and it s about to get ratcheted up to a 15. we re about to see 30 hours of a debate. perhaps we could see a vote. perhaps it could stretch into sunday with one republican senator not here for a wedding, but we re going to see continued protests, continued speeches, and continued enormous pressure on those four swing senators who have all now cast their first votes here on this procedural motion to move to this next phase tlooch phase. three yeses from the four on the fence and one no vote. i don t think it s safe to say any of those decisions are final. i think we have the yeses here on a procedural basis indicating susan collins, jeff flake, joe mansion, who want to see this conversation continue. we know we will hear from susan collins about 3:00 this afternoon she s expected to go to the floor and announce her final decision on judge kavanaugh, how she will vote on this final vote. lisa murkowski, who has looked for a little while like the republican who might be most
court that is fullile balanced that has individuals on it who have to a appropriate judicial temperament and who are not simply a political operative. and i hope that she has in other times that she rises to that moment. we will see. for my own view, obvious ly, i strongly opposed to judge kavanaugh, and i was opposed to his nomination, before the allegations of dr. ford, because his positions on civil rights and voting rights and reproductive rights and siding with big corporations against the little guy, and just simply is not what i believe needs to be on the supreme court, but after i saw dr. ford sle testimony, and i think that it was incredibly powerful, and i think that it was truthful and i believe her. and then i saw his response, which was overtly political, and showed him to be what he really is which is a political operative dressed in the robes of the judge and not someone whose temperament and whose
what have you heard from those protesters? reporter: yeah, craig, we ve been out here since this morning, and there are a lot more people gathering after the cloture vote. one of the speakers here announced that senator murkowski voted no. that elicited cheers from the crowd. we also heard from other people who have been disappointed by the way other senators, notably susan collins voted. i want to bring in bonnie. talk about your reaction to the cloture vote? i m very disappointed. i came down here to show my opposition to kavanaugh, and i felt certain this morning that this vote would go down as a no, and i m really i cannot believe the one thing that stands out to me is susan collins voting to move this forward. as a woman voting against her own gender, not believing or showing validity to many, many examples of his unfitness that she s just seemed to have
quite the reaction when he saw the report on the brett kavanaugh investigation. that is a [ bleep ] investigation i won t fill in the bleep, but you can guess what he says, but he is joining me from the rotunda, and senator, the cloture vote is over, and we are now on the clock for perhaps 30 hours until the final vote happens. what s going to happen based on the conversations with the colleagues on both side of the aisle or do we really just not know yet? i don t think that we fully know yet, and i think that we will know this afternoon when senator collins has said that sometime around 3:00 p.m. she is going to give the speech and announce what her vote is. she has the opportunity to the make history, and an opportunity to be remembered in history as someone who stood up for making sure that the supreme court is a
from. however, i think that it is a reaction that has been fueled by money from the george soros campaign, from nancy pelosi and from other democratic reporter: you don t believe them? i don t believe all of them. i m sure it happened to some people, but i don t believe all of them, no. i think a lot of it s political expediency. reporter: if in fact, senator collins votes no on brett kavanaugh, will you still support her? i think i probably would because i don t i think that she s a fair person. i won t agree with her, but i think that she s a fair person, and i think that she will i think ultimately she will support him because none of these allegations have been have any proof behind them whatsoever. reporter: you re not buying it? i m not buying it at all, no. i don t think a person s life should be ruined just for political expediency, no. reporter: you saw he wrote his own op-ed, and you said he regretted doing some of the things he did. did that have any ef