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High school. hes here to celebrate the 36 of the year of retirement of my brother command sergeant major matt brady. and he got to see the commander in chief just a few minutes ago, so we are having a big week in the brady family. speed when you a military legac legacy, please think your young one for the beginning of his journey to serve. >> i will do that, thank you. >> harris: must talk about the president calling you out today because of the tax cuts and jobs act and really getting serious o...

Crucial issues will be decided. among them, abortion, affirmative action, death penalty, presidential somebody. lawmakers saying there shouldnt be a vote until after the midterm which some are called mitch mcconnell rule. we will have more on the reaction from congress in a moment. senator bernie sanders will join us as well. a lot of details. and what the future may hold. i want to get the presidents reaction. he is speaking in a rally in north dakota. was the president aware that this was goin...

Mcconnell thought they deserves to be heard then. anything but that would be the absolute height of hypocrisy. thats not a hard fast rule. thats a biden recommendation, a biden rule. we have elections every two years. this is a midterm not a presidential election. >> yeah. look, the so-called biden rule was about a presidential election year not an off year election. furthermore the republicans are going to pick up seats in the senate, so the democrats, if anything are going to be weaker after t...

Night. >> sean: the most important midterm election in our lifetime. it is not profound. the president against political momentum unfolds an impressive track record of accomplishments, i think we are the only show that shows you them, democratic party is falling apart. the era of global freeloading, the president said, is over. example, last night, a 28-year-old socialist from new york defeated longtime democrat incumbent in a congressional cracked on my primary race as president trump said toni...

Whats happening right now vindicates our decision to choose donald trump as president. i believe the never trump movement, the sliver of it, still in evangelicalism, he shut up forever. >> shannon: do you think evangelicals turn out this fall? theres always a lack of energy in the midterms for the president and the midterm or his party. do you think they will wake up and show up? >> i think on a well-trained i think they whats at stake him and i would really encourage the president and mitch mcc...

You. of course, they want to preserve obamacare. by the way, nancy pelosi and company, they are even saying this publicly, they want the tax cuts back, they want their crumbs returned. that means $2,000 on average per american family, and obviously, they want open borders. now we have a fifth part of the democratic agenda that we are adding to our list, and that is to destroy whoever the president picks to replace justice kennedy on the u.s. supreme court. i keep saying, this is the single most ...

Candidate. >> this is a gift for republicans looking for an energy to energize the base to get people to turn out. we saw this as a big issue for republicans in 2016. election where president trump did one of the smartest things in the campaign put together a list and put him out there of who he would choose as a nominee, driving force. it helps the republicans as bill pointed out, as jessica pointed out as well if democrats come on board, which they probably. it look like a bipartisan effort as...

Republican senator who doesnt want to be the vote effectively to over turn row and there should be a delay until after the midterm vote and the new congress is seated before any hearings happen. thats what the republicans did and democrats outraged by it and the represents did it, should democrats do it? >> absolutely. >> do you think they can? >> i think that is what everybody is saying, and i think it is right. we are four months away from an election that controls the future of the united sta...

By democrats to try to push a vote on the successor to justice kennedy until after the midterm it is. obviously, that was the strange new standard set by senator mcconnell when justice scalia died and they didnt want president obama to name a successor and democrats are going to try to insist that the same standard will be followed and not hearings or a vote on this new nominee until after the midterm elections and could put the senate in democratics hands. >> you nail it had in the beginning, y...

President is saying that he will pick someone from his already existing list of supreme court potential nominees. now, ill also remind you last fall i believe it was november, the white house published this list seemingly out of nowhere at the time of potential supreme court nominees. that is a little bit different from that list that was published before he nominated neil gorsuch, but then they published essentially an updated list. but it came at a time when it raised eyebrows because there wa...