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i want to go straight to kaitlan collins, who's reporting that news about chief of staff john kelly.that's right, dana. john kelly announced at a senior staff meeting here at the white house yesterday that president trump asked him to remain on as the chief of staff for a little bit longer, at least through 2020, we're told by sources inside the white house. now, dana, that's surprising because it comes after weeks of speculation about what seemed to be an imminent departure from john kelly, who has really lost his power and his standing in the west wing since he came into the west wing as the chief of staff last year, a year ago yesterday, to replace reince priebus. there has been much reporting and speculation about john kelly lately, even by people inside the white house and even by president trump himself, who has been polling aides and allies in recent weeks on what they thought of kelly's performance. at times he would fluctuate from complaining about kelly and going off about him and profanity-laced tirades to the next day praising kelly in front of other staffers and telling

john kelly. kaitlan collins, thanks very much. let's bring in former department of justice prosecutor joseph morino and our gloria borger. what do you think? >> it's really surprising since we have known through our reporting that the president's been calling around to people asking for potential replacements. it seems to me, and julie knows more about this than i do, that this is a story the white house wanted out there. maybe it's a way for kelly to rehabilitate himself because there are plenty of stories about how he wasn't really in charge, that jared and ivanka could walk into the president's office any time they wanted, and he had tried to put a stop to that. obviously the rob porter case was a problem for him. we all watched his face during helsinki. he didn't seem to be smiling a lot. so it seems to me they're putting this story out so that as long as kelly decides to stay, the message is i'm in charge here, the president likes me, and if and when i decide to leave, it will be my decision and nobody else's. now, maybe i'm

of just two republican senators who considers themselves pro-choice, susan collins and lisa murkowski. remember, along with john mccain, who voted down the trump-pushed health care bill. it was susan collins and susan murkowski. they've shown a willingness in the past to buck the president. susan collins is a republican, but a lot of individuals here voted for hillary clinton and support susan collins and want her to take that position. >> 61% of americans want a justice who will vote to uphold roe. thank you very much, vaughn hillyard, in bangor, maine. >>> the president had what can only be described as a very bad day with the facts yesterday. entire stories written about how misleading his tweets were. "the new york times" fact checker wrote, quote, in the space of a few hours, president trump on tuesday took credit for averting a war in north korea, charged without proof that barack obama had secretly granted citizenship to thousands of iranians as part of nuclear disarmament negotiations, and appeared to suggest that customers of motorcycle maker harley-davidson were psychic. later he was trolled by jk row

. >> whether n it comes to susan collins -- here is what john oliver has to say. let's listen to that. >> hope susan collins flips and be disappointed when she doesn't. >> that's a really long name for a game show. he is talking about health care, tax cut. what is a democrat to do with susan collins? >> one matters, that is susan collins. with her there's not only murkowski and a potentially swingable republicans but swing democrats. it's the gravity everyone is focusing on. you say to her as we said during health care and other folks who got republicans at times, when history calls, history calls. >> you have been in charge of running big votes like this before. what goes on behind the scenes? >> in smaller votes, you look for ways to see if you can convince them on policy, see if you can -- there's something pliable that plays to their state or other like-minded members can convince that senator to flip. in a moment liebke this, it's about the gravity. it's all about health care. i think a lot of people are hanging their hat on a word that she used this weekend,

talking about somebody like susan collins saying she will not vote for somebody who is hostile on roe v. wade. she has voted for like johnou are susan collins, are you going to be the one who votes against republicans getting a five to four majority on the supreme court? that is a difficult vote even if we are talking about a moderate from maine. >> is there indication just the politics that we are seeing, we certainly saw democrats at least early on a couple of days ago going after barrett. different conservative groups have different favorites here. any indication that it has swayed the white house or the president. >> hard to say. there was that conservative backlash against judge kavanaugh. interesting part of this is senator ran paul has expressioned reservations about kavanaugh. you know, amy coney barrett is the favorite, but she has gotten push back. not enough track record to trust what she would do. you are probably liking the fact that you are the guy who is sitting back and hasn't seen fit to irritate anybody. maybe he is the guy that the president will go with. knowing he will be the one not to irritate eith

john torres has the story. >> reporter: ashley collins lives in arkansas where lyme disease is rare. so when her 6-year-old daughter tested positive for lyme last year, she was shocked. >> never crossed my mind that it would be a problem. >> reporter: tonight, a new warning from scientists, that ticks including those that carry lyme disease are spreading into new areas around the country. >> ticks are not just in the northeast and the upper midwest where we classically think they are. they are in the south, they are in the far west and that means these things are everywhere. >> reporter: a new study by the bay area lyme foundation analyzed more than 16,000 ticks from people across the country. most concerning, the black legged tick which transmits lyme was identified in 76 counties in 24 states. why are these ticks moving? >> probably due to climate change and then we even think that people are probably moving these ticks around. >> reporter: the best way to stop ticks, when going into wooded areas use bug spray that contains permetherin and keep socks tucked into your pants. so more

forbes reported that john used the n-word during a conference collin may. the board accepted his resignation after he admitted that was true. he formed it 1994 and was the chairman of the company. he stepped down as ceo last year after blaming slow sales growth as the outcry involving football players kneeling during the national anthem. >>> new details about the arrest of the adult star stormy daniels as a strip club in ohio. daniels lawyer says all charges against the porn actress have now been dismissed. police reports say daniels touch touched patrons with hir breast, that's technically against ohio law. her lawyer claims the arrest was a politically motivated setup. and here's daniels leaving the jail this morning. >>> president trump wants to make another major change this time to air force one. the new look he's going for. >>> the weather window on santa cruz and you can see it's a gorgeous day out at the coast. the clouds are starting to open up. and if you're thinking about doing anything near the coast or exercising, just watch out for that strong

john? >> all right, thank you so much. kaitlan collins in brussels, thank you. the president on his way to the united kingdom. joining me, christiane amanpour. also with me luke harding, foreign correspondent for "the guardian." christiane, we're trying to get to the bottom of the facts because things aren't clear despite what the president said in his 40 minute news conference. and he did say some things that are not true. he said the united states defense spending makes up 90% of nato defense spending. that's not true. it's somewhere around 70%. he said he earned new commitments for increased spending from nato members, we cannot determine if that is, in fact, the case. the french president, emmanuel macron, said they agreed to nothing more than what they agreed to. what are you hearing? >> well, we hope to reveal all to you shortly because i do have an interview with jens stoltenberg who famously faced off with president trump in the breakfast meeting and who was in the room and will be able to tell us the precise parameters of what happened. you can see ther

collins' vote, how consequential is it? they have mike pence, the potential of john mccain coming back to vote and key red state democrats, includingted for neil gorsuch. do the democrats have any play here at all? >> i don't think they have much play. the filibuster is gone. i think some of the centrist democrats might be up for supporting president trump on this and in the end oliver is right. it's like lucy and charlie brown, i think collins might be voting in favor of the president's pick, so the democrats are in a terrible position to sway the vote at this point. >> there are some people on the list she cannot support, so maybe she can push the president -- >> it's a big list. >> right. maybe she can knock a few off. >> let's talk about democrats here. over the weekend you saw these rallies, and this mantra starting to creep into centrist democratic talking points, abolish i.c.e. get rid of i.c.e., the immigration customs enforcement agency, which enforces law made by congress, interpreted by the white house, you know, elizabeth warren at a rally in boston. she didn't go as far as saying abolish i.c.e., but she used it as a po

wade is a sensitive issue, like lisa murkowski and skew can collins in support of keeping roe v. wade? >> right. we have senator john mccain who is ill and back home and we have to take him off the board, as well. you know, it's interesting. jeffrey and i were talking about susan collins earlier today and he made the point that even though we talk about susan collins and you were right in saying this, having a thick skin like a real steel spine, she is voted to confirm every judge, supreme court judge that's come before her. so you have to question would she come out and vote against donald trump's supreme court nominee? i do think murkowski is different situation because she has gone into an election where she lost the republican nomination back in 2010. she went on and ran on her own name and she owns that state of alaska so her -- i think she is more likely to make a move that perhaps could derail this for president trump. >> president clearly like to get some of the red state democrats, especially those up for re-election this time on board and vote to confirm. >> yeah. those up for re-election and those that vo

you will lose senators murkowski and collins and then you will have to get one of those three democrats. john mccain regrettably won't be voting, so it's going to be very, very tight. i wish it weren't. i'm pro-life, but i wish it went on just one issue. abortion is a very small part about what the supreme court does and if he supports me when who's in their 40s or 50s that person could serve for a long time and we need to examine their thinking on a broad array of things. the presumption is that the president gets his person and that person doesn't have to prove themselves, rather than senators who don't want that person has to dislodge the candidate. >> sandra: huge applications for the presidency, for the country. thank you. >> always a pleasure. >> sandra: nbc's chuck todd making this observation yesterday. >> the announced retirement of supreme court justice anthony kennedy this week up to make one political reality clear. despite his overall unpopularity, president trump is winning and the democrats right now i'm reeling. >> sandra: joining us now, ned ryan, on the white house staff are

harris: from the weekly standards, i guessed who was with me, senior writer john mccormick said, what is interesting about susan collinslicans, well, she probably will vote for the nominee, she wants to know that they wouldn't actively work against roe vs wade. but she does not believe other members who were conservative on the courts would overturn roe vs wade. so, it is kind of a semantics of argument right now. >> i think it is important for people to realize that the supreme court is not just about roe vs wade. there a lot of policy if choose that go in before this court. to make that the whole argument. speak out the democrats have not been where you are in now. this is a broader thought on the issue. >> i think there are some democrats who have been there. but a lot of people to get the microphone and attention, i think people have to realize it is a broader issue. you're going to have issues like affirmative action, which white women could benefit well from. patriotic americans want to disenfranchise people from voting. those are all important issues. i am not sure that it is just, to your point, i agree that th

after running that ad, john tester now cannot seek the democratic nomination for president in 2020. >> these people who are in states opposite their politics, like susan collinsmaine. she's a good politician, whatever you think of her ideology. john tester has won twice in a state like this. he's a very talented politician. the ad was very good. i think he's going to be able to figure out a way to hug donald trump in some ways and also distance himself in other ways. i think he's -- he has been preparing for this for a long time. i think peele he'll be fine. >> he's also not unique. joe manchin has been doing the same thing. i'd be hard pressed to think about something negative joe manchin has said about president trump. heidi heitkamp as well. there's a few more examples, but she's also someone the president reportedly likes. so we're going see this in a couple different places, i think, where you have a democrat snuggling up a little bit to the president, particularly -- and i would not be surprised if they end up voting for the president's supreme court nominee. they would have two. several of them. >> i think it's also important to note the nuances tester

just to put in context here we're talking about susan collins and talking about john tester, the math in the senate, democrats come into this fight with only 49 votes if they want to stop a trump nominee they got to flip a republican. they got to hold their side together. and again on the republican side, all the suspense is susan collins. she is the republican expressing publicly potential reservations. if she were to say no to one of these picks, especially on the grounds of roe, would that signal lisa murkowski, the other pro choice republican in the senate. could there be two there. that is balanced against that other really reality we're talking about, these red state democrats, facing the voters in 2018, manchin in west virginia, trump won the state by 42 points. donnelly in indiana, trump won by 20 points. hide camp in a trump plus 36 state. the wild card we're saying today john tester, tester has been voting against a lot of these trump nominations. the supreme court nomination last year as well. trump in montana today trying to turn up the heat. he did carry the state by 20 p

rachel bate of politico, jonathan martin of "the new york times", retired rear admiral john kerr by, and cnn's katelyn collins. admiral, i want to start with you because you have experience. to jeff's point, angela merkel is in trouble. barack obama, george w. bush, george h.w. bush, bill clinton would try to throw a friend a lifeline at that moment or certainly not pour salt in the wounds. this president seems to relish these fights with people who, on paper historically, are friends. >> yeah, it's really difficult to understand. we need germany. they host 30,000 some troop miss their country alone. germany is a great logistical, medical hub for us. we couldn't have fought in iraq and afghanistan for the last 17 years without the support we get there. secondly, it makes little sense to me if you want germany to ante up more of their defense spending why you would pick on merkel. it's already an unpopular thing to do in germany. trump is exceedingly unpopular there. i'm not sure how he thinks he's going to get the goal of getting them to spend more money by picking on merkel and making it harder for her to go

eight or nine senators that this is going to come down to and susan collins and lisa murkowski are the ones that i am keeping my eyes on. john mccain is absent, 50 is all you need to win. >> 50. >> 50 against 49 democrats. if they can keep collins and murkowski then they'll be able to confirm brett kavanaugh. the odds are, who knows what's going to happen but the odds are, they will. >> jake, thank you. what's your show called? >> "the lead with jake tapper." >> it is good that i am the one haltom ci that's hosting it. >> presidential pardons, why trump is giving passes to these two men between the u.s. government and militia. we'll get reaction to someone who's involved in a high-profile case, next. ahoy! gotcha! ah! nooooo... noooooo... nooooo... quick, the quicker picker upper! bounty picks up messes quicker and is 2x more absorbent than the leading ordinary brand. ahoy! (laughing) bounty, the quicker picker upper. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. (dnice, candace,

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collins. also, dav also, retired rear admiral john kirby. certainly strong words there from congressman gowdy. the question remains, of course, what the president may actually say. the fact that when asked by jeff glor at cbs whether he was going to ask putin about extraditing them, we don't have an extradition treaty with russia, he said, well, i hadn't thought about it. >> which is stunning. it's not even how the president, what he says to vladimir putin, it's how he says it about election meddling. he's made clear that in the times he's asked him before, he's denied doing it. the president has said essentially, what more can i do? but he lets him say it. he says he's going to confront him about it. the question is how much does he confront him about it, or is it just this ritualistic thing, did you meddle in the election, putin says no, and they move on to everything else. i can't think of another president that would come to a meeting, give vladimir putin all of this prestige by meeting with him in helsinki a few days after 12 russian in

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collins. she's trying to take credit for the idea that she's opposing somebody who is roe v. wade. consider this, she said john roberts set the gold standard because he called roe v. wade settled law in his confirmation hearings. n in 2016, there was a huge law that made wendy davis famous. overturned by the supreme court. >> right. >> only because anthony kennedy joined with the liberals. kennedy was the swing vote. john roberts voted with the other side. she needs to be pressed on that issue. >> susan collins is not going to much care if she's being pressed by democrats on this, right? >> no. >> but who might care about the democratic caucus, joe manchin, and heidi hieitkamp. >> at the aca, they're affirmative campaigning on their work to protect the aca. many voted against the president's tax law because it included a back door deal of individual mandate. as donald trump said he's only going to appoint people who will vote the other way john roberts voted in the key case. >> it does seem like, let me just say, people, voters have more to vote when it comes to the supreme court when you look at that than hea

democrats senators joe donnelly, heidei high camp and john manchin, joe johnson, dianne feinstein and republicans lisa murkowski and susan collins. shaim on them. ed henry joining us with the latest. >> this is probably the most conservative court we have seen in generations. >> while liberal liberals frettt the fate of roe v. wade dominated the early headlines about president trump's next supreme court pick, the left is sounding a lot more alarm bells, charging nothing less than the fate of the republic hangs in the balance. >> the issue of how protected the voting rights balance is. how that apply to the redistricting process. there's the issue of how we can control how much billionaires give to candidates. there are a lot of things o on e agenda. >> there's at least some hi peshablsome highpeshably. but there's truth in the fact that for all of the talk of the reagan appointee's conservative votes in the wanes daysen in the last term on decisions that back the president east travel ban, kennedy was the swing vote saving liberals for years on major issues like same-sex marriage and affirmative action. and for every bit of alar

department of justice that is certainly not the way, john, that my sources inside the white house have characterized their relationship. >> all right, kaitlan collinseciate the reporting. joining me now with more on scott pruitt as well as the president thinking when it comes to supreme court picks, cnn political analyst "new york times" white house correspondent maggie haberman. you have some of your own reporting on scott pruitt. >> who among us doesn't? >> exactly. well, 14 investigations, they're falling from trees right now. but there may be a timer, maybe, at his time at the epa. >> there may be, or there may not be. what we have been hearing last week is that pruitt was pretty close to done, and it was certainly an agenda item that john kelly, who also is said to be close to done himself, had wanted to take care of before he leaves. now, that's fine. and i think one of the decisions that kaitlan was making, and she broke a fabulous story, one of the distinctions she was making appropriately was between the president and his aides. his aides have wanted this to happen for some time in terms of getting rid of pruitt. the president has resisted

john cornyn, jr. and for the administration for president george h.w. bush. in 1996, senator collins was elected to the u.s. senate, and in the years since, she has never missed a role call vote. that's more than 6,600 votes in a row. the people of maine clearly trust and admire senator collins and so do her senate colleagues. for the past four years, she was ranked the most bipartisan member of the senate by the lugar center at georgetown university. here at pew we talk a lot about the importance of public service. senator collins' unbroken record of civil service pretty much defines that term. senator collins is here to help us better understand her help in fighting the increase of prescription drug prices. she works with both parties, especially senator mccaskill in missouri, to propose solutions. earlier this year she eliminated gag rules that prevent patients from knowing the lowest national cost for prescription drugs. just last month, the senate judiciary committee passed legislature that will increase competition and increase the affordability of prescription drugs for all am

help this nomination certainly do believe that you look at susan collins from maine she is becoming quite a power player in this with john mccain out ill and likely not able to come back to d.c. and cast a vote for this you're really looking at a scenario in which there are the republicans are numbered at fifty and democrats are numbered at forty nine so you really only need one maybe two republicans here to to go south on this it could create a huge problem for the administration now the interesting thing about susan collins here is she has said that what you just said which is she does believe that roe versus wade is settled law it is that codified into the u.s. constitution as a fundamental right but she left a little wiggle room open she said she would only oppose a nominee who was quote unquote hostile to the road roe versus wade decision so that leaves a little wiggle room for her if she says you know that she thinks that justice will be fair on that she could certainly vote yes on that so i think you're seeing her early leave just a little wiggle room where she could actually support a nominee and i think this mig

collins will do what they always do. give a fair hearing one-on-one, meet with judge kavanaugh individually. we have the great senator john kyle from arizona, former senator of 18 years spent many years on the judiciary committee. he will be shepherding judge kavanaugh. he will be on capitol hill this afternoon. i know they'll be fair and open minded. and that is wonderful to see. i also just want to say about each and every senator that if they just give time to judge kavanaugh they'll see what president trump saw in him in choosing him. here is an important word for the judiciary, humble. humility the whole world saw last night. >> sandra: the president and the first lady are en route on their trip to europe. they're embarking on a major mission there. as we know, the president has been very clear nato countries must pay more, the united states must pair less. very unfair the president tweeted this morning. i want to reference back, kellyanne to kevin corke showed us the e.u. president ahead of the president's visit wrote dear america, appreciate your allies, you don't have that many. what tone is the president hoping t

well biden and clinton , ben nelson all voted for john roberts didn't hurt them in getting re-elected. kelly grace, the wildcard senate votes, collinsur take on this they both voted for kavanaugh for the appeals court in 2006 but they do face immense grassroots pressure right now. how do you think they're going to vote? >> i think the two confirmation s are pretty different the power of the supreme court justice is so big when it comes to these landmark decisions and senator collins is on the record as a pro-choice senator talking about the importance of the president specifically with roe v. wade and judge kavanaugh was in a case with a pregnant woman against how the detention against her access to abortion which she was able to have but he's on the record so i think while he may have impecable credentials there are some things to look at at that would question a real protection to come on to rely on as women as free people in control of our body. liz: he did say in 2006 he's not going to challenge roe v. wade. here is judge kavanaugh talking about his mother last night, ford i want your reaction to this, let's take a listen. >> my

kaitlan collins live in brussels with the very latest. >> reporter: john, contentious is a good way to put it. the president is already setting a combative tone ahead of this summit on twitter this morning. you'll see his tweets there. he's going after nato. that long standing complaint that he's had that he believes that they need to pay more on their defense spending. he doesn't believe they're doing enough. the united states is paying too much. the president saying this morning, nato countries must pay more. we should note that the united states is a nato country, but the president does seem to be spoiling for a fight when he does arrive here in brussels and is going to meet with these european leaders. these european leaders fear that this meeting is going to be even more aggressive than it was last year when the president lectured them on defense spending and what was supposed to be a unifying message. that is their fear here. but that's not all. the president is going to go to london where he's going to meet with the prime minister, theresa may, whose government is in shambles ri

right now, and president trump has had a lot of the ire for john mccain and the health care vote, but remember, he was joined by susan collins and lisa murkowski for voting no on the health care and stymieing president for a major moment, and this is another one, and those two senators are the ones that he is most eager to win over, and who could have the fate of his next nomination in their hands. so, i think that watch those two very carefully, you know, over the next couple of weeks. >> and i wanted to remind everybody that they only need 50 votes to confirm the next supreme court justice because, if you will recall in the neil gorsuch's confirmation, they got rid of the filibuster, and mitch mcconnell used the nuclear option, and what are the options for democrats at that point, lynn? >> one option is to first hold careful carefully, hold in the group the senators up for re-election who are targeted by trump and most particularly senator heidi heig heitkamp. and so, another thing that the democrats can do as using as l rallying cry for 2018 and maybe spilling into 2020 to use to get votes, but it is going to be hard to s

international regulations under the governor john [inaudible] and the director of the small business administration for president george h. w. bush. was996, senator collins elected to the u.s. senate, and in the years since she is ever missed a roll call vote. that's more than 6,600 votes in a row. the people of maine clearly trust and admire senator collins and so do her senate colleagues. for the past four years, she was ranked the most bipartisan member of the senate at georgetown university. here we talk a lot about the importance of public service. senatoror collins unbroken recod of constituent service and constitutional duties pretty much define that term. so today senator collins is her to help us better understand who workedco to stamp the out-of-control increases in perception drug prices. she works closely with parties of both sides to carefully studied this issue and propose evidence-based solutions. earlier this year she introduced legislation to eliminate pharmacy rules that prevent patients from having the lowest possible cost for prescription drugs. just last month the senate judiciary committee passed legislation cosponsored by senator c

collins. they cannot afford to use a single republican senator. that's if john mccain is unable to make it to the senator. there are 51. without mccain that makes it 50. they're relying on mike pence to be the vote. what you heard me asking was whether see would ask the person that the president nominates whether that individual believes roe v. wade is settled law. and that's where she is not committing to voting against the nominee that does not commit to believing that roe v. wade is settle the law. i know it sounds like we're parsing words. she doesn't want anybody to be hostile to roe v. wade. there's a question that it's unlikely an individual in that hearing is going to come out with their personal position saying they are pro-choice. >> right. they're all praying not to do that. they all get from the heritage sighting and the federal society and sherpas who guide them around, training. some of these judges have been confirmed before. they know not to fall into traps. they're judges. they're smart. >> exactly. that's what you heard her say is that that's w

it's sort of a veiled warning for folks like murkowski or collins who have big votes coming up. if george h.w. bush and john mccain are not off limits, nobody is off limits. the test is going to come down to november. right now the president feels like this kind of message, number one, he's shifted from governing to campaigning. he loves to campaign. he's back in it with both feet. number two, he thinks this will be effective. it's quite a gamble. the h.w. comments made a lot of republicans in congress uncomfortable. >> i'm sure uncomfortable, but dana, not a lot of public expression of that discomfort. republicans particularly with the midterms just four months away now, they made a calculation, have they not, that going after this president can be politically dangerous for them. >> sure, it can be politically dangerous and has been politically dangerous. look at mark sanford in south carolina. it was fatal for him, politically fatal for him. having said that, you're right that i think in part it's because this is july 4th week. congress isn't around. if you look at twitter, there have been a lot of commen

>> if they get, manage to pull aside, pull to the side susan collins or lisa murkowski, they might be able to do it. absence of johnds to the difficult math here. but i think that more than likely the whoever is nominated by president trump is going to be nominated. it me the big question, will democrats have a intelligent rational discussion about this, talk about their legitimate differences with that nominee, or we will hear about hitler, nazis auschwitz, like we did with the border controversy? if they overplay the hand and block traffic, break windows, seeing at nebraska gop headquarters, if they have that approach, will be harder to make intelligent case why this nominee should be opposed. adam: doug, is there a way democrats handle this, come out for lack of a better term, people that keep score come out winners, still approve the president's nomination? >> i'm not sure this is a winners and losers. there is a hope we get an nominee an appears absolutist on row very wade, and health care. brett kavanaugh based on prior decisions is conservative but he respected precedent. i would say that i hope we get somet

senate process in this case it's john kyl a former republican senator from arizona but it is going to be a tough process there are two republican senators susan collins i'm sorry susan collins and lisa murkowski one of alaska the other of maine those are the two people that democrats are targeting they're believed to be pro abortion rights and they're going to be trying to swing their votes over against this nominee now both of those women were invited to the white house for the announcement tonight both of them declined as did four republican state democratic senators that the president apparently wanted to entice here there will be a multi million dollar campaign with advertisements on both sides there has already been an ad running here in washington d.c. and in some of the states of those senators playing up president trump's coming choice and there are liberal groups as well there's one group called demand justice that is going to spend five million dollars on this and they will join with the national abortion rights action league in a protest on the supreme court steps this very night so that battle has already begun and with a division of fift

john from politico. and now, so garrett, who is donnelly, manchin, mccastle and murkowski and collins, and so many being targeted with these ads, and so as someone who might potentially break with their party, because of the ads? >> well, the list is shorter than the one that you are laying out talking realistically, and the two republican senators from susan collins and lisa murkowski. and if both of them vote with the party as they do overwh overwhelming majority of the time on the judicial nominations this conversation is effectively over. and you did have three democratic nominees vote for republican nominations. some folks who may want to vote for another trump supporter as well, and also, you can put doug jones on the board, because we have not seen his cards on that the as all. but obviously, the two republican senators, and you are over the line, a nind combination of the democrats, and talking about what is ultimately a fairly comfortable margin here sh, and we won't kn for more than a month and none of the folks are going to be showing their cards before the hearing takes place which is a mont

collins saying she won't vote for someone who is hostile for roe v. wade. they have used these code words and have weighed in to some degree like john roberts and neal gorsuchnless there is a moment in these confirmation hearings that makes clear the nominees are going to vote against roe v. wade, if you are susan collins, are you going to be the one who votes against republicans getting a 5-4 majority? that's a difficult vote even if we are talking about a moderate from maine. >> is there an indication the politicking we are seeing whether it's democrats, we saw democrats at least early on a couple days ago going after barrett and conservative groups have different favorites much they have been putting the word out. is there any indication that it swayed the white house or swayed the president in his deliberations? >> it's hard to say because i think there was at first a little bit of a conservative backlash against judge kavanaugh who has authored obamacare decisions that conservatives have issues with. senator rand paul has apparently expressed reservations about kavanaugh. if he were to follow-through and vote against him, that would imperil the nominat

collin and lisa murkowski. remember, if all democrats oppose the nominee and john mccain cannot vote, either one of those two women could sink the nomination. that said, several republicans have said the president has an excellent group to choose from. >> republicans are holding four lottery tickets and all of them are winners. every republican should embrace these picks. >> i think they'll all be -- they're good judges. i think they'd be fine justices of the supreme court. i do think the president has to think about it. who is the easiest to get confirmed here. i expect we'll do that on sort of a normal timetable of a couple of months. >> i want to bring in nbc's peterpete peter alexander live at the white house. president trump is an expert at creating prime-time reality tv cliffhangers. it's what he does best. so what do you know about where the process ends at this moment? >> a source familiar with the process says it is, in their words, a jump ball, who the president picks tonight. the president acknowledging as much, telling reporters he'd like to make up his mind by noon today. with the decision still up in

collins out here shaking hands. we asked her specifically about this. there is no margin for error for who the president selects to be the next supreme court justice. if johnn is unable to make it to washington, d.c. to vote there is only 50 republican senators. they need 51. that 51st would be mike pence. susan collins, they cannot afford to lose as well as lisa murkowski. those are the two republican pro choice, pro women's reproductive health rights advocates that are the ones they are targeting. i asked susan collins here because that's the question that will be on hand is roe v. wade. could a 5-4 decision overturn roe v. wade? people are zeroing in on her answer to the question and to what extent she will hold the nominee to account to answer squarely whether they would uphold roe v. wade. when i asked her, this is what she told me today. >> i think i have made it pretty clear that if a nominee has demonstrated hostility to roe v. wade i would not support them. >> reporter: she said she doesn't know who the nominee is. i went back and said the question is, are you looking for an absolute commitment from this nominee that they would set -- or acknowled

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example is not an at a paraden roe - yesterday, susan collins says she wants the nominee to declare that roe is the law of the land but we heard that from john robertson in 2005 and he went on in 2016 to join a decision where if he had his way, he would've upheld the antiabortion law out of texas. we are here to warn trumps nominee and till susan collins that calling ro a precedent is not enough, not even close. appointedblican nominees proved these words mean nothing when they get to the bench. we need a supreme court justice who will uphold roe, a supreme court justice that believes women's health in 2016 was rightly decided and one that believes that woman has a right to safe, legal abortions in the specifics wed the want our late at today. in recent days, republicans have been trying to lay the groundwork percent in a nomination not have to answer tough questions at a hearing. they have invoked this is the so-called ionsberg wrote with to ginsburgrences in 1993. the situation was entirely don't than. it was not happening against a backdrop of then-president clinton having issued litmus tests during the campaign. we have gone back and loo

john, you can bet that it was very awkward. >> very interesting, closed press for that first greeting after this interview. kaitlan collins, they also didn't believe it was coming out this morning. we have live pictures from the streets of london. these are some protests. nick is live under that balloon, what do you see? >> it is really just getting going here. that balloon behind me has not been up more for than 25 minutes. the permission was granted by the mayor. i should point out next to me, over heating slightly, donald trump in a gorilla suit. still, regardless, the fact that we have two mocking images of trump here, this is norm lay place on lock down for u.s. sitting presidents. he is not even remotely touching central london. he touched down briefly yesterday afternoon and he overnighted yesterday. we saw two of the aircraft, the osprey flew over congress. the city will likely erupt in congress in the hours ahead. the occasional spotted presence of supporters. some people find this display of a sitting u.s. president as a baby in a diaper not in good taste. >>> joining me now is matthew doyle. also with me is chr

will give them some comfort, because they expect to lose senator collins, and they may lose senator murkowski, and it doesn't appear that johnn town for the vote. neil: so for the president when he ultimately is having these conversations, do you think he is asking -- but this was a list that was put together. >> the list has been out there for months. now, the white house did something very unusual last night. after senator collins said i don't know what i'm going to do, i'm going to vote against somebody who's pro-life or somebody that wants to be activist in her views and get rid of roe v. wade, they said, well, there are some names that are not on the list. now the president has said consistently i'm choosing just from the list. but last night the white house said he's considering some people not on the list. so i don't know if they just said that to dial back senator collins, to get her off the front page, i don't know. neil: well, that rattled some. they were saying, wait a minute, why was this list assembled in the first place? >> the list is novel. candidate trump did it for the seat that justice gorsuch now has, and

. >> simple math tells you if john mccain is absent it is a 50 heiko 49 senate and one republican senator can determine the fate. >> susan collins and lisa markowski both of whom may have concerns about the potential impact on abortion rights. there are also a handful of moderate democrats facing reelection this year and states that president trump one -- won. those election-year pressures are another reason why the white house would like to get this done ahead of the november midterm elections. the president is sticking with this shortlist hoping it will win over conservatives who generally approve of these choices. these names have been out there for a while and some of these individuals were considered for the last supreme court opening and that means democrats have had a long time to build cases against all of them. >> democrats don't have a lot of leverage but will any of them --? >> maybe it depends. there were some senate democrats that supported neil gorsuch for instance but things have gotten ramped up because of those year and politics. will republican lines hold in favor of this nominee and will democratic lines hold

janus parade for the fourth of july, susan collins that she wants to hear a nominee declare that roe is the settled law of the land. that is what we heard from john roberts and 20 -- if he had his way he would've upheld the highly restrictive anti-abortion law. past republican appointed nominees have proven that these words mean nothing when they get onto the bench. we need a supreme court justice who will uphold roe, a supreme court justice to believes that 2016 wasen's health in rightly decided and adjusted to believes that a woman has a right to safe, legal abortion, and the standards we want to hear from these nominee will be liad out by t -- olaid out by the speakers here today. in recent days, republicans have been trying to lay the groundwork for saying that a nominee does not have to answer questions, invoking the ginsburg rule. the situation was entirely different then. it's as it was not happening against the backdrop of then-president clinton having issued litmus test during the campaign saying in advance how he expected his nominee to roll. in any case, we have looked at the record and read what justice ginsburg said. is said this, "

john mccain is recovering from brain cancer and many think he'll never return to washington. that's one republican vote down. then you have susan collins, republican senator saying she's concerned about his record on abortion rights. republicans could need to find some democratic votes to push kavanaugh through. so we'll have drama over this as hearings get started most likely in the middle of september. >> if confirmed. how would he change the nature and the balance of the supreme court? >> reporter: the assumption of course is that he'll move the court to the right. although no one ever knows for sure. couple interesting things, it doesn't change the male-female ratio, six men and three women. interestingly, take a look at the educational background of these justices. this is the current court. you may notice some ivy league bias there, harvard, yale, and columbia. now with kavanaugh in the mix, this is how it would look. not a lot different. biggest difference, harvard five to yale's three, it would be harvard four and yale four. university of california, it's been since earl warren was chief justice of the supreme court almost a ha

get 50 votes from the republican, all 50, john mccain will not be there, he is recovering from brain cancer, or not recovering, dealing with it. to get susan collinse to go cavan aaugh. >> does it mean that non-c non-cavanaugh pick. >> there is a picture of him fishing with justice, they are friends, and he has a fairly modest background, he would fit that mark. he doesn't have that inside washington background, that cavanaugh has. they may help him get through the center. >> build on this. i wanted to add to this. as we look at what some democrats are doing, pushing for it on the russia investigation saying, look, you need to pick a non-from these groups, don't pick from these four, the russia investigation could reach the supreme court, you need someone who will be understanding, if you will of that process. >> absolutely. if democrats had their pick, it would be garland, the nominee from before the 2016 elections. all of the justices, to build on possible folks who could be justices, i think one of the things we should be looking at is someone who will sound like a strict constitutionalist. that is something that conservatives, supportive of tr