politicings is personpolitiitic is personal. murkowski met yesterday with dozens of women who traveled from alaska to talk with her. who told her very personal stories in a private setting. all of these factors are at play here. and all of these folks that we re dealing with i think particularly murkowski and manchin are very good at keeping their cards close to the vest until the last possible moment. this is a situation where, when this vote begins at 10:30, i don t think we ll know how it s going to end. there s just a lot of balls in the air. anything could happen in the 30 i think i heard senator coons say he was trying to reach those colleagues and they re not picking up the phone call so it suggests they re under a tremendous amount of pressure. garrett haake, thank you. i want to bring in nbc s peter a lexen der alexander, live at the