FOR ABOUT A HALF HOUR. LET ME BRING IN CHUCK AND
ANDRUWAANDRUW
ANDRUWAANDRUW A
A MITCHELL.
MITCHELL. >> JUST BY THE WAY, THIS WAS THE
OLD 60 VOTE THRESHOLD THAT WE
LIMITED DOWN TO 50.
WHAT THIS IS IS TECHNICALLY THE
BREAKING OF THE FILIBUSTER VOTE.
YOU DON’T NEED 60 TO BREAK IT.
YOU NEED A SIMPLE 50.
JOHN McCAIN IS PROBABLY THE MOST
RECENT EXAMPLE WHERE SOMEONE
VOTED YES TO ADVANCE AND NO ON
FINAL PASSAGE.
FINAL PASSAGE. THAT WAS ON REPEAL AND REPLACE
OF HEALTH CARE.
WHEN HUH LOOK AT JEFF FLAKE, I
WOULD LOOK AT IT THIS WAY AND
PUT HIM IN MOST LIKELY TO LEAST
LIKELY.
LIKELY. LISA MURKOWSKI IS LEAST LIKELY.
SHE HAS ISSUES BEYOND DR. FORD.
ALASKANS ARE AGAINST IT.
COLLINS AND MANCHIN WILL VOTE
THE SAME WAY.
I THINK THE TRULY UNKNOWN HERE
AT THE END OF THE DAY, ALL THESE
PEOPLE WILL BE YESES TODAY, BUT
TOMORROW, DON’T DISCOUNT IT.
SOME REPUBLICANS WHO HAVE NOT
GOTTEN A LOT OF ATTENTION.
>> THIS IS ABOUT CHRISTINE
BLASEY FORD TO SOME EXTENT, BUT
OTHER ISSUES CAME OUT WITH
JUDICIAL TEMPERAMENT.
JUDICIAL TEMPERAMENT. JUDGE KAVANAUGH WROTE AN OP-ED
IN THE "WALL STREET JOURNAL"
THIS MORNING DIRECTLY TAKING ON
AND EXPRESSING REGRET.
>> EXACTLY AND SAYING THAT
PERHAPS HE WAS TOO EMOTIONAL,
TOO PASSIONATE AND EXPLAINING HE
WAS DEFENDING HIMSELF AND HIS
REPUTATION AND FAMILY.
THAT TOLD YOU THAT THE WHITE
HOUSE AND HIS TEAM FELT THEY
STILL HAD THIS ISSUE OUT THERE.
IT WAS NOT JUST THE FBI NOT
CORROBORATING DR. FORD’S
ALLEGATIONS.
ALLEGATIONS. THEY DIDN’T INTERVIEW THE
WITNESSES WHO COULD HAVE CROP
RATED.
RATED. THEY HAD AN UNUSUAL AND
UNREALISTIC STANDARD WHERE THEY
HAD A HE SAID SHE SAID.
MANY ARGUE SHE WAS EVIDENCE.
THAT’S WHAT MANY OF OUR LEGAL
EXPERTS HAVE BEEN SAYING.
THE FACT IS THAT HIS TEMPERAMENT
WHICH HE APOLOGIZED FOR WAS NOT
CHALLENGING THE SENATORS AND
OTHERS.
OTHERS. IT WAS IN HIS WRITTEN STATEMENT
WHERE HE WENT SO POLITICAL AND
TALKED ABOUT THE LEFT SWING
EXPERIENCE AND PAY BACK FROM THE
CLINTONS.
CLINTONS. WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.
THAT WAS SCRIPTED BY HIMSELF.
THAT DISTURBED SOME PEOPLE.
INITIALLY INCLUDING JEFF FLAKE
AND OTHERS AS WELL WHO MAY BE
INFLUENCED BY SOMETHING ELSE
THAT IS UNPRECEDENTED.
>> WILL THERE BE YESES WITH THAT
IN MIND, RELUCTANT YESES?
>> WE KNOW OF ONE WHO LET THAT
RELUCTANT SHOW.
RELUCTANT SHOW. CORY GARDNER FROM COLORADO.
COLORADO IS VERY MUCH A SWING
STATE IN NORMAL TIMES, BUT SHOWN
A STRONGER ANTI-TRUMP AND LESS
COMFORTABLE WITH THE TRUMP ERA
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
REPUBLICAN PARTY. CORY GARDNER IS UP FOR
REELECTION IN THE PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION YEAR, 2020.
THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON
IN FAIRNESS TO THE SENATORS.
A BIG JENVATION SPLIT.
THE BABY BOOMER, MEN IN THE
SENATE ARE COMFORTABLE AND READY
TO TAKE ON LINDSEY GRAHAM.
EMBLEMATIC OF THE YOUNGER SET.
GARDNER AND TIM SCOTT AND BEN
SASSE, THE YOUNGER ONES WHO HAVE
SEEN TAJERS WHO ARE GEN-XORS.
A DIFFERENT GENERATION.
THEY WILL VOTE YES POLITICALLY,
BUT IT’S PAINFUL.
>> ONE OF THE QUICK THINGS,
JUSTICE STEVENS OVERNIGHT SAYING
THAT HE WAS INITIALLY IN FAVOR
OF JUDGE KAVANAUGH AND NOW IS
AGAINST BECAUSE OF HIS DEMEANOR.
THAT COULD BE IMPRESSIVE TO SOME
PEOPLE THAT NEVER HAPPENED
BEFORE.
BEFORE. >> BACK ON THE FLOOR, WE ARE
HEARING SOME OF THE NOS.
>> DUCKWORTH, DURBIN, FEINSTEIN,
JILL BRANDT, HARRIS, HEINRICH.
KLOBUCHAR.
KLOBUCHAR. LEAHY, MARKEY, MERKLEY,
MURKOWSKI.
MURKOWSKI. MURPHY, MURRAY, NELSON, PETERS,