i ve said publicly for months that the xm supporters from both parties should be allowed a vote. reporter: covert or not, the longest serving republican senator o rin hatch wants cruz to cut it out with the name calling. we serve the people not our own egos. reporter: today republicans briefly turned their attention away from each other and onto abusive unions. the coercion tactics and the peer pressure and the misinformation the scare tactics that my union, that i deal with, they resort to those things. reporter: republicans consider intimidation a big problem with big labor, so this new bill would require secret ballot elections and give union members a right to say they don t want their money going to a political cause they don t like but union backers the gop is just trying to turn on a new
was a bit alarmed by president trump s attacks against jeff sessions. this is someone she s served with for some time in the senate, even though she is at odds with him ideologically, opposed his nomination to be attorney general. she said that he s a member of this body and, quote, it counts for something. and that actually means something. there are a number of senators, republican senators, who have come to sessions defense today, including rob portman of ohio, lindsey graham of south carolina. last week, o rin hatch, the top republican, the longest-serving republican in this body told me that he does not understand why the president is going after jeff sessions and even dick shelby, who served as alabama senator now was jeff sessions s alabama colleague here in the senate said the he called sessions and said, he has a lot of support on capitol hill. so even as the president is going after his attorney general, he s almost on an island on capitol hill because a number of people o
i ve said publicly for months that the xm supporters from both parties should be allowed a vote. reporter: covert or not, the longest serving republican senator o rin hatch wants cruz to cut it out with the name calling. we serve the people not our own egos. reporter: today republicans briefly turned their attention away from each other and onto abusive unions. the coercion tactics and the peer pressure and the misinformation the scare tactics that my union, that i deal with, they resort to those things. reporter: republicans consider intimidation a big problem with big labor, so this new bill would require secret ballot elections and give union members a right to say they don t want their money going to a political cause they don t like but union backers the gop is just trying to turn on a new