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Through this list, president biden's potential short list of picks. who stands out to you? >> yeah, don, i think any conversation's going to start with the same two names. there's judge ketanji brown jackson who's currently on the d.c. circuit. very important appeals court in washington. she spent eight years on the district court bench in d.c. don, as you know, she was confirmed just last year by this same senate. 53-44. with three republican senators, senators collins, graham and murkowski joining all 50 democrats including senators manchin and sinema in voting for her. so she's going to be ...

Believing this notion that the 2020 election was stolen from them, and that mike pence had the ability to unilaterally overturn it. pence pushing back creates an off-ramp for those people to go from the radical side hopefully to the rational side, but i will still say this, lindsey. when i joined the republican party many, many years ago, our ambition was to be a big tent party. instead we are a big lie party at this point and it's still an access of insurrectionists that are running the gop. >> miles, what is it about pence and his influence that gives an off-ramp? we've seen mitt romney. we'...

Votes of senators collins, murkowski and graham who today said -- on judiciary still said that as to breyer's replacement they have the power to replace justice breyer in 2022 without one republican vote in support. elections have consequences. is it your sense from sort of knowing this body and knowing what is so stunning and the public facing notes of anxiety and angst from the chief justice and others about the political lens through which 60% of the americans view the court. will this court benefit from someone with bipartisan support? >> it is interesting. judge brown jackson clerked for ...

Confirmation to the supreme court, folks like senator collins and senator murkowski. even though this is not likely to be an overwhelming vote in favor of a nominee, we haven't seen that in quite sometime, the white house feeling fairly confident that regardless of which one of these women based left, they're going to be able to get this through in fairly short order and it will help them change the narrative that's been so difficult for the biden administration over the last couple of months, willie. >> yeah, josh, an interesting point of judge jackson where the vote just last june to have he...

They still have a 6-3 majority on the supreme court. they still have what they think is a very strong agenda to use against president biden in the midterms. and so i think this is going to look very different, don, from the last couple of supreme court confirmation fights that we've been through. >> hey, steve, you've been going through this list, president biden's potential short list of picks. who stands out to you? >> yeah, don, i think any conversation's going to start with the same two names. there's judge ketanji brown jackson who's currently on the d.c. circuit. very important appeals c...