we re lucky to be joined by chris van holen of maryland. thank you for being with us, senator. great to be with you, nicole. i want to play you something that one of our correspondents got for us from lisa murkowski, one of your colleagues, republican senator from alaska. would you be a proponent of trying to work across the aisle to make the fixes as opposed to saying we have to start over? absolutely. the congress of the united states whether you re a republican or democrat in the house or senate, working on problems that are part and parcel of who we are as americans. this is this is not this is not for republicans to fix or democrats to fix. this is for us as americans to fix. senator, let me ask you, she was stopped in her tracks by this question of whether or not she would work with democrats. would you work with republicans
going to be victorious. it s got to be the american people that are victorious and we need to take the party politics out of it. we need to protect everybody, you know, that s getting sick. we need to have premiums that are not, you know, rising and doubling and since 2013, to 2017, premiums under obamacare have done nothing but double. i want to quickly play a little bit more from vaughn s interview with democratic senator chris van holen who is holding a town hall this afternoon. watch this. how can you say this is a health care bill when not a single, not one patient advocacy organization is in favor of this bill and all the provider groups and nurses, doctors, against it. so do the right thing. jonathan, back to you real quick. we re also seeing several insurers that are coming out against this. is anybody in the health field actually backing this? not really. and that really does tell you something. you know, in 2009, in 2010, when
now to the state of florida. on the senate level cnn can project that marco rubio will go on to win another term in the u.s. senate, defeating his democratic challenger patrick murray. this was not a seat that rubio wanted. he said he was going to retire until a lot of big wigs came in and convinced him to reconsider and looks like he ll go on to win reelection. now let s look at other wins that cnn can project this evening. richard blumenthal, the republican in connecticut will win another term. now in the state of maryland, cnn can project that chris van holen will beat his republican challeng challenger. then in oklahoma, james lankford will win, defeating his democratic challenger.
a movie theater killing 12 and injuring 70. a police sergeant who responded in the shooting said he saw a suspect lying on the parking lot as two officers arrested him and stripped off his and stripped off his helmet and body armor. previous witnesses did not see holmes or only saw a masked gunman at the midnight showing. those are the other headlines for the day. we send it back to thomas there in baltimore. thank you so much much more ahead on msnbc live from west baltimore. i ll talk to maryland congressman chris van holen about the politics surrounding what is happening here and i ll take you on my tour my best of baltimore, my own baltimore after this.
and the weight is over for downton abby. . first, two front page politics. a new reaction today to the debt ceiling debate. on meet the press, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said they will not raise tax revenue again. he says instead the president should start working with congress to cut down on the deficit. the question now is will the president lead? why should we have to bring him to the table? why isn t he leading us in the direction of beginning to solve our long-term debt and deficit problem? it s perplexing to me that the president of the united states elected to lead the country is so reluctant to engage on the most important issue confronting our future. democratic congressman chris van holen, ranking member on the budget committee, was quick to respond. if senator mcconnell is going