way. >> if donald trump is with north dakota 90% of the time, he and i are going to be north dakota. that time i'm going to be with north dakota the other ten. >> reporter: while not straying too far from president trump. after all -- >> trump, trump, trump, everything is trump. >> reporter: it's a delicate dance. one we saw firsthand in divide county and 120 miles away at the state fair in minot. kevin cramer, a three-term congressman, was one of president trump's earliest 2016 backers. it's a political loyalty he's tried to use to his advantage. >> i've heard her say, gee, i voted with him 55% of the time. can you imagine going home and telling your wife i've been faithful to you 55% of the time? are you kidding me? >> hi, guys. how are you? >> reporter: meanwhile, senator heidi high camp a democrat has worked hard to thread the needle. sometimes earning praise. >> everyone is saying what's she doing up here? but i'll tell you what, good woman. >> reporter: sometimes not. >> and we need kevin cramer to replace liberal democrat heidi hide camp in december. >> reporter: but in recent

north dakota. and that is kevin cramer. [applause] host: as you look at the north dakota senate race, what are you sensing on the ground? how much support does the president have? and the brett kavanaugh nomination as that moves through the senate, how critical is that for heidi heitkamp? guest: all indications are that the president remains popular in north dakota. he is not in a 70% approval situation, but he is definitely more popular than not. you can see that in both ads where both candidates are trying to attach themselves to varying degrees to president trump. the brett kavanaugh nomination is a tough vote for heidi heitkamp and all the democrats running in states that trump carried by substantial majorities, because the way you win as a democrat in the state is by convincing enough republicans that you are close enough to them on issues they care about that having you in the senate is worth some of the votes you might cast that they don't like. for heidi heitkamp, it is a very tough call be

it went to the north dakota senate and failed by one vote.hought, oh, that's just an aberration. when 1989 rolls around, there it passes. then it happens again. it passed the house of representatives, an unusual number of nay votes. it went to the north dakota senate, and it failed again by one vote. and there were flip-flops. people who were for it in 1987 voted against it in 1989. people who were against it in 1987 were suddenly for it. there was no consistency. i told you that i shunned media attention. i put that aside in the case of north dakota. that was one case where i needed the media. so i got a newspaper directory of all the little newspapers in all the little towns in the state of north dakota. i xeroxed the pages of the north dakota senate. , you need to examine this. it keeps failing by one vote in the north dakota senate and they are flopping. those who were for it are against it and those who are against it are now for it. write a story about this. a very nice lady, who also did feature stories for a magazine called "state leg

pages of the north dakota senate. you need to examine this. it keeps failing by one vote in the north dakota senate and they are flopping. those who were for it are against it and those who are against it are now for it. write a story about this. , who also diddy feature stories for a magazine called eight legislatures thezine ad the -- called state legislatures magazine wrote a story about it. it must've spooked them. because when 1991 rolled around -- and at this point, my house sponsor was no longer remember, so i found a senator who introduced it -- it had only four nays. through the house of representatives. so i had to do some extra work. brian: back to the basics of this amendment. says, when members of congress want to adjust their salaries, they can do so just as they have always been able to do so, but they are supposed to wait until the next election intervenes before that adjustment can take effect. has just aoften single citizen like you gotten an amendment passed to the constitution? gregory: i think just one time. i think it is

contessa brewer is in north dakota for us tonight. >> reporter: in north dakota, where country roads are paved and where neighbors live far apart. soybeans are a big business. >> it's a better opportunity. there's a little better market for it and it's expanded worldwide. >> reporter: soybeans production in this state has grun since 2000. exploiting me than 70% to other countries. the number one consumer, china.a buys much as $35 million worth of north dakota soybeans every year. this year, china slappedff a 25 on american soybeans. >> a lot of producers may not survivethis. >> reporter: in august when contracts are typically locked down with foreign byers, across north dakota all the soybean contracts have been cancled. inese trade group scheduled to visit has pulled out or stopped communicating. >> it's just not china, it seems like we picked a fight with evoryone. >> repr: grain processer richland is e, 25% of the food bean exports are sent tohina. investing millions to expand his facilities and the chine computer base. the new trade war is threatening those plans. immediately cel

never been to north dakota. it's most people 50th state if they make it to all 50, and -- north dakota, i love you guys. i've been there 11 times now since. but it is a lot of times kind of like the very last state people get to and for me, i'd been to all 49 states but not north dakota. so men you come to north dakota and give a talk, i said i don't know about the talk but, check, all 50 states. is a thought i said it would be interesting to go to fargo. i haven't been there as i was thinking but the talk and flying out, i said, maybe be interesting to just go to all states, go everywhere. and to do something that i think too few people have an opportunity to do and certainly -- i apologize. if if you're a business background i apologize on your behalf too. many people in business do things that are counter-product enough education and i didn't not want to be one of this business people so i was going to do my homework and said just go where the kids are. so i went to rural. a lot of time in rural america which

i said sure, i've never been to north dakota. north dakota, i love you guys. i've been there 11 times, but it is a lot of times the very last day people get to. honestly for me i've been to all 49 states, but not north dakota. can you come in north dakota and give a talk? it would be interesting to go to fargo. as i was thinking about that i said maybe it would be interesting to just go to all states. go everywhere and to do some things that i think people have an opportunity to do and certainly, i apologize, or business background i apologize in your behalf. too many people do things counterproductive and education. i did not want to be one of those business people and i felt in some ways he took a school metaphor and i was going to do my homework. i said why don't i just go where the kids are. so i spent a lot of time in rural america come which gets ignored so often. three days in tribal villages in alaska. i just went where the kids were. it was a very demanding trip. it was nine months every school day. >> it was one school year. >> 7:30 in the morning un

>> we're here at the state fair in north dakota. dakota big manufacturing state agriculture is a big industry here. we're standing among some of that equipment. and voters here wanted to talk about tariffs when we spoke to them over the weekend. that's the x-factor in the race. they had a lot to say about russia, making the points you were just playing now that they want to see this probe wrapping up. some saying democrats are grasping at straws. some say it might take too much time to dig it up. the candidates voiced their concerns about russia. here's what they said to me over the weekend. >> reporter: do you believe president trump believes that it was russia? >> i don't know what he believes. i don't know that he believes. >> but you believe it was russia? >> i mean, you know, i believe it was russia as sure as i believe the sun comes up in the east. >> do you have any concerns about russian meddling in this upcoming election? >> i'm concerned about russia's meddling in everything. i worry about our ability to stop cyber attacks

he's focused on it, determined he's going to get me. >> in north dakota, david shannon's family triedth the shocking information. the murder, the revelations about swinging, and now joan was telling them that she had become a suspect, to which they replied -- joan? not a chance. >> we tried to play the scenario. did joan have a part in it? none of us could see that she could possibly have done that. it is just not in her nature to do that. she can't. >> but brenda did have somebody else in mind. >> now, elizabeth? i could see it. >> elizabeth? the shannons' 15-year-old daughter? is it possible she was a cold-blooded killer who executed her very own stepfather? the man who adopted her, raised her, provided for her? maybe, said david's sister brenda. daisy and elizabeth were always troubled, said brenda. and when elizabeth hit her teens, watch out. >> david and joan did not have the tools needed to deal with what those two girls dished out. it was boys, drugs, violence. if she got angry, she would destroy something of theirs. >> that was hardly elizabeth's view of things. she conceded s

he could be helpful to someone like kevin cramer in north dakota.pful in west virginia. but is he going to go to miami? is he going to go just outside d.c. to the suburbs for barbara comstock? is he going to go to modesto? if i were those people, i'd probably want him to stay out. >> he's going to be greeted today by a republican candidate in a republican primary in florida whom the president has endorsed. listen to the kind of message that he is going to be clearly welcoming with open arms. this is ron desantis. >> well, obviously, you know, he's the 800-pound gorilla in republican politics. i think a lot of our voters at the grassroots level are frustrated when they see some republicans not trying to support him. so that's something that they look for. you know, are you supporting the president? well, in my case, people are seeing that the president is supporting me, but i think trump's support kind of separates the wheat from the chaff. i think it's been a big booths f -- boost for me. >> and that is why president trump is going to tampa to have

president's support in other key senate races like missouri and north dakota and montana will be critical in bringing more republicans to the u.s. senate starting in 2019. >> bill: you are drawing your campaign tight with the white house. the latest ad you have put out, a little shot of that right now. watch. >> ron loves reading to kids. he reads stories. >> then mr. trump said you're fired. i love that part. >> he is teaching madison to talk. >> make america great again. >> people say ron is all trump but he is so much more. >> that is pretty obvious, sir. >> bill, you know, sometimes in this process you have to be able to take a step back and laugh at yourself a little bit. have a little fun with it. my wife is my best supporter and best friend. i wanted to introduce voters to her and to my family which is number one for me. we also wanted to do it in a way that people could get a little laugh out of and we could have a lighter touch. for people that are getting upset about it shows they have

the fact is -- >> north dakota? >> west virginia. >> in many states you may have public who likes trump but the polling also tells you that they don't mind a senator who is going to be a check on the -- >> would you tell heidi heitkamp of north dakota way small population, don't run on local issued, vote with your party on this and see how it goes? >> i wouldn't tell heidi or joe or any of them to do anything. they're going to have to make their own decision. but if you run a nationwide campaign making clear who this nominee is going to be, voters all across the country are going to have problems with the kind of decisions he or she -- >> robert, let's go back to -- kintly -- there's going to be hearings, they're going to be all over television for months. the hearings are going to be dynamite. there are people there who really know how to do the hearings. questions of religion perhaps are going to come up. they can go both ways. but my question is won't the democrats and the leadership especially, go into those pri

in north dakota, i started drinking and i knew as a teenager i did not drink like others did. i had a blackout when i was in high school and i struggled with alcohol related issues and episodes over the next 20 years. i chose to live and work in cultures that excepted drinking without any desire to go to any event without alcohol and could not imagine my life without it. constantly struggling with my addiction, my career progressed and i had forward movement in my life but could never reach my full potential with my addiction that was holding me back. there was a time when i needed to stop drinking but addiction is a powerful disease and it kept me drinking for many years. i could achieve any goal that i set for myself but could not stop drinking. even though i experienced many baffling and demoralizing and defeating drunk episodes. i had stopped drinking for 3 months but then would start again but then i stopped for one year then i would start again. the cycle continued over a period of eight years. i am so grateful that my higher power kept asking me to put on my boots and t

across north dakota, all the contracts have been cancelled. >> it's just not china. seemed like we simultaneously picked a fht with every one. >> reporter: at grain processor, 35% of the food exports are sent to china. president rick has been investing millions. the new trade war is threaten those plans with contracts cancelled immediately when t retaliatory tariffs went into affect. >>redirected shipments in route to china to alternative markets at that tim >> reporter: but lost $40,000 in the process. while washington takes a long view of global trade issues, here farmers worry how long they >>n sustain amber waves of grain. e'll have to see how it plays out. >>> chick-fil-a is getting ready to sell more thanour traditional sandsandwich. how they could help with meal planning. >>> how tokyo iin r to get >>> how tokyo iin r to get ready and the at ikea, we believe >>> how tokyo iin r to get ready and the your perfect student deserves the perfect room for the perfect price. and... who's there? hey. a boy? you never told your dad and me about any... wait, what's going

joining us to discuss that and more is the north dakota trade office executive director.nk you so much for coming on. we don't know very much about this program, how exactly it's going to get doled out, but $12 billion, does that sound like enough to you when you look at some of the losses from the north dakota farmers >> thanks for having us. it's one where it's not a small amount but again the devil is going to be in the details there's a lot of people that have been hurt so that's a lot of money that's going to have to be shared. >> simon, do you feel the sentiment towards the president amongst people like yourself is changing tone, and what does this particular offer do to change that tone back the other way? >> well, you know, for us we're concerned about our farmers. you know, the farmers here in the state they spend a lot of time -- this looks like it's going to be great a year, so for us it's kind of frustrating there's a lot of this rhetoric being thrown around and a lot of these issues really truly impacting the farm sites for us my role here representing the st

north dakota is in that category. so no matter how many people get out and vote against kevin cramer, there's not enough people to do that for him to lose. i think he goes on to victory. he wins. he'll have the resources necessary to win and he will be a representative of the great state of north dakota. >> dana: talk to me about claire mccaskill and missouri. she has $12 million on hand. how does the nomination of brett kavanaugh and the supreme court affect that race in your opinion? >> significant, this is a big challenge. this could be a box canyon with no river to walk up and out of or swim through to rescue. this is a difficult challenge for a state like missouri where president trump won by 20 points and continues to have popularity there. the people of missouri want a judge who is not going to legislation and rule through personal bias and follow the law and the constitution. that's what they want. we've seen the incumbent vote against the will of many presidents that won missouri, nominations that won missour

the question now, do we face a currency war as well >> i'm contessa bruer in portland, north dakota where they find themselves scrambling in the markets after getting caught in the middle of a trade war between the united states and china. >> president trump doubling down on his criticism of the federal reserve today, and i'll look at the potential implications of politicizing the effect. >> and the incoming ceo of state street says there's one thing that could damage the u.s. economy. "the closing bell" starts right now. >>> good afternoon, everyone happy friday welcome to "the closing bell." do you know what i'm most pleased about, sara? >> i have no idea. >> your foot is so much better you were unable to walk on monday, you were limping >> and now i'm back in heels >> we'll get to all those stories from the headlines in just a moment. but first let's check in on the markets. the dow swinging more than 130 points intraday. it is currently flat the s&p and nasdaq also flat the russell slipping a bit the nasdaq was on pace to post its third consecutive weekly gain but only just in fact it

and so this has real ramifications today for what's happening in north dakota.we're the ninth most dependent on imported steel. the prices have gone up. my equipment manufacturers tell me whatever advantage they have got from the tax code change has been eaten up in the very early months of the steel and aluminum tariffs. so there are some economic pressures here that we need a broader look than just tariffs we could put pressure on china in ways that doesn't hurt my growers and basically potentially running regressive taxes which is what it will be for consumers in our country >> the trade is one thing. so many great things to talk to you about just in this environment. you're one of the last great hopes, i think, for your party, honestly i do i haven't heard you equate helsinki to pearl harbor or 9/11 i see things and then we've got a new rising star in new york. i know you've seen some of her comments that's the party right now you're in a position, though, in a red state with an election in november so you're our last hope for any bipartisan -- or just reaso

but votes like they are from north dakota. and that is kevin cramer.plause] as you look at the north dakota senate race, what are you sensing on the ground? how much support does the president have? and is the cabin not nomination critical for heidi heitkamp? guest: all indications are that the president remains popular in north dakota. he is not in a 70% approval situation, but he is deafening more popular than that. you can see that in both ads for both candidates are trying to attach themselves to president trump. the brett kavanaugh nomination is a tough vote for heidi heitkamp and all the democrats running that trump carried by substantial majorities. because the way you win as a candidate in the states is by convincing enough republicans that you are close enough to them on issues they care about that had you in the senate is were some of the votes you might cast if they don't like. for heidi heitkamp, it is a very tough call because the democratic base in the state does not want her to vote for brett kavanaugh. she risks alienating them if she v

there's been a $1.5 million ad buy by judicial crisis network targeting west virginia, north dakota,labama. obviously that will play into this and the midterm is coming up and what that vote looks like for red state democrats. there are poll numbers from those states in alabama, indiana, north dakota and west virginia, double digits in favor of confirming which is going to make things more automatic barred for red state democrats. you might. >> let me follow up on that. this is a new phase that adds to the enormous pressure on the top democrat. the first meeting with the democrat is tomorrow. that's west virginia's joe manchin. indiana democrat donnelly. heidi heitcamp making progress scheduling her meeting. they are the three democrats, the only three who backed neil gorsuch, the top white house targets now. the democratic base is telling schumer hold the line. mansion, donnell y and heitcamp also among the farm state lawmakers not happy with the president's trade tariffs. on the surface, it has nothing to do with brett kavanaugh unless your research shows voters understand some fig

plus the trade war hitting soybeans, our contessa brewer is live in portland, north dakota contessa >the ground in north dakota, you've got millions of acres of food grade soybeans under cultivation, but already the retaliatory trade wars against china are slapping the soybean farmers lard, and they're getting a political slap in the face here more ahead on "squawk on the street." ♪ come on. this summer, add a new member to the family. at the mercedes-benz summer event. lease the glc300 for $429 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. we all want to know you know, the new, new thing. with xfinity's retail stores, you can now see the latest. want to test drive the latest devices? be our guest. want to save on mobile? just ask. want to demo the latest innovations and technology? do it here. come see how we're making things simple, easy and awesome. plus, come in today and ask about xfinity mobile. a new kind of wireless network designed to save you money. visit your local xfinity store today. >>> welcome back to "squawk on the street," china cance

and ansion, joe donnelly heidi of north dakota. host: joe crowley lost that seat. you tweeted about it in the victory of alexander ria cortez saying politicians face a rorschach test. what did you mean by that? how do you think democrats will tailor eir message or their message? david: mr. crowley was trying to position himself to be the lead next leader to have house democrats. cortez represents a generational breakthrough for the democrats and an id logical breakthrough for the democrats. how much that is going to be repeated, i don't know. i do think her message or what she wants people to remember as her message was something that i'm going to guess that we're going to hear more and more from democrats between now and the election. not so much her message of progressivism. she was a bernie sanders democrat. wants to eliminate ice, the immigration agency. wants free public college for everyone. those progressive ideas i don't think are where the democrats are going to go. but here is what i think they are going to listen to. she said time and time again, we the

now it's 8.50 a bushel they need 9, 9.50 a bushel it's concerning to the north dakota trade offers.xecutive director is simon wilson describe to me some of the other immediate consequences you see for the retaliatory tare zbliefrs right now the biggest thing we see is other countries starting now to pushback to our producers and say, you know, we need a price concession. we need to talk about this price. because the price bottomed out over the last 60 days. >> you are talking about southeast asian nations calling the producer saying even though you have soybeans in transit right now we want a price cut. >> it's the big problem is they're calling and hearing from producer and we're working back with each of the countries all the southeast countries doing it. >> the other thing we talked about is the fact that china immediately cancelled all farm orders for food grade soybeans but you're not even to the hot spot for the season to lock up the contracts yet. how much is at stake. >> well there is a lot at stake. right now this is where normally we are talking and locking in the contract

this is antler, north dakota.t makes this assembly in antler more than half the town. 15 people turned out this weekend in antler, north dakota. 15 of 27 to protest the zero tolerance policy that's taking kids away from their parents at the u.s. border. they were joined by an estimated 35,000 people in washington, d.c. across from the white house. another 55,000 people marching in l.a. 60,000 people in chicago which was twice what the organizers there expected. 94 in nashville and still tons of people turned out. more than 750 townes and cities around the country to protest against the trump administration, taking kids away from their parents at the border and then effectively refusing to give them back. one mom named jenny gonzalez, her three young kids were taken away from her by the trump administration. they were brought to die yooga in new york city. while her kids got sent to new york city, their mom, got sent to arizona to a detention facility. her lawyer did a radio interview last month in which he discuss

china cancelled all of its north dakota contracts for this product since the tariffs have been slappedchina. now, we know that these contracts are getting locked down in august just as that happens, richland ifc, which sends 23% of its global exports to china specifically, a contract was yanked a few weeks ago though president brandenburger found replacement buyers, he had to sell at a big discount. the processors and the farmers on the ground told me, they agree with the president, they were on an uneven playing field, but the farmers don't have the cash flow or the savings to ride out a long-term trade war. here's the response when i explained to them what the administration says is happening on the trade talk front. last week, the administration admitted that there are no high-level trade talks going on right now with china >> you're serious? i was not aware of that. wow. seriously? that's interesting we're just going to close the door and walk away interesting. that's not good. i don't think tariffs are ever a good thing, for either side. i've got to believe that there's methods to

or look at north dakota. quite a conservative state. trump won there by 35 points.ht kamp is facing a challenge from a conservative congressman. then look at charles koch. he is putting muscle behind her as the democrat thinking senator heitkamp for voting against banking regulations they didn't like. and now the group says they won't help the republicans unseat her. it is something different. saying he is actually speaking out about all this beyond parties. quote, i don't care what initials are after her name. i would like there to be many more politicians who have the dournlg run on a platform like this. for more on exactly what this conservative funder is doing, we go to someone who has been covering this latest koch network summit. i am joined by political reporter with nbc news. so nice to have you tonight. >> great to see you. when you look at this unusual move, does it reflect heitkamp and certain democrats getting closer to the kochs? or them taking a step away from the republican party? >> i think it is the latter. them taking a step away from the trump rep

>> reporter: following this podnesday's speech in north dakota, a man who sounds like president trumpbe heard speaking on the phone to someone posing as democratic senator bob menendez. >> so, bob, here's what-- let me do this. i'm on air force one. i'm just coming back from an amazing rally in north dakota, actually. >> reporter: but this was the man on the other end of the phone: comedian john melendez, >> posing as the new jersey senator as a practical joke for his s tuttering john" podcast. as it was a lot easier than i could have ever imagined. >> reporter: after initially being rebuffed by the white ftuse switch board, melendez claims he was eventually patched through to jared kushner, the s soident's son-in-law and advisor, who said the president ad would call him back. melendez said, 20 minutes later, he was connected to president trump. >> i think we can do a real immigration bill. we have to have security at the border. bi have to have it. e it was definitely him. there's no way they're going to deny it. >> reporter: asked for a response, the white house has tt denied the in

in north dakota we are focusing on several innovative initiatives. we are working hard to eliminate this shame and stigma of addiction in our state. we will be using evidence-based methods to create a system to measure our progress on eliminating stigma. in collaboration we are conducting a survey to establish a baseline stigma that we can measure against in the future. data will show if we are moving the meal. it can change minds and help systems save lives 80% of those incarcerated have an addiction. they need treatment and not incarceration. during the last three years it was thought that more punishment would mean less addiction. those with the disease of addiction who are convicted of nonviolent possession related crimes carry the extra burden and stigma of being a felon when they are released from prison. they often receive no treatment for the disease while incarcerated. after doing their time and paying for their crimes they can't find jobs or places to live. the felony discrimination toward the disease of addiction perpetuates the cycle of a

you're from north dakota. you don't have a shark problem in north dakota, do you? lank spot in the middle of the north american continent far from the coast but we have lot of northern pike and walleyes. they taste better, more fun to catch. stuart: well-said, sir, mr. cramer, thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. thanks for the opportunity, stuart. stuart: yesterday we reported on highest paid celebrities. listen to what our own susan li said. roll tape. >> and number five, the rock. dwayne johnson. $124 million. am i the only one thinks his movies are getting repetitive? ashley: you think? yeah. >> sort of storylines, jumping out of buildings. ashley: action movies,. >> earthquakes,. ashley: comedies. stuart: well, susan li is with us now. the rock is not happy with you. ashley: uh-oh. >> no. i have to say feeling full force of the rock in his 12.7 million fans. stuart: yes. >> some expletives thrown my way, some threats of bodily harm. stuart: don't like that. >> no. but here is his response. here is what duane johnson responded to me today saying, hi, susan. >>

they both have a history before voters here in north dakota.oth came into office congress in the same year, 2013. it is turning out to be an interesting race. he will be interesting to see where it goes. one political scientist i spoke to said we still have four months left in this election. there is plenty of time for other issues to come up besides the supreme court. herays he is not sure how decision on brett kavanaugh may play in favor at the ballot box in north dakota. host: when it comes the judge kavanagh, what has the senator expressed since the nomination? guest: a couple minutes after the president made his announcement on twitter, she issued a statement saying she looks forward to studying his record, getting to know him, and "aving a "fair and exhaustive review. host: jack dura, a reporter for the "bismarck tribune." what do you think when it comes to her showing her hand? guest: we are keeping track of when she may meet with that caps on, just to see where that might go. we are keeping a tab on what might happen. scienceolitical pr

in 1992, the supreme court held in quill versus north dakota that a state may collect taxes from a business with physical presence in the state. the internet at the time was a technology. internet commerce has grown to be a huge share of the economy. as result, states lost revenue from sales taxes they were unable to connect -- collect. brick and mortar stores are obligated to collect taxes from customers, putting them in a competitive disadvantage with their internet-based counterparts that don't have to collect tax. this,effort to respond to legislative proposals have been introduced, including the marketplace fairness act which i actively supported. one of these bipartisan measures passed in 2013 in the senate. our committee has failed to consider these bills despite strong partisan support. for federal legislation is in question because of the supreme court decision in south dakota versus wayfair, which held the state may collect taxes for any entity with a substantial presence in the state. in the wake of the decision, the committee revisits remote sales tax issues. i believe there are

this guy is not one of us. >> no one likes a carpet baegge, especially in a state like montana, north dakotauth dakota. maybe that'll stick. >> and tester is polling well. the republicans i talked to are very focused on indiana and missouri. they sort of know tester will be hard to beat. >> that's key. if the president has noted had a good track record of stumping for people who have lost. he doesn't want to do that again because everybody is running in november. if it's not going so well for maryland matt or however people want to see him, maybe there won't be as many visits. >> i bet you're right about that. the president follows the numbers. i'm told he's agreed to go back two or three times total. but you're right. that might change if the numbers don't move. >>> up next, a congressman accused of turning his back to sexual abuse, suggesting those accusations are part of some deep-state conspiracy. your family depends on it. but if something happened to you... you need life insurance! and chances are selectquote can get it for you for under a dollar a day! selectquote found michael, 38, a

we go to north dakota. north dakota, heidi heitkamp, not looking good.'s a democratic incumbent. the republicans have settled on kevin cramer. the party's coalesced. the state should be republican by all rights. unless the democratic wave is huge, it's going to be hard for her to hang in. so we're sliding that one one click to the right. one that is leaning towards the republicans right now. the last one, the mountain state, the great estate, the 35th state, west virginia, joe manchin, i told you he would be a tough out. every poll has reinforced this and everything has reinforced. the power of incoencumbancy to democrat. >> dana: how much you think your phone will blow up this afternoon with people frustrated you about the decisions telling you you're wrong? >> i'm mute now. >> dana: we enjoy having you. thanks, chris. >> shepard: new trouble from obamacare. what it means for your bottom line. and plus, the deadline to reunite the youngest migrant children with their parents is tomorrow. what happens to these families once they're back together? >> we n

north dakota all of that. flint. of that equals ferguson the bundy mom -- the bunny region nevada that at some level people are angry at government whether washington or flint or white people blasted in the street and you pay and you pay with the lifestyle for your children is slipping away. if you feel that way you are not alone and you are the majority. but don't lose each other. we are not each other's enemy. there is something called for personal responsibility we will get along just fine. i would like to quote justice hugo black in a landmark decision new york times versus united states of america with the pentagon papers. it turns out all the way from truman to nixon they were lying 35000 men lost their lives to perpetuate the lie so it was a danger to themselves as the premier court said they are allowed the press serves the government not the governors. and that is where we live these days i think. the media is shrinking advertising money is consolidated and they push us around you don't push me around i will

they were losing businesses and they wanted to be able to tax inside of north dakota successful states. the other is tax competition. we want government competition between the states. compete onople to lower taxes, less regulation, better education, better roads, is a great way of getting good government. telling states they don't have to compete on those bases, because they can export their everyes, tells incompetent governor you don't have to have good government, you just have to be about to expand to you tax. taxing people who can't vote against you is a very interesting idea. the europeans have been watching what happened with this and they have decided they want to tax high-tech companies, and i don't understand how the government will go, you can't do that i'm only we are allowed to do that. you can't reach into a state and tax a successful high-tech company, only illinois can do that. and other states. we put ourselves in a difficult position, for what? we were told this was going to be $20 billion in increased revenue. i talked to somebody from a state that said it will be $6

i will follow up on the north dakota hearing for small business. for whatever suggestions there were there. and i've always gone with the small business definition and will in this case of 50 employees or less. that's the obamacare model and the family leave model even though it's not paid. have any of you operated one of these small businesses? >> it's a simple yes or no. >> i have and there is some complicati complications that come in particularly if you're in a very small town. you have very few employees and there is no temporary workforce. there is somebody that has to do the work. so i'm still trying to figure that out and ild be interested in the north dakota approach to that. but my question to all three of you is how would the proposals work for a very small business in a small town where they don't have a temporary labor workforce. again, short answers because it's not much time. >> to the degree that a paid leave proposal helps women who have children remain attached to the prior employer, it could help them in a sense the employer woul

places like north dakota, let's say, for example, that care about farming.valley especially. and so it's interesting. this is a policy that donald trump has enacted that hurt his own base. now he's trying to fix it. how? it's sort of like you've got a mice problem and you bring in snakes to fix that. well, what do you do to fix the snakes in he's compounding the problem. i have to say specifically if you're a conservative, you've got to be looking at this and scratching your head. i mean, first of all, you have a republican president who enacts a protectionist trade policy that in my lifetime was the kind of thing democrats like dick gephart wanted to do. this is a huge government bailout. essentially welfare for farmers. it's really the worst of both worlds, especially if you're a conservative. >> i would love to talk to one of these farmers. we're going to work on it for tomorrow. matt lewis, thank you so much. >>> coming up next, there's a new body cam video of the tragic ending to the hostage situation at a trader joe's in los angeles. it turns out the e

you say you can't buy a hamburger in upstate north dakota for $2 or $3, but you go to d.c. and it costs $10. well, you understand why, all the money is funneled into there. >> host: so there's the funding factor involved in these programs, and how would you address that? >> guest: yeah. well, and i think absolutely there's a lot of investment that we need to do, and as democrats we would want to pay for that, but we also think that government should be involved in helping spread opportunity. but i think that he hit on an interesting point which is about earning versus free. and this is one of the things we found in our poll and in the visits we did around the country. people in the united states have a very different viewpoint than, say, people in other develop countries around the world. people ask this question, how important do you think it is to earn, how important do you think hard work is to getting ahead. and in, say, france 40% of people say on a 0-10 scale it's a 10, it's very, very important in order to getting ahead. so i don't think that, you know, earning is an

been waylon jennings and tommy allsop, so they could leave clearlake that night and fly to fargo, north dakotae the bus would arrive the next morning, pick them up, and take them on to morehead, minnesota, which was to be their next performance on february 3. during and throughout the course of the evening's performances, the big bopper, who was suffering from the flu at the time, approached waylon jennings and asked if he might trade his seat on the plane with waylon, and waylon indicated that if it was ok with buddy, it was fine with him. so tthe big bopper took waylon's place. also, throughout the evening, valens was persistent in his asking tommy allsop to trade his seat on the plane for the seat on the bus, and tommy was insistent that no, he was not going to give up his place. but at the very end of the performance, there was a coin toss between tommy and ritchie valens, and ritchie won. in fact, some of the last words ritchie was reported to have said as he was going and getting in the car to go to the airport was that he had never won anything in his life. unfortunately, after that bud

some of them wanted in north dakota and west virginia voted last time around for neil gorsuch. we are going to see another great conservative constitutional judge like neil gorsuch. and i think when push comes to shove, we are going to get two or three democrats which is what we get the last time, and hopefully all of the republicans. but, and i don't think there will be litmus test type of questions. the president said that that is not appropriate for him to ask, nor is it appropriate for the senators to ask. but i asked him to play it out quickly, and it is a reminder to the trump base, this is why we elected him. the recent 5-4 supreme court decision one after another, frankly, we knew would go the other way had clinton won. we had a chance with our president to lock down this 5-4 conservative constitutional court for the next four decades. >> harris: congressman? >> that is why we elected president trump. >> harris: you say that there will not be a litmus test. he said that this will not be a question about roe vs wade. but you could look at the voting records, not the voti

there were complications resulting from that that escalate north dakota the closing hours of last weekhat's why the boards of the three companies he ran were convened on saturday to pick replacements there were statements on saturday night saying mr. marchionne would not return to work in any capacity we don't know much more than that but we understand that he is not going to be coming back to the corporate stage ever at all. >>let talk about his replacement going forward. mike manley runs jeep. jeep responsible for about 70% of fiat chrysler's profit. about 40% of their revenue this is probably not a surprising successor, is it? >> it's not terribly surprising. there's been a lot of speculation about who would take oifr from sergio marchionne. he was going to go next year people were placing bets on whether it would be mike manley or the cfo manly has done an incredible job at jeep. he took over when it was a reasonably small brand and now it's more than a million cars a year he runs ram, the other major contributor of profit. if you look at the plan unveiled in yun fjune for the -- i

heidi heitkamp one of them from north dakota. i was travel with the president when he was in north dakota last week talking about how control of the senate will be a critical issue going forward. the president said he would be conducting a pair of interviews over the weekend, but there's no indication from the white house this past weekend any such interviews took place. the bottom line we know is he has an aggressive timetable with the announcement scheduled for next monday which you would think means that he would have vetted that the white house will have formally come up with the names so it can be privately vetted by the fbi before that takes place. and while most of the names that we have on that short list, assumed on that short list have past experience as appeals court judges, that's a short timetable for a lot of work still to get done. >> indeed it is. and we should point out to both of you that when susan collins said that roe was a precedent, she still is buying in to that very quick timetable of mitch mcconnell's to

then barro, in the northern part f the state, would actually be north, the northern part of north dakota, almost into canada. alaska would be into texas and the rest of the of the, and then the end aleutian island chain would francisco. to san so literally, we're a state and i ide think sometimes senators don't recognize that. it creates some unique opportunities for it also for alaska but creates unique challenges, and so we're working to educate, we, i say, our congressional delegation, my senate even some of our olleagues in the house, on alaska, because sometimes there are certainly special things we need in federal law, and it's up to the three of us to get them. was a mentioned, anwr good example of this past december. we were able to get that law years of trying. >> so flying becomes a way of life in alaska. > flying is a way of life, absolutely. almost 80% of our communities are not connected on the road system. yourselves, you guys had to barge up your bus up to juneau, then, you know, juneau through, you can't get out to of the state on a road from juneau. we're trying but we'r

when i tell that to people in the lower 48 who come from producing places, north dakota or california, tell them that when the whale come through, there is nothing going on, they say what? you can't possibly do that. i say no, that is a condition. you have a social license to operate. you have to work with the people who work there, the indigenous peoples who have been there 1000 years. , it is aboutalance balance and it is not easy, that it is very important. lisa murkowski is chair of the energy and natural resources committee in the senate and the senior senator from alaska. final question. in the next couple of weeks, a lot of attention will be paid to you when it comes to the brett kavanaugh nomination. you have had this before, but what that is like, to have that attention? sen. murkowski: i like to say that look, all of us in the senate have exactly the same boat. -- same vote. i have one vote, as does the senior members of the senate and the junior member from alaska. a great deal of attention has been trained on me because, primarily the issue of roe v. wade and what will hap