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60 votes that showdown is going to happen later this week. its going to be a huge drama as the republicans decide how theyre going to respond to that. today every democrat on the judiciary committee voted against neil gorsuchs nomination. but that was just a signal of the bigger fight that will come over this in the next few days. here is one thing to stick a flag in, though. in this news today. and as youre looking towards the rest of the week. while democrats on the judiciary committee were ta...

Working on this bill in conjunction with the white house are trying to get something together that the be just enough support really and they cant do that if every single day bits and pieces of this bill are out there being torn apart. that being said i think, you know, rand paul has a point that doing this in secret does not bode well for the process. and i think that its going to create political problems in and of itself for republicans that, you know, a couple of years ago for facing constit...

All the things that be able to use the funds i think more efficiently and thats important. were seeing more and more about the finer details and thats where we can ask the questions, how does this impact this? but i think we need to be with this and theres some criticism going slow. im pleased its going slow were getting into more of the finer details. >> you shouldnt repeal before you can replace, the main question is will everybody keep their cover. thank you for being on new day. appreciate t...

>> i think when the attorney general recused himself from this investigation i think it was quick. im glad he came out yesterday forcibly and removed himself because of any kind of appearance of imparse yallty. its also that theyre investigating this. and our intelligence committee most certainly and other committees i trust they come up with a good resolve here. if the story unwinds more and more, more questions will be asked but im satisfied with the direction that were going and well get the ...

Commits because its your team controlling the ball. >> but you also have to remember who else is in the room. its not just remembers in the room investigating a republican president or republican attorney general. theres a very forceful and those commit tees are known to work well together and to coordinate well together. a history of investigating and working with intelligence communities for more than just a few years. they have trust in one another. they are going to be in the room asking the...

Tomorrow to explain this testimony for the record. >> mr. whitaker hes going to submit this supplemental information by paper to the committee. so is that it? case closed? legally is that all that has to be done here? >> well, again i mean i appreciate my colleagues perspective but i will tell you that as you look at the testimony. it is not jeff sessions job to anticipate what senator franken was asking him or should have asked him. if he wanted to go outside of the context of the campaign, the...

>> were going to need the fbi to fully cooperate. >> democratic senators are calling for more transparency as five congressional committees are investigating the trump campaigns ties to russia. >> the intelligence community has to cooperate with the committees on the hill. >> its apparent there was a problem. >> lets bring in republican senator from west virginia. senator, thank you for joining us this morning. >> if theres all of this talk on both sides of the aisle, a need for the attorney gen...

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Helped negotiate an arms reduction treaty between the u.s. and russia during obamas tenure. speaking at stanford university he sounded gloomy about the relationship. >> the worst point. >> and is often blamed about the atmosphere in the u.s. >> only foreign policy speech given by trump in april and just this week attending the presidents address to congress. >> president trump saying that all of this attention. this is in his words president

>> the justice department must immediately appoint a special prosecutor. given that attorney general sessions impartiality is compromised that will fall to the acting attorney general who is a career civil servant originally appointed u.s. attorney by president obama. >> that was senate minority leader chuck schumer calling for a special prosecutor after a fire storm of criticism. attorney general jeff sessions recusing himself from investigations involving the trump campaign and russia. could...