you saw the chairwoman of that committee congresswoman blackburn, they are taking names.at sound familiar? republican back to xre hence -- because he thinks rape can't cause pregnancy and he's a judiciary subcommittee chair. marsha blackburn says women don't want equal play, and while he said people should have time to spend with their families, but personally but not to support it officially. and the congress alone, the house republicans have voted 12 times to attack women's health care. again and again republicans threaten to shut down the entire government just to defund planned parenthood and take life-saving preventative care and affordable contraception away from millions and millions of women. they are still on that, this committee taking names. they're on that. so it is -- it is again -- we can only show you some of the statements in this setting. we will show you more in other settings. in the meantime, i want you to yield to the distinguished democratic whip, mr. hoyer. >> thank you very much, leader. the republicans have created an environment of radical im, fe

none has done so as vocally as marsha blackburn. he believes this policy can attract women if they can hear him over the noise.>> does he need to do more to repair his relationship with women? and how women view him? >> it is fair to say he has room for improvement. when it comes to that he has said some things that i prefer he not say. >> i see tremendous suffering, i have a very big heart.>>> reporter: when kelly confronted him for a series of tweets, he stopped just short of apology. >> did i say that? >> many times. >> excuse me. >>> reporter: a one way he could address this was to name a woman as his partner on the ticket. congressman blackburn said she would not turn down that offer. she said right now she-- there is nothing she could say about that.>> that makes you go okay. >>> this is your source for campaign action. download the application and get the alerts, the candidate profiles and the latest polling all in one place, and it is free. >>> hundreds of people gathered to remember the road ask-- heroic acts. >> the univer

representative blackburn, you have been the peacemaker. you said good things about paul ryan and great things about donald trump. where do you find yourself standing right now? do you think this ultimately gets resolved? and what does ryan want? >> i think space and time will do a lot. what paul ryan's focus will be in my opinion is make certain we retain control of the house. we'll have to unite on an agenda. house conservatives have been working on an agenda. we look forward to working with the trump campaign and holding every seat that is in the house. that means we all have to be on the same page, educating the voters just as katrina was saying, taking the campaign directly to them just as mr. trump has done. it will be one of the most exciting fall campaigns we have had in recent memory. >> what are some of the consensus that conservatives will fight tooth and nail to make? i know there is give and take on both sides. >> we want to make certain we are on a pathway to reducing entitlement spending. making certain we stabilize medicare

blackburn. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate that and i know that the committee has worked hard to get a bill that is going to come into the numbers. unfortunately, i disagree with the 1070 number that's in the b.b.a. i like that budget control act number of 1040. a $30 billion difference. doesn't sound like a lot when you're talking about trillions of dollars but i'll tell you, to my constituents with $19 trillion, it does make a difference. the funding level of this bill is $37.444 billion. and i am offering an amendment which i offer every year to our spending bills to cut 1% across the board. millionld yield us $374 in budget authority savings and outlays a savings of $222 million. i know it doesn't sound a lot. but it is simply taking one penny out of every dollar that is appropriated. and that, quite frankly, is the type of scrimping an saving that our constituents and american families are having to do all across this country. in order to make their budgets work. and i am fully aware of the strong opposition

democrats say blackburn is abusing her subpoena power to, quote, intimidate scientific researches andoctors. under federal law it is illegal to sell fetal issue though donations are legal. blackburn said that's one of the reasons she's using subpoena power when the parties won't cooperate to determine why specimens for which tissue procurement companies may abortion companies in the range of $50 to $75 wind up listed for sale on the web for hundreds of thousands even tens of thousands of dollars. bret? >> we'll follow it, shannon, thank you. >>> stocks will mix today. the dow lost 86, the s&p 500 was down 2, the nasdaq gained 15. >>> donald trump goes ballistic today on the media as hillary clinton vows to fight in the media for equal time. we'll get reaction from the panel when we come back. test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test u're on the fourth floor. it makes life on the road much easier. book your next journey at holidayinn.com >>> when i raise money for the veterans, and it's a massive a

one of the lawmakers that attended that meeting is marsha blackburn of tennessee.. >> good to be with you. thank you. >> tell us how many members inside that meeting and what was donald trump's message? >> it was donald trump jr. there were probably 15 members who were there today for the meeting. it was a message of support for the second amendment, support for our fundamental freedoms and i appreciated that donald trump jr. actually used that term. looking at our bill of rights is something that's foundational and fundamental to our freedoms in this country. >> i'm sure you're aware that donald trump sr. is speaking with paul ryan, the speaker of the house. is there disappointment for you or others that paul ryan is yet to endorse the republican nominee? >> it's all a process. speaker ryan is doing great job. he's got a full plate working through the issues here in the house. we're still here tonight voting. i think you'll see that endorsement come. they are building a relationship. speaker ryan is focused on bringing forth a project that we'll unveil next month.

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joined by marsha blackburn of tennessee. thank you both. i guess you both have the same question. you both had districts that were carried by whom in the primaries? >> trump. carried my district. >> they are. i've said it was going to be an outsider year. i think that's good and healthy for the party and quiet frankly i'm energized by the new voters that are coming into the republican party this cycle. >> i notice the first line is he want to stop hillary. is that a deciding factor for most republicans middle of the road, left and right or right and far right? >> i think that's a consideration. none of us are supporting hillary clinton, obviously. for people like me and my other colleagues that are more center right, we do have concerns about the lack of policy specifics. these are the concerns a lot of us have. >> what's the best you can say about those? you don't really mean it when he said john mccain is not war hero. the plane crashed. >> i don't know. i haven't discussed any of that with mr. trump. when you look at the issues in front of this country, national security, jobs

joining me now, marsha blackburn. she's endorsed donald trump's campaign. thank you for joining us. good to see you again. >> yes. absolutely. >> regardless of the "new york times" story, according to polls, mr. trump does have a problem with women voters leading into november. how can he fix it? >> i think he fixes it by putting the focus on issues they want to talk about. national security, jobs and economic security, retirement security, getting rid of some of the regulation that is just crippling businesses and causes a lot of wage stagnation. that's how he fixes it and that's what people want to talk about. >> but do you think that this "times" story and others out there like it, plus other interviews he's done on the record with howard sterns, et cetera, is that going to hurt donald trump with women in places like philadelphia and ohio? >> i think what is so interesting about this, women know that they are going to be men that they have passed along the way in their career that have said things that they don't like. donald trump has said things i don't like. let me tell you th

blackburn: thank you, mr. chairman. the changes you worked hard to preserve in this negotiated bill are important and as the e.p.a.'s early stage efforts to tsca te chemicals under section 6 are also timely. e.p.a. has to account why new gulation for t.c.e. is necessary since its own existing regulatory framework already appropriately addressed risk to human health. new section will force the agency to do just that. i thank the chairman for his good work and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. pallone: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from vermont. mr. welch: the starting point for analysis is the current law. the current law is a mess. it's the wild west when it comes to regulating chemicals. 85,000 chemicals are on the market that have never been tested and bad things are going to happen. this law changes that. the e.p.a. is now going to have authority to regulate and review these substances as to their health and safety. number two, it req

joining us now marcia blackburn who represents the 7th district of tennessee.at to see you again. >> good to see you. >> a couple of major things have happened since we last spoke. you have a presumptive nominee and a divided party. we understand there were a number of divisions. some people wanting more push back. where do you come down? >> i have to tell you what i think you're going to see at the end of the day are republicans coming together and working with mr. trump pushing forward on an agenda the american people are giving us a message on that they want us to work on and that is keeping our community safe, looking at economic security in jobs growth. and then looking at retirement security and that is a huge issue with women who are the primary caregivers for elderly relatives. so i think you're going to look for common ground. you're going to see us come together and i think it's going to be one of the most exciting campaigns here in the fall that we have ever seen. >> donald trump has said that he has five or six people on his list and he's looking to

and john blackburn, the dean immediately recognized that. these men would change the university of alabama. men like ralph knowles, don siegelman, the former governor -- who was a governor of alabama. zach higgs. and he formed an alliance with them and showed them how to do this within the system. they formed an alliance with a very small cadre of student radicals, very small. i mean, they could have met in a seminar room and had plenty of chairs left over. but they were extremely intelligent and they wanted change. together, they began to send the student body in a new direction, in terms of the kinds of issues that they would bring before them. for instance, having a forum where you could discuss things like civil rights, coming down on the right side of civil rights issues. endorsing the establishment of an african american student association. those kinds of things. and then academic freedom was a , big issue, on campus, and also in the state. when george wallace and some in the montgomery legislature realized what was going on here, the

tennessee republican congresswoman marsha blackburn joins me. look, you were asked about this a couple of weeks ago. you said anybody would consider that offer. is it something, if donald trump or ben carson called you n said would you like to be on the list? would you like to go through the process, is that something you would do? >> steve, the individuals don't say no to public service. with that said, i would be a most unusual choice. and nobody knows. pundits make lists. people make lists. i think dr. carson and mr. trump know who is on their list and who they are going to have conversations with. the bigger point is what we have to do is come around our nominee and make certain that we defeat hillary clinton in november. and that donald trump becomes the next president of the united states. and that's the goal. >> so you are ready to rally around him. you are rallying around him. >> yes, i am. >> the leader of the republicans in the house, paul ryan, says he isn't yet. i want to play what katrina pearson said about that just a short while a

marsha blackburn says women don't want equal pay and speaker familiess leave for and unfunded mandate says people shouldn't have time to spend with their families but personally, he does not supported officially. republicans have voted 12 times to reject women's health care. they have threatened to shut down the entire government just to defund planned parenthood. they still are on that. this committee. taking names. they are still on that. so it is again, we can only show you some of the statements in this setting. we will show you more in other settings. in the meantime, i want you to yield to the distinguished democratic with this reporter. x thank you very much. created an have environment of radicalism, fear and inclusion -- and exclusion. the presumptive nominee is the result of their work. and what they have sowed, they are now reaping. tomorrow, donald trump will be welcome to capitol hill. legislationsupports to allow businesses to refuse services to lgbt people and their families. segregation, revisited. but this is nothing new. been supporting policies that expressly discri

. >> reporter: 25-year-old chelsea blackburn of pittsburgh, who was on heroin when she got pregnant but is now clean, says the search for a high can quickly reach a dead end. >> i started on opioids like pain pills, and by 19 i was like a full-blown heroin addict. >> reporter: overdose deaths are highest in west virginia, new mexico, new hampshire, kentucky and ohio, where, in 2013, there were 84 fentanyl and heroin-related deaths, but a year later there were 503. last month surveillance camera captured a drug user collapsing at a cleveland-area restaurant, falling into consciousness and then being revived by an antidote called narcan. now in ohio's 15 most hard-hit county, relatives of drug users are being urged to get narcan to save lives. it can be obtained without a prescription. dr. mary diorio of the state department of health. >> we have more unintentional drug overdoses in ohio than accidental deaths due to motor vehicle accidents, and so it's a significant problem, and we want to do what we can to save lives. this is one way we can do it. >> reporter: the obama administration h

joseph mingle, a comparison at goodbye chair blackburn in your opening statement. another republican witness testified that women who have abortions are quote morally disqualified, unquote from choosing to donate tissue for research purposes. for today's hearing republicans have again invited witnesses who believe that abortion should be illegal, that women should not be permitted or trusted to decide whether to carry a pregnancy to term. some continue to declare that planned parenthood is selling fetal tissue as you just heard for profit, despite the fact that three house committees, 12 states, a texas grand jury have already cleared the organization of wrongdoing. these witnesses endorse and rely upon the video allegations of antiabortion extremists, mr. daleiden and his associates to support the inflammatory claims. anyone who's been following the facts knows the truth. mr. daleiden the videos are not accurate or reliable and they do not show the unlawful sale of fetal tissue and we will argue today that the so-called exhibits did not make that case either. a gr

. >> reporter: judge blackburn was thrilled to welcome her back. >> i was so proud of you then, but i really excited to hear what you've been doing since then. >> reporter: she said the judge's advice about finishing school made a difference in her life. >> growing up in the system, being bullied or moving from place to place, it almost got in the way of school, but i always kept in mind that i can do this and i'm going to gradu >> reporter: she watched as the judge put on her black robe and headed to her courtroom. and it reminded us of a similar scene years ago. >> and a few years later that is going to be you walking through the door in a robe. >> you bet. >> reporter: and something tells us that's going to happen. barbara harrison, news 4 for wednesday's child. >> pretty awesome. if you have room in your home and your heart for another child who is waiting, call our special adoption hotline or search wednesday's child on nbcwashington.com. >>> feels like deja vu. we're off to a rainy and cool start start. >> and we continue to follow the breaking news of the morning, a csx train d

. >> and marshall blackburn, she is a conservative female from tennessee, who would be a great re --i don't believe it will be a blow-out. i think you put nonresilient nonnimble hillary clinton against wow factor donald trump, we don't know what it will produce. >> a big switch for donald trump, doing it publicly now. he is getting someone to run his fundraising, formerly with goldman-sacks. the claim to self financing will disappear. this has been a central pillar of trump integrity. what do it clinton war room do with that? they see that move, financing the campaign with wall street money just like everybody else. >> i mean, what clinton campaign will be doing and thinking about today is you know, trying to continue to drive a wedge between main stream republicans like paul ryan and others, who are deeply conflicted about donald trump's candidacy, and the take over of the business man from wall street and the republican party. they'll cement will incident that you see. there -- donald trump was in west virginia, a state he shouldn't have to visit in order to carry. he is running ba

blackburn, for five minutes. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. speaker. you know, opioid addiction has proven to destroy hope, it destroys opportunity and it is destroying families. certainly we see this across the country, but we are also seeing these devastating effects of addiction in tennessee. tennessee has the second highest rating nationally for opioid addiction. as many states are exceedingly aware, drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in this country, and as we started working on this issue at energy and commerce, so many people did not realize that. prescription drug abuse,ed leading cause of accidental -- the leading cause of accidental deaths in the country. 18,000 fatalities last year. it does not care about race, gender, politics. it is an issue that affects all of us and it affects the people that we are here to serve, and many of us, families and those that we love in our communities, together we're working to find solutions that will combat this epidemic and help remedy those who are suffering from addiction the most. ju

on april 20, 2016, chairman marshall blackburn held a hearing on the -- marsha blackburn held a hearing on the pricing of fetal tissue and found broad consensus among federal witnesses that federal law may have been violated when abortion clinics profited from the sale of baby body parts. this grave circumstance has caused considerable concern because one of the underpinnings, so-called safeguards, of the statute that allowed for the donation of fetal tissue for transplantation research was that this tissue would not be sold. the author of the statute, former congressman henry waxman, stated during floor debate, 1993, quote, this amendment would enact the most important safe guards to prevent any sale of fetal tissue for any purpose not just the purpose of research. it would be abhorrent, he said, to allow for a sale of fetal tissue and a market to be created for that sale, end quote. and yet this is what is happening today. seen on exhibit b-2 the procurement physical, the name redacted, markets itself in its brochure as a way for clinics to make additional income by allowing procureme

party and donald trump we're joined by three republican members of congress, representative marcia blackburn is in nashville, this morning. peter king is on long island and first house member to support donald trump representative chris collins. other that he's not hillary clinton that specifically about donald trump that republicans should unify around? >> firstful all he's a chief executor. not career politics. we need someone coming out of the private sector, certainly someone who has been a chief executive. we've seen what happened with legislator, barack obama, l imperial presidency the last seven and half years. the reason i through my weight behind donald trump 11 weeks ago when i was was ted cruz, marco rubio he was the only chief executive. that is very important attribute with everything this nation is facing. that's what drove me there with his issues on trade, we've been in the trade war for 20 years it's going to continue other countries will try to continue to steal our jobs. we've got to have a president who is going to stand up, bring those jobs back, let's started talking ab

marsha blackburn, a player in the house republican conference. a congresswoman from tennessee. but i would say that neither of those, with all due respect to their career achievements, have really risen to sort of the serious frontier main republican bench that somebody, who if donald trump is serious about saying the very first thing i need is somebody who can help me govern. somebody who can -- who is prepared for the presidency. i don't think either of those women really has the kind of resume that puts them in that position just yet. >> now, 1972 comes to mind. trump could find himself in the position of george mcgovern in 1972. i mean, for the life of him, he could not get anybody to be his running mate for what looked like a lost cause in that election. he lobbied hard to get ted kennedy who said no. then he asked hubert humphrey. he asked walter mondale. they all said no way. finally, tom eagleton, the missouri senator said yes, but then he had to quit days later when it was revealed he suffered depression and electric shock treatment. after that, a whole bunch of others

blackburn, for five minutes. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. speaker. this morning i wanted to discuss the issue of security with my colleagues. economic security, retirement security and national security. three issues that probably right now in my conversations with constituents this is what we hear the most about. let's look at the picture of economic security or lack thereof that exists in our country and in our communities. what i hear from my constituents is this. the 5% unemployment rate is indeed misleading. because over 90 million americans have dropped out of the work force. they're losing hope. unemployed. the obama malaise, as i have constituents who like to term it, has a work force participation rate of 62.8%. now, i would like to think about that. eligible adults ready for the work force, 62.8% have a job and are able to work. that is the worst level since the carter administration. and our g.d.p. is declining. our economy grew at only half of a percent. half of a percent in the first quarter of 2016 and that is lower than a 1.4% expansio

the latest batch of antiabortion accusers as you've asked of us, chair blackburn. you haven't asked for that, haven't asked for them to go under oath and that seemed strange to me, particularly when they come up with such a similar tale about the so-called sale of fetal tissue which again is alive. this suggest to me that someone is afraid to put mr. daleiden under oath because as we saw with the dean alberti fiasco when penalties of perjury attached, sometimes instead of fiction the actual truth comes out. we know they doctored videos to the point that the federal judge blocked the release of for the tapes because they were fraudulent. another fact we do about it comes from the "los angeles times" its examination of the unedited videos. they showed him coaching and manipulating the testimony of holly o'donnell this video interview by the way looks more like play acting to any genuine emotion. without cross-examination of him and his crew under oath we have no way of knowing what he offered or secure ms. o'donnell with his camera was not running. and in texas when

congressman marsha blackburn has been putting on this special bipartisan event for the last 14 years, women and men come out to celebrate all kinds of women making a difference in their community. so thank you, nashville, for welcoming me. lovely town. >>> folks in indiana at the polls right now. we asked you earlier, do you think indiana will be the state to decide the republican nominee? we have a ton of answers. yeah, look at that vote. live vote total on twitter. here's what some of our viewers had to say as well. jenna says yes, weeks, if not months. the people vote trump. 84% right now is going to do it. watch tonight. i'm gretchen. here's shep. >> it's 3:00 on the east coast, noon on the west coast, and decision time in indiana. >> if we win in indiana, it's over with, folks. it's over with. and then we focus on hillary clinton. >> we are neck and neck. this race is tied in indiana. >> how are you, sir? >> the cruz ticket pressing the flesh, pushing voters to the polls. >> it is my prayer that hoosiers will come out and vote today in record numbers. >> but hoosiers haven't all

early contenders with who could run with trump, susana martinez, tennessee congress come marsha blackburn and nikki haley. she was vocal in slamming trump from day one and saying nope, not going to do it, not going to be the running mate, although she will support him for the nominee. in your report you say susana martinez is the yin to donald trump's yang. and this is despite governor martinez's support for marco rubio and denouncing his anti-imnant commeanti-i anti-immigrant comments. so it's interesting, why are you even entertaining that and going so far as calling her a shero? >> right. so a couple weeks ago, bill o'reilly said that susana martinez would be the only pick for donald trump to have because she would be so effective in helping him in the general election. the big caveat is would she accept? you know, suspending that and saying let's say that he does a really good job of convincing her and wooing ining her, and acce accepts, she would do so much to help him not with the latino vote because the latino ship has sailed. they're not going to support donald trump. >> even in n

press who is the national syndicated radio host and bernie sanders supporter, congressman marcia blackburnof tennessee, s.e. cupp cnn plator, and congressman bacerra, firmly in the hillary clinton chair. congressman, what gives? why did cuomo get the scoop? i asked the exact same -- it was literally word for word the exact same question. >> maybe you should shave a little different next time. >> maybe. why the change in strategy, why one week it's up to the voters and next week no, he's not qualified. >> donald trump says enough in three weeks to help you clarify in your mind where he stands and wait another three weeks and he'll make you change your mind again because he changes his mind. it's become very clear this is not a right guy to make the right decisions as commander in chief, not someone we can trust on jax taxes. he's not willing to reveal his own tax returns. we're not sure if he's for or against guns in classrooms. the guy can cause you to say one day he's one thing, the problem he's another. the problem is you need to know where your president stands >> s.e., i wonder if this

the party is going and the fact he has become the presumptive nominee and point out what marsha blackburn made on capitol hill this last week she believes women, her constituents look at donald trump and say, yes, he's made a couple of comments and we don't love it but in her view, women want the same kinds of things everyone else does, economic opportunities, national security issues and safe borders and those are the issues donald trump can speak to them on. >> there is a separate report autobiothe new york times suggesting the trump campaign is already formulating an attack plan on hillary clinton. what more do we know about the strategy and game plan? >> reporter: it's interesting. the trump campaign is not known for telegraphing their strategies or attack plans on any opponents. they haven't done so. to hear trump talk about how he will go after hillary clinton is something new, something his aides were talking to me about last week, the ultimate goal is to make voters question her f fitness, question her character, question her judgment, who she is as a person, not who she is as a p

>> but you've not seen republican leadership in the form of women other than maybe like a marsha blackburn, who have really come out and defended him. on the flip side, very few republican women like yourself have come on national programs and said this is not the candidate i'm willing to support. >> that's basically the problem is that women aren't -- republican women are not fully behind donald trump. for him to win, they have to be. they have to figure out -- he has to start figuring a way to round the corners and talk to republican women as well as independent women and find a way to earn their vote. i think a lot of them believe that right now they may not support him, but if they could be courted a little bit more, that can change. >> but you're a strategist, how do you design that courtship? >> one of the things that you do is you do exactly what he's doing with hillary clinton. he has to keep hammering her, keep her unfavorables very high, so hopefully from his point of view there's a low turnout among women because that's what he wants to see is very low turnout among women. >> so

from capitol hill and this part of the rotunda is quieter today but i was able to talk to marsha blackburn the more prominent woman on the republican side in congress. she had an interesting way of describing this getting to know you session between ryan and trump and priebus who really don't know each other all that well. >> do you think the meeting is more about policy or personalities today? >> i think it's a little bit of both. it is a getting to know you type meeting. maybe kind of like speed dating, if you will. so there's a little bit of that in there but also paul is all about policy. and i think -- >> reporter: he's known for that. >> he's known for that. it's in his dna. i think mr. trump knows he needs some insight into how the policy world works. >> i also have new reporting from senator orrin hatch, the most senior republican in the senate. he will meet with donald trump later today and first endorsed jeb bush then marco rubio. he is saying whatever he can to make sure trump has a successful campaign but wants trump to understand there are citizens in the home state of utah wh

. >> we have new information, congressman blackburn, thank you so much. let's go to kelly o'donnell on capitol hill. and i guess we have new information on what we could hear from speaker ryan. >> reporter: one of the things i'm hearing from sources who have direct contact in the room is that one of the big issues that was talked about during the session that has already concluded is something that republicans like to call top line principles. that means when you think of the republican party, what are the issues and values and policies that stand out most. that typically deals with things like taxes and foreign policy, views on abortion rights. and what that also suggests is that the meeting really had to do with more of identifying those areas of common ground that trump can run on as well as congressional republicans. because there is always a relationship between the top of the ticket and what they call down ballot races. in most years, there's a happier marriage than what we've seen so far. so talking about top line principles, again, that's a term o

i talked earlier today with tennessee congresswoman marcia blackburn, a republican, who knows both mencome together. she said to me perhaps opposites can attract. >> i think it's a little bit of both. it is a getting to know you kind of meeting and maybe speed dating, full. there's a little bit of that in there, but also paul is all about policy, and i think mr. trump -- >> he's known for that. >> he's known for that, and it's in his down, a and i think mr. trump knows he needs some insight into how the policy world works and how we have to follow the rules of the house in the senate and the rules -- the rule of law in order to have policy that is going to be lasting and is going to change. >> so part of what we're hearing from republicans is that this meeting opens the conversation to talking about how would you achieve some of the things that trump is talking about, like any candidate. there is the rhetoric. campaign season. there is the down-to-earth serious business of governing or sometimes not governing, depending on how things go. so policy matters to people who have made their

marsha blackburne as well. neil: laugh people say a woman should be on that ticket. >> look, i think it should be the best possible fit for donald trump. i mean these things come down to chemistry. neil: yeah. >> who can you work with well? who's going to help exact your agenda when you get into town? . neil: fair enough. >> and making washington work might not be the answer. it might be wrecking washington outright, and it could be the right fit there. neil: all right. thank you, my friend. always good -- i always learn something. again, run away from that christie prediction now because i'm on that page. pete, thank you very much. pete schneider. all right. i've been bemoaning this coverage story in time magazine. that's based out of bookmakers and takers. i've written, i've seen her pieces, i've seen her on television. very sophisticated woman. but i'm notifying in this makes meant to claw to get my hands on the book, which i will. but the markets are the ones choking the economy. what's going on here is choking the economy. is anyone choking the markets by any ch

. >> 25-year-old chelsea blackburn, of pittsburgh, on heroin when pregnant is now clean.a high can quickly reach a dead end. i started on opioids, like pain pills, and by 19 aye was a full blown heroin addict. >> overdose deaths are highest in west virginia, new mexico, new hampshire, kentucky and ohio. where in 2013 there were 84 fentanyl and heroin related deaths. but a year later there were 503. last month a surveillance camera captured a drug user collapsing at a cleveland area restaurant. falling into unconsciousness and then being revived by an antidote called narcan. now in ohio's 15 most hard hit counties relatives of drug users are being urged to get narcan to save lives. it can be obtained without a prescription. dr. mary diorio of the state department of health. >> we have more unintentional drug overdoses in ohio. it is a significant problem. we want to do what we can to save lives. this is one way to do it. >> the obama administration pro posed a billion dollar plan to fight the opioid and heroin epidemic, scott. congress has the yet to appropriate the money.

marcia blackburn or governor susana martinez who comes from a swing state.e swing 8 factor to how can he broaden his base with women voter in particular. >> you have got to have somebody who is willing to play. you look at ohio, you can't get case up and senator portman says he doesn't want to play. you look down the road at rubio and bush and i don't see them wanting to play. susana martinez and nikki haley. are they willing to hitch their wagon to donald trump at a moment when the party i so fractured? they have to think about their own political future. are they going to be damaged good when associated with donald trump when people start to think got future of the republican party? martha: in many ways it will be a calculation and whether they think he can win. if you atap yourself to this candidate, you will attach yourself to this candidate. you will have your name out there. what's going on? i have won more vote than any other republican nominee in the primary process. he's tweeting stuff about i can't inherit this, i earned it. a lot of folk-look at t

. >> with me now, republican congresswoman, marsha blackburn, also a possible vp pick. welcome. >> good morning. >> good morning. as you look at the scene, outside the rnc headquarters, what goes through your mind? >> well, it's quite a scene. i find it so curious that everybody is out there and protesters are out there, because there is going to be a meeting between the speaker of the house and our nominee for president. and i think one of the things is it shows the heightened interest in the campaign. it also shows there are people who are very pro and very anti. so you know, little taste of what's to come in the fall, don't you think? >> yeah, just a little taste of what's to come. let me ask you about donald trump's policies, because some republicans are confused by exactly where he stands on issues. mr. frtrump would say you know what, i'm flexible. if he were a normal run of the mill politician, many people would call him a flip flopper. isn't that the same as flip flopping? >> carol, what we're looking at is what the voters are saying. and so many times it is not

when doctor jerry -- when democrat -- when democrat jerry nadler asked chair blackburn to explain why she needs to amass this database of names, she responded, no, sir. i am not going to do that. number six, the select panel threatens innocent lives. republicans are putting researchers and doctors at risk by publicly naming them as targets of their investigation and creating a database of names. on may 11, republicans issued a press release publicly naming a physician who had already been the target and the subject of violence by anti-abortion extremists. that physician was never contacted to voluntarily provide information before he received a subpoena. number seven, the select panel is dangerous. republicans are refusing to protect confidentiality despite known risks and tragedies, such as the murder of three people at the colorado springs planned parenthood women's health clinic. that murderer echoed the words of our republican chairman of the select committee saying, the killer used words like, no more baby body parts. and even after they promised to protect confidentiality, then

i had dinner with marsha blackburn, very conservative congressman from tennessee who has 100% ratingshe would be a great pick. there are a lot of great options but i will tell you this, he has got to signal to conservatives that he is going to govern as a conservative. i believe he is going to and his pick for vice president is crucial. because he is outsider and doesn't have a voting record it is crucial he explained to the voters the types of people he will surround himself with so it is not just the vice president. who will be we he put in his candidate? who are the candidates on the court? who will he pick for important jobs like chief of staff? because we have never seen him operating government it is critical for him to put these names out there and for those names to send a signal to conservatives that he will governor the conservatives. dagen: not just people on tv, people say that to me all the time privately who have never been involved in politics, that is the one thing they want to see. great to see you, take care. covered a lot of ground. more outrage surrounding george

. >> there's also the what if he loses quotient to this because it was hard to watch marsha blackburnt some of his really lewd and lascivious comments on women. she seemed visibly really uncomfortable with herself and what she was doing. and that's not the first time we've seen that. this is going to be a very fine line. >> peter king talked about how he's like the guy at the end of the bar. and that's the guy that's endorsing. >> it's not -- >> how is a party going to square this? how are the republicans, the conservatives in the house going to square this? >> there's going to be a -- this relationship between the conservatives in the house and between donald trump and the congress is going to be -- that whole race will be stress test along the way. as you know, the speaker is 180 degrees out of face with donald trump, not only on issues but in his -- >> temperament. >> his vision of the party. >> which he acknowledges. >> more minorities, more african-americans, more hispanics and donald trump, while turning out a lot more white voters, he seems to be gratuitously offending so many

. >> with me now, republican congresswoman, marsha blackburn, also a possible vp pick. welcome. >> good morning. >> good morning. as you look at the scene, outside the rnc headquarters, what goes through your mind? >> well, it's quite a scene. i find it so curious that everybody is out there and protesters are out there, because there is going to be a meeting between the speaker of the house and our nominee for president. and i think one of the things is it shows the heightened interest in the campaign. it also shows there are people who are very pro and very anti. so you know, little taste of what's to come in the fall, don't you think?