political issue, especially from national police organizations that were against this nomination. let me ask you this, before i get to the white house statement, which in and of itself is quite steamy. how did harry reid miscount the vote and send the vice president down there thinking this was going to be a tiebreaker. this is really interesting. they thought republicans wouldn t have the same number of people on the floor. when you don t have the same number of people the calculation changes. senator cornyn wasn t there, so they thought it would be a 49/49 tie and joe biden could come through and cast the vote. the problem is one of the democrats changed his vote. they ended up changing and they couldn t have vice president biden decide that vote.