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St stick with me, let's get this over quickly, right? >> you've seen some of those republican swing senators be turned off by the democrats so far. we asked questions about the witnesses, particularly when leader schumer announced those in a letter to mitch mcconnell on sunday night. while she had gentle criticism for mitch mcconnell when he said he was in complete cooperation with the white house, she had pretty strong words for schumer, too, and said he didn't sit down with the white house and talk about this privately. i was talking to schumer yesterday and he said a lot of that tactic rubb...

I think these swing senators are really in the hot seat. >> david, i think you're very interesting because you voted in support of impeachment of president bill clinton and you even wrote last year you didn't think democrats should impeach president trump. you don't feel that way now. what's changed for you? >> i think a couple things changed. one was just the reality on the ground. once the whistle-blower complaint came out. i think the democrats, and i was one of them, resisted this impeachment move, but we were handed with a situation on the ground with the fact, a transcript the white hous...

Twists and turns and bitter partisan battles over this confirmation. but as you said, republicans do have the votes to confirm brett kavanaugh today. we will see the senate officially seal the deal this afternoon on the senate floor when they vote for his final confirmation. key to this is when they saw the four key swing senators who went into the day yesterday previously undecided. they revealed their votes. this is how it breaks down -- two republicans, senator collins and senator flake, and one democrat, joe mnuchin, announced that they will vote for brett kavanaugh. one sole republican, l...

Highly qualified and has been treated by some unfairly. >> due process should apply as much to the senate, advice and consent responsibility as it should in a court of law. if we lose this basic concept of fairness, then we risk doing i reparable damage to the foundation of our democracy and core conceptions of american justice and even liberty. >> reporter: three of the key swing senators we were watching announced in the past 24 hours, they were yes on judge kavanaugh. the only democrat expected to vote yes, joe manchin. the fourth moderate explained why she is a no. >> in my conscience, tha...

And it's about to get ratcheted up to a 15. we're about to see 30 hours of a debate. perhaps we could see a vote. perhaps it could stretch into sunday with one republican senator not here for a wedding, but we're going to see continued protests, continued speeches, and continued enormous pressure on those four swing senators who have all now cast their first votes here on this procedural motion to move to this next phase tlooch phase. three yeses from the four on the fence and one no vote. i don't think it's safe to say any of those decisions are final. i think we have the yeses here on a proc...