About it. Right now the Senate Committee is deciding whether to push neil gorsuch one step closer to the Supreme Court. If it does, that will set up one more step to the final confirmation. Based on his record, i have concerns about his views and concerns about he would brigng partisan agenda to the court. Judge gorsuch did nothing to allay those fears. Talk about mixed signals. The president launches tweet wars against house conservatives who defied him on the health care plan. Tweets and statements and blame dont change facts. Let start over. Lets get this thing done right and lets keep our promises with the american people. With us to share the reporting and their insights this mond, carrien of the washington post, cnn manu r raju. A live look here. A big moment of truth ahead. This event the Senate Judiciary commit on the vote of judge neil gorsuch. As Committee Members began speaking this morning, two senior democrats on that committee made their intentions clear. Pat leahy of vermont and Dianne Feinstein of california said they will oppose judge gorsuch. Our job is to assess whether the nominee will protect the legal and Constitutional Rights of all americans. And whether the nominee recognizes the humanity and justice required when evaluating the cases before him. Unfortunately, based on judge gorsuchs record at the department of justice, his tenure on the bench, his appearance before the senate, and his written questions for the record, i cannot support this nomination. Follow along here. The math can be a bit confusing. Democratic Senate Mark Warner also announced his no vote. Three democrats have said they will vote yes. Heres where it gets confusing. One Democrat Michael bennett of colorado says he will vote yes on the procedural vote. Still undetermined how he will vote at the end. Assuming all republicans vote yes, that means there are now 56 votes to close debate on gorsuch. There are only three democrats and one independent left who have not declared their intention on that first vote. A culture vote as they call it. In other words, judge gorsuch needs all the remaining votes to get to 60. Thats high drama. As democrats voice confidence he will not get to 60, they are prepared to pull in the Nuclear Option. What im telling you is that judge gorsuch is going to be confirmed. The way in which that occurs is in the hands of the democratic minority. And i think during the course of the week well find out exactly how this will end. But it will end with his confirmation. Youre shaking your head listening to leader mcconnell there. Youve covered the hill for a long time. There are two huge stories here. Number one is does donald trump get a legacy pick. A very young judge on the Supreme Court. Number two, to get that legacy pick, does leader mcconnell decide im going to change the rules . It looks like democrats have the rules to force him. We still have a few to come in. Leader schumer sure sounds confident that as they say in washington, people out there in america, but go nuclear. Yeah. Thats precisely what Mitch Mcconnell was saying, that one way or another, judge gorsuch will be confirmed and he will be on the Supreme Court. Okay. So what does that mean . That means as you set up that if democrats are successful in their filibuster, Mitch Mcconnell will change the rules. Once you change the rules on a filibuster for the Supreme Court, its already been changed for other executive nominations, thanks to harry reed when he was a democratic leader several years ago. And other lower courts as well. But this is obviously kind of the mother of all fights. So, so important when youre talking about the Supreme Court. So okay. Lets just talk short term. What does it mean . It means that they can that they fought a fight, the democrats and that republicans are going to get their nominee. But to me it is the democratic leadership kp these senators who are voting no listen the very angry base understandable because of what happened with judge garland, but not taking the longview and thinking okay, this is not a swing seat on the Supreme Court. The next one that donald trump will likely have will be a swing seat and the democrats are effectively not effectively. They are by doing this denying themselves the ability to stop the next person that donald trump puts up who will, if he has a free pass, will be somebody who they think is even more conservative than gorsuch. Depending on who retires at that point or if somebody leaves the court. Right now youre getting gorsuch for scalia which most people view as an equal trade. The next one, will it be kennedy . Depends if he decides to retire. Well see what happens. When you get to this option f we can bring the graphic back up, right now to get to 60, neil gorsuch essentially has to draw an inside straight. Chuck schumer has been out there publicly saying hes not going to get to 60. He must know. The one of his first tests, health care was number one. This is number two, his test as leader. We assume he can do the math. Theyre not going to get to 60. Everyone is expecting the Nuclear Option to happen. To danas point of what happened over the weekend, we saw two senators up for reelection announced their plans to filibuster the nomination. And interestingly so, they chose their base which wants to fight this war brutally, go as far as possible, even though they know theyre going to lose over more moderate voters in their conservative states because they dont want to face the wrath of their base. They dont want to worry about potentially losing money from donors to depressing their base in their election, but the larger impact is what will happen to the filibuster. The nominees are all gone. You can confirm anybody in any position after this is changed on executive level. What about on legislation . Where the 60 vote flesh hold still exists . The concern is it creates a slippery slope and all of a sudden that rule is gone and the majority can do whatever it wants in the senate. Thats treal danger. The democrats who have said they vote yes, donald trump carried all of those states by huge margins. Then you vt othhave the other democrats who are up in 2018. How strong will donald trump be . How strong will this energy be in my state not today and tomorrow but next september and november. I think this is a culmination of a trend going on for decades. You can argue going back to the defeat of robert bork during the 80s. These Supreme Court nominations have got increasingly partisan. Both nominees are saying they had litmus tests. These decisions on the part of the senate which are supposed to be made with a historical lens look at decades ahead of you have with Everything Else in washington become a product of the passions of the moment. Totally. But after the health care debacle, theres been a lot of talk about were not tired of winning yet. Yes, its bloody, yes we dont know if the hangover effect could be going forward, but it does look like the president is going to get a win and a pretty big one. Exactly. And i think kind of a key study of the thought process that went into this for some democrats is Claire Mccaskill of mi sou go was kind of seen as one of the better picks off of that list. And worries of what could come later down the line. There was a huge backlash once those comments got out and you see her doing a post to explain why she will not be going with it. This is beyond the nomination. I think what people at home who are watching listening to culture and filly busters and Nuclear Options after a week of reconciliation. Exactly. What they need to understand is what this is going to do is make washington, if you can imagine, even more part son. What you said, manu, was so important, the only ability to filibuster will be on legislation. If that goes away, what that means f you only need 51 votes in the senate, it has absolutely it does away with the notion of needing to compromise across the aisle. This is a double whammy for the Democratic Base. You were out in San Francisco and you werent surprised by what feinstein said. Number one they think that trump one. Its a trump pick. If trump says its a nice sun rise Democratic Base says no it isnt. Also the stolen seat. Obama had 11 months. A democrat from rhode island said this is a bit rich to us from the party that not only denied garland, but from the party who is the beneficiary of all these partisan decisions. I feel like im watching ca casa blanca. Bad blood from the democrats who when you talk to them privately, hes a nice guy. Sure, hes more conservative, but hawes highly qualified. He actually said when you ask him about apportion rights that i respect precedent. Most of them have voted in the past to put him on the bench. Hes not doing to tilt the ideological balance on the court. When Ruth Bader Ginsburg steps aside. What happens when kennedy steps aside and they move in a more conservative direction. But democrats who are pushing this hard line position are saying the republicans are going to change the rule then so we might as well fight it now. The Senate JudiciaryCommittee Still in session. The president welcoming a strong man at the white house and laying a marker down ahead of a big meeting with the chinese president. People confuse nice and kind but theyre different. Nice tells you what you want to hear. But kind is honest. This bar is made with cranberries and almonds. So, guess what . We call it cranberry almond. Give kind a try. The following ad for your viewing convenience. So i just switched to geico. What took you so long . I know, i saved a ton of money on car insurance. 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Start today at tiaa dot org. Welcome back. Straight to the white house just moments ago the president meeting with the president of egypt in the oval office. Lets listen. Its great to be with the president of egypt and i will tell you president elsisi has been somebody thats been close to me since the first time i met him. I met during the campaign and at that time there were two of us and we both met and hopefully you liked me a lot more. But it was a very long it was supposed to be a quick brief meeting and we were with each other for a lon period of time. We agree on so many things. I want to let everybody know in case there was any doubt that we are very much behind president elsisi. Hes done a fantastic job in a very difficult situation. We are very much behind egypt and the people of egypt and the United States has, believe me, back in and we have strong backing. We are very much and as you and i will be soon talking, were building up our military to a level that will be the highest probably the highest that weve ever had, plane orders, ship orders, Aircraft Carrier orders. We are rejuvenating our military to the highest level. I think in these times, probably more than ever before or certainly almost more than ever before, thats what we need. And i just want to say to you, mr. President , that you have a great friend and ally in the United States and in me. Thank you very much. { speaking Foreign Language } translator allow me to extend my thanks and appreciation for your kind invitation. This is my first visit to the United States and immigration office. As a matter of fact, this is the first visit in eight years from an egyptian president to the United States. { speaking Foreign Language } translator since we met last september, ive had a deep appreciation and admiration of your unique personality, especially as you are standing very strong in the field. To counter this evil ideology that is claiming innocent lives, that is bringing devastation to communities and nations and that is terrorizing the innocent people. Very strongly and openly you will find egypt and myself always behind you in this in bringing about an effective strategy in counter terrorism. { speaking foreign } excellen. Translator you will findly supporting you in finding a solution to the problem of the century. I am quite confident you will be able to bring a solution to this issue. We will. That i tell you. We will. Thank you very much. We will do that together. We will fight terrorism and other things and were going to be friends for a long, long period of time. We have a great bond with the people of egypt. And i look forward to working with the president and we have some interesting conversations going to start effectively immediately and then were going into the cabinet room and were going to meet with your representatives. So again, thank you very much for coming. I look forward to a very long and strong relationship. Just the fact that that happened there, a handshake in the Oval Office Part of the news. The egyptian president meeting with President Trump in the orkoval office just moments ago both wanting to cooperate on terrorism. Says president elsisi is doing a fantastic job. President obama would not let him into the white house. Number one, he took power in the military coup. So is the Obama Administration said it was a bad thing. They didnt scream so loudlily about. Human Rights Groups say president elsisi jails his political opponents, has cracked down against free speech. The president of the United States sits next to him in the oval office and says hes doing a fantastic job. Thats also one of his standard lines when he wants to play nice. Thats the classic trumpism diplomat diplomdip diplomatically. Its also President Trump its also countries in the middle east you that wouldnt necessarily think i mean, the isreallies, egypt is a linchpin to try to figure things out if at all possible with the palestinians and even more broadly. It is a fine line. Human Rights Groups want to and rightly so are demanding that President Trump be more aggressive. Lets say this theres a readout and he did so in private. Thats one of the points u. S. Officials say privately. The thats where the United States would say they have had cooperation from elsisi. It was the idea of giving the platform of the oval office to a president. Thats this president s choice. Weve seen this. Them publicly acknowledging. The obama President Trump publicly saying kind things and in this case inviting him to the oval office, something that human Rights Groups would say is something he is bringing to the oval office as well is this administration has talked about turning a lot of military aid clodi cl including a lot of aid that egypt gets into loans instead of outright aid. Beyond this sort of down sais playi downplaying of human rights where things go. Foreign aid especially expect to a current whack in light of the significant cuts theyre talking about from the state department. It will be interesting to see on the human rights front how much he did does push elsisi privately and what he does to xi jinping when he comes later this week. The white house is putting out word this is not going to be in the top of the janagenda, but w they even talk about this privately . How much will he focus on that or will he worry about the other things on the agenda. That is something that krcertaiy will be a difficult thing. If you go back to his inaugural address, he didnt feel it is his place to lecture leaders. About to vote on the nomination of neil gorsuch to the Supreme Court. The president trashes some of his critics. Takes another one golfing. Your Insurance Company raises your rates. Maybe you shouldve done more research on them. For drivers with accident forgiveness, Liberty Mutual wont raise your rates due to your first accident. And if you do have an accident, our claims centers are available to assist you 24 7. Call for a free quote today. Liberty stands with you™. Liberty mutual insurance. Israeli. Israeli. Acce. Welcome back. This is day 74 of the trump presidency. If youve been keeping close watch, you know the president s morning routine is pretty set. He gets up very early. Checks in with his echo chamber. Lauc launches a few tweets. Heres one this morning. Such amazing reporting on unmasking on the crooked scheme against us. 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