grabs. but corker will be voting to confirm brett stevens excuse me. brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. brett stevens is a reporter for the new york times. i have the new york times on my mind because i have a reporter from them here. and nancy cook is a reporter for politico still with us is josh barrow. adam, let me start with you. we ve seen it s been a long-term story going back at least 30 years. partisanship of washington intersecting with the supreme court nominations. it looks like the vote count on this in about an hour is going to be the closest we ve had, even closer than clarence thomas in 1991. this nomination, if it is successful this afternoon and brett kavanaugh joins the court, talk to me about the atmosphere of that court that he s joining. what will his addition to it mean? this will be the culmination of a long-term project that