>> RIGHT AND WELCOME BACK TO
CHEDDAR'S NEWS. WRAP THE FIGHT
TO REPLACE THE LATE SUPREME
COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER
GINSBURG IS TAKING
FIRMER SHAPE. EARLIER TODAY,
UTAH SENATOR MITT ROMNEY THE
REPUBLICAN ON CAPITOL HILL
CONFIRMING HE SUPPORTS MOVING
ON THE PRESIDENT'S NOMINEE,
THIS YEAR. NOW PUTS THEM AT
HEAVILY IN FAVOR OF REPUBLICANS
IS THEY ONLY NEED 51 VOTES FOR
A SUPREME
COURT CONFIRMATION. JOIN US NOW
FOR MORE ON THIS IS SALLY KOHN
PROGRESSIVE ACTIVIST AND AUTHOR
OF THE BOOK THE OPPOSITE OF
HATE SALLY GREAT
TO HAVE HAVE BUT A LONG TIME
WE'VE GOT TO DO APPRECIATE THAT
YOU'RE ABLE TO TAKE A FEW
MINUTES. I MEAN LOOK AT THE
SCENE IS MITT ROMNEY WAS IN THE
YES COLUMN I THINK IT IT WE ALL
KNEW WHERE THIS WAS GOING TO
KIND OF ALL
ALREADY RIGHT BUT MITT ROMNEY
KIND OF MAKES US OFFICIAL HE
SAYS THEY WILL VOTE FOR THE
TRUMP NOMINEE. ANY RECOURSE
LEFT FOR THE DEMOCRATS ARE
THERE ANY ARROWS IN THE
PROVERBIAL QUIVER FOR
DEMOCRATS.
>> WELL YOU KNOW THE
INTERESTING THING ABOUT HISTORY
IS A IT ISN'T WRITTEN UNTIL IT
HAPPENS SO. YOU KNOW IT'S NOT
FOR DEMOCRATS AND I THINK THEY
HAVE TO PLANT. ONE OF
COURSE IS.
>> IT MAY BE AND MAY
I MEAN.
>> I REALIZE THAT HASN'T PROVEN
TO BE A WORTHY ENDEAVOR, BUT IT
IS POSSIBLE.
THAT REPUBLICANS AT LEAST ONE
MORE REPUBLICAN GROWS THE KIND
OF
MORAL CONSCIOUS. THAT MANY OF
US HAD HOPED AND PRAYED THEY
WOULD FIND OVER THE LAST 4
YEARS SO THAT IS POSSIBLE
BUT IN ABSENCE OF THAT MIRACLE
DEMOCRATS CAN DELAY AND SLOW
DOWN THIS PROCESS EVEN WITHOUT
THIS CONTENTION, IT WOULD BE UP
IN COURT CREDIBLY
HISTORICALLY FAT PROCESS OF
TRYING TO BEFORE THE ELECTION.
THERE'S NO CLEAR SENSE OF WHEN
THE MIT MITCH MCCONNELL
SPEAKING ABOUT
DOING IT. SO THAT'S RECOURSE IN
ONE AND ALSO JUST IN GENERAL TO
DENY LEGITIMACY
TO THE PROCESS AND HANG A
ILLEGITIMACY OVER WHOEVER THAT
NOMINEE. MAYBE WHETHER OR NOT
THERE. IN THE SECOND THING IS
LET'S NOT FORGET.
SUPREME COURT JUSTICES AND
COURT IN GENERAL HAVE NOT BEEN
BIG MOTIVATORS FOR DEMOCRATS
THERE IS A LOT ABOUT THIS THAT
WILL BE DIFFERENT.
THIS TIME. THAT RBG WAS
DIFFERENT AT THE IDEA OF LOSING
A BALANCE COURT.
THE IDEA OF THE
REPUBLICAN STEALING THAT SEE
TRUMP AS A ALREADY A LEGITIMATE
PRESIDENT POINT REVOLTED
ALREADY
BEEN CAST. STEALING THAT
SEAT IS POISED TO MOTIVATE
DEMOCRATS AND IF DEMOCRATS TAKE
THE SENATE AND THE WHITE HOUSE
THAN THEY HAVE
MORE EXPANDED SET OF TOOLS AND
OPTIONS AT THEIR DISPOSAL.
>> SALLY ARE YOU SURPRISED TO
SEE THAT SOME OF THESE
REPUBLICANS INVARIABLY FELL IN
LINE THAT I WOULD TELL US MAYBE
NOT COLLINS AND MURKOWSKI BUT
LOOK CORY GARDNER IN COLORADO.
THOM TILLIS OF NORTH CAROLINA
MARTHA
MCSALLY IN ARIZONA THE TO THE
EMBATTLED REPUBLICAN THEIR
BACKS ARE TO THE WALL THEY MAY
LOSE THEIR JOBS
HERE SALLY, AND YET THEY SAID
THIS IS THE RIGHT PATH OR DOES
THAT SURPRISE YOU ARE NOW.
>> THERE'S A DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN BEING HORRIFIED AND
SADDENED AND SURPRISED SO IT
HORRIFIES ME AND IT SADDENS ME
I SUPPOSE IT DOESN'T
SURPRISE 8. YOU KNOW JUST LIKE
IT DOESN'T SURPRISE ME THAT SO
MANY
REPUBLICAN SENATORS
CONTRADICTED NOT ONLY THEIR OWN
PARTY'S LEADERSHIP, BUT
LITERALLY THEIR OWN WORDS, IT'S
SAYING THAT THEY WOULD NOT DO
WHAT THEY DID TO MERRICK
GARLAND IF A REPUBLICAN
PRESIDENT AND NOW THEY ARE
LITERALLY DOING WHAT THEY SAID
THEY WOULD NOT DO SO
IT SHOULD SURPRISE ME IT
DOESN'T SURPRISE ME HA ROUGH
EYES. WHEN YOU HAVE ONE ARE YOU
THAT IS SO SINGULAR WE THIRSTY
AND.
UNFORGIVING AND
RECKLESS IN ITS ABUSE OF POWER
THAT IT IS WILLING TO DEFY EVEN
THE LOW FAR MORE ALLEY IT SETS
FOR ITSELF.
ONE THING I WILL SAY IS I GOT
TO HAND IT TO THE REPUBLICANS
AND EVEN THOSE WHO I THINK WILL
LOSE THEIR SEATS BECAUSE
OF THIS. THEY ARE INVESTED THIS
IS ONE THING YOU CAN SAY THE
DEMOCRATS YOU CAN SAY ABOUT
REPUBLICANS THEY ARE INVESTED.
IN THE LONG TERM HERE THERE IT
IS WORTH AND I BELIEVE I THINK
IT APPEARS TO BE TO THE
TO SACRIFICE THEIR CAREERS
INDIVIDUALLY AND PERHAPS EVEN
THEIR COUNTRY ROLE OF THE
SENATE IN ORDER TO THAT
LONG TERM ARCH CONSERVATIVE AND
THEY'RE NOT LOOKING TO YOU
KNOW, I'M
A MODERATE JUSTICE HERE THEY
WANT AN ARCH CONSERVATIVE TO
HER UTLEY AND
AN ALTERNATELY TILT THE BALANCE
OF THE SUPREME COURT FOR
GENERATIONS TO COME AND FOR
THEM TO PUT IT ON THE TABLE
INCLUDING THEIR OWN CON SINCE
AND CAN CONTRADICT THEMSELVES
TO DO THAT. I MEAN I SUPPOSE
THERE'S SOMETHING
I CAN'T USE THE WORD ADMIRABLE
BUT THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S
SOMETHING. IT'S SOMETHING IT'S
SOMETHING THERE.
>> IF WE DON'T KNOW THE
DISCUSSIONS. I HAVE A TALK WITH
DEMOCRATIC SOURCE OF THE LAST
FEW DAYS AND THEY SAY. YOU KNOW
ON THE RUCKER AND PUT UP A
FIGHT BUT THERE'S A LOT OF
FRUSTRATION FROM DEMOCRATIC
STAFFERS, I'M
TALKING TO THE SENSE OF LIKE
REPUBLICANS FIGHT DIRTY THE GOP
FIGHTS, A FUNDAMENTALLY
DIFFERENT GAME, YOU'RE RIGHT
THEY ARE WILLING TO PLAY THE
LONG GAME. BUT THEY'RE WILLING
TO DO IT IN A WAY THAT
IS JUST DOWN IN THE DIRT IN
FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT FROM
HOW THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO FIGHT
ALL TOO OFTEN PERHAPS THE
DEMOCRATS ARE COPPING TO SAY
WELL WE'RE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF
HISTORY AND WE KNOW WHAT IS
MORALLY RIGHT BUT MORALLY RIGHT
DOES NOT WIN YOU THE ELECTION
MORLEY WRITES NOT WHEN YOU THE
SEAT ON THE HIGHEST COURT IN
THE LAND YOU EVER GET
FRUSTRATED SALLY WITH THE WAY
THAT
DEMOCRATS FIGHT WHEN IT COMES
TO REALLY IMPORTANT NATIONAL
ISSUES LIKE THIS AND WOULD YOU
LIKE TO SEE MORE FROM THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
>> YEAH, YOU KNOW THAT PART OF
THE PROBLEM IS YOU ACTUALLY
HEARD THIS TODAY WHAT MITT
ROMNEY SAID HIS ROOM ACTION NOW
FOR HIS DECISION IS THAT HE
SAID
HE ARGUED. THAT THE COUNTRY IS
FUNDAMENTALLY CENTER RIGHT AND
THEREFORE THIS
SUPREME COURT SHOULD REFLECT
THE COUNTRY NOW LET'S UNPACK
THAT FOR A SECOND.
>> WELL HE'S JUST WRONG ON THE
ISSUES RIGHT ON
EVERY SINGLE MAJOR ISSUE
CULTURAL SOCIAL POLITICAL THAT
WE HAVE DECADES OF
POLLING ON AFFORDABLE CARE ACT,
COMMON SENSE GUN CONTROL
ABORTION RIGHTS.
YOU KNOW REFORMING OUR CAMPAIGN
FINANCE SYSTEM YOU NAME IT ON
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF
THOSE ISSUES, A BLACK LIVES
MATTER IMMIGRANT RIGHTS THE
COUNTRY IS IT FUNDAMENTALLY
LIBERAL COUNTRY SO HE'S WRONG
ON
THAT POINT. BUT ALSO LET'S BEAR
IN MIND EVEN THOUGH OF COURSE
THEY DO WE HAVE A A MAJORITY
THERE'S NO CONTENDING THAT
THAT THE REPUBLICANS IN THE
SENATE REPRESENT NUMERICALLY
FEWER AMERICANS. THEN THE
DEMOCRATS RIGHT BECAUSE OF THE
NATURE OF OUR TWISTED
SYSTEM WHICH WAS INVENTED TO
PROP UP BAD IDEAS AND HAS
CONTINUED TO
DO SO THEY LITERALLY SO
CONCEPTUALLY THEY DON'T
REPRESENT THE MAJORITY AND
LITERALLY THEY DON'T REPRESENT
THE MAJORITY AND YET
THEY ARE SO FEARLESS IN
ASSERTING THERE IT'S IT'S LIKE
IT'S GOT TO BE WHITE MALE
ENTITLEMENT. I DON'T KNOW
THEY'RE JUST LIKE YEAH.
I MUST REPRESENT
EVERYONE SURE AND DEMOCRATS ON
THE OTHER HAND HAVE THE SORT OF
SENSE
OF MARGINALIZATION AND ALL
RIGHT UNWILLING TO USE THE
POWER THAT THEY ACTUALLY HAVE I
HOPE THIS IS A FUNDAMENTAL
TRANSFORMATION, I WAS DEMOCRATS
TO PLAY DIRTY ACTION. WE
BELIEVE IN RALEIGH AND
POLITICS. BUT I HOPE WE