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Eight of us next month. >> we are much closer with labor and business agreeing on the guest worker plan. that doesnt mean we have crossed every i or dotted every t but we still have a ways to go in terms of looking at language and making sure that it is everything we thought it would be. we are closer, certainly. >>gregg: now we have doug schoen and a former spokesman for governor jeb bush and publisher of www.safetyreview.com. >> i think there will be a deal, we heard that from senators flake a...

Investigation. and i am hoping the members of the senate judiciary committee who are democrats are demanding that we get clarity about whether the fbi will be using this intervening week to conduct a thorough and responsible background check. and whether they think that is enough time. to get clarity about other evidence that could be gathered to either support or challenge the allegations made by dr. ford. >> are you saying youre not satisfied with having this public hearing to have christine b...

And there are at least three democrats who might vote with the presidents nominees. donellley, manchin from west. >> reporter: and heidi heitkamp. >> so its not as it looks. >> reporter: hardly, and the margin is so narrow, looking at those three republicans they did vote for neil gorsuch, so the president is counting on support. when youre looking at senators flake and corker who are retiring they have on other federal judges where the senate has a confirmation rule, they are willing to test th...

Also angry because of the things that trump is trying to do is angering them. so hes really getting it from both sides here. >> kevin, the abc/"washington post" poll shows 71% of republicans and independents who lean gop feel that party leaders should criticize president trump when they disagree with him. are you surprised that that number is so high considering president trumps high approval rating among republicans? >> well just take a look at the last few weeks when youve got people like sena...

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Going to vote. >> dont you think hed have a lot more support and probably maybe even a guarantee of getting everything done if he didnt do all the things that they criticized him for today? >> its a fair question about the demeanor of the president and would that affect the outcome of things. >> because he would make friends, he could good afternooafternoo afternoon -- he could govern. >> he might have more support in washington, but if you look at all the polling, he has 90%, between 80 and 90%...

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Messages from senators flake and corker. because, he has to, quite frankly. making out that this is nothing more than mid-term politics, indicating they dropped out, because they had no chance of being elected. also, diminishing the assertion that this is a tipping point, that other senators will join in. the president also tweeting that his meeting with republican senators was a lovefest, where he got a standing oovation. but there really is no diminishing the fact that these two senators and e...