and after the president personally interceded with mitch mcconnell mr. desmond was in fact confirmed by the senate to be the number two guy in the irs. the irs chief counsel. he's been there since february of this year. no republicans voted against him when he was confirmed in the senate. now, desmond was partners at a d.c. law firm with president trump's current tax attorneys. desmond also admitted during his confirmation process that yes, maybe it was possible that at one point in his career he had advised the trump organization on tax matters. but he insisted really that was no big deal and there would be no conflict. he said during his confirmation process that if any tax matter concerning the president himself arose during his time as irs chief counsel he would seek advice from ethics officials as to whether or not he should recuse himself on such matters. so that guy's been in there since february. now here it is may. and now the irs is definitely dealing with a specific matter related to the president's taxes, right? the irs is confronted with thi

the grim reaper, mitch mcconnell, will kill it. if you are caring about reducing the reducing role of money in politics and voter suppression and expanding the voice of the american people, mitch mcconnell will kill it, because he said the problem is not too much money in politics. he said there is not enough money in politics. our h.r. 1 is about expanding the voice of the people. h.r. 1 was giving 83% of the tax benefit to the top 1%. this is about policy and also about gun safety. gun safety, we sent over h.r. 8 and h.r. 1112 for responsible background checks. hand maidens to the national rifle association, connect the dots. when you see barr sitting there, what's his motivation? his motivation, his loyalty is not to his oath of office, but it is to donald trump. but all of that and the republicans in congress is to the special interests. whether h.r. 1, gun safety, paycheck fairness, violence against women, save the internet, climate action now, the list goes on. and we will be sending more information. but apparently i have ne

we put the same question to mitch mcconnell's office tonight but we got no answer. office says lifting sanctions had nothing to do with the investment in kentucky by the firm that he lifted the sanctions on. but as for the lobbyist's wife who's now a federal judge, no response from mcconnell. i will tell you we are not the only ones asking questions about this sequence of events. hold that thought. e of events. hold that thought. of all time. lease the 2019 rx 350 for $399 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. this is a commercial and i know you're thinking. i don't want to hear about insurance. 'cause let's be honest... nobody likes dealing with insurance. right? see, esurance knows it's expensive. i feel like i'm giving my money away. so they're making it affordable. thank you, dennis quaid. you're welcome, guy in kitchen. i named my character walter. that's great. i'd tell you more but i only have thirty seconds so here's a dramatic shot of their tagline so you'll remember it. when insurance is affordable, it's surprisingly painless. (kic

mitch mcconnell, donald trump, attorney general barr, there is a connection. there is annize logical antigovernan antigovernance, antiscience, antimeeting the needs of the american people. so when he was testifying and being so cavalier about special counsel mueller, the mueller report, and so lis krdisrespect congress, i thought this is about a right-wing ideological hand maiden for the special interest of the company. if you're a young person you care about the climate crisis we're bassing that bill right now on the floor, it is if you're young person, if you care about net neutrality, freedom on the internet, the grim reaper is going to kill dit in the senate. if you're a woman, the violence against women act. the equal pay equal work act. if you care about reducing the role of money in politics like hr 1 legislation. stopping the voter suppression and the voice of the people in our political process, mitch mcconnell will kill it because he said the problem is not too much money in politics, he says there is not enough money in politics. our hr one is about

presters. >> narrator: and behind the scenes, one powerful republican senator, majority leader mitch mcconnell mcconnell knows the game an. one of the reasons he's as good at his job as it is is because he can play his own hand atca s and he can also play his opponent's hand at cards. he knows exactly what they're trying to . >> narrator: out-maneuveri mocrats, confirming conservative judges were mcconnell's specialties. brett kavanaugh would be his crowning achievement. (camera clicks) >> it's moving the court to a really very, very conservative court. the time he was first am from senate, and maybe his dream when he went into politics. >> this is going to be a rough battle on capitol hill... >> narrator: mitch mcconnell's determination to transform theco supremt had been his life's work. senators, u.s. supremeveral nominee clarence thomas managed to... >> potentially ensuring a conservative majority for decades... >>arrator: through bruisin confirmation battles... >> ...democrats to keep an open mind about kavanaugh... >> narrator: a struggle overlo id and power... >> ...white house has been

think people were being ridiculous if they ever thought there was a historical basis for what mitch mcconnell did to merrick garland in 2016 because there wasn't. this is just mcconnell following through on his real promise, which is to get as many judges on the different courts as he possibly can. >> and he succeeded in that. you will recall two years ago when the president started tweeting against mitch mcconnell when healthcare wasn't passed, that quickly changed because he realized the significance that mitch mcconnell brought to him and mitch mcconnell was holding that through. now, mitch mcconnell's argument and they've already issued statements, his spokes people, is that back then with merrick garland you had a divided congress, here you have republicans holding both so therein lies the difference. we all, of course, no he that this is something that he ultimately would have done anyway and you could tell that through that little rye smile of his. >> the smile said more than the actual words there. >> the gulp of the iced tea. >> senator lindsey graham felt differently about all of th

he has decided not to engage the congress, mitch mcconnell is complicit in this and we are wasting our time. >> what about on the house side? another one of the things that sarah said since the democrats took over there and since nancy pelosi has been house speaker she said they've passed no significant legislation. >> ms. sanders should take a look at the actual record. what nancy pelosi has done with her democratic majority is to address the very issues i mentioned. when you ask the american people about their opinion of politicians they think that we need to be really huing to a different standard, making certain that we have reform in mind. hr-1 the number one bill passed by nancy pelosi and the house democrats addresses this issue of restoring the integrity to campaigns and to our congressional process. the president and ms. sanders think that's worth nothing. mitch mcconnell won't even call the bill and yet the american people think it's a high priority. >> you said this moment yesterday, this three or four minute speech the president fave to you behind closed doors and walking o

she's been on the floor much of the morning says mitch mcconnell says case closed. i think i'll do a little reading. >> since the majority leader has pronounced his judgment here on the senate floor, i would like to spend some time reminding him of exactly what this report said. trump directed mcgahn on multiple occasions to fire mueller or to gin up false conflicts of interest as a pr pretext of getting rid of the special counsel. >> connects the dots in several ways to what we were talking about in the previous segment in that don mcgahn, the white house is saying no, he can't testify because the democrats want to ask him did the president of the united states tell you to get rod rosenstein to fire the special counsel? what else did the president do to try to interfere with the special counsel? republicans don't want any of that. they want to say let's just move on. >> don't forget also that the mueller report has a lot of information about russian interference. not case closed. we have an election around the corner and the president is not bringing up meddling ta

schumer of course on the senate floor just moments ago responding to what we heard from senator mitch mcconnellnnell, republicans, calling this case closed. you heard schumer articulating the democrats' argument. democrats are also making their arguments on the campaign trail. and that is where we're talking about mayor pete buttigieg o. he has two big frontrunners to beat. joe biden and bernie sanders. >> two of the front runners, joe biden, bernie sanders, roughly twice your age. >> i think our party is certainly ready to lift up leaders from a new generation. the exciting thing is that i think this race will create a fair playing field where people who have been in the public sphere for longer than i've been alive and people like me get to compete on the basis of our ideas. >> that was mayor pete in a new exclusive "today" show interview where he tackles that and as well as other potentially thorny topics. also we're waiting to hear from other 2020 democrats trying to stand out from the crowded field. amy klobuchar and cory booker both speaking in just the next couple minutes, day one of a b

mitch mcconnell needs to stand up for president trump.: come tillis, one of those milquetoast rino republicans i'm talking about, today stood up against mcconnell and burr. i'd like to share with the audience, if we can have the full screen, of what he said. he said, i agree with leader mcconnell. this case is closed. the mueller report cleared donald trump jr. and he's already spent 27 hours testifying before congress. dips havdimszdimms have made its all about politics. time to move on and focus on issues that mat tore american. meanwhile the majority leader had to agree to do that and shame on mitch mcconnell. >> we have some people in the house of representatives, the freedom caucus who support the president, who represent their constituencies. pretty much everybody else is a member of the cowards caucus. the idea that the democratic party, speaker of the house and others are talking about jailing the attorney general, jailing the secretary of the treasury simply because he works for donald trump and then the republicans -- lou: and t

the issue is that mitch mcconnell will do what he can. the strong do as they will. the weak suffer as they must. he's going to get it done. >> obviously. proudly. he's boldly saying that. how can people not see it as hypocrisy when they are changing their own equation midstream. >> there is every reason to expect that if for some reason a democrat takes the white house and republicans maintain control of the senate if a democrat nominates a justice there is no way to think mcconnell will confirm in year one. >> justin amash hosting his first town hall since becoming the sole republican in congress to say the president committed impeachable offenses. last night he got a standing ovation. >> thank you. >> he said many of his fellow republicans believe he's right but won't say it publicly. he told the audience congress cannot be passive observers. he also heard from critics. >> robert mueller clearly identifies and analyzes a number of instances, several instances of obstruction of justice. he really left it to congress to come to a determination on these issues. i thi

so mitch mcconnell and president trump need to get on the phone here. >> mcconnell is -- >> you knows funny? if you read the report, which i understand most people haven't, that first volume is just littered with examples of russians trying to make a trump/putin meeting happening. that's all they were focused on. it was like, oh, we just kind of glossed over that and now it's happening in realtime, all the time. >> but it was glossed over, because it has been reported and reported and reported again, and i think people's consciences have been seared with a hot iron, to use a biblical term. because at this point, it's almost been normalized we've talked about it so much. we've been screaming, amanda. but some people >> and take a listen to this, because while mitch mcconnell was saying this today, democrats, especially in the obama administration say that he was a wet blanket when it came to trying to warn the nation in 2016 about what was going on with the russians. joe biden has said that he refused to be part of a bipartisan statement that sounded the alarm. take a listen, here's b

several obama administration officials say mitch mcconnell when they were trying to put out a joint statement during the campaign wanted to water down the statement. the mcconnell team has objected to that strenuously over the course of the last couple years. mitch mcconnell said he's very comfortable about the role he played during that time. it's important to note democrats feel like he undercut the efforts. he laid out all the problems he had with the obama administration's efforts to push back on russian aggression in 2016. this dispute isn't going away any time soon. to your point, there's a real history here and one the parties just frankly disagree on. >> great to see you guys. thanks so much. >>> coming up for us, she has been with joe biden through the ups and downs of a long political career. now, dr. jill biden is getting back on the campaign trail and opening up in a new interview with cnn. >>> plus, secretary of state mike pompeo suddenly scraps a meeting with a key ally, and then he apparently goes missing. what is going on here? we need a. these days we all feel a little anxiou

and mitch mcconnell.tegist and former white house deputy assistant under president clinton, matt fennig. matt, bianco is trump's 38th confirmed circumstance court judge. that means one in sever six seat on the sishlcircuit court is fi by a trump nominee. if you compare that to the past two administrations, this is a clear success for his supporters. how do democrats handle this on the trail? >> it shows how important this election is. in addition to replacing democrats, regardless, the worst president in american history, the future of the courts for decades, for my kids' life times, is being determined now. one of the supreme court vacancies trump was able to fill is filled because mitch mcconnell pulled all of the shenanigans he did after the death of justice scalia. legally but in a unpress departmentsed way like you were just saying about what he's doing now. so what we are seeing is continued erosion of norms in congress that has been driven by the erosion of norms in the white house. and it's really

former at the time fbi director, they come to capitol hill and meet with top leaders, including mitch mcconnell, on this concern about russia. now what happens in that meeting? well, we know again from cnn's reporting and others that mcconnell actively questioned the underlying intelligence that suggests russian interference in the election. now, a reminder, the -- the counterintelligence operation begins in july of 2016, brianna, so it's not -- we're not two years on. this was the early stage of t.mcconnell questions that and says anything that is stated comes out pubically here is going to look partisan, and he opposes it, but he doesn't just go to that. let's go to the next slide. he also blocks the must fulsome statement that could be given about this. there were some in the room including administration officials who wanted to say russia have doing this. they need to stop, a public statement with the force of all top congressional leaders and the white house behind it. mcconnell blocks that most aggressive statement putting it on russia and instead congressional leaders issue a statement b

everything you need to go. >>> in our politics lead today, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell of at he would treat a supreme court nominee from a fellow republican president differently than how he treated president obama's 2016 pick. judge merrick garland, for who mcconnell refused to even hear him. cnn's sunlen serfaty now reports from capitol hill. >> reporter: mitch mcconnell doing an abrupt about-face about a potential vacancy on the supreme court. >> the supreme court justice was to die next year, what would you do? >> we'd fill it. >> reporter: speaking at an event in his home state, the senate majority leader saying republicans would now fill a vacancy on the supreme court, even in the middle of a presidential election year. >> good morning! >> reporter: a striking difference from 2016 when he blocked president obama's supreme court nominee merrick garland after the sudden death of antonin scalia. >> it's the president's right to nominate a justice and it's the senate's right to act as a check and withhold its consent. >> reporter: mcconnell's argument then is that a nomin

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mitch mcconnell went further, voicing skepticism that the underlying intelligence supported the white house' claims. doesn't that undercut what we heard from mcconnell today? >> it does, for some people it might, is better to say. there's always going to be disputes about what was said in a closed meeting. to be clear, lindsey graham today said to chris rey, the fbi director. is russia still trying to interfere with our election? graham basically conceded there is more to be done to deter russia from interfering in the election. mcdonnell was representing the vast majority of senate republicans. i think there is a sense from some senators to keep beating the drum of interference and do things legislatively, that would stop that in the future. >> very quickly, the fund-raising email, moments after making that? >> i think so. listen, the fund-raising numbers can cost a lot of money. people fund-raise all the time. it's an unseemly at times, both parties do it, it's a fact of washington. i guess that's kind of the way the cookie crumbles on capitol hill. >> both parties do it, that is fo

senator chuck schumer told chris hayes tonight that mitch mcconnell said that because mitch mcconnell president are afraid of robert mueller. >> we know one thing, both he and leader mcconnell fear the full results of the report being made clear to the public. the fact that he so often obstructed justice, the fact that the russians did interfere repeatedly and strenuously in our elections, all of which prove donald trump being wrong, and what leader mcconnell today on the floor was nothing short of despicable. >> today senator elizabeth warren took to the senate floor where she read passages from the mueller report for nearly 40 minutes. at the beginning of her remarks, senator warren said this -- >> what's at stake here is the constitution of the united states of america. will congress do its job and fulfill its constitutional duty to serve as a check on the president? the answer from the majority leader and his republican colleagues is no. case closed. case closed they cry. instead of reading the words of the special counsel's report, they just want to circle the wagons around this

remember, bob corker was the one who started getting upset at mitch mcconnell. ant to vote on some stuff. and ron johnson is one of these senators who gets frustrated with the iron fist way that mcconnell runs the senate. how alone is kennedy? >> he is not alone in that regard. it will largely because in the tuesday meeting, the tuesday lunch meeting, i can guarantee, having sat in on a number of those meetings, there's a lot of conversation about how this is playing out to the effects of the senate races. going into next year. a handful are a little bit dicey and purplish blue states. at the want to say, gee, mom and dad, look what i did. they cannot afford to go an entire year with nothing to show for it other than that. >> house democrats called kennedy's bluff and said okay. maybe there is a group of the willing. >> maybe even closed for 2019. look, i pointed out. they've been passing legislation that is popular with the american people. popular with republicans. and they should be holding up signs. where's mitch? i would be trying to bring the senate republi

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that moment had a big impact on senate majority leader mitch mcconnell.t of your documentary to illustrate that point. >> senator from kentucky -- >> it was a searing experience for first time senator mitch mcconnell. enraged he took to the senate floor. >> to robert bjork, you happen to be the one who set the new senate standard that will be applied in my judgment by a majority of the senate prospectively. unfortunately it got set over your dead body, so to speak, politically. >> mcconnell threatened he and his republican colleagues would use the same tactics when it mattered. >> we're going to do it when we want to. when we want to is going to be when the president, whoever he may be, sends up somebody we don't like. >> he'll be darned if he's going to allow them to just get away with taking somebody out without paying a price for it later on down the road. >> if we don't like the philosophical meaning of the nominee -- >> it was a promise of revenge, a warning of what could happen if republicans took control. >> michael, that may have been what set mit

mostly by mitch mcconnell.t last night, last time i read my constitution, president is not given a lot of earlier today, actually, president -- >> whole thing. >> not whole thing. kennedy: what do you think of the -- the -- a lot of people talk about that, my favorite amendment. >> on basis of this point. kennedy: can you name third amendment. >> i cannot. kennedy: how dare you, don't throw the constitution out here, and not be able to quote from the bill of rights. >> but i reviewed it, if you are allowed to appoint supreme court justices, president should be allowed to appoint supreme court justices. >> they are not stopping the appointment they are stopping the confirmation. >> but there nothing about only an elect year. kennedy: i will say -- >> that. kennedy: you would agree senate race in 2016 was closed. people were so upset they would have given democrats control. >> i would not necessarily say that, i think it is really difficult, i am critical of this, democrat and republican do it, to interpret elect

one of them was mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader. kind of the first time he's weighed in on this. take a listen, i'll get your thoughts. >> russia set out to sow discord, to create chaos in america politics and under mind confidence in our democracy. but on that front, given the left's total fixation on delegitimatizing the president, i'm afraid the russians hardly need to look to favor. >> dana: if you can listen to speaker pelosi talking about how trump's people want us to impeach. watch. >> trump is goading us to impeach him. every single day, he's taunting, taunting. he knows it would be divisive, but he doesn't care.

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easy answer everybody thinks of but chuck schumer says mitch mcconnell has made the senate, quote, the graveyard, blaming it on republicans. >> chuck schumer says a lot of things for political consumption but in reality donald trump has brought and senate republicans have brought the policy the democrats for decades have said they want but they want no part of it and sometimes they say it is immoral. the border policy the president has espouses line with what they said they want and now it is immoral as though it is a crime. jillian: some are on tape and we played that. rob: it will make great ads for the president's reelection showing all those old soundbites. >> it is a problem. jillian: let's look at the number of laws passed through

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this is mitch mcconnell when he infuriated democrats. supreme court justice if he died. >> should a supreme court justice die next year, what would you do? >> we would fill it. >> he would block measublocked n 2016. listen to what he said in 2016 and then we can talk about it. >> the next justice could fundamentally alter the direction of the supreme court and have a profound impact on our country. so, of course, of course, the american people should have a say in the court's direction. it is the president's constitutional right to nominate a supreme court justice, and it is the senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent. >> he believed that when it was advantageous to republicans, and he won't believe it when that's advantageous. this is rank partisanship of the most bald kind. >> it doesn't matter, the sound bite is there. he said it, but they just say different stuff. go on, dana, sorry. >> yeah, it doesn't matter anymore, but particularly on this issue, particularly with mitch mcconnell. i

that phrase, case closed, is the phrase mitch mcconnell has been using in front of the congress. when it was brought up that bill barr mislead the congress and the american people, the president said, oh my god, the mask has been ripped off. we have no game here. get that guy away from the hill, away from the cameras. i don't want anything to do with congressional oversight ever again. >> where do we go again? >> the house has to force its will, they have to hold the attorney general in contempt, which is sad. but they have to have stand up for article one branch of our government, the congress. if they don't, the system of checks and balances collapses nicole. >> it may happen in our hour that for the second time in this country's history a sitting attorney general. there was a vote for a resolution to then take this step to the full -- to the floor of congress. we are -- and sometimes we overdo this language, not you, but i do, we are in uncharted

but apparently, i have news for mitch mcconnell. reaper for all of these actions taken by the house of representatives. but they're alive and well among the american people. and there's a direct connection and really the saddest of all is while the attorney general was sitting there withholding the truth from congress, misrepresenting, being inconsistent in his statements, the shame, how could he do such a thing, but again, having the support of the republicans in congress and the senators behaving in a way that is said to them we don't care about the branch of government in which we serve. we're not even loyal to strengthening the institution of which we are a part. sitting there once again, his justice department was intensifying its assault on the affordable care act. and they did their

mitch mcconnell comes on the part of the president. it seems it's partisan versus congressional authority. >> structurally, it's consecutive. there is nothing new about the president's co-partisans in congress acting as defence for their president as a posed to defending their interests. i'm sure if it was the obama administration, mitch mcconnell would be on the ramp as he was back in that day. >> let's talk about the history of this. you have written about how this has been something going on for decades under different presidents, where, presidents like to assert more authority than some would interpret that they have. for whatever reason, we the public let that happen, have let it happen, to the extent it may not be clear as you said where these lines r. is this a product of president's asserting authority and people not liking congress that much and letting it happen? >> certainly, no matter what you think has a lot to do with whether your guy or woman in the white house or the other party's. so everyone on both sides is a hypocri

the best and surest path to addressing mitch mcconnell is to ensure that he is the minority leader of and we all have an opportunity to do that. >> mitch mcconnell is running for reelection in kentucky, which should be easy for a republican senator, but mitch mcconnell's polling in kentucky could not be worse. the latest poll shows his approval rating is only 33%, which is unbelievably bad for a republican senator in kentucky. no democrat has yet announced a challenge to mcconnell in kentucky. >>> up next, the national rifle association, the leadership of the national rifle association is a cesspool of corruption according to the leadership of the national rifle association. that's next. ♪ limu emu & doug mmm, exactly! liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. nice! but uh, what's up with your partner? oh! we just spend all day telling everyone how we customize car insurance because no two people are alike, so... limu gets a little confused when he sees another bird that looks exactly like him. ya... he'll figure it out. only pay for what you nee

mitch mcconnell, by the ways, kids, if you're keeping score at home, on what a partisan he is and howittle he cares about the protection of american democracy, mitch was one who, in 2016, when told the russians were trying to interfere with american democracy, trying to steal your election from you, mitch mcconnell told everybody that they couldn't go out and say anything about it or else he would attack them as partisans. that's how much -- like he was warned by the intel community, the russians were trying to rig the american election for president. he fought that. now, we're on the other end of it. what have we found out? that the intel communities were right. donald trump believed putin, but the report shows the intel communities were right. the united states military was right. putin was wrong. we also learned, mike, it wasn't case closed. what we learned was that robert mueller said, listen, i can't say that the president is not guilty. i cannot just wave my arm and say that he did not commit a crime. that is a question that is still open. it is a question that was answered by 5

that's why mitch mcconnell is able to play the game, because he is kept a player in it.g. "cnn tonight" with the one and only d. lemon starts now. >> only what you're allowing them to be. you're so right, but you know what, the folks who are sitting at home and just allowing it to happen, who say it's okay and people have trump derangement syndrome if they actually call out things that the president does or things in the congress, people in the congress do or in the senate, you're going to get your comeuppance when there is a

mitch mcconnell, i know people are outraged by what he said. hey, that's what you allow the game to be. >> well, that's what happens. as you said, elections have consequences. >> don't hate the player, hate the game. >> but i actually think trump derangement syndrome is on the other side. >> you've got rationalization. how many people in your life do you have that are real conservatives? >> they can't stand what's happening. i have people that are like real conservatives, real catholics. he represents things that they hate. but they're owning him right now why? because of the alternative. that's what they say all the time, yeah, but it's better than. it's moral relativism for people who are supposed to be better than that. i hope it happens and we'll swing at them like a pinata. you got to police both sides. >> i wish it didn't have to happen. but i'm going to sit here and say, well, you let it happen. >> if this president doesn't win, or if after his administration, you have a democrat in there who will say, i'll tell you what i'm declaring in

the best and surest path to addressing mitch mcconnell is to ensure that he is the minority leader ofenate in 2020. and we all have an opportunity to do that. >> mitch mcconnell is running for reelection in kentucky, which should be easy for a republican senator, but mitch mcconnell's polling in kentucky could not be worse. the latest poll shows his approval rating is only 33%, which is unbelievably bad for a republican senator in kentucky. no democrat has yet announced a challenge to mcconnell in kentucky. >>> up next, the national rifle association, the leadership of the national rifle association is a cesspool of corruption according to the leadership of the national rifle association. that's next. " with a barbershop quartet? [quartet singing] bum bum bum bum... pass the ball... pass the rock.. ...we're open just pass the ball! no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. yea. [quartet singing] shoot the j! shoot, shoot, shoot the jaaaaaay... believe it! geico could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. thanks for com

let's listen to what mitch mcconnell said today about that question. >> if a supreme court was open before next year, what would you do? >> we'll fill it. >> he'd do what? >> he said i'd be filling the seat, if a supreme court justice were to die in the last year of the trump presidency, what would he do? he would go against what he said was the principle he was using in the last year of the obama presidency. >> well, he also said he will fill it, but that actually is the job of the president of the united states, not mitch mcconnell, so we also have to do a little history about the division of responsibilities between the united states congress and the executive branch. [ applause ] >> but that being said, lawrence, speaking of the executive branch, on the issue of choice, look, the current president of the united states ran on a campaign that said women should be punished, punished if they have an abortion. we have a president -- >> well, he took that back just about as soon as he said it. he said that to chris matthews in the middle of one of these. >> it came out of his mouth and i thi

robert: take me through majority leader mitch mcconnell's thinking here. he goes to the floor and says case closed but on tuesday at the senate lunch privately, he doesn't go after senator burr, he says let the process play out. wter: this a reminder of the old days on capitol hill where yo had the independent committee chairman who was able to do whate wants. this is the case where the overt message from leadership is, this is over, it's done, move on, and one chairman out there saying i stil qhave a fewstions and i want them answered. abby: and he's not running for re-election which gives him power. robert: but senator tillis is up in 2020 and he's not echoing burr but is rallying behind president trump and donald trump jr. abby: if you're running for re-election in dona party, you have to be clear of where you stand on this issue of donald trump jr.'s subpoena. it is not one of tho where the president and his allies will look the other way if people are suddenly saying it's ok for this to happen. perhaps theep only eon to that might be mitch mcconnell,

a brazen flip-flop by mitch mcconnell. ys if a supreme court vacancy occurs during next year's presidential election, he will work to confirm a nominee by appointed by president trump. >> we'd fill it. >> you might recall mcconnell's decision to block obama's nomin nominee following the death of antonin scalia in 2016. >> all we're doing is following a long standing tradition of of not filling vacancies in the middle of a presidential election year. >> his explanation for the flip-flop, his spokesman claims there's a difference between now and three years ago because in 2016 the white house was controlled by democrat and the senate by republicans. and this time both are contr controlled by the gop. >>> the supreme court still ruling on two key parts of an indiana abortion law. leaving in place a block that keeps the sdat from prohibiting abortions solely on a race, sex and disability. and required that part of the to bury or burn fetal remains will go forward. a number of states pushed antiabortion measures with the goal of