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Legitimacy but its too simple to see overturning roe as just a risk. erosion is more in his wheel house. he has written he would allow stricter government regulation of things like terminating pregnancies and putting curtailments on potential access. that could mean the same thing. another key issue, executive power. judge kavanaugh believes a sitting president cannot be indicted. why? well, in this 2009 law review article he writes we should not burden a sitting president with civil suits, crim...

But this is the way politics works and there will be a shift and if the democrats get elected there will be a shift back. thats the way the supreme court has operated for generations. shannon: professor, thank you very much for your time today, sir. we appreciate it. right now, minority leader chuck schumer is speaking on the senate floor. we want to take you there live. >> least fair, most biased processes in senate history. slanting the table from the very beginning. to produce their desired r...

Of processes. why doesnt that give you faith he sees it as a legislative matter not to be decided by the bench. so the president is exposed to process. >> he seemed to recognize or at the time he wrote the piece, at least. it was not a constitutional level issue. it would take the congress to get the president with his immunity. thats consistent with other immunities that exist in the federal system. where the president is immune for example of certain civil lawsuits. that came out of court disc...

Stricter government regulation of terminating pregnancies and curtailments on access. that could mean the same thing. another key issue. executive power. he believes a sitting president cannot be indicted. why? in 2009 law review article he writes we shouldnt burden a sitting president with prosecution or processes like those. he goes onto say if the president does something -- his word. the impeachment process is always available. the russia investigation. the caveat is its not as simple as say...

>> ken? >> assess what the justice said. >> back when justice stevens was -- >> back when justice stevens was going through these processes, it wasnt anything like what judge kavanaugh underwent. and i dont think he has a perspective that fits the times. and his view. had he dealt with what judge kavanaugh dealt with, he may have fought back similarly. i think were holding against this person because hes a judge and hes up for a higher judicial position in the supreme court. that he doesnt get t...

When he was nominated. but i think that his performance during the hearings caused me to change my mind. >> ken? >> assess what the justice said. >> back when justice stevens was -- >> back when justice stevens was going through these processes, it wasnt anything like what judge kavanaugh underwent. and i dont think he has a perspective that fits the times. and his view. had he dealt with what judge kavanaugh dealt with, he may have fought back similarly. i think were holding against this person...

Administration that would be as politically successful and potent a moment as this one would be for the president. >> lets go to jeff zeleny, our white house correspondent. jeff, there are a lot of smiles over there at the white house right now. >> wolf, theres no question, and the president, im told, was watching the vote right there on the senate floor just a few moments ago like everyone else. most cloture votes are not as dramatic, but the president is in the residence of the white house thi...

Seriously looking through the allegations. and there was just enough of that argument to get kavanaugh over the top because it seemed to some people to be unfair. you look at the polling of the last couple of weeks. you can say its embracing donald trump, thats true. but i think by having susan collins out there as the closing -- to make the closing argument, the republicans were successfully saying, look, theres a basic issue of fairness here, theres a little discomfort with whether this is fai...

The question is can we go back, or i suppose it should be can we move forward? >> look, everybody has a theory about where this started. for democrats, it started with merrick garland. the neutral processes that have governed supreme court nominations, for example, multiple democrats voted for clarence thomas, and many republicans including orrin hatch voted for ruth gator ginsberg, and i know this is where republicans like to say, well, estrada or bourque, and merrick garland did not get a hear...

Times today reyou radioing t ru the report. so they are got there yet and the senators still have to make up their minds. >> they will make the final decision. do you expect the three key republican senators flake, collins, murkowski to vote as a bloc? >> this is a really important point. ive been talking to aides about this the last two week. and they are not a monolithic group. they have different issues and if you want to talk about one in peculiar, senator lisa murkowski while obviously heal...