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senator santorum, the other thing that stood out is she said republicans need to step back from being, quote, hand in glove with the defense. do you think she has a point there? well, yes, and no. if you go back to 1998/ 99, tom daschle was hand in glove with the democrats, with president clinton. but at the same time, you know, he represented president clinton s interest. said we didn t want witnesses. we wanted to end this. robert byrd had a motion to dismiss after the initial testimony was given. so they were doing the administration s work, but at the same time, they understood that they have their own interest as senators beyond the president, and number two, they also have the interests of the senate. and i think what you heard lisa murkowski say, there is nothing as a loyal republican and as a supporter of donald trump who could hear that and i think be at all worried. i think what lisa is voicing what a lot of people are voicing which is we re senators. we re making this de ....
what s remarkable, unless it s happened in the last 13 minutes since we came on the air, the president has not responded. he has been tweeting. he has been going on nancy pelosi. mitt romney saying something, the president responds. nothing in regards to lisa murkowski. does that surprise you? i think he is being cautious, very cautious on that. who can blame him? if he can do this right, he can hold murkowski back from an open break. if she breaks openly, it s going to put a lot of pressure on the other senators. rick santorum, he and i can disagree on a lot of things. but i do think tom daschle handled it right back in the clinton impeachment. he was not disloyal to the white house, but he stuck by the idea this was an impartial trial. and at the end of it, at the end of the trial, it was 100-0 among the senators to conduct that trial in a way that pleased both ....
Moderate republican senators in the nixon administration. cnn political commentator, former republican senator rick santor santorum. good to have all of you with us tonight. david gergen, as we look at this, and those comments from senator murkowski, how much cover could that give to her fellow republican senators like a susan collins or a mitt romney to speak up? well, i think what she said so far is obviously got everybody s attention, but i think she would have to go farther if you really wanted to motive other people to break. she sort of stepped up to the edge of the pool, but she hasn t jumped in yet. there are, and i think this is very significant. the senate has different rules from the house, and it s important to understand that. the house, you know, a partisan brawl. but just as we saw in the clinton impeachment, the house had a partisan brawl. when we got to the senate, it ....
The problem was created in part by the intensity driven by trump overall, but he was able personally to go out and raise the republican intensity to turn out more vote and close the gap. if you look at the absentee ballots submitted before the trump visit, conor lamb was running ahead of where he ran on election day. i think that goes to show you, yes, trump can go in and energize, but he can t do that in 50 congressional districts next november, and he s not going to be effective in that way. they have to do something to raise republican intensity here between now and election day and that means they ve got to start delivering on your promises. rick santorum, thank you very much for the perspective. you bet. thank you. the white house seems to have a revolving door and it keeps spinning. who is next to go in trump s firing line? we discuss next. are defined by the things we share. and the ones we love. ....
Congratulations. let s see what the party does next. great to be with you chris. republican congressman charley dent says the result in the 18th district should be a warning sign for the gop. i think most republicans realize we re running into a very serious head wind, hurricane-force win. we have to be ready for it. some are better prepared for these fights than those in safer seats. if you re a republican member in a pretty safe seat like this one was, that s where i d be nervous. joining us now is cnn senior political commentator rick santor santorum, a former pennsylvania senator and before that a congressman from that 18th congressional district. great to see you, rick. great to be with you. you re the person to talk to. it appears at this hour that conor lamb holds this narrow victory? only a couple hundred votes left to be counted in greene ....