as you're talking, there's a lot of action. >> he didn't even notice because he's so focused and so good. phil, thank you so much. let's bring in the aforementioned former senator rick santorum, also he ran for president as well. mark preston from cnn is here, simone sanders is here as well, she was the press secretary for bernie sanders' presidential campaign. senator, you sat here us with as we saw the tail end of that very passionate and emotional back and forth going on in the senate judiciary. the vote happened, it moves to the floor. why did this get so heated? less about sessions, more about the white house? >> yeah, i have to tell you, this was surprising, the level of rancor that i saw. and it's not that i haven't seen it before on other nominations or other things. the thing that really was surprising, this is a fellow member of the senate. i'm just telling you, you don't do this. this just doesn't happen, for