west wing, when it completely melts, those people will be like, i don t know what i was doing, i don t know why i was saying all of those things. that will happen, because the american people are on to it. the approval numbers are sliding. also, the military is on to it. you can t lie about the weather and be a general and say, okay, this guy is the commander in chief. he s going to lie about anything. the military is on to it, the people that work for him are on to it, many people inside the white house are on to it. obviously the hill are on to it. but they re clinging to it because they have a power base right now and it s about their personage as opposed to the american people. so my message to my fellow republicans, think about the country. put your patriotism first, your partisanship second. admit that there s a very, very serious problem. and let s work on the problem. is there any like every good business person would do. as a republican who is obviously looking for an
mcconnell once again suggested he has no power over this issue, only the president does. i want to know what the president supports. it s not unimportant to my members. what do you understand are tre ma the remaining sticking points? what i would like to know is what he thinks would make the progress and he would sign. and until we get that kind of guidance, we re in a holding pattern, so to speak. joining us now is the democratic senator who helped organize tonight s speeches on the senate floor and has been one of the senators who stalled talks with the white house over gun control, chris murphy of connecticut. senator murphy, what do you hope to accomplish tonight? listen, we re using every lever that we have to try to shame our republican colleagues into doing something on an issue that is frankly not controversial anywhere but inside the united states congress, right? background checks is supported by 90% of americans, 80% of gun
the 4%, it is not. he made a mistake. i know where he got that play from about going to god the way he did. i ve heard it before from his boss. i ll play it tonight. i remember, he said it to you actually. yes. i remember that, it was off stage after a debate. that s exactly right. look at you. i knew you cared. we re going to take that on tonight and we also have andrew mccabe and his first interview on cnn talking about the most recent allegations and his best defense. we got that, too. we ll be looking for that at about 7 minutes from now. shake it to the right or the left, depending on your point of view. new polling, a new democratic race i m all flustered from that neon. we ll be right back. the most powerful 5g experience for america. that s why the nfl chose verizon. because they need the massive capacity of 5g with ultra wideband, so more screaming, streaming, posting fans.
justification for not answering questions from democratic committee members. it earned him a warning about being held in contempt, it drew a string of frustrated responses from democrats and attacks by republicans on the proceedings themselves. the president tweeted praise for him. he tweeted back, thanks. in short, corey lewandowski was the central figure today in a messy, very messy political drama or circus or witch hunt, depending on how you see it. there s a small sample, including a key moment including democratic committee member hank johnson, during which he conf m confirmed the president to order jeff sessions to curtail the investigation. the white house has directed i not disclose the substance of any discussions with the president or his advisers to protect executive branch confidentiali confidentiality. i recognize this is not my privilege, but i am respecting the white house s decision. as for actual collusion or conspiracy, there was none. what there has been, however,
appreciated that. and i don t think donald trump it bothered him that lewandowski admitted to lying, because he lied to msnbc. and that s like the belly of the beast for these people. right. so, i just i think, you know, the moral quality of the audience is appropriate. his audience was not donald trump. his audience were trump supporters in new hampshire. i would just far enough. beg to differ with you there. although, he still wants to please daddy. there s no doubt he s still i don t think he has any problem with that. i think he s trying to secure the trump voters in new hampshire, to get that primary win. yeah, rick santorum, thank you. kristen powers, jeff toobin, appreciate it. thanks. coming up next, if as we ve been discussing the goal was public persuasion, what do democrats actually think they accomplished today? how are they going to say that they accomplished something? we ll hear from one committee member who d her own confrontation with co