Grassley: If I’m Chairman in 2020, I Won’t Take Up SCOTUS Nomination

MACCALLUM: "Last question. Merrick Garland is someone that a lot of people point to as the beginning of the most recent poisoning of this process. If there is an opening on the court, in the election year, in 2020, do you believe that the Senate should take up a nomination during that period?"

GRASSLEY: "If I’m chairman, they won’t take it up, because I pledged that in 2016, if the bulb is the same as it is — you know of someone else’s is chairman of the Committee, they'll have to decide for themselves. But that’s a decision I made a long time ago."

MACCALLUM: "Thank you very much, Senator Grassley, good to speak to you this morning."

GRASSLEY: "Thank you."