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Swelling of your face, tongue or throat, dizziness, or confusion. ask your health care provider if you're tresiba® ready. covered by most insurance and medicare plans. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ >> shepard: continuing coverage of breaking news at the bottom of the hour. a live look at the senate floor. we're expecting the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, the come forward in just a moment about speak about the confirmation process regarding a supreme court nominee. the president will make the announcement tonight on his pick. when mitch mcconnell comes up, we'll come live. first, bob bianchi is ...

>> shepard: is there a republican in the senate who might turn down the president's approach? according to our reporting from capitol hill, what is the world on that? >> i think it's extremely likely barring something coming up during the hearings, during the whole review process, which will be a couple of months, that it's unlikely the republicans will end up opposing any of these. there's been questions raised certainly about susan collins and lisa murkowski on abortion towards judge barrett. judge barrett and is a woman and would they vote against a woman. as of now, it's likely the republi...

Nobody is asking on the ground as a person in the courtroom, defending people or bringing cases will be substantial. seismic changes will occurred here with regard to police cases, criminal justice reforms. incarcerations, miranda, excuses, death penalty cases of juveniles. that's on the criminal law piece. civil rights, abortion. they have a 5-4 conservatives with kennedy on a number of issues what we'll look at is restrictions on roe. >> shepard: because justice kennedy was on the other side. >> yeah, and lgbtq issues. and laws that may discriminate against those individuals or businesses or...

Come forward, the republican leader. i wanted to talk to you for just a moment. the length of the battle seems to be the mystery that remains and couldn't be more important. >> absolutely. when you think about going through a record, three of these judges have been on the bench for ten years, that's a lot to get through. judge barrett has been on the bench for months but she does have extensive writings as an academic, a professor. really with the other three, you're talking about reading through hundreds of opinions, defense, majority pence to get a bead on what their judicial philosophy is. ...

Sounds like millions and millions about to be pumped into this. >> yeah. they're already being spent. we're seeing targeting of democrats in red states. there's ads up and running and more tonight once we get a name saying hey, listen, how can you vote against this person who has an impeccable resume? legal record is qualify in every sense of the word. you're opposing a president to be an obstructionist. nose are the ads. we've seen ads without knowing the nominee, telling people the president will make a terrible choice, going to roll back abortion rights, civil rights. you have to oppose thi...