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Implements the tariffs. what are you learning? >> reporter: republican senators tell me they want the hear from president trump directly to explain to them how the tariffs, were they to go into effect would hurt states and voters. earlier this week, the senior justice department did meet behind closed doors with these senators and that did not go well. they got ample push back, but the president continues to move forward. the senators are saying they want the president to hold back and make the ...

Wouldnt have stopped friday so why do anything? >> as you said yourself thats a trap. in america 100 people are dying from gun violence. more people in my and your lifetime in a short 50 or so years died in all the wars in the united states. this is a uniquely american problem. the kind of carnage that we have is unacceptable and to use one shooting as a reason to unralph an entire plan that we know theres things we can do to dramatically cut gun violence but yet we do nothing. >> in the next la...

Out foxed here. just my read on it. democrats held this back and delivered something that republicans didnt have a good answer for. they found dr. ford to be personally credible. you heard graham say theres no corroborating evidence. you couldnt get a warrant for this anywhere. his drum beat has been that alone should not be enough to end a persons life and career. i heard in that anger that it might be. despite this push back, the republicans may not have an answer for it and the democrats migh...

Theyre reasonable by the media. i think what you are starting to see is a really big push back and met court of public opinion. maybe not a legal proceeding, but we have a value of the people are presumed innocent until they are proven to be guilty. doesnt even come remotely near to proving guilt. doesnt even come to the point of making a case in a court of law. people have these deeply ingrained american ideas that you dont actually get to destroy man, destroy his career, destroy his life, dest...

Republicans want him on the court for life. and thats the starting point that we get, whether that is eroded or whether there is push-back on this of the substance of professor fords claims, well find out later this week. >> any facade this is not political is certainly a false facade because you do have both sides looking to have their different outcomes from this, scott. i want to talk a bit about that as well. all this playing out in advance of the midterm elections, it is mored a vantages yo...

>> now im not going to do that. >> its amazing. we dont see this very often with donald trump. he drew widespread outrage from current and form eer intelligen with this press release monday saying i direct you to immediately declassify all these sensitive documents that they already decided should not be made public because they contain sources and methods that could promise an ongoing investigation. there was huge push back to that inside the justice department and intelligence community. as yo...

Kavanagh who he believes is a, quote, good man. this is what hes been telling people before the washington post story has dropped. this is a play book he and his team played with roy moore, a play book he played himself during the campaign. a play book you can see cropping up any time someone team trump endorses and wants nominated or supported comes under fire. >> you know, i thought given that, and given that hes quoted in the bob woodward book talking to a friend about responding to allegatio...

The president has told people close to him according to sources weve spoken to, there is a conspiracy to smear brett kavanagh who he believes is a, quote, good man. this is what hes been telling people before the washington post story has dropped. this is a play book he and his team played with roy moore, a play book he played himself during the campaign. a play book you can see cropping up any time someone team trump endorses and wants nominated or supported comes under fire. >> you know, i tho...

To stop. >> laura: the left is saying, congressman scalise, donald trump started to create. attends divisive rhetoric, its a life or death situation for americans, we will lose our health care, women will lose their right to abortion. its a life-and-death situation. well, we dont want you to resort to violence, but, as maxine waters had come a push back, find them where they are,s stations, dont let people operate, like rudy was doing, and public. >> there is no part of that sentence. he pointed...

Federal court if he chooses to. >> well, i love rudy, but rudy was right then and as i describe in the book the take away from the book is rudy is not correct now. it is, in fact, the case, as i describe in the book "contempt" that the president is subject to subpoena and eventually after we were pushed back by the white house during the lewinsky phase of the investigation, we invited the president through letters five times to come before the grand jury and to give an account before the grand j...