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What you don't see is the four justices that were there that you mentioned. the two liberal justices, kagan and ginsburg, were there. there were four justices there. the other four, we're told, were out of town. they will have to get along. because here's the fact. you can't win -- your side can't win a supreme court case unless you have five votes so every justice is a potential ally. so the court will do what it always does. whenever there's a controversial or noncontroversial justice that joins the court. they'll pull together and try to act together. >> yes, and the nation will definitely ...

They draft off the cover. and they get the man through. you played that clip from the judge. really fascinating thing going on is judge kavanaugh made his case with his wife sitting next to him on fox news, put an op-ed in "the wall street journal" explaining his case. the president goes on that show on fox news explaining. you just have this siloing of opinion that is a side-step and end-around the actual discourse in america. i do think -- >> part and parcel of the trump administration -- >> and it worked and everything we've seen, this has been an extremely effective strategy to jam a guy t...

>> the whole thing is an ask. >> perfect, got that out there. erin, first, i want to start because former u.s. attorney -- u.s. troernl, excuse me, eric holder had this to say. with the con gir mation of kavanaugh and the treatment of merrick garland, the legitimacy of the supreme court can justifiably be questioned. the court must prove through its work it is worthy. how does the court go about doing that? >> well, i mean, i think we should look back to other times that have been extremely controversial in the history of the court. the one that comes to mind is bush v. gore. the way that they...