i think it's because there's a heavy hand coming down on them from chuck shumer and elizabeth warren.hey're threatening their support in races that many of them will have next year. you look at the map in 2018. there are five states where president trump won by 17% to 20%. you would think that would be an area where the people wanted a different -- they knew the judges that he was going to put forth. i think they're wondering what their senators are doing. there are other states right on the bubble. i have had a lot of discussions with democrat members over the past week or two trying to get the behavior of the senate back to a bipartisan field as we move forward on healthcare and a number of other things we need to get done. >> melissa: it doesn't sound like you need to get there. what you worry about, and correct me if i'm wrong, if you do have to go down the road of going with that straight vote and changing the rules, that you worry about compromising yourself in the eyes of your constituents? >> no, i don't. i think at the end of the day, people believe that it's the right decisi

in this case, the other side is the democratic party led by minority leader chuck shumer, who says he doesn't think filibuster a supreme court nominee is that big of a deal because it would mean the nominee at least made it to a vote, unlike president obama's most recent supreme court nominee garland. >> what the majority leader did to merritt garland, by denying him even a hearing is even worse than a filibuster. for him to accuse democrats of the first partisan filibuster on the supreme court belies the facts, belies the history, belies the basic truth. >> reporter: there are some democrats though who, like senator chris koons from delaware who say they're open to a compromise that would let republicans avoid the nuclear option then keep the filibuster process intact. but it still remains too soon -- it is too soon to tell if that is going to end up being the case, if the nuclear option will be triggered, that would be thursday, final vote on judge neil gorsuch would be friday. >> jon: so we could know, we should know the answer this week? >> reporter: yes. mitch mcconnell said neil

we leave it now to take you now to a briefing with senate minority leader chuck shumer. >> reporters and where the little kid reporters. there's one. anyone else? there's one. you see, it's not your fault, kids. your parents refuse to cooperate here in the nice little exercise we had. okay. anyway, thank you, big and small, for coming. grown-up and growing up for coming. so we all know a lot's happened in the last few days. so i wanted to take a couple of minutes to discuss where senate democrats are on taxes, health care, government funding, and then take some questions. first on taxes. the president's outline yesterday is a direct assault on the middle class. and an expensive gift to the wealthiest americans and the special interests. just this morning, secretary mnuchin was asked to guarantee that the middle class would pay less under the trump tax plan. he refused to do so. if on one piece of paper you can guarantee that the wealthy and the special interests will pay less, but and the ca guarantee that for the middle class, you're doing it all wrong. what president trump unveiled

monday we were on the phone with some of you, chuck shumer and i and chairman perez talking about the overarching promises made, promises broken. each day we had jobs -- tuesday, health care wednesday, today, as we speak, maybe it's still going on, draining the swamp with -- from our side by elijah cummings and tomorrow they'll join us, chuck and i and others on the broken promises to working families. democrats believe that every day we must be about job creation for everyone everywhere in our country, but republicans spent the first 100 days trying to weaken working families and even put more money in the pockets of the wealthiest people in our country. so yesterday was a big day for the tax plan. did you see it? here it is. the tax plan. i must say the first third page is grow the economy and create jobs. it's like descriptive but not provision. but then the -- it's small because every word of it is about tax breaks for the high end. trickled down economics. there's room for bipartisan tax reform. we said this over and over. we stand ready to come together for simplification, for f

how risky is chuck shumer's saying they're going to filibuster, how risky is that? >> i think it's a good move in terms of doubling down and making it very clear that they're going stand against neil gorsuch. gorsuch is likely going to get on the bench any way, mcconnell has been very clear saying he's going to get on by any means necessary. >> the next pick could be a dramatic landscape pick because it could be far to the right and shifting the balance in the court an then republicans would have nothing in their way. >> it could, but quite frankly we do not know who trump is looking at based on the list during the campaign, as we have seen in the health care debate. i think it is a bit of a risk, but i think what they have to focus on is their base and doubling down on trump and they're not going to give any wiggle room. >> you could have kennedy, ginsburg, a number of justices could retire. >> absolutely. >> let's talk about the "l.a. times," with this remarkable series of editorials, they had so much to complain bitterly about about president trump that they're r

senator chuck shumer telling "fox news sunday" the president cannot run the country as my way or the highway. >> he ought to rel lies he you this back off repealing oaf bam acare f he backs off repeal we'll sit down and work with him to improve obamacare. >> and as lawmakers work and member of gop leadership and house ways and means comm committee. they're united by two goals. to simplify the tax rate and close loopholes. >> this say once in a generation opportunity to relieve the american people of the tremendous tax burden they currently administration made this top priority. this is our time to do it >> the president is planning make tax reform a top issue for administration hoping for a mraij erwin if he can get his feert rally around his proposal. in washington, lauren bla blanchard. fox news. >> coming up fox5 exclusive his son killed in the line of duty and now the father of a delaware state trooper speaks out in "fox5" sdlusive. >> and we'll lighten it up a little with enters takenment news and find out if new films were able to knocked favorite furious from the top spot at t

we just heard this as well from chuck shumer.y want to figure out a way to keep their filibuster abilities inta intact because the nuclear option would wipe out their ability to filibuster. it does not seem like a deal the imminent. this is why. >> what the majority leader did to merritt garland by denying him even a hearing is even worse than a filibuster. for him to accuse democrats of the first partisan filibuster belies the facts, belies the history, belies the basic truth. >> reporter: so there is still a big focus on president obama's last pick for the supreme court who never did get a vote, even though they are on to president trump's first supreme court nominee. the senate is voting to advance judge neil gorsuch right this minute. melissa. >> melissa: everyone is getting along as usual. peter doocy, thank you. all right. five people are dead after dangerous storms tore through the southern u.s. one mississippi woman died tragically after her car slid into a flooded creek. look at that. 52-year-old jacklyn williams dialled

leader and paul bah gal gola hopefully poibtd out that donald trump has given tons of money to chuck shumern his old life and he's in a new life now. but i thought if you sort of pair this, yesterday he was in front of the nra, today he's in front of a crowd of admirers, and it's almost he needs this, right. he needs this sort of feel-good atmosphere from his base. he's been hold up in the white house, he hasn't been out in the country as much as other presidents have been at this point. so i thought it was sort of smarcounterprogramming and it was implicit that that was supposed to have an antimedia, anti-washington event and so he very much, you know, out the back -- i mean out of the front of that speech talked about that. and it's not surprising. >> there's nothing sut billion it. it was like look, here i am, the speech is there. >> exactly. >> don't forget the poem. >> we've heard from a lot of republicans that say we have two democrats sitting here waiting patiently and we do appreciate that governor. you heard from senator santorum saying this plays to the people of pennsylvania you'

if anything, they think the longer it takes it's going to help them because chuck shumer said he thinkshe longer the process goes, the worse the republican bill gets. >> president's healthcare bill rose from the dead and moved further to the right. it's hard to think of a bill worse than the first, but trump care 2.0 has all of the terrible aspects of round one with even more cruelty placed on the american people. >> reporter: and president trump did tell our martha mccowan in an interview that airs tonight that he is disappointed with how slowly things have been going on the hill. harris >> harris: thank you. we're coming right back. ces. and when you replace one meal or snack a day with glucerna made with carbsteady to help minimize blood sugar spikes you can really feel it. glucerna. everyday progress. ready or not, here i come.ek.) ♪ anyone can dream. making it a reality is the hard part. northrop grumman command and control systems always let you see the complete picture. and we're looking for a few dreamers to join us. anyone ever have occasional constipation,diarrhea, gas or bloa

chuck shumer's office fired back, quote, everything has been moving smoothly until the administrationd in with a heavy hand. not only are democrats opposed to the wall, there is significant republican opposition as well. further complicating the negotiations, democrats are making their own demands. >> also you have democrats saying they want obamacare payments into this funding bill. so republicans are not gonna like that. there's certainly some brinksmanship going on. this is going to take some twists and turns, but at the end of the day, i think they'll get a deal done. >> reporter: adding to the budget deadline problems, the white house wants to resurrect the replacement bill for obamacare next week. democrats want to keep obamacare in play so that may poison the well for budget negotiation. keep in mind republicans cannot pass that budget bill without some democratic votes because some of their own conservative members or just any budget that is not truly fiscally conservative. >> sandra: but if there is a shutdown, who gets blamed this time around? >> it's always republicans who

democrat in the senate isn't saying no outright to the thought of tax reform but minorny leader chuck shumer also doesn't like the general outline of what he's heard so far. >> we'll take a look at what they're proposing, but i can tell you this. if the president's plan is to give a massive tax break to the very wealthy in this country, a plan that will mostly benefit people and businesses like president trump's, that won't pass muster with we democrats. >> reporter: as for potential republican opposition slowing down the tax reform effort, i did ask president trump yesterday if he's worried about republicans getting in the way of 216 votes that they would need to pass a reform bill out of the house and he told me no. >> melissa: i love the tax talk. i gotta ask you about the briefing with all those 100 senators that they're invited to this afternoon. what about that? >> reporter: you know, melissa, it's very rare for republicans and democrats to do anything in really large numbers except for vote. they apparently think things have heated up with north korea. they brought in some buss to tak

how are things looking for democrats 100 dmiz trump administration here's intd indicateer from chuck shumer who appears stumped by a reporter's question of the future of the party. >> who is leader of the democratic party you? >> we have a bunch of leaders i am leader of the senate and try to help represent the democratic party but we have a lot of good voysz it's premature to handicap 2020. >> i would love to start with you on this you're a little closer to washington, the democrat seem to be grappling with the loss from last november and don't have a national leader there's a party split. we talked about the push for liberal computerty so they can't go beyond that. how would you think their first 100 days went. >> i think pretty poor. they're in the willederness and when you have the dnc chair tom perez saying that pro-life democrats essentially are not welcome speech and when you have lead whor cannot really say where the party is in elevator speech and what goals are peggy nunann has a great op ad in washington -- "wall street journal"and it nails it. >> yeah, she does. in fact i have a

>> if you look at chuck shumer who started this in 2003 with the first round of filibusters on judgesalating to the 2013 implication of the harry reid rule, it's sad the way this has developed. it's one sided effort to stop an slow down nominees that has consequences. i hope that going forward, we'll get back to work supporting a bipartisan effort behind this justice. that's what we have to focus on. >> melissa: when you look at the language of democrats back in 2013 when harry reid invoked the nuclear option, it could be -- seems like could be attributed to republicans today. diane feinstein said your frustration reaches a point where it just overwell misand things have to change. is that how folks on the right felt this time? >> i think in order to maintain the precedent of 200 years of senate history, the fact that no judge who was nominated for justice, no nominee for justice to the supreme court had ever been held to a 60 vote threshold. you can argue in 1968 abe portis. but that was a bipartisan effort when he was elevated from associate to chief justice. >> melissa: senator, th

trump received support for his actions this week from top democrats including hillary clinton and chuck shumer others. much to discuss with this group. former republican presidential candidate rick santorum. jen psaki. vati nasr. and mike rogerers former republican chairman of the house intelligence committee. senator santorum, is there any part of you that's worried at all that we are headed for any sort of a quagmire in syria? >> i think if you listen to nikki haley today, if you listen to the president, what president obama just said is not the only alternative which is a massive force of people going into injury. what donald trump indicated they will do a proportional response. they will make sure we know america is engaged. that doesn't mean marksy was trying to says regime change, lots of troops. i don't think the president is interested in that at all. he's interested america has influence and will use our power appropriately. >> there are a lot of obama administration officials who are happy about what president trump did and had wished president obama had done it in 2013. why did he s

nancy pelosi, chuck shumers actually standing behind the decision to strike syria yesterday.t you? >> i think it's important decision. i think it was the right decision. it's not going to solve the syrian crisis, but no one pretends that it will. the use of poison gas by this regime, the way it did, the scale it did, it had to be responded to. >> what is the cost to the international order -- let's forget about barack obama. let's talk about this past week, what would be the cost to the international order, to international values and norms if we had not responded? >> it would have been i think truly significant, joe. the message is you can again use this weapon of mass destruction. whether you're isis, the syrian government, shia militia or even north korea. i think this sent multiple messages. you don't want to exaggerate it. it's one event, one day. it's very important that the united states -- we're the last bull work of defense for these values. we took this decision now and i thought it was very important. >> bob woodward, we were saying earlier in the show that donald