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Than us. that is a farce. two things could have solved that. one, the senate republicans could have negotiated the white house to have more than one copy or we could have of course not moved forward with the vote today, and had the weekend and the next week to look at the fbi report, but be clear that the fbi was told not to pursue certain leads and what is clear in reading the are report certain topics were off limits. >> chris murphy, senator, thank you for being with us today. we are now lo...

Look at herself in the mirror, but for susan collins, the tell is that she believeses the supplemental fbi investigation was full and complete and a lot of the critics say it was not the case to them, and to her eyes, she believed the affirmation that roe is settled law and a lot of people looking at the past opinions disagree with. >> and andrea, look, at the end of the day, i can understand a rational for any senator to -- >> exactly. >> and for them to look at the situation they are in and on...

Have an independent voice, and who could potentially buck the party where it was needed, but she has been under incredible pressure here facing the potential of the democratic general election challenge if she votes yes, but the more immediate threat might be a primary challenge if in fact she is the deciding vote against. so this is all along, it has been a difficult position for her, but it is really hurtling towards at the moment for her in the spotlight, and it all comes down to how she says...

Get democrats or republicans, and put them on, and the country would breathe a sigh of relief. but no matter which way the vote goes with judge kavanaugh, there has been damage to the u.s. senate and to the supreme court and certainly it shows that the president trump does not care about the independence of the federalle judiciary. >> i want to also play in case you had not heard it what the president said in minnesota last night at a rally about one of your former colleagues al franken. >> we a...

Floor after alaskas lisa murkowski say has she is a no vote after stopping that nomination from going further. she said she made that decision on the way to the floor. senator collins is going to be deciding her decision aye or nay this afternoon. and kcollins and murkowski are famously independent of the party labels when they both broke ranks to vote down obama care. and president trump is quiett today saying that the support of the procedural vote in the last hour. to break it down and the fa...

Gois going to be a yes vote, and she went to holton arms and she is an alumna of the school that has ral lied in the alumni groups around the fellow alumna dr. ford. >> it is a conservative state, and getting more conservative every time, an i think that he will vote with the state, simple as that. and generally, the republican party is voting with the president, but i think that the most profound reality of the time is that 9 of 10 republican vo voters support this president on any issue that h...

Court at this time. >> so we dont know how senator collins is going to vote, and we dont know how joe manchin is going to vote depending upon e senator collins, but it is teetering on the edge. >> it is. it is. and they should step back and think about this. they are trying to rush it through before anything new comes out, and afraid of with what might come out. i think that they should look at the nominee and say, fine, he might know the law well, but he is not somebody who should be on the u.s...

Ly remained as no votes, so i am not going to give up until that final vote tomorrow. i know that susans speech today later is going to be important o one, but i will be on the floor of the senate all night tonight with some of the colleagues to try to make the case that the damage that is going to be done to the credibility of the supreme court is too immense to push it through to the finish. so i know that it feels as if it is, you know, more than likely than not that kavanaugh will be confirm...

Making news at the forum. and ali, the protests are continuing, and are they discouraged by jeff flake signalling that he is going to likely vote for judge kavanaugh which means between now and 3:00 is the last moment that they will have to have an impact on susan collins and what is the de decisive vote. >> andrea, what we have heard from the folks here is that immediately after susan collins a made the vote, and cheers for lisa murkowski and people coming up to us to say that they were disappo...

In tough states for reelection and where their electorate may want him to be confirmed, so maybe the protests here wont have that impact, but certainly come november, voters will. >> and we have had protesters inside as well at the elevator before the procedural vote today and they were surrounding susan collins as she was getting on and off tof the elevator inside of the capitol, itself. and charlie sykes in wisconsin, it has narrowed the gap that the republicans in terms of the enthusiasmle fo...