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Congressman joe kennedy ii. here is part of his message in his a9nnouncement video. >> now is not the time for waiting, for sitting on the sidelines, for playing by rules that don't work anymore or never worked to begin with. donald trump has forced a reckoning in america. but meeting this moment requires more than just confronting him. we deserve leaders who will show up where we are, who aren't afraid to break down an old system and build something better. a health care system of salvation, not scarcity, a just economy, absolute civil rights, humane immigration policy. >> reporter: now, joe ...

Cabinet members he wants and absent some external factor, which we have seen come up in other confirmation fights, you know, something about ratcliffe himself, his background, something else that derails it, i do expect him to be confirmed. >> david, let me get your thoughts on appointing somebody without experience in the intelligence community. he does sit on the intelligence committee in the house. not having the institutional knowledge of the broader american intelligence agencies, in your experience of reporting, have we ever seen somebody achieve such a high-level position without having...

Rights at a hospital within 30 miles of the procedure. opponents say you're limiting access. this was argued in the state of texas about proximity and access. what happened then, what was the precedent? what does it mean now? >> in 2016 the supreme court upheld the texas challenge and said you can't do that. it takes away women's rights to choose and so on. so the key thing that we have all been on pins and needles today because we wanted to know is that 2016 decision of the supreme court going to be good law or not and in order for it not to be good law, the chief justice would have to say i ...

Today because we wanted to know is that 2016 decision of the supreme court going to be good law or not and in order for it not to be good law, the chief justice would have to say i believe this louisiana law is okay and kavanaugh would have to do so too making it five votes to strike it down. >> how could the law be okay if the texas law is not okay? >> because the supreme court is generally bound by precedent but they're not absolutely bound by it. and when you have changes to the competition of the court, and that's why these confirmation fights become so vitrialic, they can change the ultim...

Bush-gore ruling since 2000 there's a degree in which we've been treating it that way. we have all these confirmation fights that are partisan. haven't we collectively? >> you know, there have been certainly some high profile confirmations where that's been the case, some high profile decisions. but i agree. i think it was important for the chief justice to put the brakes on that notion. and the reality is that that's not actually the experience with the court. there have been decisions that conservatives disagreed with, certainly the upholding of the affordable care act, which of course the c...