sitting next to her is kristine lucius. and on the end is sharon mcgowan, director of strategy at lambda legal. so let's jump right in. between all of your backgrounds and your wealth of knowledge combined covering this -- the judicial branch, how would you sum up the last year in one word? in terms of trump's judicial nominations? one word. >> earth shattering. >> i guess that's one word. okay. >> is it hyphenated? >> it is hyphenated. >> i was going for parade of -- >> i gave you guys these questions in advance. one word. >> you can tell people who have tried to sort of get in the word limit, i'll put some hyphens in there. my one word, there are many other words, but the one word i would use is revealing. >> oh. that's deep. so have you -- each of you can weigh in on this, have you been surprised at all by the last year and trump's style of nominating and rushing people to the process? and i guess by style i mean he's been very fast. he's been pretty sloppy. and his judicial picks have been heavily shaped by right-wing g