won by 42 points. manchin himself had previously been governor, never an easy race for a democrat in west virginia. he s a popular person. but this is important. of course manchin voted for neil gorsu gorsuch. of course collins and murkowski are not on the ballot in november. this is the strength of the new block. there are always important, influential votes when there are issues that cross party lines. and so the kind of power they possess in this moment, this afternoon, is to be respected. we don t know where it s going but watch that space. lisa murkowski, i believe, lost the gop nomination for her primary in alaska. she won as a write-in candidate. reporter: where you had to spell her name correctly. don t underestimate how hard it must have been for a lot of people to figure out not to figure out how to spell
i m not an activist, and i look at this and see this in a completely different way than you see it. and i think these people should be taken seriously. the problem is, this would be quite a conspiracy for her to have been telling her therapist in 2012 about this, for her having discussed this with a friend in 2013. i mean, that s an amazing conspiracy on the part of the democrats. the name was mentioned to her husband, and she told three other people who have done sworn affidavits that it was a person who was currently a pral federal judge and someone she went to high school with. that s an amazing conspiracy for the democrats to have known in the future this was going to happen. the other thing is, if this is what democrats do, then why didn t they do it to neil gorsu gorsuch, who went to georgetown prep, and nobody can seriously suggest democrats weren t upset about that seat after what happened to merrick garland. and so but see, it s a seat
that was stolen in their eyes from the democrats. so they would have been very upset. and this is what they do. then they would have made accusations. as tough as they fought against gorsuch, this seat was going to be the seat. let s go back to the idea, so the accusation is that women, that multiple, are actually destroying their own lives. like, i don t know any woman who would do this. a woman who, and i know a lot of people who care a lot about the court and who are very upset about it. i don t know any woman at the level of these women with careers, one who has high ranking position in the government, who could lose a security clearance, who could lose her entire life, she s 50, at the prime of her career, that she s going to destroy her entire life and lie and possibly go to jail? this is just an incredible accusation. six fbi background checks. and if you believe the last
confirmation fight. the president leaving the white house on this holiday spending four hours at his golf course in sterling with virginia, but taking calls along the way. at times, the president sounding like his mind is already made up. i think you ll be very impressed. these are really talented people, really brilliant people. and i think you re going to really love it, like justice gorsu gorsuch. we hit a home run there and we ll hit a home run here. to replace justice anthony kennedy, the white house is following a similar rollout like justice neil gorsuch, president trump s first nominee to the supreme court. please, louise judge. here they come. but his question is whether his second nominee will follow in the same ideological mode. the president has interviewed at least seven potential justices, including these federal judges thought to be leading contenders. brett kavanaugh and raymond kethledge, and amy coney barrett and joan larsen, who clerked for the late justice a
adam schiff is saying he s worried republicans will try to shut down the house intelligence investigation by the end of the month. is that something you see? we re very concerned about that. these interviews have stepped up in their pace, two or three on the same day. i have been in the intelligence committee offices all day long today and it is a pace that you can t keep and also i think do a good job. congresswoman, thank you so much for being with us. thank you. up next, the president on twitter today calling the washington post fake news. what s it about this time? reports say the president considered pulling neil gorsu gorsuch s nomination. we will hear from the reporter who broke that story when we return.