steve: a few minutes remaining, niels lesniewski. niels: assuming monday evening that president trump does not come out with someone who was not on the list of 25. assuming there isn't a reality television program surprise coming at us monday night, what are you prepared to do, and what is your group prepared to do in terms of ad spending? have you made reservations? are you ready to back which of the nominee is, assuming it is not, like i say, some out in left field choice that we aren't familiar with monday night? carrie: i am confident he would choose someone from the list. the president has gone back to that and reinforced that. which gives me the confidence to say we will be able to fully support these nominees. it is an amazing group of people that are under consideration. when justice gorsuch was prepared withwere websites and ads on various candidates. we are in the same position now. it is an embarrassment of riches. i am so pleased to have this choice before us. whoever it is we are ready to , defend his or her record. they

steve: joining us today is niels lesniewski for cq roll call and greg stohr, bloomberg news supreme court reporter. let me begin on roe v. wade. if that is the litmus test for at least two republican senators and the majority of democrats, are there any names mentioned that are red flags?