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Well, after sparking intense backlash by admitting that he would again accept foreign dirt on his political opponents, the president's campaign says it is actually now a directive to the campaign, to be all ears, when someone comes calling, even as the chair of the fec slams those remarks. joining us now to talk about this, and so much more, we have democratic senator from minnesota, and 2020 presidential am candidate senator amy klobuchar. >> great to be on. what a great day to be on. >> i want you to put on your senator hat, not presidential candidate hat. >> okay. >> when you hear the sitti...

That's a day if the life of public official. he wasn't fazed by that. the restaurant thing, that ted cruz doesn't care about that. he doesn't take off his senator hat when he has dinner with his wife. i think reasonable people look at that and said would i want to be in that restaurant with the people? it's uncomfortable to see. when mitch mcconnell is talking about this backfiring he's talking about the kavanaugh hearings. 20 million people seeing protestor being hauled out. interrupting a hearing people wanted to watch. that's where he feels they are success. those hearings and the protestor...

Let me ask you this. how -- isn't there -- isn't there a way you could codify the protections that the obama justice department put in there? >> there is. certainly, chuck, something we continue to look at. i gathered about a dozen of my colleagues in the senate in my office yesterday. we had a sdfrdiscussion how to forward. approach through the appropriations process, whether it's looking at long-term negotiation, adopt that federalist state-by-state approach is something to consider. frankly, this decision by the attorney general spurred that conversation and raised it to a level that simply...

Breaking the rules so that you can in effect look the other way in the face of strong evidence, serious ethical problems for two nominees is exceptionally troubling. senator hat said he gave you notice at about 9:00 a.m. this morning. can you confirm that? >> i believe the staff did. i was in a meeting, as i said, that begin at 9:00 a.m. in the capitol talking about rural health care and the rural health care providers, talking about the problems that they would face on a day-to-day basis if they saw repeal and run which seems to be the strategy. >> senator, what does this is a about how toxic...

The former senator hat a million in the bank. now it's the millionaires and billionaires behind the candidates' super pacs who have become the real power players in the gop race. none as much as sheldon adelson who's on the latest issue of the "forbes" magazine. steven is here. did i say it right? adelson. >> adelson. >> it's like tomato, tomato. if gingrich has gotten the bulk of this money and the bulk of the headlines out of this money, do we have an accurate figure of really how much he's invested in newt gingrich? >> he's given 11 million and there's rumors that he's going to put another ...