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While im sure he was happy about kavanaughs resume, the part that said yale college and yale law school, he was unhappy with the headline calling the nominee a bush appointee. whats the level of bullishness that you are able to measure on the republican side. white house, senate republicans. >> i think the white house and conservative groups will play a key in pushing for kavanaugh and advocating if are him and also the senate leadership are feeling cautiously optimistic about their pick. they a...

>> he is a collection of traits so while im sure he was happy about kavanaughs resume, the part that said yale college and yale law school, he was unhappy with the headline calling the nominee a bush appointee. whats the level of bullishness that you are able to measure on the republican side. white house, senate republicans. >> i think the white house and conservative groups will play a key in pushing for kavanaugh and advocating if are him and also the senate leadership are feeling cautiously ...

Those people who want to be with them, with, for collins, murkowski. could change. the pressure could become enormous. i suspect he will be schooled. practiced. there was a quote. he said early earl. he talked about, it is precedent. >> you know. and, kavanaugh has been on a ro ro rocket ride. the reason democrats delayed his nomination for so long. during the george w. bush presidency is they knew he looked like a, a future supreme court justice. and, chuck schumer, was, was, asked him a whole ...

>> on the basis of what other than the speculation of roe v. wade. and maybe murkowski. >> those are two big issues and hes out spoken. kavanaugh and amy coney barrett. these are people that i know i assume the federalist society has vetted them for reason. they would have been loyal antirow votes. they didnt have the record in the cases to prove it. kavanaugh does. he ruled last year to try to help the trump administration block immigrant women that was trying to exercise her right to an aborti...

Judicial philosophy with statutes and and originalist with the constitution and with those opinions so this is why i keep saying this 2018 midterm election is the most important and that could change hands to become republican they have a very slim margin that means rand paul or susan collins or murkowski. and you heard him. i dont believe in legislation and that constitution is to be interpreted. and now it is even more

His proven record of protecting the constitution and has not been afraid to court controversy. controversy. how was his nomination going to play or politically? should republicans rush to confirm him or should leave this opportunity to motivate voters in the midterm elections? interesting theory there. joining me to discuss, our esteemed pollsters. also we continue with leonard leo. the presidents outside advisor on judicial nominees whos been with the president and inside the white house on thi...

>> we will talk to the presidentslk attorney. besides making the call selecting a nominee for this up in court the president picked judge kavanaugh to replace the outgoing justice kennedy. this is not a surprise in the unprecedented move judge kavanaugh was selected from a previously released list of 25 originalist r justices. this is one more example how this president is the most transparent in history to keep a clear promise to the american people. but in many ways that political aspect he ha...

Court if it ever comes to a question of impeachment for this president? >> i think thats a red herring argument. he wrote in 2009, long before donald trump even thought about running for president that a sitting president needs to be able to focus on their job and if they do something really out-of-bounds, impeachment is probably the best tool available. theres been a debate for decades about whether or not you can indict a sitting president. so he said nothing out of the ordinary. they are tryi...

Democrats are going to be lobbying murkowski and collins around the aca as well. they were holdout votes last year, did not vote for the skinny repeal of obamacare. and theyre going to try to make the argument on those grounds as well, hoping to rerun that playbook from last year. its not clear if thats going to work. collins and murkowski have talked about womens health more than the affordable care act so far in their discussions about this. but that will be another play in some of these ads. ...

Its a shame we cant get back to that standard. >> if you look at fdr, his nominations were by voice vote. obviously that was a democratic senate for the most part. youre right. theres been this increased partisanship important, larization. the gap between democrats and republicans on gorsuch was wider than anybody including bo rx. if there are democrats who cross over, again i think if collins and murkowski are able to support him democrats may do so. well have to see. >> if republicans support ...