in 2012 john tester won by 18,000 votes when president obama lost that state in a landslide. n that by a larger margin so tester has shown an ability to win over montana voters who volt republican and president trump wants to push them away from tester as much as possible. >> tester has tried to run as the authentic montanan. john tester says i'm be you, the national republican party trying to poke him back a bit. >> i come home nearly every weekend, traveling thousands of miles across this great state listening to montanans concerns. when i'm there, i'm taking on everyone defending maryland. these out-of-state dark money groups have a lot of gal lecturing montanans about what is important. >> you deserve a senator who doesn't just talk like he's from montana, you deserve a senator who actually votes like he's from montana. >> they want to impeach president trump and justice kavanaugh. will tester stand with us or with them? you already know the answer. >> tester made clear he's not going to impeach -- in the mood to impeach the president but if you're a republican that's what

[cheers and applause] and all john tester could get was a d.peaks for itself he does not stand with us on border security he wants to do catch and release but i am here to secure the border in the sanctuary cities and build that wall. [cheers and applause] speed 12. >> president trumpet deserves a montana that will support the supreme court nominee not just part of the time. and now having two good men on the supreme court. justice gorsuch and brett kavanaugh. mister tester has been too long for too long. we cannot let john tester when this november they are going after president trump and his agenda and we cannot do that. we need everyone in this hangar and across the state to get up and do their part to win this race. [applause] i encourage everyone as soon as possible tell your friends and family and neighbors to get out and vote. [applause] i will always put montana first because the work he is doing really is making america great again. [cheers and applause] thank you montana may god bless each and every one of you and bless the united sta

out for revenge against john tester. >> one of the saddest things i've seen is john tester and what heid to a great, great man. admiral ronny jackson. >> reporter: as the ranking member of the veterans affairs committee, he revealed allegations of improper behavior that took down trump's pick for v.a. secretary and trump quickly called for tester's resignation. >> if you known the president would go after you so hard, would you still do it? >> so if you look at what my job is united states senator, it's to confirm nominees. i got a job to do. i did my job. >> reporter: trump won montana by 20 points. for his july visit tester bought welcoming ads in newspapers across the state but republicans are hitting back. testers vote against trump on tax cuts and immigration. >> he may look like montana but he votes like them. >> reporter: tester's most effective answer to trump's popularity may be this. >> i think personality plays big here. i think how montana you are. that really matters. >> what does that mean? >> every chance tester has, you see him emphasizing his deep roots in montana. gen

that's the exact -- so here he is taking on john tester for opposing him and then coming out and sayinge -- maybe he shouldn't have gotten it anyway. so it was sort of remarkable to me because he is taking on tester on that very note. >> for him to go to montana three times. >> not easy. >> really tough to get there and there are so many races that could use president trump going there. >> right. >> to go to montana three times? >> right. john tester always has a close race. montana's purple but -- so the president wants to make the difference here and rosendale, as you can see, is -- you know, he struggles on the stump a little bit. trump wants to be for him. >> gloria borger, thank you so much. >>> coming up when love and politics collides. jeanne moos on this republican duo hitting the campaign trail. ♪ let's fly, let's fly away ♪ ♪ just say the words ♪ and we'll beat the birds down to acapulco bay ♪ ♪ it's perfect for a flying honeymoon they say ♪ ♪ come fly with me ♪ let's fly, let's fly away ♪ ♪ come fly with me ♪ let's fly, let's fly away ♪ ♪ east bound and down (performed by jer

time out for revenge against john tester. >> one of the saddest things i've seen is john tester and what to a great, great man. admiral ronnie jackson. >> at as the ranking making of the veterans affairs committee, he revealed improper behavior that took down trump's pick for v.a. secretary and trump called for tester's resignation. >> if you had known the president would go after you so hard on ronnie jackson, would you still do it? >> if you look at my job as a united states senator. confirm nominees. i got a job to do. i did my job. >> he won by 20 points. for his july visit, tester bought ads in newspapers across the state. but roons arepublicans are hitting back on tax cuts and immigration. >> he may look like montana, but he votes like them. >> tester's most effective answer to trump's popularity may be this. >> i think personality plays big here and how montana you are. >> what does that mean? >> every chance tester has, you see him emphasizing his deep roots in montana. how many generations he's been here. the playbook to attack rosendale is to emphasize how he's not been here ve

then you have john tester in the fight of his life. he could lose in montana. i hope the people in indiana reject the libertarian so then joe is toast. it's the house i am worried about. >> president trump with 15 days. that's a lot of time on the clock to get his message out. look what happened to us during the campaign. everybody counted us out after the access hollywood tape and wham he is the 45th president of the united states. that was only 30 days. 15 days, that's a mooch and a half. >> sean: [laughing]. i want to applaud you. you captured something in your book. it's on amazon.com. trump the blue collar president. the people he is helping are the

vote john tester has been too wrong for too long. 't let jon tester and the radical liberal resistance win this november. if they win, they'll go after president trump and his agenda. we can't let that happen. we need everyone in this hanger and across the state to get up and give their support to win the race. [cheering] ballots have dropped. i encourage everyone to please cast your vote and to turn them in as soon as possible. tell your friends, your family, and your neighbors to get out and vote. [applause] [cheering] i pledge to always put montana first, and i will stand in strong support of president trump because the work that he's doing really is making america great again. [applause] thank you montana. thank you president trump. may god bless each and every one of you and these great united states of america. [applause] [cheering] >> president trump: thank you matt. and i have to say a vote for tester is a vote that really is going to count for you, he's replacing far-left with common sense, and we have to get out. we are look

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the candidate who brought trump to montana, matt rosendale challenging john tester for his senate seat which means it is personal for the president as they express continued discussed with tester for going public with unproven accusations of misconduct to run the va, admiral jackson who withdrew under scrutiny. >> i can never forget what john tester did to a man of the highest quality. what he did was unfair, what he did was vicious. >> i had a chance to ask about the president's criticism and he insisted he didn't make it up anything, just repeated things he was told by active-duty service members and veterans but the president not satisfied by that. he accused tester of supporting open borders and being hostile to gun owners and this rosendale event benefits the candidate in a way that tester doesn't have because the president tonight offered this senate challenger a platform and a stage where there were thousands of potential voters gathered where is tester hosted his own event earlier today which attracted just a few dozen. shannon: if you saw our program last night, promoted inter

john tester's been popular too.e white house -- rob: the doctor. >> yeah, dr. ronny jackson. roseendale is working hard. i think right now you've seen a couple polls that see him moving into a tie a couple points ahead. rob: we'll have to see what happens. the last two, this is a very interesting race in arizona. >> these are tight races. they're republican defense seats, where senator heller who is running for reelection, you've got the flake open seat. the interesting thing about this, the polling is all over the map. you've had it where both republicans are in dead heats, you've had them a couple points ahead and some polls have them pretty far ahead. i feel good from the standpoint of republicans winning. heller knows how to win in montana. he's continually had a lead. martha mcfally, it feels like le an oppo dump after comments that were made that didn't go too well. rob: the senate could go 54, 54 with the republicans. >> it could go. they're starting to extend their map a lot. rob: thank you very much. carley

john tester is challenging matt rose ne rosendale. my colleague also traveled to montana recently.ace into which a lot of money has been poured. 40 plus million dollars when you look at candidate themselves and outside groups. what's your sense of what will turn this. it's the urban rural divide. where is the action going to be here in montana? >> this is a debate about public lands. more than that about who should control them. it's about authenticity. not necessarily who is the best ranch rancher. it's about independence from d.c. politics. take a look. >> what does it mean to be montana? >> it's beautiful here. you have mountains. you have the lakes. you've got everything. >> i wouldn't leave here for nothing. >> when ever god comes to earth, he stays in montana. >> it means hunting and fishing. >> reporter: here the way you live your life out doors matter. people attack tester because he doesn't have hunting license. rosendale is from maryland but in the past he's voted for the state to control these public lands. >> millionaires from back east. maryland and other states bought

the average of polls in montana puts the incumbent john tester 48.3 percent. his opponent, macros and deal at 45.3. president trump is especially unhappy with john tester and he would like to see a republican get that seat. >> that's the interesting angle here and that's what i expect to be on full display when he heads to montana this week. it is a personal distaste after what happened with ronny jackson. he felt tester railroaded his nominee to head of the va. and that really, you can see right away. the president has gone to montana. this will be his third visit. he's going out of his way. he knows tester is formidable. he has voted against both of his supreme court nominees which is something a lot of the other red state democrats have not done.your joe manchin, joe donnelly. tester is seen as uniquely vulnerable. the polls are tightening. tighter than people expected. this race is closer right now and then sitting here a year ago.people probably would have expected it to be. not only does trump see a particular durability. he also has a very personal disr

there's no question that president trump really, really dislikes senator john tester. times. i wouldn't be surprised if he got out there again in the remaining days of the campaign. >> i know there are three other big senate races that democrats need to win if they have any hope at all of this, that is texas, tennessee, north dakota. has your thinking changed on any of those in the past week? or do republicans still have the edge? >> i think they still have the edge, but they're all close enough so that, for example, a big democratic turnout a big blue wave could certainly change tennessee more than the other two. but potentially texas. north dakota, i think both parties are in agreement, maybe it's not true, but they're in agreement that probably the republican congressman kramer has the edge on senator heidi heitkamp. we all know texas is something everyone is looking at between ted cruz, the republican incumbent, and beto o'rourke, the democratic challenger who's raised an unbelievable amount of money. tennessee is the one parties disagree about. >> right. >> the de

president trump on his way to montana, in support of republican matt rosen dale, trying to oust john tester. politic polls have tester up by a few points, making it a key race for president and his america first agenda. >> we will be talking some tough things about senator tester. >> who has been a disaster. lou: and bob hugo an up 2 points behind bob menendez. joining me to talk about latest polling. ahead of the midterms. fox news political analyst, my good friend ed rollins, i want to start with agreement with government of mexico. president has negotiated here. this is a landmark moment, i believe in relationship between two. >> fabulous agreement, we have 22 million illegals. lou: minimum. >> we can't have open borders. you see these people coming up through on trucks and walking and what have you. like mexico is an open highway. and saying they will have a passport to get to mexico, will provide them security at end of the border that is a major step forward. president deserves great credit, and the president of mexico for cooperating. lou: president outgoing in two months with approv

then you have john tester in the fight of his life. he could lose in montana.e the people in indiana reject the libertarian so then joe is toast. it's the house i am worried about. >> president trump with 15 days. that's a lot of time on the clock to get his message out. look what happened to us during the campaign. everybody counted us out after the access hollywood tape and wham he is the 45th president of the united states. that was only 30 days. 15 days, that's a mooch and a half. >> sean: [laughing]. i want to applaud you. you captured something in your book. it's on amazon.com. trump the blue collar president. the people he is helping are the forgotten men and women. that's scaramucci and "hannity." absolutely. these are people who love the guy. they are positive. the media can say whatever they want. the more media nonsense thrown at the president, the more people are like the scaramuccis. liberals don't want to hear that message. they talk over you. that's fine. one of the problems of writing a book like this, if the liberals read it they will see the p

locked in a tight and a bitter contest against the arrogant wheezal incumbent -- weasel incumbent john tester. >> president trump: we have doing a rally for matt rosendale who is a fantastic man. he is doing very well. we will be talking some pretty tough things about senator tester who has been a disaster. a disaster for montana. >> lou: the top story tonight the caravan of 4,000 central americans from honduras has traveled through guatemala and poised to cross to mexico. the leading edge of that caravan is in guatemala. once over the border they face a journey of more than 1200 miles to reach brownsville, texas. the closest point where they are now on the southern border of mexico. earlier today, the mexican government dispatched additional police to the southern border and they warned the vary can that mexico will not permit them to enter mexico without a passport and visa. it's unclear whether mexican government officials are responding to president trump's request that guatemala and mexico stop the caravan before it gets near the united states and the president makes it clear he will ord

he's going to try to help the republican who is trying to unseat the two term incumbent john tester. her own political life had to cling closer to donald trump and refashion herself as a trump supporter. the consequence of that is that race between her and the democrat is seen as a toss up. later in the week he goes to elko, nevada in support of dean heller. in fighting for dean heller, donald trump is fighting for his own political future because he's made clear what would happen if democrats take back the senate. >> that is refashioning once as a trump supporter. last night you had mitch mcconnell on stage in kentucky. the president calling him a tough cookie. embracing him on stage in kentucky. what's your sense of degree in which the president is helping as we look at these races going to the election? >> with president trump tough cookie is high praise especially with a guy with whom he was very critical of mitch mcconnell after the debate over repealing the affordable care act didn't pass. there's only trump republicans. it seems to me every republican just about running in thi

inside, we talked to the folks who support the president, to support matt rosendale running against john tester doesn't really vote for montana. >> not truthful and not good for montana. >> what do you think the president? >> amazing. build the economy. >> panel on cnn people who attend trump rallies are cruel. >> if that is true there's an awful lot of cool people in missoula. look at the line. >> reporter: are you cruel? >> know. >> reporter: we are group of people that embrace godly values. >> so important to this family, not only does this have a ribbon in her hair but check out this guy's hair. >> as a legal immigrant from romania what do you think when you see what is going on with the caravan from honduras? >> it is pretty bad because the american people -- i think -- they will be able to have more security. >> from canada to the united states, served in the military. cannot allow vast amounts of people to move irresponsibly across 1234 countries. a lot are manipulated. >> what will you say? >> go home. >> reporter: the two big topics that stood out to me, one, that cruelty comments. whe

welcome, like deep red montana, where he staged three rallies to try and defeat democratic senator john testerhe's all but steering clear of florida, holding no big rallies so far this fall. bill nelson has asked trump to stay away. his itinerary is different than on his victory tour after the 2016 election, gop candidates are trailing in most of those trump states. but republicans are likely to keep control of the senate because of the blessing of geography, in red state races like tennessee, where a rally lasts long after he leaves because of a film ad blasting the democratic candidate. >> this guy will vote against us every single time. >> reporter: the president appears in nearly 20% of all political ads. so far this year, 20% has been spent on house ads. the midterm election has -- even old rivals like ted cruz have long embraced him and now depend on trump to fire up his coalition. >> i think it energizes people and it raises turnout. >> it will be of course not the first time they have met. they actually buried that hatchet in a private dinner at the white house shortly after he was ele

red states folks like joe manchin who is going to vote for judge kavanaugh but also folks like john tester in montana or heidi heitkamp in north dakota that's going to be important. polling data shows republicans in the red states with blue senators have become more agitated and involved in terms of coming out to the polls. they are more motivated. the democratic map in the senate is more problematic than the republicans. the blue wave that's been building will benefit the house but not the senate except in possibly nevada. there will be a republican uprising especially into the last 30 days of the election. >> it's been a polarizing confirmation process. hopefully this won't become the status quo when it comes to politics moving forward. david mccuan, political science professor at sonoma state university, thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. >>> california senator kamala harris has strong remarks against the confirmation saying the fbi investigation into sexual assault allegations made by professor ford was incomplete. >> we fell short. we did not do her justice. w

on the other hand, claire mccaskill and john tester in montana and joe donnelly in indiana are in graverulty because of this. dana: all right, karl rove, we appreciate having you. stick around. senators preparing to vote on his confirmation just about 40 minutes are from now. live to protests on capitol hill just ahead. applebee's to go. add a fountain drink to your next order for just 99 cents. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. . . in an emergency, minutes can mean the difference between life and death. proposition 11 saves lives by ensuring medical care is not delayed in an emergency. proposition 11 establishes into law the longstanding industry practice of paying emts and paramedics to remain on-call during breaks and requires they receive fema level training and active shooters and natural disasters. vote yes on 11 to ensure 911 emergency care is there when you or your love one need it. dana: welcome back, demonstrators making their voices heard. tensions still high. you can see it there. leland vittert live from outside the supreme court with more. leland. leland: afternoo

in montana, john tester in a tight race with republican challenger, matt rosendale. in missouri, democrat claire mccaskill is losing ground. she's behind in her race against josh haully. in arizona, she's an american hero. republican martha mcsally in a tight race. now slightly up in the latest polls for that open seat. in nevada, republican senator dean heller. an important race. a small lead in some recent poles. that is tight. in indiana, democrat chuck schumer lover joe donnelly is being challenged by michael braun. tomorrow we'll review more important races. going from the west coast all the way to the east coast. the left will bank on emotions and rage and anger. conservatives have to be informed, energized and vote on the principles of our constitution that make this country great. ronald reagan rightfully warned freedom is one generation away from extinction. in 27 days, you, we, the people have a duty to defend that freedom for generations to come. here's a question. are you, are we as a country better off than we were just two short years ago? is our econom

lawn in the next couple of hours before he makes a swing out west and three critical state, and john tester is in his sights, and tell us what is so crucial about these states for the president. there are so many places that he thinks or knows that he may go, and montana is one of those place places. >> yes, that is exactly right. and montana unlike the other senate races that are competitive for the democrats have tightened. and tightened significantly over the past few weeks after the brett kavanaugh confirmation where the republicans got a lift in motivation, and trump is hoping to extend it, and he is doing what he is doing, and going on the attack and making it all about him. there's -- particularly -- >> and is it about him, and the president says it is not about me, and the republicans will carry the weight and it is their problem if they have fail ed. i have been to the bun of of the rallies, because on the trail, he says that you are voting for me. >> and he says that people come up all of the time and say, that i wish that you were on the ballot because i could get out the vote, a

. >> and i just had a chance to ask senator john tester about the president's taunt on twitter concerning tester's role in helping to tank ronny jackson as the president's v.a. nominee a couple months ago. the president wrote this. he said ever since his vicious and totally false statements about ron jackson, the white house doctor for obama and bush, senator jon tester looks to be in big trouble in this great state of montana. he behaved worse than the democrat mob did with justice k. but tester told me that it wasn't him. >> i didn't see the president's tweet but i didn't make those statements. those are accusations that came from military people, both active military and retired. he with drew his name from the nomination process after those accusations were made. >> tester wants to leave the ronny jackson saga in the past to focus on the future. matt rosendale isn't ready to let it go and he now says that tester's treatment of ronny jackson gave democrats a road map to disrupt the kavanaugh proceedings months later. >> jon tester came out several months ago and perform the same type of

senate candidate at rosendale running against john tester. watch live coverage tonight at 8:30 eastern on c-span2, online at c-span.org any with the c-span radio app and the c-span network, your primary source for campaign 2018. on capitol hill yesterday the senate judiciary committee considered the nomination of several judges to serve in the southern districts of florida and allison to sit on the 4th circuit court of appeals. this is about an hour. >> our nominees and their

indiana, heidi heitkamp of north dakota, claire mccaskill of montana and i mean missouri and then -- john testermontana. will come back to bite them next month. that is with the senator saying. when they are up for reelection in states that were won by president trump in 2016. senator mcconnell also went on to say that only one of the red state democrats voted in the way that helps them politically and that was joe manchin iii referring to the west virginia senator. while political tribalism is at a fever pitch and all-time high, dear predictions about how the extreme polarization will impact our democracy? >> arjun i think there is any doubt about it. there are all these estimates about how polarized we have been in the past. you go back to the differences in the vietnam war, some have even said you have to go back to the american civil war. to find us that divided. i will not go back there. the research people put out a poll a couple months ago. how about this, almost 8 in 10 americans think that democrats and republicans just do not disagree on the plans each party has. it is their policies b

he's campaigning against john tester?ster did to ronny jackson who he wanted the run. >> republican strategists say the race is significantly closer. >> so trump could have an impact? >> trump could have an impact. we'll see. >> stand by to stand by. >>> coming up for us. beto o'rourke has tons of cash but he doesn't have a ton of time. the texas democrat is trailing in his bid to bounce senator ted cruz out of office. will a new strategy step in what is the new strategy? that's next. ♪ a wealth of information. a wealth of perspective. ♪ a wealth of opportunities. that's the clarity you get from fidelity wealth management. straightforward advice, tailored recommendations, tax-efficient investing strategies, and a dedicated advisor to help you grow and protect your wealth. fidelity wealth management. with a $500,000 life insurance policy. how much do you think it cost him? $100 a month? $75? $50? actually, duncan got his $500,000 for under $28 a month. less than a dollar a day. his secret? selectquote. in just minutes, a s

. >> reporter: dana, i'll keep my voice down a bit not to interrupt but we are hearing from john testerp his seat. he is talking a lot today about veterans because this is a state where one out of every ten residents is either active duty military or a veteran. >> did this in a bipartisan way. that's how my work on the va committee is. it's how you get things done. i know that you know that the guy who doesn't have a clue about this is my opponent, matt rosendale. >> reporter: and before president trump comes to rally for rosendale, he tweeted this about tester's interaction with the veterans affairs committee. he wrote, ever since his vicious statements about admiral ron jackson, the doctor for obama, bush and me, senator tester was in trouble. that is something on matt rosendale's mind as well. >> jon tester came out several months ago and performed the same type of character assassination on ronnie jackson, so he invented this smear tactic that the washington democrats are using. dianne feinstein perfected it when she came out and performed her character assassination on judge kavana

tennessee, ma that mcsally, did he know heller can win, heidi heitkamp is toast in new details, john testerthe fight of his life, he could lose in montana and joe donnelly, i hope the people in indiana reject the because joe connelly is toast. >> i agree, it's super close. president trump with 15 days, that's a lot of time on the clock to get his message out. so, for me, i'm not counting anything out. look at what happened to us during the campaign. everybody counted us out after the access hollywood tape and then wham he's the 45th president of the united states. that was only 30 days. with 15 days to go, since that's like a time period, almost like a mooch and-a-half hannity, you know what i'm saying? >> sean: a mooch and-a-half? >> yeah, 11 and-a-half. >> sean: i want to applaud you, your book is on amazon.com book stores everywhere, how the people he's helping are the forgotten men and women, that's the scaramucci and hannities. >> that's the people in the book, i have clammers, auto glass collision people in my family. >> sean: i have a prison guard mother, i get it. >> these people ge

. >> incumbent john tester in montana, running a as centrist before, is facing a tough battle against call it the bat. crew cuts. it would be aen with for republicans and insulate the majority should they lose a more competitive seat. >> bret: karen? >> i actually mixed a house race, i'm going up there this weekend to look at it myself. congressman fosso, update new york, written off this summer. he has a very dynamic democratic challenger. this is a district in most of the contested directs, president trump is not popular, places that hillary clinton won. this is one where president trump is more popular than the inkim bent. >> bret: mark? >> i've been following tennessee. in this case it shows the kavanaugh effect. this is a state that donald trump won by 26 points, blackburn was struggling. and she was in september, right at the start of the kavanaugh hearings, down by five points against a popular, moderate democratic governor. after kavanaugh, she's up by 15 points in the "new york times" poll. if there's any doubt there's a kavanaugh effect, this is a state that the democrats ha

and nevada and montana, but montana may just be, one source told memay just be getting back at john tester what he did to go after ronnkson, the white house doctor, who was up for v.a. secretary. the impression i have been getting from a lot of people i have been talking toho are in republican campaign committees is that a lot of the preselent's tris based on what best serves the president, whe president wants to do, who he wants to promote, so he went to nsas because the candidate for governor there is someone who he feels close to, has a good relationship with chris kobach. so each stop is different, but he's going to el con, nevada, which is rural and less population but mucmore republican. >> woodruff: amy, we have been ealking about this in the senat races, the republicans seem to be holding their own, democrats have a better shot at house races. it seems conextradictory. ain what's going on. >> this election is taking place in two different countries, seems like. the race for the senate is take place or at least for control of the senate is taking place in prally red parts of america

donald trump campaigns in montana for republican senate candidate matt rosendale who was challenging john testerverage at 8:30 eastern on c-span2. with 19 days until the midterm elections c-span is your primary source for campaign 2018. >> with election day less than a month away, control of congress in question, see the competition for yourself on c-span. watch the debate from key house and senate races. make c-span your primary source for campaign 2018. >> two debate on our companion network c-span, 4:00 eastern a debate between three candidates for governor of connecticut, republican bob stefanohski, independent candidate's kriegel from the connecticut broadcasting association starting at 4:00 eastern on c-span. later in pennsylvania's tend congressional district, scott perry debates democratic challenger george scott live from harrisburg, pennsylvania at 7:00 on c-span, your primary source for campaign 2018. >> moderator: joining us is senior politics reported to talk about the most vulnerable ho

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senate candidate at rosendale running against john tester. watch live coverage tonight at 8:30 eastern on c-span2, online at c-span.org any with the c-span radio app and the c-span network, your primary source for campaign 2018. on capitol hill yesterday the senate judiciary committee considered the nomination of several judges to serve in the southern districts of florida and allison to sit on the 4th circuit court of appeals. this is about an hour. >> our nominees and their families. senator grassley asked me to head a statement here which i'm pleased to do. i'd like to briefly mention why we're holding this hearing, while the senate's in recess. it's because ranking member feinstein agreed to hold this hearing. the chairman, as a courtesy and accommodation to the ranking member twice postponed the hearing originally scheduled for september 26th and that forced the chairman to postpone the hearing scheduled for last week to today. >> the ranking member not only agreed to hold hearing on october 10, october 17 and october 24, but she also sp

senate candidate matt rosendale who is running against senator john tester. watch live coverage tonight at 8:30 eastern on c-span2, online at c-span do the cori.org or th. this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, saturday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on reel america, the 1968 broadcast the nixon answer, southern town hall. >> i do not believe that nuclear bombs or nuclear weapons should be used in vietnam. i do not think they're necessary to be used in vietnam. and i think nuclear weapons should be reserved only for what we hope will never come and which i think great diplomacy and it will have to be great diplomacy can avoid and that is a confrontation with a nuclear power. >> sunday at 6:00 p.m., we'll tour the baseball americana exhibit at the library of congress which includes mag in a carta, precivil war document that's spell out the basic rules and organization of the game. and at 8:00, on the presidency, former president george w. bush, cokie roberts and friends, reflect on the life of former first lady barbara bush. >> she had this motto that you're g

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john tester is a democrat. he has held that seat for several cycles. look at the real clear average between these two men on the board behind me it's three points. what's difficult about gauging this race, however, there hasn't been a poll in montana in a month's time. matt rosendale is my guest in montana. i did reading to see what the issues are. healthcare keeps coming up time and again. is this what decides the race in montana? >> it's one of the real big factors. john tester brought us obamacare and my work in the auditor's office has shown i have really worked very hard to make sure pre-existing conditions and chronic conditions are covered and make sure people of montana have a broad range of healthcare options to accommodate. >> bill: he is arguing you are putting pre-existing conditions at risk. you both believe healthcare costs are going higher and there has to be a solution but you differ on what the solution is. >> absolutely. the problem is he brought us obamacare, which is what is driving the costs up, bill. i've been working for quite so

senate candidate matt rosendale whose running against john tester. live coverage on c-span 2 and with the free c-span radio app. your primary source for campaign 2018. up next, the pentagon's 2019 budget plan. over the next hour and 20 minutes panelists discussed overseas contingency operations, defense acquisitions and the proposal to create a space force. >> welcome everyone. we are going to get started. i am todd harrison, my co-author in the study we are releasing today is seamus daniels. working on defense budget issues. today we are going to talk about what has been going on in the 2019 defense budget. right now congress, they are putting the final touches on the appropriations bill for fy19. we are not planning to go into a lot of detail, what the bill does relative to the request, going to look at the broader trends of what's going on the budget and what it means for the future. going to try to answer these questions. how we get to where we are and what is next. that's probably what a soldier in syria was asking himself in the picture was tak

joe donnelly in indiana doug jones of alabama, claire mccaskill of missouri, john tester, hide by heitkamp, bill nelson of florida. only joe manchin was a yes from west virginia. do you believe that republicans now have a chance to pick off some of those seats as a result of the kavanaugh nomination? >> i do. the fear we had on the business side of the republican politics and campaigns elections was that our electorate was a little bit flat, not that they were unexcited but history shows you that there's a 20% drop between a presidential election and an election in the midterms. so i think what it's done is told the base your vote does matter, and it's made them politically aware. the problem we have is 30-something days to an election cycle is a lifetime in politics. how do you keep it up? the democratic base was already energized. they didn't like donald trump. what you're seeing here is some of the reverse could happen to the republican party. we were able to gain 1400 legislative seats all over the country, usually in the midterms you will catch about 375 seats. so the ramifications of