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Almost an excuse to give him the boot. but it's unclear if the white house and republicans will want this fight right now in this supreme court nominee process and confirmation process before the mid-terms. mike: the president told reporters his preference would be to keep rod rosenstein. will rod rosenstein tell the president he's not out to undermine him? >> i think a bit. there have been a lot of issues been the white house and the justice department. they have been doing a bit with discrediting them with the mueller investigation. rod rosenstein is the one who put mueller in the special co...

State of maryland. we may do that. we may plead out a criminal complaint. let's be clear, even if we were to do that today, or last week, or over the weekend, that wouldn't change or have any impact formally on the judicial nominee process. before this senate judiciary committee. >> all right. next question about this just in terps of look ago at it out wardly. and we'll get into the credibility. this is what the process demands for fairness. what do you believe a that your client can demonstrate that is most damaging to brett kavanaugh? in reading the affidavit, one it has some holes. fact ga...

Anything? because you know him, that means he didn't do this? i also am not saying that he did this. i don't know. i'm actually interested in getting the people who may have been in the room on the record. and under oath. not just telling people that it didn't happen. and so i'm not actually saying that he definitely did it. i don't know. i'm inclined to believe her. but i don't think people who want to hear what she has to say and want an investigation don't have cool heads. >> i'm unwrapping all of you at the moment and we have a little bit more time. alice, where do you all in all this? >> ...

I'm glad to be in a conversation with you, senator, thank you. >> thank you. >> harris: well, there are big questions about what red state democrats will do. on sunday, senate majority whip dick durbin suggested some may have to fall on their sword in order to prevent the president's pick from getting confirmed. watch this. >> it is a dilemma in one respect but not another. the men and women i work with on the democratic side really take this seriously. they understand it's historic decision. it's about more than the next election. it's about what the united states of america is going to chart...

Qualifications manchin will vote for them, voting on the base of qualifications not the litmus test. the judicial nominee process drives me up the wall ever since robert bork, you can't ask the judge anything that means anything, then you read tea leaves based on their old decisions to determine how they will vote on particular issues. that holds true with conservatives, not true for the left, one thing amazing to note, and 1% of the people they nominated voted consistently on the left. 50% nominated to the high court. and one judicial pick means republicans to because it's and careful about w...