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Nomination process and the strategy of the two sides are still being worked out. one thing is certain. the people who may ultimately have the most power to influence who becomes the next nominee to the supreme court are the american people. as joe biden said today, the price to be paid for putting our values at risk must be clear now. joining us now christopher khang, now the chief council of demand justice, and also joining us jason johnson politics editor at the root.com and kareem gene pierre...

Politics here? >> im sure abortion and a whole host of other issues will be debated. look, going back to justice gorsuch and his nomination process, it was an all hands on deck effort from the white house to leader mccouples officnnelc outside roots. we dove tailed on a message. whether its opening up discussions on a whole host of issues, thats the thing that sets republicans, this white house, apart from what democrats are saying. democrats dont have a unified messages. republicans do. thats w...

Candidate. >> this is a gift for republicans looking for an energy to energize the base to get people to turn out. we saw this as a big issue for republicans in 2016. election where president trump did one of the smartest things in the campaign put together a list and put him out there of who he would choose as a nominee, driving force. it helps the republicans as bill pointed out, as jessica pointed out as well if democrats come on board, which they probably. it look like a bipartisan effort as...

Dollars, they have an obligation -- if. >> you could find a way to have a nominee withdrawing their name from the nomination process. >> that has a huge impact. >> and i dont want to -- i dont want my dispondence to come across -- >> and in 2006 someone pulled their own name. >> myers. >> and i hate to be crass, but kennedy is 81 and bader ginsburg is 85 and so no one is getting younger so the reason to have that focus and strategy is there may be a chance for a third supreme court justice. >> a...

Like justice gorsuch. these senators in red states are not going to allow democratic senators to stone wall these kind of dleliberationdeliberati. claire mccaskill, they wont get away with jamming up the president on the judicial nomination process. >> neil: or they can just reject. in the end, thats another thing. doug, were assuming here that everyone is in sync and monol h monolithal. theres a possibility among some republicans and theres not much wiggle room here. two or three will be concer...

Tremendous people. so it will be somebody from that list. so we have now boiled it down to about 25 people. >> okay. thats the list that halle was just talking about. right now, he isnt suggesting any candidates. when he nominated neil gorsuch there were two others on his short list, thomas hard minute, a federal appeals court judge in pittsburgh who turns 53 next month. then judge william prior a federal appeals court judge in alabama, he just turned 56 in aim. mitch mcconnell said on the senat...

And the president? >> i think its a lot deeper than that the attorney general should be somebody that the president can rely on as the nations top law enforcement officer. i think there is a very different set of circumstances here in terms of whether or not the attorney general should have told the president he was going to recuse himself and made that very clear before he took the job and went through the nomination process. but i do think that you should have an attorney general that is loyal...

Some developing news now, gina haspel likely to become the next cia director. the vice chairman of will support haspels nomination. heidi also announcing she would vote for haspel. this additional support comes just hours after a surprising admission she made in a letter to warner. she wrote that the agencys brutal interrogation program was a mistake that she says she ultimately did damage to our cia officers and to u.s. standing in the world. haspel has faced a tough nomination process and her ...

Justice kennedy may be thinking of resigning. what hes basically saying is if you want to resign you need to do it now, the reason is democrats in the senate have been doing everything they can to slow down the confirmation process and try to delay it as much as possible. if we want a new justice and before the next term the court starts in october he would have to happen quickly. >> and of course those on the other side of the aisle would say, the conservatives are known to have block nominatio...

If the president is having a hard time now getting nominees through, if the democrats take over the senate, the nomination process will come to a standstill. >> arthel: does the president have anyone on tech? >> he still has a long list of judges and potential nominees that he put out before. i think the white house would move very quickly if one of the seats opened on the supreme court. >> arthel: if the supreme court remains intact by november, how might the current makeup affect the midterm e...