supreme court decides he ought to be president, instead of recounting millions and millions of votes, and that is when schumer gave his speech and that's why the well has been poisoned sense. >> martha: last question. mary garland is someone that a lot of people point to as the beginning of the most recent poisoning of this process. if there is an opening on the court, in the election year, in 2,020, do you believe that the senate should take up a nomination during that period? >> if i'm chairman, they won't take it up, because i pledged that in 2016, if the bulb is the same as it is -- you know of someone else's in the committee, they have to decide for themselves. but that's a decision i made a long time ago. >> martha: thank you very much senator grassley. so what exactly four weeks to go until some of that could all be shaken up, the "the story" senr