we'll hear from supreme court justice sonia sotomayor and cindy mccain, the wife of the late senator john mccain. from the c-span archives, first lady barbara bush's 1990 address at wellesley college in massachusetts. supreme court justice sonja sotomayor is a native of bronx knox. she gave the commencement address this year at manhattan college, a small roman catholic liberal arts college in the bronx. [cheers and applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming and congratulating the latest jasper among us jasper sonja sotomayor. [cheers and applause] justice soto mayor hello, i'm thrilled to be a new jasper. president o'donnell, i thank you and the board of trustees of this college of bestowing on me my honorary degree. i take great pride of joining the great class of 2019. [cheers and applause] justice soto mayor: it is an honor for me to share this occasion with all of you. it is elastically lovely for me to be here because it lets me return to my home borough, the bronx. [cheers and applause] >> a place that makes my heart smile whenever i come back to it. you can

supreme court. he is surely one of the most supreme court justices of the modern era, and his work will be studied by scholars for many, many years to come. i want to emphasize something else, and that is the length of his service and his dedication to an enormous number of cases. here are a few numbers. he served on the supreme court in an active capacity for 30 years. 266 opinions of the court, 544 opinions and all sat on more than 2500 cases. and although some of those are landmarks that will long be studied and long remembered, many of them are not glamorous, but every single one of them is a great effort in the product of a modern dedication. and before that, he sat for 12 years on the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit, where he wrote 400 opinions. that was a lot of sacrifice on his part and a lot of sacrifice on the part of mary kennedy while he had his nose a buried -- his nose buried in the briefs. exemplifiesink this , it is the work of the thousands of judges in this country. an evenater -- and greater number of judicial staff employees, whose work is indispensable to kee

a former supreme court justice. remember the president said this is going to go all the way to the supreme court, well the supreme court, one of them has already said he's got to comply. all of this in the wake of the president publicly saying this. >> we're fighting all the subpoenas. >> then there's the president's personal lawyer encouraging a foreign government to interfere in american politics. i'll say that again. the president's personal lawyer encouraging a foreign government to interfere in american politics. which sure seems like colluding right out in the open. have they learned nothing? rudy giuliani tells cnn that he stumbled on what he calls a damaging story in ukraine about joe biden and his son, pretty convenient isn't it? stumbling on an allegedly damaging story about the democratic rival the president fears the most. house judiciary chairman jerry nadler saying this. >> we've come to a very sorry state when it's considered okay for an american politician, never mind an attorney for the president, t

able to quote from the bill of rights. >> but i reviewed it, if you are allowed to appoint supreme court justicesould be allowed to appoint supreme court justices. >> they are not stopping the appointment they are stopping the confirmation. >> but there nothing about only an elect year. kennedy: i will say -- >> that. kennedy: you would agree senate race in 2016 was closed. people were so upset they would have given democrats control. >> i would not necessarily say that, i think it is really difficult, i am critical of this, democrat and republican do it, to interpret elect results as any one individual thing. kennedy: as mandate. >> particularly, you don't have 60% result. kennedy: libertarians never have a mandate, do we. >> no, mandate, you leave me alone. kennedy: don't take my stuff, and don't touch me, unless i say, hey touch me. >> in which case it okay. kennedy: not necessarily human trafficking. >> is it, joe biden could learn from those statements, he could learn a lot from lib tearians libertarians about not touching. kennedy: several democrat still banking on russia investigation. did

supreme court justice antonin... >> narrator: mcconnell immediately understood the political implicatioia's death. >> the stakes are enormous, because if you replace scalia with a... an obama appointee, justices on the court that are going to move the court in a much more progresse direction. >> with that vacancy, the question is, will a republican-controlled sete... >> narrator: president barack obama's replacement would give democrats a five-justice majority on the court. >> mitch mcconnell doesn't even wait for the day to enafter antonin scalia dies to put out a statement saying, in effect, "we're not going to let president obama replace him." >> majority leader mitch mcconnell just releasing a statement... >> ...this vacan should not be filled until we have a new president. >> "it doesn't matter if you name anybody or not, i'm... we're not considering anybody because it's too close to the election." >> how shockg was that to you? >> it was amazing to me. i mean, they can say, "oh there's precedent." this was unprecedented. >> four-and-a-half weeks after justice scalia died, today pr

a long history in the supreme court. justicefrankford and justice douglas stay too long because he did not want to give up their power. she was worried about that that she had a clerk check-in. she did fear her mother had alzheimer's and her aunt. and her husband. she feared it terribly and it was her greatest fear. it became. she was diagnosed in 2014. before that her husband, this is a heartbreaking story, she leaves to support to take care of her husband and he's in a home and they form a mistake attachment. he has a girlfriend named kay, and he would be sitting there in kay and say to sandra, i want you to be my wife turning to kate, and she is publicly said i am happy for him because he had been depressed and now he's happier. privately a broken heart. of course it did. in typical, she would come in and you'd be holding hands with kay and she would come down and sit down and hold his other hand. >> you have another question? >> you mentioned that justice o'connor was an activist but what was the field from people who know h

supreme court precedent. : what would the supreme court justices have to look at when they consider this?hanas you know, we have a divided court, and the question everyone is asking is not what they will look at, but who we should look at, and that is john roberts. there is a new conservn ive majoritye court. justice kennedy, who had saved pro-choice rights while he was on the court, has retired. he was replaced by justice kavanaugh, who is believed to be anti-roe v. wade. the thing that is interesting here is that kavanaugh is a lot like roberts they look a lot alike, they tend to be institutionalists. the question is will they go along? will they get sticker shock when it comes to whether they will overrn roe v. wade? many people believe that at least hn roberts is not ready for that. jane: we keep hearing about precedent, though. this law has been in existence for 40-oddears. is precedent going to be enough to protect the constitutional t ri reproductive rights? heavily:ei it will on john roberts. this is the type of thing that makes him nervous. but his whole career on the court has b

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in his book "parents thomas and we look constitution, at the tenure of the supreme court justice. >> in thomas's view, there is no higher, nobler, more just or more up to date purpose for any government. if the framers fail to realize that ideal because of slavery, the civil war amendments proved their design was perfectible. afterwards, a tooir how can about efforts overturn the ban on women in combat. >> it was a very common experience. all women i talked to experienced some form of discrimination and most had experienced harassment and many had experienced assaults. information desperately needed addressed and knowledge. demanding reforms. eastern, former second lady of the united states jill biden discusses her family and career. >> i was so nervous about getting up in front of a crowd. but then when we were elected vice president, i said you know what, i've been given such a platform and i can talk about all my passions. all the things that i love. education, community colleges, military families, and i thought , i cannot waste this platform and i had better get better at this.

supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg, a jewish woman with deep respect for women's history said what is the difference between a bookkeeper and a supreme court justice? one generation? the feminism that changed jewish women's lives and their families, their communities and workplaces spills over to the synagogue and jewish communities. reform jewish women had cause in 1963, some jewish women had -- jewish men had done nothing about it back then. during the depression when the future congresswoman was 13, her father died and went to an orthodox synagogue every morning on her way to school for a year. nobody counted her in the quorum of 10 required for prayer. the jewish community was segregated back then. women were shunted by men's organizations into auxiliary women's divisions. the women who have become rabbis, some even in the orthodox world and the changes and jewish communal life to know how much feminism altered american jewish life. some of these american jewish women carry that feminism in the 1970s to their sisters in israel. i want to close with two, 21st-century women w

he said he would pick a supreme court justice if he died. >> should a supreme court justice die next >> we would fill it. >> he would block measublocked n 2016. listen to what he said in 2016 and then we can talk about it. >> the next justice could fundamentally alter the direction of the supreme court and have a profound impact on our country. so, of course, of course, the american people should have a say in the court's direction. it is the president's constitutional right to nominate a supreme court justice, and it is the senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent. >> he believed that when it was advantageous to republicans, and he won't believe it when that's advantageous. this is rank partisanship of the most bald kind. >> it doesn't matter, the sound bite is there. he said it, but they just say different stuff. go on, dana, sorry. >> yeah, it doesn't matter anymore, but particularly on this issue, particularly with mitch mcconnell. i've covered him for many, many years. he is so singularly focused on the bench, on the federal judicia

you even had supreme court justice breyer say a couple weeks ago that roe versus wade is in threat, isin the supreme court, the justice said this. so i think this is a scary moment. we have to stand up and we have to speak out. we saw protests all across the country last week. women are, you know, getting out there and protesting and saying, no, this is not happening. you see this with the 2020 candidates also taking this all on. >> right. >> speaking out, making this an issue. we'll see where this goes. >> claire, it seemed to me for some time, i've long believed that what's happening in missouri right now would happen across the country. that is this, that the roberts court will never explicitly overturn roe v. wade. but they will allow the regulation of abortion to such a degree that in states like missouri, you have one abortion provider today, but you may have no abortion provider. they can say, we didn't overturn roe v. wade, but they allowed individual states to regulate to such a degree that it is a de facto ban. >> yeah. in what they're doing in missouri is really interesting

she proposed plan that involves making supreme court justices say whether they would support upholdingde when they become a sitting justice. they don't ask a justice how they would vote in the future. let's listen to what she had to say about that. >> would you sit down with them in the oval office and ask how they would vote on a future potential court case? >> i would ask them whether they believe that roe v wade is settled precedent. it's that simple. >> there were a lot of democrats out and about b outside the supreme court today just a few steps away from the capitol. they all wanted to be seen participating in this major event. taking a stand against the laws in alabama and in georgia. we saw cory booker speaking. chuck schumer walking around and others making sure their voices are heard when it comes to roe v wade. >> thank you for your coverage. >>> next, a look inside the bitter partisan battle over the control of the supreme court and how the federalist society and senator mitch mcconnell have spent years transforming that court into a more conservative one. you are watching

abortion ban is the direct result of brett kavanaugh is confirmation to the supreme court where the firmly conservative supreme court justice supreme court 7 states this year have been emboldened to pass flagrantly unconstitutional laws to set up a test case to overturn roe versus wade and this is why we need hash tag court packing so a lot there to unpack in that tweet kimberly to talk to us about what she gets at the why the why now what do you make about. well there truth is that basically since 1973 there have been in tight race forces that have been trying to overturn roe versus wade so it's certainly the case that brett kavanaugh as confirmation has. emboldened people and maybe given them a little bit more hope that they would actually be able to overturn roe at this point but abortion access has been attacked in the united states for many years and including in 1902 when planned parenthood versus casey was decided which was the 1st case that really will back. the roe decision 1st came as you see any link between or the states that have these heartbeat bills wanting them to be nor can you say oh those are the 15 state

republican leader mitch mcconnell is talking about the supreme court again, and this time papa's got a brand-new bag. >> if a supreme court justiced you do? >> we'd fill it. >> okay. so, first of all, the senate majority leader and essentially getting laughs off the prospect of a dead supreme court justice could have answered that question by saying, you know, death is generally a bad thing and even conservatives salivating to fill another supreme court seat aren't relishing the possibility that one of the justices might soon die, but, no, he didn't say that. in fact, senator mcconnell couldn't hide his turtle that ate the canary grin. next year is an election year and the mitch mcconnell you just saw is the same mitch mcconnell who along with his allies blocked president obama's supreme court nominee, judge merrick garland, from even getting a hearing in early 2016 because it was, it's all flooding back to you, isn't it? that's right. it was 2016. it was an election year. >> this nomination ought to be made by the next president. the american people should have a say in the court's direction. this decision ought to be made by th

is a good idea. >> you seem to be invoking supreme court justices who did not think these were nonjusticiable critical questions. but i am asking you is are you saying the supreme court in the event that we were to extend the deadline should intervene to strike it down or if states were to adopt the equal rights amendment to say it is not a constitutional amendment and it is not part of the constitution. >> yes. when it gets litigated if you decide to extend the ratification deadline or if it is ratified again by one more state, it will be struck down as an unconstitutional amendment process. so yes. and i thank you for clarifying. ms. scalon from pennsylvania. one of the great new members of our congress. >> i'm so excited to be here. this is one of those aha moments for new member of congress. i want to show you this. it is called girls are equal, to buy dale carlson. my mother gave me this book over 40 years ago. because she wanted me to think about gender roles and how they impacted even preteens like myself at the time. for that, having just joined the most diverse congress in history i

>> if a supreme court justice were to die next year, what would you do?e'd fill it. >> imagine if obama had a supreme court vacancy in his time in office and the other party decided they would not consider any obama nominee to fill that seat on the court. instead they would hold it open and hope for a republican president. they would invent a new principle that presidents are no longer allowed to nominate supreme court justices in the last year before an election. imagine the outrage if they tried that. imagine the outrage. they would never get away with that. if they did get away with that -- which they did -- at least they'd have to live by that standard from here on out, right? even if they got a republican president they now had this new rule, right? >> if a supreme court justice were to die next year, what would you do? >> i would fill it. >> president trump is a president like we have never had before. lots of different levels. granted, you know what i mean. where did we get this idea that this particular republican president is facing no limits fro

in the book "clarence thomas and thelost constitution" author looks at the supreme court justice.thomas' view, there higher, more just for more up-to-date purpose for any government. realizeramers failed to that ideal because of slavery, civil war amendments proved their design was perfected, and thomas' words. afterwards, the book "unbecoming" a memoir of disobedience that talks about efforts to overturn the ban on women in combat. >> it was very common that all women i talk to experienced some form of discrimination. most had experienced harassment and many experienced assault. affirmation that we experienced something that was desperately needed to be addressed and acknowledged and tonged field this desire take these issues to capitol hill and demand reform. andt 10:00 p.m. eastern, her book "where the light enters," jill biden discusses her family and career. >> i was so nervous about getting up in front of a crowd, but then when we were elected vice president i thought, i have been given such a platform and i passions,bout all my all the things i love, education, community co

throughout the day on fox news, senator bernie sanders say that is he will only nominate supreme court justicesort roe versus wade, 2020 contender campaigning in alabama while condemning the state's new abortion law. >> make no mistake these laws are unconstitutionally and we will fight them in every way possible. >> kirsten gillibrand and cory booker have made similar pledges about supreme court justices, beto o'rourke is looking to the past as he tries to jump-start his struggling campaign, politico report that o'rourke has hired two senior staffers tied with former president obama and hillary clinton. lauren worked as regional director for 2016 clinton campaign. latest fox news poll by the way shows o'rourke in distant sixth place in democratic field. time the good, the bad and the ugly, first the good, senior beats cancer just in time. >> if it's not, i'm ready to go. heather: after 11 rounds of chemo joshua flores is cancer free. will study premed. now the bad, florida golf course, the county sheriff's office isn't sure where it came from but they will take care of the bull until someone c

supreme court if a seat becomes vacant during next year's run-up to the general elections. in 2016, mcconnell led a republican effort to block president obama's nominee merrick garland to the supreme court following justice antonin scalia's death, arguing voters should decide whether a democratic or a republican president would fill the opening based on the results of the 2016 election. german chancellor angela merkel said europe must fight against the right-wing ideology that is on the rise in europe and around the world. in an interview with cnn's christiane amanpour following the european parliament elections, which saw some gains for nationalist parties, merkel stressed the importance of learning from germany's own history. >> there is s to this day not a singngle synagogue, nonot a sine take care center for jewish children, not a single school for jewiwish childldren that d s not need to be guarded by german policeman. we have to facece u up to the specters of the past. we have to tell our young people what history has brought over us and otherers and these horrors, what we are for democracy, why we try to bring about solututio, why we always have to put ourselves in the other person's shoes. amy: o

supreme court pick in 2020. here were his comments yesterday. >> if a supreme court justice were decided this year -- >> i wouldl it. >> mcconnell's comment comes after the refusal to back merrick garland. a spokesman claims the difference is since the gop now controls both the white house and the senate. joining us again from washington, reporter for the hill julia manchester. here at the table, professor of political science and brown university author of the book "the oath and the office a guide for future presidents," corey bret brettschneider. >> the court currently protects the right to abortion. that may be gone with the next pick. that would solidify until my opinion against roe. there are things on the table like the future of gay marriage and in writing in particular the hostility to gay rights and gay rights generally. also i'd also executive power, justice kavanaugh in my view was largely picked because of his view of the president to basically do whatever he or she wants. long term, that might result in cases, for instance, give the president immunity from subpoenas. or the ability to have immunity

privacy rights protected in the constitution are in the pun numb bra of rights, i believe our supreme court justices should also continue that well established practice of observing those privacy rights. so hard to say what all these state actions will lead to, whether they will make it to the supreme court and what this supreme court will have to say about it. but i can tell you that we here in the united states senate, women who understand the access to health care, are so emphatic that we not erode these rights. i had the very unfortunate situation of having to speak at a funeral this weekend for a 28-year-old former staff member who died of cancer. and i know how much fight she had in her, but it was afterwards where one of harrell tifs said -- her rel tefs said to me, senator, you can't leave this unaddressed. young women at college campuses are not getting the breast exams to do early detection that she should. they should be out there. we should do more to evangelize that young women need to pay attention to their health care. and yet here we are across the nation having this debate. and i gu

tonight, at 8:00 eastern, speakers include supreme court justice, sonia sotomayor. at manhattan college in the bronx. businesswoman and philanthropist cindy mccain at the george washington university school of international affairs. and we'll look back to june 1990 and former first lady barbara bush, speaking at wellesley college. watch commencement speeches tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online any time on c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >>> reno had been called the biggest city on the map starting in 1910. and what it meant is that for its size, there was so much excitement and culture and action happening in reno that it really was the biggest little city around. >> there are not very many cities in north america that have what reno has. we're right on the edge of this vast wilderness. it's really special. i think of the natural environment as being a crucial determinant of what life is like in our home city. >> the c-span cities tour is on the road, exploring the american story, with the help of our spectrum cable participants,

. >> support supreme court justices roe v.abama while condemning the state's new abortion law. >> right now all across the united states there is a well-funded attack coordinated by right wing streamistextremists to deny wome right to control their own bodies and their own futures. rob: 2020 hopefuls and senators kirsten gillibrand and cory booker have made similar about supreme court justices. jillian: d.c. being unhappy d.c. 34reugs super hero. a company cease and decease letter devil due economics featuring alexandria ocasio-cortez. d.c. says it's too similar to its character wonder woman. the edition cover now shows dressed in a white suit. rob: time for the good, the bad, and the ugly. high school senior beats cancer just in time for graduation. [inaudible] and as soon as i got that text i just knew god was with him. whatever god has for me, i accept it. if it's it fight. if not i'm ready to go. rob: after 11 rounds of chemo he is cancer-free. the teen will study premed to become oncologist. jillian: a dad stuck inside a

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supreme court justices are going to have to make a decision about this stuff. at odds, but we have a system that we are going to fight through. that's not about what voters in the street think, that's about what the constitution and separation of powers. >> dana: i imagine don mcgahn is not anxious to get back on the news but he's probably not anxious to testify, either. >> he's probably not anxious to now to another success story against all the odds. a challenging upbringing. a student earned a full ride to georgetown university. this is all while she lived in a homeless shelter. she graduated with a degree in justice and peace studies and now using her story to encourage others. >> i know what it's like to not know if you have anything to eat at night or will i have a place to lay my head. i want you to know whatever you put your mind to, that you can do it. always believe in yourself, always love yourself. if you don't love yourself, nobody will. >> she's the first person in her family to graduate from college and the next plan is to attend law school. i'm

that republican legislators are so intent on denying. >> you would want a litmus test for supreme court justicese litmus tests? >> i do. president trump and senator mcconnell changed all the rules when it comes to appointing justices. when mitch mcconnell decided president obama was not entitled to his supreme court justice, where merrick garland was denied a hearing and a vote, they changed the rules. president trump made clear he's had a litmus test. frankly, i believe in precedent, settled law. this is not just some regulatory issue. this is a basic fundamental human right of every female in this country. and you are telling them that men in legislatures across america should get to decide when they have children, how many they have, and what types of health care they may have access to. we are rolling back the clock decades. if they were doing this on any other issue, you would see a ground swell of outrage. i'm telling you, women have been marching against this president since he was inaugurated. global women's marches. for years now. you saw women turn up to the polls in 2018, flipping the

court. >>> supreme smack down. a former u.s. supreme court justicercising powers he doesn't have and he must comply with congressional subpoenas. will the current justices feel the same? >>> from russia with peace. convicted russian agent speaking out from prison claiming she came to the united states to help make peace, not to spy. is she being honest about her kremlin and republican connections? >>> held hostage. local governments here in the united states hit with extensive cyber attacks along with big money ransom demands. stand by for cnn exclusive reporting on cyber crime that's crippling counties, cities and towns and costing them millions. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> we're following breaking news on democrats striking back against stone walling by the trump administration. the powerful house ways and mean chairman issuing subpoenas for six years of the president's personal and business tax returnr

supreme court rule that had a major class action lawsuit against apple can move toward. supreme court justice brett kavanaugh sided with the liberal justices that apple is siding with retail for app sales creating higher than competitive prices for iphone users. legal experts say this is a big win for consumers who want to have their day in court. >> it's going to open the way for them to get to trial on claims that they have been injured by monopoly pricing and activities on some of these platforms. >> right now apple charges a 30% commission fee to app developers but this lawsuit could force apple to reduce those fees. >>> former president jimmy carter in the hospital this morning after breaking his hip. a spokeswoman for mr. carter said he fell yesterday morning at his home in georgia while preparing for a hunting trip. he underwent surgery and is recovering with his wife at his side. in march, carter was the oldest former living president in u.s. history. in a statement following the surgery, he said he's still set on hunting next season despite his fall. >>> north korea is labeling -- no

for nine months. >> and mitch mcconnell at the time said of course you don't confirm supreme court justices in the last year of a presidential term. let's listen to what mitch mcconnell said today about that question. >> if a supreme court was open before next year, what would you do? >> we'll fill it. >> he'd do what? >> he said i'd be filling the seat, if a supreme court justice were to die in the last year of the trump presidency, what would he do? he would go against what he said was the principle he was using in the last year of the obama presidency. >> well, he also said he will fill it, but that actually is the job of the president of the united states, not mitch mcconnell, so we also have to do a little history about the division of responsibilities between the united states congress and the executive branch. [ applause ] >> but that being said, lawrence, speaking of the executive branch, on the issue of choice, look, the current president of the united states ran on a campaign that said women should be punished, punished if they have an abortion. we have a president -- >> well, he

democrats, including kirsten gillibrand who is now threatening a call for action against supreme court justicesgorsuch over a possible challenge to roe v. wade. >> the as president of united states, i will not appoint any justices wl not agree with the president of roe v. wade or any other judges. that is the law of the land. i think both gorsuch and kavanaugh lied to the judiciary committee when they said they would uphold preincident, and if they then go back on this statements they made during the confirmation hearings, i think we should look towards what we would do to address it. we need former oversight and account ability over the supreme court justices. if they lied in their hearings, we should take action. >> martha: we should take action, she says. joining me for ladies' night, lisa boothe, charlie campus , and jessica tarlov. already decided they lighted their judiciary hearing. >> the question of precedent is one that democrats are harping on. susan collins, one of the only pro-choice senators on republican side of things made out that she was very concerned of it. we never got to t

i will on nominate judges, including supreme court justices, who will commit to upholding roe v.t women's reproductive rights. candidates you'll see there are now talking more about policy and less about russia moving past the mueller report except for elizabeth warren today who read from the report on the floor of the senate and used it to call for trump's impeachment. dana? >> dana: peter doocy, thank you. the owner of the kentucky derby winning country house says his horse will not run in the preakness stakes because he has developed a cough. country house was declared the winner of the derby after maximum security was disqualified despite crossing the finish line first. that was the first time in the history of the race that the winner was disqualified for an on track incident. the owners of maximum security have also said their horse will not race in the preakness. so there will be no chance of a triple crown winner this year. lawmakers consider regulating the data that companies can collect on us. a live report on what's at stake next. but first a controversial abortion bil

supreme court nominee during an election year. this is what he said overnight. >> if a supreme court justice was to die next year what would you do? >> i would fill it. >> this will be news to merrick garland. in a far cry from 2016 when president obama nominated garland during an election year. >> all we are doing, chris, is following a longstanding tradition of not filling vacancies on the supreme court in the middle of a presidential election year. >> a spokesman for mcconnell said the difference now is that in 2016 the white house was controlled by a democrat, the senate by republicans. this time the white house and senate are controlled by the gop. plenty of democrats are slamming mcconnell as a hypocrite including much of the 2020 democratic field. >> he said he'll fill it, but that's the job of the president of the united states, not mitch mcconnell. we have to do a little history about the division of responsibilities between the congress and the executive branch. >> i have argued in front of the u.s. supreme court. i want to believe it is a nonpolitical organization and that politics are checked at the door. but when you

later supreme court justice powell warning that business is losing control over the society. and something has to be done to counter these forces course we put it in terms of defense defending ourselves against outside powers. but if you look at it it's a call for business to use its control over resources to carry out a major offensive to beat back this democratizing wave. over on the liberal side something exactly similar the first. major report of the a trilateral commission is concerned with this. called the crisis of democracy. trilateral commission is liberal internationalists in their flavors indicated by the fact that they pretty much staff the corridor ministration. they were also told that democratizing tendencies of the sixty's and so we have to react to it. they were concerned that there was an excess of democracy developing. previously passive and obedient parts of the population or sometimes called the special interests who were beginning to organize and try to enter the political arena and they said that imposes too much pressure on the state can't deal with al

patrick shanahan former georgia house minority leader stacy abrams, president donald trump, and supreme court justice sonia sotomayor. our coverage starts memorial day at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch on-line anytime on c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell introduced a bill to raise the tobacco purchasing age from 18 to 21. he and co-response sore virginia democrat tim kaine spoke about the history tobacco played in their home states, and its detrimental health effects. >> today i'm introducing federal legislation to make 21 the new minimum age for purchasing any tobacco product anywhere in the united states. let me say that again. a new age nationwide for purchasing anything classified as a tobacco product. cigarettes, e-cigarettes, vapor products and everything else. it shouldn't be 18 any longer. it should be 21. and this legislation will make that happen. now, i recognize i might seem like an unusual candidate to lead this charge. i'm the senior senator from kentucky. i've consistently stood up for our kentucky farmers, including our toba

supreme court would he fill it? we remember he didn't do that during president obama's term. watch this. >> if a supreme court justice were to die next year what would you do? >> i would fill it. [ laughter ] >> enough said. >> he's clearly being honest. people who cover the senate for a long time said mcconnell has been consistent about this. the issue is whether the senate is held by the same party in power in the white house. that wasn't the case in 2016. that's his argument. i'm not justifying it. it is clearly different than what took place when he coined something called the biden rule or whatever it was in 2016 about why they were not going to appoint another supreme court justice or maybe it was -- anyway, at some point he coined the phrase. mitch mcconnell and two of my former politico colleagues wrote a book about congress. in it they make it clear that mcconnell cares about winning. that's his big concern to your point that he's got a like-minded fellow in donald trump. if there is a similarity between these different men it's that they care about power, wins and don't care about the other costs. >> and th

justices themselves positioning their views of precedent, and this is why it matters, jim. it's not just that, you know, that they take these abortion cases one at a time. the supreme court on past rulings. what justice breyer said yesterday is you conservatives in the majority struck down a ruling for no good reason other than you had the vote to do it. and you could do it at this time. and he said at the very end of his dissent from that ruling what will be next? >> it's interesting because i thought at the confirmation hearings they talked about how they were going to respect precedent, but anyway, times change, i suppose. you have the advantage of just having written a book on the chief justice john roberts. do you have a sense of where he might come down on this? and is he in effect the swing vote on this? >> he is, jim. i would say to your last remark, don't just listen to what they say. watch what they do. because chief justice john roberts is now at the idealogical middle of this court. now that justice anthony kennedy has retired. he was the centrist conservative who both in 1992 and as recently as 2016, cast the decisive vote to uphold abortion rights. now, we

for nine months. >> and mitch mcconnell at the time said of course you don't confirm supreme court justicesn the last year of a presidential term. let's listen to what mitch mcconnell said today about that question. >> if a supreme court was open before next year, what would you do? >> we'll fill it. >> he'd do what? >> he said i'd be filling the seat, if a supreme court justice were to die in the last year of the trump presidency, what would he do? he would go against what he said was the principle he was using in the last year of the obama presidency. >> well, he also said he will fill it, but that actually is the job of the president of the united states, not mitch mcconnell, so we also have to do a little history about the division of responsibilities between the united states congress and the executive branch. [ applause ] >> but that being said, lawrence, speaking of the executive branch, on the issue of choice, look, the current president of the united states ran on a campaign that said women should be punished, punished if they have an abortion. we have a president -- >> well, he to