so, that was just astounding to me to be able to think about these gardner images, think about gardner being part of the civil war photography, the first time americans were seeing wartime photographs published in books and then in newspapers and illustrated monthly journals. then he traveled with general sherman west as the indian wars begin. just after the civil war. so, from 1866 to 1868 gardner is traveling with the general's troops and visiting the various sites, meeting these individual indians and visiting the tribal communities, being witness to treaty signings and the gatherings and documenting for history what is happening as the wars move again from east to west with the indian wars that would go right up until 1890. for that two-year period gardner is photographing and these were the images kept by general sherman. and then donated to the smithsonian. so, just thinking about that journey that was happening and the hard moment in american history that continued going from the difficult times getting to the civil war coming back together as a union. and then launching right i

he choked gardner and then gardner shot and killed him.described this as self-defense because it was and they declined to press charges. but then mobs descended on the home of the douglas county attorney. the left wing doxxed and cline. finally klein relented and he charged gardner. so gardner tried to raise money for his own defense. he went online to go fund me. the biggest fundraising site. go fund me deleted those pages that would have raised money. he was out of options and on sunday as clear was the intent of the mob he killed himself. our next guest spoke with a close friend of gardner's who talked with him last weekend. me a thank you for joining us. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: what can you tell us about jake gardner, his final days. what he was going through when he took his own life. >> i spoke to his close friend who reached out to jake the night before he killed himself. he said that all jake wanted to do was travel the country with his service dog brawn. but the mob wouldn't let him. shawn king called him a white supremacist

cory gardner ran in 2014 as this colorado independent.ast night on the television at my hotel, you're seeing the same similar ads saying that he is for bipartisanship. but to what extent are these colorado voters willing to separate him from donald trump? well, a great number of voters, even conservatives, told us they're not. listen to part of my conversation. usually vote republican? >> yeah. >> reporter: did you vote for gardner? 2014 for the senate? >> yes -- >> why not during this go around? >> he's a trump guy. not voting for anybody that supports trump. >> reporter: the supreme court, conservatives -- >> yes -- >> reporter: you do want amy coney barrett to go through? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: why not? >> because it's not fair. they blocked mak eed merit gavr ignore the rules when they're in charge. >> reporter: what is compelling about those folks here, those litt littleton residents, they are lifelong conservatives. they tell me they want conservatives on the supreme court. when it comes to this process that has played out,

i can know for example that the child whose name gardner didn't record is actually sophie who so and i can know that her uncle will become the prime minister of quebec. i can know the general william as harmony standing with military burning bearing second from the right led an army charge on the dakota village 13 years earlier that resulted in the murder of sophie's half brother. i can know that ironies military raid indirectly led a woman and a french canadian man, to meet enter into a marriage that would allow us close to half a century sophie's parents. i would know that her father is at the moment this picture is being made, employing general sentiment as an attorney to help him get federal compensation for property lost in indian raids. and i can know the general's and more, ostensibly risks misrepresenting the federal government here in negotiating payments to the assembled tribes will get a cut of that money himself if he can divert some of it to sophie's father as compensation for his stolen horses. the point here is really not to highlight my historical knowledge at garners

last week gardner was charged with manslaughter. this weekend gardner killed himself.ee how that works? do you want to live in a country like that? megan hunt does. megan hunt is a state senator from omaha. she is glad jake gardner is dead. megan hunt congratulated the mob on twitter for pushing jake gardner to suicide. hunt encouraged him to do it to others. as hunt rode on twitter, and we are quoting, "jake gardner is gone but the whites of premises attitude that emboldened him are still with us today." " "in other words, you know what to do. they should terrify you. if democratic leaders have decided that everything is allowed in pursuit of power, nothing is off-limits. give us what we want or we will hurt you. interns nancy pelosi can understand, that means maybe another impeachment. >> some have mentioned the possibility if they try to push throughhe a nominee in a lame dk session that you and the house could moveou to impeach president trump or attorney general barr as a way of stalling and preventing the senate from acting on this nomination. >> well, we have ou

one of them is cory gardner of colorado.ed last week before a nominee was announced that he supported moving ahead with the president's choice. his democratic challenger, former governor john hickenlooper, addressed that decision with my colleague, vaughn hillyard. >> he's become a reliable voice for the republican party for whatever donald trump asks of him. this thing with the supreme court is the most recent, but look, for ten years here's been trying to take down the affordable care act and get rid of pre-existing protections for pre-existing conditions for 2.4 million coloradans. i would use his words from 2016 when he said the stakes are too high. we should let the people's voice be heard in the determination of who the next supreme court justice should be. >> joining me now from capitol hill, the man on the other side of those answers, the questioner, nbc news correspondent -- nbc news national political reporter, vaughn hillyard, and nbc news national correspondent, garrett haake. cory gardner is in a tough re-electi

we've invited senator gardner on the show as well.looper, as you know, thursday the senate failing to pass another relief bill. the "denver post" wrote about a survey saying one in five coloradoans are worried about losing their homes or being able to feed their families over the next year. what do people in colorado need from the senate right now? >> what they need is action. i've spent the last couple months going out around the state in very small groups, we call them tailgaters. but like many town hall meetings, ten or 12 meetings, socially distanced. we keep hearing the pain, the anxiety that people feel, they're not going to be able to keep food on the table or make their rent. they need action from the u.s. senate instead of people blaming each other and pointing fingers. the fact that the senate took a one-month recess and they knew they had a lot of negotiations to go to get an aid package done before their next recess, it still didn't come together. i think coloradoans and i think americans are very frustrated by the chaos,

at the forefront, cory gardner. he first won his seat in 2014, running at this sort of colorado independent. two years later, donald trump won the presidency, and a lot of voters we have talked to have criticized cory gardner, suggesting he has been anything but independent of this president. now they have the option, give cory gardner, the republican, a second term, or vote for their former governor, john hickenlooper. take a listen to a little bit of the conversation we had with a few voters here in town. >> the fact that he wants makes me look at it closer to see how conservative she really is. >> it's not fair because they blocked marek gar lpd errick ga premise they had to wait for the next election. now they completely ignore the same rules when they're in charge. >> the last gentleman you heard from voted for cory gardner in 2014. he and his wife, they're not voting for cory gardner this year. they're not voting for president trump. they told me if i had told them eight years ago they are lifelong conservativ

leland: kim gardner, the local prosecutor there, you say that convictions are way down.ts show in the first two weeks of february, got a guilty verdict on one out of four trails, conviction rate of 25%. you all have offered to help her office, which would be sort of the easiest, most expedient way to do this if she's had huge turnover and other problems, but she said no thanks, so you've sort of had to end run this through the u.s. attorney's office. that's right. i mean, that offer, when i became attorney general, the offer was for her to assist and the convictions are down. we have a special prosecution office specifically for this and we go around the state and prosecute on complex cases, triple homicides, homicides, and that's why we've entered into the safer streets initiative with our federal partners. 314 charges filed, 181 the most violent crimes, carjacking, carjacking resultening death and against law officers. in federal crimes penalties can be stiffer. it's those that we need right now when you see violent crime surging, all we can do. leland: if you need to

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but i think gardner and mcsally probably have the steepest challenges it's interesting because gardnere she can't seem to figure out always what kind of republican she wants to be she started out her career as a house member, more of a john mccain style republican, winning a leaning democratic house in tough races so she knows how to appeal across the aisle. but in responding to her republican base in arizona, she's become more trumpy, for lack of a better word. i think gardner has been more consistent it's just a matter if he can survive a democratic onslaught in the denver suburbs. we saw two years ago, congressman kaufman, who worked as hard as any i've seen, with non-white voters and suburban voters, simply was swept away because he had an "r" next to his name mcsally, gardner, both in deep trouble. susan collins. i know republicans are optimistic she's going to pull a rabbit out of a hat because she survived for so long there, doing what she does. also won a tough race. i keep an eye on thom tillis simply because of a fund-raising edge that joe cunningham has i also note, we still

colorado's cory gardner currently losing in his race against colorado governor john hickenlooper by nearly double the margin of president trump lost the state by in 2016. it looks in every instance those candidates, those gop candidates are not running with and in support of president trump and they are making a tremendous

it is about 200 images by alexander gardner.ined fame during the american civil war, worked with the matthew brady studio and of washington dc and many images memorable from gettysburg in the aftermath of the battle, the images of soldiers who had died in the battle are his work. little was known about these photographs. i spent 30 years studying photography at the smithsonian first at the national museum of american history and out of the american indian and -- and now of the american indian and this small but significant collection was unknown to many of us at the institution until the 150 iniversary of the civil war the last decade. as we were researching collections and i was chairing an editorial committee for a archivistsf the invited me over to the american history museum to see this collection that i did not know about and many did not know about and it ended up there was a retrospective of alexander gardner's work at the national portrait gallery and the first photographs toed another museum. me to beastounding to able

we will look at what kind of man that bar owner was, his name was jake gardner.we are monitoring the trump rally in the state of virginia, we'll bring you any news if it develops there. we'll right back. c) - hello world do you see me? though hidden, i am here waiting for the rest of my life to unfold. soon i will arrive. (music) or will i? it's really not up to me. be my campion in the fight for my life. (heart beat) >> tucker: it's next two to come in here right here on fox news, following the show. tengh nights, for joe biden noto show up from democrats. rick leventhal following that story. >> hit, tucker, nancy pelosi doubling down on the suggestion thathe job i did not debate president trump next tuesday as scheduled. not that he won't be excellent, but vice president joe biden and he told cbs that president trump has no fact or fidelity. he will become "an exercise in skulduggery." here are some of the earlier comments. >> i don't think there should be ay debate. i think the president of united states -- has any association with truth, evidence, data, and f

mitt romney, cory gardner, and chuck grassley. president trump repeating his call to fill her seat quickly. >> we have a lot of time, tremendous amount of time, i think it should be voted on before the election. i think it will be good for the republican party and i think it would be good for everybody to get it over with because it's always controversial. >> melissa: this is "outnumbered" and i melissa francis, with harris faulkner, host of "kennedy" kennedy, fox news contributor jessica tarlov, and joining us today former utah congressman and fox news contributor jason chaffetz. jason, let me kick this off with you. i want to focus first on the president, and his apparent push to try and push this through as quickly as possible. some have said it's a win-win for him either way. if he's unable to push it through, it's a great animating issue on the right. we certainly saw that in the case of marit garland, the idea that those who are on the right and really want conservative justices may not love the president but they really wan

, susan gardner.nk they have something to do in 45 days. i can't put my finger on it quite yet. >> well, this is something that injects a whole new dynamic into senate races this cycle. the supreme court was already a large part of senate races. democrats were prepared to handle people like susan collins over kavanaugh. gorsuch, of course, was going to play a large role in this. this will only serve liberal voters. i saw they broke fund-raising efforts last night. this will put many of these senators in the purple states and swing states in somewhat of a tricky position. we're seeing fewer and fewer senate races that go in the opposite direction of the race. for senators, it puts some on the fence between the current sitting president and potentially the new incoming president. >> can you talk to me about some of the gop senators who say the way the court is stacked right now, we cannot have that same amount, eight justices, come november in case there's a contested election? we've got essentially thr

that of utah, cory gardner of -- mi romney of utah, cory gardner of colorado.ck of iowa, he said this summer that if he were chairman, he would not hold any vacancy -- not fill any vacancy. he said a statement could be coming from him tonight. judy: how are you hearing how this effects the election? yamiche: this upends the 2020 election, putting supreme court top of mind for voters. it was already somethi that was going to be top of mind. it really underscores the power of the presidency. he is issuing a new rallying cry. democrats i have talked to are worried that this could depress democrats. but they could also be motivated because if this becomes a 6-3 majority forepublicans. judy:yamiche alcindor, lisa de chardin, thank you both. and now a view from the senate. to give us a sense of what's next for democrats in their efforts to block a senate confirmation of the president's choice for the court, i'm joined by senator maggie hassan of new hampshire. how do you see the legacy of justice ginsburg? sen hassan: thank you for having me. ruth bader ginsburg was

>> lee, yeah, and cory gardner. all of these players are now in play in that regard. so there is, i think, a lot of room here to have something done, oddly enough, in which the decisions made will wait, will actually wait because it may be better looking at the election from the republicans' perspective, trump gets re-elected. we'll still get to fill the seat. and that's a risk they'll consider. but i think the democrats may have a little bit more room than one may think given the dynamics of the six seats and possibly more that could be in play next year -- i mean this november. >> i think you might have actually meant -- i think you might have actually meant senator romney from utah. >> yeah. >> michael steele, thank you so much. >> yeah, cory -- yes, exactly. romney from utah. but i was thinking colorado, yeah. >> well, cory gardner is in the fight for his life in colorado, and the majority of coloradans believe that if you're going to take one supreme court decision that might come up or was likely to come up again, abortion, the majority of coloradans believe tha

>> lee, yeah, and cory gardner all of these players are now in play in that regard. so there is, i think, a lot of room here to have something done, oddly enough, in which the decisions made will wait, will actually wait because it may be better looking at the election from the republicans' perspective, trump gets re-elected we'll still get to fill the seat and that's a risk they'll consider but i think the democrats may have a little bit more room than one may think given the dynamics of the six seats and possibly more that could be in play next year -- i mean this november. >> i think you might have actually meant -- i think you might have actually meant senator romney from utah >> yeah. >> michael steele, thank you so much >> yeah, cory -- yes, exactly. romney from utah but i was thinking colorado, yeah. >> well, cory gardner is in the fight for his life in colorado, and the majority of coloradans believe that if you're going to take one supreme court decision that might come up or was likely to come up again, abortion, the majority of coloradans believe that abor

and cory gardner, my god. bad will it be for cory gardner i hate to be cynical about this, but it looks like for many of these people they are making the calculation that peter baker is saying, and it's not about running in the future. it's like what do i do after i lose this year? well, if i cross donald trump and mitch mcconnell, i can't be a lobbyist and make a lot of money. but if i vote for them, i'm still in good stead with the party, i have a future politically and i can get a job right after i leave office. >> well, i think that has to be the calculation some of them are making. because it doesn't make political sense to me. let's be straight. they're going to do this, right? they have the power to do it. mcconnell has the votes, as far as i can tell, lose only collins and murkowski. like jake sherman, i kind of doubt he'll even lose romney but that wouldn't matter anyhow. so they're going to go ahead with this. you raise lindsey graham. at some point he has to look in the mirror and say, i must be doi

gardner's right on the bubble., does he want to do something that leaves him in bad odor with moderate voters in the state. the whole thing for susan collins in maine, well, thom tillis is pure maga, he's concentrated now, but for scwoanny ernst in iowa -- joni ernst in iowa, the question starts to become this: what looks good enough, right? it's not about what is right or what is wrong in politics in an election year, it's what looks good enough, what looks appropriate enough, and corey gardener probably doesn't want to be anywhere near anything that looks kinky for the long term. leland: the new i'll tell you what drops tuesday or wednesday, you keep changing it up. >> yes. we changed it one time. it's tuesday. leland: all right. alicia and i will be downloading it. thanks for joining us on a sunday. we appreciate it. >> thanks, guys. leland: good to see you. alicia: wildfires and a major tropical storm threaten millions of americans out west. wildfires spreading towards the different communities leading to more

gardner said the american people deserve a role in this office. on saturday gardner refused to say if he would stick to that. >> there is a time for debate and politics. the time for now is to pray for the family. >> reporter: several veteran republicans including chuck grassley have refused to say whether the party should wait. mitt romney has so far declined to comment. several republicans in difficult races are aligning with trump. >> i voted for several hundred conservative judges including two on the supreme court and another on the way. >> till lis sung a different tune four years ago. >> we're going to let the americans speak. >> it's a question of checks and balances. >> four years ago cruz said this. >> it's for the people to decide. >> if president trump is able to push through another lifetime appointee, it will cement a 6-3 conservative majority on the supreme court and that will affect millions of lives for decades to come. now mr. trump's rival, joe biden, is asking republicans to think before they vote. >> don't vote to confirm anyo

i think obviously gardner and collins are clearly hurt. a lot of suburban college-educated voters. i think arizona even if it helps mcsally, i think it's a problem for her because it's another state where they are clear pro-choice majority. those next states, the politics are much more equivocal, whether it's north carolina, georgia, kansas, and montana. any of those i think it is not as clear how this will play out. i will say that it may matter a great deal, jake, what the debate is ultimately about. if it's about abortion, primarily, in states like north carolina, iowa, georgia, that is a jump ball. if it's about protecting people with pre-existing conditions, i think that is a very different policy. and i think that's why you are going to see biden in particular really hammer at this. because at this point, the virtual certainty is that the court will send this lawsuit back to the district court which will come back with a ruling throwing out the entire aca. and sometimes in 2021, this new justice may get to decide whether the aca and its protections for people with preexisting

these are the senators we're watching, mitt romney, is susan collins and lisa murkowski and cory gardner. collins said the president can make a nomination but doesn't believe there should be a senate vote before the election and the president today on "fox & friends" says guess what, listen to this, i'm watching, too. >> i think susan collins is very badly hurt by her statement yesterday, and i think -- i think murkowski is very badly hurt and she doesn't run for two year, by think that this will follow her. >> that's more about -- it's not just about murkowski and collins. that's about those other senators thinking about which way do i go? >> right. you've seen the senate republican majority all throughout president trump's term in office to line up pretty much behind him, and that's what we're expecting for the most part, a lot of focus on mitt mitt romney. the white house is closely watching him as a potential third defection to align themselves with collins and murkowski and we know from senator romney's vote to convict trump on one of the impeachment charges that he is someone who i

we get more information now, in the last 24 hours, gardner, grassley, romney. is it a sealed deal now that the republicans can get this through? >> it's just about there, steve, barring some kind of lightning bolts here that really changes the game later on. but for right now, there just aren't any other republicans, as i look out at sort of the senate roster here, who have demonstrated a history of breaking from trump or who would be willing to do so on a decision as controversial as a supreme court pick. and you heard from romney today who, frankly, is in a position that's enviable to a lot of his other colleagues because he doesn't have the 2017 merrick garland mess on his hands. he essentially said this is political hard ball. and this is the way it goes going forward and things need to be balanced out well, that's too bad. here's part what he told reporters this afternoon. >> i recognize we may have a court which has more of a conservative bent than it's had over the last few decades. but my liberal friends have over many decades gotten used to having a li

corey gardner has not said it's the route he is going to take. but susan collins, lisa murkowski already have. >> harris: yes. you know, harris, i thought a lot about this. i was listening to the pundits and the analysts and i was reading what they were sending out. i think what we have to remember is that much of the reason that this american people elected president donald trump to office was because he could make a decision. he was making a decision based on the judea christian ethic and the founding and the first principles. they had grown weary of president obama and vice president biden trying to do things bizarre by czar and comms and letting elite make decisions and not letting te lechted representatives do it. i think we have to remember that. also, one of the things that was a driver in 2016 and 2018, was that the american people wanted to see court system that was fair. this is an enormous issue with women that are suburban women. they want to see fairness. they want to see a level playing field. they want to see equality and justice.

he told gardner, there is more work. the weak banks will pull down the strong. vice president gardner says to fdr, they are all down now anyway, the weekend the strong. you will have to come up with deposit guarantees eventually. everybody knows deposit guarantees will be a part of it. that's the second major part of the glass-steagall act, deposit insurance. the third is what we know the act for today, though it was not a big deal then. what happened was, at the start of the 20th century, the big banks in new york city and chicago want to go -- want to expand from the banking business of making loans to underwriting and dealing in securities. but their lawyers,( sterling, and the other lawyers read the national banking act and say it is illegal to do that. the national banking act does not allow national banks to deal in securities. so, they come up with a scheme. they create separate companies called security affiliates. they have the same officers and directors as the bank. you get a stock certificate they sell. in your drawer you have 50 shares of citibank.

. >> moving ahead before november could squeeze republicans like cory gardner running for re-electionn colorado. gardner's office did not respond to questions about whether the winner of the november election should make the hugely consequential pick. it took them two to three months to pick a supreme court nominee meaning it would be faster than usual to approve a replacement before november. there's another complication. if arizona's appointed senator martha mcsally loses in november, that would mean democrat mark kelly could be sworn in the end of that month, bringing the majority to 248 -- mcconnell has little margin for error. several are uncommitted. like mitt romney and some have been wary about an election year confirmation. like senator chuck grassley who roo refused to hold hearings. >> i couldn't move forward with it. >> on saturday, his office declined to say if that is still his position. others have shifted theirs. including lindsey graham who chairs the judiciary committee and said this in 2016. >> let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.

perkins. -- anne gardner perkins. can you tell us about your book "yale needs women" and the history of coeducation in this country, and in the ivy league in particular? >> yes. thank you, mark. over the next hour, we will all explore together that moment in american history when yale and its peers, when america's most prestigious colleges, finally admitted women students. for those of you who have not read the book yet, that moment was just 50 years ago, close enough that we can touch it, which is why we are so likely tonight to be able to include elizabeth vann and connie royster, two of yale's first women undergraduates. two facts are in order. museum,schmidt and the who have been terrific sponsors, it has been delightful to work with you. and to eight cousins bookstore. i know in my community how important the independent bookstore is and independent bookstores have taken a real hit economically over the last three months, so i would really encourage you to support eight cousins books and your local independent bo

now all eyes are on senators mitt romney, chuck grassley, cory gardner, as potential holdouts and it'ssome senators are facing reelection battles. >> hey there, it was significant over the weekend when susan collins and lisa murkowski indicated they thought it was premature, too fast to go ahead with a supreme court confirmation fight so close to the election. susan collins is facing a competitive reelection bid in may, that is a really tight race there and president trump indicates he thinks that those senators that oppose him come of that's going to be a problem for them going into these elections this fall. listen. >> i think susan collins is badly hurt by her statement yesterday, i think lisa murkowski is badly hurt and she doesn't run for two years, i think this will follow her. >> cory gardner is a republican senator from colorado facing a competitive reelection bid this fall and mitt romney of utah, don't forget that romney convicted president trump during the impeachment trial last year back in february. senators don't like to be rushed on big decisions, and that's why democrat

a state senator from omaha does and she is glad jake gardner is dead. megan hunt congratulated the mob on twitter for pushing jake gardner to suicide. hunt encourage them to do it to others. as hunter wrote on twitter, jake gardner is gone but the white supremacist attitude that emboldened him are still with us today. in other words, you know what to do. this should terrify you. democratic leaders have decided that everything is allowed in pursuit of power. nothing is off-limits. give us what we want or we will hurt you. in terms nancy pelosi can understand, that means may be another impeachment. >> some have mentioned the possibility if they try to push through a nominee and a lame duck session that you when the house move to impeach president trump or attorney general barr as a way of stalling them from acting on this nomination. >> we have our options. we have arrows in our quiver that i meant not about to discuss right now. >> tucker: impeach the president for what? for following the constitutions letter, for doing what the constitution tells presid

but that it's probably not a great situation for cory gardner in colorado who's in big trouble in a state that doesn't like trump. arizona may already be lost. susan collins of course was at the center of the kavanaugh fight. some people think, well, maybe this can help susan collins who is opposed to moving forward schmo -- separate herself from trumprom trump. but we'll have to see about that. people think it could help symptom lagging republicans, thom tillis in north carolina, and i've heard republican strategists say to me, it's basically going to be a tillis-barrett ticket down there. and in other states. so right now, though, i think that democrats are probably remaining in a pretty good position to take the majority. it's interesting, bob, there's two things that mitch mcconnell really likes. he likes being majority leader. and he likes putting conservative judges on the court. are these things in conflict this time? i think we're going to find out by the end of the confirmation and the election. robert: nina, thrs the battleground right now but the court broadly speaking is becom

i'm thinking particularly of susan collins and cory gardner. they're running strategies different from some of their cloogs li colleagues. so that is the thinking here. remember, mitch mcconnell cares most about two things, one, his majority, and, two, a conservative supreme court. if he were to lose the majority and we were past the election, he wouldn't have anything really left to lose and that goal of a conservative court wouldn't be intentioned with anything else, andrea. >> thanks so much, kasie hunt, pete williams and peter alexander. >>> and joining us now is mazie hirono, the hawaii democratic sfwhoor serves on t senator who serves on the democratic committee. thank you for joining us. what is the strategy to try to get three or four lfs y-- you r need four assuming you don't have the arizona democratic mark kelly, it's iffy is he in sworn in, then you might need three, but you definitely need three and four republicans. it democrats hang together in order to stop a vote from being -- a new justice from being confirmed. >> well, the de

gardner said at the time the american people deserve a role in this process, but on saturday, gardnerused to say if he would stick to that same position now that there is a republican president. and just 44 days before the election. >> there is time for debate. there is time for politics. but the time for now is to pray for the family. >> reporter: several veteran republican senators including chuck grassley of iowa have also declined to say if they think the nomination should wait and the party's 2012 nominee, senator mitt romney, has so far declined to comment. several republicans in difficult races are aligning with trump. >> i voted for several hundred conservative judges, including two on the supreme court and another one on the way. >> tillis sung a different tune four years ago. >> we're going to let the american people speak. >> reporter: republicans say times have changed because they now control the white house and the senate, unlike 2016. >> it's a question of checks and balances. >> reporter: but four years ago, cruz said this -- >> this is for the people to decide. >> rep

chuck grassley of iowa and cory gardner who's locked in a tough re-election bat colorado both say they will support moving ahead with a nomination. in 2016 when president obama nominated merrick garland, grassley said, quote, the people shouldn't be denied a voice. now he says in part, quote, the constitution gives the senate that authority, and the american people's voices in an election couldn't be clearer while the direction in 2016 under a divided government, there is no such ambiguity in 2020. so make no mistake, grassley added, if the shoe were on the other foot, senate democrats wouldn't hesitate to use their constitutional authority and anything else at their authority to fill this seat. back in 2016 cory gardner said this, quote, the next president of the united states should have the opportunity to fill the vacancy on the supreme court. in a statement last night announcing his support of a vote on the president's nominee, gardner didn't explain his reversal on election year nominations. joining me now, nbc news correspondent leanne caldwell. leanne, i want to get to your thou

joining us is colorado senator also up for reelection this fall, cory gardner. thank you for being here on this saturday. >> good morning, thank you for having me. >> sure thing. >> and let's continue on the atlantic article because i want your response to not only the article, but the reporting revolving around it and the president's response. what's your take? >> look, i'm not going to comment on anonymous sources. what i've been able to do the last six years is work with president obama, and president trump, and this is the new home of the space command and we've put more dollars in the veterans administration so we don't see the delays and mistreatment of our veterans as we have in year's past. i'm not going to play to anonymous sources about what may or may not have said and people like john bolton didn't think he heard anything like that. >> fair enough. let's talk about the senate race because that's what a lot of folks are talking about. you were once called by democrats the most vulnerable of the g.o.p. running for reelection. and that this was your opp

it's all thanks to an accintal discovery at the isabella stewart gardner museum by collection curatorhaniel silver. >> i opened the wrong cabinet, and happened to find this portfolio-- it was huge! and i had never seen these sargent drawings before. r orter: that find has led to boston's "apollo," an exhibition examining the relationship between sargent and mckeller, who was the painter's principle mor the m.f.a. murals, an artistic relationship lasting eight year >> it wasn't that just anyone could have helped sargent get to this point. it was thomas mckeller specifically. that allowed sargent to unlock a creative potential that had notp beend before. >> reporter: sargent was a dolebrity painter, and tired of g the portraiture that was his bread and butter, when heed recehe m.f.a. commission. in these charcoal sketches thaul sargenmately gave to his friend and patron isabella stewart gardner, we find the artist drawing the fine contours and musculature of mckeller, a sometime contortionist-turned- stand-in for mythological gods. >> he was a veteran, a roxbury resident. heame from wil

people like cory gardner in colorado, susan collins in maine. senators who if they go along with leader mitch mcconnell and holding this vote early, may pay dearly at the polls with a lot of the suburban voters in their states. and so democrats are going to use their money to make sure that the voters in those states know the decisions that those republican senators are making. >> then how is it president trump believes that a confirmation vote would help senate republicans who are in tight races? how on earth does that help a cory gardner or a susan collins. >> right. i think this is so hard to game out. he doesn't know this any better than the rest of us. this is so unpredictable, steph. i mean, look how it's already splitting up in a state like north carolina. you have tom tillis who is facing a really tough re-election fight. he said, yes, i want to vote. i want it now. and in states like maine, you have susan collins saying, no, no, not so fast. i think that it's really hard to predict which constituency this galvanizes more because we don'

i think it's going help cory gardner, a great guy, by the way. i think it's going to help everybody if they do it. >> joining me now from capitol hill is nbc news correspondent garrett haake and from phoenix, nbc news national political reporter vaughn hillyard. vaughn, you're on the ground there talking to voters. this race between martha mcsally and mark kelly is critical because it's a special election. if mark kelly wins he could be seated in november which could potentially throw mitch mcconnell's calculus into a bit of a tail spin if there are three other or two other republicans that say no, they're not going to vote on any confirmation. tell me what you're hearing from voters out there. >> yeah, hey, katy. that's right, because there is that heightened sense of attention on this race because the state will certify their election results on november 30th. because this is technically a special election to replace john mccain. mark kelly could jump in there by the end of november, placing that sense of urgency up there on capitol hill where

here's security correspondent frank gardner on why. iran doesn't like the deal, nor does turkey.s aggressive policies and a betrayal of the palestinians — reviews echoed by many palestinians themselves. but one of the reasons, even though this was officially denied by the uae, one of the reasons behind this deal isa one of the reasons behind this deal is a neutral mistrust of iran by israel and the uae. it is their giant neighbour in the region, it's got a huge battery of missiles, it's got a huge battery of missiles, it's got vast home—grown military technology, swarms of drones along boats and so on, and it has a nuclear programme in which it insists in civil. so that's one of the reasons. and of course, if this deal works, the uae and israel will become very successful many superpowers in the region, particularly when it comes to technology, health, and so on. frank, we heard in the minister you did with the senior master from the uae, it feels israel is giving a lot in return. what is your reading of that claim? how much of the israelis given to find this common ground? very

and also, corey gardner of colorado, a republican in a difficult race. four years ago when he was running, he said wait until the next president is chosen to move on to supreme court nominee that after president obama at the time nominated merrick garland to fill the seat. now, corey gardner is not saying one way or the other. he's been asked back home over the weekend. he said this is the time the mourn the loss of ruth bader ginsburg. he's not saying what will happen in the process, takes two to three months with 44 days away from the election, we don't have the name of the nominee yet so the public has moved quickly. be much different than usual and put republicans in a tough spot, which is they there's expectations, but a lot of questions if democrats win the senate majority would be sworn in january and if joe biden were to win as well, wolf. >> this is going to be a huge, huge political value. manu, 44 days until the election as the white house and senate republicans vow to move forward and filling out the supreme court seat, is there anything that

frank gardner, bbc news.oronavirus guidelines, or face new restrictions. cases in the city are rising and the local council says the community has reached a "pivotal moment". here's our health correspondent, richard galpin. leeds micra, the latest in a growing list of cities across the country for infection rates have risen to the point where more action may need to be taken. it's expected the city will be added to public health england's watch list of areas of concern. and local officials are preparing for the possibility of imposing further measures. we'll be keeping a very close eye over the next couple of weeks. and what we would expect in the first place, if there is any change, is just restrictions of movement rather than, it's premature to talk about lockdowns at this stage, but clearly if it's felt there does need to be restrictions of movement, for example, then that is something of course that we will have to put into place. for those living here the prospect of more restrictions is bleak. it can't

thanks to colleagues like senator ernst, daines, gardner and sullivan we'll be voting on new support for small businesses like farms and fisheries. thanks to senator cornyn, we'll be voting on commonsense legal protections at universities and nonprofits have been asking for. who are the democrats excited to vote against? the farmers or the university presidents? thanks to chairman alexander and senator blunt we're going to vote on an incredibly robust package for education and health care to get kids back to school safely and then defeat this virus through science. we'll be voting on $105 billion for education, more than house democrats put in their bill. billions for testing and tracing. and even more support for vaccines. and thanks to a number of our colleagues, including senator ernst and loeffler, there's new support for child care, plus other arrangements like homeschooling, thanks to senator cruz. are democrats really going to refuse to fund k-12 schools and child care in a pandemic because they're afraid republicans might get some credit? really? they're going to vote against

. >> bill: and corey gardner, i think we also know is somebody who is wavering. the problem is, this is a difficult vote for some people who are in difficult races. it may actually help other candidates. it depends on the state, but a lot has to factor into that. >> bill: we'll go through it together as we move throughout the days and the weeks to come. it's some kind of riddle. andy, thank you for that. president trump meanwhile heads to ohio. i mentioned dayton, ohio. he says he's narrowed down his list of supreme court nominees to five. the nominee will be a woman and he plans to announce his pick on friday or saturday of this week. john roberts picks up the story from there from the north lawn today. john? >> bill, good afternoon to you. the president will be leaving the white house momentarily. it's possible that we might hear from him before he does. the president had these two campaign events in ohio planned before ruth bader ginsburg passed away but certainly they are going to take on a different tone now that the battle over the successor is in process.

some key republican senators overnight grassley, gardner, making clear they're behind this thing. >>ter: exactly. you know, yesterday when we talked we had a list of republicans we were watching very closely to see where they fell on this conversation about whether or not they'll be comfortable moving forward with president trump's nominee for the supreme court ahead of the election. now we know, the answer is yes. and i think that how quickly this has all materialized on capitol hill, how quickly republicans have fallen in line behind their leadership is very important. i wanted to take you to senator lindsey graham. he's the chairman of the judiciary committee. this is what he said about thinking right now on when to move this nomination. >> the nominee is going to be supported by every republican in the judiciary committee and we've got the votes to confirm the judge -- the justice on the floor of the senate before the election and that's what's coming. >> reporter: and of course, it's worth noting that senator susan collins and senator lisa murkowski of alaska said they're not co