justice but that now looks increasingly unlikely. fox news senior capitol hill producer chad per brahm. what are we looking at now? we re waiting for susan collins the republican senator from maine to come out. she might take a couple of questions for under the circumstances. why is susan collins so important in the senate right now is 51-49 in favor of the republicans. there is not much turning radius for the republicans there. especially if they were potentially lose the vote of susan collins and maybe the other moderate republican senator from alaska lisa murkowski. jeff flake also a republican. is he a member of the judiciary committee from arizona he wants to tap the brakes on this. keep in mind if they are going to reopen these hearings in some form, they have said and susan collins has said in particular that they want to hear under oath from brett kavanaugh again and also from christine ford that they don t have much time to do. this they are talking about that judiciary comm
another point worth making is what s the rush? you know, the republicans kept the an tonin scalia seat open fr more than a year and didn t give merrick garland a hearing. their argument is he s been vetted and they want to move forward with it. that was the argument today. yeah. my wonder is, though, i get i m sure there is a sense from at least some republicans that they can have this they can have these questions asked and answered by thursday. i think i bet you republicans think they can do that. i m sure they think they can. i think that s right. i think they re probably going to try to do that. if you listen to folks talking about this, i think kellyanne conway said graham said maybe you could have her talk tuesday or something. and you could go forward with the vote on thursday. again, i don t know if they have actually talked to her and she s