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of the federal government. in order to keep mr ramaphosa in office, the anc was forced to form a government of national unity with other parties, including the main opposition democratic alliance. its leader, john steenhuisen, is now expected to join the government. he told reporters why he backed mr ramaphosa staying in power the people have spoken. they have not given any party a majority. mr rama posa is the leader of his party. he is the leader of his party. he is the leader of a party that is committed to constitutionalism, democracy and its institutions. our africa corresponden...

Of protesters that got arrested today in washington, d.c. is it going to fire up democrats if he does get confirmed? will they then say, we need all hands on deck? >> we seem to lurch from crisis to crisis these days so it's a little tricky saying, here's the crisis on october 5th. or what are the legs under that particular crisis. people focusing on this procedural issue, i think there is something to this. there is a conventional wisdom that jeff flake may have saved the republican party by insisting on this fbi report, perhaps against some of their more bipartisan instincts. they think, i d...

Intense debate. much of the focus is on roe v. wade but other key cases like voting rights and campaign finance hang in the balance. harry lippmann joins me, as well as pete williams. pete, in gaming this, as you know better than anyone, all of these people have been vetted and cleared by the federalist society. we have to assume they're conservatives. but among conservatives, there are those who are more true believing on some things than others. so what are the objections to cavanaugh, for instance? >> well, i think they focus on two decisions that he joined, one in dissent when he said that...

It was the, i guess you could say, the fervor with which he expressed it. a similar thing when he joined in a concurrent -- dissent, rather, on the affordable care act. many conservatives thought he wasn't strong enough on it, that he objected to the timing of the lawsuit on procedural grounds and didn't go in for a full-throated attack on the unconstitutionality of it, which has been a sort of central point of conservative attacks on obamacare, which is that it was unconstitutional, conscripting people, forcing them to buy insurance when they didn't want to. >> and what do we know about raymo...

Persuade a couple of those red state democrats, they don't have to hold every republican to get this confirmation through. and the timetable is completely up to mitch mcconnell. >> yeah, all of that is right. the democrats are really playing a very weak hand here, both procedurally and in substance. and you make a very good point, there's been a lot of focus on the democrats trying to be able to pluck either collins or murkowski. but there are three to five democrats in red states who are at real risk of going with the choice. and that would be game over. it's been very interesting over the la...