Chairman of the senate jacket, he was in judiciary committee. None of them know exactly what senator collins is going to do. Just to set the stakes here, wolf, you named senator jeff flake. Thats 49. If he stays where he is, thats 49 senators, republicans need 50 and the tie breaking vote from Vice President pence. If Susan Collins says she will vote yes on the nomination, that is the vote that they need. Obviously were still waiting to hear from senator joe manchin, whether he plans to maintain his vote as well. A senator who has been undecided for the last couple of weeks, who has been going through a very, very difficult and complex process, a senator who on some of her crucial issues, most notably health care, roe v. Wade
said she feels very comfortable. She spent a lot of time behind the scenes reviewing that fbi report and now she has to make the decision, guys. Well find out soon enough, in the next few minutes. If she says shes going to vote yes in favor of confirmation, thats
explaining why he was for the process and letting it get to a final no vote but then at the end of the day had to be against. the reason we re talking about joe manchin is we re minutes away from susan collins making her decision. you re so right, mark. this historically is not the way it works. it s gotten more and more partisan as time has gone on. and by it, i mean the conformation process. it also means two things for collins. it means, first of all, she was the one who wanted those fbi investigations, right? so it means that when she got that information back, she was satisfied. it also means that she wasn t as upset as some other people might be with judicial temperament. the whole idea that he was too political in that opening statement, that that would bleed over to the supreme court and that would be problematic.
2050. we have to think about this titanic shift. that s what started this up. anthony kennedy, so important on those hot-button issues, abortion, lgbt rights, affirmative action. that is all going to make this court take a hard right turn. and she talked about the process now of the court, and almost not only a rehabilitation the beginning of a rehabilitation for him, but for the court. she said this process has reached rock bottom. it s dysfunctional. it s gotten to a gutter level political campaign. that was real anger about the process. mark, i wonder what you think about what david said. because he hit the nail on the head about this being i don t think people out there who aren t part of the conservative movement, who have been working for this, as you said, for a generation, understand the win here. with justice soon to be, it seems, justice kavanaugh. you re both saying it s not just two supreme court nominations. there are more circuit judges confirmed in the first
president trump, gloria borger and mark chalian and arian d vau d vaugh. what are you hearing from your friends on the hill and the white house since you bridge both? well, i think right now there s a lot of optimism this will get completed. it s a departure from the way supreme court nominations used to go. it wasn t until 2005 we had our first cloture vote with alito. when clarence thomas was elected, there was never a minimum vote needed. if she announces she s going to vote against confirmation, it puts an enormous amount of