had enough experience in government and politics and policy to be president of the united states. and you know if she s a second term senator, maybe she would feel like she had enough of that kind you have experience into although it will certainly didn t hold back barack obama whether he he was a first-term senator. or donald trump. thank you so much, susan page, james pinde leand kasie hunt watching an the georgia sixth where the action is down in georgia. meanwhile on a special day in boston, marathon monday. today marks it the 121st rubbing of the race victims of the boston bombing were honored on saturday the fourth industry of the horror. in today s race jeffrey and edna both from kenya were the top finishers in the race. congratulations also to a member of our team, haley talbot who is competing in her first boston marathon today. go haley. coming up, full-court. new supreme court justice neil gorsuch taking the benl for the first time today. pete williams is joining us next
collection phone piece of that and against the internet the 702 because it wasn t enough transparency. i think this is a good step in the right direction. but i would like to see more transparency so the american people know how many americans data has been collected and how much has been looked at. i think that americans i have a bill on that that i think is the lead transparency bill in the senate, bipartisan, dean hiller is the co-sponsor, lead co-sponsor on that. and i d like to see more transparency so the american people have the information that they need to know to decide on whether the government is striking a right balance between protecting people s security and freedom of privacy. thank you so much, al franken. thanks, andrea.
most republicans say they do not object to extending the benefits but they want to offset the costs related to it. six republican senators voted for the measure including its gop co-sponsor senator dean hiller of nevada. the others kelly ayotte, coats, collins, portman and murkowski had president obama pressing for approval including appearing with some that have lost benefits. these are not statistics. these are your neighbors, your friends, your family members, it could at some point be any of us. joining me right now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent kelly o donnell. it made it through the senate surprisingly does the future look good though? reporter: it s an incremental
security plan that corker and hoeven came up with. that excessive, over the top, wasteful border security plan. it s important because it gives republican senators who actually want real reform, but who also feel pressure from their base to show they re tough on border security, it gives them a way to support the overall bill even without cornyn s poison pill amendment. that s what we re seeing. two more republican senators, nevada s dean hiller and mark kirk announced their support for reform thursday, and perhaps more, many more, could soon follow. if this amendment passes, which i hope it will, don t see how anybody could argue the reason they re not supporting this legislation is because we haven t addressed securing the border. we have addressed that. we ve addressed that in spades in this legislation. again, there are still a lot of hurdles. the upshot of what happened in the senate this week is this. the dream of immigration reform supporters getting a bill through the senat
the wealthiest americans to pay more. he didn t get that. he asked he supported the democratic proposal in the senate to pay for the payroll tax cut extension with a sur it is zurwhat we got was compromis worked out by senator reid that was good enough for 90% of the senate, good enough for the 80% of the republican members in the senate. and certainly the right thing to do for the country. that s white house press secretary jay carney making the case for the senate compromise. this comes just moments after house republicans rejected the senate compromise plan and pushed the plan into a conference committee which i would remind people senator majority leader harry reid said he won t op point members to. democrats are laying blame for the current standoff squarely at