The first thing that's going to happen, for whoever this person that Trump is going to nominate will do two things. One, she or he will strike down the Affordable Care Act when already 55 million people are without health care, and all the…

We only get to do a proportional response if the Democrats take back the Senate. And that's why -- I don't hold that much hope that we're going to have two more Republicans to actually follow their conscience because that is actually…

Mitch McConnell feels a sense of urgency to fill every single judicial vacancy. He has said so and he is living up to it.

A woman's right to choose is very much imperiled, as well as individual rights, worker's right, union rights, you name it.

I think it mattered to my Republican friend and colleague, Lisa Murkowski, as she has already put out a message that to fill this vacancy now, and not wait until 2021 would be a double standard.

I know what her last fervent wish was, that she should not be replaced until a new president is installed.

And that would be very bad for women's right to choose, bad for unions, bad for working people, LGBTQ rights, bad for the Affordable Care Act -- you name it, the voting rights act.

The lasting legacy of the Trump presidency will be all of the ideological total right-wing judges that he has placed on our federal courts for life.

First of all, I think we should hold their feet to the fire and expect them to live up to the words they said. But beyond that, we Democrats are going to do everything we can. We haven't determined what all of that might be, but we will…

So I hope that there are other Republicans who have the courage of the words that they said when they stepped forward when Mitch McConnell said, we're not going to deal with Merrick Garland nine months before the election.

It is certainly up to the rest of us. and I'm glad that my friend and Republican colleague Lisa Murkowski came on and said it would be a double standard to try and push somebody through in only 46 days.