i think ramesh's point is salient and right.re's been a little bit of the old sherlock holmes story about the dolmehat didn't bark, the story of the dog, when the race bark in the night, whichg didt suggested that maybe it was somebody inside the household who was responsible. the dog didn't bark. usually there are a number of republicans you can count on to be ontelevision. there's no such term as indecent exposure to them. ifhere's a microphone and camera going, they're tre. as ramesh said, they're in the tall grass. the reason, theo re'swhite house strategy. eth pretty obvious, the difference between this and bill clinton in 1998, when clinton effectively compartmentalized i'm going about my business, donald trump as one leading republican said this week ought to be working on preptscn drugs. he ought to being that and holding meetings on it this and' that, and totally obsessed with this. so if you're going to defend him, you don't know wat you're going to be defending an hour from now or certainlyomorrow morning. >>oodruff:

but ramesh, what if we learned right now? if an >> i think they tend to confirm the trends that we're talking about that warren has been rising and biden has been sinking. biden is close in his fundraising to andrew yang thano sanders or warren. we know senator sanders had a strong fan ways and i think one thing this fundraising appeal shows us is she's not going to be fading out and muscled out of the primaries in favor of som other candidate who can stay in the long haul, if he wants. >> woodruff: what dosee in these numbers, mark. >> money matters, make no mistake. bernie, god bless him, his numbers in the polbels hav slipping, but $25 million, he has a committed donor base. elizabinh warren surged bot the polls and in money, ise impressive, mao mistake about it. i don't think this campaign is money, i likely don't.t o >> woodruff: well -- among the democrats. >> woodruff: one thior sure right now, it's the president who's getting most to have the asention in thi campaign. mark shidsramesh ponnuru, thank you. >> thank you.

[laughter] ramesh: creative interpretation. if you wouldn't mind taking over the questioning. >> thank you, and organize audience questions -- i will recognize audience questions in a minute. mike talked about one of the cert petitions. one of the cases already on his docket -- tom did not mention he will be arguing his 43rd case. one of you may ask him about that. he is such a slacker. clement is approaching 100, but he had so many years in the solicitor general's office. really unfair. anyway, congratulations on those numbers. i will call on audience questions. there are two people with microphones. and i call on you, please wait for the mic so the c-span viewers can hear your question, and please ask only a question and a short one at that. one question i'm going to rule out preemptively is anything to do with a hypothetical impeachment trial that the chief justice might have to preside at. today's program is just going to focus on the supreme court's judicial caseload. we can schedule another program -word moves to the sena

ramesh: 14th amendment? thomas: it is a kind of miasma of due process and cruel and cruel and unusual punishment. then the supreme court agreed to take up a different immigration case today. there is a federal statute that says it is a crime to encourage illegal immigration for a profit motive. the ninth circuit court of appeals held that that statute was unconstitutional because it infringed on free speech and was too broadly written. the administration took of that question and the justices have agreed to hear it. the justices are likely to uphold the statute. it is a feature of the supreme court jurisdiction that they almost always will agree to hear a case where a federal statute they almost always agreed to hear a case where a federal statute is struck down by a lower court. it is not a huge signal about what their intention is. the statute will probably survive constitutional muster. michael: two cases that have not been addressed but i want people to be thinking about. one is selfishly my case, and on

as ramesh said, their take responsibility for what is being said.ut on it. people should take responsible for their own words there. for that to happen and e with have to take some of those design flaws and know that anomianomit is anonymous. and people like jim clark the entrepreneur that created the first web browser and people like time burners lee, they're working on ways to create a new internet where there is more verification. people not able to spread lies and fake news. >> in wawe want to say that she having community coffees -- >> is there a hurricane in there from pat o'brien. >> no, it is chickerie coffee. >> we were just talking about getting people to pay attention. do you worry about our culture where their attention spans are maybe three or four minutes. dwoept live in an eye contact nation. it is wonderful but. >> it is affecting all of us and particularly our youth who want to have alternatives. i teach undergraduate students and when i talk to them about these issues they take a moment of pause. i ask them to take 24 hours without

mark shields and ramesh nnuru are here to analyze the swirling impeachment investigation, and the moneythe democratic presidential candidates.

mark shieldsnd ramesh ponnuru are here to analyze the swirling impeachment investation, and

ramesh joins me now. thank you for being with us.out in the commercial break, this is the 50th anniversary of the internet. today. the first electronic message was sent 50 years ago today. and if you were to poll people today, most people would say, look, this is fantastic, it has done terrific things, the internet. there's a lot of people who say it's wrecking part of our discourse and politic zps. >> right now we arrived at a moment where we're dependent on the internet, the internet is the vocabulary by which everything is expressed. get insurance through algorit algorithms. we experience news through the internet. >> yep. >> specifically through platf m platforms. now we're at a point where a concentrated set of a few private technology companies that the are not necessarily deeply educated in the public interest because they're technology companies, have become the places we go to for all our digital experiences. so their own choices, not even their engineers, but their algorithmic systems which are optimized for their own priva

ramesh, i want no start with you. you heard senator blunt do what marco rubio did the other day, which is to say the defense of the president will rest on don't believe your eyes an don't believe your ears. he didn't actually say what he said. >> right. or he didn't mean it. don't take him seriously. don't take him literally. i think it reflects the difficulty republicans are having in defending president trump's cond souct we'vere. had first an ato say the president didn't set foreign policy in a way that was calculated to serve his domestic political interests. and now we're beginning to hear an argument that it's okay that if he did this that, it was totally within his prerogative, and it's sort of a cacophony of defenses, because no one of them is really quite strong enough. >> brennan: and yet no one is challenging the conduct. there is not a -- i have a problem with what was done. it was just i'm going to stay with the party. >> nobody is challenging it, with a few exceptions. >> brennan: you don't even need one

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