Michael Steele: GOP Should Welcome the President’s SCOTUS Nominee to Capitol Hill

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
GEIST: "Let’s turn to the breaking news Mika mentioned. The White House has announced at 11:00 this morning president Obama will announce his next nominee for the supreme court. In an e-mailed statement, the president said he “Devoted a considerable amount of time and deliberation to this decision and held each candidate to what he called three principles that reflect the role the supreme court plays in our democracy.” It’s been widely speculated the president will choose between Sri sreenivasan, currently a judge on the United States court of appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Merrick Garland, chief judge of the United States court of appeal there is on the D.C. Circuit. There are other names in the hat but people have zeroed in on that. Sreenivasan worked in the bush administration. Rubio, Cruz, Bernie Sanders voted for him. It might be tougher to vote against him. He could be the favorite."
BRZEZINSKI: "All right."
SCARBOROUGH: "Michael Steele, what should the Republicans do?"
STEELE: "They should welcome the president’s nominee to Capitol Hill, have him visit with everybody and sit down and get to know him and they should cast a vote and vote him down if that’s their choice. But the fact that you’re not going to put somebody up that Republicans have supported in the past, 97-0 in their vote, it will be a hard sell to the American people if they see this nominee who now they can attach a face to, not just a name. They can read the bio, learn about this person. How do you stand in the face of that? The Senate is in play not because of Donald Trump, folks, it’s in play because of how we’re approaching the SCOTUS nomination."