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had mitch mcconnell's wife as the transportation secretary. he has a check coming into his house, his wife works for donald trump and a lot of people don't understand what is going on. i have been watching this whole thing, all the hearings and of donald trump -- donald trump does not play fair. once they picked that special counsel, he said he was effed. they were going to uncover all of that dirt and that is why he knew he was done. host: the house is coming in for a quick pro forma session at 9:30. i want to give you guys a chance to respond. are democrats going to go next with the mother report and what are the prospects of impeachment? anna: we wrote about this today. the prospects of impeachment are low. what we saw coming out of the mother report is no republicans in the senate saying it is time to move forward on this. i am seeing a lot of caution on the part of nancy pelosi to try and give her troops room to breathe while there are some on the left that want to move forward with impeachment. there is a lot of wariness among democrats.

mitch mcconnell was even surprised. somebody who watches the court more than anybody. >> about the call you just had, i'd like to know how the clintons are not worth $3,150,000,000 when they left the white house broke. moving on to that, your host said about trump being experienced, i would like to know what eight years of obama did give me accomplishments there. we have universal healthcare and we know what happened with that. finally, you talk about the russians, who was present during the election? who was president in the 2016 elections? whose responsibility was that? protecting the american people. >> alan, east chicago, indiana. democrat. >> good morning. it's wonderful to see your lovely face, i love it. my comment was, i put all this at the state of mitch mcconnell, two weeks after obama was elected, he made the statement, we will not do anything to help this president succeed. next eight years, they were the party of no. he stayed that way. when i say when trump came in, he had an agenda of his own. he figured

here are charles schumer and mitch mcconnell. >> mr. president, this is a very sad day for the senate. at a time when leader mcconnell brags about confirming more judges than anyone has done in a very long time, he feels the need to invoke the terribly destructive and disproportionate procedure of the nuclear option in order to fast-track even more of president trump's ultra conservative nominees to the federal bench. before i discuss in greater detail, i want to note for the record democrats were prepared to confirm the nomination of mr. kessler by unanimous consent so the cloture vote we had was unnecessary. now, if you had been listening to senators debate this issue in recent days, you've heard a lot of claims and counterclaims about cloture votes, about rates of confirmation for circuit and district courts in different congresses, about judicial vacancies and other arcane things that may not sound very illuminating. vacancies and other arcane things that may not sound very illuminating. so i want to start which making clear what th

you saw mitch mcconnell going up every day. he was the steady hand behind the scenes that kept pressing forward. he felt they needed to confirm judge kavanaugh. even when they had to stop things a little bit and have the investigation, he was always saying, how do you get through the process? he made conversations with the president throughout this. thatuck with it in a way is a fascination about who is mitch mcconnell, how he took on the kavanaugh nomination is how he leads. he picks the endpoint of his but he always much gets what he wants done. jake: the interesting thing about that process was, during the supreme court nomination, the president and mitch mcconnell spoke. mitch mcconnell told the president, you better be able to pop another supreme court nominee into this if kavanaugh comes sideways. during the hearing, when christine blasey ford testified, mitch mcconnell told -- called trump, after her testimonial and said, we are at halftime. let's see where we are at the end of the game. after caven cannot angry -- kavan

>> according to mitch mcconnell, yeah. mcconnell took credit for it this afternoon. i talked to the president on monday afternoon. on monday night, he tweeted he's -- >> done with health care. >> he's not bunting. he's punting. mcconnell told him we are not going to do that. and we don't have a plan. we don't have -- we don't have the votes for it. we're not going to do that in the senate. so i don't know. maybe trump has a secret plan locked in mick mulvaney's safe and he's going to unlock it on whatever, november whatever 2024, but it's a little hard to imagine that that's the case. >> peter, it's nigh understanding the president, it's him alone whawants to do health care. no one else around him does. >> i think that's right. i think a lot of people around him are confounded by this, including his own advisers. some of them have talked to him and said why are you doing this now? his view is look, did democrats own the health care issue last fall during the midterm elections? maybe they did and therefore doing nothing is also harmful. maybe we need to try to find a

ignore the president and talk with mcconnell? >> you know what, i don't want to glide over the fact that the president of the united states is basically dangling pardons in front of people. it's highly illegal activity. and i know that trump is abnormal and we kind of change the bar, but this should be like a hair on fire event. when any president of the united states -- >> you sounding like james comey. he goes, yeah, he wants me in jail and i laugh it off. suddenly i realize we're numb to this. we're getting numb to this irrational behavior. >> i do think this is a serious set of events, which is essentially what's happening is the president has a failed immigration policy, right? border movements are up. people coming across the border are spiking. he had a strategy which he said would succeed, which is the family separation policy. if you basically make it so terrible for people to come across the border, they would not come. that has been a failure. i think the challenge he has or the worry he has, and i agree with you, he i

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had mitch mcconnell's wife as the transportation secretary.e has a check coming into his house, his wife works for donald trump and a lot of people don't understand what is going on. i have been watching this whole thing, all the hearings and of donald trump -- donald trump does not play fair. once they picked that special counsel, he said he was effed. they were going to uncover all of that dirt and that is why he knew he was done. host: the house is coming in for a quick pro forma session at 9:30. i want to give you guys a chance to respond. are democrats going to go next with the mother report and what are the prospects of impeachment? anna: we wrote about this today. the prospects of impeachment are low. what we saw coming out of the mother report is no republicans in the senate saying it is time to move forward on this. i am seeing a lot of caution on the part of nancy pelosi to try and give her troops room to breathe while there are some on the left that want to move forward with impeachment. there is a lot of wariness among democrats. i

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that is passing for leadership mcconnell style.e news york times" columnist charles low writing present comes immigration policy is winning votes however i don't know how to break this to mr. blow, this president has done a lot more for african-americans than any other president since lincoln. the black unemployment rate in this country, the poverty rate at an all-time historic low. median household incomes rising to record highs. wages and salaries jumping to the highest level in a decade. joining us tonight aamer reagan white house political director fox is political analyst ed rollins. charles low has decided it's about immigration. >> it's a strong economy. the strong economy is a critical thing. african-american men have had the highest employment that they have had in decades if ever. they have seen many low income people being underpaid. lou: illegal immigrants undercutting wages in this country and he's entirely right about that. let's get to mitch mcconnell and would you please explain to me what in the heck he is doing? >

trump said this -- >> did mitch mcconnell ask you to delay this? >> no, i wanted to delay it myself. i want to put it after the election because we don't have the house, so even though the health care is good, really good, it's much better than -- when the plan comes out, which we'll be showing you at the appropriate time, it's much better than obamacare. so when the plan comes out, you'll see it. >> it's much better than obamacare. it doesn't exist but it's much better than obamacare. not a word of the trump health care plan exists anywhere. not on a note pad. nowhere. but it's much better than obamacare. what do you call that? there is a political discussion to be had about this and there is a psychiatric discussion to be had about this. and that is why we are leading off our discussion tonight with dr. prudence, a psychologist and psycho analyst and past president of the psycho analytic association. also with us ron klain, he knows the workings of the white house and the senate. and knows the kind of dine mix that go on between mitch mcconnell a

that's mitch mcconnell in his memoir.eck. >> john, it is so helpful to see how we got here and hear the hypocrisy built in there. >> mitch mcconnell's long game is a different game here. >> very different. >> the pentagon is pulling a contingent of u.s. troops out of libya after a surge of violence in tripoli. the american forces are there to provide support for diplomatic missions and counter terrorism activities. the libyan army announced air strikes against united nations-backed forces in southern tripoli. secretary of state mike pompeo is calling for a stop to the offensive. >> motel 6 will pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit after several locations in washington state gave personal guest information to u.s. immigration officials. the state attorney general's office said seven motel 6 locations voluntarily shared guest lists with i.c.e. agents resulting in targeted investigations of guests with latino sounding names. >>scircus lion attacked a trainer during a live performance in the ukraine. the terrifying moment was

host: mitch mcconnell is up for reelection in 2020. has he changed the way he conducts himself as majority leader when he faces voters in two years? guest: he always has a challenge. kentucky,s, even in are not the strongest for republicans. but he has -- he is a very savvy tactician. democratsady -- the -- there was a tough campaign in a republican district. she is talking about a possible challenger. but mcconnell money and savvy, he has been able to win a bunch of campaigns in kentucky. that will scare away a lot of the democratic opponents. has hishile mcconnell critics, he has grown support in the republican party because he is aligned with the president. he has been able to push through a massive number of judges and rework the whole system of the court. he got brett kavanaugh on the supreme court, which was quite a fight. while he and president trump disagree on a lot of things, they have been able to push that aside. -- that has earned him some respect there. was going to say, the opening video of mcconnell plus reelection camp

who serve in the military version, not concerns couple that senator mcconnell's.>the legislation paul billings with the american lung association says he fears mcconnell's bill will include loopholes and nrotections for tobacco companies until details are out he's encouraging lawmakers to sign on to other democrat backed plans in the senate in washington recall martin. >>that's a crime for news at 5 can waited teresa stasi or here with part 4 news at 6. thank you very much to keep well rescue efforts have turned to recall every efforts as an east a teenager swept away by rip tides in half moon bay. the emotional place family is making tonight and we're learning more about why so many dead whales are turning up on bay area shorelines and appears to be. >>humans are to blame. plus a brawl at a nice pace children's amusement center in south was some children being pepper sprayed that story and more coming up on call f >>and feel physically. tonight at 6 a search has been called off for a hayward high school senior believed to have drowned in half moon bay. it's thoug

desmond had become frustrated the president told mitch mcconnell. he might withdraw his nomination because it was taking so long. at that point the senate was very focused on getting bill barr through as the attorney general and the president told mitch mcconnell that getting desmond through was more of a priority over barr that should happen first if they could make it happen. the senate did not do that. they did not switch order. they had bill barr go and later in the month desmond was confirmed. now, one could argue that it was because, as the white house has said for a while, that they wanted people at the irs in place because they knew they were facing the first tax return season after the tax bill, certainly possible. another reading of it might be that a motivation was that the president knew there was going to be this fight by the newly democratic controlled house to get control -- a hold of his tax returns which he has refused to make public citing an audit for many, many years now and at minimum, the conversation with mitch mcconnell raise

mitch mcconnell's brand is caution. >> yeah. >> and so, he relies on mcconnell for that. and i found it fascinating that the president then, after mcconnell convinced him, no on the health care thing. that annoyed the president and he had to come out and say, no, this was my idea to back off, which is flatly not true, i mean, the mcconnell people aren't saying anything else -- >> oh, no, no, he even starts tweeting about this, i never asked mitch mcconnell about this, i never did this. >> i'll check with them an hour ago, and they're not saying anything else, but they're saying, we stand by the version we gave yesterday. >> you're talking about a strategy of chaos here, i think actually it's possibly the opposite. this -- to take a broader frame here, the president doesn't have a big idea for people to -- tax cuts are already through, his immigration wall is failing miserably. >> i think he still wants that to be -- i still think he wants the wall to be a rally. >> he wants it to be an issue but he's not succeeding in delivering on the policy of it. so, i think he's frust

. >>> plus, president trump and mitch mcconnell are slashing over closing the southern border.he president said he's prepare ready to do it but mcconnell is warning of the consequences. >>> and two more women accused former vice president joe biden of inappropriate conduct. several presidential candidates are now weighing in. ♪ >>> good morning, everyone, it's wednesday, april 3rd. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. we begin with security concerns at president trump's mar-a-lago resort after a chinese woman was found on the property saturday with a thumb drive containing malware. according to court documents, mar-a-lago authorities were unable to verify that zhang was on an access list. now, once inside, officials say zhang told a secret service agent she was going to the swimming pool and handed over two chinese passports as i.d. after several interviews, the criminal complaint says her belongings were concerned turning up four cell phones, a laptop, an external hard drive and a thumb drive. >> the miami herald reports that cindy yang event, trump was in florida

mcconnell controls those votes it is best to be realistic. lou: there is no new reality, the house has been democratic throughout. and suddenly, republicans are goiing tgoing to be the party of healthcare. >> someone in white house told them they could put a bill together, they can't. lou: there will be a guessing game. it will be how many idiots are advising the president of united states you have a secretary of homeland security that describes the areas that she most responsible for as being on fire. in meltdown a break down. and as if she is not responsible. and while she is on a trip to europe for crying out loud. unaware apparently this is an emergency. >> it has been a emergency since president declared it weeks ago. she better get in there. lou: it is late isn't? >> she has not been performing at the level that president needs. lou: you heard kris kobach layout three simple solutions that are available now. >> the one about sending money back is critical, i thought all three were great suggesteds, i think they should be implemented tom

. >> what do you think about mitch mcconnell? he has been saying that he wants to make 2020 a referendum on socialism. rep. pelosi: come on. [laughter] rep. pelosi: why don't they make it a referendum on the positive suggestion they may have for the good of the american people? hr1 was to reduce the role of big politics, for them, it was to give 86% of the benefits of the tax bill to the top 1%. that is the only bill that have passed and sign of accomplishment in the last congress and you would think they might talk about something positive for the people. let's make it a referendum for the people in terms of lowering health care costs, bigger paychecks, cleaner government. any colleagues want to weigh in? tom? >> as somebody who came to america after my family escaped a socialistic dictatorship, if they want to come after me, if a president who is in love with a communist dictator kim jong-un, wants to come after me on that, bring it on. we will run on health care and infrastructure and we will win. >> congresswoman omar has con

robert: specifically mitch mcconnell, majority leader. what is mcconnell's power right now? skatty: mcconnell has alw had this close influence with president trump because in a way he spent the first two years doing what president trump wanted so it gives him some clout and he has the republican party behind him particularly on the issue of thehe border business leaders are saying, you can't do this, the cure would be worse than the problem. >> what's fascinating is how often the congressional leaders of t's presidenly party on capitol hill are taken by surprise. it says something communication or lack of communication, lack of consultation. it's stunning. ashley: this is also what the president h to grapple with going into 2020, the rhetoric versus reality. so the rhetoric of healthcare, saying we'll cover all pre-existing conditions. the reality is it's difficult to craft a pan does that -- plan that does that and republics couldn't do that when they controlled both chambers of congress. >> the president often engaged in bumper sticker style politics where he throw p out a

i have a good rapport with senator mcconnell -- leader mcconnell because we were both appropriators.t along, even though we have our major differences. david: in recent years, you have been vilified by the republicans and people of the right. and i think in the most recent campaign, 132,000 ads were run just using your name. bigger pelosi 132,000. [laughter] david does this elevate you? : [laughter] david: has this been personally difficult to be so vilified, or do you take pride in the fact they recognize you are very powerful? speaker pelosi: my goddaughter told me -- katie peterson. hi, katie! [laughter] katie sent me something on my phone that i read this morning. it said "your power is the reason your opponents come after you" or something like that. i do believe, and this is what i say, because i have to set an example to other women not to be too shy about things and assert yourself and take credit, and the rest of that. but here is the thing, if i were not effective, they would not be doing these ads. if they did not have -- [applause] speaker pelosi: they fear me because i a

mcconnell very clearly saying this is a mistake. other trump advisers taking to the airwaves, often the best way to reach the president is through an interview on fox news and "fox & friends." we saw a lot of that, including newt gingrich saying the president shouldn't do this. and then today we have him reversing himself saying it won't be necessary and wouldn't need to because mexico would up their enforcement at the border. mexican officials said they've done nothing different. this seems pretty clear the president was looking for a way out. he didn't want to have to follow through on this now. >> it's interesting, though, dave, republicans from the mitch mcconnell wing of the party, if you want it call it that, relieved the president not going down that health care road like he was talking about. perhaps relieved on this issue with the border. but also maybe a reminder to them as, hey, as you look ahead to 2020, it is still april of 2019 and you have that possibility at any given moment you're going to turn on twitter perhaps an

mitch mcconnell also said this.in a phase where republicans were for a long time trying to corral certain members of their caucus on the house side. is she herding cats in a way where she would need a republican votes to get something done? >> well, that's very possible. she has a larger extreme left wing in her party and she has thrown a few light punches toward them with comments that lets people know she is not there. so hopefully -- hopefully we can get an agreement on this and it's sort of like playing poker right now. nobody is showing their cards. it is not time. but at some point we'll all get in and negotiate and find some common ground and hopefully get something done on immigration. >> bill: you guys all leave washington yesterday and today. you're out for two weeks. come back for three months and after august it's all going to be about 2020, is it not? the window is small for a big deal like this. >> absolutely. and that's kind of why i think because the democrats haven't had a lot of victories, they nee

. >> did you just called mitch mcconnell and talk about where things were going? >> i don't drink much coffee. >> you have been vilified by the republicans. >> you've got to be prepared to take a punch. >> would you fix your tie, please? >> people would not recognize me if my tie was fixed. >> i don't consider myself a journalist. nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i had a day job running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? have you compare the relative pleasure of being the first speaker who is a woman to the first speaker in 60 years to recapture the speakership? say when i was running for you and the congress for speed or, the last thing i could ever say to someone was you should vote for me because we should have a woman. you just had to prove that you would do the best job. but when it turned out that i the speaker, it was quite an overwhelming feeling that we had broken a marble ceiling. i like to tell the first meeting that i ev

mitch mcconnell's seat is up for grabs in 2020.e's probably not going to face a tight reelection but he could. that's happened in the past. the reality is we've been talking about this asking the same question for four or five years now with trump which is when are republicans going to speak up against him and they don't tend to do it. especially as we get closer to election day. the calculation has been it's more likely going to be useful for republicans to stand with the president than to break with him on some issues. you might see that different from people like susan collins who are senators who are up in purple or blue states for reelection. we're seeing wavering. these cases are different because these are prominent names. people know who herman cain is. that's completely different from trump's judiciary transformation. >> they have spoken out against the president but it's on issues that their voters would not be irked on like jamal khashoggi. that story is not resonating with their voters, it's not hitting their pocketbook

the headline that you read from mcconnell was an acknowledgment that was all possible.was even clearer in his role today when he spoke to reporters a couple of minutes ago. it seems as though he has something to do with the president about face on this saying actually any vote on healthcare is going to be put off until after the next election and he's going to be the one coming up with a plan. take a look at how mitch mcconnell addresses the question today. >> he did say and later tweeted that he accepted that. he would be developing a plan that he would take to the american people during the 2020 campaign and suggest that would be what he'll be advocating in a second term if there were a republican congress. we don't have a misunderstanding about that. >> if the court struck down aca, and there are no alternatives in congress, what happens then? > >> it is not any time soon. it is in the court's system, nobody lost a policy over it. there is no point of pushing a panic button. the court system takes a long time to resolve the issue. >> in that conversation, ali, mcconn

mitch mcconnell says, hey, moderate democrats, you -- the guys and women now sidelined, now threatened with blacklists from socialists in your party, you who won the house for the democrats, come to our tent. to the border, democrats first said it was not a crisis, then a manufactured crisis, now admitting, yes, it is a crisis, but blaming president trump for it. this as social media blew up over barack obama telling the his own party immigrants, yes, you should assimilate and learn the english language. it doesn't mean you have to abandon your own. i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the fox business network. we begin with healthily vaughn on capitol hill -- hillary vaughn with the arrest of julian assange. >> reporter: democrats on capitol hill actually cheering the arrest of julian as san. >> i'm glad, tickled to death. >> fight with other countries to get him extradited. >> reporter: even meghan mccain on the view making her feelings about his arrest very clear. >> the politics of this have always been completely hypocritical on b

i have a good repoire with leader mcconnell because we were both appropriators.can get along, even though we have major differences. david: in recent years, you have been vilified by the republicans and people of the right. in the most recent campaign, 132,000 ads were used just using your name. does this elevate you? [laughter] david: has this been so difficult for you to be vilified or do you take pride in the fact they recognize you are very powerful? speaker pelosi: my goddaughter told me -- hi, katie. katie sent me something on my phone that i read this morning. it said "your power is the reason your opponents come after you" or something like that. example toet an other women not to the too shy about things and assert yourself, take credit, and the rest of that. if i were not effective, they would not be doing these ads. if they did not have -- [applause] i just know how to do this because that is what i was doing. i was legislating. i have a following in the country that supports me at the grassroots level and across the board, so they have to take me down

asked mitch mcconnell for a vote before the election." yesterday's senate majority leader mcconnell warned another health care fight would be politically costly and doomed to fail now the democrats control the house. mcconnell said the president had agreed to set aside his health care push until after the campaign. the house judiciary committee today approved the pianist for special counsel robert mueller's full pressure report as democrats pressure the justice department to release the document without reductions. last week, barr said in congress a redacted version of the report would be out by april if not tumor. jerry nadler says he prefers to give barr sometime to change his mind before issuing a subpoena. >> this committee requires the full report and the underlying materials because it is our job, not the attorney general's, to determine whether or not president trump has abused his office. and we require the report because one day, one way or another, the country will move on from president trump. we must make it harder for future

>> mcconnell has done it more than anybody else and has more leeway than anybody else, and mcconnell,we detail in the book, for 400 pages, is mun maniacally focused on winning, on preserving the senate majority, on doing what he needs to do to win the seats and keep the majority. when it comes to candidates who are clearly having issues with garnering support on capitol hill, he's going to stand up and say you need to talk to me before you nominate somebody to a post. don't just send up herman cain and stephen moore, two people who are largely don't pass the straight face test when it comes to the federal reserve, according to senators, not according to me. >> exactly. >> tell me. talk to me beforehand and we can work this out. >> these relationships matter. this relationship, publicly and privately, it matters very much. it also matters between the top republican and top democrat in the senate. even that relationship between schumer and mcconnell seems to have soured. has it gone to a place that people are surprised it could go that low? >> our colleague had a really good story about

mcconnell and say let's have coffee and talk? speaker pelosi: i don't much like coffee. david: you have been vilified by the republicans. speaker pelosi: you have to be prepared to take a punch. or prepared to throw a punch too. >> would you fix your tie, please? david: people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed. but ok. does leave this letter. -- just leave it this way. alright. ♪ david: i don't consider myself a journalist. nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i begin to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have the day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? how do you compare the relative pleasure of being the first speaker who is a woman to capturing it again and being the first speaker in 60 years to recapture the speakership? speaker pelosi: when i was running for speaker, the last thing i could never say to someone was vote for me because we should have a woman. you just have to do you would do the best job. when it turned out that i became the speaker, it was qui

some think this is good policy and good politics for mitch mcconnell. who will be against this except heard core libertarian? >> i'm not a hardcore libertarian. 18 is the magic enough. if you can serve your country, if you want a pack of cigs, go ahead. i don't smoke. i'd rather see kids time spent on infrastructure. let's start working on real things. this is one of those laws that are really tough -- >> dana: you think would -- he has a re-election effort going to 2020. you think it softens his image with women? >> why? it's like i'm hip, i'm cool. mitch has his own issues. >> dana: there's the health benefits. but i think when you're 18, you should make those decisions yourself. >> i'm not a libertarian. if you can go on a plane to a foreign land and give your life, you can buy a beer, vote and smoke a cigarette. >> and buy a jule if you want. and the "wall street journal" had in workplaces across america, the humble text message that the casual meeting is being meet for speed and convenience. i notice that here, right? texting does seem faster. >> d

. >>> the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell defended attorney general barr against claims by democrats that he was preemptively spinning the report and slanting the conclusions. >> the thought that bill barr is, age 69, would do anything to tarnish his own image or

this will be a great campaign issue, i never asked mitch mcconnell for a vote before the the election as has been incorrectly reported as usual in "the new york times." but only after the election when we take back the house, et cetera. republicans will always support preexisting conditions. okay. that's the president on health

that's how mitch mcconnell describes the latest threat to close the border.the 11th hour" . in't easy. 12 hours? 20 dogs? where's your belly rubs? after a day of chasing dogs you shouldn't have to chase down payments. (vo) send invoices and accept payments to get paid twice as fast. (danny) it's time to get yours! (vo) quickbooks. backing you. >>> sure, it's going to have a negative impact on the economy. one of the biggest trade deal we've just done. it's a very big trading partner. but to me trading is important, the borders are important but security is what is most important. i have to have security. >> those comments lukely caught the attention of those on capitol hill about the threat to close down the southern border. here's what mitch mcconnell had to say about shutdown. >> we certainly have a crisis at the border. the president's right about that. clozing the border would havicnomic and socio impact on our country and i hope we wouldn't be doing that sort of thing. >> and others pleased by delaying a push of obama care until after. the majority leade

mitch mcconnell said his legacy that he wants is to shape the courts for a generation.merit garland a hearing because he would not allow the president of the united states to appoint any more justices, only a republican could be allowed to do it, these are not donald trump's judges, they are mitch mcconnell's. >> yeah, they have outsourced picking judges to a guy who is hostile to all of these -- >> and the federal society -- >> they basically control, conservative legal thought. they have a very aggressive way of interpreting the constitution that drags us back to the dark ages. one of the ways that i put it is the federal society does not view it as a floor, they view it as a ceiling, that includes you, black people, that is bader. mcconnell is the emperor who has been orchestrating this for a long time and he started to orchestrate it before trump was even there. there was so many judicial openings because they refused to have hearing after hearing on a host of judges nominated by obama. >> let's talk about neil gorsuch, he authors a death row opinion that was so hor