You know, I don't mean to offend any of my friends up there and I wish the process was

different because then the Senate would be actually working.

But it's not.

This is Ryan Liza.

I'm sitting here at the Silver Brasser, a diner up in Cathedral Heights in Northwest

D.C.

I'm meeting Stephanie Cutter here today because I wanted to talk to her about the process

of shepherding a Supreme Court nominee through the process of confirmation.

Stephanie is a partner at precision strategy, is a prominent political consulting firm,

but she's also had a storied career in democratic politics as we'll get to in a second.

But most recently, she wrote a very provocative editorial in the New York Times headline.

That should take a page from Mitch McConnell's book and she's going to explain how she thinks

the Biden administration should handle its replacements for retiring Justice Breyer.

So you wrote an op-ed on Saturday and basically said, explains your role in the Sotomayor

process and said, don't do that this time.

Yes.

Why not?

That was 2009.

2009.

Not ancient history, but a long time ago.

Pretty close.

It's changed where your advice to the Biden administration is, you know, it's all different

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