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Struggling presidency. this morning i'll be joined by the senate's top two leaders, republican mitch mcconnell and democrat chuck schumer.so also the fake news cycle. a former fbi agent says russia speaks and the president tweets. >> the reason active measures worked in this u.s. election is because the commander in chief has used russian measures at times against his opponents. >> clint watts says the russians are still at it and he's live here this morning. joining me are eugene robinson, columnist for "the washington post." msnbc's greta van susteren, robert draper of "the new york times" m...

On which -- >> that's money. you have to be able to raise money. >> exactly what this is. this is donor driven on both sides. only the donors that like get amped up on this, right? >> this is exactly what's going on. this is about focusing on that. let's be clear. this didn't start with harry reid or mitch mcconnell or now chuck schumer. this has been going on for the last 20 or 30 years as gene pointed out. >> actually, the impeach earl warren billboard started in the '50s but okay. >> but we're more and more polarized. we are old enough to remember when we had gangs of people coming together...

President bush, alito and roberts, two by president obamac sotomayor and kagan, both got votes from the other side.e that's the norm. but when you have the federalist society and the heritage foundation have a veto power over who you choose, you won't get bipartisanship. >> everybody has interest groups on their side. >> no. >> that does these things. g >> no no no. e. >> final question. do you have the votes -- do you have the votes to filibuster neil gorsuch, do you have it? >> look, what happened was that when gorsuch refused to answer the most rudimentary questions in the hearings after th...

You have the votes to change the rules? >> i can tell you that neil gorsuch will be confirmed this week. how that happens really depends on our democratic friends. how many of them are willing to oppose cloture on a partisan basis to kill a supreme court op nominee. never happened before in history, in the whole history of the country. in fact, filibustering judges at all is a rather recent phenomenon, started by your next guest, senator schumer, after george bush 43 got elected president. we didn't used to do this. clarence thomas was confirmed 52-48 the most controversial nf supreme court no...

>> look, we litigated that last year. the american people decided they wanted donald trump to make the nomination not hillary clinton. what's before us now, chuck, is not what happened last year but the qualifications of neil gorsuch. unanimously well qualified by ns the american bar association. 99% of the time in the majority, 97% of his opinions were unanimous. only one time reversed by the supreme court. there's no rational basis, no principled reason for voting against neil gorsuch. that's what's before the senate this week. >> you say it's been litigated. last year the garland situation....