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That they want a nonpolitical fbi director. i think a more consensus choice would -- i like joe lieberman a great deal, but a more consensus choice would be a consummate professional. that's i think what members of congress maybe on both sides are looking for. >> mack, it looks like they want to get lindsey graham and john mccain on board. if they do that, do they stand a chance of being able to pass this by a republican majority only? is that politically smart? >> well, i think both senators mccain and graham will support senator lieberman if he's nominated. i have great respect for joe liebe...

Really just supreme court justices? a lot of people are concerned. >> the legislative fill buster is something we think of in pop culture as well as something that's important for getting bills that have consensus and are not extreme pieces of legislation. and a lot of people think that if it goes for the supreme court, it's next to go for the legislative filibuster. >> susan, weigh in on the politics of all of this. if hillary clinton had won, would we have been in the same exact spot with this real knock-down, drag-out fight? >> maybe if she had done a consensus candidate like merritt garlan...

Senator coons discussed the failed process while discussing with msnbc yesterday. >> i reached out to many of my republican and democratic colleagues, i've had a number of meetings and conversations in recent days, trying to see if there was some agreement we could reach to move ahead with cloture on judge gorsuch and to have the next supreme court nominee be more of a consensus candidate where democrats could have some input on who would be nominated. ultimately, those efforts have been unsuccessful. this is not a good week for the senate. i am not optimistic here about the long-term path for...

Nominee. what about the argument out there, heidi heitkamp, joe manchin, for example, you change this nominee, we may get a more conservative nominee behind gorsuch. >> you won't get the votes, then. at the end of the day, gorsuch has had committee votes, he's had hearings, he got to testify. that never happened with merrick garland. merrick garland never got so much as an opportunity to sit before a bunch of senators in front of the american public. he was a consensus candidate. he was someone chosen largely because of his record in securing republican votes for his lower court appointments. ...

Degrees of victories? so you are president but are you really president? >> i think our country right now could use a consensus candidate. how he feels about voting right rights, how he feels about -- >> tucker: if someone is opposed to abortion come up someday believes the taking of human life and a lot of people do think that, if you think it is actually killing somebody, it doesn't make any sense rationally. that doesn't mean you are against women. a lot of people feel that way. i know women don't believe that because it's murder. >> a lot of my people at my church oppose a view to me. but ...