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Seats plus or minus 8. so keep that in mind. 224. >> wow. >> minus 8 would get you to 216. 216 would be short of the 218 needed for a majority. 224 plus 8 would get you to 232, comfortably over what you need for a majority. and what that means is if you look at that range, where that number falls in it we think it's about right now a 65% chance. about a 2/3 chance that when all these districts come in, if the trends old about a two-thirds chance that democrats will end up in control at the end of the night. so, again, we're going to see more of these districts start to come in, more of these i...

You don't know what the early vote is all about. for or against something. >> two things. context matters. let's take a look. that was early voting and absentee voting. -- it was early voting, not early and absentee. if you combine them, this time around republicans have 40.1% of the early and absentee votes in florida. the democrats have 40.6%. half a point. but that's only 24,000 votes. two years ago the democrats combined out of the two had a 96,000 vote margin. this time around if they were doing the same percentage that they had last time around they would have a 72,000 vote margin coming...

Ever been, right? that sort of vote margin. >> yes. >> closest, brooke, in a full century. >> yeah. yeah. and then, okay, so you walked through the differences. what about the similarities? >> well, here we have this, you know, it feels very late in the game, but it's because women had actually come forward, but their grievances hadn't been fully aired. the committee didn't know exactly how to handle them. both of them, anita hill and christine ford didn't want to come public. so it was simmering in the background. it burst out in public their names and the weekend before crucial senate votes....

Do you still feel that way? what you think about this process when you look at how political it has become? >> sad. i remember going home on lunch breaks to watch the confirmation process for other supreme court justices. that's how much of a nerd i am when it comes to these things. it's like the super bowl for me. i love the interaction between the senators and these really, really intelligent folks, but it's become so politicized. how many democrats voted for neil gorsuch? three? ruth bader ginsburg won 95 to single digits. the democrats just have a different role when it comes to republican...

Christmas eve kind of voting thing or you may see it get stuck. >> you think there's some members of the house saying i'm not done reading this, i need more time. >> the house will vote through it. any concerns found in the next week could slow down. that's where the vote margin is slimmer, the senate. >> thank you. pack with me a little later on in the program. appreciate it. president trump reaches out to russia with a phone call to vladimir putin from north korea to personal praise, what the two already talk bowed. the white house versus fbi. how continued criticism could compromise the b...