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Look forward, as i hope many of us do, to a bipartisan majority in support of your candidacy. thank you. thanks thanks, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator blumenthal. i'd like to bring everybody up to date. we have several considerations, remaining senators for questions. the endurance of our witness, judge jackson, votes on the floor, requests for compassionate release by a number of people in the audience. here is where we stand. we are going to have senator hawley followed by senator hirono. then we're going to take a 20-minute break because that's when we think there will be some votes on...

Malfeasance since taking over with the 6-3 conservative majority they have got right now. >> in addition to what we just heard from senator booker, he's also praised judge jackson for showing grit, for grace, for endurance during what he called outrageous questioning. he got emotional. senator padilla got emotional. i don't think it's lost on any of the four of us why that was. what message do gop senators send about who is worthy and who isn't when they treat judge jackson the way they did? >> yeah, well, judge jackson is clearly qualified. and deserves to be on the supreme court. and she has...

Is leaving the senate and retiring and he voted to impeach trump. so i'm thinking maybe he will be one of those people. but i think it's a missed opportunity, jonathan, and that's what bothers me so very much about this. that it was just something -- this was a layup for them. she's qualified. they voted for her in the past as was pointed out, and there's no reason for this disgusting and appalling treatment, which i just left the a.k.a. regional conference talking to under grads, talking to thousands of black women who are outraged, young ones, who came up and said, is this how you treat us? ...

Confirmation fight. a major boost for judge jackson. >> well, this is a significant increase in republican votes given the fact that you have two more republicans tonight announcing they will vote to advance judge jackson's nomination when a final vote comes forward at the end of the week. there was a bit of drama in the senate judiciary committee, there was a delay. padilla of california had issue with a flight that was diverted to los angeles, he was late today and there were questions about how late tonight's procederal vote was going to go. the vote tonight was to discharge the nomination ...

Angeles. so that is making things a little bit on a tighter and more unpredictable schedule than we expected in the judiciary committee. what we expect to happen, according to the chairman of the committee, dick durbin, once padilla returns then members will come back and they will hold their vote in committee. we expect that that will be tied, 11-11. that why it was essential that democrats had every single member in the room to actually be able to vote. once that tie vote takes place, then there is a procedural vote. we still expect that to happen tonight in the u.s. senate, to advance this ...