i think if it is before the election there would be some pushback. you probably wouldn t get that person confirmed. today we were hearing from people that perhaps after the election this could happen. that is also a gamble. who knows if they will keep the senate? who knows? every day is a new adventure. that is goal post moving. we heard oren hatch, lindsey graham repeatedly say jeff sessions is a good man. now it is like let s wait for 80 more days and then you can can him. what happened to the being a good guy? i think sentence reform is what happened. the fact that he was building up against grassley and he is never happy about it. let s turn to the michael cohen front. david pecker who runs the parent company of the national enquirer, we have learned that he has been granted immunity in
perspective, this is oren hatch trying to give the white house a graceful way out of a mess that they have created by saying congress will do this at some uncertain time at the future, but can we get out of this mess of separating children at the borders while we have a chance to work ton? a on it. it s the kind of thing you might expect an ally of the white house who disagrees with this policy as much as anybody else. it will be very interrogatory see how many signatures this can pick up. i suspect it could get a great deal of support from both chambers if they re inclined to circulate it on the house side too. let s talk texas. because you have the senators from that very red state coming out now seeming to assess the political connotation that would try to contain that mess that the white house created. i think we have sound bites here with cruz and cornyn. walk through what this piece of
of 45 children a day who have been taken from their parents and put into a detention facility. garrett, it s not just these numbers but it s the human faces, the sounds that we hear from the kids in these facilities that seem to be striking a cord with lawmakers. i yrs that just the last couple minutes you have new information about what one senator s trying to do here, right? a close ally of the white house? reporter: yeah, hallie, it s interesting. you talk about those images and those horror stories and thortds things that are spragt close allies of the president from this policy. that s what we re seeing here with this new development. just a few minutes ago, oren hatch, sooun senior republican from utah told reporters that intends to circulate a letter among senators, he wants signatures from both parties and he wants to be send it to the attorney general jeff sessions calling for a moratorium on these border separations with this important caveat. a moratorium until congress ca
i m in this race in part because of ann, in part because of my belief that even though i didn t get the job i fought for which was to become president, that even though i didn t get promoted to general, so to speak, i m going to keep on fighting. that s mitt romney. the utah senate candidate and at time donald trump critic. out tonight ahead of the senate primary debate. this is the first time he ll be on a debate stage since he ran for president in 2012. romney is hoping to take over oren hatch s old seat. we thought it could get interesting to garrett haake scored an interview with romney. they talked about the rocky relationship he s had with the
you know, i think to eugene s point, the president has an enormous mega phone through social media and through the distraction that you so expertly cataloged at the beginning of the program. every single day, every moment of every single day we in the media and the american people by consuming all of this are not focussing on one thing for an extended period of time. and he does it so expertly and the white house media machine and the president s own instincts here, we had the wonderful return negotiated by bob corker and oren hatch and others from utah of a mormon missionary who had been in jail with his wife in venezuela in a hideous situation for two years. it s a great moment. they came right to the oval office for a photo opportunity on saturday night. so the president was embracing this as i was at andrew s air force base when the korean detainees arrived at 4:00 in the morning. they don t go to bethesda naval