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It the additional frustration and heartbreak and exciting knowing this could be preventable if there were a greater uptick of vaccines. just a serious thing. all right, so, there is a lot of news we are going to be talking about tonight. it's one of those nights when a lot is going on into the evening hours. we've got to change our rundown over the course of today's production day. first of all, you should know a filibuster is underway right now as we speak. a real, won a talking filibuster in texas, and in texas while you are filibustering you cannot eat anything, you can't drink anything. yo...

Reporter: judge gorsuch will be confirmed this week no matter what. >> exactly how that happens will be up to her democratic colleagues. it is noteworthy that no supreme court justice has ever in the history of our country then stopped by a partisan filibuster effort. >> senate minority leader chuck schumer maintains the first time for everything. he says the conservative judge doesn't have the votes to get the 60 to break a plan the democratic filibuster. schumer says that means republicans made to drop gorsuch and pick another judge with input by the democrats. >> a republican friends are ac...

Like there will be a filibuster effort. i think the whole way both parties are treating supreme court justices right now is a real risk. these folks have lifetime appointments for a reason. it's to take them out of politics. i think when senator mcconnell ten months out from an election said he wasn't even going to give a well-qualified judge, same rating as judge gorsuch, judge merrick garland, wouldn't give him a hearing, he in a toxic way infused politics into this process. i think we're now on a road to a head-on collision that i think could be very unfortunate. i think both parties need t...

Senator sanders, thank you very much for sticking with us. do you support the filibuster effort against judge gorsuch and how do you think this fight is going to end in terms of his nomination? >> well, i do support the filibuster. i had the opportunity to sit down with judge gorsuch in my office a couple weeks ago. and the issues that concerned me of many are the issue of citizens united and whether or not he believes in a general sense, he's not going to rule on a particular case, in a general sense whether billionaires have the unlimited freedom to buy elections. he didn't give me a satisfa...