fast track a vote on banning bump stocks following the supreme court s controversial decision to make them legal again. and we ll have new reporting on just what donald trump is looking for in a possible running mate as we re now less than a month away from the republican national convention. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, june 18th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. a lot of news to get to this morning. we ll begin here. president biden will take new executive action today that will remove the threat of deportation for hundreds of thousands of people who are married to united states citizens. the program known as parole in place would apply to about a half a million undocumented immigrants. it would allow them to stay in the country while applying for green card status. the current law requires them to return to their home countries to start such a process, which can take years to complete. to qualify new applicants
While working full time. He has an unparalleled worth he cannic and passed down the passion for playing and watching sports. The lead republican Mitch Judiciary and meanwhile, these four red states. They were invited to attend the event at the white house tonight but declined. We know that Susan Collins and lisa mur you could ski declined invitations. All six of the folks considered critical votes that republicans in their case need to protect and the democrats need to keep on their side. Importantly, they both voted the two republican women did for kavanaughs confirmation to the d. C. Circuit court in 06. Now earlier tonight, Senator Collins of maine released a statement that highlighted judge kavanaughs extensive experience and read, i will conduct a careful, thorough vetting of the president s nominee to the
Supreme Court, as i have done with the five Previous Supreme Court justices whom i have considered. I look forward to judge kavanaughs public hearing and to questioning him in a
why we don t do that. it is hard to negotiate, the president continues to under mine those negotiating on his behalf. we heard this not just from leader shumer, not just from speaker pelosi, but the other point you make from mitch mcconnell who says i m not putting it into a vote until it has the president s stamp on it because one cannot trust that the president will keep his word, right? you had passed something. you re exactly right, we passed a resolution for the first part of february. we believed the president would sign, that was our impression only to find out after that we passed it went to the house and he was listening to right-wing.
court nominee. so importantly, that s from meet the press yesterday morning before we had the name in hand of judge kavanaugh as the president s nominee. robert, talk about where you see the math that building behind you right now tonight. it s complicated for the democrats especially those running in states won by president trump, if you re joe donnelly or bill nelson, democrat in florida, tough choices ahead. you realize you re running in states with a rough path to nomination. they re not going to immediately revive the culture wars in the same way judge amy coney barrett may have done if she was nominated. so you re going to see leader shumer in the senate based on my reporting really try to get the democratic base engaged in this fight, make sure this is a galvanizing issue for the in the midterm elections and make sure it s not just about abortion or contraception but economic issues facing the court are also brought up as a way of making sure democratic voters are engaged.
same way judge amy coney barrett may have done if she was nominated. so you re going to see leader shumer in the senate based on my reporting really try to get the democratic base engaged in this fight, make sure this is a galvanizing issue for the in the midterm elections and make sure it s not just about abortion or contraception but economic issues facing the court are also brought up as a way of making sure democratic voters are engaged. kim, we all have favorites. members of the senate we re going to be watching, who are yours? we are going to be watching, of course, susan collins and also lisa murkowski, the mod ra ra moderates on the republican side that will have questions about abortion rights and the senators that bob mentioned on the democratic side, senators from democrats from red states who are probably safe so long as murkowski and collins stay within the yes votes. if they vote against, that will put some pressure on those red state democrats. but i don t see anyt