next confirmation of the next supreme court nominee? well, my mentor, the great larry thomas, used to say when you are winning on messaging, just stop. we re winning on messaging, we should not fall into a rabbit hole that this will be a roe v. wade debate only. we re looking for a justice who will enforce the constitution and all judges are supposed to do that. and i think that the democrats are making a huge mistake because they have senators in red states running for reelection and are putting them in a box. we welcome the debate. you look to folks like donnelly in indiana or joe tester who did not vote for judge gorsuch. what is he going to do this time around? i think that this is a debate that republicans should welcome because i think that we re winning on the issue. mike: robin, our graphics department working overtime and we have some senators to show you at this point, collins, murkowski, manchin, donnelly and
strategist on with sean hannity last night. he had a tough message for those folks down in washington. he s trying to drain the swamp one person at a time. whose the target this time? mitch mcconnell. listen. the house has actually voted on i think it s 180 bills that the senate has not taken up, including many bills that would be a very difficult vote for joe manchin he and clair mccaskill and joe tester and heidi heitcamp and red state democrats we need to take down in 2018. and mitch mcconnell has refused to do it. i will tell you, sean, i m to the point i think mitch mcconnell in order to bring unity to the republican party to get things done, i think mitch mcconnell ought to tender his resignation. what he ought to do is offer to resign as soon as taxes are done. we can t do it in the middle of taxes. i think mitch mcconnell tomorrow should tender his resignation and say hey, somebody s we get taxes done i will step aside and have a revote on majority leader. there needs to be s
our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is with us. our senior congressional reporter manu raju is with us. jim, the president not backing away at all. we just heard him at the end of that photo opportunity, not backing away at all saying that what senator blumenthal was saying was distorting the words of the supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. that s right, wolf. you ll notice the president made those comments as he was sitting at the table with some senate democrats there. senator heidi heitkamp, joe tester, joe manchin. these senate democrats are facing tough re-election battles. so the white house had those senators over today to talk about a variety of subjects. the subject of the supreme court pick, neil gorsuch, did come up. as you heard there, he was asked about what senator blumenthal has been saying about what judge gorsuch said. and you heard the president there say, make this accusation