Hello and welcome to this late political gap fest for the 23rd of April.

Friday, I'm John Dickerson.

In Washington with David Plotz and Emily Bazelon is in New Haven on a screen that looks like she's put Vaseline on her camera.

We're going to start today by talking about financial regulatory

reform, which is coming apart as we talk, a piece of legislation in the Senate. Then we're

going to talk about the President's Supreme Court nomination and how that's going. And then finally,

we're going to end by talking about a New York Times Sunday magazine piece about Mike Allen,

the political reporter for Politico, which has changed and affected the way we, the way news is covered in Washington.

So let's start with financial regulatory reform. We had a roller coaster ride this week. The president got engaged in a battle with the majority, excuse me, the minority leader,

the Republican leader, Mitch McConnell and called him cynical and deceptive for trying to block

the bill, which McConnell had said was just another bailout bill of Wall Street Banks.

The president then gave a speech on Thursday at Cooper Union near Wall Street, asking Wall Street

banks to stop lobbying against the bill.

And the bill is in the sort of contentious place we will remember from health care.

On Thursday afternoon, Harry Reid filed the motion to proceed, which means basically

letting the bill come up for debate. Mitch McConnell is filibustering or objecting to that. And so now we're

going to have to have a filibuster vote on Monday at 5 o'clock to see whether this bill even gets to the

floor or not. And so we're going to have a weekend of posturing about whether you're for bailouts

or Wall Street. David, what do you make of all this? Well, you also forgot

to mention, because you could only mention so many things in one long breath. The, I think one of

the most important factors that's changing the dynamic, which is this suit that the SEC filed

against Goldman Sachs, accusing Goldman, essentially of tricking a bunch of

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