, many biographies of brandeis, itdoza, and frankfurter made occur to me that it would be interesting to have a book on the jewish justices. , had would have been 9 merrick garland then confirmed. confirmed. there were some great biographies of brandeis and frankfurter. the 2016is through presidential election. my idea was that it

by nominating judge neil gorsuch of the united states supreme court to be of the united states supreme court. i think there is blame on both sides. i don't have any doubt by the and you don't have any doubt by the either. jesse: that was the charlottesville news conference. that really hurt the brand. no real legislative accomplishments yet to speak of. sean: this past week i did a mini monologue. and i addressed it especially to the senate. we lost virginia, new jersey and washington, blue state. this is a foretell of the future. the republicans do hold their destiny in their hands. the senate failed miserably on repeal and replacing. if they fail on this economic plan and fail to get the economy on its potential growth,er in all risking their future. jesse: you are tax are going up, too. sean: it seems like the republicans have abandoned reagan conservative supply-side economics. reagan was able to show by cutting the top marginal rate, we doubled the revenues in government. 21 mill new jobs created -- 21 million you are in jobs created. i started as a dishwasher. jesse: we can tell.

you look as far as conservative judges go, obviously supreme court nominee kneel gorsuch.e have also seen other judges at the federal level as well. when you look at isis. we have had amazing ghains raqqa as well as mosul. so those actors are real on behalf of the trump administration. you can look at things like optimism with businesses. feeling president trump is more pro business than president trump. immigration as well as illegality on the border crossing. kennedy: he's had some sort of ripple effect. did nose amount to real wins? >> they didn't last night for sure. but i think that was his base. 30-35 percent. that's softening a bit. but was a long form in politico. the republicans in coal country said we don't think he will deliver on building the wall. but they would vote for him again. i am concerned about the independents. that's where his most of dramatic drop is. kennedy: let me turn to katherine mangu-ward. >> i would kind of split the continues. a lot of of his cabinet picks have been good and delivered on many of their promises. betsy devos, scott pruitt. on

hurt their cause on capitol hill causing constant distraction from their legislative agenda judge gorsuch donald trump said a few legislative successes he swept away regulations he's confirmed the supreme court justice and that's really about it the word that comes to mind is chaotic i do think there is a side of this president that is much more interested in top of mind reactions and his own gut rather than policy planning and strategic efforts he continues to see to believe he is loved and adored throughout the country that may be true but according to polls it's fine ever decreasing number of people i love this country thank you thank you. the high point of support was one year ago thank you tonight donald trump won the presidency alan fischer washington the anticorruption body in the philippines has filed criminal charges against former president benigno aquino he's accused of mishandling a twenty fifteen police raid where forty four commanders were killed they were killed by a large number of rebel gunman who were the targets of the raid aquino is accused of allowing a suspended poli

charles: he had the guts to change the rules with kneel gorsuch. there are a lot of people who think mcconnell is working against president trump. >> it should have been a lay-up in terms of healthcare and tax reform. they keep dropping the ball in the red zone when it should be easy. charles: do they have the nuclear option? a lot of folks are saying why are they wedded to these rules when they can change them? >> it lacks strategy. main street and wall street have spoken, they want thanks reform any time between now and now. >> the nuclear option doesn't get rid of the filibuster. but the issue is the legislative filibuster presents the legislation from getting to the senate and never being debated before the american people. these senators get to protect their jobs by never taking uncomfortable votes. if they want to change how things are flowing in the senate, they get rid of this thing. >> i think's a coward and lazy. what he should do is bring up something like the kate steinle law and abortion matter and put the democrats on the spot. if you