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And truthful. certainly donald trump jr. will be asked about that when he comes before the congress in an open committee hearing. >> are you -- are people on capitol hill, are you in the cloak room talking on each other about this? >> we talk about a lot of matters and we certainly talk about the fact we want to be an independent, co-equal branch of government and we want the committees to get to the bottom of it. also, i was the first republican on capitol hill to say that the attorney general ...

Dramatically change american health care, 24 million would lose coverage. you voted against that. am i correct? >> you are correct. >> you were there for the mark-up. you were on board during the mark-up but you voted against it. it is in the senate. on the precipice of being passed. it seems to me if writ to pass amidst whats happening with this investigation, and we later find out the worst, that public would be facing a legitimacy crisis. if you cannot tell me definitively that the president ...

Thats true. ive been meeting with a group of members of the democratic caucus for about three years trying to develop some fixes for obamacare. nobody argues that the aca is a perfect law and it can be -- it certainly can be improved. weve got to deal with things like premiums and deductibles and how the whole system works and how it works with small businesses. so, there are lots of things that we can do. i have a radical suggestion for the majority leader. submit the bill to the health educati...

Millions of americans health insurance. look, i covered every mark-up and hearing of the affordable care act back when they pushed that through congress, a health care policy reporter at this time. this process is entirely different and democrats dont know whats going on. a lot of republicans in the hallways say they dont know whats going on. what we do know is that republicans have been sending pieces of this bill over to the congressional budget office the idea being that once they have a bill...

Reform after that. >> in your heart of hearts, that bill, that summary the president put forward a few weeks ago, could you show that to your constituents as a real bill? >> the proposal wasnt in legislative form. so i can show what the president proposed as a proposal thats on paper and different ideas reted to e corporate income tax rate, for example, reducing the number of brackets the seven to three and so on. but what i wouldnt do is present a piece of paymeper andy thats a bill craft. that...

Never never land if he thinks what just happened with comey doesnt have an impact. we were talking about all last week, im talking about comey all this week. >> mercedes: the democrats are obstructing a lot of these committees when it comes to nominees for the president. they dont show up to these committee hearings when it comes to the health care mark up. theyre able to slow down the process, but when it comes to the voting things, they put tax reform through that process, they need republican...

Bill which has been a perfect storm of threats and promises. the latest promise it will be every bit as good on preexisting conditions as obamacare. today, two major hold outs got on board after the president said he would provide $8 billion to reduce the cost for some with preexisting conditions. so, will there finally be a vote? that, we dont know yet. in 104 days, this president has made countless threats and promises from shutting down the government to overhauling health care. its been a lo...

Texas, ted cruz said that the democrats of the committee were afraid of being primary. and i said, at the mark up. that that kind of statement doesnt even deserve any kind of response, its so ridiculous. you know, we ask serious questions of judge gorsuch. and he did not provide us with the kind of responses that would enable us to conclude that he would be a justice for all of us and not just some of us. >> all right, senator. >> all right. >> i could go on. >> finish your thought. well, whats ...

They didnt find anything. and judge gorsuch is going to be a great justice on the u.s. supreme court. >> judge gorsuch is a great man and a great judge. i was proud to support him in the committee and look forward to supporting him on the floor of the senate. >> its unfortunate that we had a partisan vote today. we had a long process here. three days of testimony by judge gorsuch, took over 30 witnesses and 20 hours and now this mark up. it truly is unfortunate that it has resulted in a partisan...

Targeted to specific senators in missouri, montana, indiana, and colorado. so, this nomination is not the usual nomination. it comes in a different way, and it has proceeded in a way of excessive spending of dark money that in the time i have been on this committee i have never seen before. so, this is deeply troubling, and i dont believe its the way a serious process of evaluating a supreme court nominee should be conducted. i want to be clear, though, although my vote will not be based on thes...