father in that hearing room yesterday, one week ago thursday. john roberts has more from the west wing. give you a little more of brett kavanaugh s op-ed. the white house attempt to win over enough senators to get it across the finish line. i spoke with a source in the administration about the vote that just took place to say what about murcowski. do you think you can get her back? i was told no, they probably won t be able to convince murcowski to vote for judge kavanaugh after voting no for the cloture vote. they do think they will be able to hang onto joe manchin and believe that he will he is in a tight race in west virginia though he leads by nine points. they believe that manchin will vote for judge kavanaugh. they also think that flake and collins are on board as well. so with senator steve daines of montana out in montana tomorrow for the wedding of his daughter
path to being confirmed as the 114th u.s. supreme court justice. the vote was 51-49 and now we await a critical moment later today, 3:00 eastern time this afternoon, susan collins who advanced the motion a moment ago will decide whether or not she is an up or down vote on brett kavanaugh. sandra: we ll hear from her at 3:00 p.m. murcowski was a no. the four undecideds that we were waiting to hear from. the president just tweeting out at the conclusion of this vote very proud of the u.s. senate for voting yes to advance the nomination of judge brett kavanaugh. team coverage with analysis from chris wallace in a moment. first john roberts is at the white house. first we go to mike emanuel on capitol hill. mike, what a morning. good morning to you. that s about as dramatic as things get on the united states senate floor. no technology other than the microphone. you heard the individual senators in their voices say
either yay or nay. three of the four we were watching said yes. we ll chase them around to see whether collins, flake and manchin will be yes on final confirmation. we ll listen carefully to colin s floor speech and maybe flake and manchin will take to the floor. murcowski was a wild card. a lot of people said they didn t know where she stood. they felt she could be either a yes or no. those close to the nomination say that they were encouraged that basically susan collins, jeff flake said they needed to see certain information. they spent a lot of time in the secure location looking at this f.b.i. report about the allegations against judge brett kavanaugh and so those close to the nomination, those close to mitch mcconnell and chairman chuck grassley say they re encouraged that basically what these senators have requested has been provided to them. they aren t speaking for how they will finally vote but they are hopeful with all the
sandra: the senate is back in session and we re less than an hour away from a key vote on brett kavanaugh. joining us live in california congressman daryl issa, this is a big moment. what do you expect to happen with some of those undecided republican senators mainly flake, murcowski and collins with this one-week delay in the f.b.i. investigation? i served with both jeff flake as a house member and with susan collins when she was my counterpart on oversight. she values and jeff also served on oversight in the house. they value a good investigation. and judge kavanaugh has had seven good investigations and this last one was everything that could be added to what had already been an incredibly comprehensive set of hearings and investigations. so i think they are convinced. i think they should be convinced with their experience of knowing that the democrats are asking for an investigation to go on.
if the republican party can t get this right, bill, i m not sure we can keep it all together. the stakes are very high. for those three individual senators, they know they are signing their political death warrant if they vote against brett kavanaugh because they promised they would do the thing of confirming people like this. bill: what happens to kavanaugh? it s hard to predict in this. it has gone here, there and everywhere. for susan collins it is a very stupid political thing to take this fight on. for murcowski, she lost her last primary and she ll lose it again if she votes wrong in this issue. i believe they ll do the right thing and the democrats like joe manchin and other democrats, if they don t vote for brett kavanaugh it s the end of their senate career. i think at the end of this it will move towards judge kavanaugh s way and i m hopeful he will get confirmed. bill: thank you. we ll see whether or not you re right in the end. almost 12 past the hour.