totally inappropriate. >> senator, that mitch mcconnell is a real mitch kpaunl.ht that's what he thought and felt he wouldn't say that now. >> well. >> why? >> well a couple of things. mitch mcconnell is up for re-election in kentucky. kentucky is a very strong pro trump state. and there is no reason for mitch mcconnell to go out there and -- and find -- and be divisive when it comes to the president. it's not good for him politically to do so and i suspect he is not going to do it. and it's not an irrational thing for mitch mcconnell to do. it's not that as you have seen mitch mcconnell has not called the president out on numerous occasions over the past several years. it's just no reason to do it in this case. >> well i'm glad you said that because i had a whole bunch cued up we are out of time but i had several examples fs mitch mcconnell refusing to call him out great to have you. >>> and this weekend on cnn don't miss the redemption probability, sunday night at 9:00. you don't want to miss it. and next breaking news. a u.s. official citing more evidence toni

mitch mcconnell's graveyard. >> she's got it right, absolutely right. for the first time in my memory, i agree with nancy pelosi. i am indeed the grim reaper when it comes to the socialist agenda that they have been ginning up over the house with overwhelming democratic support and sending it over to america, things that would turn us into a country we have never been. they are on our way to doing things they have already done, the green green new, medicare for all -- by the way, you may have mentioned this on your show but they planned to make the district of columbia state, two new democratic senators, puerto rico, two more democratic senators, and as a former supreme court clerk yourself, you've surely noticed that they plan to expand to the supreme court. this is a full socialist march on the house and the outcome as long as i'm the majority leader of the senate, none of that stuff is going anywhere. >> laura: is there anything that can get done for the good of the country with this hot political climate that we are in? we are going to talk about th

presumably mitch mcconnell is not against that law.nts to be talking about somehow further nationalizing election law. this is adding a reporting requirement to an existing federal law that no one is arguing should be struck down which makes the question what is mitch mcconnell's actual game here and i think what it is is that everyone is looking at donald trump's behavior and saying if donald trump is still arguing that it's okay to accept stuff from foreign nationals, it's first of all because his campaign tried to do it in 2016 and that there's a pretty high likelihood that his campaign is going to try to do it again and is, in fact, inviting it in 2020 so to toughen these laws would be to create a legal trap frr t -- for the president who is signaling to us and every adversary that he's totally open for business on violating that law again. >> let's state where things are right now. you had a law that could have been passed yesterday. that would have required candidates to report any illegal acts. not somebody working on your campa

clip went viral, mitch mcconnell was asked about john stewart's testimony. here's what he had to say. >> we have never failed to address this issue. and we will address it again. i don't know why he is all bent out of shape. but we will take care of the 9/11 victims compensation fund. >> i think he was shocked when he was appearing before the committee i believe it was in the house, so if you member showed up that day. >> there frequently happens because members have a lot of things going on at the same time. it sounds to me he is looking for someone to take offense. there is no way we will not address this problem appropriately. we have in the past. >> it will be fully funded. >> yes. >> that was the senate majority leader on fox news per were taking your calls and questions on the 9/11 victims compensation fund. we have the new york daily news, good morning. >> hello. good morning. >> i said to my daughter, i want you to remember this forever and, she does. she is older now. my question is, why do they have to do this process when the president can buy the

but given the behavior of mitch mcconnell i don't think we should accept that assumption.as to be a new beginning, the start of a discussion of how to move legislation through the senate. we're thankful to lawmakers who support this important effort. well not many people are thankful to the koch brothers bs for their open borders amnesty, pro-am necessity positions and financing of all efforts in that direction. joining us tonight, the daily caller's editorial director vince coal naiz. give us your thoughts. >> this is why people are disgusted with washington. one of the most obvious thing. you have members of both parties in a heavy way, the democratic party preferring this week to make permanent lawlessness saying if you break our laws we're going to guarantee you can stay in the united states. rather than confront what is obvious, a dramatic crisis on the border. they're begging congress to intervene. we had 140,000 people illegally crossing our border last month open apprehended. rather than solve problems, they exacerbate them by making them permanent to the people wh

i am not here to defend what mitch mcconnell did. i'm not, but of what everyone to basically engage in a thought experiment, and dahlia and i talked about this beforehand. it is march of 2008 and george bush is the president of the united states. he supreme court vacancy suddenly becomes open, and has a 30% approval rating. wildly unpopular. we have two wars taking place and we're about to enter into, you can push it further if you want, troubled economic times and he wants a supreme court appointment and concludes he is going to nominate a moderate to try to persuade the democrats to go in and hold hearings and confirm that individual. we know from history that barack obama is going to be elected, maybe it is even likely at the time, and barack obama is going to pick someone like elena kagan. you have a choice. do you want to go ahead and say yes, i'm going to hold the hearing and if this is a person of qualification, i'm going to nominate, i'm going to confirm george w. bush's moderate nomination in 2008 as he is leaving office for

meanwhile, the senate, which is controlled by majority leader mitch mcconnell and republicans, they have their own version of a border supplemental bill, $4.6 billion with $2.8 million going to the office of refugee and resettlement. they're having a disagreement now about whether or not they move forward with that proposal, which senate republicans and democrats passed out of the appropriations committee, 30-1 on a bipartisan vote, how to move forward on their bill. and the big questions, how do republicans in the senate and democrats in the house come together assuming house democrats can put their differences aside and get a bill out of the house of representatives. a lot of moving parts this morning. one democratic source who was in the meeting with house democrats last night, argued of nancy pelosi, this is the hardest she has had to work for a bill in her speakership. i just think the leadership approached this all wrong, so a lot of moving parts this morning. big question, whether or not they can get this done by the end of the week when the office of refugee settlement runs of mo

and now he has mitch mcconnell following. it's as if their, you know, the -- they're, you know, the ghosts of mitt romney and paul ryan are walking the halls of the u.s. senate. >> you know, it's, again, the house is in play for 2020, or at least it could be, if house republicans support the president and his broad agenda, if they latch on to the -- lou: what about the senate republicanses? >> right. and also that's, you know, 53, that's a narrow margin. i think people are assuming that you come out of the 2020 elections in about the same shape, but, you know, if you alienate your base which supports the president by percentages in excess of 90%, republican support for president bush, if you go against that, that is not a great -- people are more than willing to submit their vote -- split their votes, split their ticket. lou: well, i was asking you less the grassroots political and more the question of governance. this is, to me -- and i want to get your reaction to it -- this is the senate conference committing suicide of th

and now he has mitch mcconnell following.w, the -- they're, you know, the ghosts of mitt romney and paul ryan are walking the halls of the u.s. senate. >> you know, it's, again, the house is in play for 2020, or at least it could be, if house republicans support the president and his broad agenda, if they latch on to the -- lou: what about the senate republicanses? >> right. and also that's, you know, 53, that's a narrow margin. i think people are assuming that you come out of the 2020 elections in about the same shape, but, you know, if you alienate your base which supports the president by percentages in excess of 90%, republican support for president bush, if you go against that, that is not a great -- people are more than willing to submit their vote -- split their votes, split their ticket. lou: well, i was asking you less the grassroots political and more the question of governance. this is, to me -- and i want to get your reaction to it -- this is the senate conference committing suicide of the gop, committing suicide.

mitch mcconnell works for us. he work for you guys. today mitch mcconnell promised to work for us.ke him for his word. >> was there anything that he brought up of any concern? >> no. today we challenged his humanity and he passed. >> what would the passage of this bill mean and the first responders that have passed? >> they didn't -- well, they didn't die in vain. those that walked the halls like ray pfifer, they efforts didn't die in vain. this took a village, this is a small percentage. these are the people that i brought down, 30, 40, 60 people per trip. and then those that signed petitions and those that made phone calls to elected officials. the leaders of the union. this literally took a village to get 535 people to get their stuff together. it's that simple. i'm sorry if i'm cursing. if i don't curse, i'll cry. i don't want to cry. all i think about is luis. i'm sorry. >> was it confrontational? >> no. our meetings in 2011 were heated and emotional. this was more laid back. >> relaxed. >> relaxed. >> we came in -- >> substantive. we covered every issue that we thought we cou

mitch and kate are back to react. mitch, i love this competition. how is it shaping up?hat do you make of the reaction? >> the reality, melissa, the last mile is the biggest issue in e-commerce and having a retail brick-and-mortar delivery center is key. here is nugget. costs on average $2.90 in input costs to deliver a package. free shipping really isn't free. if this can trim down the costs i think it improves margins of e-commerce folks. melissa: kate, also so smart because getting that pickup at the end, that last bit, whether it is because you live in an apartment or a house where somebody is not home during the day, or, you know, when you have to get the package back to them, you don't have regular service, solving that problem is a really big deal. is this a smart move? >> i think it's a smart move and it also does increase the pressure on all of the other retailers to figure out a similar way. it also potentially lowers amazon's costs because as mitch just said, it is expensive to do the last mile. much better to deliver all the packages to a smaller number of lo

we know mitch mcconnell's response. can."sponse is "because i that has been his response, president trump's response. what you are seeing is norm -defining, constitution undermining, deeply and state can't is -- in the constitutional behavior from the president, from the presidential -- senate majority leader. i there is an emerging sends on the left that you don't want to be a consistent loser in a prisoner's dilemma. there have to be some kind of consequences for norm violations. we will talk about whether some of these and -- amount to conflict escalation. the court is now substantially more conservative. we had a minority president nominating decisive justices. arguably lacks actual democratic legitimacy to move the law substantially to the right, which does not mean that is not what they are going to do. i think the second reason dahlia touched on it gently. i think liberals are increasingly finally seeing the freight train coming. you see it with respect to all be abortion bans, the voter suppression, what is going on a

mitch mcconnell has stopped this piece of legislation with ads.hey're not putting much pressure. >> it does seem like the democrats in the house are voting for a lot of bills that will never become law. that might be fun and make them feel good but at the end of the day it's not legislating. >> i guess the question is will democrats use the argument that the president tried the make over the first couple of years which was democrats are obstructionis obstructionists. will the democrats take that and weaponize it against republicans to say look at all the bills we have tried to push over to the senate where republicans control things. where mitch mcconnell is refusing to take the bills to the floor. i think that's an argument we could see from democrats and an argument that the president made fairly successfully to voters previously. i think democrats would have a good amount of success making that same case. >> every one stick around. breaking news. cnn is learning what iranian boats were doing before the attack on two tankers in the middle east.

on the other hand, mitch is very unpopular. his disapproval rating is over -- is around 30% and his -- his approval rating is around 30% and his disapproval rating is over 50%. one of the questions is how much the top of the ticket will affect the senate race. the way i look at it, there will be no presidential campaign in kentucky next year. but there will be 50, 60, $70 million spent in the senate race. i would think most kentuckians would be focused more on the senate race than the presidential and that would give amy a chance. >> i want to go back to the work of your committee. you tried to put out a resolution to reach the floor that was unsuccessful. is there anything you would have done differently to get that resolution to the floor? or is this just the reality of the caucus you have? >> that's a great question. i think we felt if we had had any more time, we could have gotten the resolution we passed. on the other hand, it was not going to pass in the senate. we were constrained because of the commitment to appropriati

that is what sidney hoyer has talked about an lindsey graham on the senate judiciary committee and mitch mcconnell who obviously runs the floor in the senate. >> host: we are talking about the 911 victims compensation fund in the segment of the washington journal, your money segments. special lines in the segment 2,027,488,000 if you live in eastern or central time zones and want to call in or have a question or comment, mountain or pacific time zone (202)748-800 (202)748-8001 and then special phone line for family members of 911 victims will keep that line. [laughter] the segment (202)748-800 (202)748-8002 michael, is doing us as a reporter for the new york daily news. you been covering this issue from the beginning even from the aftermath of the 911 attacks. can you talk about how far back you go on this topic connect. >> guest: i go back to the day it happened. i worked in new york at the time he lived in brooklyn so when the traffic reporter on the bs that a small plane had flown into the world trade center because that's apparently what would like to him from far away as a reporter

fight in that mitch mcconnell has no emotional quotient.a highly moral cause, jon has a sense of humor, which he showed on steven colbert last night. i was hoping you'd pop from underneath the table the way he did. he explained it so well. then he says you're busy not doing your job. and that's why you can't tend to this tragedy. the thing you don't have in this one is time. because it's ticking for people who arrived there at that hearing having just completed 60 rounds of chemotherapy and shouldn't be traveling at all. >> jon stewart testifying last week, let's reprise for anyone who did not see the passion of his testimony. >> i'm sorry if i sound angry and undiplomatic. but i'm angry and you should be too. your indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity. time. it's the one thing they're running out of. they did their jobs with courage, grace, tenacity, humility. 18 years later do yours. >> kristen welker, this is such a clear moral argument. this is the second time jon stewart has in recent years at least even c

and this is don. >> mitch mcconnell has provided millions of jobs for china people, while doing so, mitchas gotten rich. in fact, his china family has given him tens of millions of dollars. mitch's swamp people are running ads against me. they're calling me despicable and mentally ill. the war to drain the swamp and create jobs for west virginia people has begun. i will beat joe manchin and ditch cocaine mitch for the sake of the kids. >> jimmy: somebody better grab those kids before he eats them or something. now, as a result of that ad, this is a real item for sale on mitch mcconnell's website. we did not make this up. they're selling cocaine mitch tee shirts. i guess that little blizzard is supposed to be cocaine. it looks more like dandruff. why would you take cocaine, better nickname would be bladder medicine mitch. sunday, i hope you know sunday's mother's day. are you ready for mother's day, guillermo? >> ready, jimmy. >> jimmy: in what ways are you ready? >> i'm going to take my wife and my mother-in-law and everybody. >> jimmy: to brunch or something? >> yes, on sunday. >> jimmy:

this is mitch. go ahead.aller: good morning, pedro pretty good job herding those cats this morning and keeping us on topic. of of your callers kind stole my thunder with the biden rule and the fact that the left is up in arms about mcconnell's statement should really consider the front runner for the democrat party in the next presidential election, or at least at this time because it ledhe with harry reid that to this entire discussion about whether a nominee should be held over during an election period. there should not be any surprise or outrage over what senator mcconnell said. basically, if you go back to the beginning, the advise and consent for many, many decades. host: apologize to cut you off, i just want to show you and let people at home see a little bit of the opening ceremony of the president visit to britain. [video clip] ♪ ["national anthem plays"] the: president trump in first lady alongside the queen of england to start the three-day state visit. we will show you those pictures as we go alon

. >>> no, mitch mccome, i am not bent out of shape. >> jon stewart slams the speaker. good morning, welcome to early start. good morning. >> i'm dave briggs. they want to fund that 9/11 first responder's fund. it is 12:30 p.m. in tehran. that's where we begin this morning amid escalating tension with iran. the pentagon announcing the u.s. will send 1,000 more troops to the middle east along with military resources. just before the announcement by acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, the defense department released 11 new high resolution photos taken after the attack on two tanker ships in the gulf of oman. among these images, these show what the pentagon says is a small iranian revolutionary guard crew that removed an unexploded mine from the hull of one tanker. iran strongly denies any involvement in the attacks. let's bring in fred pleitgen live from tehran with the latest. fred. >> reporter: hi, dave. yeah, certainly still a very volatile situation down there in the persian gulf, but of course in general here in this region, you're absolutely right. the irania

>> it's a tribute to mitch mcconnell.gh and stopping the silliness that the house democrats do. and he does anytime a particularly effective way. you hardly see him on television or something. he's very effective. he goes about his business. and most people in america don't really know who he is. i don't know if that you can demonize mitch mcconnell. liz: we passed 150 bills and it's a graveyard in the senate. he's stopping them. >> it is. liz: a green new deal, single payer. >> i'm not sure all of those things a are all of that popular. that's what the contest will be about. liz: so this trump-pelosi fight, do you think it's going to get nastier? >> yes. she's firing up these people. they want donald trump's head and they're not going to stop. liz: he's taking the gloves off now. >> well i don't think he ever had the gloves on. liz: well now it's nervous nancy and more. bill mcgurn, you're terrific. thanks for coming on. thank you for watching. "lou dobbs" is next right here on the fox business network. have a good eveni

well, mitch mcconnell, the grim reaper appeared tonight, mitch mcconnell tells me exclusively why he might be embracing that new nickname. also tonight, a can't-miss debate on a radical group pushing something called drag queen story time at children's library. plus, ed henry brings us a report you will only see here regarding how obama handled overcrowded migrant snatchers. but first , democrat's phony foreign outrage. that is the focus of tonight's "angle." last night, i told you that i thought the white house made a rather unfortunate decision giving abc anchor george stephanopoulos two days worth of access to president trump. after traveling on air force one to iowa, the former bill clinton calms director chilled with the president in the oval office, where he found he is only possible vertical inch advantage over the commander in chief. >> if foreigners, china, russia, someone else offers information on an opponent, should they accept it or call the fbi? >> i think you may be to both. i think you might want to listen, there's nothing wrong with listening. if i thought there was

because mitch mcconnell and everyone else should be limited to two terms. then they cannot get their claws in. congress took money out of social security. have they ever paid it back? do you know how much somebody earns starting as a congressman? $174,000. every year, they get a raise. are they all the same medical plan we are? no. are they on the same social security? no. do they have the same drug and medical coverage? no. host: was there anything you wanted to comment on? guest: people talk about first responders, but they don't necessarily know all the first responders. the man coming down tomorrow to meet with mcconnell was a construction worker who lost half of his foot. the verizon workers had to go through tunnels for days and weeks to replace fiber so wall street could get back up and running again. those guys had a really tough job. a lot of them get really sick from it. host: carol is calling from ohio. caller: good morning. i have a comment. i hear all about the first responders. thank goodness for them. watching television from florida the day

majority leader mitch mcconnell has not condemned these remarks.e went on fox news to offer his support of trump despite the embrace of collusion. >> do you have a problem with that answer? the democrats seem to be saying, aha, we told you so. now on to impeachment. >> i said weeks ago. case closed. we got the mueller report. >> would you answer that question that way? >> he gets picked at every day over every different aspect of it. fundamentally they're trying to keep the 2016 election alive and the investigation alive. >> the fundamental point was the 2020 election. senator mcconnell doing a friendly interview with fox news so he wasn't pressed on that but this is bigger than just the public statements. shocking as they may be. mcconnell has made legislative decisions and conversations that leaves the united states vulnerable to exactly what occurred. that's because he served as this roadblock to yes, bipartisan legislation to do simple things to protect the elections. he told his colleagues, there are no plans to consider any bills would try to

mitch mcconnell has been the white whale of this since 2010. >> stephen: yes, mitch mcconnell is the laughter ) in that he has been acting like a huge moby dick. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) well, this morning, mcconnell went on "fox and friends" and told jon stewart that when it comes to providing healthcare for 9/11 first responders, he should just chillax. >> why has it always seemed like the vote comes at the last minute? >> well, many things in congress happen at the last minute. we never failed to address this issue, and we will address it again. i don't see why he's all bent out of shape. >> stephen: well, senator, i don't think-- >> what is wrong with this guy? ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: jon, now that i've got you here-- are you bent out of shape, jon? >> no! no! no! no, mitch mcconnell, i'm not bent out of shape. i'm in fine shape. well, i'm out of shape. i'm really more pizza crust than man at this point. ( laughter ) but i'm not bent out of shape. i'm bent out of shape for them. these are the first heroes and veterans and victims of the great trillions-of-

mitch mcconnell we were talking about him earlier, mitch mcconnell and the freedom caucus have tyrannizedized the republican party. they have impossiblilized our exercise in self-government. if that continues for another decade, my generation will be the first generation to leave less opportunity to people coming after us. we can't continue on this way. in my judgment -- >> can you let me squeeze in a break here. we'll continue. one of the things i want to ask you when we come back is, what had you tell former senator joe biden who worked with with a very different mitch mcconnell when he was back in the senate about the mitch mcconnell you're -- i guess have found you can't work with. we're going to be right back with senator michael bennet right after this. right after this if you have a garden you know, weeds are lowdown little scoundrels. don't stoop to their level. draw the line with the roundup sure shot wand. it extends with a protective shield and targets weeds more precisely. it lets you kill what's bad right down to the root while guarding the good. roundup sure shot wand. got b

and mitch mcconnell basically did everything he could to obstruct him. in what universe does john hickenlooper not encounter the same problem? >> well, i think that in part it's who i am. i'm the one person running for president who never run for student council. >> do you think your personality is such that mitch mcconnell is going to bring up stuff because of who you are? >> no, no, mitch mcconnell's the exception. >> he's a powerful exception. he controls one of the two legislative branches of the united states congress. >> i understand that. you certainly have to go talk to him just so that the people who follow him and respect him wouldn't feel diminished. in the end you've got to do what you've got to do to get stuff done. and i think both as a small business person, i spent 17 years as an entrepreneur and a small business person, you learn different skills of negotiation and you build relationships in ways that other people don't. look at tip o'neal and ronald reagan. they hated each other at first, right? they were at each other's throats and in

so far it hasn't. >>> senator mitch mcconnell responding to jon stewart's outburst. here's what the comedian said on capitol hill last week. >> they did their jobs. 18 years later, do yours! >> mcconnell seeming to brush off stewart's comments in a new interview with fox news. >> well, many things in congress happen at the last minute. we have never failed to address this issue, and we will address it again. i don't know why he's all bent out of shape, but we will take care of the 9/11 victims compensation fund. >> stewart immediately fired back at the republican leader during an appearance on the late show with stephen colbert. >> no, mitch mcconnell i am not bent out of shape. i am in fine shape. i am out of shape. i am out of shape. i'm bent out of shape for them. these are the first heroes and veterans and victims of the great trillions of dollars of war on terror. you would think that would be enough to get congress's attention, but apparently it's not. we've spent a year compiling bipartisan co-sponsors for this all in the hopes that when it gets to the great m

you have experienced mitch mcconnell up close. he comes from a state that has substantial poverty, a a southern state where you would think these programs would be needed. he is dead set against them all. how would you get past a majority republican senate in which mitch mcconnell was determined to kill all of these ideas or even a mitch mcconnell who repeated the consistent filibustering that happened when you were vice president and anything that came from the obama-biden administration, mitch mcconnell considered dead on arrival. mr. biden: the fact of the matter is we cannot get a consensus and nothing happens but the abuse of power by the executive, number one. there are certain things that take a brass knuckle fight. when they say we are not going to support you, we do what i did last time. campaigned in 22 states. not blue states. not blue areas. and guess what? arember when i said we going to win back the house and win over 40 votes? we got ready votes back. republicans with mainstream democrats. you have to go out and bea

republican senate leader mitch mcconnell is also all in against roy moore.ll colleague frank thorpe we'll be opposing roy moore vigorously. he would likely face democrat doug jones in a rematch, and that seems to be music to jones' ears. he just tweeted so it looks like my opponent will either be extremist roy moore or an extremist handpicked by mitch mcconnell to be part of his legislative graveyard team. we will be back with more "mtp daily" right after this. has been excellent. they really appreciate the military family and it really shows. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that they're always going to take care of us. it was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. it was funny because when we would call another insurance company, hey would say "oh we can't beat usaa" we're the webber family. we're the tenney's we're the hayles, and we're usaa members for life. ♪ get your usaa auto insurance quote today. ♪ when you start with a better that's no way to treat a dog... ...you can d

mitch mcconnell can't backtrack. nancy pelosi can't backtrack.r politics aside and put them on the floor for a straight up and down vote. nobody gets away with it anymore. >> shepard: you mentioned luis alvarez. how is he? >> he's dying. another 9-11 hero that sacrif e sacrificed to go to d.c. to shame lawmakers to be an american, to be a human being and show an ounce of humanity. it's going to be the 182nd funeral that i go to. i came out of that meeting with mitch mcconnell and i cried. people ask me why do you cry? i'm better than those in the senate. i have humanity. i see people suffering. when i get angry, i cry. i'm not embarrassed to say i cry. so if mitch mcconnell and nancy pelosi and other members of leadership on both sides, try crying. it really does cleanse the soul. >> shepard: why is this taking so long? i understand the particulars of it all. i know they're waiting on a score from the congressional budget office. i know that. they could have years ago say all right, as long as people are getting sick, we'll have coverage. there's

mitch mcconnell works for us. all you guys and today mitch mcconnell promised to work for us, and i'm going to take him for his word. >> that was 9/11 responder john field after meeting with senate mitch mcconnell. joining me now is john field and rich palmer. it's terrific to see you. this meeting with mitch mcconnell you said this one was different, you're encouraged. why? >> it's good to see you again, john. it's been a while. i saw a different side of mitch mcconnell i haven't seen in three weeks meetings. and i believe with rich there and my other guys we tugged at his heartstrings. and when we gave him louie alvarez's badge, i think he sensed our urgency this time. and i think he understands now that we have a serious problem on our hands in the 9/11 community. and i'm confident he's going to stick to his word. and listen, we're going to take him at face value. we're going to hold his feet to the fire, sole we're not done. nobody's celebrating. we still got a lot of work to do, but we're in a different place

and jon stewart toing mitch mcconnell over 9/11 funding. it is an important story and i'm thrilled to tell you we have a special guest that the rises to the level of the issues in that story later in the show. also, democrats tomorrow planning to gil one of trump's closest aides hope hicks. we have a lot of that when we get through the entire episode if you stay with us. we begin with a day that only comes once in a president's tenure, the day a sitting president announces a bid for re-election. this development itself is obviously not any kind of surprise. people knew donald trump was running again just like they knew obama was running again. even in this untraditional era, this is actually a very traditional marker. it is a moment for a president to ask thefation for support and to show where he stands. is he doubling down on his original campaign or changing gears? for trump, well, he's formally declaring his election bid targeting immigration and threatening to deport millions let's be clear, when it comes to this president, he makes no

do you think a democrat can win especially against mitch mcconnell? >> if the race were in 2022 or 2018, i would say there was a much better chance. it is hard to tell with donald trump at the top of the ticket. he still is popular in parts of kentucky. on the other hand, mitch is very unpopular. his disapproval rating is over 50%. one of the questions is how much the top of the ticket will affect the senate race. the way i look at it, there will be no presidential campaign in kentucky next year. but there will be 50, 60, $70 million spent in the senate race. i would think most kentuckians would be focused more on the senate race than the presidential and that would give amy a chance. >> i want to go back to the work of your committee. you tried to put out a resolution to reach the floor that was unsuccessful. is there anything you would have done differently to get that resolution to the floor? or is this just the reality of the caucus you have? >> i think we felt if we had had any more time, we could have gotten the resolution we passed. on the othe

mitch mcconnell changes more rules. this has led to a real break down, and it threatens the confidence of the public and the court if they see it as a strictly partisan branch of government. host: you have been with the new york times for how many years? guest: i started as a regional reporter in 1986. this is my 35th year in washington. next scholar from louisiana. james comer republican line. caller: this is probably the happiest segment of "washington journal" i have ever heard. merrick garland's shutdown was mitch mcconnell's greatest moment. when he allowed the next to go upright before the election will be his second greatest moment. your guest is right. they will be an unbelievable amount of republican conservative justices appointed at the court. with the unserious candidates that the democrats have, there no chance they will win the election. it will be 8-1. it is a sad day for democrats. is why talk about the eye of the beholder. it is the title of the book, "confirmation bias." depending on what side you are

and mitch mcconnell, wrong, wrong on tariffs, wrong to work again the american people and wrong to have alived themselves with -- aligned themselves with the mexican drug cartels instead of with the president and u.s. national interest. >> this something that u.s. has been trying to get for over 20 years with mexico, as soon as i put tariffs on the take tell took two days, if we -- it took two days, we have all we want, we'll be a great partner with mexico now, now they respect us. lou: first guest to talk about how the deal with mexico, will help curb the flow of illegal immigrants, drugs and gangs, joining us, mark morgan, acting dec o director of u.s. mihm u in and custom enforcement. mark. the mexican different is to ploiing troop--deploying troopsn border with guatemala, already making arrests on the train that has already moved thousands of illegals from the south of mexico to northern mexico to cross our border, this looks like real progress, if sustained it could be a tremendous pivot point in u.s.-mexico relations? >> lou, you are absolutely right, make no mistake, this shute s

the top trending search was mitch mcconnell. >> do you have a plan to deal with mitch mcconnell?rump: i do -- >> i do. >> there's a political solution we have to come to grips with. >> first, take away the filibuster from mitch mcconnell to start with. [applause] >> if you want to beat mitch mcconnell, this better be a working-class party if you want to go into kentucky and take his rear end out. david: then again, maybe for some, it was a windbag -- win not to be the center of attention. who went unmentioned during the evening? joe biden, who contrary to expectations, was not subject to scrutiny at all. he is on the state himself tonight. we will see what comes. coming up, commodities with alix steel. show previews the opec meeting and looks at the big run in gold prices. on andve dan juergen he is the main you want to hear from when it comes to oil. sign up for the bloomberg news later and get the latest about politics in your inbox every single day. live from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ when you rest on a leesa hybrid mattress, bedtime is no longer simply the time you go to

because if mitch mcconnell is in the job he's in for a while, don't you have to play ball? >> no.we need to elect more democrats. we'd love to have a few republicans help us on climate change. but we need to take away the filibuster because the filibuster prevents the fruition of bipartisanship. we could have ten republicans voting with us to try to stop climate change and he can use the filibuster, or five or six anyway, to prevent us from moving forward. so i would love to see a bipartisan effort, but as long as mitch mcconnell is wedded to the fossil fuel industry, we are not going to be able to move this country forward unless we get rid of the filibuster. i'm the first candidate to say that. we have to defeat the climate crisis. this is our last chance. we cannot give power to donald trump who says wind turbines cause cancer. we know they cause jobs. we have to get that job done. >> governor, good to see you. thank you for joining us. governor jay inslee of washington, 2020 democratic candidate. why stop there? why not just keep talking to candidates? >> all right. >> we'll h

they could tell mitch mcconnell. either way, if they choose to convict, they would have to be the ones to answer for the utter and total capity u lags to crumb p. trump would have to run for reelection as only the third impeached president in american history. keep in mind, impeachment is not a magical cure or a way to remove him from office, not necessarily about removal. does any democrat really want to have a president mike pence? impeachment is a political sanction. it is the ultimate rebuke of a president who has been darrerl of his duty. the two presidents who were fully impeached were not removed. republicans impeached bill clinton on his way out the door after failing to be renonnominated by the democrats. he didn't run for reelection. impeachment would be a message to trump and future frezs from congress that these are the red lines and if you cross them, you get indicted by the house and then you have to sit there as an impeached president and unless you resign, they get to pin that tag on you. but speaker

the reason we have nothing done on guns is mitch mcconnell. reason why, you know, he's been able to be so successful on judges, it's mitch mcconnell. i mean, donald trump is, like, this is a three-ring circus every day. he's spinning the plates. he loves to do it. the stuff's dropping all around him. the ringmaster in all this is mcconnell. and i don't think we can go through this with another ten years of mitch mcconnell preventing the public sentiment in this country from being heard in congress. and so how we beat donald trump is really important to me. >> sounds like you might think it's more important to take democratic control of the senate than even to take the white house. >> i think both are vital. i think both are vital and we can't take our eye off the senate. some people say, well, it's a really tough map. it is a tough map, but we need a majority of democrats in the senate and we need to win the white house and i think -- people say you're so naive when you say this, but i believe it, i think we need a broad coalition of democrats