Barbara Boxer: “We have some contentious hearings, I do not think this one will be such.”

Frankly, anyone who runs on that as an issue should be defeated, overwhelmingly by everybody.

The point -- but I do think there`s an important point to this poll. And that is, we Democrats, we do have a very good and diverse coalition. It truly is diverse, everywhere you look at it. But in terms of leadership in Congress, it is…

Good on Gavin Newsom for being the bigger person to show up and say, Mr. President, I'm glad you're here.

This is a sad moment, we always had two parties, one was to the right of center, one was to the left of center, and we never had a party, so extreme and so willing to become the party of grievance and anger and division.