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Were told that if offered the position and this isnt a done deal yet but if offered the pos by the president, barr would accept this. hes seen as a consensus candidate by other sources that are telling us and even people on capitol hill, lawmakers, even top democrat pat leahy saying this is the kind of person who would attract both democrats and republicans to get confirmed, brook. >> i asked how did bil barr and trump get appoint had had? well, it was the circle of lawyers who introduced the tw...

I dont disagree. but in maine, its so interest what they did with rank voting. the idea that it gets you to a consensus candidate. i love the experiment wes see in state december signed to address things people.s we see in state december signed to address things people. >> very quickly, its a democratic pollster who would be advising clients in 2020. what do you make of the nancy pelosi as speaker argument. theres the political argument and the internal and sometimes the two venn diagrams dontor...

Opportunity. >> is there anyone president trump could nominate for the supreme court that could earn your support? >> oh, absolutely. if he goes through the regular process of consulting with senators before he makes the nomination, if he opens up his list beyond just two groups that have designed agenda for the supreme court, the federalist society, thats a wrong way to do it. if the president has a truly open process, as every other process has used, goes through the normal vetting process in ...

Identity of the victim when they wish to remain anonymous, and the senator did so in this case. barry, i want to turn to you. the october term of the supreme court, the next one begins on october 1st. thats when we can expect the first arguments here. katie talking about the timing of this. the timing has been everything here. youve had a white house keen to get this going as soon as possible. as you look at this, another wrinkle as katie puts it, another issue thats come up during the course of...

Presidency with a presidential election fast approaching. were right in the middle of this presidents very first term. >> today, former vice president joe biden, the long time leader of the senate judiciary committee said in normal times the president would look for a consensus candidate who can get votes from both parties but we are not in normal times. so biden said its up to us america. speak up and be heard. democrats report they want the supreme court battle waged on the policy stakes. demo...

That they want a nonpolitical fbi director. i think a more consensus choice would -- i like joe lieberman a great deal, but a more consensus choice would be a consummate professional. thats i think what members of congress maybe on both sides are looking for. >> mack, it looks like they want to get lindsey graham and john mccain on board. if they do that, do they stand a chance of being able to pass this by a republican majority only? is that politically smart? >> well, i think both senators mcc...

Really just supreme court justices? a lot of people are concerned. >> the legislative fill buster is something we think of in pop culture as well as something thats important for getting bills that have consensus and are not extreme pieces of legislation. and a lot of people think that if it goes for the supreme court, its next to go for the legislative filibuster. >> susan, weigh in on the politics of all of this. if hillary clinton had won, would we have been in the same exact spot with this r...

Senator coons discussed the failed process while discussing with msnbc yesterday. >> i reached out to many of my republican and democratic colleagues, ive had a number of meetings and conversations in recent days, trying to see if there was some agreement we could reach to move ahead with cloture on judge gorsuch and to have the next supreme court nominee be more of a consensus candidate where democrats could have some input on who would be nominated. ultimately, those efforts have been unsucces...

Nominee. what about the argument out there, heidi heitkamp, joe manchin, for example, you change this nominee, we may get a more conservative nominee behind gorsuch. >> you wont get the votes, then. at the end of the day, gorsuch has had committee votes, hes had hearings, he got to testify. that never happened with merrick garland. merrick garland never got so much as an opportunity to sit before a bunch of senators in front of the american public. he was a consensus candidate. he was someone ch...

Degrees of victories? so you are president but are you really president? >> i think our country right now could use a consensus candidate. how he feels about voting right rights, how he feels about -- >> tucker: if someone is opposed to abortion come up someday believes the taking of human life and a lot of people do think that, if you think it is actually killing somebody, it doesnt make any sense rationally. that doesnt mean you are against women. a lot of people feel that way. i know women do...