point. they need democratic votes. they won t jam anything through with 51 republican senators. so as a practical matter, the president will be vel advised to reach out to democrats to negotiate with them on immigration. he has been tempted to do but backed off. if he wants legislation to pass, he needs democratic votes. just a fact. if you think you can run the 2020 eelection against hillary clinton and democrats, i m doubtful but i would think you would want to pass some legislation this year. for that, tone of reaching out to democrats and not look for every opportunity to ridicule that or take them for cheating hispanics badly and so forth. and i think you get to the real tension here. there are long-term trajectories in terms of the improved
with us, vel veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle, political writer for the new york times, nick confessore, elise jordan and former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst steve ratner. nick, i have to ask you, man, did you see it? friday. friday? no, no, i have tickets for this friday, 9:00 in the morning, by the way, imax ticket, reserved seating at that big theater in times square. don t tell me a thing. he s going to ruin it for you. did you see the number it put up? what s that? did you see the number it put up? no. what did it do? like $222 million on opening weekend. star wars man. you know what is amazing about it? my boys and i are freaks about it, absolute freaks about it and have been for a long time.
eligibility after the 2020. cnn s athena jones has more. reporter: good morning. a lot of eyes are going to be on gop senator susan collins, earlier this week she expressed serious doubts about in latest effort to repeal obamacare. here s what she had to say. it s very difficult for me to envision a scenario where i would end up voting for this bill. i have a number of serious reservations about it. i m concerned about the impact on the medicaid program, which has been on the books for more than 50 years and provides health care to our most vel special citizens, including disabled children and low income seniors. she s concerned about this on cost and coverage.
i m sure she s disappointed. you know when she says that. in a way what she s saying is elections have consequences. and when you are on the losing side those consequences can be very stark. but in terms of how she handled herself and the point she made in that clip that you played, i think that she remembers i certainly do how president and mrs. bush received us and their staff back in 2008. and wile she was right that the congress didn t receive the president the same way, we were treated were vel in the transition. and i think all of us took something away from that. that you have an obligation regardless of what you feel about the politics or the person, you have on obligation to the office, to the country, to see to it this transition is made ha in an effective way. squ when i mentioned we go high is our slogan, it was. and it reflected what she felt donald trump and the republicans were doing, right? going low. she had a very emotional
rosier. vel investigators are looking at the report and seeing what was changed and why and what was the intelligence from other agencies in the u.s. government at the time. what was the cia saying and how was that different from what was coming out of the military and contra contrasting it? it s a tough investigation. i had a cia onlyist fell me years ago about warnings given to a piece of material used and they put something on the back of a document warning the trust was not trusted and powell got the document without the warping on the back and this guy hit the roof and still will scream.