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As gloria was saying. and they're issues that the conservatives really like. issues of executive power and religious liberty. but there are some controversial ones too. he had a controversial opinion on the affordable care act and another one about some kinds of abortion restrictions. so those are out there, and these hearings are also going to feature george w. bush for his time there. some people wonder really, do they want to relitigate those issues, things that happened during the bush years, during those hearings. it's for sure going to come up. >> a classic washington insider from the ge...

Change with the new pick. anthony kennedy was the key swing vote on issues like abortion, lgbt rights, affirmative action. now he'll be replaced with somebody who's younger and who's more conservative. most of the protesters here are talking about roe v. wade tonight. you've got the opponents of abortions. on the other side, you've got people already chanting "hey ho, brett kavanaugh's got to go." way behind me, there's a light on in some of the chambers. i don't know whose chamber it is, but anthony kennedy has got to be smiling somewhere because this is the second time one of his former cler...

Ago. >> interesting. all right. thank you very much, ariana. i want you to stand by. i want to bring in everyone else now and get your opinion on the president's announcement tonight. michael, first of all, i want to turn to you because we've learned that the president's supreme court team looked at brett kavanaugh's past comments on indicting a sitting president. i have a quote here. this is what he wrote when he worked with ken starr in his book back in 2009. he said, the indictment and trial of a sitting president moreover would cripple the federal government, rendering it unable to functio...

Also had conservative clerks. neil gorsuch was one of them. brett kavanaugh is one too. keep in mind, this establishment pick, he has over 300 opinions, as gloria was saying. and they're issues that the conservatives really like. issues of executive power and religious liberty. but there are some controversial ones too. he had a controversial opinion on the affordable care act and another one about some kinds of abortion restrictions. so those are out there, and these hearings are also going to feature george w. bush for his time there. some people wonder really, do they want to relitigate tho...

The crossroads of a lot of major issues. not only ken starr but bush v. gore, elian gonzalez, torture issues during the bush administration. so democrats are not going to leave any stone unturned here, and it could require more time than the president really wants to give it. >> according to manu raju, he said chuck grassley said earlier tonight that someone with a long record will take time to go through the full record. this is a quote again from manu. and not commit to holding confirmation hearings until september. that really pushes it back. ariana, i want to get back to you. a graphic was...