joins useek, nan aron to talk about the supreme court a vacant spot in in studio, we n and sun minve and kim. >> i wanted to ask you if you could first describe your group and what roles the lives for justice will play over getting judge garland confirmed to the supreme court. ms. garcia: since the early 1980's, the alliance has had a project that reviewed every district court, supreme court nominee. helped with the confirmation of hundreds of judges. we intend to be incredibly beene this year as we have for the past 30 years. in terms of working as hard as we can to help secure the confirmation of merrick garland. in as well as -- and the confirmation of many lower court nominees who have been waiting for a long time for a confirmation vote. we are going into a congressional recess where all the senators are back home and how important will the next two weeks the and tried to sway central republican senator's about having a hearing or moving forward? nan: two things. how just been amazing overwhelming the response has been from across the country, most of who have never gotten in al

. >> this week on newsmakers nan , aron joins us to talk about the supreme court vacant spot in .in studio, we have jeff bravin and seung min kim. go ahead with the first question. >> i wanted to ask you if you could first describe your group and what role of alliance for justice will play over getting judge garland confirmed to the supreme court. ms. aron: good morning and thanks for having me. over 100association of advocacy groups. since the early 1980's, the alliance has had a project that reviewed every district court, supreme court nominee. and helped with the confirmation of hundreds of judges. we intend to be incredibly active this year as we have been for the past 30 years. in terms of working as hard as we can to help secure the confirmation of merrick garland. as well as the confirmation of many of the other lower court nominees who have been waiting for a long time for a confirmation vote. >> how important will this -- we are going into a congressional recess where all the senators are back home and how important will the next two weeks the and in trying to sway centra

it this week our guess is man aaron -- nan aron. you can stream it or listen to it on c-span radio.ost: we want to welcome back niels lesniewski on "roll call.: " a lot to talk about. colleaguego to your --id hawking's who writes everyone seems to be going to the c-span archives to read what senators have said. what did he say in 1987 and how is it relevant in 2016. guest: the relevance we were in 1987 to this cycle is that this was the last go around. we had a republican president, democratic senate and one of the things were looking at back then was the fact that we ultimately got to a point of confirmation in the election year, 1988, but you have this story up in front of you -- host: the quote was, the dangers of politicizing the nomination process are needed by shortsightedness. presidential elections end supreme court nominations, and go. resist.y colleagues to guest: what was happening was we went from the defeated nomination to the anthony kennedy nomination, which was confirmed in 1988 in the after theear nomination was defeated. grassley was in play then. he was already in

. >> on news makers, nan aron president of the alliance for justice talks about the debate over president obama's nomination of judge merrick garland to the supreme court. news makers af 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> book tv is in primetime on c-span 2 starting monday night at 8:30 eastern. each night will feature a series of programs on topics ranging from politics and education to medical care and national security. plus, encore presentations from recent book festivals. tune in for book tv in primetime, all next week on c-span 2. go to book tv.org for the complete schedule. >>> now a discussion on the status of the investigation into the e-mails sent to and from hillary clinton's personal server during tenure as secretary of state. from washington journal, this is about