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President to make a pick that could get 52, 53 maybe votes here in a 50/50 senate? it's a small possibility, but i think it's possible. >> judge brown in the d.c. circuit, she got 53 votes. >> yes, she did. >> collins, murkowski and lindsey graham, who voted for both sotomayor and kagan, something he brags about all the time. i think that tells us a lot, does it not? >> reporter: it does. graham just put out a tweet threat that elections have consequences. if democrats hang together, they'll have the votes to confirm president biden's pick. he presided over the amy coney barrett hearings which...

Act, which would mandate minimum standards for access to the ballot in federal elections, ban secret money, redistricting reform for congressional apportionment. here's the good news. both of these bills are co-sponsored by all 50 democratic senators and i worked particularly closely with joe manchin because he was not arnlg originally a supporter of the predecessor of the freedom to vote act. but we did significant negotiation for months for him to be a co-sponsor. we're all unified. we're going to bring this up this week and we expect virtually no republicans will even vote to debate a bill....

To thwart an election. >> now again, maybe again clutching at straws, but the fact is, the majority of republicans are not saying what senator murkowski is saying. you said there is a truth crisis in the gop. can it ever be turned around, as long as the former president is still the standard bearer of the party? >> well, i don't think as long as he is the standard bearer, but i think it can be turned around pretty easily. which is just simply, you know, we all occupy titles have leadership in their name, to some level, in the description or in the word, and part of that contract we make with p...

I think judge ketanji brown jackson has the benefit of having received votes from manchin and sinema, as well as collins, murkowski and graham. >> given the process you have been through before, prepping and helping a justice make his way through it, what do you expect this time? >> okay. that was a lock on the beach. this is being scantily clad in the middle of boston today. >> oh, wow. >> it's changed so much, and the difference, you know, breyer, you'll of course prepare everything, but they knew he was going to be confirmed. so the nominees, at a minimum has to have a very very thick skin....

Moment. >> it is unclear because it has a promise to the democratic base and it wants to call out the two democratic senators. we'll see if there's more. listen to senator mitt romney. he said he and other republicans are working on changes to the electoral college act, perhaps other changes to things that they say are critical. trump talks about putting people in power who can essentially change the will of the people, decide to throw out votes after they are cast. governor romney says he would like to work on this. somebody has called. >> there's a group of 12 senators working on the elector...