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Terms of susan collins. shes voted with the presidents agenda about 80% of the time. but she is known for being a pretty pro choice in terms of her voting in the senate. i think the question for her is how does she determine in the questioning either privately as she meets with the nominee or in the senate confirmation hearings, where does she find where they are on roe v. wade. weve seen that with gorsuch. she voted for gorsuch. in the questioning he was like, roe v. wade is precedent. its the ...

Collins. with her theres not only murkowski and a potentially swingable republicans but swing democrats. its the gravity everyone is focusing on. you say to her as we said during health care and other folks who got republicans at times, when history calls, history calls. >> you have been in charge of running big votes like this before. what goes on behind the scenes? >> in smaller votes, you look for ways to see if you can convince them on policy, see if you can -- theres something pliable that ...

Youre going to get. that im not going to talk about specific cases. of course i will respect precedent. and ill call them as i see them. >> that is the road map there. the president saying hes not going to ask them directly. what he didnt say is he doesnt have to. all that work has been done already. the list of 25 people here, it is a list that has put forward an alternative options, array of choices that the federal society has come up with. unless something happens out of left field, hes goin...

Announced he is going to retire in the first place. the white house moving this process along very quickly but we do have sources telling cnn that the president increasingly interested in selecting a woman to take anthony kennedys seat. hes telling aides, can you imagine, remarking on how he picks gina haskell to be the cia director and believes picking a woman could do things. bring out women voters in the midterms and appeal to two key republican votes, senator murkowski and senator collins. n...

Republican votes. senator come lens and senator murkowski. you heard senator collins speaking with jake tapper yesterday saying she will not vote to confirm someone showing hostility to the roe versus wade decision and the president promised to put pro life judges on the court. well see what they say to people like senator susan collins but, jim, the president really building anticipation here teasing this announcement that he says is going to happen on monday. sources telling cnn it happens in ...

Politics is apocalyptic. is there something so real here. we are having this debate about journalists and politicians gearing up for a battle when we dont know who the president is going to pick. emily: at the same time he has to work with collins and murkowski. he needs three democratic votes. there is an unknown knack tore here that makes the coverage a little presumptive. howie: the "new york times" had a story about a quiet campaign to encourage his colleagues to retire. kennedy was conserva...

Politics is apocalyptic. is there something so real here. we are having this debate about journalists and politicians gearing up for a battle when we dont know who the president is going to pick. emily: at the same time he has to work with collins and murkowski. he needs three democratic votes. there is an unknown knack tore here that makes the coverage a little presumptive. howie: the "new york times" had a story about a quiet campaign to encourage his colleagues to retire. kennedy was conserva...

On that. you dont know, kdepending on te nominee, you dont know what collins and murkowski are going to do. >> with the issue of abortion coming up, the president said hes going to interview, at least has two women on his short list of potential justice. does that at all change the calculation of how democrats put up a fight against this, if, in fact, the president puts up a female justice as a nominee? >> well, i think that thats part of their strategy, if he puts up a female justice, the argum...

So you have to force him to recuse on anything having to do with the presidents ongoing investigation now. he wont do it and that becomes grounds for objecting to his confirmation and secondly you throw up, i think, in front of ms. collins and ms. murkowski, the two women republicans that they will be held responsible. they are doing the dance. they are pretending that because the nominee says this is all about precedent that they can vote for him. the message to those two women by democrats, by...

Judges. which has been vetted by the federalist society and heritage foundation. most of the names were out there before he was elected so people knew what they would get. he has been transparent about putting the names forward. people have had basically a year and a half to look into them and the backgrounds and the judicial outlook and so forth. >> jeanine: ill ask you this, pastor jeffress. then i want to go back to austan again. look, the truth is that the judges who are up to be a justice, ...