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The elections. you saw that with that early meeting by the highest ranking african american in the house bringing up immediately to vice president kamala harris as well as president biden just shortly after they were elected. >> zolan, i appreciate that. let's bring in our senior political analyst. nia, the president has said his first pick would be a black woman. you're talking about filling a slot by the president of the united states. it will be a confirmation process and a mid-term election year where history and current polling puts a stiff wind in the face of democrats. this is a confirm...

Charge of the russia investigation. >> there has been no collusion, folks. no collusion. and -- but i have a very good relationship. >> reporter: amid a bitter fight over the confirmation of president trump's second confirmation pick who he'll reportedly swear in tonight, the president arguing calls to impeach brett kavanaugh are an insult to the american public. >> the american public has seen this charade, has seen this dishonesty by the democrats. >> reporter: after once saying he found professor christine blasey ford's testimony compelling, trump now saying her allegations remain manufactu...

Mark, there are always a group of democrats that the republicans were looking to who were in states where donald trump won by 10, 15, 20 points, that they thought they could potentially winside. where is the whip count now? what are we looking at? >> chris, we are seeing that there are steady diet of democratic senators who are coming out against the neil gorsuch confirmation pick. right now our math doesn't get to the where chris coo ns was saying you would have a potential filibuster showdown. as you mentioned, there are 11 senate democrats up for re-election in 2018 who represent states tha...

Just rudy giuliani, a very high profile, very loyal supporter, but others like chris christie, very high profile, very loyal. he's out of the mix. newt gingrich, mike huckabee, they're not going to get anything either. unclear if they wanted anything. but what does that say to you? >> they're all kind of related. you go back to rudy giuliani. he was asked about it right after the election. and he said, i'm going to be secretary of state, almost like it was a given. newt gingrich was very local about his talents going into the white house. and then you had chris christie who many of us thought ...

Next topic, nomination battle. what are you hearing about chuck hagel possible nomination for defense secretary? what's the word where you are, perry, in washington? >> chuck hagel will have trouble getting confirmed. he has his problems. republicans don't like him because he criticized the iraq war, he criticized george w. bush, he and john mccain disagree on a lot of big foreign policy issues, and democrats don't like him either because on most foreign policy issues he's a pretty conservative republican. barack obama does like him and that's the only thing that really matters when you're tal...