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Intelligence community members who are anonymous can leak information, to try to change the outcome of -- >> someone should go to jail for this. >> the leaking should be looked at, theres no question. we can all accept that. but it shouldnt be a tough call, and i dont think for most people it is a tough call about whether we should focus more on -- >> and also, the obama white house, with all due respect, they went after leakers -- >> true. [ all speak at once ] >> im not against leakers. >> i j...

But it shouldnt be a tough call and country more post limb i with [ all talking at once were going to be, its going to take a long time to investigate and figure out what really happened between the russians and the folks around the president. i think we crossed a threshold today. this is so obviously, boom, he wiretapped me, hes a bad guy. hes a sick guy, and the whole world had a chance to watch this unfold, and it was a direct test of his credibility. and the whole world now knows he lied abo...

Hed get -- i think scalia got almost unanimous and hes replacing scalia on the court. how different is the environment today than like 10 or 15 years ago on this? >> well, i got here in 2002 and at that time there was a movement by some of our democratic colleagues to try to raise the threshold for passage ever the supreme court nominee and any federal judge to 60. akd there w and ultimately senator reid using the so-called nuclear option changed the rules for lower court judges but not the supr...

You need at least eight democrat senators or independents to break the 60 vote threshold to get him to a vote on the floor. are you confident youll be able to put together with the eight with the charm offensive talking with senators one-on-one or senator blumenthal talking filibuster? >> im confident judge gorsuch will be confirmed. its a test on the senators on the committee and senate. before the george w. bush administration there was no talk of filibustering judges. no one suspected it woul...

Left-leaning guardian newspaper in britain nutted up the moment nicely today. they said, comeys appearance marked a remarkable and unprecedented threshold in u.s. political history, putting beyond doubt that a sitting presidents entour rauj was ka knifing with a foreign adversary to put that foreign in power. today at times it was incisive and lame and embarrassingly partisan. sorry. a and that hillary clinton must be investigated for donald trumps ties to the riussians? i dont know. sorry. just...

They said, comeys appearance marked a remarkable and unprecedented threshold in u.s. political history, putting beyond doubt that a sitting presidents entour rauj was ka knifing with a foreign adversary to put that foreign in power. today at times it was incisive and lame and embarrassingly partisan. sorry. and that hillary clinton must be investigated for donald trumps ties to the russians? i dont know. sorry. just a reflex. lock her up. not everything was partisan and we did learn some concret...

Republicans for what they did in blocking the previous presidents nominee. i think this is setting up for democrat letting gorsuch go because they dont want to have a larger fight at stake here, which is to deploy the nuclear option and republicans would move to lower the threshold for supreme court nominations to 51. gorsuch is a pretty good pick for democrats in essence that he is a mainstream conservative. i think they want to take them and not have that larger fight. >> martha: thats what it...

For a supreme court justice resembles an election campaign. >> tomorrow will kick off the first day of questioning on the committee where fireworks are very likely. that will last for a couple of days and then the chairman of the committee says he expects a final vote to come the first week in april. if passed through gorsuch then heads to the full senate. >> sunlen serfaty on capitol hill. thank you so much. joining me right now iowa senator chuck grassley, republican and chairman of the sena...

Ones watching him. would have been a big story. >> greg: you would get a better seat at gorsuch today. >> eric: front row. heres the bottom line, this isnt going to be the big fight. the big fight is the next one, replacing ruth bader ginsburg or kennedy or someone else. >> dana: do you think they will try to drag this out and force mitch mcconnell to pull the trigger and go for a 51-vote threshold? >> juan: i think at the moment, the drag out is to get it beyond this term. right now, mitch mcco...

Available if he is in fact out of the mainstream in that way. what other tools are you prepared to use. its like lie that the nuclear option can be there. what are the other tools you are talking about? >> the main tool is the threshold and filabuster and a believe that a justice on the united states supreme court. there is a school of thought and you were eluding to it and the next strategy would be for the