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McCONNELL: "They also have conveniently forgotten that Joe Biden said in 1992 when he was chairman of the Judiciary Committee, the Democrats controlled the Senate, a Republican in the White House, if a vacancy occurred, they wouldn’t fill it."
DICKERSON: "I don’t think that’s right. In 1956 Eisenhower nominated Brennan and the 84th Congress was Democrat-controlled. And also on the Biden rule, Joe Biden was talking in the abstract. There was no nominee. No nominee was blocked."
McCONNELL: "That’s not at all what happened, John. You are completely misconstruing what happened."
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KING: "McConnell is right on the history. Eisenhower gave a recess appointment in 1956. The formal nomination and consideration by the Senate didn’t happen until after the presidential election year. So McConnell is right on the details. There was a justice seated during a presidential election year. We had a Republican president Dwight Eisenhower and a Democratic Senate, but there was no confirmation until after."