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Hes now a member of the upper house of rrepresentatives in mo. you would think that would be a third rail for those lawmakers. but he was there and met with them. >> thanks to both of you for joining me tonight. coming up, what michael cohens latest maneuvers might be signaling, and the special counsel beefing up his prosecution team. "the 11th hour" is back after this. im alex trebek here to tell you

But i think this will do it for him. too bad. there were other people being considered. but, you know, be fair to kennedy. he voted conservative more often than not. the issue is he voted -- he didnt vote pro life on two critical cases. the casey case, and the recent one on gay marriage. and those are obviously third rail hot issues. that is what got him in a bad rep with conservatives. >> melissa: so as somebody who has looked at picking somebody before and put someone up, as you look at the li...

Does it have a chance? >> does it have a chance? how many times, dave, have you asked me that question about legislation? how many times has the answer been positive? right now, you know, we were so close to getting a vote on this and it was expected to fail. it is unclear if it will get more votes than the conservative bill they have been saying all along would never pass. it is still pretty conservative although it is supposedly the compromise. it has a generous path for daca recipients. last ...

Its a president who ran on this topic. approach, and hassed to make it a focal point of the administration. what happened this week was that he learned that there was a third rail. that he was pushing an issue would not help him politically. that was the separation of families of children from their parents. >> you bripg up what the president ran on. and marco rubio, a republican, but one who has spoken out against the president sat down with david axelrod for an interview that will air here on ...

>> i do. and thats why i feel like with samant samantha bee coming out, and a day after roseanne barr, you have to think about your words, because you know it will become part of the two sides. both sides do it. >> and i know it happens with a lot of these commentators, i have to speak out, because he speaks out. unfortunately, in order to get a shock factor, you have to use words that i thought were third rail words. like, you know -- >> maybe just to be fair to the president and his family for...

Cnn. she did talk on abcs "the view." there is a bit of a double standard. but every media organization makes its own judgment whether you have gone too far. abc say because she touched a third rail of racism and she and the lucrative show that they brought back had to go. >> maria: you know, i was looking at one piece earlier. it was about keith oberman and the incredible tweets that hes had. f bombs everywhere, howie and the criticisms and f bombs against president trump consistently. he just ...

>> laura: given her passed comments about homosexuals it was kind of ironic. >> a lot of commentators and comedians have survived these offensive comments when they have apologized. difference here is that roseanne barr touched the third rail of race. if this was a spectacular self immolation. a nanosecond abc pulling the plug. it cost abc a lot of money by the way. and roseanne should have been on top of the world and instead continued to spew anger on twitter. >> laura: you see the double stan...

Noteworthy he didnt choose to make perfunctory denunciation about roseannes sweet about valerie jarrett. im sure that he thinks abc news said unfair things about him but i doubt any of them were as horrible as the racist and the ugly thing that roseanne said about the former barack obama aide. asf as abc, first, the net -- as far as abc, first, they deserve credit for revising the show and making the pro-dump credit for the center of it. abc news didnt want to get -- abc didnt want to get rid of...

Abortion services on site and also provides patients with any preferences to abortion clinics would no longer be able to qualify for federal funding. this is a reagan era rule that never went into effect. but its something that social conservatives have been pushing the president to do. its also something thats going to open -- this is the third rail of toxic controversial elements that were going to see that can take center stage as were getting into the midterm elections. >> all right. thank y...

He has a television presence, or had been. but yeah, this is where her right now and i think its going to continue. >> its kind of a smart strategy, too. if youre going to go after mueller, youre going to lose a lot of people in the gop. thats a third rail you cant touch right now. but the idea of government transparency and congress having its weight respected at the table, theyre choosing rosenstein because its a much more legitimate target. rod rosenstein is screwing up a little by saying thi...