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Press briefing. that's coming up. we'll have coverage of that. on the right the senate judiciary committee, they will resume. they're in recess right now. confirmation hearings for the supreme court nominee, judge neil gorsuch. we'll have coverage of that once that committee hearing resumes. senator dick durbin, the democrat from illinois. i think he is scheduled to begin the questioning. there are other major developments we're following right now, including a huge battle underway up on capitol hill over the republicans health care bill. president trump and house republican leaders just finis...

Ginsburg rule which means he is not answering questions at all much. he is demonstrating he knows a lot of constitutional law. he is demonstrating that he knows the facts of a lot of these detainees issues from when he was in the bush administration better than dianne feinstein who tried to question him about that, and in a judiciary committee, in a senate with majority of republicans, he is doing fine. >> he said he would stand up to president trump if he had to. he demonstrated to the skeptics about whether he would, you know, answer whatever he would say on roe v. wade. he said if the presi...

>> anthony kennedy. >> on the -- that was a 6-3. it just shows how so many big political controversies ultimately wind up before those nine judges. >> i will also say that the supreme court also changed the law, are and that was -- it was very dramatic because it was about medicaid, and it gave states the options to take this medicaid money that was available to them, and lots of states opted out, which i would argue is why the congressional budget office estimate was off, but now the fight, all these many years later, the fight is over medicaid, and that very issue that justice roberts really...

Democrats because we're just through the morning. we have a long way to go. today and tomorrow. the democrats have not even bruised, blemished anything to this judge so far. they're trying to score their points and asking predictable -- i'm not saying it's wrong to ask predictable questions, but he has poise, to jeffrey's point. he knows the law. he knows what he is doing. if you want to view this transactionally, the president of the united states had a very bad day yesterday. today his supreme court nominee has had a very good first morning in the chair questioning, and while we've been watc...

Republican majority. >> it would be a tactical victory. it's not guaranteeing repeeling and replacing obama care. it gets you through the house. knee made changes largely in the medicaid slice of this to get more house votes, which has damaged their case with the more moderate members of the senate. this will be tactical victory. if they can pass something. if they can do that in the house, don't count. that's not the final bill. it will be changed again in the senate, and then the question will be can the president cut a big deal. that's the short-term. we're talking more about the politics t...