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Begun. so i'm just saying, when you say, "the process," hang on -- >> well, if dianne feinstein has been sensitive to all of this, she's a veteran at this. she's gone through this time and time again, the confirmation hearing process. and the fbi, law enforcement, does the background investigation. they ask questions and then that gets borne out through a series of closed doors meetings before any of the public hearings even happen. >> but i think you're missing the point here. >> he is totally missing the point. >> i'm not missing the point. >> absolutely, you are. >> i firmly believe that so...

Economy is going the way it is and he's stuck in the 40s or as john just said, in the 20s in california, you don't have to wonder they're going to lose seats. it's just a question of how many. >> by how many, yeah. >> that's the only thing you have to speculate. >> yeah, we're going to talk more about that exact question with john harwood. >> but still to come we have the very latest on brett kavanaugh's confirmation hearing process where it was hard to tell what was signal and what was noise. >> people are wondering whether these hearings are turning into a circus, and i want to defend circus...

He's going to say because we have a little preview of his comments right here. these excerpts have just been released. here is what he's going to say. a good judge must be an umpire, neutral and impartial arbiter who favors no litigant or policy. i don't decide cases based on personal or policy preference. i am not a pro-plaintiff or pro-defendant judge. i am not a pro-prosecution or pro-defense judge. i am a pro-law judge. he'll say all the the right things. all the things you want him to say. so how are you going to get him to answer that definitively, your burning questions? >> it will be v...

No doubt that confirmation hearings for judge kavanaugh will go on next week despite some democrats pushing for a delay. our next guest as insight into the process. he was the leading communication strategist for judge neil gorsuch during his confirmation hearing process. great to have you on the program this morning, ron. if you could, give us some insight as to what goes into this process. >> right, well, it's a very labor-intensive. unfortunately, the confirmation process has now turned into more like a political campaign that lasts around two months and you'll only really see the nominee t...

The end of the week. let's talk about this with daniel. good morning. >> good morning. >> gina haspel securing enough votes to be the next cia director. before her confirmation hearing process started, we predicted her process would be even more embattled than pompeo's, but seems like it is the opposite of that. why do you think so? >> democrats were happy at what they saw in private meetings. they felt like she was a professional that would be a good cia director. she has the support of a lot of obama era intelligence officials and the cia work force. you don't want to have a cia director w...