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Almost an excuse to give him the boot. but its unclear if the white house and republicans will want this fight right now in this supreme court nominee process and confirmation process before the mid-terms. mike: the president told reporters his preference would be to keep rod rosenstein. will rod rosenstein tell the president hes not out to undermine him? >> i think a bit. there have been a lot of issues been the white house and the justice department. they have been doing a bit with discreditin...

State of maryland. we may do that. we may plead out a criminal complaint. lets be clear, even if we were to do that today, or last week, or over the weekend, that wouldnt change or have any impact formally on the judicial nominee process. before this senate judiciary committee. >> all right. next question about this just in terps of look ago at it out wardly. and well get into the credibility. this is what the process demands for fairness. what do you believe a that your client can demonstrate t...

Anything? because you know him, that means he didnt do this? i also am not saying that he did this. i dont know. im actually interested in getting the people who may have been in the room on the record. and under oath. not just telling people that it didnt happen. and so im not actually saying that he definitely did it. i dont know. im inclined to believe her. but i dont think people who want to hear what she has to say and want an investigation dont have cool heads. >> im unwrapping all of you ...

Im glad to be in a conversation with you, senator, thank you. >> thank you. >> harris: well, there are big questions about what red state democrats will do. on sunday, senate majority whip dick durbin suggested some may have to fall on their sword in order to prevent the presidents pick from getting confirmed. watch this. >> it is a dilemma in one respect but not another. the men and women i work with on the democratic side really take this seriously. they understand its historic decision. its a...

Qualifications manchin will vote for them, voting on the base of qualifications not the litmus test. the judicial nominee process drives me up the wall ever since robert bork, you cant ask the judge anything that means anything, then you read tea leaves based on their old decisions to determine how they will vote on particular issues. that holds true with conservatives, not true for the left, one thing amazing to note, and 1% of the people they nominated voted consistently on the left. 50% nomin...

If you look at the polling and look where delegates are coming from theres no clear pathway forward. it stay under the radar and when people hear his personal story theyll come to him. if you finish in the top two or three in iowa or new hampshire you can maybe parlay that into sticking going forward. that said again you talk to people on the ground in new hampshire and saying what is the strategy here? where does he go? theres a real chance hes not top two or three in new hampshire. >> very pos...

Next move? joining me now msnbc contributor sam seder host of "the majority report." jess macintosh, spokesperson for emilys list. do we want to start with a little "all in" fantasy draft business? >> i would love to. >> yes, jess, well, youre sitting pretty right now. but lets all be clear about what happened. you have trump basically because of a judges ruling trump falling into your lap just to be clear. >> im going to take a bank error in my favor. >> thats what you have right now. the big q...

>> i would love to. >> yes, jess, well, youre sitting pretty right now. but lets all be clear about what happened. you have trump basically because of a judgings ruling trump falling into your lap just to be clear. >> im going to take a bank error in my favor. >> thats what you have right now. >> maybe scott walker makes some sort of comeback. >> i think its possible. hes leading from the bleachers. i think its possible he comes back in at the last minute. >> you know, heres the thing. when you ...

Joining me now msnbc contributor sam seder host of "the majority report." jess macintosh, spokesperson for emilys list. do we want to start with a little fantasy draft business? >> i would love to. >> yes, jess, well, youre sitting pretty right now. but lets all be clear about what happened. you have trump basically because of a judgings ruling trump falling into your lap just to be clear. >> im going to take a bank error in my favor. >> thats what you have right now. >> maybe scott walker makes...

Harmful to the republican nominee process there will be more paths to make it more transparent. >> i want to take a step back and talk about, its an indication of more and more candidate centered politicpolite party needs to come in and say we need more control here not only of the candidates but the political process itself. that will be another start of reform and hopefully it will be transparent. that is what we want. >> i think that was alexs question, there was an article that hit the same ...