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Probably not. >> the democrats are in some cases breaking the rules to make public e-mails that the republicans want to keep confidential. the big question unless theres a surprise, can you get murkowski or collins, two moderate senators of alaska and maine respectively to break? if you cant you dont have the votes. then theres a separate question of red state democrats to support him. thats later. the big controversy today is does this e-mail in which kavanaugh says im not sure that all legal s...

>> hes going to get drawn to a 4 yard conclusion. very destruck tief of rights of health care. people, he will be very solicitous of letting the corporations run politics by unlimited campaign contributions and he wont let congress regulate them. i think its going to be a very disruptive supreme court justice. i am afraid that if the republicans wont stand firm, i have to say i think susan collins and senator murkowski, they are really pro choice, they should know that by voting to approve senat...

Thats kind of how the spectrum goes. and he wont say that roe was correctly decided. he will say that brown versus board of education is correctly decided and hell say other cases are correctly decided. but he leaves himself that window to overrule roe and hes been slick about dodging around that. >> lets be direct. these things can get rather convoluted. senator, are you saying that he is avoiding committing to upholding roe because that would ultimately be performing perjury on the senate? >> ...

Nominee on that question. and his answer was very much, as you guys were talking about, it showed the savvy with which he understands because of his political and judicial experience. his refrain was, i dont live in a bubble, which is a wink and a nod. its almost a rorschach test of a wink and a nod. conservatives can look at that and say hes one of us. others on the fence, oh, so hes saying he understands the real world. pointed at murkowski and collins. >> theres two messages he wants to commu...

Is obviously a republican, but whose voters dont want her to vote for a kavanaugh. do you think this actually has any effect on -- >> chris: shes not up for reelection and neither is alaska -- murkowski. thank you. but from a standpoint of whether it or not it impacts there, those questions as they were asked were all made on social issues related to kavanaugh and not his qualifications. brett kavanaugh by all accounts is a qualified journalist and will be confirmed to the supreme court. those w...

Vote in the u.s. senate. >> it is going to restore the majority of the republicans to 51 votes since john mccain have not been voting since december of last year. it has been a narrow majority and that will certainly with the nomination of brett kavanaugh making it necessary to have not just the murkowski and the susan colli collins votes. with a lot of close votes coming up, it will be a lot of pressure to governor ducey not to give the honor to cindy mccain. >> kelly, odonnel there on the grou...

This is a republican party that is owned by donald trump. the senators are owned by donald trump. and they will do whatever he wants. he wants sessions out, sessions will be gone. sessions is a dead man walking and they will install, if they have the majority, which seems likely that they will, they will install someone. and that person will fire mueller with absolute impunity. >> and you think that even moderate republicans like susan collins or murkowski would go along with that kind of strate...

One susan collins from maine joins us right now. senator, thanks so much for joining us on this horrible, horrible morning. you spent more than two decades in the senate with senator mccain and willing to buck your party and work across the aisle as he tried to do. what will the senate be like without him? >> we will really be missing such an important voice for national unity. john mccain felt very strongly about virtually every issue that he tackled. but it was never based in partisanship. he ...

Horrible morning. you spent more than two decades in the senate with senator mccain and willing to buck your party and work across the aisle as he tried to do. what will the senate be like without him? >> we will really be missing such an important voice for national unity. john mccain felt very strongly about virtually every issue that he tackled. but it was never based in partisanship. he didnt try to score partisan points as he worked on issues. he would work with anyone who wanted to accompl...

If they want to ascend to the majority than they should give the red state democrats an opportunity to get a little leverage because this judge is going to be confirmed either way. >> lawrence: and you have the republicans as well, you still have collins who said she wont make a decision until probably september 4th. then you have murkowski as well. >> harris: senator durbin has wrapped up his meeting with judge kavanaugh, i was told that in my ear. im wondering what kind of pressure there is no...