President Trump Participates in a Roundtable

Well, she's not disqualified. You've got a blue slip thing that's horrible. It's a horrible thing. It makes it impossible to appoint a judge or US Attorney. And it's a shame. And the Republicans should be ashamed of themselves that they allowed this to go on because I can't appoint a US Attorney that's not a Democrat. Because they put a block on it. So if you appoint in Virginia or in New Jersey or in California a US Attorney or a judge—I mean, a judge situation is ridiculous. The only people that you can get by are Democrats because they will put a hold on it. If I put up George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to be US Attorney in New Jersey or to be US Attorney in Virginia, where you have Democrat senators, they will not approve them. And this is a gentleman's agreement that's lasted for too long, and it doesn't make it possible—especially in light of what's going on today. It means you can't appoint a Republican US Attorney. And—and we don't play the same game with them. But they do. And I hope that somebody speaks to Senator Grassley about doing something about the blue slip because I'm telling you, John, I put up great people, top people, highest education, the best lawyers to be like US Attorney, and both senators—it only takes one—but if they're Democrat senators, they say, 'We're not going to approve them.' I had a couple of them say, 'Why don't you appoint Democrats?' All because Senator Grassley with his blue slip stuff will not let anybody go by. By the way, the Democrats have violated the blue slip provision on numerous occasions. But we don't do it. And what it means is I guess I just have to keep appointing people for three months and then just appoint another one and another one. And it's a very sad situation. We're losing tremendous—we're losing a lot of great people. We have about seven US Attorneys who are not going to be able to keep their jobs much longer because of the blue slip. Because unless—I think I know why they did that, to protect their ass, okay? That's why they did that. But it should be done away with. I want to be able to appoint great, the most highly educated, the most respected people. They can't keep their jobs because of the blue slips. Terrible. Okay, thank you very much, everybody. The farmers, let's come into the Oval Office, all right? Deb, come on. We're going into the Oval Office. You can take— [60:45] Thank you, everybody.