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Let's bring in david chod. david, great to have you with us on this. there is a serious conversation that is happening and it's been happening but one that is more and more out in the open is people feel more emboldened as we've seen, especially if they want to talk about things that many of us would look at as openly racist, bigoted comments and standings that they have. where do you see this country today? >> well, obviously our country is divided and it's divided by our leaders in part and the president of the united states. he has made it a strategy to mine these differences, mine these di...

Been so much more successful at using the nomination of a supreme court justice as a galvanizing issue? and i apologize in advance for the awkwardness of this conversation that we're having on live television as this woman descends and ascends into the air. >> an artist, craig. >> indeed an artist. brian, just listen to the words. don't look at the pictures. >> i'll give it my best shot, craig. yeah, there's been a 40-year mission on the right to basically take back the courts. it grew out of what those of us on the progressive side of things consider a golden era of juris prudence in the mid ...

Court nominee. >> so importantly, that's from meet the press yesterday morning before we had the name in hand of judge kavanaugh as the president's nominee. robert, talk about where you see the math that building behind you right now tonight. >> it's complicated for the democrats especially those running in states won by president trump, if you're joe donnelly or bill nelson, democrat in florida, tough choices ahead. you realize you're running in states with a rough path to nomination. they're not going to immediately revive the culture wars in the same way judge amy coney barrett may have don...

Same way judge amy coney barrett may have done if she was nominated. so you're going to see leader shumer in the senate based on my reporting really try to get the democratic base engaged in this fight, make sure this is a galvanizing issue for the in the midterm elections and make sure it's not just about abortion or contraception but economic issues facing the court are also brought up as a way of making sure democratic voters are engaged. >> kim, we all have favorites. members of the senate we're going to be watching, who are yours? >> we are going to be watching, of course, susan collins a...

Galvanizing message or issue at this point going into the upcoming election? >> democrats clearly have a galvanizing issue in president trump and opposition to him. we have seen democratic enthusiasm play itself out in many of these primaries, in special elections in the last year and a half in the trump era, in the polling. so that enthusiasm advantage clearly exists for democrats as it does for the opposition party of the president's party, in opposition to the president's party in the first mid term election season. this will help democrats no doubt energize them and fight over the supreme ...