what we saw today from lindsey graham was part one.er stuff, setting the ground for the other questions he is going to raise. i also think he set the ground for asking questions about the death penalty, how she feels about the death penalty. he is going to come back like the good lawyer that he is now that he has laid the ground work and you are going to see the questions get tougher on substance. >> she is going to be confirmed. we know that, barring some major bombshell. >> there were some very interesting legal discussions today. there will be more. on the political calculation, the democrats have 60 votes, which means she has to lose 10 to make it iffy. she will probably get a couple of republican votes, maybe 10 or 12. the first cal cculation, is she losing any democrats? if you ask the white house, they will tell you not one has come to them saying they are worried on how they vote on that one. >> 9:30 tomorrow morning, the questioning continues. all of us will be watching. thanks, guys. >>> let's check in with lou. he is watchin

republicans like lindsey graham. he has suggested that if he gets answers he's looking for that perhaps he and other republicans may vote for her. >> orrin hatch is another and chuck grassley. they might in the end vote for her confirmation. let's bring in some of our analysts and reporters to assess what else to expect. gloria borger, john king, former clinton white house official bill bennett, candy crowley is here as is jeff toobin. gloria, when we look at today specifically, the republicans who are going to be asking questions starting with kyl. later lindsey graham, cornyn, coburn, so far, they haven't scored a lot of points in undermining her credibility. >> they haven't. she's done very well in not answering directly. but what they're trying to do is now is draw the lines in the sand about what's acceptable and not acceptable for them as republicans. this is a president who's probably going to have other supreme court nominations. as dana just said issues like gun control, land rights, abortion. also on this b

>> reporter: first of all, i thought that was vintage lindsey graham.beat of his own drummer. he's an attorney, a lawyer in the military in the reserve. i think he's achieved a rank of colonel at this point, and it seems to me he was coming at her -- i don't want to say attacking her, but at least probing her from so many different directions in that 30 minutes that he had. i thought it was very interesting, and frankly a little bit surprising in the manner in which he approached b

that's lindsey graham. i think you have seen a high level of cordiality from republicans who, of course, would like nothing more than to see this nomination crash and burn but are mindful of the fact that cordiality is very important for all the republicans th reasons that you mentioned on the political side of things. >> mike, i think you got it exactly right. the possibility of patronizing with the idea that lindsey graham is suggesting to this very accomplished judge that she needs to reflect on something as a result of this hearing. the blogs are already going crazy over this. >> it could be interpreted as taking a time-out like a child. cool out and clear your head and get your temperament together. again, we don't want to interpret what anybody has to say. i'm sure senator graham will explain his line of questioning. he did say she barring a meltdown would be confirmed and he was very cordial to her but certainly it takes one sentence to perk up ears and you have the ears now perked up. >> tamron, tha

you know, i mean -- >> i just love lindsey graham going after her today about anger management.f john mccain, and he wanted mccain to be president of the united states and he was wondering whether she might have a temperament problem. did he ever check in with his number one hero on that point? >> temperament and background. they all act like, you know, her background as a puerto rican woman, i don't know how you walk around being that, is somehow different than, you know, like jeff sessions' background as a southern, you know, come on -- i mean he was sort of cast as a racist at one point, like that doesn't come into play in his decision-making. >> no, he's made some unfavorable comments about the naacp over the years. let me ask you about this, how do you handle home state favorites like mark sanford or david vitter? i think you didn't make it to some of the other states where there's problem republicans, but they're all over the place. vegas has got a problem with ensign out there. there's so many of them. you have rick perry who wants to secede from the union down in dallas.

>> it was machine gun questions that senator graham was grabbing everyone's attention. he took an entirely different tact. at one point he said maybe this is an opportunity to take personal reflection, as if to say i'm just saying here, judge, there is criticism out there, judge and you might want to do with it. there is a run of questions among conservatives about whether or not the republicans on this panel would hold the nominee's feet to the fire aggressively and if they couldn't block the nomination that they could at least ensure that the history of the confirmation process wouldn't give a seal of approval that suggested experiences, emotions, beliefs, prejudices, et cetera could in any way factor into judging. they got a lot of repudiations of that in the nominee today, so while the conservative right may not see republicans block the nomination, it will be very interesting to gauge whether or not they're satisfied by the republican attempt to get her to back down, push back from her own remarks. the consensus among the republicans who came in and out of the hear

senator lindsey graham.e where he goes with this. >> the case is you have been involved with tv are left of center but not anything that jumps out at me, but the speech is really do. i mean, the speech you gave to the aclu about foreign law -- we will talk about that probably in the next round -- was pretty disturbing, and we keep talking about the speeches because -- and i listened to you today. i think i am listening to judge robert. i mean, i am listening to the construction this year, so we have to reconcile in our own minds to put the puzzle up -- i think i am listening to judge roberts. i mean, i am listening to a constructionist here. you have a judge has been on a circuit court. some things trouble me, generally left of center, but with in the mainstream, and then you have these speeches that just blows me away. do not become a speech writer if this law and does not work out, because the speech is really throw a wrinkle in everything, and that is what we are trying to figure out. who are we getting h

senator graham urged her to uphold laws on military commissions.ow, help us make laws in congress more clear. help us control congressional spending. so i think there's a general sense that she did fine and she's going to be confirmed. >> this is their last chance, potentially, to lobby a supreme court justice. >> well, she has to listen, right. >> she has to listen. she has no choice. norah, what was the atmosphere there in the hearing room itself? >> reporter: i think that she drew a lot of praise from republicans today on her final day of questioning. i think that's what was significant, from senator lindsey graham, who had originally talked about a meltdown. well, there was no meltdown. in fact, lindsey graham said that her judicial record is generally in the mainstream. he acknowledged she said some things that just "bugged the hell out of me," those are his words, but he admitted he does not think she's an activist judge. senator cornyn from texas also agreeing that her judicial record was pretty much in the mainstream, but he said he couldn'

call now. >> larry: we're back with caroline graham, jim moret and dr. pinsky. do you have contra ticketry claims about michael jackson's health? he looked terrific. didn't look like anybody under the influence. >> he may be on some sort of ma maintenance medication of something. whatever excessive medication he was on, he was becocoming off o. hot, cold, someone coming off medication. when you take otherwise the acustomary dose, no longer tolerant to that medication, it could be sufficient to kill you or interact with another medication. >> larry: why was the custody hearing postponed, jim. >> postponed because the parties were talking. one of the lawyers said as much. interestingly enough, one person, unifying both katherine and debbie rowe is joe jackson and his statement. debbie rowe said she might want to get a restraining order. katherine wants custody, alone. that might be enough to bring them together. >> larry: did la toya say anything about debbie? >> she was scathing about debbie. those children do not know that debbie rowe is her biological father. t

one is the lindsey graham, orrin hatch view, which is elections have consequences and the president, by and large, gets the benefit of the doubt. the other view is actually shared by two unlikely fellows. senator obama and senator sessions. both of whom say ideology matters. that i am going to vote against someone who ideology i don't share. and i think that's really what the republicans who are the votes in play here are going to have to decide. is it the differential to the president's standard embraced by mccain, john mccain and lindsey graham or is it the lindsey graham, jeff sessions standard which is, we just don't approve of your ideology, you won't get our vote. >> it's an important, important issue as you take a look at what's going on. jeff, are there going to be any more surprises or basically what we've seen so far is what we're going to get. >> i think this is it. when senator specter was asking questions, he raised an issue that i don't think a lot of people know about outside of supreme court nerds which is that the united states supreme court has gone through an extra

greta: center lindsey graham joins us in washington. that last one, meeting with the chinese -- senator lindsey graham joins us. they should buy more of our debt, unless we raise the interest rates through the sky -- >> that was a very good point. we sell treasury notes, and they are bought by the chinese and other countries, and they will eventually stop buying our treasury notes. greta: and then we are cooked. >> we are all going to be california. you want to know where america is going to go, you look at california. some people believe that democracies failed because a week, the people, never say no to ourselves -- some people believe that democracies failed because -- fail because we, the people, never say no to ourselves. i never thought i would see our government like this. greta: i am thinking to myself, when he sees these numbers, is he free to? if he has got a solution, i would like to hear it -- is he freaked? >> a health care system with a government that as $1 trillion more in debt. greta: forget health care. we still have $

we welcome to "larry king live" caroline graham, the los angeles correspondent, west coast editor for the "london mail" on sunday. she did a lengthy interview with michael jackson's sister, la toya. how did you get it? >> larry, we have a relationship with la toya. spent a lot of time in the uk over the last few years. she knows my newspaper. she trusts us. i think la toya wanted to get the story out there but do it with a paper she trusted and knew would report it accurately. >> larry: where was it conducted? >> we met in the beverly hills hotel near her home. she lives very close to where michael was living at the time that he died. we met for 4, 4 1/2 hours last thursday. >> larry: how was she paid? was she paid? >> larry, i wouldn't discuss any negotiations i had with la toya. it's confidential. i wouldn't discuss it. i don't think it's relevant. what happened in this case, la toya came to us. she wanted to get the story out there. the story was a bombshell. >> larry: in the united states, if you hear someone is paid for something, there's always a suspicion around it. you know, t

senator, you just heard lindsey graham.e aba, ranking. why did you vote against? >> well, nobody -- nobody is going to disagree with the fact that she's qualified and got a good academic background. in fact, you know, it was a tough vote for me, because this is the first time in 29 years that i voted against a republican or democrat nominee to the supreme court. but i did it this time, and so then to answer your question, because all of these good qualifications are very basic. but we want somebody on the supreme court that's going to interrupt law and not make law. and let me explain that it's my job to make law, because you can vote me out of office if you don't like the law that i make. but judges should be restricted to interpreting the law to the reason that they have a lifetime appointment. in other words, that means that she has to keep her personal biases out of it. and you have to realize, over the course of 15 years as a judge, she's made a lot of statements that have raised a lot of concerns about whether she can

we're talking about lindsey graham. >> absolutely. i think if you had to look in your crystal ball from what we've heard today, you probably are going to get a couple republican votes out of this, probably lindsey graham, orrin hatch. i think graham summed it up saying unless there's a meltdown, you will get confirmed. so you will hear this nice but tough look at what kind of judgment she's made and what they say about her judicial philosophy. she will have to repeat that phrase about 1,000 times between now and the end of these hearings but i think we know what the end is. we'll see what we're going to do in the middle. >> jessica yellin is inside the senate hart office building, where this judiciary committee hearing has been going on. we have a picture of the back heads of patrick leahy on the right, chuck schumer right there in the sort of -- well, a little off screen right now. but he got very emotional, chuck schumer, jessica yellin. when he was introducing her, his lips were trembling a little, he got choked up. he got very emo

graham: i will. mr. isakson: isn't it true that there is nothing with this waiver that prohibits the american manufacturers from doing the development necessary to come up with a material to exceed or meet the rayon made in austria. the problem is they can't produce rayon in the united states of america because the e.p.a. prohibitions and the cost that it is to meet that. mr. graham: thank you, senator, for the question. it is my understanding that the efforts is being made in virginia and south carolina to produce this product here domestically and the concerns that the senator addressed private sector is dealing with and that the ability to produce this material domestically is -- is a viable option and i just don't want to take a precedent in terms of the bury amendment that what i think would change the spirit of the amendment at a time when we have a potential to make this domestically and i think as much as we can do domestically to protect our military and to provide resources to our military, the

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now that is a big deal. >> here is what graham said today.l, we're going to work on getting that sound to you. >>> let's go to pete williams who has been watching the hearings all day. any idea what lindsey graham said today? >> yes, after he said that. he said if she will inspire young women, particularly latina women, this would be a good thing america has changed for the better with her selection. he also said he does not agree with the other republicans on the committee that she would let her own personal biases and prejudices influence her decision. that seemed to be what this debate or discussion was today as they voted, as you say, along a party line vote with one exception to confirm her or to send her confirmation to the full senate for a vote which will probably come next week. and then the question is how many republican senators will she get? five have already said she'll vote for her. it does seem quite clear she'll be confirmed. >> what are some of the other republicans saying, pete? >> i thought one of the most interesting comm

lindsey graham left some seeds, planted some seeds.ps affirmative action. he is a potential yes vote. he, like senator hatch, is among those that say even if i disagree with you, the president gets to make the pick. elections have consequences. he indicated he is inclined to vote for her. >> i would say pretty strong signals from him outside the hearing room saying, as you know shall as he said before, i think when a president is elected, they should pick a nominee and should get that nominee if they are qualified. oh, by the way, it doesn't change the balance of the court. >> do you think anybody's mind has been changed here? >> i don't think anybody's mind has been changed. i think they are laying out the reasons for why they are going to vote the way they are going to vote. one interesting thank lindsey graham said, her speeches outside the courtroom are edgy. the reason they are important is she tells us how she really feels when there is no precedence to follow. >> they would like more republican votes but they have enough to get

we welcome to "larry king live" caroline graham, the los angeles correspondent, west coast editor

stay with us. >> rose: bradley graham is here. he was a reporter and editor at the "washington post" for more than 5 yearss. he covered the military and foreign affairs. he recently published a biography of former defense secretary donald rumsfeld, it's called "by his own rules: the ambitions, successes and ultimate failures of donald rumsfeld." the book is based on hundreds of interviews including eight with rumsfeld. i'm pleased to have bradley graham at this table again. thank you. >> nice to be here. >> rose: why rumsfeld? >> for several reasons. no matter how you feel about rumsfeld, you can't deny that he has been the most consequential as well as controversial secretary of defense that we've had since mcnamara. the rumsfeld story is just a wonderful washington story. it's a... the way i tell it is, it's framed as a kind of tragedy. here's somebody who had a whole career both in government and business of great success. he was picked to be secretary of defense for the second time in his life, the only one who had a second sh

>> i suspect that the senator -- senator graham will go back at this issue. i think to him, i mean, all of meez republic these republicans have to at least show the flag. if senator graham has staked this out as an area where he wants to hear something special and unique, he'll use his questioning to get there. i think she will pass whatever bar he sets. what's most important is that senator graham has an opportunity to show this issue was important to him, and he questioned her in a rigorous way on it. >> it's always good to show that you can have impact, too, on someone. he would do that, i think if he said that she had measured up to what he wanted in terms of a retraction. thank you very much, jean cummings. i love reading my politico every morning at home. i love reading your politics at 6:00 in the morning when i'm ready for it. thank you very much for you and all of the people at the politico. let's go to pete williams, our own nbc news justice correspondent. pete, the story you've got to put together tonight, what is it so far as we come back from lun

we saw lindsey graham of south carolina very pointedly and conversationly saying to her "if i'd said such things about the superiority of a caucasian made i'd have had my head handed to me." so they laid out the reasons why conservatives would not be happy with a sotomayor confirmation. >> couric: and be comfortable not voting for her possibly? >> yes. >> couric: having said that, as the aforementioned senator graham said yesterday, unless she has a complete meltdown, she'll be confirmed. do you still think that's the case? >> i think so. i think key here is they were not able to find, except for the ricci case-- a smoking gun in her decision. an appeals court in california once said "under god" had to be stricken from the pledge of allegiance. if she had written that, which she didn't, that would be a smoking gun. so is she going to get the kind of votes when justice roberts did when half the democrats voted for him? is it going to be more like samuel alito when 42 of the 46 democrats voted against him? i don't think we know yet. i think the hands of orrin hatch and lindsey graham l

republican senator lindsey graham describing her judicial record as generally in the mainstream.hat really bugged the hell out of me, according to senator graham, but he said that she did pretty well in her hearings, and one visor to senator graham said he is leaning towards voting for her. also, republican senator john cornyn of texas, also agreeing that her judicial record is pretty much in the mainstream. still, senator cornyn thinks there are these two sotomayors, the one with the mainstream judicial record, the other that gives speeches like the wise latina. then i spoke with senator chuck grassley. he said he's undecided. and republican jorrin hatch, wh could be a maybe. he's undecided. the nra has come out against judge sotomayor so that's spooked a number of republicans who had been thinking about voting for judge sotomayor. important to remember that every single justice currently on the supreme court has gotten more than 78 votes except for thomas and alito. so usually the senate gives the president wide latitude in who they want to go to the supreme court. we'll see if

center lindsey graham said it would take a complete meltdown to stop perk -- senator lindsey graham said that. -- a complete meltdown to stop her. as a senator joins us. in your introductory remarks, you said the following -- a senator joins us. you said she may allow or embrace decision making based on your biases and prejudices. if you believe that on the supreme court, she would act with bias and prejudice, could you vote for her? >> no, and that is part of the reason to suggest that she will have to address that -- she has already given your testimony, but in answers to questions. stuart: do you think she has a history of acting on bias and prejudice? >> it is not clear. even in the firefighters' case, the supreme court reversed the decision, suggesting that perhaps she believes in racial preferences and applied a standard there that all nine supreme court justices rejected, as a matter of fact, and that is more about her speeches and how she would approach judging better decisions that she has made while on the bench. stuart: obviously, politics has a lot to do with this. a large hi

a statement by lindsey graham he'll probably vote for her. for republicans, it doesn't make sense to vote again. there's nothing she said that's going to leap out as being something unjudicial and if the republicans hope to dpan the white house again, they don't want to enable the democrats to oppose one of the republican candidates that would fit the mainstream or be another scalia here. i think they also see that some of the problems that confronted judge sotomayor were created by barack obama himself by voting against john roberts and samuel ali alito. and i think that every president is entitled to and the republicans don't want to imitate i would suggest, the president of the united states and create a problem for themselves when they regain the white house and send up a nominee who the democrats mayo pose. >> as far as the news, the nra, when it comes to second amendment testimony, the most striking testimony i saw was when judge sotomayor got into a case over none chucks and whether those can be moderated or there can be some control o

. >>> lindsey graham, the senator from south carolina is getting ready to make his opening statement right now. it's going to be significant to hear whether he will confirm or reject this nominee. >> an immigrant that came to this as a teenager and graduated in harvard in 1986 and a stellar background like yours. that's just the way it was. he never had a chance to have these hearings. he was nominated by president bush to the d.c. circuit court of appeals, which some people will agree that that's probably the highest court in the land. and he never had this day. so the hispanic element of this hearing is important but i don't want it to be lost that this is mostly about politics more than anything else and having said that there is some of my colleagues on the other side that voted for judge roberts and alito knowing that they would not have chosen either one of those. and i will remember that. now, unless you have a complete melt down, you're going to get confirmed. and the drama is being created here is interesting and my republican colleagues who vote against you, i assure you, c

what graham was saying is that we have to make this a less political. if a liberal president wins, he should be able to get his supreme court nominees as long as he chooses someone who is qualified. megyn: as someone who has covered washington for a long time, who was it? robert bork? >> 1987, rommel -- ronald reagan and robert bork. it was less than an hour, ted kennedy stood up on the floor of the senate and he said, and robert bork's world, women will have to go get back alley abortions. that politicized the court. quite frankly, robert bork did a lousy job in his hearings. he got into fights. that is the point at which a conservative president appointing a conservative, qualified judge to the court -- the democrats were in the majority and said no. bret: he said, unless you have a meltdown, you will beacons -- you will be confirmed. if republican senators can get her to step back from some of these comments in the speeches and writings, is that a victory for them? is this also laying the groundwork for the next nominee that comes out of the obama wh

wade decision that legaliz abortion in 1973, but toward the end of the day republican lindsey graham of south carolin pointedly tned tohat subject and the explanation the proper re of a judge. do you think roe v. wade changed american societ >> row vs -- >> roe vs. wade look at the constituti and decided that the constituon as applied to a right applied. >> is there ything in the constitution that says that a state legislator or the congress cannot regulate ortion or the definitn of life in the first trmester? >> t holdingf the court as -- >> i'm aing the cotitution. does the constitution, as wrten, prohibit a legislative at bo at the state or feder level from defining life or relating therights of the unborn -- or protecting the rights of the uorn in the first trimester? >> the constitution inhe 14th amendnt has a -- is there anythi in the document, written, aut abortion? >> the word "abortn" isot used in t constitutionbut the costitution does hav a broad provision concerning a liberty provisi under the due process -- >> and that gets us to the speeches. th bro provision of the cons

that is south carolina's lindsey graham. his republican colleagues do not believe she will be able to set aside personal biases and prejudices to decide cases impartially. sonia sotomayor is expected to easily win confirmation by the full senate. >>> also in the senate, secret talks on health care reform are now public. a bipartisan group admits it's been working behind closed doors trying to come up with a compromise bill. the associated press says the deal would not require large employers to offer insurance and would not be a government insurance option. however, there would be a tax on health benefits. it would stop insurance campaigns from denies new coverage. what will it take to present a consensus bill before the congressional recess? with me now is role call newspaper's erin billings. thank you for being with us. we heard a little bit of the details but this with max bauc auction us coming out and telling us about a bipartisan secret meeting. who is involved? >> there are six negotiators. they are all on the finance

i think lindsey graham, you said it. he's media-savvy.o this confirmatn hearing. the way they started offe sessions spefilly was tough. they were trying to label her as a latinoman that basically wasn't sure if she merit being there because she might b viewing the wor too much in thoslines. >> i think if i were a minori like that, of any minority status like that, and immigrant like my parents' grandparents wer iould y, what more do tey want from sinus we'll be right back with howardineman and maria teres r "the politics fix."" ♪ (annocecer) introducing newew tums dual action.. this tums gs to work in secds and lasts f hours. all day or night. new w tums duauaaction. bring it on. has the fasasst ser in the historof professional tenn.. so i've come to this cott to ch. ...on the ierne i'lbe using the 3g at&t laopconnect card. he won't. so i can book trtrel plans faster, check my accntnt balances faster. all t t go. m m kurtis and i'm fasterer than andy roddick. (announce "switch to the e tions fastest 3g network "and get the at& laptopconne

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and to not do anything that would cause what senator graham referred to yesterday as a meltdown, and i think as long as that's what happens in the hearings, she will get through. >> lehrer: all right. miss blanco, how did you feel generally? was this a good day for her? >> i think it was. i think that she was very careful. she was unflappable. but at the same time, she -- i felt that she answered all the questions that were made of her, and thoughtfully. i don't think she came across as somehow -- called her as a hothead, i thought she exhibited actually the opposite quality in her deliberative answers, i was very impressed with her knowledge of the law. i think that even in the last exchange, where she was pressed on her "wise latina" comment she did a good job of basically stepping away from it and saying that perhaps she understood how others might find that unacceptable, so i thought she did very well today. >> lehrer: well, let's go through some specifics here, beginning back again to you, professor adler. how did you feel about how she handled and has now dealt with the "wise l

lindsey graham said that i will make a better senator than x because of my experience as a caucasian male. makes me better able to represent the people of south carolina. and my opponent was a minority. it would make national news and it should. >> day three of the hearings coming up tomorrow. we once again bring you all of the highlights. >>> in pensacola tonight, police say it is case closed in the murder of a couple parents to 17 children. >> reporter: officials say they believe they have now caught all of the alleged killers. and say the home invasion in which they died was long planned. >> there are now seven suspects in custody. one just 16 years old. >> reporter: police believe the ring leader was this man, 35-year-old leonard patrick gonzalez jr. described by friends as a loving husband and father, his passion, teaching karate to young children. >> we have found them and they are in custody. >> reporter: as the final arrests were announced, ashley, the oldest daughter tearfully stood by the sheriff's side, but she left without speaking out. >> we're going to have a whole lot

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that's senator lindsey graham. it's the first time gop senator orrin hatch and charles grassley have ever voted against a nominee. at least nine republicans have said they'll vote against the judge when it gets to the full senate but they don't seem to have enough support to actually block her appointment. the 55-year-old will become the first hispanic supreme court ju justice and just the third woman to sit on the highest court in the country. >>> were police wrong to taser a man who appeared to come out after public bathroom? what police know now that they didn't know then. plk >>> california governor arnold schwarzenegger has just signed his state's budget. it is aimed at balancing california's $85 billion budget through the end of june of next year. the governor and lawmakers came up with the revised spending plan last week to close a $26 billion deficit. they hope this will allow the state to stop issuing those ious. >>> among other things, schwarzenegger cut spending on child welfare, health care for the poor

but i tell you, in the end, lindsey graham is right, katie. it's going to be very hard for senators to vote against this wonderful life story that this woman has-- who was raised by a widowed mother and went on to be the first hispanic woman to be nominated. >> couric: and they want those hispanic voters, too. we can't forget that. bob, let's go back to our latest cbs poll. president obama's overall job approval rating is down six points since june. his approval rating for handling the economy is nine points. i'm curious, what do you think is behind these declining numbers. >> i think it's all about the economy, katie. one of the findings in our poll says nearly 70% of people in america are worried about losing their jobs, at least what somewhat worried. when people are in that kind of mood, the president's popularity is going to go down. they want to see some results. he's launched all these programs now they want to see that the programs are having some impact. >> couric: all right. bob schieffer in washington. bob, thank you. good to talk t

was right -- >> you look at -- >> let's look at lindsey graham. let's watch his questioning of her. you tell me if you think it helps you with the latino community. here it is. let's watch. >> these statements about you are striking. they're not about your colleagues, the ten-minute rule applies to everybody, and that, you know, obviously you've accomplished a lot in your life, but maybe these hearings are a time for self-reflection. this is pretty tough stuff that you don't see about other judges on the second circuit. >> what did you make of that? time basically to reflect on her anger management? >> it was something raised by her own colleagues. this isn't something republicans made up, chris, come on. >> do you think it helps to have this on television? i'm asking you a political question. you're getting into substance here. do you think president obama wasn't brilliant in picking this woman so your party would beat up on her. >> we did not beat up -- i mean, wow, come on. >> jeff sessions, lindsey graham, orrin hatch. that was a tough -- >> e

lindsey graham is right. that if he had said this, it would have been very controversial., it's controversial what sotomayor said and she's expressing regret in 17 different ways that the statement was being taken that way. >> you know, graham proved himself to be one of the tougher questioners yesterday and he drilled down on the idea of her temperament saying it sticks out like a sore thumb. let's listen to one of the questions that he asked. >> this is pretty tough stuff. that you don't see from -- about other judges on the second circuit. >> really suggesting that her temperament may not be suited for the supreme court. did she absolve herself of those inquiries yesterday? >> that was a dramatic moment in the hearing. he kept reading the anonymous quotes submitted to the directory, she's ill-tempered, she's abnoxious. well, i read the full entry and there were many complimentary things that senator graham left out. also, a lot of the comments struck me as the kind of thing that gets said about women in powerful positions. men are called tough, women are called shrill.