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Afghanistan will become another breeding ground for terrorism, most likely another 9/11 will emanate there, going through a broken southern border. general is right, if joe biden disu does not regregret what he did in afghanistan he is deaf, dumb and blind. trey: how much she wants to meet you in person. you and i are laughing it is serious, should all members of house and senate block off time for state prosecutors going forward? >> well if we let county prosecutors start calling senators and m...

An official proceeding. on thursday, i think we heard evidence of the acts and omissions of donald trump that constituted obstruction of an official proceeding. the things that occurred during those three hours when the white house -- the capital was under attack, when he was calling rudy giuliani, hes calling senators, hes refusing to take calls from the pentagon, refusing to call up the national guard, refusing to do a video, and refusing to post a tweet to disperse the crowd, i think that is ...

>> the senators who im talking to who are advocating doing anything necessary including changing the senate rules have been telling me privately theyre pretty frustrated with the president and even with kamala harris who this is supposed to be one of her issues, that they need to do more. so while you read at the top that he might be getting international pressure, hes been getting domestic pressure for quite some time to do something more, if these calling senators, if thats making more speeche...

Even though essentially same bills were passed by senate republicans last month. have you made any progress convincing him to bring the bills to a vote and do you expect him to allow a vote on any potential compromise that includes daca, tps but with money for the wall? >> well, listen, the only way we get senator mcconnell to allow a vote and the senate to pass something that the house is able to send over is if we as the american people, the activists motivated over this last year and a half a...

One thing to step back and put this in perspective. he talked to brett kavanaugh within the last couple of minutes. at some point, brett kavanaugh will be sworn in as the next associate justice of the supreme court. heres is the thing. he will be there for a long time. brett kavanaugh likely for decades after donald trump is out of office because there is a finite time period that will happen. but brett kavanaugh long after that will remain on supreme court and be part of the trump administratio...

Sides are taking into consideration. i think its important that we look at not just certainly dr. ford went through something and she is someone that has conviction and someone that is credible. but also at the same time, we have to give the benefit of the doubt -- >> -- if you had been in that hearing crying with quivering chin being flippant and disrespectful to senators and had told senators of the other side what goes around comes around. i mean, you think judicial independence would not hav...

From the white house. president trump tweeting just a few moments ago, heres the tweet from the president here who is clearly watching all of this unfold the same way that we are in front of our televisions. very proud of the u.s. senate for voting yes to advance the nomination of judge brett kavanaugh. yamish al sindor is at the white house. we know that don mcgahn, the white house counsel is apparently stationed at the capital right now. walk us through what else we know about the communicatio...

Been calling republican senators and bee rating them, thats it the world politico uses, berating them. politico describing trump calling republican senator bob corker to yell at him and complain to him about a russia sanctions bill that corker had sponsored and supported. politico describes the president calling up the till is to complain about a bill that was to prevent trump from firing mueller who is looking into the russia matter. its kind of interesting. all this reporting about the preside...

Obamacare using just the 51-vote thresh hold, which lets him too it on a straight party line vote with only democrats. i dont think runs should let him do that, and if he tries to play those games, tries to use the 51-vote threshold to let democrats fund obamacare, im hopeful all 46 republicans will stand, unified, side-by-side, with republicans in the house, and fight to defund obamacare. >> neil: do you know of many republicans republicans republicans who wont? >> its not clear. theres been a ...

>> and the president has been working the phones on this calling senators. >> he spoke to five or six senators over the weekend yesterday. again this morning. rand paul in for a one on one meeting but it became clear there were enough senators who were resisting this, who were saying, look, were not going to even do the procedural vote to get to the actual vote. thats when they realized they had to put the brakes on all of this because they did not want a defeat. the question is going home into ...