sights, chief nbc contributor, if he hasn t done so much damage to the body politic you d feel sorry for the nature of this herky jerky republican resistance not knowing where to land now after five years of sychophantic conduct now looking for an assassination plot. that s lindsey gram, either at your throat or feet, it s time to go back to our roots, present a unified front to the world and they re not prepared to do that. the most important task is for people like lindsey graham to stand up and say they repudiate their party s leader who was the number one enabler of vladimir putin. he needs to say there was no place in his party for someone who has called him a genius and savvy, and by the way, mike
garrett. we re expecting lindsey gram. but what are we going to be watching for in the next 20 minutes now? and might it give information in terms of whether he could still vote for her confirmation? gram s questions last were more about the cavanaugh or amy coneet barrett case. it s important to remember that gram was very much in a camp that wanted to see judge michelle childs be the person sitting in this seat. he all but said that she would have the support of him and dozens of other republicans. instead, president biden nominated jackson. so we re seeing gram frustrated
confirm biden s supreme court nominee before the easter holiday. joining me for more on this is cnn s manu raju, chief analyst jeffrey toobin, and a law professor. manu, let me start with you. what is new for today? reporter: currently they are on a break, and when they resume we ll hear questioning from lindsey gram of south carolina. he s making it clear that he s likely to vote against this nomination even though he supported her for the d.c. circuit. yesterday he raised concerns about her defenses as a public defender for guantanamo bay detainees. she said she was representing their clients. he didn t buy that. expect that in a matter of moments here. also this morning, questions about whether any republicans could break ranks. one of them, thom tillis,
me. absolutely. appreciate it. we re going to tell everyone what else we have going on. we re covering this war tonight. the we re also covering what is happening in america. democrats are criticizing republicans who voted against ukraine aid, some of them are even trying to say that president biden started the war. of that s one ted cruz style attack. over two dozen republicans voted against a measure that would provide $14 billion in both humanitarian and military assistance. some of the same lawmakers saying things like biden must step up his game. and he had to be pulled to this by congress to do the right thing and the white house must be held accountable for action up to this point. some republicans also said that their vote shouldn t be construed as anything other than a vote against a larger spending bill. and that can be a offense because there is a lot of different appropriations slammed together. then there are those who have had enough. lindsey gram telling the part
about election fraud belonged in third grade. are you surprised in a whole on the influence that trump has over house republicans. what we were able to do, we had months and we got the mem ran dumb that rudy giuliani sent to lindsey gram and the memo that this lawyer john eastman in the white house who was working for senator lee, they were investigating this. they were not going to just assume it was or wasn t. they sat on the phone for days