change the minds of any of the 47 democratic senators who have already said they will not vote for judge kavanaugh. what all of this process is targeted at really comes down to five senators. let s put them up on the screen. arizona senator jeff flake, a republican. republican senator susan collins of maine. lisa murkowski of alaska. joe manchin of west virginia and heidi heitkamp of north dakota. among those five, the top three the most important ones, they ve been getting calls from the white house and other republicans encouraging them to vote on cavanagh when it comes to the senate floor. the white house, chuck grassley, senator flake saying there is no information in the fbi report to corroborate the charges, we know the fbi reached out to ten people conducting comprehensive interviews with nine and obtained a sworn statement from the tenth person.
50 votes and in the case right now, vice president pence would break the tie in the nomination would move forward. i think there are some outstanding red state democrats that could possibly vote in favor of judge kavanaugh. we can see the high water mark of 53-54, potentially. harris: you talk about the democrats, i ve heard people saying that if you get the majority of republicans, get to 50, you will see perhaps a couple of them and it s even been spoken about it the white house strategy if you wil will. that s right, i thinks once they know it s going to go forward and that he is going to be confirmed, the red state democrats i think want to be on the right side of that vote. if it s going down for example, i think it would be quite the opposite but right now the momentum is in kavanaugh s favor. as i mentioned, potentially going as high as 53 or 54 but i
on those things coming up. thank you. thanks, harris, have a great day. harris: the only member of the house democrat leadership from the midwest and is an old kansas girl, i can appreciate that. she easily won reelection in an illinois district that president trump won. i should also note, the congresswoman was a veteran investigative reporter before entering congress. great to have you on the program. i think you could hear just then the congressman from florida talking and we will get to that bipartisan kumbaya in a moment but right now we are in a bitter divide on capitol hill over the nomination process of judge kavanaugh. opening thoughts today now that we may be moving toward a vote on saturday? we have to think about what is our guiding light on anything, whether it s
among those interviewed, mark judge, who was a good friend of judge kavanaugh. leland kaiser, deborah ramirez, who leveled the other charges. still, despite all those interviews democrats complaining long and loud that this fbi investigation was not comprehensive enough. on the white house driveway this morning, sarah sanders said that s ridiculous, listen here. we allowed the fbi to do exactly what they do best. we have not micromanaged of this process, we accommodated all the requests, the president was very clear about that and allowed the fbi to make those decisions and interview who they thought they needed to do so. something the fbi investigation did not do, interview brett kavanaugh or christine blasey ford. sources tell fox news the senate judiciary did not ask for any more information from those two then they already had from hours of their sworn testimony.
former communications director for senator marco rubio, democratic strategist and former advisor to hillary clinton. we were just listening, you are not happy about the democratic party right now. i know how to count, harris. i said this from the beginning, i fundamentally believe from the beginning that kavanaugh was going to be confirmed. we made this about the supreme court, i think we lost focus on what really matters to voters. not how a senator votes or not vote on a supreme court nominee, we ve been sucked into this battle of focusing our attention on how a senator votes instead of staying focused on what matters to the american voters.