nevada newsmakers," great power pundit panel, elisa cafferata, lobbyist with planned parenthood, mendy elliott, partner capitol partners, along with paul enos. pleasure to have you here. your thoughts on the supreme court process that has been playing out over the last week since the passing of justice scalia. >> i've just been fascinated that the republicans have been so quick to jump in and say, or mitch mcconnell specifically, obama's nominees and i sort of feel like at this point president obama could solve world hunger and mitch mcconnell would find fault with it. and you have heard a lot of republicans like -- not on your show, saying it is the president's job to fill the vacancy. >> he can fill the vacancy, but the senate's opportunity to actually vote and -- i can't think of the word, concern. thank you. >> the republicans and the senate, if they maintain -- we are starting to see cracks in this already. >> i was going to say, they're backing, they're backing that they are not going to hear it, but i would be shocked if they confirmed. obama himself, he filibustered on alito's, filibus