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But the uncorroborated mud and the partisan noise and the physical intimidation of members here in the senate will not have the final say around here. the senate will have the final say. so madam president were almost at the end of the runway. the cross winds of anger, fear and partisanship have blown strong these past weeks. theyve harmed a good man and his family. theyve tarnished the dignity of this institution, but all of it can end today. the time has come to vote. the senate stands on the ...

This morning there was a briefing led by the small number of republican staffers and also democratic staffers who have access to the report, four on each side. then you have senators going back and reading the document themselves. this is important to point out. the key thing that everybodys been focused on have been those initial comments from senators collins and flake. both saying they thought the report was thorough, flake saying he thought there was no additional corroboration in the report...

You know, the record scratched in the afternoon and senator jeff flake said hang on, lets go ahead and give it another week. whats the harm. here is that moment from last friday. >> i can only say that i would be comfortable moving forward to the floor. ill move it out of committee but only comfortable on the floor until the f.b.i. has done more investigation than they had already. >> in the key line he said up to a week. tomorrow is one week. what does flake do? what do the others do? does kava...

To the national democratic party which has become anything but moderate. he can try as hard as he wants to to run away from chuck schumer but chuck schumer is the one getting the press and democrats on the judiciary committee are the ones getting the press and felt reticent as the recipient of that sort of voter animosity amongst swing voters and independents and republicans are more energized in tennessee but to me i want to talk about north dakota, its interesting in the accumbens, heidi heitk...

Up. >> he may be a moderate but hes attached to a party which is anything but moderate. he can try as hard as he wants to run away from chuck schumer but chuck schumer is getting the press and the democrats on the judiciary committee, and phil brett is and is a recipient of voter animosity among swing voters and independents and republicans are more energized in tennessee but it is interesting, i heitkamp, claire mccaskill at 42%, joe donnelly at 43% and one thing we look for is where is an incu...

Them in on sis, red state democrats represent states like claire mccaskill and heidi heitkamp and joe donnelly in indiana. three incumbents according to fox polls are 43, 43, and 41 leadershipfully. when you have incumbent that far under 50%. puts them in a really difficult position to put be able to written re-election. they have to exceed that threshold in a two man race like that. what you are see something democrats have had a sustained enenthusiasm gap. they have angry about the president. ...

White house bhch susan collins was in consultations with the white house making sure there werent limits on what the fbi can do. when discussions were had on friday about the scope of the investigation, the focus was really on the first two ow accusers, not really on the third. and noek s has been there today. they should lee they should be allowed to pursue them. and at this moment even though senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says he plans to vote this week, senate republicans dont have t...

With what the appropriate threshold should be, because when we talk about him either misstating the facts or claiming ignorance or lying to the committee, not to level of perjury, and we are not talking about a legal standard of proof here, but character, and honesty, and being an officer of the court at the highest level. i wanted to show you an exchange as well as the demeanor and the exchange with you last thursday. >> senator, lett me take a step back and explain, ugh, high school. i was num...

Demanding that they talk to the agency but sources are telling us she and kavanaugh may not be interviewed because they have given hours of testimony. senate democratic leader chuck schumer, who opposed kavanaugh before these allegations came out, complained today about this moving too fast, claimed his site was blocked from a call with the white house counsel about the scope of the fbi probe. republicans say that was false. he raised eyebrows by saying if democrats take back the majority, he wi...

>> and maybe we can do that. >> like these auto rules, for example, you have the fanfare around this $16 minimum wage, but its only for workers who make x percent of the car. if they make it with parts from nafta, theyre meeting that threshold. so a lot of the cars made in mexico, they meet that requirement because of other content that they have thats made by higher wage content elsewhere. so some of them will decide to raise the tariff rather than to pay the wages. >> and the bigger benefit, i...