Foxy's alert the White House announcing it does plan to gear up its team ahead
of what President Trump expects to be what he calls quote a vicious fight over
his coming US Supreme Court nominee and the president says he will announce that
decision one week from today happy Monday on outnumbered i'm harris
faulkner here today co-host of after the bell on the Fox Business Network
Melissa Francis and Friends weekend Abbey Huntsman Republican strategist and
senior fellow for the independent woman's voice lisa booth joining us in
the center seat Fox News political analyst and co-host of the five Juan
Williams outnumbered I stop people on social media today saying we're ready
for one Oh God know what that means I don't know no no it's not no it's not
but I had a great weekend hey there was my 40th wedding
anniversary the White House is announcing the members of its
communication team today as the president says he has narrowed his
potential Supreme Court nominees to five candidates including two women and in an
exclusive interview with Fox's Maria Bartiromo the president said he expects
most Democrats to oppose his choice a lot of people think it's going to be a
very long it it's probably going to be vicious because the other side all they
could do is obstruct and resist you know the whole thing is resist but and maybe
someday we'll be able to get along with the other side I don't know but right
now it's only resist that's all they want to do is stop things from happening
so they're going to try very hard but I think it's gonna go actually very
quickly if I picked the right person abortion already becoming a flashpoint
in the debate the president said he will not ask any potential nominees to say
how they would rule on the specific issue are you gonna ask your nominees
beforehand how they might vote on Roe versus Wade
well that's a big one and probably not but I don't think I'm going to be so
specific and the questions I'll be answering and I'm actually told that I
shouldn't be that may not be the answer some Republicans want to hear
here's GOP senator Susan Collins from yesterday saying Roe versus Wade will
sway her vote I candidate for this important position who would overturn
roe v wade would not be acceptable to me because that would indicate and activist
agenda that I don't want to see a judge have and some Democrats including
senator dick durbin also are stepping up warnings that the nomination could put
the constitutionality of abortion in jeopardy the president looking for
someone who will overturn Roe vs. Wade the basic issue at hand here is whether
or not a woman has the power to make decisions the freedom to make decisions
regarding her own body and her own life so this is what I think people are
looking at a Rorschach when they're listening to each other right they're
talking past each other the president says that's not gonna be his lip this
test Democrats say it is the president says that's not gonna be his what will
happen until it happens but we don't even know who the nominee is so what is
the role of the Democrats right now is it's a harp on one particular issue I'll
be at an important one or is it to try to figure out how to be constructive to
the conversation about choosing a US Supreme Court nominee I think that at
this point there's a lot of lingering resentment over what happened previously
with Merrick garland and so and the Republicans blocking that nomination for
almost and then second then we've gone through Neil Gorsuch and the president
got in Gorsuch and got some Democratic votes
some of them smarting they say because they didn't push hard enough against
well I don't the question but I mean the fact is that you have Democrats in
states that were won handily by President Trump and those Democrats have
to watch their back so to speak Harris they've got to protect themselves going
into these midterms here on talking about people like Joe Donnelly
in Indiana or Joe Manchin in West Virginia but when it comes to this issue
I think that what you're getting is that's so many women especially young
women and minority women are Democrat pro-democratic
and see this decision is all about abortion and the president has said
during his campaign that he was going to put people who were pro-life to use that
language I don't mean to take one side of the other but that's the his language
he was going to put such people on the court and the list of potential
appointees comes from the Federalist Society they're all the real does a
resentment over Merrick garland apply to literally everything because the
Democrats have tried to obstruct President Trump on every aspect whether
it's tax reform or now with the Supreme Court nominee so that doesn't fly and
then and this is all about politics the Democratic Party consistently every
election tried to bring up the war and woman playable if this is what they do
in basically every election that I have worked in politics and this is what
they're trying to do heading into the midterm election so of course they're
trying to make this about abortion they want that to be the central thing
because you're trying to drive women out to vote and they're trying to reengage
the war on women playbook so this isn't about picking a good Supreme Court
nominee this is simply about politics and driving people out to vote before
you answer that I would ask you this Lisa as you look at the playing field of
candidates that that one was pointing to and we know we were getting down to five
now out of the original what we thought was twenty five that the president might
be looking at does one do Democrats have a point that these would be you know
people who would see a more conservative view on abortion or is it happenstance
the president says it's not gonna be a litmus test what do you make of it
as former president Brock Obama famously said elections have consequences and
there's a reason why you have Democrats that are up in arms because this is
arguably the most important decision the president is going to make in his entire
presidency because this is the position you thinking about Kennedy he was often
the deciding vote right here this is a loss Scalia this replacement is this
completely changed the the Supreme Court as we know it I actually interviewed
yesterday on Fox & Friends and Scalia's son Christopher and he was
taking us back to when he was voted in he was sworn in 98 to zero think about
that for a second how times have changed and how divisive how divided we are
right now as a country I will say and talking to voters leading up to the
election they would tell me so many of them the number one issue for them
Melissa was the Supreme Court yeah and the reason they would wanted to go out
and vote was because whoever they vote for president would be able to pick and
here we are today and I talked to some of them last week in Orlando and they
are thrilled about the choices that he's looking at they say regardless of the
litmus test issues of it being abortion or not they are strong conservatives and
they are calm you know what let me step in there just for a second so we saw
Susan Collins let's see her again she talks about the president's list I also
suggested that he brought in his search beyond the list of 25 nominees the White
House Counsel told me that there have been a few additional potential nominees
added to that list well reportedly down now around five so
she may have missed her opportunity to get that that word out she may have and
I think that the danger for Democrats here because I think on both sides it's
a huge opportunity to rally your base to raise money and all this guy and it's
something important you know I mean rather than the petty stuff that we
fight about and and you know sling mud at each other this is actually very
consequential on both sides but then you have the person who takes it too far and
I'm sure you've already seen this Jeffrey Toobin who wrote this in The New
Yorker he said see the new US Supreme Court clearly abortion illegal doctors
prosecuted gay people barred from restaurants bars restaurants hotels and
stores African Americans out of elite schools gun control banned in 50 states
the end of the regulatory state this is what he says this is so slightly
hyperbolic you think well if it's gotten out of control
right like how do we how do we go for where we are right now we don't even
know who the pick is going to be by the way so what you just got to do Juan
Williams here though because that that speaks to some issues where Democrats
have said the court will go how does it know
and what do you think about that list I mean that had absolutely
african-americans out of elite schools right I so to me that's not hyperbolic
to me that's reaction coming from people who see that the court is going from a
court with Kennedy in the middle and at least you start Kenny was a real
conservative by the way is a real concern but he was open-minded
especially on social issues we're talking about gay rights remember he
approved gay marriage he said that you're going to have reaffirm the
importance of roe v wade and abortion rights in the country now I think we're
going to a position where the president having promised to put a doctrinaire
conservative in place is approaching the possibility from a Democrats point of
view of a rubber-stamp court or a conservative agenda and that agenda
would include so many of the things that you were talk to me about that cuz how
do you get to Africa like what law would that be overture I can't even imagine
what is he talking about African Americans major issue for the court is
affirmative action so the question is what steps can a court would or can a
college legitimately take in terms of lived through disadvantage that remember
that 25 conservatives vote the same way and not all liberals vote the same way
that's what we've learned on the Supreme Court that sometimes you'll put somebody
in your party that you think will vote a certain way and maybe they won't so it's
I think it's impossible to know how exactly also isn't it or not well let me
just respond to this for a second I think that what we heard here that in
fact it was 98 to nothing for Scalia suggests that that was a different time
where you trusted you just you just want entirely qualified judges now you're in
a different moment where you're saying no we want disappointed Democrats Neal
Gorsuch disappoint Democrats what do you mean so I'm asking you can you look at
this and see the person as the justice as the human being who may go any sorts
of ways I mean when you looked at right but the way that he's being selected and
I think that goes back to what
we vetted to be absolute dr. Neil Korsak was probably about as highly qualified
as a nominees you could possibly have yet many Democrats rejected them solely
on the basis of wanting to play the obstruction game and look the problem as
Democrats Democrats in the media it was during at the end of President Obama's
presidential term which is why Republican the last and the media the
mainstream media have engaged in such hyperbolic terms and they continue to be
wrong the economy is supposed to crash under President Trump clearly that we're
supposed to go to you know war with North Korea that hasn't happened so the
problem is you guys keep using such hyperbolic terms it doesn't end up being
true and you lose credibility and I think you end up driving voters into
president Trump's camp and by the way you're right both sides go to the
extremes what Merrick garland we saw the same thing happened but why not but why
not learn from That moment when Republicans are being criticized and say
let's take a step back back take a deep breath and let's just wait and see who
is he just ask because this really strikes me as racist saying that
african-americans out of elite schools so is he's saying african-americans
can't get into schools without affirmative action well I don't think
there's any question this country the quality of education available in big
cities where most African Americans of minorities live is not very good for
that struggling public schools so if you're saying if you're basing it on
merit who gets into the best schools you do need some consideration Texas
they say if you're in the top 10% of any high-speed and get into University of
Texas other states have different rules but the Supreme Court has been moving
away from the idea of any preference solely based on race and now if you put
another conservative judge in there it may disappear altogether so they would
be out of Elise I don't know that would be completely but I think in terms of
numbers so what's hyperbolic alright it just strikes me as offensive but
whatever okay we're good you're done I'm looking at what he always looks like he
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