to get through. the democrats need to have all 50 democrats in line to get their nomination through. it s still possible they can pick off a few republicans, but probably not more than a few, just showing how polarizing the confirmation process ultimately is, erin. thank you very much. i want to go to van jones, former special advisor to president obama. van, you hear manu reporting, rips seem to be ready to oppose whomever biden chooses. you hear josh hawley making his argument this is going to be about the constitution and someone s substantive point of view, who cares what they look like. is this a smart political move for them or not? look, i expect the opposition party to oppose, that s what they do. but this is a very big moment for this country. can you imagine having 100 plus justices and never having one african american female ever? it s ridiculous. and we have so many qualified black women. it s almost embarrassing to
governance because of course those justices are not elected. they re chosen by others who are elected. presidents of both parties have talked about the criteria for judges and for justices. i agree with president biden, we re long overdue to have an african-american woman on the supreme court, and it s appropriate that he put that issue as part of his platform before the american people, so i do think it s appropriate. so robert, let me ask you about this point about the filibuster, democrats, as dana was laying out, they only need 51 votes to confirm whomever biden chooses and this is because it used to be 60 votes. the whole point was to have someone on the judiciary, you want more consensus, you don t want someone on the far left or far right, you need the 60 votes. mitch mcconnell got rid of it for supreme nominees, for retaliation after democrats got rid of it for lower court nominees. this is what s happened across the judicial system. does this take away obviously