congress tove come a filler buster. of the democratic and states that donald trump won last november, three of them announced they ll cross party lines oppose it and support gorsuch. trump carried joe manchin with 69%. he won heidi heitkamp. and joe donnelly state of indiana with 57%. several others facing re-election in 2018 and voting against, however voting against gorsuch. two of them are vulnerable last year, and john home state of montana with 57% of the vote. for moreover the fight let s go with chief investigative correspondent with politico. and correspondent for the guardian and contributor the daily beast. is this about all survival for the democrats. the one that are going over to gorsuch know they can t ignore
the filibuster for a bigger fight, a more contention nomination down the road, because this scalia seat replacement wouldn t change the balance of the court. make democrats should work with the majority leader and come up with the democrats are up in 2018 in states that trump won, support gorsuch because he s so acceptable and sterling credentials in order to save a fight for another time and filibuster on another justice. we don t know where it s headed. they re going to come out and say all these bad things and why they can t vote for him. i m not sure if they will filibuster him. this know poll is significant. the president s approval ratings continue to go down. this was taken after the loss on healthcare friday. his approval rating is down to 36%. you get down to a third in
sandra: supporters and critics now get to weigh in on the supreme court nominee today. on the final day of the hearing. gorsuch looking relatively unscathed after questioning. democrats are saying that he was evasive. chuck schumer and senator bob casey say they will oppose gorsuch. schumer urging fellow democrats did the same. he says he will back a filibuster of the nomination. despite the tough talk, there is also reports of democrats making a deal to avoid republicans using the nuclear option. we are allows and course which democrats will likely pursue a commitment from republicans not to kill the filibuster for a subsequent vacancy during donald trump s term.
this is your vote next to your name. harris: harris faulkner knows a little bit about tattoo tattoos. this just happened. senator mike lee, republican of utah, just said this bill is going to fail. meghan: mike lee said that? harris: off subject, but he said we are going to confirm judge gorsuch. more importantly, what s happening? pete: it s a further climb with this obamacare bill, no doubt. they re going to put out opening shots because we close the house, a ghost of the senate, what is our conversation go? mike lee is a fellow traveler of the freedom caucus and he is that voice in the senate. i m not surprised he would say that. harris: is this a sausage being made or do you think there s something to this? the freedom caucus isn t huge. pete: it does represent the
garland. the fact that we didn t even get a vote is still pretty tough for senate democrats and not unfairly. harris: chuck schumer said today after careful deliberation, i ve concluded i cannot support gorsuch s nomination. he will vote no no matter what. he said there will need to be a culture vote. we can see the situation where they wouldn t filibuster. pete: president trump could have nominated jesus for the supreme court and they would have opposed him. marie: the same thing was true for republicans when president obama was in the white house. pete: that was a watershed moment. republicans fought that because i realized it was a balance of court and i think democrats affect the next one. sandra: with a deadly terror attack in london are