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Nevada senate race. it is not unlike what they have done in other races going after the so-called moderate republicans. >> tea party got the trophy when scott brown in massachusetts won his race. and so is the tea party feeling galvanized when they throw this kind of support, whether it be joe miller or anybody else, that they are getting peoples attention and they are taking -- being taken serious by the electorate. >> absolutely. absolutely. of course, dont forget the tea party sarah palin. if...

Degree. >> thats sizzling stuff. thanks so much. appreciate that. in alaska now, a longshot candidate for the u.s. senate is getting a boost from the tea party express. the group says that it is willing to spend big money on this man, joe miller, in hopes he can knock off the senator in the primary. the organization gave miller a closer look after sarah palin endorsed him earlier this month. senator murkowski is better known and better financed. millers backers have their work cut out for them...

I will work with anyone to get this done. and we will get it done. >> he did say some of those same words tonight, but it seemed like a very different guy. could some combination of the guy we saw tonight and the guy we saw two weeks ago in pittsburgh actually make some progress here? >> possibly. there are two things i think are important about tonights speech. one is that it was about bp oil, right? i think a lot of policy wonks really wanted him to talk about climate change and talk about pri...

I will work with anyone to get this done. and we will get it done. >> he did say some of those same words tonight, but it seemed like a very different guy. could some combination of the guy we saw tonight and the guy we saw two weeks ago in pittsburgh actually make some progress here? >> possibly. there are two things i think are important about tonights speech. one is that it was about bp oil, right? i think a lot of policy wonks really wanted him to talk about climate change and talk about pri...

Either get energy legislation or climate change legislation its a win-win situation. shannon: do you think they can do this before the elections in fall? >> i would hope so, 71% of the american want it. not to do anything would be to hurt them. its important that the epa regulate and not congress because there are too many political aspects to those who have their own political agendas, the epa -- murkowski was wrong on this, she is from a oil straight and i dont think politicians can be trusted...

It would have been helpful to have this nine months or a year earlier and had it even more detail and for more days. what we were presented with in the health committee of course was a bill that was already half drafted, and we started the mark-up on it, and then we got the other half later, and since we had not had any input to the drafting we are credited with 150 amendments, but 117 of those were from senator murkowski inserting tribal indians in instances and i had 11 of them which required ...

Throw a lot of tough questions at him. and so much depends on the sort of sense that four key senators have, republicans, collins, murkowski, blake and corker, and the public has when brett kavanaugh finishes his testimony. >> indeed. and this is a man who was very tough in terms of the questions that he wanted to hear asked about bill clinton regarding monica lewinski. he didnt mind them being blunt and embarrassing. according to a washington post piece presented yesterday, he became frustrated...

It comes out after we have gone through these processes. and i think that if we start to discover that these allegations that are coming out are potentially credible, if we do learn more information that backs them up, you could see some republicans start to voice doubts about this nomination. and thats beyond the group that we keep talking about. senators collins, murkowski, and jeff flake, and potentially bob corker, that that group could potentially expand. thats going to be especially true i...

Violent, one where she felt he was going to kill her, in her est meagan. so, its a little bit even going further than someone who is sexually harassing someone else, which is also very serious, but its something, this allegation that shes putting forward is very, very serious. >> right. and the question is, how will members of the senate judiciary committee deal with this. one editorial in "the new york times" said absolutely this should be investigated before this vote that was set to take plac...

Extremely quickly on capitol hill. yes, they are going to be critical as this moves forward. theres no indication, yet, that dr. ford will appear before the committee. i just heard moments ago from senator chuck grassley, the majority committee staff that they are going to start with follow up calls first and see where that goes. we are set to hear from chuck sh schumer to see if he would like dr. ford to testify. you have murkowski and collins moderate republicans who have been quiet about wher...