here with more, marc thiessen, and michele jawando. welcome to both of you.lle, let me start with both of you. do you expect the democrats will filibuster this nomination? >> martha, it is great to be with you. i think the point is this. most americans agreed that whoever a nominee should be, particularly during the divided partisan time, they should be able to cross a 60 vote threshold that says a few things, they are mainstream, they are fair, they are impartial. if a nominee can't do that, then, you change the nominee. you don't have to blow up years, over 100 years of tradition for one nominee. >> martha: marc. >> [laughs] first of all, there is no 60 vote threshold for a nominee. samuel alito was confirmed 58-42. clarence thomas was confirmed 52-48. the lean times you need 60 votes as of the other party filibusters and there has never, in the history of the republican come up in a filibuster of an associate justice for the supreme court. the democrats would be doing something unprecedented in terms of filibustering judge gorsuch. this attachment to 60 vo

here now, marc thiessen, and matt bennett. good to see you both. >> good to see you. >> shannon: marc are they making progress, they seem to become of the leadership, the white house, on the same page with rolling it out, they can't lose more than 21 votes in the house and our concern is those who are still skeptical. >> we don't know because they haven't put out any coverage estimates. we do know whole new people will get covered. that gets to the big problems that republicans face. many of the people who got coverage under obamacare did through the medicaid expansion. there were some republican governors who said no and rejected it. in 13 red states that voted for donald trump, the governors excepted the. if you just repeal obamacare without doing something to take care of those people, they will be millions of people who lose their health care plan. that is a democrats job to take over your health care. the senators from those dates, many of the states, will say, they will say, unless there is a plan to take care of these p

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marc thiessen is here a fellow at the enterprise institute and columnist at "the washington post" andjurist like gorsuch get support he's raising the question no one can. >> he's right. there's no reason for any senator to vote against judge gorsuch he's shown his record he will judge impartially and there's nothing on which to hang a no vote but they know he's a conservative vote and you look at the question the democrats keep asking him it's all about outcomes. senator feinstein asking him will you fight for the little guy. the judge's job is to make sure there's equal protection and rule against who is wrong. so democrats are all about outcomes. they're goal is to use the law to enact a social justice agenda by coming out with the outcome they want and finding a legal reasoning to get it and that's not what judges are supposed to do. judge gorsuch made clear sometimes you'll make ruling you disagree with and have to uphold laws you disagree with and i don't know how anyone can disagree with. >> eric: he's not taken the bait so far specifically the roe v. wade question saying if it

marc thiessen, good morning. welcome back. i know we'll all make a deal on health care. maybe there's some sarcasm thrown in that comment. characterize it. does it happen or not? >> no. nothing's going to be easy with the situation on capitol hill but this especially will not be easy. trump's premise is he'll let obamacare collapse and it will quet get so bad the democrats will beg for a change. premiums are skyrocketing, absolutely fact but the problem is 83% of the people on obamacare get subsidies and under the law they increase dollar per dollar they increase and all of us would subsidize it will get screwed and second of all insurers are pulling out. that's a fact. there will be some states in the next year or so that don't have insurance in the exchanges and the commercial insurers pull out and medicaid hmos which provide bad coverage are coming in and obamacare will limp along. it will be worse care at a higher cost which is the opposite of what president obama promised so democrats have no incentive to come to trump and say let's work out a deal because they're f

marc thiessen, a fellow at the american enterprise institute. good morning. you were the lead writer on two addresses, state of the union. score it from last night. how did you hear it? >> i can speak with some authority on this. this was not just a good speech for donald trump, this was one of the best addresses to congress that any president has given. not saying it is good for trump. it was a terrific great speech. he was hopeful, positive, optimist i can. he laid out a positive vision for the country. where he wanted the lead us and what america looks like when america is great again. i love the technique of using the upcoming 250th anniversary of our independence and asking americans what do we want our country to look like when we celebrate that? he disarmed his critics by reaching out across the aisle and asking democrats to join him in a bipartisan effort to tackle these problems like finding healthcare who are under collapsing obamacare. immigration, infrastructure and helping our inner cities. i think that was disarming. before last night the democr

people like marc thiessen who was the lead writer on bunch of these speeches, was never trump, this isof the best speeches he ever heard in a state of the union. if you come out and trash it, you kind of sound like sour grapes, no? >> well, first of all, the criticism that is politician might say one thing and do something else that is not new for president trump. that unfortunately the case on both sides of the aisle in many cases but when it comes to being detached to reality, there are millions of americans who feel that the previous administration didn't understand the rea alty of their life, their concerns, their policy preferences and they will be relieved to finally hear a president address those things. there is bigger concern here, americans blue or red have been detaching from each other's realities. we have divided country. not just in terms of political polarization, look geographically the counties trump won. seeing rural america a lot more conservative, urban america a lot more liberal. choices where we live or what kind of job we pursue or where to send our kids to schoo

here now with a take on all of us, marc thiessen, served as chief speechwriter to george w. bush.julie roginsky. lindsey graham is getting impatient. he wants to know if there was a warrant. there was a suggestion that over the summer there was a request for some fisa surveillance that was shot down. what do you know about that? what he think we will find out? >> i don't know what we will find out. in your lead into that story about rachel maddow's big scoop, there was a reference to al capone's vault, when you open it up, there is nothing there. >> martha: poor geraldo, he had to relive that think the whole day. [laughter] >> keep in mind come with our two accusations. there was one, trump's accusation that obama wiretapped trump tower. two, an accusation made by the democrats that trump colluded with russia. there may be nothing to either one of those. it may be something entirely different. the fbi is in charge of counterespionage. they are in charge of counterintelligence. it may be that there are some investigations going on that director called me does not want to reveal pub