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Principle that matters here. it was a year ago this month when president obama nominated merrick garland to be a supreme court justice. the republican party, before the nomination was even announced, decided they were going to block his nomination. and for the past 350 days or so, the republicans refused to even hold hearings. they refused to even meet with president obamas nominee. the idea that donald trump then would come in office after losing the popular vote and then suddenly the republica...

For you as opposed to somebody who is going to give up and abandon ship every time there is a little bit of a controversy, democrats will support the person who will fight for them. i think there is a reward for those democratic senators who decide to stand up and do the right thing and not to reward the republican partys obstruction of merrick garland. >> okay. steve, weve talked before and if memory serves you werent exactly the biggest trump fan. with all of this in the bloodstream, do you th...

To the same standard they did for merrick garland. this cannot continue this way and the republican party has an obligation to present a compromise candidate. donald trump who lost the majority of the vote should have presented a compromise candidate, not some conservative ideologue. >> steve, thank you. well see how big of a fight this is. coming up, lets talk about this prison hostage situation here in delaware. apparently inmates have taken some correctional officers hostage. we have an updat...

60-vote threshold as there has been for all of the recent supreme court nominees, including all of president obamas nominees. keg an and soto mayor both were approved by that kind of 60-vote margin. the reason is very simply. the supreme court is different. its a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land with awesome power. and that appointment ought to be by a broad national consensus. >> lets talk this over with keith boykin, cnn political commentator strategist, and steve dais, sy...

Disruption with hurricane matthew and tomorrow a federal judge will consider a delay. democrats considered the deadline pushed to next wednesday at least. and meanwhile, more on the impact of voter registration deadlines in early voting across the country. could the election be decided before november 8th? and well look at the state of the gop. two-thirds of republican voters say congressional candidates should back donald trump. but its just in the last 24 hours more gop leaders have pulled the...

Die hard trump supporters. they want this man to be president and on top that, paul ryan has to balance something a lot of other republicans dont have to worry about, the actual house of representatives and all of those members which includes more moderate republicans who dont want to see trump elected. they may not say it publicly but they dont want to see it privately. theyll admit it. and also, the die hard republicans as 30%. theyre members of the house of representatives as well who do want...

With donald trump in the midst of a tweetstorm against paul ryan and the gop, the republican party is divided four weeks before election day. steve king of iowa said this morning that his colleagues choice not to support trump will drag down the republican ticket. john mccain we showed you last night said he cannot support trump and will likely write in senator lindsey grahams name election day. the new nbc news "wall street journal" shows two-thirds of republican voters believe republican congr...

Look at whats next on "news nation." red on red. >> there we are. just hot. thanks, andrea. coming up. >> youre hot. >> next hour, oscar pistorius makes bail. the coach says he could be back training if you can believe on monday. were live with whats next in his case and the trial ahead. and a united flight, take a look at this, skids off the runway in cleveland in whats believed to be a weather-related accident as the snow buries the midwest and where the storm and what could be rolling on ea...

Shows the president widening the lead in the key swing states of colorado, virginia and in vice presidential nominees home state, paul ryan, wisconsin. the president now at 51%. but again, as politico points out, the game is not over yet and theyre not the only ones pointing to that obvious note out. lets bring in the news nation political panel for this lovely wednesday. erin mcpike and democratic strategist keith boykin and steve dais. you are no fan of mitt romney. you said he should not be t...

States. he had an event in ohio on friday. thats my home state. a huge swing state. 18 electoral votes. >> down heavily in ohio. >> you are right. its a state thats been surprising to me he has not parked himself in and campaigned harder in. in fact, i wrote a story today about how michele obama is holding more public events over the past couple of weeks than mitt romney. >> but the key -- the word i think you used is didnt park himself in ohio. you park a car. whens tied to there? the auto indu...