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with us now former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree.d that last night there were people skeptical, i don't know. doing the math thinking do they have the votes? now that mitt romney said he would support the president the gop breathing a bit easier today. your thoughts. >> i think senator graham is right or proven correct. the fact that mitt romney has publicly come out and said he is prepared to move ahead with a vote really at this rate any chances the democrats had of stopping this nomination from moving forward. they still need to get two votes. anyone's guess where they could come up with those votes. >> trace: now it's all about timing, right? we talked about how this can be done as early as 19 days, historically it's been done in 19 days. i want to put this on the screen. you talk about brett kavanaugh, neil gorsuch, it has taken a lot longer. brett kavanaugh took 88 days. neil gorsuch, and others longer. here is the white house chief of staff mark meadows on mitch mcconnell's timeline. >> leader mcconnell is working very closely