i m bret baier in washington. in mississippi six-term incumbent senator thad cochran survived a challenge from chris mcdaniel to hang on, and win. in new york, charlie wrangle is leading challenger adrian adriano espaillat. so, karl is tonight the empire strikes back? this really becomes sort of of case of how out of state super packs, many aligned with the tea party came to a state, made a big stink and it backfired on who it was intended to benefit. over the course of the last month, polls changes, shannon had a lead at one point
the president asked eric holder and members of the intelligence community to develop new options for an approach on march 28th. the collection program comes under reauthorization by the congress. these reforms will require action from congress. the proposals i m disclosing today should give the american people that their rights are being protected. i recognize that there are additional issues that require for further debate. on all of these issues, i m open to working with congress to mange sure we build a broad consensus on how we move forward. for more on this issue, let s bring in charlie wrangle. let s get to work, ed.
drug crimes. let me turn to charlie wrangle who s on views on drugs have evolved. you think this was the right thing for the president to do, to commute these sentences, an should he do more? i hope he does more. when i was prosecuting in the federal courts, we were going against drug cartels that were in turkey and france and when you had a good bust there, you could see the impact on the streets. now, everyone s an independent dealer and i have thought that the severe sentences would be a deterrent, but actually, it s really been a war against poor folks and people that didn t have lawyers and with mandatory sentences, it s been totally unfair. as you look back now as being one of those advocates, one of those prosecutors, one of those congressmen, you talked about pushing nixon, pushing reagan to have this war on drugs. do you look back with some kind of i don t know if regret was
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the question becomes why are we doing this, what is this about. one term i ve said is this is the seinfeld shutdown. a shutdown about nothing at this point because the democrats continue to hold this position, which they ve said you saw the president saying he will and they re not going to give an inch because they don t want to set a precedent for this, where does it end? does it end all the way the debt limit of october 17th? or could it end on monday if you put a clean bill on the floor? we don t know the answer to that. but as this goes on and on and on and you start to see that break within the house gop conference, at some point you got to say when is enough is enough is enough. i think you re starting to see that resonate within more conservative members of the house of the gop. luke russert, thank you. take care. thank you. be well. so are we any closer to reopening the government? joining me live now democratic new york congressman charlie wrangle. good to see you, sir.