that was major vote in the senate where republicans blocked a bill that would guarantee access to ivf in vitro fertilization and ob-gyn watching impact of all of this it's in her own hospitals is going to join us ahead, plus new comments today from fani willis, the georgia prosecutor, with a criminal case against donald trump that seems to be on hold one day after a cnn interview with nathan wade, her former staffer and romantic partner was interrupted just as kaitlan collins started asking about the timing of the romantic relationship with district attorney willis and leading this hour, what house and senate republicans are saying about their back-to-back meetings today with former president donald trump in that handshake with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell let's get straight to cnn's manu raju on capitol hill. manu, what are you hearing from the republican lawmakers after their closed-door meetings? >> well, a lot of the republicans were very positive coming out of the media. even some of those who have been critical of the former president believing that this is a good effort of tried to unify a part of that has been badly divided in some of the dissenters in the senate republican meeting actually did not even attend the meeting. so there was really not much dissension that was voiced within the room. in fact, susan collins of maine, someone who voted to convict donald trump has not endorsed him, did not attend the meeting, mediated lisa murkowski of alaska and immediately after the meeting, i caught up with leaders from murkowski and i asked her about her concerns within about her party gregg getting behind donald trump so quickly even there has been some divisions and whether she herself would support the former president and you're still there's no chance he'll support him i already made clear that i am not satisfied with either choice that we have in as republicans or damage okay. was it awkward being at that meeting given trump there to work for my state, i'm there for to work hard so it's not offered to work or someone who hold show will be well, you're not supporting him get it right. >> i don't know see you guys and that last commerce senator bill cassidy, who is also one of the seven republicans who voted to convict donald trump after january 6, has not endorsed trump yet, and i'd asked him there, he's still going to support him now but you didn't say that, but he did indicate that he believed that this was a positive meeting, which was the converse of the most members voice even as donald trump gave a rather unwieldy, sometimes rambling speech to his de, both the house and the senate, talking about a variety of things, airing out a number of grievances criticizing the conviction against him as terrible calling the justice department dirty, no good for one for one, not talking much about policy, but he did council republicans about not going too far on the issue of abortion, warning them about political backlash if they do, and that's certainly is one that has divided in his party, but one he recognizes could be a problem for his party politically if it's not handled the way voters want them to, jake and minor when this was the first time that former president trump and republican minority leader mitch mcconnell reunite it were in the same room together face-to-face since the 2020 election center, mcconnell has had some very harsh things to say about donald trump. what do we know about this reunion yeah, in fact, they actually greeter, they shook hands. >> i ask mcconnell about it in the immediate aftermath of the meeting as well, and i said, i asked him if they spoke. he said that they did shake hands. they seem to exchange some pleasantries that the issues of all the bad blood between them simply did not come up. it seems in fact, i asked there's multiple senators about whether january 6 itself, the attack at all in any capacity came up. the answer was resoundingly know. and of course that's exactly what broke down the mcconnell trump relationship in the aftermath of january 6, mclean i don't called donald trump morally and practically responsible for the events of that day. they have not spoken since december of 2020 after donald trump, after mcconnell called joe biden, the victor after the electoral college certified the victory for joe biden, and they haven't spoken till today. but despite their bad blunders despite donald trump attacking mcconnell for months and months, including his wife and sometimes racist terms. none of that seemed to matter today. and mcconnell's ready to move on. and apparently donald trump is two buy guns. >> manu raju, thanks so much. so it's bringing a panel, political voices and one of our journalists to weigh on how this all could impact the election let me start with you, republican congressmen, timber shut described his conversation with trump like this. he said, i said mr. president, you do a good job of laying out all the bad things. and we know that, but you do a better job of laying out how to fix those things. i encouraged him to do a lot more of that. what what do you make that meant? oh, i think it's clearly donald trump is one of the most effective attack dogs at american politics. >> i mean, this is a guy who literally coming down that golden escalator in 2015, knew how to put a moniker on an opponent, whether it was low-energy jab or crooked hillary or you name it. >> but you have actually seen the campaign put out a lot more policy see this go round, which look, i was part of the 2016 campaign when it wasn't like there was a big policy team around the presidential race that year. >> you are seeing the agenda 40 45 coming out or gender 47, present trump's putting out a number of different policy issues, whether it's about how he's going to reform the bureaucracy, what he's gonna do on tax code, you're actually so i'm just announced the other day in nevada, they is going to actually eliminate a tax on tips, which is a direct appeal to wage workers in the blue blue-collar class here in the united states. and so there's clearly shows that he's actually looking forward and maybe he's listening at timber shed a little bit. >> former congressman delaney, republican senator j.d. vance, a top vp contender, was asked today how they're going to be unit the around trump when senior republicans blame him for january 6 and we saw lisa murkowski and bill cassidy of louisiana, both of them voted to convict after the impeachment hearing. here is what jd vance had to say i think that no real republican with any credit, the land party is still claiming frankly sunday some of his critics were in the room and we're supported. >> so it's a good thing no real republican with any credibility in the party is still blaming trump for january 6. >> do i know that you're a democrat, but do you agree with that? and what does it say about trump's hold on, the party? >> you know, i used to think jd vance was a beautiful writer and now when i listened to him, i don't know what he's talking about. right. there isn't unity in the republican party because a lot of republicans realize what happened on january 6 was a national embarrassment and a scar on our nation and our democracy and they know donald trump's fingerprints are all over it. and a lot of good minded republicans in my opinion, like paul ryan last week came out and said, character, integrity matters. what happens on january 6 disqualifies donald trump in his judgment from being president united states. obviously, i agree with that, as do many republicans so there isn't unity in the republican party and that's one of the problems that donald trump has, right? he will not consolidate the republican base. this election well, we'll do it, but even again, i want to show you this picture. >> look at who is surrounding former president trump. okay. we got senator rick scott, senator ron johnson, senator roger for marshall center, john harasser will give trump a birthday cake with a 47 candle. he's obviously not 47 on the right we got a j.d. vance, josh hawley, senator steve daines, chairman of the national republican senatorial committee. and look at this image. obviously mcconnell and trump shaking hands, even though as manu points it's out, trump has had some very harsh, even racist words about his wife. manu said what does that tell you? >> i think that this episode really illustrates that they view the former president as an asset and not a liability. and every republican is going to run their own race, ultimately but what democrats have been doing to some effect is trying to tie even the most moderate republican to the former president. this is a maga republican. this is, this. if you support this candidate, they are going to be in service to the maga agenda. and i think this episode today, this sort of kiss the ring that we saw from elected republicans really allows democrats to continue to, i think be able to advance that message and senator vance is also leading a new effort in the senate by republicans to block the fast-tracking of president biden hi judicial nominees and us attorney nominations for what vance and his friends or his colleagues are calling the weaponization of government of the justice department against political opposition. >> here is his offer to democrats take a listen the first two democrats, and it's very simple that if you guys stopped using the judicial system weaponized against your political opposition, we'd be happy to be more cooperative. >> so take that as an offer. you guys need to stop. it's destroying the american people's faith in our system of law and order. and if you stopped it, we be happy to try to let some of these nominations through congressman, you're a democrat and he that's your his offer to democrats. >> what do you think? well, i think first of all, it's the premise is preposterous. this notion that the democrats, some conspiracy of democrats are weaponizing the entire judicial system of the united states of america. it's preposterous. president trump is now a convicted felon convicted and decided by a jury of his peers, that is our system. >> j.d. vance doesn't like the result of that. so his proposal is i will hold the government of the united states hostage and not do my job, not advanced nominations, not consider them not to all the things i'm supposed to be as us senator because i don't like the results of a trial in new york. it's a ridiculous comment, then it's it's when you're running for vice president, you pull over on the side of the road and you get on some camera and you say stuff like that and that's what we're seeing. >> so matt mauer is we have some breaking news. i want you to respond to this. i don't even know what it says myself, former congresswoman levs cheney, former house republican leader in terms, i think she was conference chair now she's out of the out of the congress and a very strong trump critics. she just posted on twitter or acts about this mcconnell trump photo saying in part, quote, trump and his collaborators will be defeated and history we will remember the shame of people like leader mcconnell, who enabled them what your take on less chinese words. i'm not sure it's entirely news that lins cheney's not supporting donald trump. she's made very clear harsh words for mcconney. >> it is. that's right. well, here's the thing to remember about mitch mcconnell. he is actually a principled ideological conservative but when you look at the tactics the input deploys, it's real politique. he sees donald trump as it imperfect vessel to advance a conservative agenda for four more years. he also knows to iv is point that actually it's not the worst thing to be a maga republican. and the key senate states, when you're talking about tim sheehy against jon tester, a montana or bernie moreno against sherrod brown and ohio. certainly jim justice and what us virginia, donald trump's gonna win all those states by at least eight points in montana, west virginia, it's b 20 plus points. it's not a bad thing to be a donald trump maga republican in those key states that they need to win to take control the senate. mitch mcconnell knows it, and that's one of the reasons you saw unity coming out of the conference today, even yeah. >> i don't know if you would characterize it as principal but we have seen above all else mcconnell be strategic and he recognizes that he lost this fight. his vision of the party would not be trump at the helm. he has made that clear, but he's run out of cards to play and he recognizes that a few months out from the election they are. he trump is their guy. >> yeah, there's certainly is no other republican presidential nominee that's going to appear thanks to one and all. good to see everybody again coming up the interrupted. see you in an interview with the georgia prosecutor, nathan wade, just to cnn's kaitlan collins was asking about the timing of his romantic relationship with district attorney fani willis or katelyn it's going to join us, of course, with her thoughts on that shall we call it a bizarre moment, plus a story. so many of you can identify with the skyrocketing cost of childcare according to one report, two children in daycare is more expensive than rent. in every single state in the united states, the ripple effect on families and entire communities. that's coming up the most anticipated moment of this election. and the stakes couldn't be higher the president and the former president, one stage how to read it by jake tapper and dana bash, the cnn presidential debate, thursday, june 27th, nine live on cnn and streaming on max let's get started. no where's your mask? i really tried sleeping so when i declared all must be treated equally and all must be held accountable. i had no just to clarify, when did the romantic relationship between the two of you start? >> yeah. so do i believe that my actions caused this delay? >> no, no, no, i do believe though at the timing of a person caitlin, it's jake hello, jake, how are yeah. well, how's it going it's going great. how's it, going. with, you i'm all right i house the how are the dogs the dogs are a little out of control. do they get along? >> well their brothers i know, but like since he kept separately, there. >> oh, yeah. like when bear came into the house and he ran up to moose. it was like, oh, what's up, dude, how are you doing? like and they've my god, there are so cute yeah, they're great. >> they're great. >> they're a little wild because you know that the size of deer and their puppies, so it's a little while but anyway, they're crazy. they're nuts, but we love them so much. >> that's really fine, especially for jack. >> and then we have little clementine also who's there just soaking it all up and that's her that's her n our law and justice lead speaking at a church outside atlanta, georgia today, fulton county district attorney fani willis said g is too busy working to concern yourself with any insults thrown her way while district attorney willis did not directly mention former president donald trump in his effort to get her kicked off his election subversion case. >> willis did acknowledge the scrutiny that she's under treated equally and all must be held accountable know that that was a controversy come or top four are married no idea. >> my dating lives it wouldn't make me hey controversial figure that would become worthy constant personal attacks. and death threats she is probably also of the mind that she had no idea that her romantic relationship with now former fulton county special prosecutor, nathan wade, who served under her would come out and would be used against her as for wade's perspective, well, he let cnn's kaitlan collins know what he thinks about willis and trump's election subversion case in cnn's kaitlan collins joins us now to talk about this. >> so caitlin, this was a remarkable interview last night i texted you immediately after it was over. once you started to question him about the timeline of his relationship with fani willis, which was an obvious question that you were going to ask any good reporter would ask, and it's obviously the central issue is to the argument that trump is making as to why she should be thrown off the case because the argument goes that they were using this to make money and go on trips and blah, blah, blah. the hiring of her lover. >> after you asked about the timing there was this bizarre moment when wade's team stop the interview. >> well, let's watch what happened just to clarify, when did the romantic relationship between the two of you start? >> yeah. so we get into there's been this effort to say that. okay. these these exact dates are are at issue and these exact dates it's i'm getting i'm getting signaled here everything. >> okay. yeah. >> just to revisit the question was to clarify when the root romantic relationships started and when it ended. >> sure. so i believe that the public has through through the testimony and other interview, the public has a clear snapshot that this is clearly just a distraction does not a relevant issue in this case. and i think that we should be focusing on more of the facts and the indictment in the case i mean, kudos on the straight face. >> what do you make of all that? >> i mean, it was it was the most remarkable moment of the interview. jake especially obviously when it was his media dalton who got up and came in and he was huddling in the corner their width. and obviously as you saw before, that happened, he started to answer the question and kind of get into the confusion over the timeline because they had testified one thing that it was before the august indictment of donald trump in another moment, he had said it was by the end of the 2022. and so that was the confusion. and then obviously you saw after that moment he had a very different answer and it was really just talking about how it wasn't relevant to the heart of this. now, i will say two things. one, it was a pretty obvious question about the timeline because that is really the central part of all of this. they testified about it but when they were both on the stand and secondly, jake, obviously this is a matter that is not resolved yet. this is still going before the court of appeals in georgia. it's why this case is entirely frozen right now. judge mcafee can't do anything and we'd likely won't hear anything on it until the spring at the earliest. so that case is not happening before the 2024 section. and so it actually is quite important. he made the point that what his relationship with was with fani willis isn't relevant to what's in the heart of the indictment that's obviously true. but of course, as judge mcafee noted, it's important to have credibility when you are prosecuting anyone much less the former president of the united states. >> yeah. and the judge has been fairly critical about whether or not district attorney willis has been completely forthright about the timing of this. all didn't weigh show any remorse for his relationship with fani willis, which which it potentially could derail the case against trump. it is it seems to me the most consequential interoffice relationship since president clinton, i wasn't office yeah. >> it's obviously that instance where you're asked i asked him, do you have any regrets about this? how are you reflecting on this now that it's been three months since he was forced to resign by the judge where the judge said either fani willis and the whole team has to go or nathan. wade has to go and he resigned, obviously, as we saw in the letter that day. and what he said in the letter that day, jake was that he didn't want to be a distraction. he wanted for democracy this case, to move forward. but of course, because of this, the case is not moving forward. however, he told me he doesn't believe that his actions, his relationship with the district atto