i was talking to white house officials last night who say they still feel good about these confirmation hearings and their nominee. of course, she has done extensive prep for this moment. i m told these prep sessions have even included mock hearings, like the one she s going to begin in just under an hour here on the hill. but of course, they re also prepped for the attack lines. we ve seen these things forming in the recent days and weeks. key republicans signaling that they want to paint jackson as soft on crime. pointing to different pieces in her resume. and what white house officials and those close to this process tell me is that nominee is ready for that. they are going to point to the endorsements that she s gotten from chiefs of police, from bipartisan attorneys general. and look, even in the beginning of this year ago, we re going to see them try to blunt that criticism and make this as non-partisan a confirmation hearing as possible. they have a conservative judge, retired
fairfax, who yamiche was talking about. so again, an attempt by the white house in her confirmation team to evaluate this out of the usual partisanship of the hill and instead make this squarely focus on her qualifications and of course, republicans have questions and they ve said this to us on the hill in recent weeks, as they ve been meeting with her, about her judicial philosophy. certainly, that is going to come up, but i think the interesting thing about this nominee is that while she does have depth and breadth of experience, it s hard to get a sense of her judicial philosophy because of the role that district judges play and the way that their rulings are so predicated on higher courts above them. that s something interesting i ll be watching for today. but the white house signaling confidence, because really, this is a confirmation that could go off, if all 50 democrats just get in line behind the white house s first nomineeing. instead, the white house is hoping there is some