senators have been denied their right to vote on this nomination, and this man is unqualified in many ways, but legally, the key disqualification is the failure to have been confirmed by the senate of the united states, which is required clearly and explicitly by the constitution. senator, stay with me. i want to bring in david corn to this conversation. first of all, david, you asked me what would law school be like? it s a little like this. and no better person to walk us through some of it than a former prosecutor and judiciary committee member like senator blumenthal. david, walk us through the washington politics of this where the republicans who are defending trump care a great deal and the democrats obviously see this with the wind at their backs in the house as an important area of oversight.
thank you. live from craaracascaracas. walk us through who josh holt is for those who may not know and why this is significant. reporter: joshua holt became detained in venezuela in 2016 when he was arrested in the outside city of caracas, the capital city of the country. he was accused by the venezuelan government of planning terrorist attacks in the country, stockpiling weapons. since then he s become in a struggle in the relationship between the venezuelan government and u.s. government. basically caracas, what he s saying is that this guy was trying to make a plot against the government of president maduro. we want to ask for clarity, tammy holt, he went there to to meet her on line. is she that woman, and at any
i m pretty sure if i did, i wouldn t be laughing. by the end of the day, reality seemed to set in for mr. n mr. nunberg. he finally reversed course, telling my colleague katie tur he would, in fact, cooperate. nbc s katie tur is here with me. you know her from the 2:00 p.m. and ari melbur, host of the beat on msnbc which covers politics and hip-hop music. holy cow, i mean, i m sorry for my children, i don t know who put you to bed, i don t know who helped you with your homework. i don t know who fed you last night. because, boy, i watched you two all day. i mean, this thing was insane. walk us through who sam nunberg is. he walked for trump as an political strategist for years to the lead-up to donald trump
they resist, blame, complain, and you obstruct and do nothing. start pushing nancy pelosi and the dems to work out a daca fix now. and then said this later that day at the rnc winter retreat. our immigration situation, i think it has a chance. you know, the democrats are awol. they re missing in action. we re saying, where are they? we have a proposal, we never hear from them because i don t think they want to solve the daca problem. i m joined by congressman dale kildee. thank you for being here. walk us through next week. is this going to be deja vu again? do you feel confident that leaders can at least continue on a path towards a deal on both immigration and a budget? we certainly could. i don t have any reason to believe that the situation has dramatically changed.
agenda passed and so i will be actually working forrin coup in and anybody else that has my kind of thinking. president trump today at camp david confirming that he will campaign hard for republican candidates for the mid-term elections this year. and a large part of the gop platform will be centered on the budget, what they call welfare reform. in 2016 trump won by riding a wave of support among white working class voters. will those same voters show up for republicans come november? that is the question posed as part of a three part series from polli pollico titles does the white working class vote against its own interest. joining me now is josh ziets and are with us adrian el rod with hillary for america. josh, i want to start with you and this piece. walk us tlus the basis for this reporting. why would the white working class vote against policies that