Senator Cory Gardner: 4-4 Ties On SCOTUS To Be Broken With Neil Gorsuch | Morning Joe

>>> THIS MORNING, NEIL GORSUCH WILL BE SWORN IN AS A SUPREME
COURT JUSTICE. JUSTICE ANTHONY KENNEDY WILL
PRESIDE OVER THE CEREMONY, MARKING THE FIRST TIME THAT A
JUSTICE WILL SERVE ALONGSIDE HIS FORMER CLERK.
THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTS THE NEWEST JUSTICE COULD HAVE AN
IMMEDIATE IMPACT. AS THE HIGH COURT CONSIDERS
WHETHER TO HEAR TWO CASES CONCERNING THE SECOND AMENDMENT.
>> MARK HALPERIN, LET'S TALK ABOUT IT.
WHAT IS THE STATE OF THE COURT? WHAT IS THE FALLOUT?
>> IF HE VOTES AS PEOPLE EXPECT THERE WILL BE FEWER TIES AND
MORE 5-4 DECISIONS THAT CONSERVATIVE LBS HAPPY ABOUT.
>> THE FALLOUT IN THE SENATE? >> OH, OVER THE CHANGE IN RULES?
IT'S CHANGED FOR NOW. THE FIRST TIME THEY RUN UP
AGAINST A ROADBLOCK IN THE SENATE, YOU'LL HEAR PEOPLE
TALKING ABOUT CHANGING IT FOR LEGISLATION.
LOT OF SENATORS IN BOTH PARTIES WRINGING THEIR HANDS SAYING IT'S
NOT A GREAT MOMENT FOR THE SENATE.
JUST AS DEMOCRATS CHANGED IT FOR NOMINATIONS UNDER HARRY REID,
AND IT MOVES TOWARD THE PROCESS AND PERSONALITIES OVERWHELMING
ANY DESIRE TO HAVE IN THE SENATE.
>> I WAS HOME OVER THE WEEKEND BRIEFLY.
BACK TODAY FOR THE SWEARING IN. >> OKAY.
SO LOOKING AHEAD, YOU'RE GOING TO BE THERE FOR THE SWEARING IN.
YOU SUPPORT THIS, CLEARLY. HOW DO YOU THINK GORSUCH WILL
IMPACT THE COURT? >> IF YOU LOOK BACK TO WHEN
JUSTICE SCALIA WAS ON THE COURT, HE WILL BE VERY MUCH RULING IN
LINE WITH JUSTICE SCALIA. SOME ISSUES OVER DEFERENCE,
WHETHER WE GIVE TOO MUCH DEFERENCE TO THE ADMINISTRATION
BODIES OR NOT. 4-4 TIES WILL NO LONGER BE A
THING WE SEE GOING FORWARD. IT WILL BE MORE IN LINE WITH THE
SCALIA COURT. >> LAST WEEK, OBVIOUSLY, 59
CRUISE MISSILES FIRED OFF INTO THE NIGHT IN SYRIA.
YOU'RE ON THE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE.
WHAT ABOUT AN EXTENSION OF REWRITING AN APPROVAL OF A NEW
AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE, WOULD YOU FAVOR
THAT? >> WE HAVE TO HEAR FROM THE
ADMINISTRATION EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO.
THIS WAS A LEGAL STRIKE, DETERENCE EFFORT.
>> WHO SAID IT WAS LEGAL? >> I BELIEVE IT WAS, USING THE
AUTHORITIES OF THE 2001, PROTECTING OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN
UNIFORM AS WELL AS TO GO AFTER A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL
HUMANITARIAN LAW. BUT I DO THINK THERE'S GOING TO
BE A CONVERSATION. THERE SHOULD BE A WELL
THOUGHT-OUT PLAN PRESENTED FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO CONGRESS IF
NECESSARY SEEKING OUR APPROVAL. WE NEED TO HAVE THAT PLAN.
IT NEEDS TO BE SUPPORTEDRTED BY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SO WE
CAN SEE AN END TO THE ASSAD REGIME.
>> SENATOR, AS YOU FOLLOWED IT AND KNOW ABOUT IT, WHAT CAME OUT
OF THE PRESIDENT'S HIGHLY TOUTED SUMMIT WITH PRESIDENT JINPING?
>> ON THE ECONOMIC FRONT IT APPEARS ALLOWING U.S. INVESTORS
IN CHINA BUT IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT WE UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENS AS IT
RELATES TO NORTH KOREA. IN THE COMING DAYS AND WEEKS WE
HOPE TO SEE EMERGE FROM CHINA A PLAN TO DEAL WITH KIM JONG-UN'S
NUCLEAR STO STOCKPILE AND HOW CHINA WILL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
FOR THE SITUATION IN NORTH KOREA.
>> ELISE JORDAN? >> SENATOR GARDNER IN 2013, I
BELIEVE -- CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG -- YOU SUPPORTED HAVING
THE PRESIDENT COME TO CONGRESS FOR APPROVAL OF ANY MILITARY
ACTION IN SYRIA. WHAT'S CHANGED NOW WITH LAST
WEEK'S ACTION AND YOUR CONCERNS OVER THE LEGALITY?
I JUST NOTICED THAT IN YOUR STATEMENT ABOUT IT, YOU MENTION
FREQUENTLY INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HOW THIS WAS WITHIN
INTERNATIONAL LAW. WHAT ABOUT AMERICAN LAW AND THE
CONSTITUTION AND RECEIVING AUTHORIZATION FOR MILITARY
FORCE? >> WELL, OVER THE LAST FOUR
YEARS SINCE 2013, WE'VE SEEN CONTINUED ATROCITIES CARRIED OUT
BY THE ASSAD REGIME AGAINST ITS OWN PEOPLE, INCLUDING MULTIPLE
CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACKS AT THIS POINT AND FOUR YEARS WORTH OF
RUSSIAN AND SYRIAN ESCALATION AND COMPLICITY IN ACTS AGAINST
ITS PEOPLE. I THINK THIS STRIKE WAS IN
PROPORTIONALITY TO THE CHEMICAL ATTACKS, IN ORDER TO DETER ASSAD
FROM USING CHEMICAL WEPENS IN THE FUTURE.
A WELL-THOUGHT OUT PLAN PRESENTED TO CONGRESS.
IF THE APPROVAL IS NECESSARY, LET'S HAVE THAT APPROVAL AND
MAKE SURE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS NOT JUST UNILATERAL BY THE
UNITED STATES BUT HAS BITE IN AND SUPPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY. >> HOPSCOTCHING THE GLOBE, AS
THEY USED TO SAY, LET'S GO BACK TO NORTH KOREA.
YOU'VE SEEN -- I SUSPECT YOU'VE SEEN A LOT OF INTELL ABOUT NORTH
KOREA, GIVEN YOUR ROLE ON THE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE.
IF, PER CHANCE, CHINA, IN COORDINATION WITH THE UNITED
STATES, SOUTH KOREA, IF KIM JONG-UN WAS SUDDENLY TAKEN OFF
THE TABLE AS THE HEAD OF NORTH KOREA, ARE YOU AT ALL CONCERNED
WITH WHO WOULD FOLLOW HIM? >> I THINK THERE IS A QUESTION
OF WHO WOULD FOLLOW HIM. IN CONVERSATIONS I'VE HAD WITH
EXPERTS ON NORTH KOREA, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY HAS THAT ANSWER.
AT A COMMITTEE HEARING A MONTH OR SO AGO I ASKED SEVERAL
EXPERTS ON A SCALE OF ZERO TO 00 WHERE ARE WE IN PLANNING FOR THE
TRANSITION AWAY FROM THE KIM JONG-UN REGIME?
THEY GAVE ME A THREE. WE ARE A LONG WAY AWAY FROM
UNDERSTANDING WHAT HAPPENS AFTER KIM JONG-UN.
THAT'S WHY SOUTH KOREA, JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES NEED TO
COME TOGETHER, WORKING WITH CHINA, TO DEAL WITH KIM
JONG-UN'S

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