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Protect counsel robert mueller is brought to a vote on the senate floor. something majority leader mitch mcconnell has so far refused to do. >> we don't know how the president feels about the mueller investigation but he's never said he wants to shut it down. i've never heard anybody down there say they want to shut it down. i think it's a no danger and i don't think any legislature is necessary. paul: let's bring in wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and editorial page kate bachelder odell, kim, let's start with powerful democrats in the hous...

Democrats who during the campaign said explicitly i will not support her. 11 of those were were incumbents and the rest are freshmen, if all of them held true to their word she would get 208 votes, 10 short of what she needs to be speaker, she would still have the majority, 201 republicans so she'd still have the majority but if they voted for somebody else she'd come up short of the 218. now, theoretically they could all vote present rather than voting for somebody and that would lower the number of votes that she would need in that case it would lower it down to about 205 or 2006 but she's g...

And that got a lot of criticism, how can you criticize john mccain, what do you think of that? >> well, there's something to that, look, it's just the way it was, john mccain was proud of that vote and we should remember that he took it. he and susan collins and lisa murkowski of alaska, the republicans were on a knife edge close enough to get this through, it would have given them as kate said both the actual success of repealing it but the ability to then go out and see changes in the law that helped bring down prices and where people could see that was actually happening. they didn't do it ...