it turns out that senator mchaskell did meet with the russian ambassador. there are pictures of them meeting. when confronted with that she said i meant to say no meeting one on one. i ran out of twitter characters. you cannot make this stuff up, dana. this is washington today. i think it's not over. >> dana: it was curious to me as a former staffer. say jeff sessions doesn't remember meeting with him, but somebody on the senate staff arranged the meeting, scheduled it, was briefing the senator before the meeting and was in the meeting probably who at that point wouldn't have said, senator, you may have forgotten, we did meet with them, and they could have corrected the record. i want to listen to paul ryan who said the democrats are getting way out ahead of themselves. >> i think democrats are getting their hair on fire to have you covering this story. i think they're trying to get this coverage going. there's nothing new we have seen here. this is stuff we've been going over. we'll make sure we leave no stone unturned. that's why our intelligence committe

enough to remember in december 2016 when you had democratic senators from red states like claire mchaskellhey were willing to work with donald trump on a replacement plan, but never reached out to democrats, and this whole thing, this whole health care disaster is really -- it tells a story of trump's first 100 days. it's a story of missed opportunities. also, unmitigated chaos and dysfunction, and it validates sort of the harshest critiques of republicans that they are great at protesting, great at lobbing bombs, but not very good at governing, and that was illustrated, you know, in a very humorous way today by freshman congressman from florida who said i don't even think we could pass a mother's day resolution in congress. that's going to be a very, very big problem for the republican party going forward. >> is there a lesson to be learned here possibly by the republicans that we do need to sort of coax, work together with the dems to move things forward or else we're going to be stuck in the same place that we're at right now? >> i think it's a rosy description. really it's a bit of rev

joe manchin, claire mchaskell. lot of red state democrats in conservative minded states are not gonna like what chuck shumer had to say about the filibuster today. >> dana: what do you think senator mitch mcconnell is thinking? does he hold or call for the vote? >> if chuck shumer means what he says and is gonna filibuster and make it as tough as possible, it is more likely than not the filibuster is off and it will only take 50 votes to confirm neil gorsuch. >> dana: politically for trump, how important is it to get gorsuch, get that win? >> biggest high note of his presidency, for him to be confirmed would be a bit of good news this week. >> dana: josh, thank you very much. your insight is always very good and i love your column every week. >> thanks, dana. >> dana: we have the best story of the day. believe it or not, it has to do with dogs and washington, d.c. stay tuned. (singsong) budget meeting. sweet. if you compare last quarter... it's no wonder everything seems a little better with the creamy taste of phi