write an op-ed on the day before the cloture vote. it said it was his idea. okay, but i would say that if he had the idea, it was strongly encouraged. that doesn t make the sentiment wrong but look, they are playing all their cards because they know they are close. this today was the best day brett kavanaugh politically speaking has had in weeks. he is as close as he has been to being on the supreme court. i honestly think, don, you know, you look at what collins and flake said, we know murkowski is getting a late night briefing. > she s getting a briefing tonight. what are you hearing? look, none of them, not flake, not collins and not murkowski if and when she comes out and says anything after this briefing, none of them are going to say i m a yes or no. they ll hold off till the vote or very close to it sometime tomorrow. look at what will collins and flake said. thorough investigation. that s exactly if you re ball game or an ally what you want to
prices or inflation down the line. certainly something a lot of traders are keeping an eye on, aym ayman. we want to go to capitol hill. we have some breaking news on the vote count. garrett i believe has an update for us. what have you learned since we spoke to you about half an hour ago? we learned later this afternoon we will hear from one of these four republican senators, susan collins, the republican senator from maine, does plan to speak on the floor around 3:00 this afternoon to outline her position on the kavanaugh vote. now, you re of course aware we have a vote before then. we have this vote to cut off debate at 10:30 this morning. what collins chooses to do in that vote does not necessarily mean that she s going to go that way in the final vote. what i mean is what you may see, again, this is just speculation at this point, is if collins votes to move this forward, it does not mean she votes for
these charges, i don t believe it is profiling courage for these four senators to say he has had a 40 year track record version 17 days of smears. everybody else that seems to have known him and know him say just the opposite. are they going to give into these tactics? because if they do, i would argue america is forever changed for the worst. i hope that three of the four will actually get there. i m not so sure about murkowski. i have to tell you, that kavanaugh family, they have taken every hit, every cheap shot, every blow, and they are the toughest family that i know of. because everything that has been thrown at them has been so unfair. i do, i am encouraged by what collins said today, i was encouraged by what jeff flake said. he is on the record of passing them out of committee, and i think he will hopefully get there. sean: he got the fbi corroborating with the senate judiciary committee there nothing else to investigate
half to that strategy. they were worried about the optics of the hearing but now they have somebody else carrying that water for them. they have to be able the fbi it seems to me, matt miller, i understand the limiting of the scope as far as the witnesses that you re going to talk to, these are the two incidents that were brought in before our committee, these are the two incidents that we want you to investigate, these are the key players we want you to investigate. i understand in a one week investigation that makes sense. what makes no sense, though, and what collins, flake and murkowski must insist on, it seems to me, is if you get something, if you get a lead you have to follow it. if they are not allowed to follow leads then it s a scam investigation, right? that is exactly right. look, it is not unusual for information to come to the fbi or committee or the white house after a background investigation has been completed and what usually happens is the client agency which i
there are new concerns john mccain s absence potentially could be longer than first thought. mitch mcconnell announcing he will postpone a health care vote because senator mccain is recovering in arizona after having a blood clot removed above his left eye. mccain s absence could jeopardize efforts to repeal and replace obamacare with two republican senators ra s hand h paul and susan collins already declaring their on that position. doctors describe the surgery as minimally invasive, but dr. sanjay gupta notes that mccain does have a history of invasive melanoma in and around that area. mccain s doctors are waiting for pathology tests to see if more treatment is needed. the health bill faces political challenges as well. he we mentioned senator coal on lyn collins is a no. asked about the claim by mike pence that the senate health care bill strengthens and secures medicaid, here s what