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Capitol, manu raju. we are still hours out from the official vote but democrats held the floor all night. what are we expecting today? >> reporter: expect more democrats to rail against this nomination process, raise concerns about allegations of sexual misconduct that have come out against brett kavanaugh which he has furiously denied. they spent the night going to the floor, hour after hour, raising concerns. jeff reading stories. one after another speaks. we were expecting when the vote takes...

Republicans. but weve also seen contentment is not as strong as an energizing force as anger. boy, is there anger out there. not just from democrats. its from women. its from independents. its from moderate republican women who i have heard from to say this is not who we are as a country. what we have seen from this -- from this nomination process is additional disgust. not just at the political process but at a republican party who the perception is that they have just completely treated women ...

For shaping the senate. the mob can attack and the senate caves. or well stand up and say that serious, thoughtful, fact-based deliberation will still define this body. well either give notice that totally uncorroborated allegations are now officially, officially enough to destroy an americans life or well declare that our society cannot, must not, will not set the bar so low. so, madam president, today is a pivotal day in the nomination process of this excellent judge. but its a pivotal day for...

This nomination. there were two sets of hearings, in both cases the investigations prior to those hearings were inadequate, i think that led to the problems. >> senator cardin, thank you. sorry to be so brief with you, we want to get to senator mcconnell on the senate floor. lets listen. >> give nothingtiice that total uncorroborated allegations are officially enough to destroy an americans life, or will it declare our society cannot, must not, will not set the bar so low. so, madam president, t...

The current supreme court justices will be directly impacted by brett kavanaughs expected appointment if he is confirmed tomorrow, but traditionally they refrain from commenting on the nomination process. covering the supreme court for 25 years, share some insight on how the justices are viewing all the drama of the past few weeks. >> thanks, wolf. here you see the last time they had what they call the class picture taken. after neal gorsuch went on and you saw anthony kennedy there. when he lea...

They just about destroyed a good person, to be on the supreme court. a vote against judge kavanaugh tomorrow will be a vote for abusing the confirmation process and a good person. and it will be a vote for the shameful intimidation tactics that have been employed as part of an orchestrated smear campaign. >> this is a search and destroy mission. this is not a search for the truth. >> sean: and tonight is important to remember, more documentation was provided to the senate judiciary committee, th...

Raised concerns for voters, for former justices, for senators who have to vote. but the person who loved that most of all and this points the danger of performing for that audience of one was president trump. the president thinks that was a high play in judge kavanaughs nomination process, that he was fighting for himself and he loved that anger, emotional, cot baltimore battive tone that these three key senators did not. >> noah, as you know well, this conversation, a lot of criticism thats com...

Walking in, this -- judge kavanaugh is declaring himself a partisan, even though, remember at the beginning of his nomination process, hes the one who said, and ill quote you what exactly he said, the supreme court must never, never be viewed as a partisan institution. so not only is he going in as a partisan because he told us, basically, that he is, he has no credibility because he lied when he said it should never be partisan. >> david, do you think he goes in -- can you make a case that he d...

Wolf? >> manu, very dramatic moment indeed. meanwhile, president trump is keeping a rather low profile, at least today, staying off camera as the drama plays out up on capitol hill. lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, youre getting some behind the scenes information about the level of concern over at the white house over the way senator collins would vote. but they must be very happy right now. >> reporter: they are very happy. we understand the president was watchin...

They just about destroyed a good person, to be on the supreme court. >> a vote against judge kavanaugh tomorrow will be a vote for abusing the confirmation process and a good person. and it will be a vote for the shameful intimidation tactics that have been employed as part of an orchestrated smear campaign. this is a search and destroy mission. this is not a search for the truth. >> sean: and tonight it is important to remember, more documentation was provided to the senate judiciary committee,...