garrett, covering these guys majority and minority leaders are like australian shepherds. their job is to deliver account entire herd when the job is done. both of these guys had members peel off. they both could not deliver their entire caucuses. that s going to be interesting. i think it is, brian. joe manchin is in a tough re-election fight. chuck schumer has given him a lot more leeway. vote the way he needs to vote to keep his constituents happy in west virginia. i don t think there s going to be a clapback against joe manchin from the democratic party. it s part of the reason he tried so hard to make sure he wasn t the deciding vote on this. lisa muir cow skill is a woman who lost a republican primary in 2010 and won as a write-in candidate with a name like murkowski. he s politically powerful as a local figuring in alaska. also the republicans only
a woman tells her story or in some cases a man. we need to keep that perspective of you live to fight another day. this is a long battle. just i thinking about endurance is important here. and just settling in for a long fight. thank you for that. josh, did you find any profiles in courage today on capitol hill? was it harder for a heitkamp to vote no? was it harder for a mansion to vote yes? that kind of thing? i think, brian, the heitkamp vote is one that could cost her although she seems to be down a little bit in the polls. so she may be in some trouble already. i think claire mccaskill is another person in missouri who could suffer for her vote here. but i do wonder if at least in the short to medium term maybe we re making a little too much of this. it is a generational potential
with garret because you were next to these figures that were making history today. genuine surprise on the part of collins, not so much from the part of mansion from where you sat or was that inaccurate? i think that s pretty fair farks brian. collins was fascinating because she did not come out like jeff flake and say she was a yes vote and appear conflicted about it. collins came out and said he was a yes vote and made a full throated endorsement of kavanaugh in a scene that looked staged with two other female republicans behind her. that s not a normal configuration in the u.s. senate. that was done for a reason. susan collins did not just say she was voting yes for judge kavanaugh. she gave the closing argument and if you are mitch mcconnell have asked for a much better argument for a woman who stood up to the president on the health care vote coming back and