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Mon, 04/12/2021 - 9:30am Senator Angus King. (File photo/Lynda Clancy) WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Angus King, I-Maine, announced Monday the hiring of three new staff members to support his efforts to serve Maine people. Maine natives Natalie Hodgman and Nancy Billings have joined Senator King’s team to serve as Staff Assistants, having previously served as interns in Senator King’s office. Hodgman grew up on a farm in Winterport, where her family raised sheep. She is a gra...

Alabama. going after democrat ig senators mccaskill, hidecamp and doug jones. it will probably be effective. >> probably will. you have manchin and others. >> dana: donnelly. >> red state democrats will feel the heat when you have the intelligence officials from both parties supporting her. >> dana: indeed. bret baier. now i will let you go. >> okay. >> dana: president trump just leaving capitol hill after a policy meeting with republican senators where the haspel nomination came up as we were j...

Clintons crazy speech in india. >> if you look at the math of the united states, theres all that red in the middle trump won, i win the coast and illinois and minnesota, places like that. i won the places that represent two-thirds of americas gross domestic product, so i won the places that -- [ applause ] >> -- are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward, and his whole campaign, make america great again, was looking backwards. >> her fellow democrats, notably, ones from middle america, sla...

Anyway, unfolding today, the president suggested, very strong recommendations by rosenstein. however, lets watch what senators mccaskill and senator durbin recall him saying today. >> he did acknowledge that he learned comey would be removed prior to him writing his memo. >> do you believe that the deputy attorney general knew before he wrote that memo that james comey would be fired? >> yes. >> he knew the day before. >> for more on all this, im joined by susan page, michael sheer, and of cours...

Congressional investigation, lindsey graham saying it will make it. more difficult to call witnesses. they want to haul before congress. does that mean the information drip to the american public will also dry up? >> probably it will be less if the senate isnt investigating this. the fbi does intel and crimes. and rod rosenstein went in and briefed them. that he, rod said this should be treated as if it were a criminal investigation. not confirming that it is, but that gives of course the senate...

Taped a video for the human rights campaign endorsing same-sex marriage. then came senators mccaskill, rockefeller, testor, hagan, casey, carper, kirk, bill nelson, heidkamp, donnelly and today tim johnson. three have not backed it. louisianas mary landrieu, arkansass mark pryor and manchin. why does it seem to happen day after day after day? is it a big plus for democrats? >> its a big plus for democrats. republicans have explaining to do because its the party of limited government. its the par...

Should be able to marry legally. fast forward to the last month. weve seen an incredible swell of support. starting with rob portman in mid-march. citing his gay son the reason to re-evaluate his position. hillary clinton three days later taped a video for the human rights campaign endorsing same-sex marriage. then came senators mccaskill, rockefeller, tester, hagan, casey, carper, kirk, bill nelson, heitkamp, donnelly and today tim johnson. three have not backed it. louisianas mary landrieu, ar...

>> its hard to remember all 57 states. >> bret: mara, its not about that, but about the payroll tax cut situation on capitol hill. there is now a bipartisan proposal, another one put forward by senators mccaskill and collins. is there a chance that this one goes through? it also has a surtax on millionaires of 2% but it carves out small business. >> i think this one has a chance. it depends on whether the republicans want to draw an absolute line in the sand they dont want to raise tax on millio...

>> its hard to remember all 57 states. >> bret: mara, its not about that, but about the payroll tax cut situation on capitol hill. there is now a bipartisan proposal, another one put forward by senators mccaskill and collins. is there a chance that this one goes through? it also has a surtax on millionaires of 2% but it carves out small business. >> i think this one has a chance. it depends on whether the republicans want to draw an absolute line in the sand they dont want to raise tax on millio...