mr. whelan, i'm curious about the data on the diversity of the appointments. i believe the host indicated at trump has confirmed 161 judges. my recollection is that president bush appointed about 20% african-americans and hispanics. i believe that president trump has only appointed two or three. i'm curious what your response is to that. do you think that that's really representative of what trump should be doing in terms of diverse filing the bench. guest: well, the question of the role of diversity in judicial appointments is interesting and a complicated one. i think the caller is right that below numbers are president bush's. at the same time it seems when president trump does nominate a minority or otherwise diverse candidate, there is a special vitriol that the left has for that nomination. i think there is a game going on here when he's criticized on diversity grounds. that is the very folks criticizing him tend to attack the diverse candidates. host: we talked about the change in the fable in 2017. the change in the blue slip rules. that you talked abo

mr. whelan, i do have one thing i would like to ask. meanmount kisco anything to you?> i believe there is a case in newat name, but, york, i believe, but i can't tell you any more about that. >> you folks on the moving company. >> nope. >> nancy concorde, new hampshire. on the democrat like, go ahead. >> i'm just really curious about this bloke in -- this broken system. mitch mcconnell denied barack obama the hearing from garland. you'll we stand on the constitution and this judicial stuff, yet you smirk and turn your back on the constitution when a democrat is in power. a lot of these judges are being -- rigged on being unqualified, totally unqualified, getting lifetime positions. how do you justify that? that is not democracy in this country and that is not what our founding flowers -- founding fathers expected. downhief justice will go as a disgrace because of the way he is running his courts, currently. look at what is happening with voting rights, voting suppression. you don't talk about that. >> ok nancy. >> let me address the first question. the caller is right.

mr. whelan, i'm curious about the data on the diversity of the appointments. believe the host indicated at trump has confirmed 161 judges. my recollection is that president bush appointed about 20% african-americans and hispanics. i believe that president trump has only appointed two or three. i'm curious what your response is to that. do you think that that's really representative of what trump should be doing in terms of diverse filing the bench. guest: well, the question of the role of diversity in judicial appointments is interesting and a complicated one. i think the caller is right that below numbers are president bush's. at the same time it seems when president trump does nominate a minority or otherwise diverse candidate, there is a special vitriol that the left has for that nomination. i think there is a game going on here when he's criticized on diversity grounds. that is the very folks criticizing him tend to attack the diverse candidates. host: we talked about the change in the fable in 2017. the change in the blue slip rules. that you talked about