that congressional ability to decide how money is spent, you take away the biggest tool congress has in the unique balance of power our constitution creates. senator collins thinks that this way he s doing it, she thinks, is still unconstitutional. we ll see. the courts are going to decide that now, not the congress. we re going to have to every six months, apparently, double down on our view of whether this is a good thing to do or not. senator caputo and congressman cole and i were at the border tuesday and wednesday of this week, and what s happening at the border is making a difference. i think what the president was able to negotiate with mexico, where people aren t released into the united states but are released back into mexico to wait for their trial date. remember, particularly out of the central american countries, no more than 15 out of 100 people actually qualify for the asylum they re asking for. you send them back to mexico, they re deciding, you know, if i go to cou
it s interesting to watch for those of us who follow this. thank you. really appreciate it. coming up, republican congressman tom cole says there s a lot of smoke surrounding some of trump s former associates. and he s urging vulnerable incumbents to speak out about it. he joins me next right here on kasie dc.
distract. i would just focus on the basics. the basics for the president are better than some of these extraneous issues. so you re perfectly comfortable in the party of trump? i ll never be perfectly comfortable in a mid-term where our party is in power. i think we ve positioned ourselves as well as we can, and we ll see how we do. congressman tom cole, thank you for your time tonight. just ahead i m going to be hey allergy muddlers. are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool? try zyrtec®. it s starts working hard at hour one. and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®.
that. that was then candidate donald trump delivering one of his signature campaign lines at just a few of his rallies leading up to the election of 2016. but as michael cohen and paul manafort join the list of former trump advisers who have pleaded guilty to crimes, some are worried. republican congressman tom cole tells the new york times, quote, this is very much a referendum on the president. if he had to fight this campaign on what we accomplished in congress and the state of the economy, i think we d almost certainly keep the majority. congressman cole joins me now. congressman, thank you for being here tonight. it s good to see crow. i want to pick up on what we were just showing there and lisa mayer mentioned this, a poll was floated to the top of voter s
conversation in a moment about how accusations of harassment have played out around the supreme court nominations in the past. later, republican congressman tom cole joins me as democrats grow increasingly optimistic about taking back congress. but first, you re looking live at bolivia, north carolina, where a water rescue is under way at this moment. we ll have a live report just ahead. kasie dc back after this. (burke) fender-biter.