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We will be voting thursday. we're going to get him confirmed by friday. he will be sworn in by the end of the week. i look forward to that. it will be a good day for america. >> melissa: do you worry about the repercussions if you end up having to go nuclear? >> i want to be very clear about something. we have had a precedent that's been put in place since november of 2013. it was put in place by the then democratic majority. on the executive calendar, when we're confirming presidential nominees, whether to the judiciary or the executive branch or boards, those require a senate confirmation ha...

Continue to be weakened overtime? >> many of us are concerned about what happened in 2013. when they decided to go nuclear on the executive calendar. we don't want it to happen. the nuking of the executive counter did occur in november of 2013. it is in place. the logical implications of that decision in november of 2013 still applied today. they apply with equal force with respect to supreme court nominees. all the same arguments. what we need and what i hope will protect against is the spreading on to the calendar.

To be confirmed. the democratic majority in 2013 created this precedent, standard for ending debate on the executive calendar on presidential nominees the 51 and not 60. >> melissa: but can you tell me, sir, if the shoe were on the other foot, would you be complaining about being steam rolled by the democrats around me? >> they had already done it. they had already signaled the fact that they viewed what they did in 2013 as having gone nuclear, as having already crossed that threshold into the 51 vote margin. we're already here. this happened 3 1/2 years ago. we're continuing along with that p...

What was done in 2013 was terrible for the senate. but when we came to the majority a year and a half later we discussed this. about whether or not to restore the old -- the old system. and we decided not to do it because the custom even though it was possible to filibuster judges, the custom down to 2000 was not to do it. the senate restrained itself and gave reef supreme court nominee an up or down vote.re down to 2000. so this recent invention of this level of controversy we decided was best left alone by just leaving us where we were -- >> so you now believe harry reid made the right decis...

Terrible for the senate. but when we came to the majority a year and a half later we discussed this. about whether or not to restore the old -- the old system. and we decided not to do it because the custom even though it was possible to filibuster judges, the custom down to 2000 was not to do do it. the senate restrained itself and gave reef supreme court nominee an up or down vote. down to 2000. so this recent invention of this level of controversy we decided was best left alone by just leaving us where we were -- >> so you now believe harry reid make the right decision? >> no, i don't think...