they can on infrastructure through executive orders which doesn t make a lot of sense because it takes a lot of money to appropriate to get anything done on infrastructure but they will do whatever they can on that front with executive orders. that s where some of the focus is. as far as the russia story goes, they are trying to stay away from that as much as possible. josh, your thought on that. next week, how important is it? lots of things happening, she jinping, the senate committee moving forward with the private interviews. we ve got the tax plan as well as the infrastructure plan. and they want to get neil gorsuch through. that s been one of the few things that they haven t necessarily bungled. a very important state visit, going to mar-a-lago for a few days and the senate intelligence hearing meeting which will get hotter before it gets better. i think we have a long way to go
ohio being one of those key battlegrounds and it did go for donald trump, talking about small business as they re trying to look at things like changing the corporate tax rate, talking about regulation changes they are trying to do and acknowledging the big defeat over health care saying congress wasn t ready yet but also saying they re not quite done yet, that there are still perhaps other attempts that can happen to try to deal with the repeal of obamacare as the administration says it wants to do. and you pointed out, looking ahead to the week for neil goer gorsuch, the president s choice for the supreme court, this will be crucial. conservatives have liked that pick trying to slow it down and using the filibuster which has not been done before on a supreme court nominee. we don t have all of the votes in yet in public statements from democrats but definitely a very large number, about three dozen democrats publicly saying they
so i will vote to report him out and if i have to, i will vote to change the rules because i m not going to allow president trump to deny the same opportunity that every president has had for 200 years because you re mad and you can t accept the outcome of an election. reporter: being in a republican state doesn t mean there aren t democrats here. what you heard lindsey graham say is he was willing to change senate rules to allow the confirmation process of judge neil gorsuch to go through. they only have two democrats on board. they need eight. without the eight, they would not be able to push through his confirmation process. the other issue is russia, which you heard him address at the very top in which lindsey graham has been very vocal from the
on that. i think for the administration next week, getting neil gorsuch through would be a big win. they ve struggled to get any of those. he promised on the campaign trail 20 judges he would pick from. he picked from the list,le see if his conservative supporters like it and get it through the senate. that would be a place to say, listen, we re delivering on our promise. it s not just signing executive orders and getting stymied in congress. we re doing what we said we were going to do. so i think that s vitally important to them getting back on track in some ways. josh dossey, erin mcpike, thank you both. thank you. still ahead, trump versus the gop. the president threatening conservatives if they don t get on board with his agenda. we ll talk to a former republican member of congress. plus this i will never, ever support a single-payer health care for
we re in north charleston with more about what graham s constituents were fired up about. what answers did he give? reporter: to lindsey graham s credit, this is the third town hall in the last month. what he said was actually i ve got to remind you, lindsey graham has been one of the biggest critics of trump. he s aligned himself with donald trump in the supreme court and has suggested that a vote should go forward on neil gorsuch. this is what he said to the crowd of many, many boos and many cheers. you re taking the senate down a very dangerous path.