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That's why i came at 6:00 in the morning. >> i said at the outset we don't know for sure what will happen, but we kind of sort of know where this is headed. jeff flake said he thought the investigation was fine and there was no corroborating evidence, and so he is probably a yes. what can you say about susan collins? >> we talked to susan collins before the hearing and she was very evident she wanted to get to yes. i asked her, senator collins, given the tension and the conversation around the nomination as a woman, how are you grappling with this, and her response was i am a senator. and that...

Give hints of satisfaction of a new nominee, but very minimal in that regard, but to say something so critical, i can't recall it ever happening, at least in modern times just because the justices themselves, even retired justices like to stay out of the fray and they certainly do not want to influence this senate vote at this crucial point, but i think justice stevens gave voice to frankly what many lawyers, judges and possibly many justices were thinking. >> you say possibly even justices, which is intriguing. do the members of supreme court e-mail each other and text each other and say, hey...

They will give the signal to the public they are not as partisan, and john, as you know, this is a 5-4 very split court. >> when you face the prospects of sitting next to somebody for 30 years, sometime it shapes how you receive them. thank you for being with us. appreciate it. >> thank you. the only other story that can grab john berman's attention this morning, because he had to sleep through it last night. >> that was tom brady -- >> yeah, tom brady. we will celebrate john berman and the pats. we will take a break.

Favorably. he made a joke saying something like, so i guess he's a good judge and then went on to talk about how the confirmation hearings soured him on kavanaugh. >> give us the history here, how unusual is it for a former supreme court justice to weigh in like this on the nomination of a potential justice? >> it's very unusual, john. a couple things. i watched the interview and frank did a nice job drawing out a range of comments that made it clear that justice stevens was not speaking off the cuff, that this was an idea he had had and he revealed it. to your question of do they usually do t...