>> a then young joe biden called for a vote. >> mr. bird? >> no. >> no. >> the nos won. republicans were furious. >> let this trashing go on and let this good man be characterized as some sort of frankenstein's monster without raising a voice against it. all of us are accomplices. >> those hearings became sort of the battle cry of the republican party after that. >> nina has been a supreme court reporter for 50 years. >> republicans definitely believe that democrats started this and now that they did this. >> to robert bork, you fought the good fight. you happen to be the one who set the new senate standard that will be applied in my judgment by majority of the senate