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Do your democratic colleagues all agree with you on that? >> well, every single one of my colleagues that i've heard from today agrees with me. this was made very clear by mitch mcconnell, but not only mitch mcconnell. he had 50 other republican senators who agreed with him who thought when you were that close to an election, you needed to let the american people speak. and so while we're sort of focusing our energy on mcconnell today because he is the progenitor of that precedent, it is also important to remember that all of his colleagues agreed with him as well. and well you are right to po...

Murkowski and collins, i can look at them and see what they've said about choice and see what their records, their mixed records have sort of been on the abortion rights issue over time to recognize that this is something they may not want to be the decisive vote that will likely result in the overturning of roe versus wade and the making abortion illegal. when it comes to a republican whose uncomfortable with rough, bare hypocrisy in terms of the treatment of democratic versus republican presidents, i don't know what to look for to recognize that. >> yeah, no, i think you are right, which is ...

Is there one republican in the u.s. senate who might not want to be the deciding vote that made abortion illegal in this country? is there one? senator susan collins of maine, november of last year received the barry goldwater award from the planned parenthood federation of america in partnership with its republican advisory board thanking her and recognizie ining her for her co and fighting to ensure the rights granted to women from within the republican caucus in the united states senate. senator lisa murkowski of alaska, also a pro-choice republican senator. in january of this year, just a ...

Constitutional right to privacy. they consider it to be a judicial monstrosity. so with that in mind, i think senators collins, senators murkowski, have to understand that a vote for any of these people on that list is a vote to criminalize abortion and potentially criminalize birth control. it's that important. as far as others who might be susceptible, yes, it might be senator flake, but, frankly, you have a lot of senators in western states which are more or less libertarian states. you have a slew of house seats in blue states where abortion rights are taken for granted. and that i think i...

Do. >> 40, 45 years, that means you are looking at a nominee in their mid to early 40s. whoever he or she is, they're clearly looking for longevity, something to really put the president's mark on this court. i think when you look at the last nomination, even democrats will concede that for a chaotic white house, that was rolled out fairly expertly. they didn't make a lot of silly mistakes like they have in the rollouts of some of the president's other priorities. so we'll see how tactfully successful this rollout is and what they do to keep two republican, pro-choice senators on board, senato...