Page 7 - Senators Murkowski News Today

Thursday, December 17, 2020 The next time you walk through the doors at 1849 C Street, NW, the portrait above the security desk may well feature the first Native American Secretary of the Interior. As has been widely reported, Congresswoman Deb Haaland (D-NM-01) and former Interior Deputy Secretary Michael Connor are among several Native American candidates currently being vetted for the position. As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take the helm on January 20, his transition tea...

Job of senators murkowski and etc. let me ask you about this possible agreement. obviously witnesses at the center of documents, all of that. would you want to see rudy giuliani among those witnesses? i think that from the names that have been floated around, the four names they want to go after, rudy giuliani is not on that list. >> so as a prosecutor, we have a hard and fast rule. we are only allowed to call to the witness stand and sponsor the testimony of somebody we believe to be telling ...

And the democrats are $3.1 billion short of that. were back to the stupid shutdown part, where you have basically both sides wants to allocate a certain amount of money, .04 of a percent of our deficit, were talking about a small amount of money. now were back to keeping the government shut down over $3 billion, its goofy. >> dana: theres purple state republicans up for re-election or those just speaking their minds that are basically trying to get this thing behind them. that would be senators ...

Theyre going in the wrong direction for this president. new polling shows 51% of americans blame donald trump for the shutdown. thats up 4% from before the holidays. he lost another republican senator today thats going in the wrong direction. you covered a lot of addresses from the oval office from presidents, my hold boss george w. bush delivered a few. this is not what typically happens to any president. he also made a significant change to last nights message. you saw the four republicans pee...

Want to say, and shes keeping her cards very close to the vest here apparently leaving out the possibility that something different could happen tomorrow. it seems to me if you vote no on this first motion, youre unlikely to go backwards on it. the thing about not talking to mansion is interesting, too. ever since the ford accusations came up, joe mansion, lisa murkowski, susan collins and jeff flake have been keeping very close counsel together, the four of them. not necessarily coordinating th...

>> and as you say, separate and apart from any ideological consideration. i do have one last question for you, senator, before i let you go, and that is that there has been lots and lots of rumors. obviously, this is a fast developing news story tonight. every reporter within smelling distance of the beltway is working everything they possibly can to figure out whats going to happen tomorrow. >> yes. >> is it your sense there may be any other republican senators who are seriously considering wre...

Scope, and its a combination of things, the republican majority in the senate sends something to the white house counsel and sends it to the fbi. i know from public statements that senators murkowski and collins and flake were expressing their hope that this would be a broader investigation that was followed by president trump making repeated public statements that the fbi would be allowed to do what they do and pursue leads, and in the end if this is eight, nine or ten, as we just discussed, th...

Would look weak, you couldnt talk about sexism, harassment, even talk about your own stories lest you seem to unbalanced, hinged. >> i keep thinking of senators murkowski and collins. of course we keep going back to these key senators. i think of these two women in particular. weve heard them say theyre really disappointed in what trump did last night, but at the end of the day, do you think that will affect their votes? >> no, look, i think that i would have to say neither of those two women ar...

Questions. >> the three people who are most important are senators murkowski, collins and flake. this morning two of those senators 234r5ik a s flake and extremely upset about how the president described christine blasey ford at that rolally in mississippi. knowing hugh importa how import if the fbi shows no other compelling evidence to keep judge kavanaugh from the court, that these people need to be comfortable with voting for him, why did the president say what he did last night and the way t...

Running for re-election this would not be from a political perspective, yes on ka kavanaugh, because it would be political suicide to vote no. so he is under crit is schism from the democrats -- criticism for the democrats who laud him for objecting to what the president says, but that he doesnt have anything to do about it, and now he has something to do it and the critics of kavanaugh view it. you can see the conflict playing out in public. i do think that the fundamentals reality remains the ...