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Considered, not that he could be confirmed, that he will be confirmed next friday. only that kind of certainty if the nuclear option is still a possibility. martha. >> martha: thank you. here with more, marc thiessen, and michele jawando. welcome to both of you. michelle, let me start with both of you. do you expect the democrats will filibuster this nomination? >> martha, it is great to be with you. i think the point is this. most americans agreed that whoever a nominee should be, particularly ...

>> [laughs] first of all, there is no 60 vote threshold for a nominee. samuel alito was confirmed 58-42. clarence thomas was confirmed 52-48. the lean times you need 60 votes as of the other party filibusters and there has never, in the history of the republican come up in a filibuster of an associate justice for the supreme court. the democrats would be doing something unprecedented in terms of filibustering judge gorsuch. this attachment to 60 votes and super majority and all of the rest of it...

Meddling. we are also awaiting a new investigation. the nsa is expected to turn over some vital information as early this week. they want to know exactly who viewed foreign intelligence unmasking the identities of some americans. according to a new report, the number of officials with the ability to be those documents grew under the obama administration. last night, sean hannity discussed that. >> the story that we broke today, if youre a republican or democrat, independent, you should be really...

Im asking to treat neil gorsuch the way we treated sotomayor and kagan. >> shannon: getting to the 60 vote threshold. >> bill: kagan got 63 and sotomayor got 68 without cloture or filibuster. im asking the democrats to do for president what i and others did for president obama then this will all work out. hes the most qualified nominee since roberts. ten years on the bench, 127 decisions, one reversal the highest rating from the american bar association and a 900-page report after interviewing l...

Considered, not that he could be confirmed, that he will be confirmed next friday. only that kind of certainty if the nuclear option is still a possibility. martha. >> martha: thank you. here with more, marc thiessen, and michele jawando. welcome to both of you. michelle, let me start with both of you. do you expect the democrats will filibuster this nomination? >> martha, it is great to be with you. i think the point is this. most americans agreed that whoever a nominee should be, particularly ...

One nominee. >> martha: marc. >> [laughs] first of all, there is no 60 vote threshold for a nominee. samuel alito was confirmed 58-42. clarence thomas was confirmed 52-48. the lean times you need 60 votes as of the other party filibusters and there has never, in the history of the republican come up in a filibuster of an associate justice for the supreme court. the democrats would be doing something unprecedented in terms of filibustering judge gorsuch. this attachment to 60 votes and super majo...

I dont understand the not giving him an up or down vote. this was complaint democrats made to mitch mcconnell who made this decision not to give a qualified supreme court nominee a confirmation hearing or up or down vote. why not give this person an up or down vote? >> well, first of all, what we said was, with merit garland, have the courtesy to meet with hill. have hearings. do the reviews. we never even got that far to talk about whether or not there would be a 60-vote threshold. because they...

Right now, it looks like democrats are prepared to move forward and force republicans into this nuclear option. so it looks like theyre committed to a buster filibuste this point. you have a little bit of time. the final vote wont be till next friday. the key test vote is likely next wednesday or tuesday. >> wednesday or thursday. >> wednesday or thursday. middle of the week. >> procedural vote. >> but the one that really matters would be the 60-vote threshold, theyre looking at democrats in tru...

Every supreme court nominee, since the eisenhower administration, with the exception of clarence thomas, was able to receive a threshold of more than 60 votes. >> i dont think anybody could get that. if gorsuch, who is considered to be someone that both sides could find quite palatable cant pass, i just dont see an environment where you will ever get to 60 votes or you will never have anyone fill the spot or you will go nuclear. marc, that look like where we are. >> unless president trump had re...

Capacity i have to say no at every level. >> as you know, this will probably trigger the so-called nuclear option. we will no longer have the senate as americas cooling saucer. >> there is no reason this has to happen. this is mitch mcconnells decision to make. when the senate democrats have that choice to make, we said no. that there should be a 60-vote threshold so theres a bipartisan vote. >> didnt we get, didnt we go down the road of a slippery slope here when the decision was made by harry ...