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Sides are taking into consideration. i think it's important that we look at not just certainly dr. ford went through something and she is someone that has conviction and someone that is credible. but also at the same time, we have to give the benefit of the doubt -- >> -- if you had been in that hearing crying with quivering chin being flippant and disrespectful to senators and had told senators of the other side what goes around comes around. i mean, you think judicial independence would not have been questioned? you think you could have gotten away with that without being called an hiss stys...

From the white house. president trump tweeting just a few moments ago, here's the tweet from the president here who is clearly watching all of this unfold the same way that we are in front of our televisions. very proud of the u.s. senate for voting yes to advance the nomination of judge brett kavanaugh. yamish al sindor is at the white house. we know that don mcgahn, the white house counsel is apparently stationed at the capital right now. walk us through what else we know about the communication between the republicans on the hill and the white house right now in this crucial 30-hour window....

Been calling republican senators and bee rating them, that's it the world politico uses, berating them. politico describing trump calling republican senator bob corker to yell at him and complain to him about a russia sanctions bill that corker had sponsored and supported. politico describes the president calling up the till is to complain about a bill that was to prevent trump from firing mueller who is looking into the russia matter. it's kind of interesting. all this reporting about the president calling senators about russia, not being able to let go of russia, talking about russia all the...

Obamacare using just the 51-vote thresh hold, which lets him too it on a straight party line vote with only democrats. i don't think runs should let him do that, and if he tries to play those games, tries to use the 51-vote threshold to let democrats fund obamacare, i'm hopeful all 46 republicans will stand, unified, side-by-side, with republicans in the house, and fight to defund obamacare. >> neil: do you know of many republicans republicans republicans who won't? >> it's not clear. there's been a lot of discussion, and what is interesting is people's positions have been moving, and the reas...

>> and the president has been working the phones on this calling senators. >> he spoke to five or six senators over the weekend yesterday. again this morning. rand paul in for a one on one meeting but it became clear there were enough senators who were resisting this, who were saying, look, we're not going to even do the procedural vote to get to the actual vote. that's when they realized they had to put the brakes on all of this because they did not want a defeat. the question is going home into a recess, into a legislative break here, will this lose momentum or be a time for sort of resettin...