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other great information. once again, please again to dr. fauci and to everybody here in the audience, stay esafe and be well and have a great afternoon. thank you. sue beck thank you very much mckenzie appreciate having me on the program. thank you. sue beck will talk about matters of the president's choice or at least his nominee the heads of the supreme court amy county baird letter confirmation hearing last week. and that process resumes this week to highlight that for us alexander bolton of the hill served as a senior reporter for the publication, mr. bolton good morning thank you for joining us. >> good morning. walk us through the next steps. what is going on behind the scenes as this week starts off? >> i mean the next steps are on october 22. which is thursday. there's going to be a vote in committee on barrett's nomination. she is expected too get every
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single republican vote on the judiciary committee in every single democrat is expected to vote against her. and then mitch mcconnell says he is going to take up her nomination on the floor friday, october 23. so what that means is that he is going to file on her. so the expectation then is there would be a procedural vote on advancing the nomination on the floor. a closure vote on tuesday an intervening day between when it is invoked and when it's filed and voted on. and so via investment mcconnell could speed things up by keeping the senate in over the weekends for the expectation is he close on friday the 23rd. the voucher to advance and donation is on tuesday. and then there would be the final upper down vote for amy county baird on wednesday. and said that would basically give

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