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The elections. you saw that with that early meeting by the highest ranking african american in the house bringing up immediately to vice president kamala harris as well as president biden just shortly after they were elected. >> zolan, i appreciate that. lets bring in our senior political analyst. nia, the president has said his first pick would be a black woman. youre talking about filling a slot by the president of the united states. it will be a confirmation process and a mid-term election ye...

Charge of the russia investigation. >> there has been no collusion, folks. no collusion. and -- but i have a very good relationship. >> reporter: amid a bitter fight over the confirmation of president trumps second confirmation pick who hell reportedly swear in tonight, the president arguing calls to impeach brett kavanaugh are an insult to the american public. >> the american public has seen this charade, has seen this dishonesty by the democrats. >> reporter: after once saying he found profess...

Mark, there are always a group of democrats that the republicans were looking to who were in states where donald trump won by 10, 15, 20 points, that they thought they could potentially winside. where is the whip count now? what are we looking at? >> chris, we are seeing that there are steady diet of democratic senators who are coming out against the neil gorsuch confirmation pick. right now our math doesnt get to the where chris coo ns was saying you would have a potential filibuster showdown. ...

Just rudy giuliani, a very high profile, very loyal supporter, but others like chris christie, very high profile, very loyal. hes out of the mix. newt gingrich, mike huckabee, theyre not going to get anything either. unclear if they wanted anything. but what does that say to you? >> theyre all kind of related. you go back to rudy giuliani. he was asked about it right after the election. and he said, im going to be secretary of state, almost like it was a given. newt gingrich was very local about...

Next topic, nomination battle. what are you hearing about chuck hagel possible nomination for defense secretary? whats the word where you are, perry, in washington? >> chuck hagel will have trouble getting confirmed. he has his problems. republicans dont like him because he criticized the iraq war, he criticized george w. bush, he and john mccain disagree on a lot of big foreign policy issues, and democrats dont like him either because on most foreign policy issues hes a pretty conservative repu...

Job, when he does go, is actually senator john kerry who is being considered for defense essentially as a consolation prize if he does not get the state department job which is what he truly covets because the assumption right now is, and theres a lot of support for her inside the white house, the president will nominate susan rice to succeed hillary clinton instead. but if rice does get nominated she could have a pretty big confirmation battle on her hands. many republicans, including a guy lik...