explaining why he was for the process and letting it get to a final no vote but then at the end of the day had to be against. >> the reason we're talking about joe manchin is we're minutes away from susan collins making her decision. you're so right, mark. this historically is not the way it works. it's gotten more and more partisan as time has gone on. and by "it," i mean the conformation process. >> it also means two things for collins. it means, first of all, she was the one who wanted those fbi investigations, right? so it means that when she got that information back, she was satisfied. it also means that she wasn't as upset as some other people might be with judicial temperament. the whole idea that he was too political in that opening statement, that that would bleed over to the supreme court and that would be problematic.