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Hypotheticals? what we're doing is winning in court, we won a victory, we're getting the documents from the justice department today, for fear of further going to court, although we're still going to hold the attorney general in contempt today. nothing has divisive in our country, in my view, as impeachment. >> reporter: the big question is whether or not some of the most vulnerable democrats, the democrats who carried trump districts, whether they start supporting an impeachment your. that could change pelosi's calculus. already you can see some of those democrats break, others resist, others...

Nominee for the supreme court based upon past history and yet we're going to have a nominee at some point today, probably tonight. what is the democrat strategy in the senate to slow walk this nomination or run out the clock. >> there's precious little we procedurally can do. if republicans are willing to change the rules of the senate which they demonstrated they are in changing the majority threshold required at the fight over now justice gorsuch, they changed the rules on filibuster margins, we could pull something that would last a day or two. but if they are willing to change the rules th...

Leaning. in the democrats, 180 solid, 11 likely, 11 leaning. let's take a look at the toss-up seats. 19 currently held by republicans, meaning 19 seats have moved from the dark red toward the middle now, toward the blue. 19. only two of those seats are held by democrats. is that enough to get the democrats there? let's give you one scenario. if the democrats keep that momentum, win the toss-up states, win the lean democratic states and hold the likely democratic states, that would get the democrats to the magic number, across the majority threshold. it never plays out that cleanly, but the dem...

Vote. >> you need unanimous consent to do that. you need cooperation of all 100 senators. although republicans would look silly if they tried to block democrats from letting them have majority threshold on a bill they claim is important to have the government open. >> sam, i want to go back to the president flying out of town and if the vice president flies out of town, then you know that they don't think there's anything that they can do here. but the president going to florida just completely leaving the scene of the shutdown, how do you expect that will play? >> well, it's not so much that ...

Vote. >> you need unanimous consent to do that. you need cooperation of all 100 senators. although republicans would look silly if they tried to block democrats from letting them have majority threshold on a bill they claim is important to have the government open. >> sam, i want to go back to the president flying out of town and if the vice president flies out of town, then you know that they don't think there's anything that they can do here. but the president going to florida just completely leaving the scene of the shutdown, how do you expect that will play? >> well, it's not so much that ...