so, gillian, she's got a higher rating than any of the previous three judges. >> yeah, and i think with good reason. she performed very well. i think, to be fair to the other side here, a lot of gop senators got a lot of flak for focusing on gender, that question about what is a woman, race, can babies be racist. but these are core issues animating their voters. these are issues that are very important in poll after poll to the people that these senators are elected to represent. so i think some of the criticism from the left that simply shutting -- shoving these issues inside a box, trying to twine them as a throw cultural issue, are way off base. and i'm surprised to see, actually, the degree to which, you know, cruz, rubio are being criticized for going down those paths. of course they were. that's why she was well prepare frommed to answer those questions. -- prepared to answer those questions. john: when she was appointed to the d.c. circuit, she got three republican votes, graham, her