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What this means, just for the process of how we as a country select supreme court justices, how ugly it's gotten. of course nixon had trouble getting some judges through. but it's gotten so personal. of course ted kennedy's speech on bork was seen as a dividing line on supreme court fights. you could talk about ginsburg having trouble because he had smoked pot in the past. of course clarence thomas. merrick garland. now judge kavanaugh. washington -- yes, washington is a toxic place. capitol hill is even more toxic. but it seems the worst toxicity is reserved, the harshest is reserved for thes...

Types of nomination fights. you think that could be different this time? >> there's a strategic decision that both parties have to make here with the election coming up. now, if the -- might be very much in the republican's interest for this matter to be not concluded in november. you can see why. you can see how we saw in 2016 having that seat, the scalia see open, vacant, gave republicans that had misgivings about donald trump -- one of the reasons that donald trump made decreases, blood oath promises and who he was going to pick, his advisers knew the best way he could shore himself up with...

Problems. today the president got confirmed his secretary of state ric grenell ambassador of germany. 19 total people got con confirmed today under the leadership of mitch mcconnell. there is some responsibility to put forward nominee that's think can get approved unless you want to have nomination fights. nomination fights can help you politically. but if you really want to help solve the problem, you got to actually put forward people that can get confirmed and are willing to go through the process. may i make a recommendation for a possible nominee for v.a. secretary? former senator dr. tom...

Enough for the democrats to use it to their advantage in 2018 even though the map is not necessarily in their favor? >> sure. it can be. they've got a lot of work to do. they need to provide training and support to their activists. they need to get some wins. if they continue to ask activists to go out there and call senators and congressmen and keep losing vote after vote and losing on nomination fights, people may get burned out and say i won't pay as close of attention. they have to come up with some wins whether on the local level or at the state level to convince activists that they can w...

Panel. zeke miller political reporter at time. senior writer at the federalist and cnn political [ inaudible ]. thanks for joining me. in a lot of ways this was the first week of the trump presidency even though he's not president. his cabinet nominees were on the hill. there was a big dust up with the intelligence community, first press conference before the election. how did it go? >> there is a lot of sound and fury. i think one thing i'm learning is that trump is going to have his disagreements publicly whether it's -- whether mitt romney will be the secretary of state or with the press or...