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In a way that they weren t before midterm elections, according to mercedes schalpp who was on fox & friends this morning, republicans aren t going to forget this. i will tell you it s going to be hard what some of the democrats have done from the beginning where they made it their priority to resist, to ensure that this man would not make it to the court in a way they did it in trying to destroy his reputation it s completely uncalled for. the president was to stand behind kavanaugh because this could have been devastating, it s unclear what kavanaugh s confirmation what effect it will have on midterm, if he were defeated in senate vote you will probably see a lot of energy on the republican side, you know, bill, sometimes the enthusiasm goes down. when you lose sometimes the enthusiasm goes up. unclear how this is going to ....
Affect voting just about a month from today but i think one thing is clear that even when judge kavanaugh gets confirmed this afternoon as expected and is sworn in next week, this will not be the end of it, bill. bill: agree on that. thank you, jon, be back with you momentarily from the white house. jon roberts, dana. dana: meanwhile let s go to andy mccarthy, chris and tom former deputy attorney general and anchor of fox news at night, chris, can going to you, please, they re in washington, d.c., the washington post doing something it has not done in 30 years writing unfortunately and unnecessarily it didn t have to be this way, too many questions remain about his history for senators to responsibly vote yes, at the same time enough has been learned about his partisan instincts that we believe ....
For the supreme court. i m glad that dr. ford was heard, i m glad that judge kavanaugh was heard, fbi investigation was done, it s completed and senate voted. white house expects that vote will be 50 to 48 with senator of alaska voting present than no. we will hear from the president whether it s aboard air force one or when he lands in topeka but the rally is not until 7:30 tonight eastern time. it s likely that the president might have something to say either on board the aircraft or as soon as he lands. bill: we wait that. what about the political fallout from this, jon, what are you hearing and what are they saying? the gap between democrats who had advantage and republicans have been narrowing along here. white house believes that the way that all of this unfolded has energized republican voters ....
To be a swing vote. i think that the opposition to judge kavanaugh looked at his records and saw that it was a distinguished one so they decided that the only way to take him down is through character assassination and i really regret that but that s what happened. that s why i said yesterday and i will say again today, there are no winners. i bet you he talk today judge kavanaugh or dr. ford tonight, neither one of them think they won. bill: could you imagine if he was defeated based on words and accusation from 36 years ago? well, one other positive though this in addition to being proud that we are going to confirm judge kavanaugh i m proud that we reaffirmed the importance of due process in our society, that doesn t mean that we don t have a problem with sexual violence in america, we clearly do, but and i will say it again, this is no country for creepy-old men or ....
Dana: can i ask you about founding fathers and they re thinking of supreme court, make decisions as you ve said do we have too much importance on the supreme court at this point? i think we do, dana, listening to my colleagues address this, we have to do the hardest thing to do which is to step out of the present moment. what we are seeing today is actually a trajectory that the supreme court is on for a long time. it didn t just get political three weeks ago, this is in many ways the culmination of trends that have been ongoing for some time but the silver lining if there is one is that when we evaluate brett kavanaugh 10 years out, 15 years out, it s not going to be about what s happening today as noisy and as harsh as this has all been, it would be in the context of decision that is come before the supreme court and that has to be ....