fairness and reason. and make no mistake, it is going to turn its back on women. but republicans who are just hours away from confirming their second supreme court justice under president trump are pushing back and weighing just what this confirmation fight will mean for the midterms. we watched what was happening. they were trying to destroy this good man with all the rumors. we need to have the vote in order to bring it to a conclusion. there s two choices. the susan collins way or the protester way. who do you want to run the government? conservatives align with senator collins trying to work toward empowering people, make it safe, more money in your pocket, or do you want to turn your government over to people who just yell and spit on you? providing us reporting this hour, nbc s garrett haake, on capitol hill.
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highest court in our land. is he fit to be a jurist? that is our role. when it comes to dr. ford s allegations, and we fell short. we fell short. we did not do her justice. we did not do the american people justice. but republicans just hours away now from confirming their second supreme court justice under president trump. they are pushing back against these claims and what this confirmation fight will mean for midterms. we watched what was happening. they were trying to destroy this good man with all of these rumors and the rest of the stuff. we needed to have the vote to bring it to a conclusion. also new reaction from one of the lawyers representing christine blasey ford in an interview with msnbc last night. there was no effort to leak this letter and have this unfold
history day with a final vote ahead in these next few hours. we have some breakses news to report. there s new reaction from democrats as republicans are hours away from clinching their second supreme court pick under president trump, and tipping the scales for decades to come. take a listen. today in just a few hours the united states senate is going to turn its back on righteousness. it s going to turn its back on fairness and reason. and make no his take, it is going to turn its back on women. lindsey gravm among republican senators on whether this confirmation fight will have a significant impact on the mid terms. there s two choices, the susan collins way or the protesters, conservatives align with senator collins trying to work toward empowering people,
president hadn t mocked dr. ford. the president s comments were just plain wrong. just not right. i wish he hadn t have done it. just say it s kind of appalling. i don t approve of the comments from last night. i thought that they were wrong and extraordinarily unfortunate. so, did the president just make it harder for flake and collins and murkowski to get to yes? we don t know. did he make any other republicans think twice? we don t know. what we do know that one of the biggest impacts of this confirmation fight will be in the gender wars and we do know that this is a president who yesterday called this a, quote, very scary time for young men. a president who earlier this year asked if there s no longer due process when men are accused of sexual misconduct. president who campaigned for roy moore, a senate candidate accused of such misconduct. so, president trump is questioning christine blasey ford s allegations because he