obviously a lot of big issues we re going to be talking about this week with brett kavanaugh, executive power, abortion, gun control, those are three of the big key issues. where does he stand? it s going to be a very difficult process, that we know. we know that the republicans on the senate judiciary committee are arguing that the heart of the debate over these documents is their desire to stall this process, drag this out through the mid-terms. while we do expect the boiler plate questions to kavanaugh regarding abortion rights, gun control, also an interest in marriage equality, it is going to be the issue of presidential power that s going to be most notable considering all of the investigations, the potential legal jeopardy that the president faces with the russia investigation. busy week on capitol hill for sure. suzanne, thank you very much. let s talk more about this. i want to bring in cnn legal and national security analyst and former yale university law and political
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sometimes what happens in washington. salena zito, to you, because when we talk about pre-existing conditions, which was really the hot point up to the end of this measure, if you look at the 11 states, the 11 states with the people with the highest percentage of pre-existing conditions, they re all states that donlt wald trump won. and going to the swing states, purple states where donald trump won also, you know that they re areas where people with high percentages of pre-existing conditions are there as well. how careful do republicans need to be in addressing this going forward? i think that they need to be incredibly careful. my reporting has shown that the past seven weeks, conservative members of the senate as well as moderate members of the senate in the republican party have been meeting all the time for the past seven weeks to iron out sort of what the boiler plate is, or at least the beginning of what their version of the bill will look like. so, it s not like they re just
cases, now we re talking politics, we re talking votes. break down your view based on what nina was articulating, the roll call, and whether anything can break or happen in a hearing that would change any of this. well, things can happen in hearings. it has happened before from time to time. it is true that it is mostly boiler plate from the nominees and very carefully coached and then very shrewd for most part and not saying anything that will blow up their nomination. you never know, it is unlikely in the case of neil gorsuch, who is the son of a political figure, and wh is carefully schooled from the earliest days in politics and law that he would make such a mistake. i think the key thing nina puts her finger on the key political point, do they put it all on this nomination, i think mitch mcconnell, the republican leader, would just assume not have to blow up what is left of the filibuster role in the