i think that voters, particularly black women hear it. i think it s curious for republicans politically at a time where democrats are trying to rally their base ahead of the mid terms. i think insulting black women to america at this point in time isn t the best choice for a republican to make but, again, as you said, all of the people who are being considered at this point are imminently qualified and even susan collins can see the value of diversity and senator graeme as well. it s hard to understand why republicans can t, too. carol, has the white house responded to those comments from senator wicker? that he responded very quickly, underscoring they ve done their research and has what every senator has said and past nominations as any white house entering this process would. they issued the statement and ultimately quickly after senator wicker s comments, i ll read you part of that.
that obamacare was dead and republicans and the white house have killed it. obviously trump is going to be rolling out his infrastructure package next month. and i think that is definitely going to signal that the white house at this point in time isn t really planning on anymore action from republicans, but republicans promise voters in 2016 that they would repeal obamacare. and that is something they said needed to be done in 2017. they needed to deliver on that promise. whether or not they follow through with what the white house is doing, we ll have to see. may just try to sell what president trump said yesterday, the optics of repealing. we dealt with it. we fulfilled campaign promises here. while i have you, you reported on president trump s announcement of ten more judicial nominations yesterday. obviously this is coming after a record breaking week for most federal appeals court judges confirmed in first year in office. although with all this happening, we did see some nomi