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Time with this report here but the clock is ticking to the next vote which could happen as early as tomorrow morning. >> this has been such a frantic two weeks that maybe people don't understand why we're paying attention to these two democrat, joe manchin and heidi heitkamp. >> they were two of three democrats who voted for gorsuch, the first nominee for the supreme court, and they're the only two who have not come out and said definitively they will not vote no on judge kavanaugh. both have difficult re-elections coming up. the theory here is that a vote for kavanaugh could potentially help ...

>> that's a tough vote. there are very tough re-elections for the democrats. that is a tough no vote. >> let's talk about the temperament. there are 1,000 law professors signing on to say kavanaugh does not have the temperament for this job. "the new york times" at the senate hearings at september 27th, judge brett kavanaugh displayed a lack of judicial temperament for any court, not only the highest court of the land. say he is confirmed. do those temperament questions hangover him? >> not at all. let's be honest. we heard from the beginning that judges are supposed to be umpires. a great ana...

Nomination? >> i think to an extent it could be. but look, ultimately you have to think about a couple thing. number one, joe manchin, heidi highcamp, they have tough re-elections. they've got to give something to their grass roots base. their grass roots base is progressive democrats. they're very fired up about brett kavanaugh. they do not want to see him on the supreme court. they do not think he deserves or brett kavanaugh's case believes he is entitled to a seat on the supreme court. you've got to give something to energize your voters, your base voters in your district. >> dana: if i cou...

They have the votes on the floor we believe. including perhaps three democrats in red states who are in very tough re-elections. so does this change anything? does this allegation and it may not be able to get to the bottom of it, it could be a he said/she said. does this allegation change anything? should it change anything if it was one allegation 36 years ago? >> well, andrea, what it certainly should change is the onward rush toward the vote this thursday. it is long past time to make sure that we are listening. if this ends up being just a he said/she said, the first step is to ensure tha...

Describing there is why members have decided not to run for re-election this time. there are a lot of folks in very challenging districts that are seeing the writing on the wall and seeing they have been able to put together coalitions in the past that included suburban, college educated voters, the types of folks that have not been big fans of the trump era. this is talking about the house map, which is i think the scarier of the two big federal pieces for the gop. on the senate side, trump is still i think an asset in many races. you have a lot of democrats who are up for re-elections in sta...