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From happening. what does that say about the state of politics in the u.s. where you have democrats fleeing the capitol building to stop the highly controversial legislation? >> well, it really is a reflection of how far the red states are moving since bidens election and trumps defeat, primarily on voting as jackie said, seeing it in state after state, republicans control the legislature and the governor, but also a series of other issues, on abortion. texas passed six week and total ban on abo...

Current doj, says park was lawfully cleared for presidential security. shannon? >> shannon: david, were officially in june. it becomes the busiest month of the year for the supreme court as we now wait for it to finish out its term in several key cases. >> as you know very well, several key hot button issues. four were specifically tracking from the justices. one is the future of the a230sh8d care act or obama care. specifically the individual mandate. the funding mechanism that forces people to...

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Delogically. >> right. >> and how this nomination could transform this court. kavanaughs nomination would result in a rare replacement -- this is what im reading, would swing the justice moving john roberts to the courts ideological center, something that haend hasnt happened in 80 years. >> of the chief justice? >> the chief justice being in the center. >> he is no anthony kennedy. he was on the opposite side of anthony kennedy on hot button issues, abortion rights, gay marriage, affirmative ac...

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V. wade, executive privilege, a host of other hot-button political issues. already a partisan fight has erupted over documents from kavanaughs time as staff secretary to former president george w. bush. the trump administration is withholding more than 100,000 pages of those documents. cnns senior congressional correspondent manu raju is with us now live from washington. manu, when you look at this, the democrats clearly at a disadvantage. are they still going to put up a fight during the hearin...

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>> reporter: republicans will point to his career as an appellate judgment democrats will grill him on a number of hot button issues, abortion and the future of roe versus wade and executive power, democrats worry he will protect donald trump from the russia probe and a number of senators could affect the outcome, republicans, lisa murkowski will be interested in his views on abortion rights and democrats in red states, manchin, doug jones in alabama and a chance we could see protests out there....