when he came to capitol hill two days ago, or you went to the white house yesterday to hear from him again on these bills, why would you today cast a vote for either of these measures, which the president just said to his 53 million followers on twitter are essentially pointless because they won t go anywhere in the senate. now, is the president wrong? probably not. neither one of these billings had a good chance in the senate. why? well, because one of them is probably too conservative. i think we have a full screen. there are two key differences. the so-called goodlate bill does not allow a pathway to citizenship, only to legal status. that was never going to get democratic support. the more moderate bill does have a pathway to citizenship, but it also allocates $25 billion for the wall up front, one big lump sum payment right up front. that s something that might have seen resistance from democrats in the senate as well. so while the president s not wrong here, he entirely
john cornyn, the second ranking republican in the senate said that he thinks that she ll be confirmed by a comfortable margin. but john mccain s decision to be public in his opposition is notable, not necessarily because of his vote, no one expected him to be able to come back here and cast a vote, but it was how he was going to impact other senators who admire and respect him. that s one of the things we have done this morning, went in search of the senators who may break away from the republican party and vote against gina haspel. one of those key senators was lindsey graham of south carolina. he said this morning he s going to stick by her, he s going to vote in favor of haspel. but another senator jeff flake of arizona also serves and represents arizona with senator mccain, he says he s now taking a second look at her because of what john mccain had to say. and so at this point, republicans remain confident, of course, there may be some democrats that come over and support her as w
she is going to be okay. wrong. because conor lamb never cast a vote. so it was easy for him to talk what he might be for, who he might be with. remember, he says he ll work with donald trump. heidi heitkamp hasn t worked with donald trump. it s going to be on democrats where the president is still upwards in his approval rating. i think the president s approval ratings are still down in the toilet. but let me ask you this. do you think donald trump carries that area again in 2020? i would say yes he does. he is 49-49 i think in pennsylvania right now, approval/disapproval. all of his chaotic nature of the white house and the challenges that he has all across this world are going to start impacting people. and the fact is they re not seeing their pocketbook change very much. those that are in the low income, middle income are not seeing anything change. they re now going to say wait a minute, he fought for the wealthy, not us. and i think that s going to be able to turn some of
and i m tired of it. bullying. that s a reference to the president of the united states. it s a direct reference, and from someone we don t hear talking all that much. i think those words will resonate, at least with some. not perhaps with the president s base, who of course are no fan of john mccain. that s the thing. if after a talk with the family he couldn t hold his promise to not do these kinds of things, it s unlikely that he ll stop doing this. it s almost like he can t help himself. it goes back to the empathy thing. he seems to lack an empathy gene. john mccain is battling cancer. he s very ill. the president just can t help but kind of tease him and criticize him in front of a crowd. he did cast a vote the president didn t like. policy is fair game. was it the idea he shouldn t in a public crowd just because he should have the empathy to know? is that the line? well, i think he likes a crowd, and he probably knew what he was going to get. some of that is on the cro
dagen: a college student in virginia going to the slammer for registering dead people devote for democrats. 21-year-old andrew spieles, a student at james madison university in virginia, was sentenced to 100 days in the big house for fraudulently registering deceased citizens among others devote leading up to the 2016 election. spieles worked for the democratic party affiliated group harrisonburg votes and was being paid to register as many people as possible. he was caught up in the city s registrar recognized that one of the registered voters submitted by him was actually dead. voter fraud commissioned by president trump is ridiculed from the left, but there you go. david: it happens all over the place. we had a former colorado g.o.p. chair who cast a vote for his dead wife. he got in trouble. in miami, a ballot stuffing scandal by republicans, and