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There is a lot of people you can make a call to the pen and start them warming up right now. amy coney barrett who is very conservative, was just confirmed last year. she is a woman. so the optics of it would be quite different and would probably be more right wing than brett kavanaugh. so what is this about? >> i think there is a practical reason and a ideological reason. the practical reason is they're afraid they won't have time to get someone through if they lose the senate. and that's perhaps realistic. the other is they love to fight when they can create an enemy, and now the enis my the...

She is a woman. so the optics of it would be quite different and would probably be more right wing than brett kavanaugh. so what is this about? >> i think there is a practical reason and a ideological reason. the practical reason is they're afraid they won't have time to get someone through if they lose the senate. and that's perhaps realistic. the other is they love to fight when they can create an enemy, and now the enis my the left wing conspiracy. now the enemy is you and me. now the enemy is these dastardly women. so that's what they think their base likes. that's what they serve up. and ...

>> leah, this is something that fox reporter chad pergrom said kavanaugh nomination is in trouble. that's why mcconnell made blistering speech today. mcconnell trying to get gop peers to run out every ground ball to salvage nomination, kavanaugh lacks the votes right now. what do you think of that? >> yeah, so i do think the kavanaugh nomination is in trouble, even if it goes through, even if they force this through. what you've done is taint him for the rest of his career even if he is successful, and you've tainted the supreme court. we already know that the supreme court has been in trouble...

Place out the get them. and it's insulting to these women. it's not true. but it does sort of promote the view that you should promote a lot of women. and there are a lot of women running this time. >> leah, this is something that fox reporter chad pergrom said kavanaugh nomination is in trouble. that's why mcconnell made blistering speech today. mcconnell trying to get gop peers to run out every ground ball to salvage nomination, kavanaugh lacks the votes right now. what do you think of that? >> yeah, so i do think the kavanaugh nomination is in trouble, even if it goes through, even if they ...

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