>> dana: there are some significant differences. one is supremely qualified the other is a right wing lunatic. >> "washington post". democrats grandstanding on kavanaugh. good. kavanaugh's defense misleads or veers off points. democrats have an intense start to the kavanaugh hearing. during your time in the white house, dana, late 2000s, 2007 supreme court had a 62% approval rating. it is now down to 40%. i think media coverage in terms of picking a side instead of simply scoout neuing the nominee's record and their past prosecutions in this case, this is why that poll is so low because we've now made it a political football. >> dana: partly because the democrats figured out that supreme court matters. judicial nominations matter. they were slow to that. they created an organization called demand justice. the dark money group around it and they were the one who