ms. murkowski: my friend, the senator from montana, senator daines who is walking his daughter down the aisle this afternoon. if if he were present and voting, he would have voted aye. i have voted no. the pair will not change the outcome of the vote. i therefore withdraw my vote. the vice president: the senator has that right. vote: the vice president: expressions of approval or disapproval are not permitted in the senate gallery. are there any senators in the chamber who wish to vote or change a vote? if not, on this vote the ayes are 50. the nays are 48. the nomination of brett m. kavanaugh of maryland to be an associate justice of the supreme vote towing the senate confirm brett kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the supreme court, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. this is about 10 minutes. senator mcconnell: i had a chance to talk to justice kavanaugh and congratulate him on his victory, and also the president.

ms. murkowski: my friend, the senator from montana, senator daines who is walking his daughter down the aisle this afternoon. if if he were present and voting, he would have voted aye. i have voted no. the pair will not change the outcome of the vote. i therefore withdraw my vote. the vice president: the senator has that right. vote: the vice president: expressions of approval or disapproval are not permitted in the senate gallery. are there any senators in the chamber who wish to vote or change a vote? if not, on this vote the ayes are 50. the nays are 48. the nomination of brett m. kavanaugh of maryland to be an associate justice of the supreme >> "washington journal" every day. coming up this morning, daily beast correspondent in discuss thexaminer supreme court nomination. as part of our hawaii weekend, blue planet foundation director talks but renewable energy and the hawaii clean energy initiative. be sure to watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. q&a, yale on university historian on her book , >> you end up with scores of congressman in a mas

ms. murkowski. >> reporter: murkowski later explaining to reporters, quote, in my view he's not the rightan for the court at this time. despite immense pressure from both sides and even from their own colleagues. >> i have reached out to all three, to senator collins and to murkowski and to senator flake, but i also know that they are getting input from absolutely everywhere. >> reporter: and, wolf, with the votes in hand the final confirmation vote on judge brett kavanaugh should come some time tomorrow afternoon, but one of the broader questions even if and when he is confirmed is what happens next. what happens next for the u.s. senate as an institution? what happens next for the conversation the entire country has been having over the cost of the last couple of weeks. even what happens next with the supreme court. those are all questions that aides i've been talking to the last couple of days make very clear they don't have the answers to right now, wolf. >> phil, thank you very much. important questions indeed. president trump was among those watching the drama unfold on television.

ms. murkowski. r. murphy. ms. murray. mr. nelson. r. paul. mr. perdue. >> aye. >> mr. peters. >> no. > mr. portman. mr. reid. mr. rich -- mr. reisch. mr. roberts. mr. rounds. >> aye. >> mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. shotts. mr. schumer. mr. scott. >> aye. >> ms. shaheen. mr. shelby. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. >> aye. >> mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. >> aye. >> mr. toomey. >> aye. >> mr. udall. r. van hollen. mr. warner. ms. warren. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. >> aye. >> mr. wyden. >> no. >> mr. young. >> aye. >> affirmative, alexander, barrasso, blunt, boozman, burr, capito, cassidy, collins, rker, cornyn, cotton, crapo, ruz, daines, insee, ernst, fisher, flake, gardner, graham, grassley, hatch, heller, even, heitsmith, inhofe, isakson, kennedy, kyl, lankford, mcconnell, moran, ul, perdue, portman, reisch, berts, rounds, rubio, staff, cott, shelby, sullivan, thune, tillis, toomey, wicker, and young. >> mr. manchin, aye. >> senators voting in the negative -- baldwin, bennett, oker, brown, cant we will -- kantwell, cardin, core tes masto, duckworth, durbin

ms. murkowski: my friend, the senator from montana, senator daines who is walking his daughter down the aisle this afternoon. if if he were present and voting, he would have voted aye. i have voted no. the pair will not change the outcome of the vote. i therefore withdraw my vote. the vice president: the senator has that right. vote: the vice president: expressions of approval or disapproval are not permitted in the senate gallery. are there any senators in the chamber who wish to vote or change a vote? if not, on this vote the ayes are 50. the nays are 48. the nomination of brett m. kavanaugh of maryland to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the president be immediately notified of the senate's action. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the vice president: the sergeant at arms will restore order in the gallery. the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: the presi

ms. murkowski. >> reporter: she later told reporter it was the most difficult evaluation she's had to make, saying he is not the right man for the court at this time. now, after her speech, susan collins told reporters that she had struggled with this decision even as she went point by point defending brett kavanaugh's record and all of the allegations made against him in that speech even questioning whether or not christine blasey ford one of brett kavanaugh's accusers was being used by democrats to derail the nomination and joe manchin i asked him if he believed christine blasey ford's ford and he said he did, but he isn't sure that it was actually brett kavanaugh who sexually assaulted her. he believes it may have been somebody else. and he also thinks that the fbi investigation was authorize on row from what he has seen siding with the but now the question is how much backlash will those two receive at home. manu raju cnn, capitol hill. >> in the meantime the u.s. president is operates mystic that his nominee will get confirmed on saturday. mr. trump tweeted, quote, very proud of the u

ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. >> no. >>> mr. nelson. >> mr. paul. >> aye. >>> mr. perdue. >> aye. >>> mr. peters. >> no. >>> mr. portman. >> aye. >>> mr. reed. >> no. >>> mr. risch. >> aye. >>> mr. roberts. >> aye. >>> mr. rounds. >> aye. >>> mr. rubio. >> aye. >>> mr. sanders. >> no. >>> mr. sasse. >> aye. >>> mr. schatz. mr. schumer. >> no. >>> mr. scott. >> aye. mrs. shaheen. >> no. >>> mr. shelby. >> aye. >>> ms. smith. >> no. >>> ms. stabenow. >> no. >>> mr. sullivan. >> aye. >>> mr. tester. >> no. >>> mr. thune. >> aye. >>> mr. tillis. >> aye. >>> mr. toomey. >> aye. >>> mr. udall. >> no. >>> mr. van hollen. >> no. >>> mr. warner. ms. warren. >> no. >>> mr. whitehouse. >> no. >>> mr. wicker. >> aye. >>> mr. wyden. >> no summ. >>> mr. young. >> aye. >>> with my friend the senator from montana, senator daines, who is walking his daughter down the aisle this afternoon, if he were present and voting, he would have voted aye. i have voted no. the pair will not change the outcome of the vote. i therefore withdraw my vote. >>> the senator has that right. >>> senator

ms. murkowski: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i come to the floor this evening to share my thoughts on what has been an extraordinarily long and difficult and truly painful process. as we -- as we took up the cloture motion on the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the united states supreme court, the process that led us to this vote today has been, in my view, a horrible process, a gut-wrenching process. where good people, good people have been needlessly hurt, where a woman who -- who never sought the public spotlight was -- was, i think, cruelly thrust into the brightest of spotlights. a good man, a good man with sterling academic credentials. unblemished professional record, both as -- as the -- as the lawyer, professional lawyer that he was and judge, and also as a husband and father of two young girls. he has been damaged, been damaged terribly. and as both of these individuals, dr. ford and judge kavanaugh, have been harmed, their families have, too. and we need to, we must do better by them, we must do better as

ms. murkowski: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: request that the proceedings under the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. murkowski: thank you, mr. president. a few hours ago we had a matter before the senate relating to senate joint resolution 63. this was a resolution of disapproval which would have worked to disapprove of the rule that was issued jointly by the treasury, labor, and health and human services regarding these short-term limited duration insurance plans. and i had hoped to actually have an opportunity to speak to this prior to the vote, wasn't able to. but i wanted to take just a couple minutes this afternoon to -- to weigh in on this issue from an alaskan perspective. because i -- i think there have been some suggestions that -- that with this -- with this rule in place that those of us that care about protecting those with preexisting conditions somehow or other, we're taking these protections away. i -- i have weighed this carefully and -- and, in fairness, i think s

ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. nelson. mr. paul. mr. perdue. mr. peters. mr. portman. mr. reed. mr. rish. mr. roberts. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. sasse. mr. scoh hch ochl schotts. mr. schumer. mr. scott. mrs. shaheen. mr. shelby. ms. smith. ms. st ms. st mr. thune. mr. tester. mr. tillis. mr. toomey. mr. uhe ddall. mr. van hollen. mr. warner. ms. warren. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. widen. mr. young. >> with my friend the senator from montana, senator daines who is walking his daughter down the aisle this afternoon, if he were present and voting, he would have voted aye. i have voted no. the pair will not change the outcome of the vote. i therefore withdraw my vote. >> the senator has that right. >> senators voting in the affirmative, alexander, barrasso, blunt, bozeman, burr, cassidy, collins, corker, cornyn, cotton, crepo, cruz, enzi, ernst, fisher, flake, gardner, graham, grassley, hatch, heller, hoeven, hyde smith, inhofe, isaac son, johnson, kennedy, kyle, langford, lee, manchin, mcconnell, moran, paul, perdue, portm portman, rubio, sasse, scott, shelb

ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. >> no. >> mrs. murray. >> no. >> mr. nelson. mr. paul. >> aye. >> mr. perdue. >> aye. >> mr. peters. >> no. >> mr. portman. >> aye. >> mr. reed. mr. rich. >> aye. >> mr. roberts. >> aye. >> mr. rounds. >> aye. >> mr. rubio. >> aye. >> mr. sanders. mr. sasse. >> aye. >> mr. schatz. mr. schumer. mr. scott. >> aye. >> mrs. shaheen. mr. shelby. ms. smith. >> no. >> ms. stabenow. >> no. >> mr. sullivan. >> aye. >> mr. tester. mr. thune. >> aye. >> mr. tillis. >> aye. >> mr. toomey. >> aye. >> mr. udal. >> no. >> mr. van hollen. mr. warner. >> no. >> ms. warren. >> no. >> mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. >> aye. >> mr. wyden. >> no. >> mr. young. >> aye. >> senators voting in the affirmative, alexander, burasso, blunt, bozeman, burr, caputo, cassidy, collins, corker, cornyn, cotton, crapo, cruz, danes, enzi, earnest, fisher, flake, gardener, graham, grassley, hatch, heller, hovan, heightsmith, inhofe, isaacson, kennedy, kyle, lankford, mcconnell, moran, paul, perdue, portman, rish, roberts, rounds, rubio, sasse, scott, shelby, sullivan, thune, tillis, toomey, wick

ms. murkowski. >> [ indiscernible ] >> mr. murphy. mrs. murray. >> [ indiscernible ] >> mr. nelson. mr. paul. >> aye. >> mr. purdue. >> aye. >> mr. peters. >> no. >> mr. portman. >> aye. >> mr. reid. >> no. >> mr. risch. >> aye. >> mr. roberts. >> aye. >> mr. rounds. >> aye. >> mr. rubio. >> aye. >> mr. sanders. >> no. >> mr. sass. >> aye. >> mr. shots. [ indiscernible ] mr. schumer. >> [ indiscernible ] >> mr. scott. >> aye. >> mrs. shaheen. >> no. >> mr. shelby. >> aye. >> ms. smith. [ indiscernible ] >> ms. stabenow. >> [ indiscernible ] >> mr. sullivan. >> aye. >> mr. tester. [ indiscernible ] >> mr. thune. >> aye. >> mr. till liss. > tillis.>> aye. >> mr. toomey. >> aye. >> mr. udall. >> [ indiscernible ] >> mr. van hollen. >> no. >> mr. warner. >> [ indiscernible ] >> ms. warren. >> no. >> mr. whitehouse. >> no. >> mr. wicker. >> aye. >> mr. wyden. >> no. >> mr. young. >> aye. >> >> with my friend the senator from montana, senator danes, who is walking his daughter down the aisle this afternoon, if he were present and voting, he would have voted aye. i have voted no. the pair will

ms. leland, leland -- >> sean: best friend. >> and mark judge. let's see, lisa murkowskiaid i would like the fbi to check the committee so mark. we also agreed to interview ms. ramirez, the allegation not printed -- >> sean: "the new yorker." >> what the fbi has done their interviews, they send back to the senate, and if they want further interviews, they will sit down with senator mcconnell and see what we can work out. so we have a deal for a week, we limited the interviews to three people, named by dr. ford, and ms. ramirez, and we'll see what the fbi finds. >> sean: is now been expanded out. the president said -- >> no, it's not. this is a request by the senate. nobody -- >> sean: swetnick. >> no, nobody asked for that. not one democrat asked for that. the senators and questions do not feel that was necessary. it's an accusation that makes no sense. so let me go over it again. the doctor ford witnesses, mark judge, leland, and pj. mr. mraz. that is at. do it within a week. report back to the senate, and we'll move forward. >> sean: nbc news ran this interview. not onl

ms. ditto, welcome. >> chairman murkowski, ranking member cantwell, members of the committee, i would also echoed the sentiments expressed already about hurricanes michael and florence and the crews there as well as the people affected by that storm, and we wish them godspeed. i'm extremely honored to testify today. i would like to be can ask if you rhetorical questions. how many people know that utilities operate their own sophisticated telecommunications networks and have done so for over 70 years? and come how many know that these networks are integral to the reliability and resilience of the electric grid, including the carefully delicate process of restoring power after a widespread outage? finally come how many people know that policies made by an agency, the federal communications commission, seemingly unrelated to the oversight of electric grid, can, in fact, impact is reliability and resilience? even having represented electric utilities for 15 years at the time i became the ceo, i didn't fully appreciate the keyed nature of communications to grid performance. it's become clear th

. >> so lisa murkowski a no as you just heard there. >> mr. sanders, no. mr. lee, aye. ms. no. >> let me bring in casey hunt right now. casey, explain where we are now. >> of course. just to reset here, we now know where our four undecided senators are on this procedural motion to move forward. senator collins voting yes. senator flake voting yes. senator manchin voting yes. senator murkowski voting no. so again that means that this vote will likely be cleared and our policy here at nbc news is not to report the outcome of a vote until after it's been closed. so just to give our viewers that caveat, but right now it does look like it is on track for this to continue forward. so justice brett kavanaugh's -- excuse me, judge brett kavanaugh's nomination does not look like it will be stopped here this morning. instead the drama will shift to this potential final vote. susan collins scheduled to announce how she is going to vote at 3:00 this afternoon. so there has been something of a -- and i have been texting with my sources about this in the last couple of minutes, that ther

ms. ford. the president did have something to say about susan collins, said that he loved her speech, that he has a tremendous amount of respect for her, but also said that lisa murkowski of alaska will likely never recover from her no vote and that the people of alaska will never forgive her. she's not up for reelection until 2022. memories tend to be short in politics. we will see what happens there. chris, shannon? shannon: john roberts live at the white house, thank you very much. still about 30 days to the midterms. people wonder if they will remember this and have these emotions 30 days from now much less four years from now. we saw the enthusiasm in topeka at the supreme court u.s. capitol police we're told are now moving in. you see much greater numbers than you saw a short time ago, starting to clear some of the protesters off. i see a combination of supreme court police and u.s. capitol police. they had a number of protesters there taking to the steps and gone up towards the front door of the supreme court, somewhere we don't normally see the crowds allowed to go. the two police forces are working together to send the folks down back towards the sidewalk, whi

ms. giunto. can you talk a little bit about how increasing this kind of transparency will help patients make better decisions? and what i'm getting at is i think maybe what senator murkowskiis getting at. it's so hard to know like what questions to ask even when you're trying to -- it's so complicated, it's so -- not all of us are senator cassidy who know a lot about this sector. >> so working with our health care authority in the state of washington, senator, we put together a very simple series called the savvy shopper series. it's a part of my written testimony. where on a single page we helped consumers looking for cost, quality and patient experience think about the very simple questions to ask of their physicians or their care providers. and in the end we put that altogether to talk about getting value in health care. these are things that employers in our state put on their websites, introduce in their wellness programs. our state of washington has this information available for their employees and medicaid patients. so i really do think it starts with just the focus on education. as we get more sophisticated and continue to do our work, all of us on the panel maki

ms. baldwin: mr. president, just over a year ago in this chamber three brave republican colleagues -- senator john mccain, senator susan collins and senator lisa murkowski -- joined all democrats in voting against health care repeal legislation. they listened to the families of their states. i too voted against that repeal legislation because the people of wisconsin did not send me to washington to take away their health care. when congressional republicans tried to pass repeal plans that would allow insurance companies to charge more for preexisting conditions, families across our country fought back. when the republican majority tried to charge older americans an age tax and make people pay more for less care, people let their voices be heard and sent a loud message to washington: protect our care. they sent us all a clear message that they want us to work across party lines to protect the health care guarantees they depend on and to stand up for those with preexisting health conditions. but defeating the legislative efforts that would have made things worse for families did not end the threat to the american people. the trump administration has been