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The democrats about whether they want to go all out on the gorsuch nomination or recognize that this is so main stream that you're not going to able to block it. >> given your expertise and just your history in the white house, are there any parallels between gorsuch and the robert bourque situation? >> no, i don't think -- robert bourque had much more explosive views, he was much more of a dissenter. he was much more way out of the main stream, his views eventually carried a lot of weight within republican circles. but that was a much more controversial nomination, this one is relatively unco...

President's nominees, even if he's a fellow kaernt. democrats and the base really want their people to step up to the line and call it what it is. the same way trump was able to sort of like blow away all of this sort of genteel talk, washington talk and be himself and voters really like that. >> i feel like this is, to your earlier point, this is a long-term escalation of sort of the breakdown of decorum in american government, starting with abe fortis in and robert bourque and the heated rhetoric over nominees from supreme court now down to the secretary of the education who the vice preside...

Level judges. >> put up the senators again. bill nelson is a no. debbie is a no and brown is a no and casey most likely a no and baldwin most likely a no and mccaskill most likely a no. they will not get to 60. they are going down or mcconnell has to go nuclear. >> but there are other senators not on that list from blue states who are principally opposed to filibustering a supreme court nominee, specifically dick durbin who said that. >> just looking at that list, they are not getting to 60. >> join ing us now is andy carr. good to have you on board this morning. >> good to be with you. thanks...

Different nominees for the supreme court who were all rejected or forced to withdraw in scandal. but again i think of that as a weird bermuda triangle period in supreme court nominees. there are exceptions. there was that time period. there was the tough time for clarence thomas, robert bourque, those were exceptions but that proved the more general rule. if you get to the point where the president is nominating you to be a supreme court justice and the senate is considering your nomination to be a supreme court justice you are likely to get through. look at the justices confirmed in the late ...

The vast majority of those confirmed have been confirmed by a lot, by big overwhelming votes, there's only been a handful of exceptions in modern history. reagan nominee robert bourque was rejected by the senate in 1987. in the george h.w. bush administration, in 1991 clarence thomas was almost rejected by the senate. he squeaked by on a 52-48 vote, the narrowest approval margin for a supreme court justice in modern history. there was also a weird period before that, 1968, 1969, 1970, that was like a bermuda triangle for the supreme court. this was after lbj's triumphant nomination of thurgood...