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It would be possible. in fact the supreme court used to only have six justices on it at one point. it is not unprecedented in american history, but on the other hand, i cant imagine really the republicans not confirming who the president puts up, if the republicans did not confirm someone between now and the midterms, i think that would hurt them at the ballot box, and i think, yes, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell knows this better than anyone, and will make sure theres a vote on the pres...

>> im nodding. dr. gorka is 100% right about that. >> jeanine: all right. but then, what do we have to offer them? >> well, you know, i think dr. gorka was right about the leverage in ukraine. what scares president putin is democracy. having a country on his border with a large number of ethnic russians and the russian-speaking population like ukraine, which is growing in its relationship with the european union and with nato and has just received tomahawk antitank weapons. javelin antitank weap...

Table but how do we level them? >> well, russia is in a world of hurt right now. if you look at every single significant policy decision that the president has taken in the last year and a half, judge, which has any impact on russia, they are been hurt. whether it is unleashing fracking in the anwar, whether its getting the nato nations finally to pay 2% of the defense budget or whether its arming the ukrainians, we have a lot of leverage. this is a country in a death spiral. 600,000 russians di...

Those senators will have a very difficult time voting against this nominee. even if we were to lose one or two on the republican side, collins, murkowski, we could potentially make it up with one or two democrats. >> zerlina, lets talk about democratic strategy here. a, is there anything they can do to slow down this process and if not, how does this play into midterm strategy? >> i do think there are ways procedurally in the senate they could slow down the process. certainly on their parliament...

Also thinking about ways in which democrats you know how very little leverage in terms of blocking the presidents nominee. and so theyre starting to articulate a message to, to hopefully pick off they think hopefully, pick off a couple of moderate republicans on the issue of roe v. wade. but also on the issue of health care. and youve heard from some red state democrats, even, some concern, those are going to be the the key votes in terms of keeping the democratic coalition together. joe manchin...

Help so a cultural perception of the public participation and what i mean by that is. really actively promoting the use of the city and the use of the sidewalks in the cities and the parks in the city and really enhanced what is available there its one thing to say young ladies please go out and walk but its the facilities arent there it makes it difficult the bathrooms the green spaces the shaded areas its just the prince has has long been campaigning for womens rights in the workplace. with so...

You have a court that has five conservative justices you can see roll back ks on abortion rights and thats where democrats think they have some leverage. >> this becomes a conversation that comes into row v wade that can see the president losing the votes. >> right. >> lets talk about democrats sending an open letter to christopher wray and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein urging them to not give into pressure. what does is at stake here if these men do not comply with these requests from ...

Sworn in. do you see that, i mean it is hard to see a scenario where that plays out in the democrat favor. >> look, the democrat is going to wage a fight and fight really hard because this is important to them and important to their base, but they know they dont have any leverage here. they have lost the filibuster as phil mattingly pointed out earlier. this can be passed with five one votes. and they will talk a lot of roe v. wade because this is important to them, and important to women who ar...

>> why? >> well, either he is the worst negotiator in history, or there is some ulterior motive. there is some leverage russia holds over the united states. >> what do you believe? >> i dont know. it certainly may be in part due to this bizarre admiration or fascination he has with authoritarian figures, but there is a particular affinity for vladimir putin. and one of the things that i think need to be investigated by the special counsel, by the congress is whether the russians were laundering ...

Security adviser john bolton was here in moscow. he came here and very, very quickly, the two sides agreed on the summit taking place. still somewhat unclear all the issues that are going to be on the table. but they very quickly agreed they want the summit and will make it happen and that, of course, after a meeting between john bolton and vladimir putin. seems as though the white house and the kremlin very much on the same page as far as the summit is concerned, and also it seems politically a...