hearing cases about this sort of affirmative racial discrimination, and while adding someone who is the beneficiary of this sort of quota. the white house swiftly pushed back pointing out that ronald reagan put a woman on the supreme court, without facing criticism about affirmative action or quotas. joining us now jonathan lemire, and eugene daniels. getting senator graham on board, if the white house were to pick judge childs, would certainly help in a 50/50 senate because he might bring some other republicans with him, right? right, andrea. obviously in a 50/50 senate, there s no margin for error here. look, there s no sign that the biden white house will face any democratic defections. many people watching this show and this network certainly have
alone. i guess i better bring congress in. one on a consulting basis but i want their vote now. so i think the way this has been handled has been very very push me pull you type of thing and i think it needs to be clarified and to get senator mccain and senator graham on board, that s going to be helpful but i think if president still has a tough case to make to the house. let s bring our political director mark preston into this conversation. mark, it was interesting that that tape was made available to us, of the president meeting with lawmakers in the white house. well, it was, carol, because what we re seeing from the white house right now is that they re trying to show that they re open and trying to get congress involvement in this. they re trying to have congress own this vote and to own this military action if it is taken in serious. and the secretary s absolutely right. this is a push me pull me type of strategy at the white house has done. you know, i just got off the