that was tactically one of the stupidest things chuck schumer could have possibly done. this is getting very much in the weeds. in december of 2017 the republicans were looking at a nightmare of a december. and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi walked in and said we'll take a couple things off the plate. and i think that was -- that was probably ultimately, again, chuck schumer having some type of problem with politics rather than ideological. >> i would like to answer that question. how do you talk about socialism in addressing that issue. i think we as a party have evolved dramatically. we have to deal with ben nelson and joe lieberman and all those -- next year with the 2020 presidential race you'll see the entire field, 20 people running, price of admission will be considered a candidate, it will be medicare for all. >> expansion of social security. on successes. we're moving in a direction. now, socialism is such a buzzy ord. but i think she's doing a good job of defining what it means to be a democratic socialist. i think the democratic field will have to adopt that.

sure that the, there's to think to separate here with chuck schumer. one is the argument, he doesn't do politics very well be some will be seen in terms of the past 30 republican judges who just skated through, chuck grassley pulled a fast one on him, versus the question, like easy for someone who is running in the state, a blue state, sufficiently to the left to pull that over to the wind or the center of the democratic party to the left? marcos, what is your take? >> reliably blue state. davis andrew cuomo again. the problems in organizing and building that support for those primary challengers, and of the primaries. that's were fight these battles. once joe manchin is the nomination with our -- we have to run with a guy. let's fight that in the primaries. >> can i just jump in? >> please. >> there are so many other factors that come into play that we're discounting why we're we g this conversation. for instance, you have to keep in mind one of the most important, what are the most important factors in being a competitor in politics is name recognitio

she is literally missouri's chuck schumer. if you want chuck schumer, vote for claire mccaskill.r you can vote for josh hawley, who iss continuing to in momentum. as for matt rosendale, montana has now state in play. by the way, he is giving democratic incumbent jon tester the fight of his life. that is a dumb equitable race hafor republicans. why? breaking news in that race tonight. the libertarian candidate has dropped out and endorsed rosendale, tester's opponent. giving a big boost to the g.o.p. montana, you now have a chance to pull off a major political upset because this race is dead even. by the way, indiana, you y may want to follow suit.do don't vote for the libertarian. that only helps the incumbent, chuck schumer democrat by the name of joe donnelly in indiana. inel sixth days you will definitely see one of three results. first is a best case scenario. let's start with the good news. republicans pickh up seats in the senate. they hold onto a small majority in the house. second scenario would be a a split decision. g.o.p. holds onto power in the senate, picks up some s

>> chuck schumer says he finds the timing of this suspect. he says any attorney general should not be able to interfere with the robert mueller russian probe in any way. schumer was talking about the election shakeout and was asked about this breaking news, was handed to him. here's his reaction from moments ago. >> protecting mueller and his investigation is paramount. it would create a constitutional crisis if this were a prelude to ending or greatly limiting the mueller investigation. i hope president trump and those he listens to will refrain from that. >> shepard: jeff sessions on capitol hill was a united states senator representing alabama for 20 years. a close colleague with a lot:0 these lawmakers. john cornyn said moments ago, attorney general sessions has selflessly dedicated more than 40 years to serving the people of alabama and the nation as our country's top law enforcement official, he's been integral in fighting the opioid epidemic, and supporting victims. those that know him, his commitment to the rule of law and deep and ab

here's a statement from chuck schumer.aid if they were to get rid of bob mueller here, it would create a constitutional crisis and especially in the departure of jeff sessions were a prelude to ending the mueller problem. richard blumenthal from the judiciary committee, he called this, neil, a break-the-glass moment. >> neil: thanks, buddy very much. let's go to the outgoing house judiciary member, congressman darrell issa. we talked about jerry nadler stepping in soon. already, they're raising the red flags. are you? >> the challenge is that legitimate oversight is the obligation of congress. unfortunately incoming chairman jerry nadler has a long-standing grudge with the president. he's made it clear impeachment is a goal. that makes his investigation suspect. there's no question at all as a long-time investigator, congress has a role and this administration has and needs to even more provide cooperation with legitimate inquiries for the interest of congress in its oversight role. i'm hopeful the administration will do i

they goes back to the original question chuck schumer. once we have power, then we have the ability to set an agenda and then we can put pressure on the caucus to govern. >> i just, like it was a time not too long ago when democrats did have power. they had power in congress. they had power in the executive branch, and we got pretty much nothing -- >> that's the point. >> the aca. >> timeout, time and. >> hold on, hold on. let me finish for a second. what makes me the most jealous of the republican party is how they fight. they fight so aggressively they would get anything done. they will take someone some like have confirmed to the supreme court and would not talk about canada anymore. it's not in headlines. no one is talking about it. when obama got elected pretty much every in the country, people who now voted for trump on his side, right? people want to change and we kept getting 5% change that we kept getting incremental change. people are fed up with that. the formal correct, republicans have already dismantled it. they took amended

. >>> but if chuck schumer, crying chuck, and nancy pelosi -- and the legendary maxine waters take power, they will try to erase our gains and eradicate our progress. that's what's going to happen. they're going to work hard and we will be fighting. oh, it will be -- it will be ridiculous, frankly. it will be bad for our country. the democrats, and it could happen. we're doing very well, and we're doing really well in the senate. but could happen. and, you know what you do? my whole life. you know what i say? don't worry about it, i'll just figure it out. does that make sense? i'll just figure it out.

host: senate minority leader chuck schumer addressing the breaking news that jeff sessions has resigned as attorney general, the new tweet coming "we are pleased to announce that matthew what are, chief attorney general jeff sessions at the department , will become our new attorney general of the united states." let me click back and get back to what the president had to say here. monitorin hold on. wishes jefft's iv sessions well, but jeff sessions has resigned as attorney general. a letter to the president from the outgoing attorney general's "dear mr. president, at your submitting my resignation. i came to work at the department justice everyday determined to do my duty and serve my country. i have done so to the best of my ability, working to protect the principles of justice that are the foundation of justice." you for thenk opportunity, mr. president." we have breaking news the day after the. 2018 midterm elections. we have coverage continuing throughout the afternoon and evening getting your reactions. let's update you on the balance the senate. republicans regaining control with

and chuck schumer, democratic leader in the senate. we'll reair the president's news conference tonight, 8:00 eastern. more of your phone calls after that. next up, nancy pelosi. ms. pelosi: good afternoon, everyone. good afternoon it is, and great day for the american people. the biggest winner in yesterday was the health care for american

we are waiting for chuck schumer of new york. he is expected to hold a news conference after last night's results. and his party will stay in the minority in that chamber. their counterparts on the house side will be in the majority. as soon as he comes to the podium, we will bring you there. we will try to, if we can, get in another phone call or two while we wait for senator schumer. let's go to lisa in st. petersburg florida. hello. myler: thank you for taking call. i was going to mention that the call has not been -- it has not been called in florida like you just mentioned. a recount.ing so, even though scott claimed victory, that is not the case and they are doing a recount. florida, you know, was such a 50-50 split race. you can see the divide. about florida, desantis has his work cut out for him immediately on the horrible environment and what is going on right now. as the house being taken over by the democrats, we need a president.on the even though he started out acting presidential today in his news conference, he qui

he's chuck schumer but he lives in montana. in ohio, senator sherrod brown. he votes with sumer a whopping 98% of the time. in florida, bill "do nothing" nelson, ables was schumer 88% of the time. heidi heitkamp, 77% of the time. joe manchin, 64% of the time. every county in west virginia voted for trump. he says he votes with sumer by a whopping rate of 74% especially on the big issues. donnelly now in the last week of the campaign is trying to appear to be something he's not, just like we saw in tennessee, missouri, arizona, and he's trying to pretend he is a moderate. as you can see, that's a bald-faced lie. he's actually running a stealth campaign. look at this. in indiana, running ads in support of the third-party libertarian. that candidate is siphoning away votes from michael braun. they are splitting the ticket and doing it on purpose. joe donnelly could not win a one-on-one battle with michael braun. this is dirty, despicable politics, yet predictable at its worst. i brand-new undercover project veritas video, joe donnelly's wife and campaign staff al

a few years ago and it didn't work well for chuck up schumer during the schumer shutdown.an opportunity for an agreement to be reached here and it's all about border security and $5 billion is the number. >> neil: where would you get the $5 billion, then, to offset the deficit getting even deeper? >> we're negotiating that right now. and again, the negotiations are ongoing. both sides are going to have to figure this out. but president trump has been very clear how this is going to end. it's going to end with $5 billion being put in place. not taking money away from ice or other agencies that are vital to homeland security. but new money to ensure that we have border security including the wall so we can keep america safe. >> neil: but you don't think there will be a government shutdown? >> well, whether or not there is one, you know, we've made sure that our troops are going to be funded. about 70% of all of government has already been funded for the entire fiscal year properly through the normal appropriations process so now we're talking about primarily the homeland sec

senate majority elected chuck schumer.n the house, there is literally about 36 toss ups that will decide whether or not nancy pelosi getss that gavel back. these are incredibly close, important reasons. look at them on your screen. we also have on hannity.com, literally states like california, minnesota, new york, new jersey, virginia, everywhere in between, all 435 seats matte matter. historically, a sitting president almost always sees losses in the house. look at this number. in 2010, the first midterm of barack hussein obama, democrats lost 63 seats. oh, he was elected two years later. 1994, bill clinton, democrats lost 54 seats, and for the first time in 40 years, leading the way by newt gingrich, republicans took back the house of representatives. both of them, obama and clinton, two years after those disasters midterms, went on to win reelection, two years later. over in the senate, we are watching a handful of very close races that will determine whether or not chuck schumer becomes the majority leader. right now,

they had an agreement with chuck schumer on how to do that, and then chuck schumer walked away.ant to come back to the table -- >> melissa: same deal? >> steve: i'm sure something similar to that would be a possibility. again, they've got to be willing to come to the table and secure the border and funding the law has to be a big piece of that. >> dagen: adrienne was shaking her head. i don't know if you knew she was doing that. the >> adrienne: [laughs] i wanted to gently push back on something you said. chuck schumer and nancy pelosi both made it clear they would compromise some way on border security if there was a path to citizenship for dreamers. president trump -- we saw it all on national television, they were sitting in the white house. it was nationally televised, having this conversation that the president changed his mind and went back on what he would be willing to compromise on. >> steve: the only change his mind after chuck schumer walked away from the wall funding. >> adrienne: because the macaques are not going to allow a full wall to be built. >> steve: what you

that's the agenda of chuck schumer.ou vote for any senate democrat and you are voting for chuck schumer. everything tonight is up for grabs and the good news is you have the power. tonight we are working on three different scenarios, just so you know. scenario number one, republicans claimed the majority in the house. and guess what, that's a huge win. option number two is a split decision. that would be republicans losing the house and gaining seats in the senate. worst-case scenario, we will let the fake news guys talk about what would be republicans losing the house and senate. that would mean wednesday morning you would hear speaker elect pelosi. that's literally 36 toss ups that would decide whether or not nancy pelosi gets that gavel back. these are incredibly close important races, look at them on our screen. we also have them on hannity hannity.comm. new jersey, new york, virginia, everywhere in between. the sitting president almost always sees losses in the house. in 2010, the first midterm of barack hussein ob

. >> the "new york times" reporting that your leader in the senate, chuck schumer ran interference ase investigated the social media giant during the presidential election. the times reports that schumer was encouraging other senate democrats not to vilify facebook. were you encouraged to go easy on facebook? >> not at all. what these new revelations point out is that we, the congress, should think about regulations of some sort. it's disturbing to know that facebook had information ahead of time. >> what about this report that chuck schumer instructed some democrats including senator warner who is the top democrat on intel to take it easy. is that appropriate? >> i don't know if he did take it easy, but chuck schumer certainly didn't say anything to me about facebook. what i'm focused ongoing forward is what we can do to get to the bottom of what was happening in having someone to go against the facebook critics. that could be a potential campaign spending violation and something that amy klobuchar mentioned as she was reviewing the regulations, if any, we should place on entities li

if you vote for any in the the democrat, you are basically voting for chuck schumer.s is the reality. we are you all the stats to back it up. it looks unusually close this midterm election and it looks like turn out is going to be key. as per usual, democrats have been using the politics of fear and division to motivate their base. you've seen it with your own eyes, for months, vilifying trump, his supporters, and even the man that he appointed to the u.s. supreme court. no lie too egregious, no exaggeration too bold and no smear too absurd. democrats are willing to do and sayr anything because they want power and we have been showing you the tapes to prove it every night. tonight the president is out pounding on the campaign trail, fighting like never before. unlike democrats, he actually has a track record and a positive message to share. with great news today, the economy is booming like never before. we will show you today's numbers and have more analysisom from al the critical election races all across america. bill hemmer will join us from the "hannity" big boar

it sinting that chuck schumer was elected back to this position. no opposition.party does have a problem at large about new leadership. the republicans in the house are very smart. they have term limits for committee chairmanship. young leaders get to show they're in charge and get into positions of powers but i will say every republican this cycle ran an ad saying if my opponent wins nancy pelosi will be speaker and you know what? almost 40 of those republicans lost. so i do think she is unpopular but i also think we shouldn't overplay that. democrats took the house by a ton of seats and every one of those races nancy pelosi was a factor and a lot of them went for the democrats. >> jon: are you as eager to see chuck schumer retain his leadership in the senate as pelosi in the house? >> what i would note, though, is that krysten sinema. we were making case at the republican party to voters saying this will be someone is a chuck schumer lap dog. don't listen on the campaign trail. she has been in washington one day and is embracing chuck schumer. >> sandra: throw

i think chuck schumer and nancy pelosi know that.is is not going to become law. >> does is hurt the president in 2020 if he does not get anywhere with the wall? >> like i said, i think is actually in a good situation. i think these images on the southern border, the soul caravan fiasco, someone that favors the cause of expanded legal immigration, i would say this has not been helpful. in the presidents argument is strengthened when we see these images. and as we discussed he has some cards to play her if he wants to demand the full 5 billion. >> reports that the mexican government sent a letter to the department about the use of teargas. thank you very much, good to see you. >> thank you. >> have an important announcement to make. this particular program, cheryl was kind enough to join us, we demand you all wake up early tomorrow and you watch fbn am. it begins with cheryl -- >> and lauren simonetti. >> i'm sorry you know she is watching. it is 5:00 a.m. tomorrow. thank you for joining us. >> great to see you! a lot of news that neve

sat down i believe over hamburgers with donald trump if i'm not mistaken and they sat down and chuck schumer essentially said look we'll give you funding for the border wall will increase military but you've got to let the dreamers stay or we have to come up with something that gives children who are brought here as kids when they don't have a choice in the matter about breaking a law a path to citizenship is this is an example of sort of trump's way of making deals where he says the worst of times. often create the best of opportunities is that what's going on here if he makes it worse then you can get a really good deal yeah i think he did that with think he's doing that with china and i think he might be doing it here hopefully i'll get a deal but the democrats really haven't shown any interest there is no deal and so whatever chuck schumer was talking about then and i do recall it but there's been no deal because of that and by the way it was president obama if you recall went around saying i'm not i mean literally i'm not i can't make this happen i can't sign an executive order for this

here's democrat minority leader chuck schumer. >> president trump and rick scott are so afraid of every boat being counted because they think scott will lose if that happens, that they are interfering. they alleged massive fraud, his own republican officials in florida said there is no fraud. >> harris: listen to the pushback from the president of the united states, the florida election should be called in favor of rick scott and ron desantis and the large numbers of new ballots showed up out of the nowhere in many ballots are missing. an honest vote count is no longer possible, ballots massively infected, must go with election night. chris jenkins has been looking into it all from the broward county board of elections in lauderhill florida, what's the latest? >> harris, they are still trying to start the recount but they haven't yet done it because let me show you, let me tell you what they're doing. they are starting page one of the broward county ballot from the rest of it because they want to get that separated from the rest, it will ultimately give us the total number of ballots. t

paul: kate, to finish up, jeff flake won't vote for judicial nominees and chuck schumer agrees with him try to force a vote on this bill to enforce -- to protect so-called mueller but that strikes me a blatantly unconstitutional, you can't order -- congress cannot tell a president that he's unable to fire somebody who works for him in executive branch, is that going anywhere? >> you know paul, i don't think it's going anywhere and if jeff flake wants to make legacy, i guess that's his choice but with 53 senate majority next congress they will confirm judges anyway. i think it's a bad choice by flake but i don't think it would ultimately pass because like you said it's obviously constitutionally -- paul: still ahead as nancy pelosi's race heat up republicans on the minority, challenges facing both parties on the new congress next. >> we took a beat inside the suburban area, we will have to work harder. ♪ introducing the new capital one savor card. earn 4% cash back on dining and 4% on entertainment. now when you go out, you cash in. what's in your wallet? and i'm still going for my best

[cheers] he takes all of his marching orders from chuck schumer. let's retire joe donnelly. you. [applause] [cheers] president trump: thank you, mike. very successful guy. he has done a great job and this is what he wants to do and he is going to be very successful at doing what you want to do, a lot of great things. i want to thank you. mike, we want to thank you for doing this because it is not easy. thank you, mike. [cheers] if democrats get the majority, one of their first projects will be the socialist takeover of american health care. the democrat plan would obliterate medicare and eliminate medicare advantage for more than 360,000 indiana seniors who totally depend on it. republicans will protect medicare for seniors who earned it and have paid for it. [cheers] and republicans will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions. [cheers] democrats plan to destroy health care and raiding medicare to fund benefits for illegal immigrants. i'm sure you do not mind. does anybody mind? nobody minds. as we speak, democrats are openly encouraging millions of illegal ali

chuck schumer 25 minutes ago was talking about that very thing.said is that democrats will put a knife through the heart of any future ideas of cutting taxes for americans. >> that's a shame. i think it was absolutely disgraceful the way in which healthcare was demagoged in this election. people running ads against republicans accusing them of wanting to kill people. i think a good starting point is in the price transparency space. i think everyone can agree until we as patients understand what we're paying for in the healthcare system we won't have any power. going forward we need to allow the states to have some flexibility to experiment with different deliver resist thames. what works for me in green bay is different what works for you in manhattan, la or san francisco. this is a big, diverse country and have to empower democracy to understand what works and doesn't over the long term. >> bill: big today on the hill. >> sandra: the president's lawyers finalizing answers to written questions. chief white house correspondent john roberts live fro

then senator chuck schumer saying they should be given all the time they need. broward county has been broken since the al gore-bush recount. we need solid people in there to fix it. >> melissa: morgan, when i hear about these things and the last picture griff was highlighting, they said ballots went through and got damaged. you look at them and transfer what the votes had been to another one. obviously that makes a lot of people really nervous. they are looking at it and deciphering what they think was intended there. you say you want everybody's vote to count, but why is this not going on at this time in other counties? why were they able to get their ballots through and deal with the ones that got crunched or did they not count the ones that got crunched in other county? broward they are getting counted and everywhere else, they are not. >> morgan: the problem discussing this, we feel hopeless, right? true. this is in the hand of judges, lawyers and people that are partisan on both sides. we had on the palm beach county supervisor, she said something that mad

the president helped win seats, so to chuck schumer.huck schumer the radical left and the senate, the whole kavanaugh thing would not have happened.same with the house of representatives. the radicals are now in charge. every single committee, la, san francisco, baltimore, manhattan. there is a big country between. they will bbe watching, these are not the brightest light bulbs either. so there are governing opportunities for the minority in the house. and they are certainly governing opportunities for the president and the majority in the senate. here is my concern. unless they're willing to institute the battles, looked at the senate, mitch inmcconnel is there. he always goes we are not going to shut down the government and has taken the most powerful tool, a president has away from him. to control and direct spending when he is house of representatives that is hostile. how do you think this will play out? >> well, i think it's a mistake. if senate leadership takes those tools off the table. it is precisely what they did in 2013. whic

schulz -- chuck schumer, why when we were doing what we were electioned to do.ress members to do, where is that shut down government, this is -- i don't want it, no one want its but i want to do what we were sent to do, i want to doh to do. what they told to us do, let's have that debate. chip is right, we don't engage in debates, let's have a debate, i think we can win, we have common sense and truth on our side. mark: isn't evidence that doing right thing is politic a smart. >> absolutely. >> every time. mark: and doing conservative things are politically smart too. >> yes. mark: a lot of republicans who lost the house races were not conservatives. they ran away from their principles, they tried to cut the baby in half, they were imitating sort of soft democrats, the base may not have turned out, all talk about female in suburbs, i think a lot of people who lost because conservatives, they may have voted in senate, and for governor, but say said what the hell is the house doing. >> never hurts to do what you said, and keep your promises, whether we do that goo

but, ken, chuck schumer wants to look into this. he has had, according to politico, senate minority leader chuck schumer sent a letter tuesday suggesting the justice department inspector general investigate communications between acting attorney general matthew whitaker and the white house. quote, i am particularly concerned about whether mr. whitaker may have shared with the white house or could share in his new role confidential grand jury or investigative information from the special counsel investigation or any criminal investigations, schumer wrote. this is interesting. we hadn't thought about this, ken, but the acting attorney general -- you guys have all thought about this. the acting attorney general is in charge of this investigation. he can take its report and shelf it, put it away and not show it to anyone. but as acting attorney general, he probably has access to information that the white house would be very interested in having. >> that's right, ali. i think that is a very important concernment even more important than

a vote for any democrat tomorrow is a vote to hand over power to crying chuck schumer. ow crying chuck, right? he never cried before. i have known him a long time and i never saw him cry, but that was an appropriate moment. right on schedule. nancy pelosi. [boos] pres. trump: the legendary maxine waters, a real genius. and their extreme job at killing agenda. that is what it is for. they want to raise your taxes, the democrats do. restore crippling regulation. shut down your new steel mills. take away your health care. and put illegal aliens before american citizens, that is what they want. democrats are inviting caravan after caravan of illegal aliens to pour into your country, overwhelming your schools, hospitals and your communities. if you want more caravans, if you want more crime, vote democrat tomorrow. [boos] pres. trump: if you want strong borders, you see what we are doing, we have the worst laws because they want give us the votes. if you want strong borders and safe communities, no drugs, no caravans, vote republican. [cheers] pres. trump: get him out of here

. >> and senate chuck schumer would like that. >> the question is whether or not chuck schumer or thets approve of this deal. >> emily you have the floor. >> i appreciate your university of washington huskies. a shout out to us winning the championship. chuck schumer voted no in 1993 against nafta. what we have heard from him since? more shouting about it. him coming forward and saying this is not doing us any good. he doesn't make any reference to the pricing system gone in canada. for me as an american citizen, i don't understand why compromise hasn't been reached. i don't want my elected officials to be standing and shouting for 20 years without anything accomplished. it's compromise we are sending them there for. otherwise they are not serving us and nothing is gained. on china, the trade war is significant. there needs to be more leverage gained of the theft going and the erosion of quality and they are flooding our country with drugs. it's happening also in the mail system. there are issues that need to be included in the conversation. the elected officials need to be more than

look, here's the reality, too -- chuck schumer annalise folks last cycle all voted for this.something new to them. this is political complaint civil. the dome want to present to get a win. >> harris: breaking on a breaking news, we have been watching the senate floor and for the second time senator jeff flake of arizona has been blocked. he's trying to bring to the floor -- he's asking for unanimous consent to move a bill that would protect the robert mueller investigation. of course, the big question is, does it need protection? mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, and others have said that they will block this. now, for a second time, we just thought mike lee of utah objected to bringing the builds of the floor. here's why this is critical at this time. in the next hour they were expected to proceed with the judgeship, those federal and other judges that they want to take a look at. jeff flake had threatened to not participate in getting the judges moved forward, that the president wants. he won't help the republicans advance those judges. they are now, in the next

that something "the new york times" is suggesting has to do with senate minority leader chuck schumer with a report that says schumer told topp and intel deo back off. to pour tens of thousand dollars into his campaign. the schumer spokesperson is pushing back, saying that senator schumer has pushed more to encourage facebook to prevent fake accounts and bots used by the right wing and russians interfering with our election. schumer has worried that facebook would bow to pressure from republicans who will oppose the purging of fake accounts and bots, and has urged senator warner and the intel committee to make this a top priority in their ongoing investigation of the company. mark zuckerberg, for his part, insists they are doing their best. >> i have said many times before that we were too slow to spot russian interference, and too slow to get on top of it. we certainly stumbled along the way. but to suggest that we weren't interested in knowing the truth, or that we wanted to hide what we knew, or that we tried to prevent investigations, is simply untrue. >> zuckerberg had testified

>> and shimon, we saw senate minority leader chuck schumer and incoming likely speaker nancy pelosi callmatt whitaker to recuse himself from overseeing the investigation. i don't imagine that's going to happen. but is there any indication that it's even being considered? >> no, there isn't. and really, you know, his opinions of where this investigation was certainly when he was on cnn and when he wrote the op-ed, he was in a very different place when he gave that opinion. we don't think that he's been briefed on any aspects of this investigation. it will be now his job to get briefed by robert mueller and his team, certainly, special counsel team, on where things stabbe stand. and the other thing that's important to keep in mind, rod rosenstein was overseeing the investigation. would give robert mueller certainly permission, mueller would have to go to him and say hey, i want to subpoena this one, do this at the grand jury. and then the big question is, remember, whether or not, if the president has refused to answer questions by this special counsel team, would robert mueller and his te

if he is elected, he will vote with chuck schumer 100% of the time. when he was in congress nearly a century ago, he voted the democratic line straight down more than 90%. he wants health care for illegal aliens that aren't even u.s. citizens. so when i come back to mississippi and i talked to my constituents, they know that i am addressing them, their needs come first for me and i'm very proud of the record i have with my consistent continued communication with my local constituents. >> sec., 30 seconds to respond. all of these attacks are all to -- or vote against pre-existing conditions. the democrat said you cannot deny based on pre-existing conditions and she voted against that. and that senate the bill would've passed and we could've all slept easy. that did not happen. we can negotiate with insurance companies based on pre-existing conditions. >> senator hyde smith you are on record as saying any health care plan should include coverage for pre-existing conditions. are there any rules of the affordable care act he did not think should be scrapp

on the democratic side chuck schumer will continue as leader.ber of senators running for president, cory booker, sherrod brown, houston july brand, kamala harris, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, some have joked could create an attendance problem for schumer. >> expect an announcement soon about with senator grassley plans to switch to senate finance. he is speaking to his colleagues this week. mike emanuel, fox news. jillian: for years va workers costing taxpayers $100 million a year. that stops tomorrow thanks to the trump administration ending the partisan official time policy. dan caldwell is veteran and executive director for veterans for america, he joins me now. i want to get your reaction to all of this. the response to the new rules saying removing access to official time is like asking the fire debarment to operate without fire trucks or a fire hose, a result is disastrous for our veterans. response to that and tell us what the official time is. >> that is an absurd quote. j david cox is in charge of the government employees, one of t

12,000 votes spoke to reporters about the process and was joined by the senate minority leader chuck schumer. he good afternoon. senator schumer and i just had a meeting to discuss the florida recount. we will be making a statement as the legal proceedings are ongoing. this process is about one thing. making sure every ballot is counted and protecting the right of every floridian to participate in our democracy. and that is to have their ballots counted and to count as they intended it sadly it's become clear that my opponent isn't interested in making sure that every vote is counted. instead he's been using his power as governor to try to undermine the voting process. he's thrown around were like voter fraud with no proof. he's tried to get the florida department of law enforcement to intimidate local supervisors of election you. both the florida department of law enforcement, which governor scott oversees, and governor scott appointed secretary of state have both said there is no credible evidence of voter fraud. it's become obvious mr. scott cannot oversethatmr. scott canne process and a

>> or how about chuck schumer.ve had one shutdown this year, lou, and it was chuck schumer back at the start of this year when he said that amnesty was more important than funding the troops and government. now he's giferg us a lecture on the shutdown? he shut the government down and over the next couple of days the american people said you're cry disi. he had to reopen the government. no one wants a government shutdown but we do want to do what we said and more importantly what they elected us to do in tweep and that was to build a border security wall. we better put it on this funding bill. lou: do you think the leadership has to come up with a belter rationale herbetterrationale fo? what i heard them saying over this period of time, you've got five weeks left, they're going to give you $5 billion. the president will have five whole billion dollars for two years and at that rate it would take ten years to build the damn wall. the american people have had a bell any full of this nonsense. that's why the republican

one of the greatest fears among conservatives was is he going to start cutting deals with chuck schumerere more interested in resisting him and biting him and so they pushed him to the right, they pushed him towards conservatives. now the question is do they want to keep fighting or get some things done? trump waited out today, he's willing to cut deals on taxes, health care, immigration, he's even willing to cut congressional republicans out. he said i want to get a deal on health care that will get some republican votes. that means he is willing to do things with a democratic majority and some republicans. that's a big announcement. he is willing to cut deals. >> bret: there is shaky things in there from your perspective. he also said there's some republicans i could vote for nancy pelosi. the governor's races are really interesting. iowa, ohio, florida, new hampshire, all republicans that will factor in 2020. you mention the press conference, take a look at this exchange. >> i have one question i am a ask on the russia investigation. are you concerned -- >> president trump: i'm not c

if he is elected, he will vote with chuck schumer 100% of the time. when he was in congress nearly a century ago, he voted the democratic line straight down. he wants health care for illegal aliens that are not even u.s. citizens. when i come back to mississippi and i talked to my constituents, they know that i am addressing them, their needs come first for me and i am very proud of the record i have with my consistent continued communication with my local constituents. >> mr. espy, 30 seconds. mr. espy: the thing is that all of these attacks are prompted because of her vote against pre-existing conditions. the democrats had a bill that told insurance companies they could not deny coverage for pre-existing conditions and she voted against that. if that had been in the senate, that bill would have passed. we can all sleep at night. we did not have to negotiate with insurance companies. >> time. senator hyde-smith, you are on record of saying any health care plan should include coverage of pre-existing conditions. are there any other rules of the afford

kennedy: democrats including senate minority leader chuck schumer crying foul. >> i find the timing very suspect, number one. but number two, our paramount view is that any attorney general, whether this one or another one, should not be able to interfere with the mueller investigation in any way. they should not be able to end it, should not be able to limit it, should not be able to interfere with mueller going forward and doing what he thinks is right thing, and that will help guide us as we go through the process. kennedy: the democrats said shut the chuck up. the acting attorney general matthew whitaker, they claim he's been openly hostile to the mueller investigation and just a white house puppet. there's the question of what will happen to deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, is he next on the chopping block? with us now to break down all of the drama in today's events, chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in d.c. with the latest. reporter: we're seven hours into this developing story, and two things stand out to me. number one, when you look at events ea