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A frame work and talking points for why they might not support this nominee. so in some ways, i think it's broad and there's a lot to choose from. whether or not it's his comments or lack of comments in terms of abortion, whether it's the frozen trucker case, whether it's his sort of comments and role in enhanced interrogation techniques. so, that's what she's trying to do, sort of lay out a pretty broad sense of where the democratic party is in terms of this nominee and give everyone a sense of why they might be able to be for him or against him. but in some ways, it isn't surprising that you...

Comparison between judge gorsuch and other republican nominees, saying compare these answers, compare how little he gave, even when you look at, for example, now justice samuel alito, now justice anthony kennedy. and i think she went through this systematically to say this is not just about the politics of what happened with merrick garland, although she stressed that that was so unusual last year that president obama's nominee did not get a hearing. she stressed how much the money was going against the interests of democrats, but she wanted to give the substantive case, and i think we'll hear...

About gorsuch, it was true about garland in terms of the credentials. of course. then the third thing that i would say is, if i would the democrats i would absolutely filibuster this, that's number one. number two, gorsuch is not in the mainstream. that's false. if you look at the frozen trucker case where the guy was literally freezing to death and had to get rid of his truck in order to live, then got fired from his job, and gore shusuch against him, you tell me, is that in the mainstream? i'm a little tired of people in power thinking they need to protect the corporations. >> if the 60 vote...

Well, i find that disheartening. i find that demoralizing. >> disheartening and demoralizing. that made some headlines. another long grueling day of questioning ahead for the supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. he faced a ten-hour grilling from senators at the confirmation hearing with democrats challenging his ability to maintain independence from president trump. >> let's go live and bring in michael moore the former u.s. district attorney for the district of georgia. good morning. throwing punches did any of them connect? >> i don't really think they did. when you had senator franken, for i...

Goes on here. they have somebody coach you and script you with questions you might expect. these things around flying off the cuff. these are well-crafted answers. i'm a total cynic about what he's doing but he's a very smart man. he's certainly well qualified i think he's answering questions that he knows will make sense to the committee. in fairness, too, i do think those are the kind of answers you want to hear from a judge. you want to know that they're not going to lead one way or another. they're going to look at the facts in the case, the rich and the poor. the big man, the little man, ...