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Unpopular. hes the least popular president at this time since weve been keeping records of this. four in ten americans want to see impeachment proceedings started. republicans are getting crushed on the generic ballot and democrats, despite all that, hugh, are more trusted on the issue of the economy. so why are you still so confident that theres not going to be a democratic wave? >> its an understatement. one other poll with an 18-point deficit for republicans on a generic ballot. when the repu...

Coming home a month early. he was gone for six months. the only time they got to speak one time by the way during his deployment. thats a cool one. thats a new way to do it. steve: how is it they only talk one time in six months? jillian: i dont know. you ask these questions and im just focused on the emotional part of the story. steve: im asking the pentagon how were they only able to talk one time. brian: maybe he is in a special unit. maybe he is special forces unit. steve: holy cow. thanks, ...

Scenes frying to get him on board. senator john mccain, his absence, his inability to be here for the vote, im told that played a role in senator corkers final decision. it wasnt any specific provision, john. >> phil mattingly, thank you so much. joining me now to weigh in, david chalian. david, thank you for being with us. >> sure. >> they say that the congressional republicans and the president are desperate for a legislative win. how big of an understatement would that be? >> a big one. if ...

Naming a supreme court judge, why? >> because the vast majority of cases have no chance, will never see the inside of the supreme court courthouse. thats because -- to say a vast majority is an understatement. anywhere from 1% to 5% of petitions are even granted for a hearing by the supreme court. that means for almost all cases, the court of last resort is going to be the federal circuit court in your jurisdiction. for all purposes. the circuit court is the supreme court for most litigants. tha...

Judge neil gorsuch, a man of incredible skill and deep devotion to the law. we are strengthening our judiciary, including a brilliant supreme court justice. >> and dont forget, since gorsuch has taken the bench, he has -- he hasnt cast that many votes, right, but his votes have been consistently conservative on issues like the travel ban, voting rights, the second amendment. . just a few months ago he gave a rousing speech at the federalist society where he clearly aligned his judicial philosoph...

Decision. it wasnt any specific provision, john. >> phil mattingly up on capitol hill for us, phil, thank you so much. joining me to weigh in, cnn political director david chal n chalian. david, thank you for being with us. >> sure. >> to say republicans and the president are really desperate for a win, how big of an understatement would that be? >> a pretty big one. look back at the past year. if they were writing a list of all of their big accomplishments, there would be nothing on it, really....

Perpetuated on the fbi and the department of justice and the united states intelligence agencies to form a predicate based on this fake dossier and there are people along the chain that knew or should have known where it came from, who paid for it and how credible it was but it was used for foreign surveillance. it was used to unmask united states citizens and then it was formed as the predicate for a special counsel that we are dealing with today who is staffed with the same people that shepher...

Someone else to come along with him. saying youre a no now when this bill is still very much a moving target and theres an tint to negotiate and being willing to be a no vote on a floor on a huge republican priority, are very different things. >> the president feels pretty confident that rubio is going to get behind this. >> the president said that he thinks rubio will get on board. leadership has a good relationship with rubio. hes somebody who has played ball all year long. they can continue t...

Heres 360s randy kaye. >> reporter: her departure can be described as abrupt. the secret service denies they were the ones to remove her. in a statement, white house spokeswoman sarah sanders saying her departure will not be effective until january 2018. she was one of trumps most high pro file african-american supporters joined communications as the white house liaison. to call her polarizing would be an understatement.

Tonight are facing many different, various scenarios where they could potentially happen. >> sunland reporting for us, thanks very much. lets get more on all of this and more. democratic senator ron wyden of oregon is joining us. key member of the intelligence and budget committees. senator, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> to remind viewers, republicans have 52 senators, the democrats have 48. the vice president breaks the tie in favor of the republicans. youre close, none ...