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Of did sucker punch his own party on his way out the door. but the effect of this last punch may well be mitigated for democrats because the republicans themselves have been doing a pretty good job of punching themselves out all this time. joining us now to sort this out is dan parker. he is chairman of the democratic party in indiana and he's getting a lot of attention today. mr. parker, thank you very much for your time tonight. really appreciate it. >> good evening, rachel. >> did you have any inkling that senator bayh was going to quit today? >> no, i did not. he did call me this weekend t...

Process. you need to have your petitions in to the county clerks to be satisfied tomorrow by noon. and then you need to collect all of those and then submit them to the secretary of state's office by noon on friday. so it's a two-step process. it is very difficult no ses to get done because voters' addresses need to match on the voters preparation rolls. it takes a lot of times. mr. coats who got in the race ten days ago has been paying people for ten days to collect his and he just got done today. >> wow. on the republican side, do you think there would have been more interest by more and str...

And diane brady of "businessweek." let's put the national debt into perspective. how close are we to the edge? for years we've been talking how the u.s. is too far in debt. why's this conversation heating up so much now? >> well, because the deficits that are out there are just gigantic, stretching out indefinitely into the future. the recent projections show that the united states will never balance its budget on the course we're on. and we've seen in this past week, all the instability in the euro zone with greece unable to pay its debts and now the fear of that spreading. but i think, ali, ...

Mcconnell from having the votes he needs to get kavanaugh confirmed? do we know? >> there's a two-step process. first there will be that committee vote to get kavanaugh to the floor. the committee is probably safer ground for kavanaugh at this point. we're watching mostly jeff flake who's been the one holdout on the committee who said he really needs to hear from dr. ford. he's perhaps the most shaky republican vote there. the floor is a whole other matter. what's happened over the last day or so appears to be a crystallization on the two camps on the republican side. those who believe that th...

Mccain will return to the senate for today's crucial health care vote. mccain's first time back at the capitol since his brain cancer diagnosis. we begin with jeff zeleny at the white house. ripe all eyes in washington -- >> reporter: all eyes on washington from here at the white house to capitol hill are focusing on the critical vote in the senate on health care. the senate is scheduled to vote this afternoon on proceeding to debate on the actual bill. it's a two-step process. yesterday here at the white house, we saw president trump engaged in this issue, engaged in this matter, more so than...