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Loki do the road and perhaps one the women was to go,he aoint anotr woman, that stillleaves him with two women on t court. >> a pocalculn, which u've got a laenough majoritygoith a more progressive nominee. there's a thought that somebod like a judge garland is somebody you save wh you've got a tighter pitical climate because he might be more noontrersial. the question of how big a lift ts is going to be is a issue. >> i think it i at's definely something the president is tying to evaluat in terms of how ch potical capital has to go into the decision. onthing the president is -- wheloing this ...

The other thing is,f he loki do the road and perhaps one the women was to go,he aoint anotr woman, that stillleaves him with two women on t court. >> a pocalculn, which u've got a laenough majoritygoith a more progressive nominee. there's a thought that somebod like a judge garland is somebody you save wh you've got a tighter pitical climate because he might be more noontrersial. the question of how big a lift ts is going to be is a issue. >> i think it i at's definely something the president is tying to evaluat in terms of how ch potical capital has to go into the decision. onthing the presid...

Authority to intervene in the economy. i think, you know, i think elena could do a good job on that. merrick garland, as somebody who really has been a restrained liberal judge would be a good person to have that fight on the court. >> katty? >> i think elena kagan is known as somebody who can lead. and i think that is important to the white house as well at the moment. she can sway opinions of other judges, and of course, justice kennedy as a swing judge is particularly important. she has a fierce intellect. people from harvard describe her in similar terms to the way they described obama. sh...

Who will be 80 in march, it is likely the president will have additional opportunity to shape the court but he will have to go through the senate. the democrats with the help of two independents have a 10-vote advantage, 55-45 it take only 40 votes to filibuster the nominee. >> it should be an extraordinary step to filibuster a supreme court nominee, really, to any court. whether there are 40 votes to do that for more progressive nominee, that remains to be seen. >> if he makes a crazy pick i will filibuster in an extraordinary circumstance. >> it is something senator graham has done before bu...