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Struggling presidency. this morning ill be joined by the senates top two leaders, republican mitch mcconnell and democrat chuck schumer.so also the fake news cycle. a former fbi agent says russia speaks and the president tweets. >> the reason active measures worked in this u.s. election is because the commander in chief has used russian measures at times against his opponents. >> clint watts says the russians are still at it and hes live here this morning. joining me are eugene robinson, columni...

On which -- >> thats money. you have to be able to raise money. >> exactly what this is. this is donor driven on both sides. only the donors that like get amped up on this, right? >> this is exactly whats going on. this is about focusing on that. lets be clear. this didnt start with harry reid or mitch mcconnell or now chuck schumer. this has been going on for the last 20 or 30 years as gene pointed out. >> actually, the impeach earl warren billboard started in the 50s but okay. >> but were more...

President bush, alito and roberts, two by president obamac sotomayor and kagan, both got votes from the other side.e thats the norm. but when you have the federalist society and the heritage foundation have a veto power over who you choose, you wont get bipartisanship. >> everybody has interest groups on their side. >> no. >> that does these things. g >> no no no. e. >> final question. do you have the votes -- do you have the votes to filibuster neil gorsuch, do you have it? >> look, what happen...

You have the votes to change the rules? >> i can tell you that neil gorsuch will be confirmed this week. how that happens really depends on our democratic friends. how many of them are willing to oppose cloture on a partisan basis to kill a supreme court op nominee. never happened before in history, in the whole history of the country. in fact, filibustering judges at all is a rather recent phenomenon, started by your next guest, senator schumer, after george bush 43 got elected president. we di...

>> look, we litigated that last year. the american people decided they wanted donald trump to make the nomination not hillary clinton. whats before us now, chuck, is not what happened last year but the qualifications of neil gorsuch. unanimously well qualified by ns the american bar association. 99% of the time in the majority, 97% of his opinions were unanimous. only one time reversed by the supreme court. theres no rational basis, no principled reason for voting against neil gorsuch. thats wha...

For being nicy nicy to neil gorsuch. theres a lot of appetite for filibuster and fight. go down in flames i think for a lot of senate democrats better than sort of backing off. >> how disgraceful though. you know, i like a lot -- obviously a lot of the members of the senate, but i think both republicans and democrats have been so disgraceful, both to judge garland and to judge gorsuch. these are two men who have devoted their lives to the court. and all -- theyre being soiled and dirtied by real...

Kentucky. we have a lot to get to. supreme court and health care. welcome back to "meet the press." >> good morning, chuck. >> the president has used the following phrases to describe ch the russia investigation. fake news. nonsense. phony. total scam. do you believe any of those phrases apply to the russia investigation? >> yeah, let me just say in thet midst of all of this and listening to your introductory piece this morning two things you can depend on. the senate intelligence committee unde...

>> i dont think the legislativu filibuster is in danger. its a long standing tradition of the senate and filibustering judges is quite new, all begun by the current democratic leader and you should ask him about that when hes on your show. >> well, that is my plan right now. senator mitch mcconnell republican from kentucky, thank you for coming on, sir. sharing your views, i appreciate it. well, as introduced by senator mcconnell his democratic colleague across the aisle, senator schumer of new ...

Chuck, you and i have covered a lot of midterm elections and they all start the same way. or they all end the same way which is a president who has a decent approval rating among his party but not energized. in this case we have a party thats fighting amongst itself. that depresses enthusiasm from the party. independents abandoned the president and his party. the president right now has a 33% approval rating with independents. thats the same place where bush, clinton and obama were when they los...