obamacare, you want to pass tax reform. we had a problem with akin. joe donnelly, a democrat in the senate from indiana because we had richard mourdock, a race that he was supposed to win. we had allegations again and unfortunate language from him talking about these issues that impact women in very personal ways. we ve seen this happen in races before. we could have passed tax reform already if we had those two senate seats. other terrible candidates who let harry reid win, christine o donnell that led chris koonce win. that s why they are asking what is more important, saving one senate seat or the larger distraction over a year or losing the senate seat. it s why republicans are in a lose-lose situation. what we re looking at is the sad end of a bad bullfight and it s unfortunately donald trump s
enter you have with senator cotton, and senator chris koonce and joaquin castro. you do not want to miss that. a powerful hurricane is make land fall this morning. the storm reaching puerto rico today. the governor saying the storm will much more dangerous than even harvey. for preparations for weather proof against a monster storm gets underway. hurricane hunters from noaa through through the storm last night showing the powerful storm in all of its fury. i want to turn to bonnie schneider. bonnie, this is about the path and that critical right turn. absolutely. we are just looking at a monster storm. take a look at the latest images of hurricane irma. it s 25 nautical miles wide. over 300 miles in diameter.
some senators have said that they re worried that trump may try to fire this man, james comey, as well. or i should say robert mueller. republican senator tom tillis of north carolina and democratic senator chris koonce of delaware say their bill would let special counsels challenge their removal in court. sponsors of the other bill, the republican lindsey graham of south carolina and the democrat corey booker of new jersey say they bill would require a court to sign off on firing a special counsel. for now, what happens if the president does decide to fire him? now that the wall treat journal reports a grand jury is empanelled and has been working in recent weeks. let s turn to elisa collins from usa today. what happens if the president says you re fired? lindsey graham has said this would be the beginning of the end of trump s presidency. this is a strange topic where you see republicans and democrats and a hyper partisan congress coming together and say
neil: so when some of your democratic colleagues say that goes too far and you re being pressured a little too much, i m paraphrasing from chris koonce from delaware, they saw that as a veiled message, what do you say back to that? the president doesn t have to send me any veiled messages. he can call me and talk to me and he will. neil: has he talked to you about any of this stuff, sir? no. neil: let s get a sense of what happens now with these ongoing investigations. obviously to pursue this action, you did take against mr. manafort because he was not providing information in a timely manner what would you agree to? his lawyers are working up one idea and you have another. where is this going? first of all, what i agree to will have to be in conjunction with senator feinstein, the ranking democrat. she speaks for them. we re working together on this.
the panel is back. are democrats here delaying the inevitable? is neil gorsuch, he s going to become a supreme court justice? i think they are. if you hear a calculation if we keep our powder dry perhaps we can use the filibuster effectively if there s another supreme court nomination. remember let s make a deal and the guy between curtain one and curtain two and i will take curtain one and it s a donkey and curtain two is a worse donkey. that could be the situation here. a filibuster won t hold up either way why not use it now and at least make a statement. appeal to the base, show you have some spine. this is senator chris koonce yesterday, a member of the judiciary committee, said on morning joe when asked if he thinks republicans will use the so-called nuclear option. here it is. almost certainly. and i think this is tragic. and in talking to friends on both sides of the aisle we ve got a lot of senators concerned about where we re headed.