susan :they sent children into the mines? julia: yes. susan: it is astonishing. julia: they could get through the tunnels more easily. they would build mills particularly suited for the children's frame. susan: do we have any sense of the mortality rates among these children? julia: it is a difficult to distinguish between what was produced by child labor and poverty. they are quite closely associated. generally people thought that children working prematurely would stunt their development. that was the main concern. they thought it would rob them of their childhood, they would have economic independence too early. but, particularly working really long hours in those conditions would mean they would not grow to their formal -- to their full size or be involved in industrial accident. susan: so, these children were not being schooled, i presume? or at home or other ways? julia: they sometimes would be schooled for a certain period of the year and it was very minimal, 12 weeks of the year. not necessarily consecutive. often they would allow for children to both be

susan: who are your students , generally? are they going to go on the profession, or are they interested in just rounding out there scholarship? jane: there are people who want to learn to think critically. a few of them become historians. a lot of them go to law school, a lot of them work for the government, because people who like the american past often end up working for the state department and other branches of government. you know, -- we say,, any history professor will say, you can do anything with a history degree. and in terms of reading evidence and balancing arguments, i think that is true. susan: let us close with your own story. how did you get interested in the study of history? jane: i think i always found it interesting. we would literally sit around the kitchen table talking about politics mostly, but in the st, talking about john kennedy, talking about nixon, the vietnam war. during nixon's presidency, and that was time,teresting because everyone was arguing a great deal about what to do about that. i think

susan: thinking of the parallel of the iranian -- u.s. hostages in iran and how nightline became -- keeping track of them every day. what was the american media doing? mitchell: really, it's funny. for about a week or so this was the center of the nation's attention. everyone was outraged. people are demanding war. there's protest in the streets. the media is covering it. there are sorts of these powerful stories about these innocent men being captured by the soviets -- sorry -- the north koreans. when they start signing the confessions there's a lot of attention on that. the biggest problem for them, suddenly america's eyes shift back to vietnam. it's 1968. there's civil rights and there's riots and protests and assassinations and it sort of fades away. it never comes back. here we are on the 50th anniversary and we are starting to get -- i have done a couple stories like this one. people want to talk about it. by and large there's been north. there has been this incredible silence for years. susan: why would the navy or u.s. government

susan: we are at the halfway point. elana: going back to doj for a moment, the president's 2020 campaign manager made some noise this week when he called for the firing of the attorney general. separately there is a lot of conservative discontent with the deputy attorney general. you said in the past, mr. president i do not have time to , confirm new attorneys general. i have a lot of judicial nominees. even a clear you support the ag staying in his job. do you continue to have confidence in the ag and deputy ag? sen. grassley: yes. with senator sessions, now attorney general sessions, deliberate differences i have and i resent his stand as much as i worked on sentencing reform that he does not support my efforts because i told him a year ago in march -- i said you can be tough on crime, i'm tough on crime, but there is also some unfairness and it. we have to have compassion when there is unfairness. all we are doing in sentencing reform, we are not opening the prison gates. we're just allowing people who have another b

susan: five minutes left. scott: just to follow up on that, obviously you serve on the oversight committee and have an oversight subcommittee gavel. does the oversight committee plan to look into the d.o.j. regarding some of its tactics in accessing reporter's emails and phone records? rep. jordan: we may. as you probably know, guys, we've had a series of hearings on first amendment, encroachments on first amendment rights, particularly on college campuses . we had a hearing a year ago and was a lot of fun and had ben shapiro and adam corolla who was hilarious, by the way, and one a few weeks ago with great witnesses as well, some professors who had been targeted on campuses and just this whole about safe space and free speech zones. it gets almost laughable when you think about, i asked one of the professors, asked a question, i said how close can a safe place be to a free speech zone? can they be the same area? it gets ridiculous. those are the shenanigans going on in our campuses so we should be concerned a

susan: welcome to c-span's newsmakers. our guest joining us from capitol hill is congressman jerrold nadler of new york. he is in his 14th term of the house of representatives and he is the lead democrat on the house judiciary committee. let me introduce the reporters who will be asking questions this week. kate irving covers congress for mcclatchy newspapers. and stephen dina and covers politics and congress for the washington times. kate you are up first. , go ahead with your question please. kate: we have had a lot of discussion on immigration this week. do you support this bill? if you don't what is keeping you , from supporting it? rep. nadler: i certainly don't support the bill. it does very little in return for a lot of restrictions. first of all it does grant , permanent status to the dreamers. but they will have to wait as much as 23 years to get on a path to citizenship because it establishes 78,400 slots per year, about 1.8 million eligible people. that works out to 23 years. that is not very much. number two, i

robert: susan, we have to turn to the others big news this week. the justice department released a sweeping report about the f.b.i.'s investigation into hillary clinton's private emails. the inspector general fnd former f.b.i. director james comey made mistakes and should not have bypassed his boss, then attorney general loretta lynch, in how he made announcements about the clinton investigation. it concluded that while combr e with protocol, the f.b.i. was not motivated by political bias yet the president said he was exonerated. these are separate investigations. susan: that's exactly right and that, in a remarkable appearance before the press this morning, on a variety of topics, probably the president's mischaracterization of this inspector general's report was one of the most consequential in saying it exonerates him for something it doesn't even relate to. number two, i never cease to marvel at the ability of the president and his defenders to fl around the subject when it comes to f.b.i. director james comey and the 2016 election. robert: the

susan: i think the media landscape has transformed. years ago this would have been a fireable offense. now they are trying to survive with clicks and pay views. i think she was producing scoops and that was more important. howie: the white house press pounced on sarah huckabee sanders after president trump's attorneys admitted he quote dictated a statement. this was after the news broke his son held a trump tower meeting with the russians. >> how can we believe what you say from the podium. it's my understanding it's entirely inaccurate. >> i can't comment on a letter from the president's outside counsel. i think my credibility is higher than the media's because in large part you spend more of your time attacking the president rather than reporting the news. howie: she may have been given bad information last year. but she refused to even engage or acknowledge the question. she just kept saying ask the lawyers. mollie: last year she said trump didn't dictate this letter. the attorney's letter says he did. no one begrudges her for havin

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susan: it is not just trade going on here. we have got the north korea negotiations, of ic china is a major player. there's a lot going on in the international scene, and the administration seems to be handling all these fronts at once written on the trade issue, three different fronts -- now stuck, europe, and china. what are concerns about and wit in this administration? mr. becker: i think they're pretty big, and one of the issues is the intersection point. it is not th there is uncertainty, but there is uncertainty about what to be uncertain about. that is the issue, that people do not know what issue will pop up from week to week, and people did not expect this week that canada, eu, mexico terrace to happen. -- tariffs to happen. it is what these issues are going to be talked about. we are in the media. ms. gibson: one of the biggest challenges for trump and his party are looking what people sent him to washington zoo, just make change. as long voters think he is capable of making change from they will reward that. they w

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susan: we have a minute left. how restive is the republican congress now and how strong is outgoing speaker ryan's hold on power? scott: if you listen to mr. jordan, he did not suggest speaker ryan should avinhe middle of this term and did not seem to want to force him out as the freedom caucus did to ryan's predecessor, john boehner, three years ago. it's interesting because clearly they're putting pressure on the speaker to take certain actions but nobody is calling for his head. but if you listen, the whispers around the capital more and more are that there is sort of this growing frustration with the speaker whether that amounts to him departing ahead of schedule before january remains to be seen but certainly around the capital, there are whispers happening. christina: he said clearly he was frustrated several times on a couple different issues. the question is, what does that frustration materialize into and they'll have three weeks in washington in july and same in september for the house, so is there reall

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susan: the company was that a peak. i don't know if he recognized that at the time, but he had worked really hard. he was still involved for a couple of years but like a lot of people, he decided it might be time to take it easy, let the next successors try. whether or not he knew in the back of his head that walmart was encroaching -- obviously, he knew the market share, but did he see what was about to come? carol: talk about that. a few years later what happens with walmart? susan: four years later, they have already gone through his two deputies who take their turns as ceo and by 1998, walmart has overtaken toys "r" us as the biggest toy seller in the u.s. stock price goes down, all of a sudden, they look like they are no longer invincible. carol: the other thing is online. what happened with toys "r" us and online? susan: they made a big mistake. they weren't the only company, but they underestimated amazon. at the same time, they trusted amazon and made a deal where they would basically transfer their early websit

patience and navigate around the street closures as best they can. >> susan let me ask you, for people are not familiar with the capital gazette, we've heard from others about the importance that it has to the community of annapolis. can you s lt of share atle bit of that for us? >> y know, i have been in this business for nearly 30 years and the capital has always been sort of stalwart, you know, just he-- they're alware. they're everywhere. they live he.e. they've grown up these reporters -- you know, the whole state oalf journm has transformed so much over he past decades a jnd theust --l group ofeople, it's gotten smaller over the years and rethey just a an incredibly tight group, and when y walk he capital building, when you go into that area where today's tragedises happene you know, you're in the news business, they're all sitting there, altogether, as if you sat around the dinner table working as a team. and you know, it's the oldest per in the country and it's, you kno synonymous with the city of annapolis for ctinue to watch and see these live pictus coming in and we're waiti

susan glasser's been back in washington since 2005.itor of "foreign policy" and politico. and meanwhile, most americans have come around to recognizing vladimir putin as the figure that ms. glasser and mr. baker described over a dozen years ago. anti-democratic, increasingly authoritarian, certainly hostile to the west. not a friend. pretty much america has come around to that idea. not everyone. this morning as he departed the white house for the g7 summit in quebec president trump capped off days of berating his canadian hosts and the other g7 partners by calling for russia to be welcomed back into the g7 even they got kicked out just a few years ago because they invaded crimea and took part of their territory. writing in today's "new york times" about trump's antagonism toward america's long-time allies, former national security adviser susan rice had this blunt assessment. "there's no evidence that putin is dictating american policy, but it's hard to imagine how he could do much better even if he were." and if you want reported con

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and that's it. >> thank you, susan. just to wrap up, to thank susan for her presentation. we've never had an engineer on staff and it's been a huge learning curve for me in the study, and incredibly valuable for susan. sometimes she talks in a different language, but that's good, and i've learned, and we all have learned a lot in the study. we are at the point of coming forward with a recommendation, and that is the pennsylvania avenue alignment, and as susan said we're kind of shopping that around, if you will, and getting feedback from the community on this. we had a public meeting last week. many different neighborhood meetings leading up to a formal city position on this which we hope to be, as she said, a joint resolution of the board and the mayor, and probably either in july or september, depending on the schedule. so finally, i just want to thank one last entity, which is the citizens working group on this. we've had a very hard working group of stakeholders from a number of locations around the alignment. former commissioner ron miguel chaired that group. ron can'

susan: it's such a hot debate. i sight as a paid informant working for the fbi spying on the trump campaign. you can word it however you want. the president is doing what he e of russia. the corrupt mainstream media loves to keep pushing that narrative but they know it isn't true. i said to myself this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. katie: his words are on tape i this interview. also in that interview he talked about the frustration james comey would publicly say the fbi was not going after him directly in terms of the russia investigation. and that was part of the russia decision that was made in terms of james comey. he has the right as the president of the united states of america t fe whoever h wants at any time. and that leaked memo we just discussed details that argument. howie: brief response? capri: it gives me a headache and i'm sick of it. howie: before the break you mentioned you and roseanne have gotten into it online. katie: when she was heavily involved in the wall street movem

thank you, susan. >>> just in to the newsroom. an emotional reunion for a mother and child separated at the border. and he sher and 7-year-old ton were reunited in baltimore. the pair was separated when they crossed into arizona last month after a long journey from guatemala to seek asylum. 14e6s released from custody, and four days later she did not have her son back. she sued to fd out where he was. their asylum is still being decided. >>> it will bewn k as an ashante alert. a bill will be signed into law related to critically missing adults. the measure is named for ashanti where she was abducted and murdered. it creates a notification system for adults who are thought to have bn abducted and their isappearance poses a health to their safety. a man has been charnlged in her death. >> a natural progression from the amber alert. >>> a man who killed his 2-year-old daughter and her mother will spend the rirs of hisife in prison. he was stenned to life in prison without parole. he confeed to shooting ashanti davidson in the back wh

susan, you get to go first because when i heard what you said at 4:00 p.m. on this network, it stopped me in my tracks. you said this is not a drill. tell the folks what you mean. >> well, you know, for a year and a half we have been wondering with trepidation what's going to happen with president trump and the rest of the world. a lot of chest-beating about the death of the liberal international order, but what does that mean? will we recognize it when it actually happens? my view, what's happened over the last few weeks and in particular the last few days looks pretty much like the death of the liberal international order. i think that the statement this morning about wanting russia to rejoin the g7, it just suggests donald trump is not subscribing to the basic tenets that brought the world's leading democracies together. it's not a club that anyone thinks vladimir putin should join. but it says that donald trump thinks the world really should be organized in a very different way than it is right now. and rather than our alliance with western europe, we sh

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. >> newss susan mcginnis has more on what's next here. susan what does thi order actually do? >> well, good morning, aaron, and yan eun. and now congress has to turn t emigration reform. >> susan, a lot of people want to know what happened to thedy families alr separated. will those children be reunited with their parents soon? >> well, what we're hearing iss ther actual mex fichanism to reunite the families. one former i.c.e. executive said it's psible that the kids may never see their kids and become a ward of the united states. but right now families that need to get to the family detentions centround the country, once those reach capacities they'll be in what are called immigration jails with parents. >> susan mcginnis for us this morning. thank you. >> thank you. >>> d.c. voters may have approved initiate 77 but the fight is not over. on tuesday's primary, 55% approved the measure that means by 2025 all workers in d.c. will earn $15 an hour even if they earn tips.th d.c. council still has the power to reject or modify initiative 77. they've done it befor voters approved t

susan, let me start with you. let me read a little more from it. you write, since trump took office allies have sought to avoid this moment. many have come to realize with growing dread it was inevitable. the rift between the world's great democracy trump portended is coming to pass and it is about far more than a wrong policy, obscure trade provisions or whether germany spends 2% of its gdp on nato. senior europeans speak about it as nothing less than a crisis of the west. yaho >> you know, nicolle, i wrote that this morning before donald trump said russia to join the g7 and make it the g8 again. i'm struck by the fact this is not a drill moment. for a year and a half we've been talking about what would be the consequence of the unraveling of the world order and i felt listening to president trump this morning that what we were hearing was an american president who fundamentally has a very, very different view of the world than his predecessors, both democratic and republican. this is a president this morning who basically said, i don't really car

what do you make of that, susan? >> i think it's basically true. is a young man who always wanted to get his father's approval. if you read the story from when he was a child, when he didn't hate his father, he south approval. that's what we saw when he worked on the campaign whether it was even holding that russia meeting. it was to try and get something to give to his dad, like i good this for you, dad. >> i've heard that from folks who know him. they believe don junior would have done anything to make his dad happy and proud and impressed. they doubted if anything came out of that meeting he would not have gone up to his father immediately, the fact they even had the meeting they doubt he wouldn't have told his dad about it. >> certainly when i'm reading the article, the question is -- is he doing something now perhaps covering up what happened at this meeting to also help his father. if you look back at some of the transcripts and timelines surrounding the trump tower meeting response innocence 2017, there were a lot of messages between donald

susan: yeah. and the opportunity to learn about customers, data, about the supply chain and being able to deliver, what people buy, so that eventually led to a lawsuit and toys "r" us did get its website back, but they had lost some really crucial years. carol: talk about what happened in 2004 and 2005. in 2004, the company looks to sell itself. susan: they decide to look for investors and eventually end up selling the company to two private equity firms and a real estate trust. so that's k.k.r., bane and vornado. carol: i assume it involved a lot of debt? susan: it was the leveraged uyout era. they didn't do anything so radically different from other big deals at the time. no one could -- i shouldn't say no one -- but they couldn't foresee what was to come in the next couple years and what would make that deal so problematic in hindsight. carol: meaning what? usan: there was a lot of debt, and toys "r" us obviously had to pay off at least the interest on that every year. in the good years, it was

susan: it did.ond market went 2om virtually nothing to trillion, now one of the largest in the world. upnese corporate debt is at 163%, higher than any other country in the world except financial centers. alix: when does it burst? what is the implication and what will be the trigger? nathan: this is the number one policy -- number one domestic policy challenge for the chinese and president xi. they have seen an extraordinary increase in domestic indebtedness that has huge implications for the sustainability of growth and the and theynd the banks are trying to slow the growth of debt and leverage and credit. how do you do that in a way where you are slowing it down %ust enough to also hit the 6.5 growth target? this is the tension chinese authorities deal with on a day to day basis. david: how much of this is the increase in the amount of money or how much of it is a shift in bank loans to capital markets? i heard we are shifting the risk in the banks and now we have reserves there but it is being sh

, was susan so angry at christa?n to take a polygraph test and she agreed and she passed. >> as the investigation turns towards tony jackett, the investigators realize that there may have been a lot of pressure on tony jackett. >> she wanted him to help her bring up this child, putting her on his health insurance and providing financial support. >> she got herself a lawyer and said, you're going to support this kid or i'm going to sue you. >> maybe, you know, tony wanted to get christa out of the picture so he could just take ava and raise her himself. >> why would i want to kill her? but they're getting information that says otherwise. that christa wanted money, that christa was going to go to court. >> at the same time the murder investigation begins, tony has a custody battle. amyra chase was christa worthington's very good friend. christa had a will, and in it, she named amyra guardian of little ava. >> she is like a light in our family. >> she's a beautiful little girl and we love her. >> the d.a. was there. he

from the east bay, april rovero, who lost her son joey, and from marin county, susan kim. you lost your son trey in april. i want to start with you. we've worked together for several years now, been on a couple of panels together. and i want folks to know about joey. what was he like, and what happened to him? >> hmm, well, joey was a senior at arizona state university when we got the -- the horrible news that he had passed away in his bedroom overnight after a college party. he'd been out with friends the night before, and they'd gone to the nightclubs in the area to celebrate a birthday and an early graduation for a friend. came back to his apartment, and he basically just went to sleep and didn't wake up. i would describe joey as pretty much the all-american kid. he loved sports. while he was -- i think he started four -- like 4 years old all the way through high school, he was playing virtually every sport you could imagine. his special love was football, and he played football the last four years of his high school time, but...he was just a really fun guy to be around

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melissa: susan, thank you. david: tensions running high over tariffs as president trump participates in the annual g7 summit. we're awaiting two big meetings with canadian prime minister justin trudeau and french president emannuel macron later this afternoon. blake burman is live in quebec with latest. reporter: hi, there, david. the headlines coming into the g7 summit involving trade. how would the president be received? would they move the marker forward as it relates to trade? however the president brought russia suddenly back into the fold today as he said that he feels the g7 should once again expand into the g8. as you remember russia was booted from the annual gathering five years ago after the annexation of crimea. i was speaking with u.s. government official. that person told me the president's comments about russia earlier today had not been planned of. president trump made it known that he feels that vladmir putin should be here at the negotiating table. >> whether you like it or not, and it may not

let me start with you and your fantastic piece, susan.ou write "ever since trump took office, america's allies have sought to avoid this moment. over the last year and a half, many have come to realize with growing dread that it was inevitab inevitable. the rift between the world's great democracies that trump's election portended is coming to pass and it's about far more than iran policy, obscure trade provisions or whether germany spends 2% of its gdp on nato. many senior european officials speak of it as nothing less than a crisis of the west. >> nicolle, i wrote that before donald trump this morning said that russia should rejoin the g7 and make it the g8 again. you know, i'm struck by the fact that this really is our kind of this is not a drill moment. for a year and a half we've been talking about what would be the consequences of the unraveling of the world order and i felt listening to president trump that what we are hearing was an american president who has a very different view of the world than his predecessors both democratic

susan b anthony writes a novel. negativen writes a review. she is mad because dickinson was writing about race and not gender. why not write about women's rights rather than black rights? when they write, they are history of women's suffrage. dickenson plays a role, but not nearly a role that she would've otherwise played. i would go back to where i began. this is, i think, given where she has come from, kind of sad. people were split when she did hamlet. you have to believe people went to see this to see and i to see emily -- to see emily dickinson in a purple outfit playing hamlet rather than to to see -- to see and a dickenson -- anna dickenson in a purple outfit playing hamlet rather than to see a great actress. i think, to take us back where we began, if anna dickenson had been 24 today, she would probably either be on the time magazine cover running for congress in pennsylvania somewhere in some reconfigure district that she might possibly win, or she had a spot on msnbc. she would be a political actor and not an actress trying to conti

next speaker, please. >> susan solomon again, uesf. i first want to say thank you for bringing forth the proposition g m.o.u. we did some good work last week, and let us all hope for the best that the bill that's in the state senate passes on thursday. this will change the landscape, and we won't have to worry as much as we're worrying right now. in terms of the budget, just in general terms as we go through the year and expenditures are happening, it's important to keep our eye on the prize, the priorities that are set in the budget are laudatory around multitiered systems of support, around professional department, safe and secure schools, and performance gaps. we also should note that the majority of the funds that are expended should be expended at the school sites, and that's where we want to see that happen. we want to make sure that we are student centered, and that is one way to make sure of that. and then in compensation of our members, which has been increasing due to some hard and excellent negotiations, it helps students if

susan: that is it for our time. the innkeeper being a first timer on our program. -- thank you for being a first timer on our program. sunday night on afterwards, radio host bill press talks about his book "from the left: a life in the crossfire." >> who was one of your most persuasive guests? >> john mccain. i admired john mccain cookie is a maverick. he was also really honest. on his own party. i wrote a book critical about barack obama called "buyer's remorse." there are some things were and think you met the progressive side down. like his partyt was not living up to what the republican party should be. he was willing to say so. >> watch on c-span twos book tv. >> the communicators is next with a look at the recent court decision to approve the at&t time warner merger. we will show you the republican primary debate from new york's 11th congressional district between representative dan donovan and former congressman michael grimm. that is followed by president trump baking to reporters about the russia investigat

susan page, washington bureau chief for "usa today" with me. so is presidential historian and journalist jon meacham, an msnbc contributor and immigrations rights advocate ann chandler. a big thanks to all of you. let me just start, we're starting to get a little more color from inside this lutheran services center where melania trump was a few moments ago. again, we're told that right now the first lady is on the move. she is likely being hampered a bit by the weather here in south texas. it has been raining torrentially for the better part of two days. flash flood warning in effect for most of the area. so she is having to reroute just a bit we're told. susan, we're told that the first lady has a translator with us to talk to the children who do not speak english. although many of these kids appear to have a grasp on the english language. she visited a series of classrooms, colorful drawings, beautiful landscapes, large sculptures of letters made out of crayons hung from the ceiling here. we're told the first lady shook hands and she told the

thank you, susan, for all you do.se] >> i also want to get a shot of to a person who has shown deep appreciation and commitment for the fight for justice, anthony romero. anthony, wherever you are. [applause] i also know that out there we have some folks from aclu and achuse out there. massachusetts aclu? good, okay. all right. let's be blunt. our democracy is under attack. voting and impartial judiciary, free press, the rule of law, the foundations of our democracy are under attack every single day. under attack but not lost. i look out here and i see thousands of deeply committed women and men, people of every race, gender, religion and color. color. people committed to building a better future. i look out here and i see donald trump's worse nightmare. [applause] so today i want to talk about the fight to save our democracy. why we fight and who we are fighting for. like a lot of people i started thinking a lot more seriously about democracy after the 2016th election. i went to donald trump's inauguration. i know a

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well, pundit susan pag what-- what is the president doing here, do you think? >> well, i think the president is saying it a victory just to have the meeting and ihink a lot of americans would say better to have a meeting talking to an adversary than threatening one another with nuclear thapons. k a lot of american was agree with that. but you also want to look at what you get out of the meeting and what you gave up to hold the meeting. and the fact is for kim, this is also a big victory just to have the meeting. it is-- it makes his regime this terrible, brutal regime that has been an outlaw for is long, it gives him legitimacy and standing that he didn't have before. and so that has been part of thh calculations is one of the reasons previous american presidents have refused to give him this prize. >> it is also interesting, i was looking through a poll that fox news came out with last week and they asked peoplwho approved of the president or disapproved r the president why it is, give me ymber one reason why you do that for people who m prove of the president

eugene robinson, west and susan page, "usa today" washington bureau chief. gene, talk about so anybody that couldn't get it yet, the importance of number five seat on the united states supreme court. >> well, justice kennedy was the swing vote. and everybody understands that. he was a conservative identified as a consecutivetive but he voted with the progressive side of the court on a number of issues. he was the leading voice on the court actually for lgbt rights in a very real sense. and he played that crucial role in a court otherwise evenly divided. so the gorsuch seat replaces scalia that's a conservative for a conservative, as senator harris said. this is an entirely new, an entirely different ball game. it has different stakes including for some republican senators such as susan collins and such as lisa murkowski and even jeff flake and bob corker, people who have been critical of donald trump. so there has to be a nominee who is palatable on these contentious cultural issues. >> susan what, about the timing? i mean, for whatever reason justice kenned