ever since the confirmation fight over robert bjork the rules have changed. anything you can do to prevent this seismic shift democrats would do. we saw republicans do it a few years ago with the nomination of merit garland. >> molly: is there anything the democrats can do to stop it? they don't have the numbers alone. they would need at least one republican. is this -- is there any drama here? >> well, i think there will be some dramatic speech-fileing. the outcome is pretty much assured. the democrats' best hope is to delay it until after the election giving red state democrats an opportunity to vote their conscience and vote against the nomination. if there is any way they could delay it beyond the next election and win the senate, then you would have the bloodbath i was describing earlier. that's a fairytale. the likelihood of that happening is very slim.