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how important this process is, to getting confirmation, as we saw what happened in 1986. more importantly, i think he took head on a lot of the critics and criticism of decisions that he s made and votes he s cast. and i thought in particular, with cory booker becoming historic, you saw the first sho for the 2020 democratic nomination for president. let s just put that on the table. certainly, that s part of the drama and theater of what he chose to do. but i also found it somewhat ironic that just in january of 2016, in legislation that he co-sponsored with mr. sessions, that celebrated those who walked from walked the selma mile, if you will, that he referred to him as it was a great honor to work with him and that he appreciated his commitment to civil rights. and yet now sees him as he referred to him as a danger with danger to our country, as he s been quoted to say. the politics is not lost here. i think everyone in this town understands that. and to have this stag ....
Nato. is there any crack in the resolve of these republicans to be known for the rest of their lives as trump republicans, as trumpists, as enablers of donald trump, as people that are engaging in the coverup of an investigation between potential ties between russia and the president of the united states administration. any cracks in that wall at all? joe, i think that you are going to be able to see on the screen plain as day on thursday part of the answer to that question, if they really are going after james comey on these questions that the president doesn t really want them to be talking about. i think right now there s still this underlying sense of fear. i think all those things you walked through, all those events, qatar this week, when bob corker, cirman of foreign relations was told abouthat by a reporter, he looked extreme ....
ali, would it make more sense to fix the affordable care act and, briefly, what would those fixes look like? it would. anybody who tells you the affordable care act is perfect, it s not. first of all, it did virtually nothing on the cost side of the equation and as wendall implied and it was said i ve had a lot of republican congressmen tell me the same thing, they didn t design this american health care act with the idea that they talked a bunch of people who had a steak in the game. they talked to insurance companies and lobbyists and that s why this exists as it is. a real good health care system to be fixed needs to have all of the other constituents involved. this can t just be legislation for the insurance companies. so there are real fixes you can give to obamacare, but you need to actually want to fix it, not repeal it. and be able to pass it through the house of representatives where it has the freedom caucus which is like get rid of all of it. wendall potter and ali v ....
Earlier and now has a conflict. with that, i ll send i ll turn to senator cardin again. well, once again, thank you, mr. chairman. first, mr. chairman, in response to senator menendez s questions about lobbying in regards to the iran sanctions act, just to make the record complete, i m going to ask consent to put into the record the lobbying disclosure form from exxonmobil corporation that indicates the approximately $3.4 million was spent on behalf of lobbying the iran sanctions act. i ll put that into the record. without objection. i wanted to be cirman. putting some information into the record. i understand you became chairman while i was talking, but you always have to watch out. without objection. thank you. ....