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Days' experience on the hill could look at the dates and the timeline and have him take off his harry potter wizard hat and say -- sir, you better not go down the rabbit trail like you did before, when you talked about the harry potter secret society. there was inside the fbi when that involved the joke about a vladimir putin cat, calendar. now rick, if this were by a back-bencher, it might not be a significant. but ron johnson is the chairman of the homeland security committee, for the united states senate. and he keeps spitting out conspiracy theorys that are easily proven wrong. what do you...

Official with him, with a lot of money donated. but to gloria's point, it's hard to see in a world in which steve bannon is significantly reduced as sort of a factor in republican primaries how jason chafitz is not running his campaign. he is a seriously detailed guy, and yes, he's running for senate and he's an overwhelming favorite barring some unforeseen circumstance to come. i'm sort of more interested in what role he plays once he gets here. the governor of utah, who is a republican, said he envisioned mitt romney eventually becoming senate majority leader and working with his ticket mate...

Working with the administration we've confirmed 12 circuit judges. the most in the first year of any administration since 1891. of course, we just completed comprehensive tax reform. and there is nothing more challenging than that, which is why we haven't done it in 31 years. and this particular effort was even more challenging because 31 years ago there was a bipartisan agreement that it was a good thing to do. and i remember i had just gotten here, sort of a back bencher, watching the process carefully. dick gephart and bill bradley were for it. it passed by a pretty significant majority. go...

And it's also -- i mean, if the rnc was going to do this at the end of the day, they never should have gotten out friin th first place. it makes it look like this is pure politics. but look, there is one reason this is all happening. because everyone believes at least on the republican side of things that roy moore is going to win. so they have decided, you know, it's not worth putting up all of this effort here if they are going to lose again in alabama. the president already, you know, he still feels stung from backing luther strange in the primary. so they believe that roy moore is likely t...

Colleagues in the senate, in the choice between standing with senate norms or standing up for what my conscious tells me is best for our country, i will always choose conscience and country. >> that senator who cory booker was breaking precedent for in the united states senate, it was republican senator jeff sessions of alabama. jeff sessions was a senate back bencher, a man whose nomination to be a district court judge had failed years before after accusations of racism against him. session was never a particularly senior senator or particularly influential senator but the hard line nature of...