lisa murkowski and susan collins, according to politico. the fate of the supreme court could ride on these two senators. but how likely is it that collins and murkowski would actually break from their own party? well, we can look at some of their words now. according to politico, collins has said that an outside group should not be dictating whom the senate considers. murkowski says that trump has already kept his commitment to that list of 25 conservative choices by elevating neil gorsuch to the supreme court and that he should extend his search beyond that list. a very interesting comment there. so given that, what you're hearing from republicans, the president is also starting to put the pressure on democrats, specifically potentially flipable senators from red states that went for trump. joe manchin, joe donnelly, heidi heitkamp in particular, heitkamp getting some treatment from the president when he visited her home state earlier this week. >> we need kevin cramer to replace liberal democrat heidi heitkamp in the senate. heidi voted n

. >> chairman collins, thank you so much. how do i top that? >> you have a purple tie now. >> i'm getting close. this tie was just dry cleaned yesterday. but at lunch, i got a spot on it, so i'll put that on camera. i want to thank chairman collins for her leadership on this issue and making sure we had this hearing today and for all of you being here. of course, our witnesses who are providing testimony to us today. we want to thank the advocates as well who have traveled very great distances to be here. i know many from pennsylvania but virtually every state represented across our country. the experience of living with alzheimer's or related dementia or caring for someone with the disease is unfortunately all too common. it's a disease that affects all communities, and it doesn't matter where you're from or how much money you earn. it affects so many americans. in our state alone, the state of pennsylvania, an estimated 280,000 people ages 65 and over are currently living with alzheimer's. and, as we'll hear from secretary osborne from pennsy

. >> chairman collins, thank you so much. how do i top that? >> you have a purple tie now. >> i'm getting close. this tie was just dry cleaned yesterday. but at lunch, i got a spot on it, so i'll put that on camera. i want to thank chairman collins for her leadership on this issue and making sure we had this hearing today and for all of you being here. of course, our witnesses who are providing testimony to us today. we want to thank the advocates as well who have traveled very great distances to be here. i know many from pennsylvania but virtually every state represented across our country. the experience of living with alzheimer's or related dementia or caring for someone with the disease is unfortunately all too common. it's a disease that affects all communities, and it doesn't matter where you're from or how much money you earn. it affects so many americans. in our state alone, the state of pennsylvania, an estimated 280,000 people ages 65 and over are currently living with alzheimer's. and, as we'll hear from secretary osborne from pennsy

collins yes. : thank you.i would like you to say since we met at the beginning perhaps you could update the committee on what the current state of cambridge analytica is and the the assets of the company and whether you have any involvement in the running of the company today. mr. nix: cambridge analytica is in chapter 7 in the united states. the associated companies are in administration in the u.k. obviously the process is being , managed by the administrator and i have no further involvement. mr. collins: the company is under control of the administrator? mr. nix that's correct. :mr. collins: and is that the same -- sorry. cameras are not allowed in the gallery. if you can't respect that, then i ask that they leave the room. i don't want to make that statement again. so sorry. is that the same with the scl group as well and the administration? it has been reported $8 million when into administration. is that correct? mr. nix well, i saw that : newspaper today. what i can say is the articleons made in that a

>> thank you chairman collins. commissioner batory, we notice these funding opportunity for the inquiry -- 2017 and 2018 was completed and ready t the door, and yesterday we were disappointed that only the $250 million ptc was announced, why is that? >> let me segregated -- segregate it this way. there was $60 million -- $68 million that was announced the first quarter of this year, fy 17. which will be coming due for consideration next month. and then, as of this week, issued the $250 million that was carved out of the total chrissy where it was ptc specific, nd rather than foow thetraditional 90 y application period, we reduced it to 45 because time is of the essence and there has to be a sense of urgency. so in addition to that, we have already embarked with the short line association, regional railroad as well as that of after the -- a fta where we have asked for webinars with their entire mentorship, this is new where the fra has reached out to the associations to get broad dissemination of the monies that wil

collins: thank you very much, president green. trustees, faculty and staff, alumni, families and friends, and, most of all, graduates, what an honor it is to be with you today. now, i will tell you that i approached the task ahead of me with a great deal of humility. you see, i do not remember a single word spoken by the commencement speaker at my own graduation. in fact, i don't even remember who it was. i can only hope that you are not sitting out there somewhere. [laughter] sen. collins: the journey from capitol hill to mayflower hill is one that i always enjoy. as president green has indicated , today's celebration occurs 104 years after my great aunt received her colby degree. her journey from maine to waterville is truly inspiring. she first attended colby as a 17-year-old in 1909. but then, she ran out of money and had to leave in 1911 to teach school to earn enough to complete her degree. she graduated in 1914 near the top of her class. phi beta kappa. how unusual that must have been in those days. particularly for young w

the two who folks are talking about is collins, murkowski, susan collins, lisa murkowski, both pro-choice, both sending signals that this may be different than last year's battle over neil gorsuch where they voted to confirm gorsuch. indicating maybe the issue of roe v. wade could be preeminent in their considerations on this. it's a big if. would they go to the lengths of voting no, joining with democrats trying to stop a trump pick? they've sent signals that have people talking about it. if you start at 50 for republicans and lose collins and murkowski, that's an ugly four but you're down to 48 for the republicans and then you would be short. remember, we're talking about democrats here, too. a lot of democrats running for reelection this year in states donald trump carried in 2016, some by giant margins. so manchin, west virginia. up for reelection, trump won by 42. heitkamp in north dakota, trump took it by 36. donnelly in indiana, trump took it by 20. donnelly, heitkamp, manchin, they voted for neil gorsuch last year, they're vasing voters in these states so if you had 48 and you got

collins and murkowski are republicans for choice. >> exactly.ou have to consider who the nominee is. you have to consider the 150 federal court vacancies. the way it animated the republican base. look at the exit polling. all of our reporting confirms this is a top priority for trump voters. you have republicans responding to that energy in their base. we will see if democrats start to respond in kind in midterms. >> what about the point that noah is making, the democratic wanted to fight last year against neil gorsuch. they did the filibuster. the republican said we will nuke the filibuster. it's gone. democrats don't have that tool. they are sitting on 49 votes. is there any second-guess on that. >> it's interesting. democratic voters are getting quite an education right now about the power of not just the presidency but also what these judicial appointments can mean. i think it is an issue that has animated republican voters, especially pro-life voters for years. they have built -- this is the result of years of republican and right wing infr

let's bring in kaitlin collins at the white house. and kennedy and the president talked for about half an hour today, the president said. what were they talking about. >> reporter: they did. and it was about half an hour before the news broke that kennedy would retire and president trump sounding surprised that reporters didn't see him enter the white house at any point. but he does say they had a conversation and he tremendous respect for kennedy but also said he asked him who he thought he should replace him with on the court and kennedy made some recommendations but he doesn't disclose who he recommended to him but there is a great deal of excitement in the white house they are going to have floerj chance to nominate someone to the supreme court. >> and do we have any idea who president trump might be considering as a replacement? >> reporter: well president trump made big news in the oval office saying he will choose from the list of 25 potential nominees that the white house put out last fall. here is what else he said about that

to push hard on susan collins and lisa murkowski. a sign that the white house recognizes the importance of those senators, nbc news is reporting tonight that white house council don mcgahn reached out to susan collins and lisa murkowski to discuss the vacancy. the two confirmed the call to nbc news. and sarah sanders tweeted senators collins and murkowski met with donald trump tonight to discuss the future of the supreme court. she also says, quote, potus team also talked with more than a dozen other senators today as part of an outreach to get views and advice from both sides of the aisle. so we're still very early in the nomination process and the strategy of the two sides are still being worked out. one thing is certain. the people who may ultimately have the most power to influence who becomes the next nominee to the supreme court are the american people. as joe biden said today, the price to be paid for putting our values at risk must be clear now. joining us now christopher khang, now the chief council of demand justice, and al

certainly the president is well aware that susan collins, senator collins and murkowski are key votes in this upcoming supreme court fight. so he is smart to consider a woman. i wouldn't be surprised if he ended up choosing one. >> zerlina, let's get to a clip now. this is about the president and how roe v. wade could factor into his conversations with the candidates on that seat for the supreme court. let's take a listen to him. >> are you going to ask your nominees beforehand how they might vote on roe versus wade? >> well, that's a big one. and probably not. they are all saying don't do that. you don't do that. you shouldn't do that. but i'm putting conservative people on. but i don't think i'm going to be so specific. >> what do you make of that? >> he's telling you the answer in the middle, he's nominating conservative people. they have all been vetted by the federalist society. they are all anti-choice. all the people on the list will vote to overturn roe v. wade. the game we are going to play is them dodging, bobbing, weaving and pretending that's not what they're going to do i

and patrick and beth collins are here with 15-year-old, jennifer, and 17-year-old, alexandria.ginia families, the collinses are the only ones who experienced the benefits of cannabis oil firsthand. a year ago, after hearing about charlotte's web oil, their family made a decision that beth and jennifer would move to colorado for the oil, while the rest of the family stayed behind in virginia. >> i felt we really had no other option, but to try it. we didn't really plan on too long, because it was too painful to plan out too long. this is our home and jennifer grew up here, you know? he and my family's here and my other daughter goes to school here. >> reporter: the driving force of the collin was the decision to split their family up were the side effects of the medicines jennifer was on, side effects which they say were getting more and more horrific. did you feel like you were losing your daughter? >> absolutely. losing our whole family. just watching her cognitively decline and watching these rages that, you know, were devastating for her mentally. >> we had times when we had

first susan collins had a consistent answer and was asked about this a she said she won't ever ask a judge how he or she will rule on a specific case but she grills them onec ent and she personally believes that roe versus wade is settled law. and i asked lisa murkowski and we had a 10-minute diussion on a stairwell and she said roe vers wade is a significant factor but not the only factor for her. she is aware of the pressures she fac already. she is under the pressure cooker a lot considering her independent streak and buck the party leadership.it bus anybody's depess. robert: they are not the onlyer ones u pressure. the red state states, itkamp, joe mamp chin of west virginia. >> and right before the election, they don't want to be getting crossways how trump voters and do they approach this? theys. need democr heidi and you can't alienate them either. you sayi' glad i'm not a senator. that will be a tough and then the interesting thing, say someone breaks away, one of the republicans, one -- what do the democrats do, do they want to put the president trumpominee on the supreme co

it's doable. >> susan collins and murkowski both voted for gorsuch. is he pro-life.is a case now because things are different they now feel compelled to not vote for someone who might overturn abortion and roe v. wade. most important thing from the white house sources i've been talking to, the most important thing to the president is that person is young, is going to be pro-life and super conservative. >> he wants them in for 40 to 50 years. he said today. >> the same thing the republican leadership did, we need to do the same thing. there should be no nomination till after the midterm election. >> peter how do they stop this? they do have the number. it seems to me people in the past have been able to stop these things. >> it's about emotions. and right now, you've got the minority leader of the senate, chuck schumer standing in front of a bunch of microphones begging for fairness. we've both been in the senate. there's procedural parliamentary rules where they could slow it down long 0 enough to put pressure on elected and candidates right now. >> the pressure on t

mccain gets the credit, but murkowski and collins voted no as well. so we have to walk and chew gum at the same time, make the argument on precedent, but then go out and build a grassroots army of people in those states and throughout the country who are going to make the case that there will be a price to be paid at the polls if republicans insist on pushing this nominee, a potentially radical nominee through. so we've got to good out there and build a movement at the same time that we make the argument internally to our colleagues. >> i feel like the reaction yesterday, the reaction this week to the muslim ban ruling, the reaction today to the supreme court's ruling on you know rights which overturn in order than 40 years of precedent in terms of protecting union rights in this country, those were depressing developments for democrats and centrists, i think. they weren't necessarily unexpected developments, but they were nevertheless depressing. when the kennedy retirement news came out, i think people sort of thought maybe clarence thomas might ret

if they put pressure on collins, flake, and murkowski, they can turn around what they're trying to do here. >> jeff flake at 8:57 tonight, knowing what he said in his little known comments on sunday and tuesday, issued a statement that doesn't really say anything. he said, as i have said before, approving a principle conservative who will interpret the constitution rather than legislate from the bench should be our top priority. standard language in the press releases. and then he simply said, as we turn toward filling its seat, i look forward to the senate fulfilling its responsibility of providing advice and consent during a robust confirmation process. that's jeff flake not saying he will, he won't, not saying anything, but he's got to be thinking tonight about what he has been saying before tonight. >> the most crucial question for jeff flake is, if you have qualms about this presidency, if you give speeches to the american people saying that this president is flouting norms and laws and rule of law and democracy itself, the one step he can take to end that, to actually discourage

let's get first word news with courtney collins. merkel is warning of deep splits at the upcoming g-7 summit, saying she would challenge president trump on tariffs and america first. leaders prepare to head to quÉbec. the lack of compromise so far means the group may fail to agree on a final statement. sensual willr's speak directly to the president about trade. j.p. morgan says fears of an all-out trade war have hit u.s. investors in the pocket. a technique tod plot the impact of news about the standoff and found that the comments and policy changes have 4.5%, stocks down by wiping one point two $5 trillion from the value of the s&p 500. theh korea watchers say regime is destroying its testing facility in one north korean city. it says it is the only known site use for land-based, mobile, medium-range launches. the report comes days before the summit the between president trump and kim jong-un. it is not clear whether the destruction is temporary or permanent. president trump heads towards the summit insisting north korea make the

we are joined by peggy collins, and the chief u.s. economist at deutsche bank.

lesley collins, an improv veteran, led the class. their craft.mprov veteran, led the classlj improv veteran, led the class.” think i did see a ghost, not recently but like a few years ago. to kick off, we did some warmup exercises. everyone was given a category and had to list seven things in quick succession. seven types of hairstyles. the bob. one. shorthair. three. pigtails. >> four. -- four. trust me, with the pressure on, it is not as easy as is. right, a game's rover. time for the comedy to start. i let the pros go first. now, all you are given is a word or a song and where the skit goes from there is totally up to you. —— game's over. this is like trying to release two innovations to crack in emissions —— to release your inhibitions. something these quys your inhibitions. something these guys have down to a tee. you must be jones. guys have down to a tee. you must be jones. joan, yes. joan collins, future president pta. nice to me to. nice to meet too. i'm sorry book reading didn't work out. these guys are reading didn't work out. these gu

susan collins' term ends in 2020. murkowski 2022.have a less of incentive to vote for this justice if they disagree with him because of political calculus or re-election worries. that's something that the president is thinking about. >> sure. they're not up for re-election. the red state democrats, joe manchin, heidi heitkamp, different story. the president is trying to woo them saying you could help me out here by voting for my supreme court nominee. >> a former republican senate leadership aide told axios that this is a terrible position for the red state democratic senators to be in. they're the most vulnerable. they voted for gorsuch before and now they're stuck with voted for the next nominee and depressing the democratic voters or voting against the nominee and will rile up and fire up the republican base in their states who are already sort of inclined to vote in a republican senate tore replace them. it looks as if they have no choice but to go with neil gorsuch. >> trace: and i want to get your take on the timing here. maybe

if you lose collins, if you lose murkowsky, obviously now you're down to 48. and for the moment, that's not enough. kbu the flip side. if you take the 48 and look at the democrats there are democrats who are running for re-election this year in states that donald trump carried. states not just that he carried, but carried in a landslide. so those democrats, tremendous political pressure on them. in particular joe manchin, west virginia. heidi heitkamp, north dakota, you played trump in north dakota this week. joe donnelly in indiana. trump winning these states by 20, 30, 40 points in 2016. all three of these last year voted for neil gorsuch, trump's first supreme court nominee. we run 48 on the last screen. if you have those two republican defections, if heitkamp ends up being a yes vote that would be 49. donnelly, that would be 50. manchin that would take to you 51. there's a track record, these three already voted for a trump supreme court pick. all three of them are fighting for their political lives this year. in states that trump won in a landslide. that'

susan collins of maine. but they might loseouple because some democrats are in tough reelection fights in states trump won big andhey might lose them. so there are not a lot of good options >> i think we need to really think about the -- what the eademocratic partydership is doing.

. >> collins defeated smith. >> elected the first black mayor in the state's entire history. to check in with this dude. how do you end up in montana? let's just be real about it. even hannah montana is blacker than montana, montana. >> i came on the refugee reassessment program. >> oh, yeah, i forgot to mention, this dude came to america from war-torn africa. he's a full-on liberian refugee who escaped a brutal civil war and somehow became the mayor? they voted for you? >> yes. >> the african refugee. >> yes. >> in montana? >> yeah. >> how the hell did you do that? >> we knocked on thousands of doors. i went to those doors and knocked on those doors. >> you're crazy as ( bleep )! >> people welcomed me. >> you just walked up on random white people's doors in the mountains? >> i did. >> and they opened the door and said, hey, black man, let's talk about the issues! come on in for some lemonade. is that what happened? >> that is almost exactly what happened. >> i'll knock on trevor noah's door, he's half white. it didn't help he embraced american culture. he joined a church, th

some of talk more about this now with lisa collins who is standing by washington she is a fellow at the center for strategic and international studies and an expert on korea thank you so much for joining us this evening. thank you for having me here in the least if you followed the summit closely this joint statement has been criticized as being too light on detail what do you think. so i would agree with stayman i do believe the four points that were mentioned in the joint statement one. of the korean peninsula one on u.s. and north korea forming a new relationship one on finding the remains of old prisoners of war in north korea and repatriating them to the united states and another talking about other significant options i think that these are things that have been mentioned before in previous declarations and previous agreements that we've had with the north koreans but it's lacking in some specificity especially when we talk about denuclearization and verification of the dismantlement of north korea's nuclear weapons program there's no mention of how that process would have been ho

collins: thank you very much, president green. staff,s, faculty and alumni, families, friends, and most of all, graduates, what an honor it is to be with you today. now, i will tell you that i

we have to put that in front of collins and murkowski. they have to be more worried about getting eelected than getting a primaried by a trumpite. that's what our forces have to bring to this fight. >> cheryl lynn. >> i'm not a politico. i concede i don't have all of the numbers. i don't want to put it down it these two senators. we're in a moment in which every senator has to confront himself. i understand it the power mitch mcconnell has. you heard him in the top of your segment. he said we will confirm president trump's nominee this fall. he hadn't looked at what the nominee is or what the qualifications are of that nominee. he's going to confirm. that's astonishing for the senate majority leader to say. president nixon advanced two candidates in two years. you may remember this. haynesworth and carswell. both of whom were dinged in the senate judiciary committee and the full senate because they were so unqualified. this is 1969 and 1970 when nixon lost two supreme court nominees because he selected people who were incompetent and coul

we'll talk to key moderate in the senate named republican susan collins and check in with the president's attorney, rudy guiliani, about if and when the president will be interview by special counsel robert mueller. and paul manafort goes to jail following charges of witness tampering. and separate investigation into the fbi's handling of hillary clinton as former fbi director james comey, we'll take a look at the friendship between republican receive scalise and democrat cedric richmond putting partisan ship aside on and off the baseball field. and plenty of analysis on all the news coming up on "face the nation." good morning welcome to "face the nation." we begin today with president trump's attorney, rudy guiliani who joins us from our new york broadcast center this morning. happy father's day to you. >> thank you very, very much. >> brennan: i want to start off with a report roger stone a friend of president trump has told the "washington post" that during the campaign he met with a russian who was offering him damaging information on hillary clinton. this is now the 11th campaign as

collins: thank you very much, president green. trustees, faculty and

let's get the first word news with courtney collins. courtney? >> president trump says he will confront china very strongly over trade in the coming weeks. as his administration prepares to follow through on terror threats.- tarrif he praised the personal relationship with xi jinping. the administration plans to issue a list of tariff targets on friday. comcast has made a long-awaited offer to acquire much of 20% three fox. -- 21st century fox. the largest u.s. cable tv it values fox's entertainment assets at $65 billion. bid35 a share, the represents a 19% increase of premium over the disney offer. volkswagen will pay a $1.2 billion incurred by a german prosecutors for teaching regulations. it closes -- for cheating regulations. the world's bigg ys settlement of the criminal case will have other proceeding impacts in europe. british lawmers have rejected proposals by pro-eu politicians that were intended to lock the u.k. into the customs u. and a single market after brexit. as a victory for changes by the upper house. still a leader of

do you think there is any kind of a warning shot there from susan collins? >> i think to some extent. but here is the deal on roe versus wade. first, it is well established now that no supreme court nominee is going to say anything specifically about that other than the fact that they respect precedent. but i think that for people who are closely concerned with this issue, it's not so much whether roe v. wade is overturned. because even if you assume that the president's nominee is determined to do that, that may not be enough. it may not amount to five votes. because the only conservative on the court who's ever said anything specifically about roe v. wade is clarence thomas. so we don't know how samuel alito or even chief justice john roberts would vote on that question. justice roberts may say 45 years of precedent deserves some respect. where the action has been on abortion rights is in the states, on state laws restricting access to abortion, like the law in texas that last year the supreme court overturned that said in order to be able to provide abort

senator collins when asked said roe is settled law.ing that's something she'll be looking for in the next person to take the seat. >> roe is settled law now. with five justices hostile to it, it doesn't have to stay law. it can radically restrict roe that denies women access to abortion across the country. it's not just women at stake here. i think the rights of workers. the rights of lgbt folks, the rights of people of color. all of those are rights that justice kennedy was open to hearing those claims and sometimes provided the fifth vote to preserve things like affirmative action to recognize marriage equality. he's gone. the fifth vote is going to be whoever president trump appoints. that's a scary proposition. >> what can the aclu actually do here? even if democrats stay united and the red state vulnerable dems don't peel off, republicans, if they stick together can get this thing through. >> i think republicans as well as democrats have an interest in preserving a basic liberties and rights and in having a court that is open to a

collins, for five minutes. ms. collins: thank you, mr. chairman. i'm going to thank our witnesses and follow up a little bit more on the laboratory response network. i understand that's been around about nine years or thereabouts. i think since 19999. dr. schuchat: yes. ms. collins: actual ri i've lost 10 years. i deliberately lost those 10 years, by the way. [laughter] so i know you mentioned 125 labs here in the country. but this is from what i understand, also there's international labs. i mean, we all know the key to a lot of this is early detection. whether it was ebola or some other things, sars, which initially people thought they had the flu, even the an thrack -- anthrax. early detection is the key to jumping on top of this which means the laboratories who are -- that are located outside the country. i know this is a collaborative effort. are you -- let's use the word comfortable, and how is that collaboration between the united states and other countries around the world, as you mentioned, in many cases these could be in africa and other

collins maybe to postpone the vote.re are extensive hearings. i think they can mobilize their base all they want. they need a little republican help here to slow things down. >> you said you wish kennedy hadn't retired. it's a day so many republicans have been waiting for so matter how they feel about donald trump. you don't have to be a trump supporter to be excited about the fact there will be a 5-4 majority. >> i said the suspect the person is someone i will agree more than kennedy in this really overheated political environment, it doesn't matter. it would have been healthier to not have this fight over the next few months. kennedy was a pretty reliable conservative vote this year. roe v wade will not be overturned 5-4. i don't think chief roberts will overturn. i'm not saying people shouldn't calm down. they can make their cases all they want. we're going to have extremely fierce debate now and it's going to heighten political passions in way that's probably not very healthy over the next few months. >> it's not al

i want to thank chairman collins again and also our witnesses. we look forward to the testimony today. i know that chairman collins indicated there would be a recess and i was able to give my opening. we will shortly be on the second vote and we will recess now and resume when the chairman returns. thank you. >>> i want to welcome the cosponsor and leader in the fight against alzheimer's as-- senator. catherine cortez masto . i am delighted to introduce our first witness today, marcia gay harden. for those of you who follow popular culture, she really needs no introduction. she is known for her roles in films such as mystic river from which she won the academy award. she currently stars in the cbs medical drama code black. in her real life, ms. harden is also a mother, a caregiver, and a strong advocate for alzheimer's disease awareness. last month she published a personal memoir. i have a copy here, which is entitled the seasons of my mother, a memoir of love family and flowers. in her book, she writes about her mother beverly-- beverly's battle

collins: thank you very much, president green. trustees, faculty and staff, alumni, families and friends, and, most of

meanwhile, melissa collins said all she wants to do is get back home to her family in kentucky. >> oiave a 8-year-old and 10-year-old back at home. >> the ride is closed as the investigatio continues. >> that's awful to hear what she went through. >> let's switch gears and get a check of the weather from al. >> today's weather is broug to you by liberty mutual insurance. only pay forou what need. >>> i will tell you it has been hot throughout the easternhe ha of country. do we continue that? not as hot from the great lakes to the northeast, but stillot as you get down into north carolina, 95 degrees, wilmington, 97. providence, still warm. tomorrow we are looking at cooler weather making its way in the northeast. still in the southeast weave most of the heat, atlanta 93, jacksonville, 93, and indianapolis, a little warmer but not too bad. and later this week, the temperatures start to round back to norl nicely. charleston with a hig saturday of 92. that's what's going on around the country. here's what' happening in your neck of the woods. >> good morning, a mostly cloudy start to you

if it's somebody who has spoken out against roe versus wade, you could potentially lose susan collinsrkowski. in galvanizing women, i think they'll be galvanized one way or another. if roe versus wait start getting at the state level, and women start seeing this, i think it could galvanize women for the next presidential election. that could be what is decided by the choice that trump makes in the next few weeks. i do think he's going to make his choice in the next couple of weeks. we not only have to look down the road at 2018, also, this is so consequential it could decide 2020. >> let's look at 2018, ryan. this is a bit from the president's rally in north dakota. here it is. >> heidi will vote no to any pick we make for the supreme court. she will be told to do so. now, maybe because of this, she'll be forced to vote yes, who knows. i will tell you, she'll vote no the day after the election. >> okay, so listen. he's wrong, because heidi heitkamp, two others voted for his last pick, neal gorsuch, so how be red state democrats vote this time around, do you think. >> that's a great qu

caitlyn collins has learned that the former fox news president has accepted a position as deputy whitehief of staff in charge of communications. this has been in the works for some time. >> it has. it's kind of the fox ification of the white house. i think they're probably aware that it will be controversial given the fact that shine worked for roger ailes. but they've clearly made a decision that that's something they can weather and that the president wants shine there. >> donald trump is in charge of communications at fox news, so i guess it's only fair that a fox news director is director of communications at the white house. >> a former fox news executive who left under allegations that he wasn't being forceful enough with allegations of sexual misconduct. >> i can't even bear it. >> remember, this was an issue that so many people were willing to vote for donald trump over hillary clinton because of the prospect of one let alone two and maybe with the aging population of the supreme court, maybe even three in this administration. you think about this in the context why issues like

susan collins and lisa murkowski and senator donnelly, senator man chin and senator heitkamp.said to unveil it before he leaves for a trip to europe. both parties bracing for a showdown. on this one they have a process. they have to understand the importance of reaching out. lisa murkowski, susan collins, two republicans worried about the swing vote with anthony kennedy gone. new restrictions on abortion could come into play. critical. with john mccain absent, if you lose a republican, you're going to lose a democratic vote, so you bring in three democrats that are likely to be your target of opportunity here. >> this is one of the big things the white house is hailed as doing smoothly last year. that was the nomination and confirmation of neil gorsuch who is a chief justice now. don mcgahn, the white house council, is having a meeting now while the president decides what the supreme court will look like for the next few decades. we were told short after we found out kennedy was retiring that they will move this quickly and now we're seeing how quickly they want this to go. a

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and we don't know exactly how far susan collins and lisa murkowski are willing to go on the issue of abortion. and right now that is all of the talk. that is what everybody is talking about because it is believed to be the first thing that could go if this court swings dramatically to the right. so i think we really don't know how they're going to move their weight around in the senate with it so narrowly divided, every senator on the republican side has a lot of power to kind of affect -- maybe not the timing but the tenure of the debate about the justice. >> with 25 candidates, there are some on there who are conservative, young, and that the president thinks can get through the litmus test of susan collins and senator lisa murkowski for blowing up his nomination. he doesn't want that to happen. >> and is there anything realistically you think the democrats could do to prevent a roll call vote on the floor of the united states senate until after the mid-term elections? >> i think obviously it is very hard. but i also feel that we've seen some extraordinary things happening in polit