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Bring your phone. switch your carrier. save hundreds a year with xfinity mobile. call, click or visit a store today. all right, there battle on capitol hill to protect special counsel robert muellers russia probe is growing. retiring arizona senator and a consistent thorn in the presidents side, yef flake, has made this threat on the senate floor. >> i have informed the majority leader i will not vote to advance any of the 21 judicial nominees pending in the jew disary committee or vote to con...

Here. >> john heilemann, first of all, if you are in the position of donald trump or the position of somebody in the white house what do you say? there is no backup plan. >> correct. >> that puts more pressure on susan collins, that puts more measure on murkowski, that puts more pressure on every republican, flake, thats wavering to say here is the deal, with he can have a ser conservative court if you pick kavanaugh, but if you dont pick kavanaugh we will be tied 4-4 until after the 2020 electi...

Flake and coons they make a deal. im curious do you see this as sort of like, you know, after world war ii began they talked about a phoney war. is this a phoney piece that democrats and republicans find themselves in or is there a positive coming out of it? >> well, theres a couple things. i mean, i think most people probably familiar with what happened in some sense, you had jeff flake who came out in the morning and said that he was going to be voting for judge kavanaugh and then over the cou...

Thats happened in the democratic party. bill clintons role as a modernizer of the party was successful. in other respects his attempt to moderate the party was a total failure. in many respects the party is now more, looks more like the party of the 1980s in terms of its ideological disposition than the party of bill clinton in 1990s. >> the san francisco democrats that republicans ran against until bill clinton clobbered them in 1992, and, again in 1996. matt miller, if you could -- if you coul...

Debate, which is facts versus feelings and how its become so super charged and 20% of america took time out from their day on thursday to watch these hours and hours of searing testimony, just emotional and raw. i know that i cried during both of the testimonies. it was just one of those moments where everyone knows how they feel and theyre thinking a lot about how they feel, and we just still are not sure what the facts are. thats why i do think it is important that they have launched this one-...

Running for re-election theres no way he could have done what he did last night. again, he might as well have said that he had monkeys growing out of his ears. i dont understand that line of thinking. i always found in my district a very conservative district that if you took a courageous stand and then you explained to it your voters, even the most conservative of voters who may not have agreed with what you did or even the most liberal voters they actually rewarded you for that. but jeff flake...

Half to that strategy. they were worried about the optics of the hearing but now they have somebody else carrying that water for them. >> they have to be able -- the fbi it seems to me, matt miller, i understand the limiting of the scope as far as the witnesses that youre going to talk to, these are the two incidents that were brought in before our committee, these are the two incidents that we want you to investigate, these are the key players we want you to investigate. i understand in a one w...

So important, is to not just talk to him, but then to talk to leads. who else did he talk to about this incident? who else was there? theres talk about a former girlfriend. did he make statements to anyone else about this? in the past month has he talked to brett kavanaugh or others about what his story would be if questioned by the fbi. i would push there. but whats important is you dont just talk to him, you talk to those around him to find out if what hes telling you is truthful. >> all right...

People at the white house. its very simple. if youre looking for the truth and not looking for a rubber stamp then you ask people who are trained to do this, to go out there and do their investigation. i would be happy to have the time extended. i dont think there should be a time limit on finding the truth. if you want to stick with the time limit thats fine but let the fbi decide who they will interview. >> lets hope that yef flake, lisa murkowski and susan collins heard that because it certai...

Which is what they would like to do. >> the fbi is going to be getting a letter from senator feinstein today who is the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee to director wray and be asking him about the scope of the investigation. lets hope that, again, the fbi is going to be allowed to do what they need to do. john heilemann i want to ask you the question that i asked00 hunt. if we move forward no shocking revelations come out, do we see flake, murkowski, collins and manchin end up v...