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>> harris: fox news alert two red state democrats meeting with president trumps supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. joe donnelly met with him early while in order senator heidi heitkamp is set to sit down with the judge this afternoon. they are both facing intense pressure from their democratic party to oppose the presidents choice. capitol hill senior producer chad pergram joins me now live. chad? >> well, this is all about the midterm elections. you have these two red state democrats, heidi...

Other cabinet picks, the senate is expected to confirm mike pompeo as the next secretary of state. his nomination passed out of the committee today with a bit of rand paul-infused drama. he i insisted he had been a no way vote to the bitter end, no way no how, naturally rand paul ended up voting yes, which pretty much ends the drama over pompeos nomination. but the confirmation of the presidents pick to replace mike pompeo as head of the karim a, that is another one that may not go smoothly. gin...

Working towards voting yes. i dont know -- i cant imagine that it will be the whole democratic caucus voting yes, but it certainly seems as though the sort of -- the train is moving towards that station at this point. well see what happens when they come back and the vote is actually taken. >> that reporting coming out right there as youre reporting on air. very multitasking there, dana. we have a graphic of the democrats we should be watching if we can put that up. gloria, thats really interest...

>> luis gutierrez says "this shows me that when it comes to immigrants, latinos, and their families, democrats are still not willing to go to the mat to allow people in my community to live in our country illegally." voting yes was deemed too toxic for five progressive rumored to have their eyes on the white house. cory booker, kirsten gillibrand, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, and kamala harris all voted no. harris, the california democrat, tweeted "the majority leaders comments fell far sho...

Process, the motion to proceed. its the vote that determines whether this debate can proceed at all. whether well even take it up. after four straight elections in which this was a huge commitment to the american people, its the vote that determines whether senators of both parties can offer their amendments and ideas on health care. well, i told the people of my state over this period that id vote to move beyond obamacare. and thats what im going to do today by voting yes. and i would ask all m...

The motion to proceed. it is the boat to determine whether this debate can proceed at all. whether we will even take it up. after four straight elections in which this was a huge mitt meant to the american people. its the vote that determines whether senators of both parties could offer their amendments and ideas on health care. well, i told the people in my state over this. that i vote to move beyond obamacare. and that is what i will do today by voting yes. i ask all my colleagues to join me i...

Go ahead by voting yes, which would have been an unprecedented move. i understand the israelis warned the white house, please dont do this. if you plan on doing this, we will reach out to the president-elect. the israelis got word the u.s. was going to allow that word to go ahead and the israelis did reach out to president-elect trump to ask him to weigh in. you saw the results oh of that. that vote was put on hold and the israelis today, the israeli ambassador to the u.s. thanking president tru...

To undue the sequester cuts, there was a bill that you threatened to veto that got 92 democrats in the house voting yes. so, my question to you is do you still have the juice to get the rest of your agenda through this congress? >> if you put it that way, jonathan, maybe i should just pack up and go home. golly. >> jon: president obama, a rare appearance there in the white house briefing room taking some tough questions from the press corps. jim, it was all kicked off by fox news chief white hou...

As american president. the u.s. and the world are at the edge of political and economic instability. what is needed now is u.s. presidential leadership. what it looks like we and the world are getting instead is presidential follower ship, or worst presidential lee induced confusion. daniel henninger, the editor of the "wall street journal" is the man who wrote these words. he joins us now. this started at least if im reading your column correctly with the question that jonathan article from abc...

Foiled attempts in times square, or in detroit that we are not going to stop living our lives because warped, twigsed individuals try to intimidate us. we are going to do what we do, which is go to work, raise our kids, go to ball games, run in marathons, and at the same time were going to make sure that everybody is cooperating, and is vigilant in doing everything we can, without being naive to try to prevent these attacks from happening in the future. >> jonathan carl. >> mr. president you are...