personally popular in the state, surprised a lot of people by saying, hey, i want to go to the u.s. senate. he d been defying political gravity in tennessee now we ll see. we need some more polls to see if blackburn really has pulled into the lead or if this proves to be more of an outlier. but interestingly, yesterday, phil bryson who is obviously not in the senate, right now not anywhere near washington, d.c., he announced yesterday he was for the kavanaugh nomination. if in the senate, he would have voted for the kavanaugh nomination. so there s a democrat like manchen in west virginia trying to separate himself from the national party and trying to appeal to voters in the state. in tennessee s case, it went to trump by 26 points. given the down numbers from marsha blackburn leading up to today, you have to wonder if this is a bounce from enthusiasm, whether it sustains itself. i don t want to overlook nevada. this nevada is the one example here where you might get the flip side
services secretary tom price, health care costs are rising. obamacare premiums will jump 10% each year leaving many more uninsured. the economy is strong. jobless rate is near a 17-year low. stocks up 30% since the election day. when you look at the tax law, you can see the disparity with how much is going to workers and how much to shareholders. the politics is fascinating. nevada democrats are bouncing on dean hiller for voting in favor of the tax bill. thought to be the chief argument in the mid terms. this will be fascinating. good stuff. police releasing nearly three hours of body camera footage from the las vegas massac massacre. two officers enter the killer s hotel suite following the shooting.
t polls but the rnc has yet to comment and their big meeting is taking police next week in washington, d.c. is the rnc going to keep steve wynn in charge of all that cash they re going to need for house and senate candidates. not to mean that dean heller is up for reelection this year and he s one of senate s most vulnerable republicans right now. steve wynn and his wife have donated tens of thousands of dollars to dean hiller over the years. joining us now is the daily beast white house reporter who is writing about the rnc staying silent on the wynn allegations. they haven t commented?
party. he has threatened dean hiller a sitting senator. last week he went after jeff sessions loved by other republicans on capitol hill. if he wants support from other republicans he needs to start supporting them. he needs to start being a team player and he needs to stop this incredibly destructive behavior we re they are attacking their own and preventing them getting anything on their agenda through and average republicans are frustrated. he has his base but it is not all republicans. that s 20 to 30% of the country. he needs to do more to bring his own party together. shannon: it takes all those votes to get things done on the hill. thank you both very much. bill: 20 minutes past the hour now. a manhunt is underway for an inmate who escaped out of an alabama jail. what we re learning how a dozen escaped from prison. shannon: the attorney general jeff sessions following up on a big promise. news is coming cracking down on leaks coming from inside the white house. the adminis
remember who gives you something, but they are going to remember who took it away and that is absolutely the case with health care. you re seeing that play out a lot with dean hiller, too, our senator, who boxed himself in, wanted to get rid of obamacare, but now realizes how important it is people stay on their health insurance. 40,000 people in my district alone will lose their insurance if this is repealed. and now the really big threat is they want to repeal and not even replace. you re starting to hear more of that. so we ll see what they come with when we go back later this week. all right. senator, a tough re-election bid next year. congresswoman, thank you so much. dana titus. always a pleasure. thank you. more than 40 states flat out refusing to hand over personal voter information to a new white house commission on voter fraud. can the white house do anything to get that data? i ll ask california s attorney general why he won t hand