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Professor in notre dame. she's seen as controversial during her appeals court hearing last november. her strict version of catholicism came up and backfired on dianne feinstein at the time. brett kavanaugh has the most involved report. that's a positive and a negative. a lot of people from the federalist society favor him for the long record but he's ruled on obamacare, abortion and other issues that are certain to come up and the democrats could claim that it's such a long record it will take longer, which could inch towards election day. >> shepard: that leads to pros and cons for each. >> y...

Here we are today with a nominee and then going through the visits on the senate and the confirmation hearings and then you have to go for a confirmation vote. if that doesn't happen by september, i'm told by people that know more about this than i do, that it would be difficult to get a nominee confirmed. let's say the democrats pick up seats in the senate and they hold the balance of power there, getting a nominee in before the new senate sits would be impossible. and then a wild card as to okay, if democrats control the senate, who do you put forward as a nominee that you can get on the cou...

Stand. considering the ample evidence that the president will select a nominee who will give greater weight to corporate interests than our citizens no matter what precedence says and vote to overturn roe v. wade, the next nominee has an obligation, a serious and solemn obligation to share their personal views on these legal issues no matter whom president trump selects tonight. now briefly on another matter. the ongoing negotiations with north korea over their nuclear program. despite all the reality show pomp and circumstance, the negotiations have thus far been flop. after the summit, presi...

Will string this along. you know the ins and outs of senate and the rules there. could they swing this passed the election? >> that would be very hard. part of this is because there's never been a filibuster of a supreme court justice before. abe fortis who was on the court already, he was filibustered. there's never been a filibuster. mitch mcconnell had a problem last spring. he realized because of the narrow divide in the senate, there was almost no way that they could get neil gorsuch on the supreme court. he changed the senate precedent. you talk about rules. the senate operates on two th...

Consideration. one more round of 40-year-old scare tactics will not stop us from doing the right thing. >> shepard: there you go. mitch mcconnell talking about precedent and what has happened in the past. chad pergram joins us live now. he's up there on capitol hill. the arguments can be made interchangeably cycle to cycle on which party is doing the appointing. >> yeah. the different here, if they nominate a conservative justice, that this will change the balance of power. anthony kennedy was viewed as a swing vote on the court, maybe switching this to 5-4 to 6-3. this is interesting. we hear...