don t the deciding vote to confirm kavanaugh. so you have a very high stakes game of chicken to a certain extent right now with manchin waiting for these other senators to take the first leap. willie, i want to underscore, i think we can show everyone a little bit of what it was like to be up here at the capital yesterday with these protests that have been going on, and this is a really emotional decision, especially for the women involved. so senator lisa murkowski met all afternoon yesterday with survivors of sexual assault. they came out of her office crying. senator susan collins, on the other hand, has been accosted by protesters basically from the beginning of this entire process. people are raising money in her home state to defeat her in a general election challenge. she s had, before these allegations surfaced she had nasty calls to her staffers. if anything she wanted she viewed that as bullying her and wanted to push back against
numbers. know the numbers for donald trump is so popular in the state of west virginia, deep red state and they say manchin secures re-election by voting yes. he just starts a knife fight by voting no. but to puthe point kasie made, e president is working the phones. it s important to note that that op-ed yesterday, it wasn t i didn t attack dr. ford, i didn t sexual assault dr. ford, it was i am an independent impartial judge. they recognize that is really one of the danger spots right there, one of the risky positions. that s why judge kavanaugh made his own closing argument. that s highly unusual for a judge to do that. they recognize with the limited number of senators as his audience he had to directly make his case to them on that. they had be queueing white house officials to me something like this would be coming. the white house is confident
constituents including sexual assault survivors talking to her so there were so many moving parts and even one person i spoke to late last night was worried about who was coming out in the morning. that s the kind of frenetic atmosphere surrounding us at the moment. gene? jonathan, is it all about collins, flake, murkowski, or is there concern about any other republican senators that we might not be talking about? they don t mention any others. it s flake, collins, murkowski. the other person they mention is manchin. as far as they re aware, everyone else is republican is going to vote yes. and who are they watching closest, jonathan? is it lisa murkowski given what jeff flake and susan collins said about the fbi report, that it was thorough and that flake saw no new corroborating evidence. it certainly seems they re more confident about collins and flake and that perhaps murkowski for political reasons that john
but this is politics. he s going to work hard. don t underestimate him but the winds are blowing against joe. don t nominate the guy in jail and we ll be okay. is manchin going to republican as a republican? not switching parties but idealogically? how does he appeal he has to answer katie s question. i ll be there for trump as much as i can. say no sometimes. with trump, unfortunately, the republican party has an agenda that joe hasn t sign upped for yet. we ll see how it plays out. don t miss the west virginia senate debate tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. moderatedpy bret baier and martha maccallum. you ll get to know the candidates that we spoke about and see the next hot contest that could be another bellwether. we have more on the outnumbered couch in just a moment. stay here.
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