one most watches of the midterm elections republican mike braun is looking to unseat joe donnelly in ere president trump won by nearly 20 points in 2016. mike tobin is valparaiso, indiana. >> reporter: the senator joe donnelly is one of those red state democrats tasked with a voting to either approve or reject the president's pick for supreme court judge brett kavanaugh. the republican challenger, mike braun is in the very comfortable position of having a challenger having an opponent who is caught between the will of his -- >> it's tough when you belong to a party like joe does, where he like to vote otherwise but he's got to check with chuck schumer on every vote. i really think that's the case. he knows if he bucks leadership too often, he's going to be marginalized within his own caucus. >> reporter: senator donnelly won't surprise anyone if he votes in favor of kavanaugh. he's a moderate pro-life democrat. he voted in favorite of neil gorsuch. i will take the same approach as i have previously for a supreme court vacancy. i will carefully refer and consider the record and qualifi

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kevin cramer in north dakota, mike braun in indiana, dean heller in nevada.rying to tell these guys don't take us for granted. we support, the kochs, support traditional republican policies like free trade and even immigration, to help with their businesses. the president and his supporters do not. >> yeah, i mean, the bottom line is they're ideological people. they're where someone like me is on policy. that's an uncomfortable place to be in the trump administration and with populism. you get somebody who cares about debt, criminal justice reform. they care about keeping immigration open to some extent. and these things don't sit well with the populist movement. now, the republican party and voters as we found out is not as ideological as the kochs, but i think they're happily turn their money to doing things like ballet and fossil displays at the natural history museum. >> which they have done. >> so there is a risk here for republican candidates. >> and you say people who have the political ideology of someone like you, mark short worked for the kochs prev

you go down to mike braun in indiana. i think the president mentioning gorsuch and kethledge gets much bigger applause certainly in michigan and hunting states than it would if you mention kavanaugh. i don't think you take the risk of barrett right now. so it's one of the ks i think. >> really quickly, the risk of barrett would be what? the greatest risk to appointing her would be what? >> that she doesn't have a record that conservatives are comfortable with at the same time that people are afraid like dianne feinstein that the dogma lives deeply within her. you still have to worry about that becoming an opportunity for a swing and a miss. he simply cannot get this wrong, craig, you cannot blow this in september. his nominee's got to get confirmed in september. >> amy conney barrett, there on your screen. jennifer mack award, professers of law at notre dame. also clerked for supreme court justice sandra day o'connor. she's also for the purposes of this conversation a longtime friend of judge amy coney barrett. she's on t

i was in indiana yesterday speaking to mike braun, the republican senate candidate there, right before this policy was announced. he said he was against the idea of subsidies and then once it was announced his office sent me a statement saying he supports what the president is doing. >> so they are just bending over to whatever the president says when they need to. they are worried about incurring the wrath of the president or the voters? >> your words. not i mean, katy. >> don't go there. what is wrong with you, jonathan allen? get your head out of the gutter, young man. thank you very much. here we do come. we are minutes away from a major foreign policy meeting on capitol hill. secretary of state mike pompeo is about to testify before members of the senate foreign relations committee. we know he'll face some tough questions about what happened at that summit in helsinki and with the administration under pressure over its russia policy, pompeo put out a tough new statement on russia's annexation of crimea saying, quote, the united states calls on russia to respect the principles to w

joe donnelly is facing a tough reelection against his opponent, mike braun.uld come down to who supports the supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh. - - with more. >>reporter: and dnsindiana's in - - [indiscernible]. and the will of hoosier voters who voted overwhelmingly by 19 points in favor of president trump. >> i think it's tough when you belong to a party like joe does what he'd like to vote otherwise but he's got to check with chuck schumer on every vote. >>reporter: donnelly voting for cavanaugh would not come as a complete surprise. he is a pro-life democrat. now he's under pressure. to do the same for brett kavanaugh. >> senator joe donnelly,will he caved to the extreme left or confirm a supreme justice and protect our rights . >>reporter: conservative radio host as his listeners want donnelly to give cavanaugh an unbiased look. >> people are tired of the vitriol. when you hear the democrats come out and say, we are against this guy without knowing he is. >>reporter: with the race in neck in that, voters think donnelly will need to cast the friendly

what you've heard from josh hawley or mike braun, president trump is trying the thing that needs to beoxnews.com today, andy puzder talks about the trade imbalance with china. around 150 billion dollars the first five months of this year. you can't sit around and do nothing. there has to be an attempt to make the deal better. i think the president should talk about what it's going to take to make that deal, some of the sacrifice that needs to be involved, some of the price increases that you might see in the short-term, but in the long-term we create the better world for the worker of today, the worker of tomorrow, your kids and that's how we make america great again. i wish he would take my advice on that subject. leland: well, you never know. at least you're not shy about giving your advice. >> i hear he watches, so-- >> i always appreciated you about that. good to see you as always, my friend. to be continued. elizabeth: ahead, curbing iranian influence in syria. president trump calling on russia to help in syria. why that plan does not seem to be coming together. your mornings were