to confirmation. for more we're joined by tracie potts and democrats seem to have enough votes to block that this week so will that be enough? >> reporter: it may not be because they may be looking at what's called the nuclear option here, lowering the thresholds of how many votes are needed to get gorsuch on the u.s. supreme court. he cleared committee, now there are enough democrats willing to filibuster, something never seen with a supreme court nominee, that they could block this nomination without that rule change. take a look. four democrats bucking the party so to speak, three from red states up for re-election. the other from a home city of gorsuch, from denver. all of them saying that they won't block this nomination. but 42 other democrats plan to do just that, forcing, republicans say, forcing the party into this nuclear option where they can essentially confirm gorsuch without any democrats on board. they've got the numbers to do it, but is that going to pave