what are your thoughts today? you have to hate all of this. this is not the way the washington that i knew when i first moved down there and started on capitol hill in 1983. this is just not how washington works. washington used to work by democrats and republicans figuring out the big things, putting institutions first and understanding that presidents are entitled to get members they appoint through the process. that s all broken down now. now it s just hand to hand combat. frankly, it s up to the voters, dana. the senate and presidency will be determined by who ever the people decide should be there. if republicans win in the fall, it means republicans can continue to have candidates appointed to the judiciary and confirmed by the senate. elections do matter in this day and age. dana: you ve been looking allot. we all appreciate your thoughts about the media. i wanted to read this to you from the new yorker. kavanaugh has no avenue of appeal except his own hurt feelings. he is
a bleep investigation. reality is that is not a full and thorough investigation. evidently the republicans who gave the direction to the fbi of what should be investigated was extremely limited. i hear a lot about lack of cooperation. well, you don t get cooperation if you don t talk to corroborating witnesses at the end of the day. senator collins and senator flake said they thought it was thorou thorough, they thought it was fair. let me tell my friend bob, what you all have done is bleep. dana: i want to ask you about new jersey. we talked about west virginia, indiana, missouri, north dakota. we ve been watching the senators closely. but the race in new jersey surprisingly close for senator menendez. his challenger i guess about two points behind. moving the race to the right today from likely democrat to
to tell her story. of course, you see the other side. they re galvanized. they want to see another conservative on the court. so i think it has energized both the left as well as the right. there are so many unknowns in 32 days. people are already casting their ballot. early voting has started. 32 days is a lot of time in american politics. dana: there s been some movement, too. we can look at this poll. if you look at suburban women, okay? so you look over the past three weeks, the democrats had quite a lead. 61 to 26. you see over the last three weeks, donna, that has shrank. do you think that s because of kavanaugh and/or because republicans are starting to come home i think republicans will always go back to their basically their principles and their foundation as republicans. the unknown here is not just suburban women. it is millennials. young women. you see them filling the halls
can confirm him 50-49 with 9 senators there. that s possible. what they could do is also hold the vote open as long as they need to. the record is five hours and 15 minutes on the stimulus package february of 2009 they brought in sherrod brown to cast the decisive vote. they needed 60 on the stimulus package. his mother had passed away and he attended the wake. they brought him back in after five hours and 15 minutes. he cast the deciding vote and they passed the stimulus package for president obama february 2009. dana: how many senators do you need to agree to extend debate? it s not an issue of extending debate. dana: or holding open a vote? it doesn t matter. it s up to mitch mcconnell. it s like soccer. time is kept on the field. dana: if i could go back to your last scenario. if the republicans only get to 49 how does steve dains fit into that scenario? if they re at 49 they need to
just plain democrat. i know republicans might be holding out too much hope here for this. is the kavanaugh nomination having an effect either way in new jersey? so that corny little video clip that he posted there. by the way, can everybody watch their language, please? get it back under control, folks. but as that corny little clip that menendez posted is reflective of how good this kavanaugh stuff is for him. this is as bad for red state democrats. heidi heitkamp is not coming back. she s not coming back to the senate. she can do whatever she wants, it won t make any difference. she can sprout wings and fly and it would still not return her to the senate. as bad as it is for them, it s that good for menendez. he knows a lot about the fbi because he was under criminal investigation for several, several, several, several months. just barely beat the rap.