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A straight up/down vote. majority vote and he gets confirmed. what's your position on that? >> well, it's too early to make that judgment. i think we have to preserve all of our options. you're absolutely correct, we have our concerns, president obama was -- had no respect from the republican leadership for ten months, his nominee didn't even have a hearing. we are concerned as to whether the republican leadership in the senate will have a fair process for the evaluation of judge gorsuch. and we'll wait to see how that transpires, but we also know we have a president that's going to challenge ...

The supreme court? not necessarily looking for democrats here, if you are the trump white house, to vote for gorsuch, though you'd like that. how about democrats who won't filibuster him. who go with the idea of an up/down vote. look to the ten states. a little extra pressure, maybe, on some of those democratic senators there to break with their party and support the white house on something like that. the flip-side? not too many republican senators up in 2018. how many of them are from states that hillary clinton won where they maybe are on a little defense? the answer here is only one, right...

Swamp. instead a swamp cabinet. very powerful billionaires. they're showing up in rallies and saying please stop this destructive force known as team trump. >> let me ask you about the one big nomination looming in washington, neil gorsuch, that's donald trump's pick to be supreme court justice. there are several of your democratic colleagues i should say who've indicated they do not want democrats in the senate to try to filibuster. top try to force 60 votes nor confirmation. the idea they're saying is he should just get gorsuch should just get an up/down vote. if he gets a majority, he's on ...

Senate, then the problem lies not with the senate but with the nominee. >> the so-called 60-vote standard is simply not accurate. democrats are grasping at straws to block the confirmation of an unquestionably qualified nominee. i'll repeat, neither of the two supreme court justices that president obama put forward were subject to the 60-vote threshold. >> this is the debate right now. before the debate over noreil gorsuch, democrats are talking opposition. they want to stop this. that's why the number is out there, the most important number of the day. it is 60. democrats say it is a standard...

And ratcheted up from here. alex. >> and tony, i have to ask about the vote, is it up and down, and who would deem to put a down vote after two weeks of negotiation, and then all of the negotiations, because you don't want a 2010 end the negotiation s. >> yes, and there is, if we fail here, our children will never forget us. and that is very important. there is a greenhouse emissions looking there, it is minimizing the coal, oil and gas usage. but those are trillion dollar industries in countries like saudi arabia, and venezuela, and others for their economy, so is those countries are going to...