- Senator Feinstein came after her,

I count at least five times,

with basically the same thing about,

"Will you say what you'regonna do about abortion?"

Do you think that JudgeBarrett handled that well?

- Yes.

Look, she said, "My personalviews are my personal views."

They shouldn't be disqualifying

so long as she is following the law

and considering the arguments of counsel

and individual cases orcontroversies that come before her

as a judge either on the Seventh Circuit

or as a future justiceon the Supreme Court.

I mean, just because youhappen to be pro-life

or pro-choice in your personal beliefs,

should not be disqualifyingin terms of being a judge

any more than if youhappen to like Obamacare

or don't like Obamacareshould have any bearing

on whether or not you candetermine whether the law itself

is constitutional.

- There's this list.

This is a letter that's comeout from 50 law professors

and they seem to be from allover the spectrum saying that

she's really well qualified for this job.

Did you see that letterand what'd you think of it?

- Well I haven't seen thatletter but what I did see in 2017

when she was nominatedto the Seventh Circuit

is that every law clerk whoclerked on the court with her

when she was clerking for Justice Scalia,

all of the justices acrossthe political spectrum,

said that even among our August group,

Amy Coney at the timestood out as somebody

who was particularly brilliant

and clearly one of her biggest supporters

has been Noah Feldman, whois a very, very liberal

law professor at Harvardwho clerked at the same time

that she did who said,"Look, I may disagree

"with every ruling thatshe ever comes out with,

"but she is certainly smart enough

"and has the integrity to serve

"as a justice on the Supreme Court."

- Does what you've seen sofar, make you think in any way

that the Democrats aregonna lay a hand on her,

stop her, wipe this nomination out?

- No, I don't think so.

I mean, I think it's prettyclear that there will be

no Democrats who will vote to confirm her.

Senator Collins has made it quite clear

that she is a no vote.

She made that clear evenbefore there was a nominee.

Lisa Murkowski hasn't made a commitment

one way or the other, but evenif she decides to vote no,

I certainly hope that she doesn't,

that still leads 51 Republican senators

and I think that all 51 of them

are going to come to the conclusion that

she is eminently qualified

and will be an outstandingassociate justice

on the Supreme Court.

- All right.

Well, thank you so much for your input.

We appreciate your time.

We've been speaking with John Malcolm

of the Heritage Foundation.