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  • >> A FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE.

  • INSIDE THE HIGH COURT WITH THE

  • MAN ATOP TRUMP'S LIST.

  • STORIES YOU HAVEN'T HEARD.

  • AND A WARNING FOR THE COUNTRY.

  • >> THERE IS A REASON WHY

  • DEMOCRACIES HAVEN'T ALWAYS

  • SUCCEEDED IN HISTORY.

  • FROM WASHINGTON, SHANNON BREAM.

  • SHANNON: THE SUPREME COURT.

  • FOR MANY VOTERS IT WAS THE

  • DECIDING ISSUE OF THE 2016

  • ELECTION.

  • THIS HOUR THE FIRST TELEVISION

  • INTERVIEW WITH GORSUCH SINCE HE

  • JOINED THE NATION'S HIGH COURT.

  • A REVEALING CONVERSATION ABOUT

  • HIS LIFE, HIS PHILOSOPHY.

  • WE START FAR AWAY FROM HERE IN

  • GORSUCH'S HOME STATE OF

  • COLORADO.

  • IT'S QUITE A STORY ABOUT HIS

  • NOMINATION.

  • >> TWO YOUNG THEN WERE SENT OUT

  • FROM WASHINGTON TO COLLECT ME

  • AND MY WIFE FOR THE

  • ANNOUNCEMENT.

  • THEY SHOWED UP ON A SUNDAY

  • EVENING.

  • I WAS OUT MOWING THE LAWN.

  • SHE WERE INVITED TO STAY FOR

  • SUPPER AND THEY WENT TO A MOTEL

  • AND CAME BACK TO GET US THE NEXT

  • MORNING.

  • THE PRESIDENT TWEETED.

  • AT THAT POINT IT SEEMED LIKE

  • EVERY MEDIA TRUCK DESCENDED UPON

  • THE POTENTIAL NOMINEE'S HOMES.

  • AND WE HAD A CREW OUTSIDE OUR

  • SINGLE ROW.

  • THEY HAD LAWN CHAIRS AND VANS

  • AND THE WORKS.

  • THEY CAME PREPARED.

  • SHANNON: THE TWO GUYS FROM

  • WASHINGTON DID NOT.

  • >> THEY WERE IN THEIR SUITS IN A

  • RENTED CAR.

  • SO THEY WENT TO WALMART AND GOT

  • SOME DUDS THEY THOUGHT WOULD BE

  • NATURAL FOR THE COUNTRYSIDE BUT

  • STILL FELT LIKE THEY WERE GOING

  • TO GET CAUGHT.

  • THEY SAID WOULD YOU MIND HIKING

  • OUT?

  • WE'LL PICK YOU UP THERE.

  • MY WIFE'S ROLLER BAG WOULD NOT

  • MAKE IT THROUGH THAT HIKE.

  • I SAID GUYS, NO.

  • I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT.

  • MY NEIGHBOR SAID NEIL, I GREW UP

  • IN IRAN DURING THE REVOLUTION

  • AND I WOULD NEVER BUY A HOUSE

  • WHERE THERE IS ONLY ONE ESCAPE.

  • >> SHE SAID I HAVE TO SHOWER AND

  • CHANGE.

  • YOUR GETAWAY OUTFIT, THE WHOLE

  • POINT IS NOT TO BE SEEN.

  • THE PERSON WHO SHOULD HAVE

  • SHOWERED AND CHANGED DIDN'T, AND

  • THAT WAS ACTUALLY ME.

  • I HAD BEEN IN THE BARN ALL

  • MORNING AND MUCKING OUT AND

  • DOING ALL THE CHORES.

  • AND I THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING BUT

  • THAT.

  • >> WE WENT OUT BY WAY AFTER

  • BUMPY HORSE TRACK AND MET UP

  • WITH THE KIDS FROM THE EAST

  • COAST TO MAKE IT TO WASHINGTON.

  • >> WE FLEW TO D.C. AND ARRIVED

  • TWO HOURS AHEAD.

  • WE ARRIVED TO A DINNER PARTY.

  • AND I WALKED IN AND I SUDDENLY

  • HAD THIS MOMENT OF

  • SELF-AWARENESS.

  • I AM STILL WEARING THE CLOTHES I

  • MUKD OUT IN THE BARN THAT

  • MORNING.

  • >> SHE CALLS IT ESCAPE FROM

  • LOOKOUT RIDGE.

  • SHANNON: DID YOU EVER IMAGINE

  • ALL THOSE YEARS AGO WHEN YOU MET

  • YOUR HUSBAND YOU WOULD END UP IN

  • THIS-HISTORICAL PLACE?

  • >> ABSOLUTELY NOT.

  • >> THIS IS A FOX NEWS ALERT.

  • WE ARE CONTINUING OUR SPECIAL

  • COVERAGE OF THE DEATH OF SUPREME

  • COURT JUSTICE IS ANTONIN SCALIA.

  • >> HE CAME HERE FISHING WITH

  • YOU.

  • >> WE AGREED ON A LOT OF THINGS

  • AND I ADMIRED HIM GREATLY.

  • AND HE WAS AN ENTHUSIASTIC

  • FLY-FISHER.

  • BUT WE DID NOT SEE EYE TO EYE ON

  • HOW TO PRESENT A FLY TO A TROUT.

  • I SAID I KNOW THIS STREAM LIKE

  • THE BACK OF MY HAND.

  • IF YOU CAN JUST WADE OVER THERE

  • A LITTLE BIT, DROP THE FLY DOWN,

  • YOU ARE GOING TO CATCH A FISH.

  • HE WOULD TOMORROW OVER THERE,

  • SLAP THE LINE ON WATER AS HARD

  • AS HE COULD.

  • THE HARDER HE CAST, THE MORE THE

  • FISH WOULD LIKE THE

  • PRESENTATION.

  • HE WOULD SAY NEIL, YOU TOILED ME

  • THERE -- YOU TOLD ME THERE WAS A

  • FISH THERE.

  • WELL THERE HAD BEEN.

  • SHANNON IF PRESIDENT TRUMP GOT

  • TO PICK SCALIA'S REPLACEMENT

  • THAT WOULD BE GONE.

  • SENATOR McCONNELL DECLARED HE

  • WOULD KEEP THE SEAT OVER UNTIL

  • AFTER THE ELECTION SO THE COURT

  • BECAME ONE OF THE CAMPAIGN'S

  • MOST OF PRESSING ISSUES.

  • >> DO YOU KNOW HOW I KNOW

  • DONALD'S SUPREME COURT JUSTICES

  • WILL BE LIBERALS?

  • FOR HIS ENTIRE LIFE HE CONSULTED

  • LIBERALS.

  • SHANNON: HE ISSUED YOU A LIST OF

  • THE LIST OF JUSTICES HE WOULD

  • NOMINATE.

  • IT DIDN'T INCLUDE NEIL GORSUCH.

  • >> I REMEMBER IN THE SUMMER OF

  • 2016 WITH A FRIEND AT LUNCH.

  • HE SAID IT'S A PITY YOUR NAME IS

  • NOT ON THIS LIST.

  • I AM SO HAPPY IN COLORADO, LEAVE

  • ME ALONE.

  • I'M FINE.

  • WE GOT UP FROM LUNCH AND MY

  • PHONE BUZZED AND IT WAS A TEXT

  • SAYING YOU ARE ON A NEW LIST.

  • I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WOULD BE A

  • SECOND LIST AND I DIDN'T KNOW MY

  • NAME WOULD BE ON IT.

  • >> I CALLED HIM, HE SAID SO,

  • WHAT DO YOU THINK?

  • SHOULD I GO FOR THIS?

  • SHANNON: REBECCA COLISS TAUGHT

  • HIM TO FISH.

  • >> HE SAID THE CONFIRMATION

  • PROCESS IS GOING TO BE

  • DIFFICULT.

  • I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT'S GOING

  • TO DO TO ME OR MY FAMILY.

  • MY RESPONSE WAS IF HE COULD GET

  • HIS GIRLS ON BOARD I NOT IT

  • WOULD BE A TREMENDOUS SERVICE TO

  • THE NATION.

  • SHANNON: OF COURSE THE POINT WAS

  • MOOT IF TRUMP DIDN'T BEAT

  • HILLARY CLINTON, AND EVERYONE

  • KNEW HE COULDN'T.

  • BUT OVERNIGHT NEIL GORSUCH

  • BECAME A MAN WHO COULD MAKE

  • HISTORY.

  • HE SAID IT'S NOT YOU.

>> A FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE.

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