or susan collins or lindsey graham to come out swinging for ketanji brown jackson, but i think it's a little bizarre that they're opposing her now. >> let's look ahead. let's get away from the vitriol for a moment and talk about what we can expect from this confirmation hearing, which in fact, by the way, is historic. the possibility of the first black woman to become a supreme court justice. >> i think we can expect republicans to behave in a way that lets them escape any sort of accusations of racism, but i think that we can expect this sort of simmering sort of undercurrent of racism will be there, just in terms of the questions they're going to be asking her, they're going to be throwing around acquisitions that she's soft on crime, that she didn't sentence child sex offenders, that she defended gitmo detainees when she