WEBVTT 00:00.533 --> 00:01.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: JEFF, WHAT DO WE 00:01.700 --> 00:04.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% KNOW AND NOT KNOW ABOUT HOW AND 00:04.433 --> 00:06.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHEN THIS CONFIRMATION PROCESS 00:06.233 --> 00:07.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WILL HAPPEN? 00:07.266 --> 00:08.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID 00:08.266 --> 00:10.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YESTERDAY WAS HE INTENDS TO SEND 00:10.133 --> 00:11.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% UP A NOMINEE VERY QUICKLY. 00:11.633 --> 00:13.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HE SAID IT WOULD BE A WOMAN. 00:13.233 --> 00:16.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHAT WE DON'T KNOW IS WHEN 00:16.133 --> 00:17.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SENATE LEADER MITCH McCONNELL 00:17.333 --> 00:18.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INTENDS TO TAKE THIS NOMINATION 00:18.966 --> 00:21.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% UP, WHICH HE DOES. 00:21.133 --> 00:22.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THERE'S VERY LITTLE TIME IN THE 00:22.733 --> 00:24.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SENATE CALENDAR BETWEEN NOW AND 00:24.300 --> 00:25.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ELECTION DAY. 00:25.633 --> 00:26.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND THERE'S BEEN SOME 00:26.633 --> 00:28.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SPECULATION THAT THE VULNERABLE 00:28.366 --> 00:29.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REPUBLICAN INCUMBENTS MIGHT NOT 00:29.866 --> 00:31.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WANT TO CAST A VOTE BEFORE 00:31.666 --> 00:32.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ELECTION DAY. 00:32.933 --> 00:34.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NOW, JUST IN THE LAST DAY, 00:34.966 --> 00:37.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SEVERAL OF THOSE ENDANGERED 00:37.233 --> 00:38.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REPUBLICANS HAVE SAID THEY'RE 00:38.366 --> 00:40.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SIGNED ON WITH McCONNELL-- 00:40.200 --> 00:42.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% JONI ERNST IN IOWA, TILLIS IN 00:42.100 --> 00:43.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NORTH CAROLINA, McSALLY IN 00:43.633 --> 00:45.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ARIZONA-- AND SO, WHAT WE DON'T 00:45.800 --> 00:47.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% KNOW IS, ARE THERE FOUR 00:47.366 --> 00:49.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REPUBLICANS IN THE SENATE, APART 00:49.266 --> 00:50.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FROM SUSAN COLLINS, WHO SAID SHE 00:50.666 --> 00:52.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WOULD PREFER TO WAIT, LISA 00:52.500 --> 00:54.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MURKOWSKI, WHO SAID SHE DOESN'T 00:54.133 --> 00:55.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THINK THERE SHOULD BE A VOTE 00:55.300 --> 00:57.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% 'TIL THE NEW PRESIDENT IS 00:57.000 --> 01:00.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CHOSEN, CHUCK GRASSLEY, FORMER 01:00.833 --> 01:01.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CHAIRMAN OF THE JUDICIARY 01:01.900 --> 01:03.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COMMITTEE, HAS ALSO SAID THAT-- 01:03.300 --> 01:04.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BUT THAT LEAVES ONLY THREE IF 01:04.466 --> 01:06.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEY ALL DO THAT. 01:06.000 --> 01:07.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MANY, MANY OTHER REPUBLICANS 01:07.700 --> 01:09.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HAVE DONE A COMPLETE 180 AROUND 01:09.466 --> 01:11.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEIR POSITION BACK IN 2016 WHEN 01:11.666 --> 01:13.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THEY SAID NO VOTE IN A 01:13.100 --> 01:14.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PRESIDENTIAL YEAR. 01:14.733 --> 01:16.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND SO, IT'S GOING TO BE UP TO 01:16.066 --> 01:17.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% McCONNELL IN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO 01:17.366 --> 01:18.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO DECIDE, DOES HE WANT TO TRY A 01:18.533 --> 01:20.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% VOTE NOW, OR DOES HE WANT TO 01:20.500 --> 01:22.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WAIT 'TIL AFTER THE ELECTION AND 01:22.200 --> 01:24.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DO IT IN A LAME DUCK SESSION? 01:24.366 --> 01:25.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: AND THINGS COULD 01:25.366 --> 01:26.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GET CONTENTIOUS. 01:26.366 --> 01:27.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I MEAN, DEMOCRATS WOULDN'T LIKE 01:27.866 --> 01:29.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THIS IDEA. 01:29.066 --> 01:30.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> IF TRUMP WINS IN NOVEMBER, 01:30.766 --> 01:31.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THIS ISSUE ESSENTIALLY GOES 01:31.766 --> 01:32.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AWAY. 01:32.800 --> 01:34.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BECAUSE EVEN IF THE DEMOCRATS 01:34.133 --> 01:35.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WERE TO WIND UP TAKING THE 01:35.166 --> 01:36.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SENATE, THE LAME DUCK 01:36.366 --> 01:37.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REPUBLICANS IN NOVEMBER COULD 01:37.466 --> 01:38.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SAY, LOOK, THE PEOPLE CHOSE 01:38.966 --> 01:40.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TRUMP, IT'S HIS NOMINATION AND 01:40.666 --> 01:42.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FINE. 01:42.033 --> 01:43.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IF TRUMP WERE TO LOSE AND THE 01:43.833 --> 01:45.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SENATE WERE TO GO DEMOCRATIC AND 01:45.933 --> 01:47.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE LAME DUCK REPUBLICAN STILL 01:47.200 --> 01:48.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SAID, WE'RE GOING TO CONFIRM 01:48.633 --> 01:49.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TRUMP'S NOMINEE IN LATE 01:49.900 --> 01:51.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NOVEMBER, THEN YOU'RE TALKING 01:51.366 --> 01:52.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ABOUT WHATEVER ANALOGY YOU LIKE. 01:52.966 --> 01:55.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DEFCON ONE, ARMAGEDDON ON 01:55.066 --> 01:56.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% STEROIDS. 01:56.166 --> 01:57.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AS CHUCK SCHUMER SAID, 01:57.633 --> 01:59.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EVERYTHING'S ON THE TABLE. 01:59.166 --> 02:00.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT COULD MEAN EXPANDING THE 02:00.733 --> 02:02.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SIZE OF THE SUPREME COURT. 02:02.466 --> 02:03.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT COULD MEAN GIVING STATEHOOD 02:03.733 --> 02:06.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO PUERTO RICO AND PERHAPS THE 02:06.300 --> 02:07.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR FOUR 02:07.733 --> 02:09.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MORE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS. 02:09.633 --> 02:12.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT MEANS THE ENTIRE FRAMEWORK 02:12.666 --> 02:14.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OF OUR SYSTEM IS BEING 02:14.000 --> 02:15.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ESSENTIALLY REDUCED TO WHO HAS 02:15.533 --> 02:16.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE POWER. 02:16.533 --> 02:18.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: IT SEEMS LIKE 02:18.733 --> 02:22.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THIS WILL GALVANIZE PEOPLE ON 02:22.233 --> 02:24.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BOTH SIDES TO GET OUT AND VOTE. 02:24.366 --> 02:26.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> FOUR YEARS AGO, IT WAS CLEAR 02:26.366 --> 02:29.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT THE ISSUE OF A SUPREME 02:29.266 --> 02:31.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COURT JUSTICE WAS HELPING TRUMP. 02:31.133 --> 02:32.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT GOT ALL THE SOCIAL 02:32.300 --> 02:33.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CONSERVATIVES WHO WERE WORRIED 02:33.333 --> 02:34.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ABOUT TRUMP'S PERSONAL BEHAVIOR 02:34.866 --> 02:36.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BACK IN LINE. 02:36.200 --> 02:37.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND THEY WERE MOSTLY WORRIED 02:37.300 --> 02:38.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BECAUSE SCALIA, THE MOST 02:38.633 --> 02:41.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MILITANT CONSERVATIVE, WAS GONE, 02:41.200 --> 02:42.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND THEY WERE WORRIED THAT AN 02:42.500 --> 02:45.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OBAMA PICK WOULD FLIP THE COURT. 02:45.300 --> 02:48.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THIS TIME IT'S THE LIBERAL ICON 02:48.266 --> 02:49.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHO HAS DEPARTED. 02:49.766 --> 02:51.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND DEMOCRATS ARE SAYING, WELL, 02:51.166 --> 02:52.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YOU KNOW, ONE MORE CONSERVATIVE 02:52.433 --> 02:53.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% JUSTICE. 02:53.433 --> 02:54.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THERE GOES THE AFFORDABLE HEALTH 02:54.466 --> 02:55.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CARE PLAN. 02:55.466 --> 02:57.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THERE GOES ABORTION RIGHTS. 02:57.066 --> 02:58.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THERE GOES THE WHOLE AGENDA. 02:58.933 --> 03:00.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT IN THE 03:00.700 --> 03:02.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LAST 24 HOURS, A LIBERAL 03:02.566 --> 03:04.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FUNDRAISING GROUP, ACTBLUE, HAS 03:04.433 --> 03:08.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RAISED $91 MILLION, WHICH 03:08.466 --> 03:10.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SUGGESTS THAT THE TRADITIONAL 03:10.200 --> 03:12.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ANALYSIS THAT A CONSERVATIVE IS 03:12.766 --> 03:14.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HELPED BY A SUPREME COURT FIGHT, 03:14.866 --> 03:16.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT MAY HAVE FLIPPED THIS YEAR. 03:16.300 --> 03:17.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WE'LL FIND OUT. 03:17.300 --> 03:18.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: JEFF GREENFIELD, 03:18.400 --> 03:19.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THANKS SO MUCH. 03:19.400 --> 03:19.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THANK YOU, HARI.