i'm a good friend of steve breyer. i like him a lot and of sandra day o'connor and of anyone else whose opinions i criticize. >> if they call one of your opinions pure apple sauce? >> that's fine so long as they can demonstrate that it's true. >> reporter: unafraid, a bombastic character who wrote with a vivid, vivid imagine shup, shannon. >> we will remember him that way. brian, thank you so much. >> reporter: no problem. >> our responsibility to shape up the executive and make sure they're doing what they're supposed to or shaping up the congress, that's not our job. our job is to prevent people from being harmed. if nobody is being harmed, we don't get into the matter. and even if somebody is harmed, unless he comes to us, we don't

i'm a good friend of steve breyer. i like him a lot and of sandra day o'connor and of anyone else whose opinions i criticize. >> if they call one of your opinions pure apple sauce? >> that's fine so long as they can demonstrate that it's true. >> reporter: unafraid, a bombastic character who wrote with a vivid, vivid imagine shup, shannon. >> we will remember him that way. brian, thank you so much. >> reporter: no problem. >> our responsibility to shape up the executive and make sure they're doing what they're supposed to or shaping up the congress, that's not our job. our job is to prevent people from being harmed. if nobody is being harmed, we don't get into the matter. and even if somebody is harmed, unless he comes to us, we don't have any self-starting powers. we're at the mercy of whoever wants to bring a case or whoever doesn't want to bring a case. >> that was justice scalia on the role of the supreme court. joining us now a former clerk to justice clarence thomas. she is now judicial crisis network's chief cou

i'm a good friend of steve breyer.im a lot, and sandra day o'connor, and whoever else's opinions i criticize. >> if they call one of your opinions pure apple sauce? >> that's fine as long as they can demonstrate that it's true. >> he used a lot of colorful language. >> for sure. some of the most memorable language is what we remember him for. >> we are just getting in reaction from all of his colleagues on the court. i want to read a few of these. we talked about the fact he had close friendships with people he ideologically disagreed with but people very close. he was probably closest to justice ruth bader ginsberg and her husband. here is what she had to say about him. she talked about the fact that we are different but we are one, in talking about an operatic duet, they were best buddies. that's her quote. we disagreed now and then but when i wrote for the court and received a scalia dissent, it was notably better than my initial circulation. she said, he gave me what i needed, he was a jurist with a rare talent to

i'm a good friend of steve breyer. i like him a lot.and sandra day o'connor and whoever else is whose opinions i criticize. >> and if they call one you have your pins applesauce? >> that's fine. as long as they can demonstrate that it's true. >> you're 76 years old. will you time your retirement so that a more conservative president can appoint a like minded justice? >> i would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing everything that i've tried to do for 25 years, 26 years. sure. but, i mean, i shouldn't have to tell you that. unless you think i'm a fool. >> the wisdom and wit. of antonin scalia. the conventional wisdom is for all the talk every four years about the future of the court that usually it doesn't actually move votes in a presidential election. but i'm going to pick up on what i was asking david this time, if there is a debate, an angry debate going on in the senate at the time, the president sang here is my choice, republican senators blocking that choice, could this time be different? could it

i'm a good friend of steve breyer, i like him a lot, and sandra day o'connor and whoever else opinionyour opinion of share apple sauce? >> that's fine. as long as they can demonstrate it's true. >> i actually think apple sauce is something good to eat. >> well, it's not good in opinions. >> there's chris wallace interviewing justice scalia back in 2012. chris, to watch that video now of course in the wake of this news, what does that say to you? >> well, look, it was one of the favorite interviews i've done in my 12-plus years here on fox news sunday. two points, he is so brilliant. and he was so much fun to be around. i mean, he was just bursting with wit and bursting with brain power. and he's missed. i mean, whether you agreed or disagreed with his judicial philosophy and the positions he took on a lot of the central issues in our life here in america, you couldn't help but like him. and you couldn't help but admire the ferocity, the sheer brilliance with which he defended and expressed his opinions. >> chris, what did you make of a senate majority leader mitch mcconnell just very

steve crump wbtv on your side. >> thank you. the storms that struck left charlotte-mecklenburg schools closed because they were without power. breyer wood was closed because they had no way to heat the school or prepare meals for kids. at nearby kip charter school classes started late. and we will havav continuing coverage of the storm clean up. coming up at 5:00 you will hear from a mother who sacrificed her body tok protect her kids during a tornado. >> right now we are days away from the south carolina democratic primary and candidates are out right now trying to score last-minute hillary clinton's husband president bill clinton was in rock hill helping gain support for his wife. michael clark was at today's event. so what did president clinton have to say? >> president clinton talked about everything from job creation and especially race issues and that is important because african-americans will makeup more than half of the voters casting a ballot in the primary on saturday. another stop on the campaign trail for former president clinton. while hillary clinton makes her pitch to voters in the palmetto state bill clinton spoke