i'm joined by republican strategist and msnbc contributor steve schmidt, as well as jennifer daskell, associate professor of law at american university. i want to go to steve on this on the politics of this thing and your general sense. i mean, there is a background here. trump has called one judge, a mexican-american guy unreliable because he might have a prejudice against him. this case, he refers to a so-called judge. i'm going to ask the professor whether that's going to make some of these judges a little bit less happy to go along with the government position here. what do you make of this challenging the court, sort of andy jackson sort of thing going on here? >> i think it's totally inappropriate, chris. look, less than three weeks ago donald trump stood on the west front of the capitol, raised his hand, swore to preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. we have an independent judiciary in this country. he's not a so-called judge. he was nominated by a president of the united states. he was confirmed by the united states senate. he's a judge. period. e