David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Much. I want to dig into this more. Josh and lynn is joining me. Lynn, let me start with you. Geoff bennett mentioning the 27 district in new york and this is a district that sort of hugs buffalo, it is in upstate new york. And donald trump won that district by almost 25 points back in 2016. You look at the electoral record for the congressman who has announced he is suspending his campaign. Chris collins won that district 67 of the vote back in 2016. Let me put the same question to you as i put to jeff, what is the import of this as you look ahead to the midterms . It depends if he gets his name off the ballot. That is the next question we have to ask. Local authority determine the rules for elections. If his name stays on the ballot, then it might make it improbable that a democrat would be elected. After all, a long time ago when
release of the book. What do you make of the white house approach
I believe these documents are also of great importance to making sure senators have the information necessary to make a fully informed decision this terribly weighty decision. The house has built a very strong case against the president. Maybe thats why Leader Mcconnell doesnt seem to want witnesses, at least not agree to them now. Maybe thats why the president is afraid because the house case is so strong that they dont want witnesses that might corroborate it. The evidence the house put together includes public testimony given under oath by numerous senior officials appointed by President Trump. These are trump appointees were calling, not some partisan democrat but some republican senators have said that while the charges are serious, they
havent seen enough evidence to make a decision. Thats one of the reasons ive proposed subpoenas for these witnesses and documents all directly relevant from officials who have yet to testify under oath during any stage of the house process. Senato
clear and present danger to democracy in america. we cannot allow this misconduct to pass. it would be a sellout of our constitution, our foreign policy, our national security, and our democracy. thank you, mr. chairman, i yield back. thank you very much, mr. colli collins. welcome back to the rules committee. thank you, mr. chairman. it s good to see you. and mr. cole as well, members who i ve spent many hours in this room with. you know, the chairman made a statement about my friend here mr. raskin, and he is a fine attorney and it s been amazing to me throughout this year how the judiciary committee has sidelined fine attorneys like himself into not asking questions, into not being a part of the process. it s been really interesting to watch because he s actually a good one, and as you said, he s a good constitutional attorney. i m not a constitutional attorney. i m a pastor and an attorney from north georgia, but i believe that you take another
contemporaneous coverage, when collins stopped, you said on the air that you thought she moved this nominee to the senator. she made him a modern on the sfl fly. the first section of the speech, she walks through issues and she turned kavanaugh into a susan collins, republicans of roe v. wade and gay rights. almost she talked herself into the candidate that she wanted to vote for. the energy of behind the appointment was that he s a strong judicial conservative. he s not a judicial moderate. this nomination was the tuition because it is a swing vote that s judicial strategy that s really boring of the mid 1950s when republicans realize that
enough to join us late on a friday night at the end of a very long week. we commend your piece of reporting to all those watching tonight. with that, let s bring in our lead off panel on a friday night, our white house correspondent for bloomberg, jonathan allen and nbc news national and political reporter, and on the hill, garret hayes. welcome to you all. let s see here, i would start with garret because you were next to these figures that were making history today. genuine surprise on the part of colli collins, not so much from the part of mansion from where you sat or was that inaccurate? collins was fascinating because she did not come out like jeff flake and say she was a yes vote. collins came out and said he was a yes vote and made a full throw endorsement of kavanaugh in a scene that looked stage with two