. >> this is from west virginia, republican line, madei lynch ene. hello. >> hello. thanks for taking my call. i just want to say regardless of how people talk about judge kavanaugh, if they could not treat that man the way they talked and treated him, i can't see how anyone could say they were christians or that they had a heart when you can talk about someone like the had a heart democrats criticized him. they criticized him like he was a nobody, and everybody knows he's very, very smart. >> is there a history about people coming out right off the bat once a nominee is named about whether they will say what we saw through this process playing out? >> to some extent, sure. there were southern democrats, for example in the 1950's and 1960's, and some republicans, like senator thurmond, who would come out publicly with any nominee who supported brown v. board of education in fact, the early hearings in the 1950's and 1960's are almost made up exclusively with those who might agree with brown v. board of education. what we have seen recently -- the idea this is new or