justin amash raising questions about the mueller report. it s private but private grumbling among republicans. they still see president trump as a way to win re-election in 2020. if they want to keep their power, they have to stay with him. i remember, it s not the same but about a damn breaking. i remember around the iraq war. at first chuck hagel and john mccain, a vocal critic, from the right we weren t aggressive enough. it only takes one. it only takes one. then everybody that s unhappy or discontent with the conduct of the iraq war or the way it was being pursued or the way we were communicating about it, the flood gates open. is there any anxiety that that could be on the horizon? certainly. i think the most interesting word we ve heard the last few days is courageous. that s the word senator mitt romney used to describe what senator amash had to say. to be sure romney hasn t called for impeachment and hasn t gone nearly as far as amash but calling that point of view
racist and sexist without evidence by teddy kennedy and again, joe biden. kennedy said this. robert bork s america is a land which women would be forced in to back alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizen s doors in midnight rage and school children could not be taught about evolution. ben: slanderous allegations that took down robert bork. fast-forward to 2012. mitt romney holding a tight competitive race with barack obama, harry reid simply slanders him by stating on the floor of the senate that romney hasn t paid his taxes. so the world s out he hasn t paid any taxes for ten years. let him prove he has paid taxes because he hasn t. ben: let him prove it. it s not reed s job to prove he didn t pay taxes, romney s job he didn t pay taxes.
racist and sexist without evidence by teddy kennedy and again, joe biden. kennedy said this. robert bork s america is a land which women would be forced in to back alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizen s doors in midnight rage and school children could not be taught about evolution. ben: slanderous allegations that took down robert bork. fast-forward to 2012. mitt romney holding a tight competitive race with barack obama, harry reid simply slanders him by stating on the floor of the senate that romney hasn t paid his taxes. so the world s out he hasn t paid any taxes for ten years. let him prove he has paid taxes because he hasn t. ben: let him prove it. it s not reed s job to prove he didn t pay taxes, romney s job he didn t pay taxes.
that romney wasn t able to do. but how does that change the charges of him being a scam artist and fraud and all these other things. romney hasn t addressed that. i ve talked to people closer to romney and they say romney is a patriot, he believes he could help trump and that s why he s doing this and he thinks it would be better to be by his side than not but it raises questions about what was governor romney said before true or not? betsy and kirsten and dylan and bakari, thank you so much. four contenders, the final four for that big post as secretary of state. we watch and wait. coming up next, president-elect trump and his transition team are holed up in trump tower, his vice president-elect is busy working his way through washington. the high-profile members of congress mike pence is meeting with today. we ll take you live to capitol hill ahead. also, just into cnn, the fbi announcing new ties between the attacker at ohio state
new hampshire where this afternoon mitt romney is set to officially endorse scott brown in his bid to unseat first term incumbent senator jeanne shaheen. this comes just a day after the brown campaign announced they had raised roughly $2 million over the past three months. numbers a bit smaller than the $5 million brown raised in the second quarter of the 2012 race when he was running for re-election in massachusetts against democrat elizabeth warren. the rally will be in stratham, new hampshire, at the same farm where romney announced his presidential campaign in 2011. romney hasn t had to travel in new hampshire, he s just hanging out at his summer home. let s head down to arkansas where the race has already been pretty heated up. politico reports this morning that a pro-cotton super pac is set to launch a brand new $1.1 million tv ad later this month. the same group the government integrity fund that spent close to $2 million on a positive set of ads back in april highlighting cot