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Encouraging. >> dana: last question on process. do you think the democrats want to get to a point where the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, pulls the trigger and goes for just a 60 vote threshold or do they want to try to avoid that so they can try to pressure republicans and president trump if there is a second opening on the court? >> its really hard to say at this point. youve got democratic senators who are talking out of both sides of their mouth. one day they will say, they should...

He takes us into this huge room, and i see at the end of the room, the bishop, they wear this black, looks like a dome kind of a hat, and im at the threshold of my dream of many, many years. i was sitting before him expecting him to ask me difficult, heavy questions. >> so you american? >> is this the interview? >> what do you think of egypt? >> when is the interview going to start? >> then i hear the official speaking to him. i can tell by his reaction, you know, that its a go. then he said one...

Says, we have gorsuch on monday and the house voting on obamacare repeal an replacement on thursday. lets focus on this rather than the u.s. intel committee because that is overshadowing things. are democrats going to be able to stomach a neil gorsuch? everyone thinks hes gonna get confirmed, but will they be able to get to that 60 vote threshold? >> i dont think it will come to the matter of an filibuster. but there are people who are threatening, even at this point, to enforce the filibuster b...

Democratic votes to get to the 60 count its likely the nuclear option will be invoked. what other options are you talking about? >> 60-vote threshold and filibuster. >> preview of a potential larger fight to come if and when he gets out of the senate judicial committee, it moves to a full vote in the senate. democrats if theyre united to stand up to block gorsuch, the so-called nuclear option, lowering the number of votes to get him through could pass along party lines. that would be a highly co...

You got to be upset. look very concerned so that in the end, when gorsuch becomes the next justice of the supreme court, which he is quite likely to be so that you can say, we fought the good fight. they have a tactical question they have to make for themselves which is, if they decide to filibuster gorsuch. if they decide to set that 60 vote threshold, in that case they are going to lose that filibuster on the supreme court nominee. there is no doubt in my mind that if they go there, that mitch...

Lifetime appointment that you should demonstrate more than simple majority support? there should be a breath of support there among senators that a 60-vote threshold would demonstra demonstrate? >> look, thats just a matter of policy for the senate. its not a right or wrong answer. i dont have a particular view on it, other than to say that its just a matter of policy, its a matter of what the senate decides and if they decide they want to go down that route, just as harry reid did packing the c...

Extreme interest group by a president who lost the popular vote. so if anybody thought that this was going to be kumbaya, kiss and make up on the senate side because they have a nominee that agrees on paper as being qualified, that is not going to be the case. democrats have signaled that they are going to be critical. they are still smarting over the fact that judge garland never got his shots. >> do you think that they will still force the issue in the republicans will have to use the nuclear ...

Realize what a terrific nomination this is. >> when discussing the nuclear option which would lower the threshold from 60 down to 51 votes, a number of senators from both sides of the aisle have expressed the hope that it will not come to that. gop leadership isnt ruling it out. in newarjg laura: this monday, fox news will have live coverage of the hearing all day. that is monday morning, right here on fox news. tomorrow fox news media analyst goes one-on-one with white house press secretary sea...

Before obamacare, one of the big issues that people were afraid of is that it would slow down growth, that companies would not hire the 50th employee. now that we are many years into obamacare and we can look backwards, i would like to get both of your takes on that. did, indeed, that happen? did companies not hire the 50th employee because of the mandate to provide them health insurance? john, ill start with you? >> sure, j.j. we dont have evidence there was a real effect adding the 50 threshol...

To the bottom on the left. mitch mcconnell helped the gop caucus together. now democrats are hoping that mitch mcconnell are not going to hold their republicans together. they wont make it a 51-vote threshold. i dont see that happening because we just saw senator ted cruz and mike lee both say they are willing to go nuclear. sow i think the republicans will be able to get this passed no matter what resentment the democrats have. uma: how much do you think this executive order will pick up steam....