breasts. >> reporter: today democrats criticize gop senators who may want to run for president for their aggressive tactics with jackson. but it was the notoriety of supreme court confirmation hearings which propelled a senator from delaware into the american political mainstream. john: chad joins us now as part of our sunday group alongside karl rove, marie harf and fox news correspondent gillian turner. welcome, all. karl, let me start with you because you saw through a couple of these with justice roberts and justice alito. mitt romney has said he believes some of the attacks against ketanji brown jackson were, quote, off course. what do you say? some. >> i think that's probably right. i'm with andrew mccarthy in these decisions involving child pornography, but this is a mild hearing. she's going to be confirmed. i thought one of the interesting things was at the beginning of this process she said, quote, i do not have a judicial philosophy, and obviously