murkowski: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: i ask unanimous consent the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. murkowski: i ask unanimous consent that the appointment at the desk appear separately in the record as if made by the chair. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. murkowski: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 372 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 372, congratulating the north dakota state university football team for winning the 2017 national collegiate athletic association division one football championship subdivision title. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate shall proceed to the measure. ms. murkowski: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble b

i'm sure senator murkowski will be here shortly. as some people noah 7.9

ryan nobles was there asking the questions to lisa murkowski and susan collins among the ladies there. so ryan, there is some hope. however, susan collins says she doesn't want to get into the details of what they were talking about, but she said it is the institution of the senate who has to bring matters together, come up with some sort of measures in which to move forward on. so did it seem as though they were very hopeful about potentially coming up with something so that government can be up and running again very soon? >> you know, fred, i have to say having been tracking these senators for the last couple days, these are the most hopeful we've seen them, but as you saw with that conversation between senator collins and murkowski, even though they feel progress is being made, they don't have a deal yet. they still feel more negotiations need to take place, they still need to talk to their fellow senators, and another big part of this is they have to get buy-in from their leadership, from mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer. you heard both senators collins and murkowski say they ar

senator murkowski will be here shortly for the hearing entitled mid-atlantic weather events including the bomb cyclone. i'd like to start by calling on the ranking member to give her opening statement. >> thank you, chair. and good morning to eveon

. >> thanks, senator michalski -- senator murkowski. we have several senators remaining who want to ask questions. senator murphy is next. senator murphy: thank you very much, mr. chairman. if one of us were to go down to the senate floor and give a speech on loneliness, we would worry it would come off looking silly, and yet, if you look at a map of the suicide epidemic in this country, the crisis is the worst were social isolation is the greatest. if you read peter early us great book about the mental health crisis in the country, he comes to the end that the only effective mental health solutions in the country are the ones that build connections between people -- if you read great book about the mental health crisis in the country. complicated one. it was a private, low-cost community pool that closed circumstances outside the government's control. kids had lots of reasons to state inside, houses had their own pools. you hint at being critical of the decision by the government to let that pool close. they could have spent taxpayer m

we heard from her, lisa murkowski, heidi heitkamp, lindsey graham. they were being coy, failed to give detail on a proposal hammered out, but there is seemingly some agreement there of having a commitment to include immigration. what's the latest? >> some of the democrats went straightrom here tohuck scmer's office to continue the conversation with him. let me put together and try to give you what i think are the outlines here. first, this is the most optimism i've heard from senators of either party since before the shutdown started, that maybe, just maybe, they have something they can work with here. based on lindsey graham's comments, doesn't sound like they are talking about some new piece of legislation. what it sounds like is under discussion here is the idea that this bipartisan group could support voting for this piece of legislation that's on the floor, set for 1:00 vote, this three-week c.r., fund the government until february 8th, fund the c.h.i.p. program for six years. however, with their votes, sounds like what is being discussed is a s

senator murkowski will be here shortly for this hearing. it's titled, examining the performance of the electric power system in the northeast and mid atlantic due to increasing winter weather events, including the bomb cyclone. i would like to start by calling on the ranking member to give her opening statement. >> thank you, chair, and good morning to everyone. i'm sure that senator murkowski will be here shortly. as some people may know, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of alaska, impacting co kodiak and parts of the pacific northwest with tsunami warnings that were issued for activities that were expected, and those warnings for tsunami waves have been recalled but no doubt i'm sure the senator is dealing with lots of things this morning related to that and other issues. so, impa want to thank our witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. walker, for being here and many of the staffs that people have here that we're glad we're back in operation. so we look forward to hearing from all our witnesses on the subject of the reliability

optimistic and confident about the inclusivity of the members of the senate, susan collins and lisa murkowski seem like they wanted to reserve some comment, but simply say that they were hopeful. susan collins says, we are trying to be helpful and move forward. >> reporter: yeah, and i think that's right, fred. i think that everybody is cautiously optimistic at this point because they have seen the process come off the rails so many times, and what we really don't know is the substance of that conversation. what areas did they agree on, you know, is it going to be a shorter continuing resolution where they vote on a budget by february 8th, and in between that time, they bring things like immigration reform to the floor, with the opioid crisis? disaster relief? or is it something different from that, and so much of that, and i believe those 22 senators who were in that room genuinely like each other, and are considered to be moderates. they trust each other, but now you have to bring that conversation out to the larger senate, and there is not a lot of trust when you get beyond that room, and

thank you senator murkowski has questions and then we will wrap up the hearing.so many statistics you have cited in your book but one that floored me was the reference to the volume goes in the united states consume when it comes to narcotics and you state that the united states consumes and they are writing 83% of the votes oxycodone and 99% of the world's hydrocodone. gram for gram a group of specialists wrote in 2012 people in the united states consume more narcotic medication than any other nation worldwide. okay, so people can become addicted whether you are a u.s. citizen or some place in south america, what is it about this country that has us at only 99% of the world's hydrocodone and vicodin? what is it that has happened here? >> that is a terrific question and one that began to hit me as i got into this book and realized it wasn't just a story about a drug addiction but who we've become as americans. >> two generations ago or so, about a million people joined the army and the whole country participated in defeating the nazis and now we can't get our wis

later reporters caught up with senators murkowski and collins on where things stand. >> a hard stop this evening with a vote.

chairman. >> thank you, senator murkowski. we have several that we want to stick to the five minutes. >> okay i'm sorry. >> senator murphy is next. >> thank you very much. if one of us were to go down to the senate floor and give a speech on loneliness we would worry it would come up looking silly. yet if you look at the map of the suicide epidemic in this country, the crisis is the worst where social isolation is the greatest. if you read pete ailes great book about the mental health crisis, he comes to the conclusion in the end very effective treatment program are the ones that build connectivity between people. and you didn't title your book the great heroin epidemic, you tiled it "dreamland" and made it in your opening comment it's about connectedness. but the story of "dreamland" is a complicated one. private low cost community pool that closed in part because of factors that were outside of government's control. people had a lot more going on in their house. >> they had their own pools. they had more tv channels. kids ha

i'm sure senator murkowski will be here shortly. as some people may know, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of alaska impacting kodiak and parts of the pacific northwest with tsunami warnings were issued for activities that were expected and those warnings for tsunami waves have been recalled but no doubt, dealing with lots of things this morning related to that and other issues. so i want to thank the witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. walker for being here and many of the staff people that are glad w you are back in operation. we look forward to hearing from all of the witnesses on the subject of the reliability of the grid and its performance. last year the secretary and staff reviewed the likability in regards of the changing mix and i was relieved when i saw the report in august which i thought was balanced. it distinguished between the reliability and resilience and described the emerging techniques to integrate more renewable resources including synthetic and frequency response and also recommended they adopt resilie

the energy and natural resources committee is chaired by senator lisa murkowski. >> good morning. the committee will come to order. it's a little bit unusual to be here for a committee hearing but i think it is certainly appropriate given the subject matter that we have today. i certainly didn't mind the short commute over here. but it is a great setting to be at the auto show surrounded by the latest and the greatest, theo industry has to offer. morning by is senator stab now from the great steat of michigan and she has the aged me that while washington auto show is good, the detroit auto show is great. so that might be the the washington auto show locale for our next field hearing next year on this same subject. i want to thank the city of washington for hosting us and the association who puts on this show every year for helping us coordinate this hearing. i think this is an exciting time for the automotive sector, host of new technologies that have emerged in the recent years. are weight materials increasing efficiency while boosting performance at the same time 3-d printing ar

i would like to thank chairman murkowski and senator stabenow, senator manchin for the opportunity to address you. i am president and ceo for the center for automotive research in ann arbor, michigan. we are nonprofit, independent, unbiased research facility that brings together stakeholders for discussions and really trying to solve and do the research for some of the issues facing the automotive industry. for a little bit of a personal background, i was born and raised in michigan. i have cars in my blood. and i had 35 years in the automotive industry, prior to two-and-a-half years in academia where i led smart mobility and smart city research, now am fully into nonprofit research side of the business. when we look at the automotive industry today, it's really in a critical period of disruption. on one side, sales are booming. even though we had a slight drop off in the past fiscal year, and we're seeing high profit models, suvs, crossovers, full size pickup trucks providing profitability at levels we haven't seen in some time. on the other side, there's a strong need for technology

i'd like to thank chairman murkowski and also senators for the opportunity to address you today. i'm carla baio in ann arbor mg pg. we're a monprofit, independent, nonbiassed research facility that brings together stake holders for discussions and really trying to solve and do it research for some of the issues facing the automotive industry. for a little bit of a personal background i was born and raised in michigan. i have cars in my blood and i had 35 years in the automotive industry prior to 2 1/2 years where i led smart mobility and smart city research and now am fully into the nonprofit research side of the business. when we look at the automotive industry today, it's in a critical period of disruption. on it one side sales are booming, even thee we had had a slight drop off this past fiscal year and we're seeing high profit models, full-sized pick up trucks providing prophetability at levels we have not seen for some time. on the other side there's a strong need for technology and power trains and lec truification combined with vehicle technology that are stretching the li

i want to thank chairman murkowski, thank you so much. my dear friend, ranking member cantwell for allowing me to have this opportunity, but also for this hearing. full disclaimer, west virginia, as you know, has been a heavy lifting state for a long time. we're very blessed and very pleased to provide the energy the country's needed. starting way back when for building, making the steel to build the ships that defends our country. so we're very proud of the energy -- the energy part that we play in this great nation. with that, i think you all know that i'm an all-in energy portfolio, the state of west virginia is, too, even though coal has been a dominant factor. now that the shale has come on so strong and utica and rogersville. we've been blessed and are going to be able to help the country for many years to come. i've been vocal about ensuring the reliability of our grid for some years since the polar vortex of 2014 which you alluded it and the recent cold period we hit. i supported the recent department of energy grid study and subs

senator murkowski. there is no silver bullet thursday complicated no silver bullet for a complicated adult problem and yet we all know as it has been mentioned it's not just an adult problem. our children are dying of overdoses and suffering because the parents are checked out. i went to a senior center sitting with a group of primarily senior ladies and said if i'm having lunch with you today, what would you be talking about and they looked around and said where we would find services for our grandkids. because all of us are taking care of our grandkids. we need to look at this from a broad perspective and strived heidi on the marshall plan. the problem i see with that is we are still suffocated and strangled by the stigma is attached. we see there is an acknowledgment that this person or that individual died of an overdose. those are failures and losers, which is a horrible thing to s say. how do we get people galvanized to help and to be inspired to do something as big as i agree with you this needs

thank god for john mccain, lisa murkowski, and susan collins. along with the democrats, they prevailed and protected health care for tens of millions of americans. [applause] finally, i want to say something about public safety. nothing is more fundamental than an abiding sense on the part of people that they can enjoy their lives, safe and secure, free from crime. good neighborhoods, good schools, and good jobs all contribute to healthy and safe communities. but there still is crime. lots of it and, in many cases, quite serious. to combat crime, among other things, california has created an extensive prison system that has changed quite substantially and grown over the decades. in fact, it grew so fast, it became so crowded that the united states supreme court issued an unprecedented order requiring drastic changes. to give you a sense of the magnitude of the problem, here are some of the facts. in 1970, california imprisoned 125 persons per 100,000. that number now stands at 331. the corrections budget then was about 3% of the general fund. no

two republicans, susan collins of maine and lisa murkowski of alaska, voted with most democrats to rejectt. the house passed the bill last year. >>> "the baltimore sun" reports two former city police detectives testified yesterday in an ongoing trial looking into a rogue city police gun unit. one of the detectives said the head of the gun trace task force, sergeant wayne jenkins, was a golden boy and untouchable. jenkins has pleaded guilty to racketeering and other charges. his unit is accused of committing robberies and stealing drugs and money from suspected drug dealers. six former policemen have pleaded guilty, and two are on trial fighting corruption charges. >>> bloomberg reports north korea has scrapped a joint olympic cultural event in south korea. north korea said it was backing out of the february 4th performance involving south korean kpop bands and north korean artists. it blamed the south korean media for defaming its position on next month's winter olympics. the move doesn't affect plans for north korea to send athletes to the games. >>> "vanity fair" reports tom hanks is se

. >> senator murkowski. >> appreciate the discussion here this morning and dr. kadlec, you recognized in response to senator warren's question that the challenge that puerto rico faced after the devastating hurricane, it's difficult in an island area where you're not connected, where you're remote, well that brings it close home to me. we're note an island but we're not connected to the continental united states and we are really big and we don't have a lot of roads. it was just about 75, 78 years ago that we had a diphtheria outbreak in nome and we were able to deliver the serum by dog sled. we're not doing that any more thankfully but it does speak to the reality of how you respond when you do have an outbreak and your ability to move-in quickly is limited either because of weather or just access limitations, and we were reminded of this at 9-1-1 when all the air spaces shut down. you now have 80% of your communities that have no way to get things in and out, a major earthquake that can take out the major port that serves access or air ports and so for us part

i'm sure senator murkowski will be here shortly. as some people noah 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of alaska with northwest warnings issuesed for activities that were expected the warning for the tsunami waves have been recalled and no doubt i'm sure the senator is dealing with lots of things related to that. i want to thank our witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. walker for being here and the staff people that are here and blade we are back in operation. so we look forward from hearing all of the witnesses on the subject of the reliability of the grid and its performance. last year, secretary perry and the staff viewed the liability of the fuel mix and i was relieved when i saw the staff report in august which i thought was balanced. it carefully distinguished between reliability and resilience and introducing renewable resources rgs synthetic i inertia and frequency response and resilience metrics needed to be developed. unfortunately, secretary perifiled the report as a proposal, i was alarmed. ignoring the conclusi

thank you to chairman murkowski and also senators for the opportunity to address you today i am president and ceo center from research we are a nonprofit independent unbiased research facility to bring together stakeholders for discussions to do the research for those facing the automotive industry. so with a personal background for -- born and raised i have 35 years in the automotive industry and two and a half years of academia and now fully into the nonprofit research side of the business. looking at the automotive industry today it is in a critical period of disruption. on the one side even though with a slight drop off this past fiscal year and the suvs crossovers at levels we have not seen in some time. there is a strong need for technology in powertrain and electrification with the vehicle technology that is stretching the limits in terms of talent and dollars. in order to provide that vast array required to meet those global standards they are all global, the portfolios required are very diverse and challenging. to remain competitive they must comply with all regulatory environmen

one of the key reasons they got lisa murkowski's vote.id: it's consistent with what he promised when he came to a shery: office. let's see what the markets are doing. we continue to see them rally. taylor: taking a look at the major averages, you have the dow above 25000 and the s&p above the 2700 level. the small caps are not outperforming today. it's concentrated in some of these large caps. i'm looking at the automakers, december auto sales were released yesterday in gm was the big winner with retail sales up 6% year over year. d shares are also rising. board, look atxt ibm, it's the best performer in the dow today. an outperformto and raise the price target to $180 per share. there is something interesting going on today. we are looking at dollar and gold. we have had a weaker dollar and then gold higher. typically him a risk on day, this not something we would look at. looking at the terminal, this is been a trend that has been going on for the last couple of months. we had the bloomberg surprise index rising. then the dollar index c

it is cory gardner, flake, lindsey graham and lisa murkowski. >> for me to be able to save my child, i need to leave him. that's not a pleasant position to be in. >> laura: when criminals in the united states when they commit a crime, they are separated from their children. that's repercussions for violating our laws. everyone is a valedictorian and saving cats from trees and regular workers have to suck it up. i think it's ridiculous. >> the parents do, the parents broke the law. >> laura: it's all a scam on the american people. donald trump can end the scam. we can have you guys on for an hour. there are rumors that anthony scaramucci may return to the white house? it's a small finger...a worm! like, a dagger? a tiny sword? bread...breadstick? a matchstick! a lamppost! coin slot! no? uhhh... 10 seconds. a stick! a walking stick! eiffel tower, mount kilimanjaro! (ding) time! sorry, it's a tandem bicycle. what? what?! as long as sloths are slow, you can count on geico saving folks money. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >> laura: two bigot shoc

senator lisa murkowski could the announce.sruptive to state regulatory regimes and longest serving gop senator hatch is encouraging to remove bureaucratic red tape. not put up road blocks to allow the top nation's researchers to study the potential medicinal benefits of marijuana. >>> newly released natural poll of the trump presidency shows people continue to view the capital in a negative light. 80 pr 80% of u.s. adults are either angry or dissatisfy with washington. 18% say they are satisfied or happy when it comes to president trump's efforts to, quote, drain the swamp, 38% believe nothing has changed. 33% say he is made the swamp worse since taking office. only 20% believe he has made progress. when asked about the political atmosphere in the united states since trump took office. 63% believe the country is more divided under his administration. only 9% actually say it is more united. former vice president joe biden is also weighing in on the current state of affairs in the the country. calling the trump administration dy

they asked because they can't take it off the ballot you can with murkowski held onto her seat and alaska wil was a rightd so they work and as i discovered in the book, lbj won new hampshire because as you said they didn't bother. >> i not think t bigotry to abbe this here. i want to try to get comments from you on the economic g. between the political divide in 1968 and the political divide today. as a previous speaker i was a graduate student in the 1968 election. a with a lower number and so military policy and foreign policy were important to me for personal reasons as well as philosophical reasons and today things are different because we don't have a lottery or draft and yet we do have a divide between a part of the population that is in some sense of vulnerability economic reasons and sort of the rest of the military service versus those that are not so vulnerable to that risk. am i trying to make too much of the importance of the military and foreign policy because of america's involvement not only in the part of the electorate but their parents and so forth? can you comment on wh

it is cory gardner, flake, lindsey graham and lisa murkowski. >> for me to be able to save my child, i need to leave him. that's not a pleasant position to be in. >> laura: when criminals in the united states when they commit a crime, they are separated from their children. that's repercussions for violating our laws. everyone is a valedictorian and saving cats from trees and regular workers have to suck it up. i think it's ridiculous. >> the parents do, the parents broke the law. >> laura: it's all a scam on the american people. donald trump can end the scam. we can have you guys on for an hour. there are rumors that anthony scaramucci may return to the white house? the mooch when we come back dynamic performance, so you can own the road. aggressive styling, so you can break away from everyone else. the bold lexus is. experience amazing. ♪ do you want clean, stain free dentures? try polident. the four in one cleaning system kills 99.99% of odor causing bacteria, cleans where brushing may miss. helps remove stains and prevent stain build up. use polident daily. >> laura: two bigot sh

it's lindsey graham, jeff flake and lisa murkowski.gration. byron: the big thing here is can trump get something on his wall to get started with it. one of the things i talk about in my piece, i talked about ask congress to set aside $18 billion the next 10 years for the wall. lou: in i may, let me interject. $18 billion would be a 10-year project to build a wall that still would not be 2,000 miles so that's not adequate for a president who promised to build a wall. this is a very difficult ground for the president it seems to me, particularly when not a single democrat has voted for a trump initiative and he's been -- there has been question that this is a democratic initiative that he would be sponsoring. byron: it requires 60 votes in the senate. so i think what trump is trying to find is a way to get a down payment on a wall -- lou: this is not what the president pledged. he said build the damn wall. byron: they are going to try to make it like a toll road where they impose fees on your visas. lou: you are talking about a fiction i

lisa murkowski of alaska calling this change disruptive and regrettable. as you said, it was just days ago that california made marijuana legal, and now we're seeing yet another attempt by the trump administration to roll back an obama era policy >> some concerns about wallets being affected let's talk about steve bannon again. yesterday you and i spoke about the fallout on capitol hill from his comments not a lot of people have come out with public statements we've now heard more of those reactions that you might have expected can you give us a flavor >> yeah. several of the republicans that we talked to early on really didn't want to get in the middle of this back and forth with president trump and steve bannon bannon and the president seem to be trying to patch things up saying -- bannon saying more complimentary things about the president and more complimentary than he did in this book the president says we'll see he's now changing his tune now lots of republicans are siding with president trump on this saying that steve bannon doesn't represent their

colin powell, lisa murkowski, jim nance, football announcer from -- george w. bush's sister. hacking her i think is how we got first public lack at george w. bush's oil paintings. they're not that bad. i think we got to see them because guccifer hacked into his sister's personal e-mail account. that's how he got them, posted them online and we all first saw them. what guccifer did went on for several years, 2012, 2013. released a lot of people's personal information, medical, contact information, incidentally, by publishing some stolen e-mails that other famous people had sent to hillary clinton at private e-mail address, it was guccifer hacks that accidentally exposed that hillary clinton was using private e-mail server while she was secretary of state. and you know how that ended. important thing to know about that hacker from 2012, 2013 and beyond, guccifer, marcel lezar. he got caught. what he did, unauthorized access and stealing and redistributing data he stole from people's online accounts is illegal. u.s. justice department went after him. 40 something-year-old guy in

republican pat roberts makes a swiping motion to lisa murkowski, all while mcconnell, obviously, eagervote. what's this? a bipartisan crossover, republicans jeff flake and ben sasse pay a quick visit to schumer while bernie sanders packing a punch with his message. >> are there any sanders in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote? >> i ask for ten minutes of debate splt debates began. >> i'm not trying to play for political points. even false ones. >> schumer addressing mcconnell directly while mcconnell, he's only speaking to republicans. >> if you want to know the urgency, look into the gallery behind me. >> mcconnell attempts to add swrurn. >> unanimous to adjourn-to-until 11:00 a.m. friday january 19th. is there an objection? >> i object. i object. >> objection is heard. >> i don't know why we're adjourning when we're in this urgent situation. we could vote tonight on cloture and have an entire day to work on this matter. >> will this procession proceed past midnight? whatever the decisions, dems seem proud, round of handshakes, pats on the back. durbin with solidarity a

he's given money to marco rubio and rob portman, pat toomey, ted cruz, lisa murkowski.ated more than 2 million to party campaigns since 2001 including $1.3 million to rnc bundled for senator john mccain's presidential campaign, as well. is he a big deal in the donor world of republican politics. >> he's become bigger and bigger. a switch flipped with steve wynn shortly after obama was elected, chris. i remember several conversations with him in which had he became increasingly vitriolic about the president who i believe actually i think he voted for him. i think his wife at the time elaine talked him into voting for obama. he had buyer's remorse almost immediately said he was creating the worst business client in the history of the world and thought the affordable care act was the worst bill ever passed but it's gotten increasingly more and more intense. he's become more and more republican. sheldon adelson who obviously i mentioned earlier has always been a major republican donor. he and steve wynn also did not like each other but bonded over obama. i think sheldon ade

targeting lisa murkowski, dean, susan collins, and tennessee. enator corker is retiring leaving the seat open. placing the blame on chuck schumer. democrats point to pulling that came out early in the week from park research associates, that is a well-respected polling firm. what was interesting is it looked at the 12 senate battleground states and it found that in those states, the states that decide the majority of in , a plurality of voters, i have a sampling of trump's voters say they would view the republicans is more to blame for the shutdown, something 40 something percent to 30 something percent. a poll also shows that there is strong support amongst republicans, democrats, protectings for dreamers from deportation, 81%. the democrats were pointing to that poll earlier in the week. a were also pointing to another poll, abc news, "washington post" said 80% would blame republicans, only 20% would lame democrats, so that's a big advantage there, but i still thek mitch mcconnell and republicans are feeling pretty confident in their own repub

mike rounds, lisa murkowski, senator alexander and susan collins of maine. but senate majority leader said he would only bring a vote on something that the white house supports. >> i'm looking for something that president trump supports. and he's not yet indicated what measure he's willing to sign. as soon as we figure out what he is for, then i would be convinced that we were not just spinning our wheels going to this issue on the floor. >> and white house chief of staff john kelly attempted to clarify the administration's position on immigration and border security, this after controversial comments to law packers behind closed doors on capitol hill. in in a meeting with members of the congressional hispanic caucus, kelly reportedly said some of the hard line policies president trump advocated during the campaign were uninformed and that a wall along the entirety of the southern border would never be built and mexico would never pay for it, according to people familiar with that meeting. kelly gave his side of those comments in an interview on fox news. >>

. >> lisa murkowski and more than $2 million to republican campaigns and interest groups since 2001,1.3 million to rnc. bundled for senator john mccain's presidential campaign. as well, he's a big deal in the donor world of republican politics. >> he's become bigger and bigger. a switch flipped with steve wynn shortly after obama was elected. and i remember several conversations with him in which they became increasingly vitriolic about the president. who i believe actually -- i think he voted for him. i think his wife at the time, elaine wynn, talked him into voting for obama. but he had buyers remorse almost immediately and said he was creating the worst business climate in the history of the world and thought the affordable care act was the worst bill ever passed. but it has gottenin -- increasingly more intense and becoming more republican. sheldon addleson who i mentioned has been a major republican donor and they also did not like each other but bonded over obama and i think sheldon addleson helped get steve wynn into the major republican donor column. but if i may, chris, the

. >> you have the rnc, the nrsc, ruby, johnson, scott, murkowski, dean heller is up for r re-electi re-election> a lot of the vegas casino owners. >> they play mostly on one side and then they'll do the other. >> i have gotten to the rnc meetings this week. the rnc is a legal entity, it's run by 165 members. of course president trump has a lot of sway, but there is a chair of the committee, and there is a committee. and someone should stand up and say this guy should not be our finance chairman? >> in a normal world, steve winn is not going to be at this meeting. >> but here's the thing, every time an allegation comes up, president trump sees himself in that person. so you can't separate that from this. so it will be very interesting to see what he does in this particular case. but he just feels like he's been in their shoes, he's been on that side, we saw it with roy moore even. >> this is one of those days where we feel like we're back in december, where every hour there's a new person caught up. now we have a new hillary clinton aid, burns strider, and hillary clinton was presented with -- t

and before that, even marco rubio, todd young, ron desantis, lisa murkowski, ted cruz, chris christiejeb bush and hillary clinton. lots of foof folks. 75.million to the manicurist? >> that's what the reporting show. >> how many women were involved in any of this, how many women have said that they have inappropriate experiences with him? >> well, it is sort of difficult to say. i mean our reporting certainly documents, you know, i believe at least four if not more accounts that we had, you know, we certainly have others. certainly former employees were more hesitant to talk even without attribution naming them. but yeah, it is difficult to say how widespread this has been, but certainly our reporting and as we said we talked to dozens of former employ yeees who had knowledge of this kind of behavior and the work environment at wynn's companies over the decades. so certainly shows that this was sort of a pattern of behavior that stretched back to, you know, certainly at least the 1980s from our reporting. and our reporting goes up up through four years ago i would say. so we have a bre

, names we've gotten used to during the health care debate and other places, susan collins, lisa murkowski on the republican side, joe manchin, tim kaine, mark warner, the two virginia democrats with a lot of federal workers in their state trying to get to a solution. the other aspect to this and the bigger question down the line is, what these folks are talking about has been a senate-specific answer to this. how do we get the votes in the senate to move forward and break this log jam. ultimately on the immigration issue especially, there's going to have to be a deal that involves the white house. right now there is a huge trust deficit there. democrats just don't want to work with this white house. lindsey graham from south carolina, who's been a go between between democrats, republicans, and the white house, has talked about this with some reporters just a few moments ago. i want to play his comments, if we can. >> we need a reliable partner. i think the preside's in a good spot in terms of understanding what deal will work. you just got to commit to it. so, the senate is going to do --

cornyn, kra po, cruz, daines, donnelly, insi, fisher, gardner, heller, kennedy, mansion, m murkows murkowski, perdue, roberts, rounds, rubio, tillis and young. mr. warner. senators voting in the negative. baldwin, blumenthal, booker, brown, cantwell, casey, durbin, feinstein, graham, harris, hasson, heinrich, cane, king, leahey, menendez, murphy, murray, paul, peters, reed, sanders, shots, schumer, shaheen, smith, stab now, van hol lin, warner, warren, whitehouse and widen. mr. lee, no. mr. jones, aye. mr. tesser, no. mr. gill grabrand, no. >> we heard that senator lindsey graham did vote no. at least one republican vote no. we also just heard senator jon tester vote no. a democrat of montana who was one of the senators the republicans thought they were going to be able to get. this vote is clearly going against the republicans. >> to hear lindsey graham voting no as we just did, jon tester voting no immediately after that call of the roll, at this point it doesn't look like there's a possibility for the republicans in this vote. >> no. i think thenlyhance mitch mcconnell has is slim to none

senator murkowski will be here shortly for this hearing. it's titled, examining the performance of the