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Spend $285 million a year. >> dana: mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. what more do we know about this white house meeting with senate republicans? >> reporter: well, dana, i have been told a key focus going in in terms of strategy was to say when they are successful, they focus on the democrats and battling the democrats and not focusing on our senate rules. there were nine senate republicans in the oval office today with president trump talking about this government funding showdown accordi...

Busted. because theres no train now, you have to send out crews to get a visual to make sure that youre not sending a train into a very dangerous situation. thats the pros says the next 12 or 10 hours. >> neil: all right. the congressional delegation and congressman don young among those leading the effort that say federal help is on the way. >> weve been in the communication with fema. well be in communication with the governor. the new governor, too. see what we can do to do it. thats about al...

Senator murkowski mentioned, the damage is significant. if you see it on the news, seeing pictures and where its very significant is with regard to our infrastructure, with regard to bridges, with regard to highways that have collapsed. what were going to have to do and as senator murkowski mentioned, weve been in touch with the president, with the fema administrator, had a good call with general kelly who is down in argentina. you saw the president put out a tweet saying no federal expense will...

Seats in january will will be a more conservative and a more republican body. meaning that the votes of collins and murkowski, seen as bulwarks against extreme conservative picks, theyre not going to have the leverage they had before. and if president trump wants to nominate somebody who is like farr, its going to take a lot more republican senators now to block him. >> thats the thought that gives every liberal chills. and kelsey, as an offshoot of that, will a bill that protects mueller ever g...

Its tough for them having to worry about senator collins and murkowski. >> i dont want it take anything from susan collins pro-choice views. i have every inspection -- expectation hell continue to get lot of judges through and remake the federal judiciary. >> shannon: i want to play something we heard from president obama. he was big voice in this misraise. he did recorded calls for mike espy. the president being down there twice yesterday. heres what president obama is saying tonight about curr...

Mississippi runoff at the end of november where there will be a lot of attention on that, potentially would only be a one seat pickup for the republicans if it went the wrong way and a republican point of view. that would change the dynamic about, that makes murkowski and collins and the people who really are in the middle much more powerful with a one seat majority. speaker absolutely. the narrative out of the white house after tuesday was gains in the senate, coming in strong, lots of things w...

Chalian, thats going to be an interesting test is what happens with this incoming republican senate? what happens -- what will their reaction to this be? will there be enough, i guess, if they have a 55 vote seats, the question is will five of them, will six of them be willing to join with the democrats to take action to protect mueller? i dont know that thats actually needed. maybe the house can just hire him if mueller is fired, which hasnt happened. are there five or six republicans willing t...

Been tricky. up in montana you have such a beautiful explanation of whats going on in the country there. jon tester, okay. he is a democrat but he is one of them. thats the pitch he has been making. youve had the president go there thumping on him, and it seems to be paying off. very close. you have 4 3 democrat seat, 51 republican. what is the big takeaway from this with six seats remaining? the republicans arent going to have to worry about confirmation battles anymore. theyre not going to hav...

Senator mccain, senator murkowski and senator colin voted against repeal of the affordable care act. republican, moderate republicans understand that it might get they didnt repeal the affordable care act. the most important problem is while the campaign -- >> the reason democrats want to make an issue here. the reason democrats want to make an issue here. >> at the 302nd. in fairness i went to get josh the final 30 seconds because david you had your turn. >> the reason democrats try to fear mon...

Stopped up the works? >> listen, flake and at the time collins, murkowski, they had enough votes to say we want a full investigation, we want all 40 witnesses, we want kavanaugh interviewed, we want ford interviewed. they could have done that. they chose not to. i think its fair to make an assessment of jeff flakes decision making in that moment and the days after as well as collins and murkowski. i think flake was saying were going to get half a loaf here, its going to give me permission to vot...