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Favor of neil gorsuch. there is really no strong reason to believe that they wouldn't vote for kavanaugh. so again, the momentum appears to be on their side. it doesn't seem to be something -- with the exception of that one health care vote, that's what really got susan collins that reputation of sort of bucking the president sometimes. but in actuality, they tend not to. >> mimi, i have 30 seconds but you're really smart and you can handle this. remind folks the stakes. the republicans seem willing to take a big chance here because what comes with a justice of the supreme court? >> a lifetime...

We're going to see when this actually takes place and what kind of attention is shown on it. at that point, do the voters pay attention and does it become part of the calculus of what we see now in polling which is 50% of americans want democrats to come in to the majority as a check on an overreaching president trump. so it is potentially an abuse of power. we'll see what the response is when, like i said, when the actual data dump happens. if it happened today, we're in the middle of this brett kavanaugh thing and the white house would be happy to have it consumed by that. >> so susan, forgi...

There is a pretext for not retracting it according to them, which is that they have other sources were telling them that this happened. wouldn't lanny davis as a personal attorney and the man at the center of the story, wouldn't he be the most basic of all the sources? >> it makes no sense. theoretically it's possible i guess. in the most theoretical sense, that michael cohen is telling carl bernstein or wolf blitzer or whoever on the side, something that he is then having his own lawyer go deny it, which is that i have dirt on donald trump, and then having his lawyer deny it. like it's theore...

Lethal as some have portrayed it as being. brian: ainsley, think about this. lanny davis has just said my client needs to pay me, doesn't have money, so let's set up a go fund me page. when my client gets a pardon, he will refuse it because he prefers jail. how stupid is that? >> yeah, we will ask the president today if is he planning on throwing out a pardon to michael cohen who was once his friend. yeah, that's ridiculous. i agree with you. why wouldn't he protect his client. when we talk about campaign finance laws and if it's illegal or not we were asking gregg jarrett that earlier as an a...

>> it was pretty shocking to hear the director of national intelligence, the top intelligence officer in the united states, say that he's not in a position to understand fully what happened in helsinki. >> that may have been the fastest hand-off of a question i've ever seen by somebody in a major press conference. >> wouldn't he be briefed spe k specifically? >> you would hope so. and when the national security adviser said, no, no, no, putin told us what happened in the meeting. remember when he came out and said, putin told us that was the question the president asked. you never empower an a...