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States and advising consent responsibilities need to understand their things in this record that are troubling for. >> i'm just curious do you think there's going to be the acrimony we have seen some of these past nomination processes? not brett kavanaugh that was over-the-top. but it seems to me like a lot of republicans of kinda withheld their opinion in this it doesn't really change the balance of the court is still six -- three she is a liberal your final thoughts. ask the idiotic wsrc version of senate confirmation hearings for the supreme court have been getting stupider and stupider sin...

With his confirmation. instead he's naming mark esper the new secretary of defense. what do you think of that? >> i think mark esper is a great choice. he's a west point classmate of mine, as is secretary pompeo. i think he will do a fantastic job. >> melissa: why do you think there was that change, if you had to guess? i just want to be clear, naming him as the new acting secretary of defense. >> it's really hard to know, getting to those nomination processes. there are so many different things that go on. who knows? all we know now is he has withdrawn, and mark esper is a great choice. >> me...

Interesting sort of hypothesis that a lot of us have which is that activists tend to drive nomination processes. the idea being all the candidates look similar ideologically, so you have to have cues on who to go for. a political scientist interviews democratic activists in the early states and said, who would you consider supporting even if you are undecided at this point. we see harris in number one in iowa, nevada two, first in south carolina. that's by far the strongest position among the activists. as she becomes better known and people tune in, what i would expect to happen is voters in ...

Emotional, congress should step up and pass laws and hopefully that will happen but it's been the greatest privilege of my life regardless of how we function to serve in this body and i think you -- thank you and others of how you treated him. bill: thank you for being with us today. back on the floor of the senate. to give you an idea, dana, we are about an hour away? dana: yeah, less than. bill: former chief nomination council, involved in at least two nomination processes, senator cornyn on the floor, republican from texas, what do you think about corker was making about democrats pointing ...

But i guess i am. mark judge has provided sworn statements saying this didn't happen and that i never did or would do. >> but we would like the fbi to be able to follow him up and ask him questions. you know, we talked about past nomination processes, and you talked about those and i note that president george bush in the anita hill/justice thomas case, he opened up the fbi investigations and let questions being asked and it was helpful for people. >> was his decision reasonable? >> i don't know the circumstances of that. >> the circumstances are that he opened up the investigation so the fbi ...