Welcome to newsmakers. Returning this week is stephen law, president and ceo of the Senate Leadership fund. Their goal is to support Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and retain republican majority in the United States senate. Thank you for coming back. It is a timely week. This week on tuesday is the special election to fill Jeff Sessions seat in alabama and we will talk about that and also about the seeming feud between the president of the United States and the Senate Majority leader. Lots on our agenda. Let me introduce the two reporters who will be asking questions. Erica warner is the chief congressional reporter for the associated press. Thank you for coming back this week. Erica my pleasure. Al weaver joins us for the first time. He is a political reporter for the washington examiner. Erica, why dont you start . Erica steve, i think we have to kickoff with asking about the trumpmcconnell feud. What did you think about seeing the president lay into your former boss when you
The 2018 midterms . Steven i feel like the kid who is listening to his kids arguing upstairs and just wishing everyone could get along. The wall street journal editorial nailed it by focusing on what is really at stake. The journal sympathizes with the president s anger and frustration over the failure or of publicans to pass obamacare. If you watch the final vote happen in the senate where the repeal effort failed, no one was more angry and frustrated then senator mcconnell, who spent a huge amount of time pushing his caucus hard, twisting arms, and holding votes. Mcconnell is very subtle in his anger and he does not show it, but he was obviously upset and irritated about it. Pulling the lens back, what really matters is what is at stake. What is at stake is that in order for us to have success in the 2018 midterms, we have to move serious legislative agenda. That will take cooperation between the white house and congressional allies in a somewhat uneasy relationship. The democrats ha
His selection and his Upcoming Senate confirmation process and how he might influence the highest court in the land. Heres how you can give us a call. 1 for republicans. For democrats, 2027488000. For independents, 2027488002. If you want to send us a tweet, you can do so and twitter. Com cspanwj post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Is currently a judge on the 10th circuit and for Justice Byron white and anthony kennedy. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 and has a doctorate in philosophy from oxford university. He has been on the Circuit Court since 2006. Many parallels being made between this judge and the former and late judge Antonin Scalia. Samenessoday about the between the two. Judge gorsuch is like Justice Scalia and considered a talented writer and he hasnt been afraid to draft opinions that raise the profile of difficult legal issues. Just a bit of the philosophy of the judge. We will be learning more about him as we go along. We want to get your though
And then we look at the mystery behind russias role in the 2016 u. S. President ial election. The president of the United States is accusing the former president of wiretapping him. I think this is something if this happened if, if. Trump accusesent president obama of wiretapping him, the fbi director james comey takes the unusual to have of asking the Justice Department to refute trumps unsubstantiated claim. We will have a debate. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Fbi director james comey is asking the Justice Department to publicly refute President Trumps unsubstantiated claims that former president obama ordered trumps phones be wiretapped during the 2016 president ial campaign. Fbi director james comey president obama, and others have , all rejected trumps allegations, which he first made during a tweet storm on saturday morning. Trump began by tweeting terrible just found out that obama had my wir
Speak with a 13 year old who saw ice officials detain her father as he was taking her to school. And then we look at the mystery behind russias role in the 2016 u. S. President ial election. The president of the United States is accusing the former president of wiretapping him. I think this is something if this happened if, if. Trump accusesent president obama of wiretapping him, the fbi director james comey takes the unusual to have of asking the Justice Department to refute trumps unsubstantiated claim. We will have a debate. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Fbi director james comey is asking the justicece departmento publicly refute President Trumps unsubstantiated claims that former president obama ordered trumps phones be wiretapped during the 2016 president ial campaign. Fbi director james comey president obama, and others have , all rejected trumps allegations, which he first made during a tweet