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We talk so much about a midterm perspective about taking back the house. heidi, you know this as well as anybody. the calculations for how to win in these trump states, it's building. >> and pressuring them and forcing them into a no vote, it's huge in some of these states. they lose the seat, in the long run bat startedgy because the democrats will be doomed in turns of ever winning the majority back. >> i generally don't know what the strategy is here besides energize the base, besides dip into the well that is what they did to robert bourque, to suggest that this guy is harboring sentiments...

Those decisions themselves. you read redactions and all. >> actually, in fairness, this isn't my original argument. robert bourque made this argument in the "wall street journal" 40 years ago right before fisa was signed into law. he predicted these kind of abuses. basically, judges have no business being in a fisa decision it's not like a criminal warrant. they are trying to find service. and when you do it, what he predicts is you will see abuse because either the judges will unnecessarily defer to the intelligence agencies because they have superior technical knowledge or they will insert t...

Such. at the same time you point out, many nominees have been keiji about it dating back to robert bourque when his nomination was torpedoed by women's rights groups and consultants have trained them not to answer the question. what we found is there is a good way to read some of this language that lines up with the same language that activist groups for pro life organizations use like the susan b anthony foundation and right to life foundation. what i found was that two out of the three, kavanaugh and barrett used those code words. there are only a handful. is referring to roe as o portion on...

Benefit. this wasn't an issue that galvanized democrats but now with potentially the future of roe v. wade on the line, democrats, this is their chance to really get their voters excited and that's why you're seeing the democratic messaging on the supreme court already focus on not only abortion but future of the affordable care act. health care is the top motivating factor for democratic voters right now and chuck schumer and senate democrats will make sure they hear about health care and the supreme court through the confirmation vote. >> one thing you're hearing from conservatives in the la...

Joe manchin, who one would think would be a pretty reliable vote at this point given what happened with neil gorsuch, has said what would really trip him up is if somebody wasn't going to support the affordable care act. and one of the main nominees or potential nominees, a woman amy barrett from indiana, notre dame law school, took a very strong position against the supreme court's decisions upholding the constitutionality of the aca. so that might create an interesting possibility where the pressure could be on those two republican women, and it would be intense i think from within maine and...