durbin: mr. president. the presiding officer: democratic whip. mr. durbin: mr. president, let me try to put this in perspective and let me start with something that i hope we all agree on. i think there are three things about immigration that democrats and republicans can agree on. let's see if we can say those three things and all agree. we need border security in the united states. we cannot have open borders. we need border security. number two, if someone is dangerous, trying to get in america, we don't want them here. and if there's someone undocumented in america who's dangerous, we want them to leave. those two things i think both parties can agree on. the third thing, it really gets to the heart of it. we need comprehensive immigration reform. it isn't just a matter of solving the issue of the day. it's a matter of looking at all of our immigration laws and saying we've got to make this all work. the senator from north carolina has undoubtedly heard what i've heard from our friends in agriculture, whether it's ranching or dairy or picking fruit, they nee

senator durbin: thank you, dick. before we call onour -- call on our guests, could you move over a bit? these are the missing empty record boxes. we want them filled with records. >> [laughter] haveor schumer: we now kristine lucius with us from the leadership conference on civil and human rights. durbin, yourenator comments take me back to the confirmation hearing, and what a stunning moment it was when he responded to your question with a blanket denial of any involvement. that is a great reminder for anyone wondering if we should judge brett kavanaugh's responsiveness by the number of pages, or judge it by the completeness of the record. your complete question definitely needs answering. someone that could not be honest under oath -- should they be given a promotion? i work at the leadership conference on civil and human rights, which is a coalition of over 200 national organizations working toward an america as good as its ideals. before this job i worked here for 14 years in the senate judiciary committee. i wor

>> senator durbin: of course he is. every president would be.ou just had a man on your show, mr. leo, who has an extraordinary position. he is involves not only in the selection process, he is key to it. when the white house chose neil gorsuch, they didn't call mr. or such to tell them, they called mr. leo and they said would you like to call the judge and tell him the good news, he's going to be the president's nominee? that's what's going on here. the federalist society is going through a clearance process, make no mistake. they make sure before any neighborly reaches the final they know exactly what issues. >> chris: let me just ask you, so what? the fact is the federalist society has vetted these people, they are all distinguished jurists. they are obviously conservative, what you don't like, but how can you say anybody who is on that list is out? >> senator durbin: i didn't say that. what i will say is this. i can tell you this, i think the chris wallace second debate, if that's what it was question two then candidate donald trump nailed it

now leaders in your party like dick durbin are saying that i.c.e.ed. i don't see you defending law enforcement in that case, these are people trying to break up games. they are trying to break up child sex trafficking rings. and yet democratic leaders are attacking these i.c.e. agents and calling them incompetent. >> let's be clear, no one in the mainstream leadership is saying, we should abolish i.c.e. >> ed: hold on, pardon me once decadent. dick durbin said they were incompetent. >> and i said nobody in mainstream democratic leadership is saying we should abolish i.c.e. i'm saying we should not increase the budget, it's being used to continue family separations and not reunite kids. we cannot increase funding to the i.c.e. when i.c.e. is being used for fundamentally for all purposes. no one is saying abolish i.c.e. >> this is one place where he and i agree because i think you just put half of the democratic leadership outside the mainstream. they have adopted this extreme position -- >> know they haven't. that's the point, we haven't. >> of democ

durbin and feinstein. durbin will say i went to catholic school. by the way, feinstein went to catholic school even though she's a jewish gal. i'm not saying they are bigots. i am saying there is something there which is unseemly. they exercise it against others. >> laura: hold on, thank you, all, fantastic segment. is is not just a me barrett's comment, or religiosity, seems e mainstream press. the "los angeles times" wrote a piece titled, "judge kony baird, potential supreme court nominee has defended overturning presidents." a lot of people have pointed out, so far as every justice who sat down on the supreme court. let's bring in fox news senior and traditional analyst, judge start again. the fact that she is the only woman on the list and that might be harder for them to criticize down the road so they want to deal with that now or what is it? >> you and i both know that anti-catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice. and apparently acceptable in the democratic party so, that is part of it but what just raised about her willingness to upset

durbin: should it have nominee?ied him as a mr.kavanaugh: senator, i do not think i can talk about whether someone should have or should not have been nominated. urbin: we do not have trials that can be taken to a jury verdict because there are none to have to try to determine what your values are. senator schumer asked you a series of questions related to the work of your life, which you did not feel appropriate to we are trying to find out what you really believe in who you are, and every time we get close, you say "sorry, i cannot answer." that is a problem for a person seeking a seat on the second in the land. you do not want to talk about what you have done, and frankly, when it comes to legal work, there is not much to turn to. do you see the problem we are facing? mr. kavanaugh: senator, on the memo, i know that the administration has repealed the memo. i did not bring the analysis command that memo was correct. i think the memo was to not amve the president xi, and i willing to talk about the memo. and i'mthe presidency, wi

dick durbin questioning him about the administration's detention and entire gags policies.s the george w. bush era. this is guantanamo, torture, he was asked what he knew about a key architect of those policies. kavanaugh said he had no idea and he was not involved. >> senator, i was not involved and am not involved in the questions that the rules governing detention of combatants. so i do not have any involvement with that. >> i do not have any involvement with that. it turns out that was not true. it turned out he had been personally involved in white house discussions about that issue, according to a report published about a year after got confirmed to the d.c. circuit court. when the report came out, senator durbin wrote brett kavanaugh a letter. dear judge kavanaugh. by testifying under oath, it appears that you misled me, the senate judiciary committee is the nation. senator patrick leahy wrote again is basically referred those alleged misstatements by judge kavanaugh during his confirmation, referred them to the justice department for possible prosecution. he wrote,

john also point out if ice is incompetent, what have durbin done totry to fix the problem? robert on social media also says this. one to know one . he joins new york city mayor bill be blasio also calling on ice to be abolished. heather: let's address this, this picture and the some possible explanation. carly: if this is the first time you're seeing these pictures, it won't be the last. a hunter in kentucky has sparked a social media firestorm posingthe giraffe that she just shot on an african safari. she called that her dream hunt . these pictures were taken last year, there recently now going viral because an african media outlet posted them to social media calling the giraffe a very rare black giraffe but that hunter test thompson is fighting back telling fox news the giraffe was the south african species of giraffe.the numbers are increasing due in part to hunters andconservation efforts paid for inlarge part by big-game hunting . the breed is not rare in any way other than it was very old . no shortage of responses to this controversy online. judy on twitter said sham

lou: and so is dick durbin. this is dick durbin on the president's supreme court nomination. >> the men and women that i work with on the democratic side really take this seriously. they understand it's an historic decision. it's about more than the next election. it's about what in the country, the united states of america is going to chart as its course in the future on this supreme court. i think each and every one of them take that seriously, that personally. it goes beyond the next election. lou: wow. who knew that it went beyond the next election at any time for dick durbin, who is the leading dem hack in the senate. your thoughts. >> well they want to fight. we're going to give them a fight. there's a lot of groups including my copac, we're going to put $5 million at least into this race. many other element to the conservative elements are going to put money in there. this will be like a presidential campaign. the most vicious fight ever to put someone very qualified on the court. lou: and you know, it is

but dick durbin is still on the judiciary committee.ratic senator pat leahy is also still on the committee. are they going to resurface this is now? does this end up being a bigger deal now that kavanaugh is back in front of the committee he reportedly lied to? when he was before them last time, 12 years ago. joining us now, sherrilyn ifill, president and director counsel of the naacp legal defense and education fund. it is nice to see you. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> i wanted to ask about how you foresee the fight over judge kavanaugh's nomination? how you foresee it unfolding and whether we should look to the previous battles over his confirmation fur a lower court as a sort of predictor in terms of how things are going to unfold here. >> well, i think, rachel, it is not a predictor because i think this will be so much bigger, so much more of a brawl. the stakes are so much higher, certainly for civil rights groups, for women and many others. the stakes are as high as they can possibly be. but think about thi

undersecretary j durbin and longtime judiciary committee member -- you are. no, i said, longtime member of judiciary committee. brooklyn, newm york. -- danielship goldberg, alliance for justice and elliott mintzberg, people for the american way. thank you for joining us. we have invited these legal experts to speak today because what we are here to discuss isn't political. it is about the constitutional duty of the united states senate to advise and consent on one of the most important issues that ever comes before us, the nomination of the supreme court justice. to fulfill that duty, the senate must have the records spanning judge kavanagh's career as a public servant, including his time as staff secretary for the bush administration. this morning senator feinstein released a letter to the ,ational senate archives including longtime member dick durbin. requesting the full set of documents. continue, i want to make it clear for just a second how aggressive the obstruction is. as you know, breaking all historical president, chairman grassley has made a partisa

durbin: thank you very much, madam president. first, let me thank my colleague and friend from maine. if you ask the american people from one corner of this country to the other, what are they worried about? what are they concerned? what you just talked about is the top one, two, three issues. the accessibility and affordability of health insurance. time and time again as some of us have been in a predicament when someone in our family was very sick, you have no health insurance, you will never forget it. and there are some who live with not having health insurance or it is so darned expensive, they can't afford it. thank you for the effort that you have made. it's one thing to say you're against obamacare, you're against the affordable care act, the obvious question is, well, what would you replace it with when given a chance the other side of the aisle had nothing, and that's why, thankfully, we stopped their efforts to repeal it. you and i are open to making it better, reach more people in an efficient way. but saying we'll ge

and dick durbin is saying they are full of in competence. >> [laughter] well i think dick durbin's commentmmigration policy. that said, it's a very legitimate question that you're raising and that the public is going to raise, what are we doing about security and i think we need to couple our answer on abolishing i.c.e. which is a very legitimate policy. it's needed reform, and called for reform for a long time including redoing it as an independent agency, putting it in together with other agencies, but we need to couple that with a security response. ed: so pardon me but it sounds to me like you're getting at something very important which it seems to me that you may be pointing the democratic party to the idea that just running out saying let's abolish i.c.e. does not make a lot of sense either literally or politically and so you're trying to drive the conversation in your party to how do we have security and reasonable reform of i.c.e. and other agencies? that and correct me if i'm wrong and characterizing it but that seems a lot more reasonable than senators coming out saying let's ge

. >> kennedy: was interesting is to have this dynamic cure of dick durbin saying is much more important for democrats and close races in red states were trumped won come about with this democratic caucus and really throw yourselves on the altar of sacrifice. so he's telling joe manchin, joe donnelly, heidi heitkamp that it doesn't matter, if you're in close races, it doesn't matter if you have a political future. that's how important this is. speech he was interesting to me, and i don't think this is lost in the american public. it's not about are you pro-life or pro-choice, how do you feel about this issue or that issue, it's do you think that a judge should be doing magic tricks with the constitution to make it say something it doesn't? 's and that what it's really supposed to be about? >> andrew: that's exactly right and what's really lost is what terrific craftsmen of the law these four finalists are. it really shouldn't matter. they're all very much committed to what ought to be conservative principles for interpreting the constitution. >> kennedy: we heard a lot about that after t

my guest this morning, republican senator, lloyd biathlon of missouri and dick durbin of illinois. >>> plus, north korea says the u.s. attitude is deeply regrettable, and accuses the u.s. of a gangster-like demand for denuclearizization. >> if those requests were gangster-like, the world is a gangster, because there was a unanimous decision at the u.n. security council about what needs to be achieved. >> is this president trump's mission accomplished moment? >>> also, the russia investigation. michael cohen says his family and country have his first loyalty. and a senate committee agrees that russia tried to help mr. trump win the election. my guest this morning, president trump's lawyer, rudy guiliani. danielle letca of the american enterprise institute. nbc news, senior political editor, mark murray, and susan page, washington bureau chief of "usa today." welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. boy, do we have a lot to get to. the troub

it's not what america is all about. >> senator dick durbin, i have to leave it there. democrat from illinois. senator, thanks for coming on and sharing your views. much appreciated. >> thanks. >> by the way, nbc news will provide live coverage of president trump's supreme court announcement tomorrow evening at 9:00 eastern, 6:00 p.m. on the west coast. later on the broadcast, we'll talk to president trump's lawyer, rudy guiliani. next, the fight over the supreme court and a reality check on north korea. the panel is next, so stick around. i was able to turn the aircraft around, and the mission around, and was able to save two men's lives that night. my first job helped me to grow up pretty quickly. that'll happen when you're asked to respond to a coup. in 2001, i signed up for the air force. two days later, 9/11 happened. if you have moderate to thsevere rheumatoid arthritis, month after month, the clock is ticking on irreversible joint damage. ongoing pain and stiffness are signs of joint erosion. humira can help stop the clock. prescribed for 15 years, humira targets

liz: that is durbin saying that. >> the number two person the senate. liz: do you think a heitkamp or o'donnell will listen to that? >> i don't know them well enough to know that. i don't think either of the three of them who you would characterize as moderate democrats i don't think any of those three are so wedded to abortion that they would feel the need to stick with chuck schumer but i will say this, if schumer keeps all the democrats on a branch and the republicans lose one -- liz let's back up. obama was doing executive order alienating congress. he couldn't get merrick garland through. chuck schumer worked out a filibuster. mitch mcconnell said we are going to do a simple majority not 60 votes in the senate to get the nominee passed so now this is where we are now. we have media analyst saying the supreme court is about the swing far right. let's watch. >> drumstick politely shift the supreme court further to the right. the folks at on the list prepared by the federalist society represent the far right end. these are the folks that will be hard

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you've got dick durbin urging colleagues basically, jason, to not -- do what is best for constituents to basically step aside and let the dems ideology forced the debate even if it meant losing in the midterms. i'm talking about heidi heitkamp, joe manchin, joe donnelly, democrats up for reelection in november and states that trump one. he is telling them, look, this is about the supreme court. not about your reelection. that jeopardizes the party. >> with senator durbin said a sickly as he's willing to sacrifice a few of his democratic colleagues to win the political fight over the supreme court nomination. to be honest, that's the reason democrats are in the minority in the first place is that type of thinking, not letting members of the senate in this case they've done it in the house as well. these are people elected by their constituents. their first job first and foremost is to stir them speak for the people they were elected to represent. the three senators that she mentioned her in a very difficult but politically. no question about it. i'm not going to prejudge which way they

to listen to senator durbin, it should not factor into this vote. he's not running for reelection in a red state. and it'll be interesting to see how all ten senate democrats decide to go. >> harris: i'm looking at some of my notes that i have been studying the last few months because joe manchin does and has voted for the president's policies along the way but he still a democrat. heidi heitkamp, you've got joe donnelly, those are the names of democrats who have been mentioned that are vulnerable that might vote for the president's pick, but you mentioned there are a tenant. but there conceivably be more democrats that would jump ship and are they really listening to dick durbin? is he the new party leader that we don't know about? >> i don't think they are. they may be listening to chuck schumer and trying to hold the line especially if they have indication that some moderate republicans may be wavering. i do think that there is going to be a lot of outside pressure and not only from the president possibly going to these states campaigning the men

durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: mr. president, senator wicker of mississippi and i have a bipartisan amendment that means a lot to thousands of people who use amtrak. it's been ten years since we asked the inspector general amtrak to do a study on on-time performance. ontime performance has a direct impact on the number of people who ride on amtrak trains, how frequently they use them and how much they rely upon them. but there's a problem. amtrak owns very few railroad tracks in america. they share the tracks with freight trains and the freight trains have been pushing ahead of them and making the amtrak trains wait. how long did they wait? between one year, 2,016 and 2,017, 17,000 hours of delay on amtrak trains directly attributable to freight trains that didn't yield the way to the amtrak trains. that's just one factor. so senator wicker and i have asked the inspector general to do a report on on-time performance that we can consider in mak

let me now call on my good friend for many, many years, senator durbin. senator durbin: the wisdom of our founding fathers, nine americans assemble in this building behind us and have the last word in preserving the constitution, preserving our union and preserving our freedom. we are now in the midst of a decision on the swing vote on the united states supreme court. if justice kennedy was a swing vote on that court, judge kavanaugh it to the far right. his record is shown consistently, if given a choice between corporations and consumers, he is a reliable ally of big business. between polluters and public health he finds an escape to the polluters. deciding between the freedom of women to planning their own families and strong hand of government, they lose. his views on the second amendment are straight out of the gun lobby playbook. washington, d.c.,, where he grew up, would be wild west d.c. if the judge had his way. and here is a presidential tweet you will never read. just in the nick of time, the president found a supreme court nominee who is on re

what schumer, gillibrand and pocan and durbin, they say ice lost their message.ame congressmen and senators that support sanctuary cities. they say concentrate on criminals. we're going to reach criminals from jail. it's incredible how they're mismessaging to the american people what's going on. >> we're seeing somebody push legislation in representative, diane black. she's trying to toughen that part of the language about criminalality. you're looking at hardened crimes in the past. how would it help or make a difference for something like what congresswoman black is advocating for? >> i think it will help. it would be an added deterrence. i can't blame anybody for wanting to be the best country in the world but you can't be a part of this country and not respect the laws. that's the way it should be. and the whole abolish ice movement, they don't understand the complexities what ice does. the worker with do. senator gillibrand and cuomo wants cease and desist operations in new york. i try to educate them that we arrested 5,000 criminal aliens off of the street

dick durbin is telling them risk your entire political career and he said it before the nomination wasced. >> yes, look, the reaction already. it's all you need to know about kavanaugh, the fact that the dnc has already stated this man shouldn't be anywhere close to the supreme court. the fact that chuck schumer has just announced that he will use every weapon in his arsenal to stop this abomination. >> sean: he said that last day before he was nominated. >> this tells you that this is the right man for the job. it tells you november is going to be very, very tough for the democrats. i want to make sure that the white house is listening. bill sean, this is going to be a very important communications message because this is going to be worse than bork. they will use every dirty trick in the book to block this nomination. >> sean: ted kennedy about robert bork. it was a disgrace to the u.s. senate. what they did to clarence thomas was a disgrace but it's going to happen. i've been saying this for weeks. it's predictable. >> it doesn't matter who president trump would have nominated, thes

we will ask dick durbin, senate number 2 democrat who wants delay a vote till after midterms.lus -- >> journalists like all americans should be free from the fare -- fear from violently attacked while doing job. chris: linkens the death of maryland. both sides playing disturbing blame game all right now on fox news sunday. and hello, again, from fox news in washington. as america settles in for the 4 of july holiday, president trump has set ambitious agenda for this week. he's finalizing his supreme court pick to be announced in just 8 days and preparing for a trip to europe including a summit with russian president vladimir putin, in a moment we will talk with john bolton who is just back from moscow. first, let's bring in correspondent kevin cork at the white house with the latest with the president's plan, kevin. >> chris, for president has been unconventional, this idea of following an orderly structure play book to nominate and ultimately seat a second supreme court justice is frankly not trumpian, but given the gop's razer-thin manager anyone the senate, prudence in this

rachel did a look at this in her last hour and the idea that dick durbin on the judiciary committee gets another chance with this nominee under oath to go after that after being highly dissatisfied with what he heard from him in his previous confirmation hearing, that's the kind of risk that mitch mcconnell is concerned about. >> absolutely right. after that confirmation hearing dick durbin later sent him i letter asking to clarify his position after there were reports about what he might have known and he never got a response. so he's going to now have a chance to get that response under oath in front of the entire country. i think the reason this is so important and the reason it's so important that democrats do insist on all of those documents being turned over as by the way happened for elena kagan is because look what happened at the bush white house the time that brett kavanaugh was first in the white house counsel's office and then as a staff secretary where just about every piece of important paper of the presidency goes across your desk. they endorsed torture, misused intelligen

separately, senator durbin, senator blumenthal and introduced the stop secret foreign interference and elections act, among other things that bill would require senior executive and financial offices of entities spending money in elections to certify that they've done their due diligence to ensure that no foreign money has been accepted for the political activity and that they have not spent any foreign money on campaign related disbursements. that bill is referred to the finance committee. i received today as another example of the type of legislation congress should consider to defend against the clearly predicted threat of foreign interference in our elections. our hearing today will examine whether crypto currency can be used to launder for money in this elections. the growth of virtual currency and crypto currency raises a host of challenges for congress and regulators. i'm glad her subcommittee is beginning to examine it and gain a a better understanding of how this emerging technology works. i'm looking for to learn more about just how anonymous various virtual currencies are an

that frustration is likely to intensify because some folks in democratic leadership, like dick durbin, are already predicting they're going to lose this fight over the president's pick. i'm sure many in the democratic base believe we have the power to stop this supreme court pick, but the grim reality is that we have some power but not the power to stop this. and even the folks at the liberal advocacy group invisible are telling the base let's be clear, democrats have no way to hold up this confirmation or delay the process. in the end, democrats are hoping to translate the base's frustration about being powerless into votes, to put them back into power. >> if you don't like the ways that this new justice is going to impact everything from reproductive rights and health care, the pre-existing condition protection to labor rights and voting rights, speak up, get active and vote. that's frankly our best tool. >> but guys, if this fight is about riling up a base that's talking about slitting throats and going to the mattresses to avenge this pick, what's the strategy to actually avenge t

dick durbin. joining us. member of the judiciary committee and democratic leader in the senate as well. senator, what does it say that michael flynn is first of all continuing to cooperate right now with the special counsel. as he awaits sentencing. >> of course, glad he is cooperating. i hope we can get to the bottom of it. get to the truth of it. that's been, bob mueller's goal. i respect him very much in what he is trying to achieve. in terms of his job. future of his family. i can't comment on that. what does it say, paul manafort is concerned about his safety in prison. willing to spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement opposed to moving to a prison closer to washington d.c. where he fears for his safety. >> your colleague had it right. you can't make this up. to think paul manafort, this gregarious, political man, toast of the town, many continents, now wants to be 23 hours alone in his cell. i can't believe there is a threat of that nature. if he perceives it. willing to constituent there 23 hours

under the earlybird rule we turn to senator durbin. durbin: -- jay bybee authored the infamous torture memo. in the memo, he claimed the president has the right to ignore the law that makes torture crime and narrowly defined torture as abuse confined to organ failure or death. it was addressed to the then white house counsel at alberto gonzales. they knew he authored the memo at the time of his nomination. did you know mr. bybee authored the memo or similar memo at the time of his nomination? >> i think you are referring to the august memo. i was not aware until there was disclosure i think in the summer of 2004. the administration has repudiated the memo. in retrospect, should that have disqualified him as a nominee? >> i do not think sitting here is a prospective judge i should talk about another sitting judge, whether that person should or should not have been nominated. i don't think that is the proper role for me. >> that is what we are struggling with. we don't have court you have argued because you have not. we don't have trials

senate minority whip dick durbin spelling it out.isk losing their seats or break from the party. >> i will tell you the men and women i work with on the democratic side really take this seriously. they understand it's an historic decision. it is about more than the next election. it is about what the country, the united states of america, is going to chart as its court in the future. i think every one of them take that seriously and personally and goes beyond the next election. >> bill: kayleigh mcenany, juan williams and bill mcgurn. >> it's quite a bind. the worst nightmare for red state democrats begins. they have the choice to side with chuck schumer or their voters. we're already seeing attack ads out from republican candidates going after individuals claire mccaskill has one attack ad against her from josh holly saying the supreme court is at stake vote republicans. we're seeing it across the nation. >> bill: what he is saying is think about the history of the u.s. supreme court right, right? >> this is one of dick durbin's few

basically dick durbin said to , all red state democrat these people we want you to commit political suicidetop the nominee rather than worry about the midterm election. and trump carried the state by 41 points. now joe mansion is facing the voters inpo that state. i know who was mentioned and to run catholic charities he has a beautiful family and works to feed the homeless and by the way he noted he was hired to teach at harvard law school by justice kagan who was one of the most liberal justices we have ever seen. judge kavanaugh a strong catholicst faith feeding the homeless, hired by liberal justice kagan to teach harvard law but the left will still find ways to go after him. people nominate out of central casting. he did not like tillerson at first give me pompeo. but in this case he teaches at harvard and yale and central casting it will be hard to beat. the president has been telling people cavanaugh is 53 give her a few years on the bench he is next and they anticipate they have one or two more pics before he is done as t presiden. in the next six years. >> we will see if that is th

think with the democratic party specifically dick durbin called i.c.e. agents a group of incompetent. story about camero. >> thank you very much. lou: good evening i am david asman in for through dobbs, president trump meeting with potential supreme court justices moving rapidly on a nominee to replace justice kennedy. as they panic watching preemptive attacks before one is chose ep, president addressed the issue at white house while meeting with the prime minister of the netherlands. >> interesting, i will be meeting with two or three more, we'll make a decision on the united states supreme court. new justice that will be made over the next few days, and we'll announce it monday, i look forward to, that. i think that person that is choose en will be ou outstandin. >> president trump promised to pick from his list of 25 current frontrunners. >> outside groups advising white house' to get a conferring a vote by end of september because congress leaves for midterm campaigning by then. woulds house would white house d sell counsel don mccann. and justin cla

. >> dana: dick durbin talking about red state democrats seeking re-election.ivists have been gearing up for a heated battle over the choice to replace justice kennedy. chris stirewalt joins me now. i want you to look at an ad running against a red state democrat up for re-election, an ad but her opponent, josh holly. watch. >> the eyes of the nation are on missouri. we decide which values control the senate and the supreme court. claire mccaskill wants liberals in charge. that's how she votes. that's not missouri's way and it won't be my way. i got my start in the supreme court defending religious liberty. >> dana: so do you expect to see this tactic in all the other states? >> absolutely. it will work to varying degrees. you couldn't do this against joe manchin in west virginia because he's probably going to vote for this nominee anyway. the reason he can do it, mccaskill is turning a different approach. she thinks she can turn kansas city, kansas city suburbs to a enough of a degree to standing against this nominee. she's playing it differently. you'll see f

listen to dick durbin yesterday on cnn. >> look at i.c.e. what a group of incompetents.this point they focus more toddlers than terrorist. instead of deporting felons, they want to deport families being persecuted by criminal gangs. >> that is dick durbin. you've got the abolish i.c.e. hashtag and then you have the president tweeting that without ice, crime would be rampant and uncontrollable. where is the truth? >> i think that's an exaggeration. certainly, ice does play a role in rounding up terrorists. but to round up terrorists, you need intelligence in the community and you're not going to get intelligence from the community if you're deporting people, said the agency has a conflict admission that something does need to be done. >> if you're going to be a nation of laws, don't you need a group of law enforcement to go enforce those laws and people have broken them by coming across the border illegally? don't you need a group of federal agents to go arrest those people and a part-time? otherwise, what is the point of having the law? >> the question is how much you en

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i really do think dick durbin is right.hink every democratic senator in a red state needs to go and commit political suicide. heidi heitkamp, claire mccaskill, they need to put it all on the line and oppose whoever the president picks. i think that's great advice. >> dana: it was reported senators donnelly, manchin and heitkamp, they were invited to the announcement tonight and they declined. >> juan: i think you will see tremendous pressure on susan collins and lisa murkowski, pro-choice republicans, to say this is too much. you can't have a supreme court become a rubber stamp for right wing agenda. >> sean: where is the evidence? you say these things and you are trying to scare the american people. >> juan: i am not scaring anybody. i'm just giving the facts. >> sean: nina totenberg made the comment that's the end of the world as we know it. dick durbin is telling these red state senators, democrats, to commit political suicide. >> juan: it's a matter of conscience and voting for what is right as opposed to -- political p

it's an ignorant statement by senator durbin. they don't understand the mission of ice.a very professional law enforcement organization. as a matter of fact, our first line of defense at the border, this is about national security. >> neil: so when the president says that they're the ones out of touch, he remarked, sheriff, when we have an infestation of ms-13 gangs in certain parts of the country, who do you we send to get them out? ice. there were other groups doing this sort of thing before ice. who were they? >> no, there were never groups like this before. there i was ins that preceded ice. but they didn't conduct interior enforcement. that's what the mission of ice is. >> neil: when you hear this outrage among democrats that have been pushing this, i get a sense that they're fearing some of the leaders in congress that they're going too far. that most americans support the ice efforts to protect our border and all of that. they're going too much out on a limb. what do you think? >> this is a bridge too far. as local law enforcement, i need a federal partner that wi

enough.kam: fair sean could have interestingly whenished senator durbin he was at a press event last week for doing the exact same the obamacare debate when senator durbin in august of 2009 recognized that halls were stunts and manipulations and wisely said that's not bringing civil discourse. it way i've conducted it, has. i've met with over 20,000 people.als, groups of moderator: we're running out of time and we want time for closing statements. mr. casten? mr. casten: thank you, mike, thank you to all the folks who came out here today and thank you to the lincoln forum and on.ury for putting this i'm a businessman, not a career do know this. i the constitution says that congress has an obligation to a check and balance on the executives and congress is obligated to be a rubber stamp. that's probably the biggest place where peter and i differ. he supports the trump administration lock, stock and barrel, at the expensive of his district. think the overwhelming majority of people in this district think healthcare should effective.le and peter voted with the president to take it away

on sunday, senate majority whip dick durbin suggested some may have to fall on their sword in order to prevent the president's pick from getting confirmed. watch this. >> it is a dilemma in one respect but not another. the men and women i work with on the democratic side really take this seriously. they understand it's historic decision. it's about more than the next election. it's about what the united states of america is going to chart as its course in the future on this supreme court. i think each and everyone of them take that seriously. that personally. it goes beyond the next election. >> harris: michael shearer, a national political reporter for the "washington post," great to have you today. >> thanks for having me. >> harris: this idea of, you know, political suicide, if you will, to save the nominee process or battle against it, as a democrat. is that going to work? >> you know, i think the most contested race, the democrats don't want to be put in that situation. that's why you've seen over the last 24 hours a lot of statements that say, essentially, i'm going to look at hi

dick durbin is telling them, risk your entire political career. he said itt before, the nomination was even announced. >> the reaction already, greg is absolutely right, is all you need to know about cavanaugh. the fact that the dnc has already stated that this man shouldn't be anywhere close to the supreme court, the fact that chuck schumer has just announced that he will use every weapon in his arsenal to stop this nomination, it tells us -- >> sean: he said that last week before his nomination. shocker. >> it tells you this is the right man for the job but it tells you of november will be very, very tough for the democrats. i just want to make sure that the white house is listening. this will be a very important communications with method because it will be worse than bork. i give you the prediction now, they will use every dirty trick in the book to block the nomination but we can't get it through. >> sean: i played ted kennedy. it was a disgrace to the u.s. senate. and what they did to clarence thomas was a disgrace to the u.s. senate. but, i

illinois democrat dick durbin says someone needs to take responsibility for the controversial policy minor children at the border. durbin's demand came during a senate judiciary committee hearing where both republicans and democrats criticized the policy. >> it's not an exaggeration to say that the policies of president trump and attorney general jeff sessions may sshlly orphan hundreds of immigrant children. >> if families and children are going to be kept in federal custody, they must be kept in facilities where they will be treated humanely. unfortunately, recent media reporting, i've seen, suggests the federal government is faili failing h failing miserably in the task i just described. >> they defended their handling of the policy, likening the facilities where the children were kept to summer camps. >>> the mysterious disappearance of an iowa woman who grew up in oakland remains just that this afternoon, a mystery. authorities told reporters today that they still do not know what happened to 20-year-old mollie tibbetts who vanished two weeks ago tomorrow. they have a good timel

durbin: mr. president. the presiding officer: democratic leader. mr. durbin: mr. president, the world breathed a sigh of relief. for almost two weeks now we've had our attention focused on 12 children, thai soccer team players who were lured into a cave with their coach and were thought to be lost for days. they couldn't be found in this flooded cave. and then the good news that they were discovered. they were still alive. it was a miracle. but then came an extraordinary challenge, how to safely bring these children, these 12 children out of this trap that they were in, to bring them to safety. i cannot imagine the effort that was undertaken. it included countries from around the world and the united states coming together to provide extraordinary levels of assistance at great cost to save the lives of these 12 children, to bring them out of this trap that they were in, to reunite them with their families. but all the prayers and all the hard work, all the bravery and all the investment paid off. these children are safe, as is their coach. they are currently being