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With voter-protection directors. this cycle, the aim is 50 and we're doing it much earlier. so that we have people on the ground, who understand these nefarious laws that republicans are writing. and that they can make sure that the -- the -- the staffs and the people are equipped to -- to overcome these -- these very suppressive laws that we see in the states. >> separate but connected issue. again, the last day of the supreme court term and it really puts a focus on the makeup of the supreme court. justice stephen breyer is 82. he is one of the three so-called more-liberal justices. do you t...

Someone, obvious lee president obama twice was elected, but they no longer can put a candidate up, nominee up, and suspect that that candidate will be treated fairly in terms of needing a hearing. that is dysfunctional. >> meghan: i think if the democrats end up making this a do-or-die fight, i think that's exactly what americans hate. it's exactly why congress has a 12% approval rating. i think they should be very careful with this. i'm talking about political capital on both sides. don't blow this too early, democrats, i keep telling the democratic strategist at come on his couch, pick your ...

There's not much they can do unless something like dealing with price and his stock issue just derails them on their own. >> but to your point about tom dashel donald trump has a nominee up that failed to pay income taxes on a household employee. another nominee acknowledged yesterday he hired and employed an undocumented worker for almost a decade in his household. these are things that actually derailed previous nominees and we're looking at a situation where trump's nominees are not backing out. they're not likely to and it doesn't seem to be enough to hold any republican opposition. >> why...

Interesting independent voters it is a question of pushing independent voters to democrats, what thank is what is going on. >> you guys are pushing -- at the end of the day it is about the economy, not going to be about contraception, once we get a nominee up and about. >> i want to ask, one of the -- you have heard -- and i have heard this spin from the romney campaign before and other republicans, boy, the obama clinton race went long, look what happened. if you take that out, the longer the contested nomination, usually the worst for that party. obama/consiste obama/clinton was the exceptio...

Breaker. sources tell us that democrats actually went in believing with biden's vote they had the numbers they needed to assure he would advance, but at the last minute, we know at least one democrat flipped. you'll remember democrats changed the rules last year so they would take only 51 votes to get nomineed passed. >> part of the reason for lowering the threshold was so that the president could send up anybody he wanted to, and presumably get them confirmed. so i know there was a temptation here, obviously, on his part to send this nominee up, but he was too difficult for even seven democra...