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Harry lippmann, former assistant attorney general during the clinton administration. matt mclarty, chairman of mclarty associates. matt, you worked on the ginsburg and breyer nominations. one thing that hasnt changed, the nominee has to pass through a senate vote. given the political reality that the president surprises us and either goes off the list altogether orleans toward one of the most moderate choices on the list? >> i hope its the latter, i hope the president has listened carefully to s...

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You can see president trump tweeting today about it where hes belittling senator dick durbin about the daca deal, but hes also saying they would be responsible because they dont support increased military funding in the spending bill, which is another issue that is holding up an accord. >> neil: i was noticing he was calling him little dicky durbin. >> thats right. >> neil: youve noticed what looked like a regular stock market trading day. these are the futures. the markets closed today for the ...

A lot of cross currents and tensions and led to dowd this morning calling the president to say that he was going to resign. he should point out in losing dowd, he loses a competent attorney that has a long and rich history inside and outside the government here in the d.c. area, sandra? >> thanks, john. for more, lets bring in daniel henninger who is here. what a day this has become. did anything about this surprise you? >> no, not really. anybody that works for donald trump understands theyre i...

Something that could pass both chambers with bipartisan support. and the second way, this is what mark short was eluding to, the pure political necessity that the democrats dont necessarily want to give president trump anything that looks like a big legislative win as we get closer and closer to the 2018 elections. democrats smell blood in the water, they can see the possibility of taking back control of at least one house of congress. and passing something under bipartisan basis that the presid...

Say theres a process. listen to brady. >> the senate will differ in some records in their whole bill. youll see different approaches than where were headed in the house. thats a healthy thing. this is the way it works. >> as you saw in that statement there, neil, there is expected to be this senate bill at some point later this week. that might likely have to wait until the house ways and means committee finishes with its markup process. one thing after the next. >> neil: after the next. then li...

Democrats. dianne feinstein said she would support his nomination. secondly, you heard a brief reference on the part of our folks talking about janet yellen. she was on capitol hill. part of what you see going on at the corner of wall and broad despite the constitutional cross currents and the russians, you wouldnt see it in the dow. a new record today has to do with mrs. yellen. theres talk about the question came up from kevin corke that maybe, maybe a replacement for the federal reserve chair...

Administrations kind of centerpiece of their pivot to asia, trying to build stronger economic relationships with the nations of asia, pointedly excluding china. now we have walked away from that. china stepped into the void and is promoting its own free trade vision across the region, so you have just very dramatic cross currents. on the other hand, this may be one area where the president can find some common ground at the g20. he had been headed toward a turbulent meeting, angela merkel had be...

The most trouble. and that is the legitimacy of his election and i think you saw a new challenge to the legitimacy when hillary clinton described herself as a member of the resistance and reiterated that she had defeated him by 3 million in the popular vote. >> we both read columnists who refer to russia as the original sin of what is now the trump administration. we see these attempts to normalize it. usually a kind of benign attempt to give them the benefit of the doubt. how do you cover it fa...

Million in the popular vote. >> we both read columnists who refer to russia as the original sin of what is now the trump administration. we see these attempts to normalize it. usually a kind of benign attempt to give them the benefit of the doubt. how do you cover it fairly after such a bold statement by the fbi director? >> i mean i think you take the fbi director of course at his word and youre iwear of all of these cross currents that the administration is really grappling with from his overl...