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Have refused to meet with him as they ramp up efforts to get all his documents from his past jobs. chuck schumer is taking his request for documents directly to george w. bush who kavanaugh served under for five years. let's bring in john thomas, founder and president of thomas partner strategies and michael toddman, former senior aid to democratic senator chuck schumer. great to see you. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> good to be here. mike: democrats continue to for more of judge kavanaugh's documents and chuck schumer wrote to george w. bush yesterday saying i believe that making ju...

November, he becomes further away from becoming majority leader, right, john? >> the democrats are between a rock and a rock. they're dammed if they do, dammed if they don't. the heat of the democratic party is so far to the left that it's essentially the nomination of judge kavanaugh to them is like nominating hitler. right? so the base is saying that these democrats can't vote to nominate. on the other hand, i think one thing we know and i'm sure michael will agree with me, at the end of the day tigses care about one -- politicians care about one thing and one thing only, themselves. i think...

>> president bush is a different republican than president trump. i think appealing to that sense ability and that part of american recent history is an interesting contrast between the two. mike: the republicans i've been speaking to on capitol hill sound very happy, they don't believe democrats have been able to do anything to damage kavanaugh's nomination. is his confirmation pretty much inevitable, michael? >> nothing is done until it's didn't done. i would think ultimately the nominee is confirmed. i think along the way a lot of important policy discussions and a lot of important politica...

End up stopping confirmation of trump's supreme court pick. they can't assassinate his character. they can't assassinate his impeccable record as a judge. so what do they do? they try to come up with procedural hiccups. the reality is, like michael said, being a staff secretary in the white house is a very important position but, look, you are pushing paper and millions of pieces of paper. you're not issuing opinions. look, i think this is a stonewalling tactic. i think at continued of the day, those three senate democrats that are in trump country are going to end up folding. if they go again...