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.