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Saying about not having equality for women in this country. >> do you think your colleagues are persuadable on this question? everyone has been focusing on collins and murkowski voted for justice alito and roberts. what is your read of the persuadability or getability of republican members of the senate? >> it matters how much people protest and speak out. if every senator hears from their constituents loudly clearly with personal stories and outrage and concern they might change their minds. th...

Member, you cant protect a woman who if she takes a child to term will die in delivery, its unconscionable what we are saying about not having equality for women in this country. >> do you think your colleagues are persuadable on this issue? collins and murkowski voted for justice alito and roberts. what is your read of the persuadability or getability of republican members of the senate? >> it matters how much people protest and speak out. if every senator hears from their constituents loudly c...

Its unconscionable what we are saying about not having equality for women in this country. >> do you think your colleagues are persuadable on this issue? collins and murkowski voted for justice alito and roberts. what is your read of the persuadability or getability of republican members of the senate? >> it matters how much people protest and speak out. if every senator hears from their constituents loudly clearly with personal stories and outrage and concern they might change their minds. that...

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...

That judge amy coney barrett is going to be the choice. in part because she is from indiana. which would put a lot of pressure on senator joe donnelly, who is running for reelection, a democrat running for reelection in indiana. hes got a very tough race. thats a pro-turn state. he voted for gorsuch. they not only have to get collins and/or murkowski, they have to hold the democrats so this is a difficult tactical challenge for democrats. they mostly need to also expand the argument, and the bes...

Women on that list, which kind of narrows it kwoquite a bit. its clear that -- i think the first iteration of the short list was very heavily male. if you are looking at two out of five women, thats pretty important. it probably speaks to the fact that he is looking at people like murkowski and collins who are concerned about roe, concerned about abortion. maybe looking to throw a bone to them or at least give the appearance of that at the onset of this process. this president is -- he is inexpe...

I think that to make his list, he knows what their positions are. >> how likely do you think it is that roe versus wade could be overturned with a new justice on the bench of the supreme court? >> im hoping that the senators have a significant role in this. im hoping senator collins and murkowski will stick by their guns which will change the trump paradigm. you need a majority. we know that the democrats senators will not vote for this person. if you just need one or two republican senators -- ...

Approaching. >> reporter: so jake, were only nine days away from when sources say the president is going to name his next supreme court nominee and the president realizing that isnt a lot of time to move so hes trying to woo these senators and will there is not a lot of room to spare and if he moves and gets these people to vote for his nominee, he has to move fast. >> thank you so much. lets bring the panel back in. i dont know, kirsten, if there is more pressure on the red state democrats up f...

Ground at the all england club in london as authorities mourn the threat of terrorist using vehicles as weapons at the tennis tournament. they are keeping an eye on that. donald trump getting right to work finding a replacement for retiring supreme court justice anthony kennedy, sarah sanders tweeting the president that with senators grassley, collins, murkowski, manchin, donnelly and heitkamp to discuss the vacancy, the pres.s team, a dozen other senators today. part of an ongoing outreach to g...

Until of that november election. >> what about murkowski and collins. >> let me acknowledge that mcconnell may be able to ram this through. if you fight and put a spotlight on the record of the person nominated and that person is extremist then you have a shot at something like a collins to say if you really stand for a womans right to choose. if you dont want to get to a place where abortion is illegal in 20 states. if you dont want to see that right removed then you need to stand with us in th...