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if you don't mind and when we're back we'll continue talking about this we'll continue talking to tom cole carr manet yet many political activists who won the nobel peace prize and we'll talk more about the tragedy and reveling in the country state change. the parting of ways european leaders talk of a future without the u.s. what is in store for the transatlantic alliance and much much more on this edition of. john mccain his republican cohorts like the bush family and others they will break cozy with ken lay financed the bush campaign so the bush presidency . when they got caught committing massive fraud on the same scale as the savings along crisis they machinery was already in place thanks to john. mccain is a bag man for wall street for decades yeah too bad all those guys out there make them all at the expense of the democracy slash economy of the united states which is the senate right. now a bad way to tell a polka ramana a yemeni activist and the nobel peace prize winner talking about the civil war and humanitarian catastrophe and as a country. you are a noble peace prize laureate

jon: congressman tom cole, good to see you with a smile on your face. >> thank you.thanks very much, congressman. the kavanaugh debate could have a major impact on the midterms especially in high-stakes battleground elections where democratic and republican candidates are only separated by a few percentage points. our political panel joins us now with inside on how the kavanaugh confirmation process might affect the midterms. paul is president of lobby it and republican councilman from new jersey, kevin is the vice president of hamburger gibson creative and a democratic strategists. thanks both of you for being here. >> good to be here, jon. jon: kevin, to you first, there's been a lot of ammunition i guess thrown at democrats saying that they politicized this supreme court appointment. did they? >> yeah, jon, a raw emotional week for both sides for judge kavanaugh's family and for dr. ford's family. i think the key thing that is so clear in all of this we need more women at the table, the fact that there were 11 republican member it was judiciary committee all men,

in that piece, congressman tom cole is quoted as saying this is a referendum on the president. >> i thinkow, david, is to hope that the president doesn't do anything policy-wise or with a comment that could potentially benefit democrats. what i mean by that is doing something that will further increase the enthusiasm on that side. if you read through that article, it goes through the fact that republicans are now preparing to shift money from some of the more vulnerable candidates to republicans who they actually believe can win. what that does indicate is, number one, donors are tightening who they are giving to. and number two, republicans by and large realize we are likely going to lose this thing, but let's try to make sure we don't lose by such a large enough margin where it could become problematic for us in the base in the senate side. >> you have to be happy about this. i mean, you look at the economy. we can talk about the real facts here. this economic growth began under president obama. but the fact that you have got republican -- strike that guio >> mitch mcconnell has found w

of hard work on the parts of our conference committee, led by chairwoman kay granger and chairman tom cole, along with ranking member peter visclosky and ranking member rosa delauro. i want to thank them, of course, and i especially want to thank my counterpart, mrs. lowey from new york, my ranking member who's worked with me through this process as well as earlier bills, and we had a friendship for well over 20 years of service jointly on the appropriations committee. yes, may i thank our senate counterparts for helping us complete this work as well. this conference report would not be on the floor today without the appropriations committee's dedicated professional and associate staff. i extend to all of them my deepest gratitude for their dedication, service, and hard work. in the front office, as we call it, nancy fox, my staff hollihand, rine annon o'keefe, tammy hughes, rachel, jennifer, marta hernandez, parker, tom, and rking closely with the minority, chris bigalow and others. we thank you them for their professionalism and dedication. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to vote yes o

cole porter. >> that was so funny seeing you yesterday. such a long time and i'm jealous you asked alan and tom with out me. i never get to washington. >> he screams at me. >> that's hilarious. [inaudible conversations] >> the reason why he's a conservative is because his father was such a marxist. >> ponds are the lowest form of humor. -- puns. >> why did you write this book? >> because i watched msnbc every night, most ever get i read the "new york times" and i can consider myself an expert on the resistance. the country has lost its mind. the left has lost its mind. it's not good for the country. it is certainly not good for them. there's a lot of great advice for the resistance in my book if they want to defeat trump. i'm kind of mad at him. if you follow me on twitter and sensuously you know that. he hasn't built the wall. why don't they go after him on something he's actually done as opposed to making up these completely crazy theories about russian collusion, which as you know from my column, or the book if you read it, this is just another crackpot hillary deflection started after wikil