she happens to be a constituent of senator rubio. she happens to be a former intern of senator rubio and she happens to be my daughter. ladies and gentlemen, ellie sweet. >> [ applause ]. >> welcome everyone. i am a freshman in the mcdonough school business here at georgetown university. since arriving on campus, i have already seen -- weather that means campaign boot camps, site visits to the rnc, dnc or cspan, speakers like senator rubio visiting our campus or the fellows and residents. politics provides the home for many georgetown students. almost 3 years ago now, i started knocking on doors for marco rubio helping what i thought would be a successful run for the presidency. sorry america. nevertheless, i'm interested in my efforts to help senator rubio in the senate. first as a u.s. senate -- when i was in high school and this past summer as an intern, i have always been proud to work for him. send a rubio's parents came to america from cuba in the 1950s. his father a bartender and his mother a meat, they provided -- a maid, the

she happens to be a constituent of senator rubio. she happens to be a former intern of senator rubio and she happens to be my daughter. ladies and gentlemen, ellie swee sweet. >> welcome, everyone. my name is ellie sweet and i'm a freshman here at georgetown university. since arriving on campus, i've already seen the large reach of gu politics. whether that means campaign boot camps, site visits to the rnc, dnc, or c-span, speakers like senator rubio visiting our campus or the fellows in residence holding discussion groups, gu politics provides a home for many gu students. almost three years ago now, i started knocking on doors for marco rubio, helping what i hoped would be his successful run for the presidency. well, sorry america. nevertheless, i persisted in my efforts to help senator rubio in the senate. first, as a u.s. senate page when i was in high school and then this past summer as an intern in his d.c. office, i have always been proud to work for marco rubio. senator rubio's parents came to america from cuba in the 1950s. h

rubio: the people sitting in the audience?m the father of an 18-year-old and a 16-year-old daughter. my sons are still young, 13 and 11. , andn adjective professor i think the americans today between the ages of 16 and 29 are the best collaborators that are never -- that are nation has ever produced. they've grown up working in collaborating with each other all most native to it. i think they have a deep sense of justice about justice. which -- i sounded like one of our former presidents saying it that way, but -- [laughter] buta good guy, i like him, i think -- here's the one thing i know for sure. the nexteration thinks is totally screwed up. it has been true since biblical times. everybody thinks the next generation is totally messed up it if you have a chance to read, read about the accounts right on the eve of world war ii and what parents were saying about the kids of that era. this is a disaster. how are we going to win a war with these guys? we didn't just win a war they ended up becoming the greatest generation. i hon

. >> your republican colleague, marco rubio was on our air just a few moments ago. and he said the following about possible bipartisan senate action. have a listen. >> i can tell you that a separate branch of government that i belong to, the senate and congress, i believe will act in a bipartisan way. this is going to alter the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia for the foreseeable future. >> quite strong words there, alter the relationship for the foreseeable future. have you had conversations with your republican colleagues about specific actions to take against saudi arabia, including, for instance, the possibility of blocking the arms sales that the president has spoken to enthusiastically about? >> i have. i have talked to senator graham and corker. i think what senator rubio says expresses the views of all senators, that there is going to be consequences. we are an independent branch of government. we have shown it with russia and north kor radea and saudi arabi. we want the president's language to be clear, that america will not tolerate

i had to get through marco rubio, so it was a calculated decision on my part. was calling him the boy in the bubble. i said he has fake town halls, he has three prescreened questions where they call it a town hall. i do town halls where nobody knows the questions before hand. you cannot elect him president. this guy is obama, just from our side of the aisle. he is a first-term senator who is not ready to be president, so i was ready to make that argument and i remember being in the green room with my campaign staff right before the debate, and my campaign manager looked note and goes, you have told anybody what you've got in mind, and she walked me kind of out of the room. she said it's me and you now. what are you going to do? i said i'm not going to tell you, but what i will tell you is marco rubio's campaign ends tonight. and i went on the stage and we that rubio's campaign night, and i had hoped his supporters would come to me. what ultimately happened was that me, just, and kasich pretty --h divided up the rubio lot me, jeb, and kasich. our country got a b

marco rubio also went on to join the call for the u.s. to cut ties. rubio agrees that there is a benefit to keeping the saudi arms deal. here's what else he told our jake tapper. >> as far as arm sales is, i would not have said it the way the president said it. it's important not because of the money, but it provides leverage over future behavior. they don't need our spare parts and training and we can use that to influence behavior, but i would not take cutting that off, off the table. no matter how important they might be to our iranian central gee, our ability to be a voice for human rights and go after assad and putin and like what china does and maduro does, they are compromised if we are not confronting something so atrocious as what allege saidly happened here. >> cnn spcorrespondent in turke how aggressively do they seem to be about getting to the bottom of this case since turkish authorities have not been able to get into the consulate, right? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. that is lending itself to the creation of a fair amount of frustrat

loste amount that rubio evenly. i do think that our country got a better deal out of it because i do think that hillary clinton would have beaten marco rubio. and i think we would be in the middle of a hillary clinton presidency now. so that would have been something that i would have saved from. elise: i could sit and talk campaign drama the entire rest of the time, but i guess i will ask one more question, then we will open it up. in new hampshire, you opened your campaign or made a policy address about american exceptionalism, and you talked about the need for the united states to have principles that we stand for and that the world knows what we stand for. would you say that donald trump, that his foreign-policy embodies american exceptionalism? or how would you define his foreign-policy today? mr. christie: it does, but just a different type of american exceptionalism than what i was talking about. you know donald's view -- i , believe, the president's view -- of the way that should be expressed is through econ

we're rubio i don't buy it. don't believe people are walking thousands of miles with their kids because it's being manufactured. one of the most violent places in the world with an authoritarian government who treats a lot of people like lower than a mile and these people want to come to the u.s. there is a political asylum way to get here. i'd like to hear your perspective i'm not. >> i agree with you completely. senator rubio with all due respect is searching for reds under the bed so to speak. i wish we in mexico had the organizational capability to do with the hondurans have done. have 7000 people cross -- >> you honestly think these are people doing it on their own? there is a huge organization. there's a big organization called pablo seaford terrace which is getting a lot of support from a lot of different people and they are behind organizing. >> there's a bunch of people, organizers and not do this, the church series of priests in mexico in honduras, and el salvador questionably. that's different from so

i said, but what i will tell you is marco rubio's campaign ends tonight. and she just looked at me and said, yes, sir. and i went on the stage, and we did, we ended rubio's campaign that night. and i had hoped that by ending his campaign his supporters would come to me. what ultimately happened was what we saw in the post-election polling was that me, jeb and kasich pretty much divided up the amount that rubio lost evenly so that i didn't get the benefit that i thought i would. but i do think that our party and the country got the benefit out of it, because i do think that hillary clinton would have beaten marco rubio. and i think we'd be in the middle of a hillary clinton presidency now. so that wouldn't have been something that i would have been, you know, to in favor of. >> i could sit and talk campaign drama the entire rest of the time, but i guess i'll ask one more question, then we'll open it up. but in new hampshire i think you opened your campaign or made a major policy address about american exceptionalism. and you talked about the need for the un

accountable with lindsey graham threatening to, quote, sanction the hell out of the kingdom, and marco rubio telling cnn that the united states will lose its credibility on human rights if it fails to act. republican senator ben sasse says the saudis have a lot they need to explain. sasse is a frequent critic of president trump and he's just published a new book "them -- why we hate each other and how to heal." in it senator sasse wrestles with the anger kicked up by america's deeply divided political scene. he's joining me now from washington. senator, welcome to the program. >> thank you for having me. >> your book comes at a very opportune time because this tribalism is sucking up all the oxygen, and it also comes at a time when some of that tribalism seems to be spilling out into this current case. i want to know first and

florida senator marco rubio will join us to discuss next. >>> plus, suppressing the vote? a controversy over voter registration engulfs a tight race in georgia. now the democrat is calling on her opponent to resign. >> they cannot let him steal their votes. >> but republican brian kemp says the charge is bonus. democratic candidate stacey abrams will be here to respond in minutes. >>> and full force. potential democratic 2020 contenders hit the campaign trail. >> this is america so get up, take it back, it's time! >> as the path for democrats to take back the senate seems to narrow. will the political star power be enough? senator bernie sanders will be here in minutes. >>> i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is in crisis. it's just over three weeks until the midterm elections and president trump is dealing with two tests of his leadership. on the world stage an unfolding diplomatic crisis over the disappearance of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi who should be celebrating his 60th birthday this weekend. president trump said he's planning to talk to

welcome senator i want to where i left off with senator rubio. you are on the environmental committee in the senate. what did you make of the senat senator's remarks? >> well, look, in the same week that we saw hurricane michael flatten the florida panhandle we had this report from the world's leading climate scientist saying climate change is hurting us today and it's only getting worse. and the same time you have trump administration, a lot of reply is cans who want the put their head in the sand, don't want to hear the information and we should start by not making things worse. this administration and inoress are actually rolling back auto emission standards, rolling back clean power pleed to take action. >> dickerson: what if senator rub owes' point once you have these regulation you the economic recovery that the americans are in the middle. >> reality is we've had auto emission standards in place for many years and in fact the auto industry has grown substantial substantially. the reality is that there are lots of economic opportunities whe

marco rubio says it may be happening but we're not going to hunker down and take a hit to the economy to try to mitigate this and come up with a clean energy path forward even though they know very well that the pentagon, that business are a all -- have all said for years that this is a huge threat to our national security and getting worse. >> it's in the u.s. navy's national security strategy. they have to prepare for rising seas that will threaten dozens of u.s. bases around the world. they don't deny the climate science. the president says he admires the u.s. military. they are preparing for climate science. and, in fact, they also support a clean energy future. >> no better example than tindall air force base in florida. there's some footage of one of our air force bases that was wrecked by a hurricane. >> thank you, a.b. and ryan. saudi arabia said they will soon make public findings into its investigation into the disappearance of the journalist jamal khashoggi. we'll have all the developments next. our dad was in the hospital. because of smoking. but we still had to have a cig

senator marco rubio. >> i believe that are trump administration will do something. the president has said that. but if he doesn't, congress will, and that i will tell you with 100% certainty and with almost full unanimity republicans and democrats, and there is a strong congressional response if the saw dislured him into that consulate and murdered him and cut up the body and disposed of it, there is going to be a strong congressional response. >> cnn national correspondent arwa damon is outside of the ko consulate, and what is the saudi arabia message on all of this and how is that being received by turkey? >> well, look, the overall m message that we have been hearing from the saudi government is one of staun thech de -- staunch denial, because they are saying that he left the consulate on the same day that he went into it, and they have not added any evidence to back the claim which is why there are so many questions surrounding all of this. turkey wants answers and access to the consul-general's home at this stage. we had harsh rhetoric coming out from saudi ara

i want to thank my two home senators from the great state of florida, senator nelson and senator rubio for their support. at this time, i would like to introduce and acknowledge family members and friends who have traveled to our nation's capital to support my nomination. beginning with my beautiful, loving, and intelligent wife of 15 years tangela smith. she is this beach language pathologist for the miami-dade public schools. she is a wonderful mother and has blessed us with two amazing, talented, and very smart children. we have our daughter morgan who is 12 years old in the seventh grade. and our son bryce who is seven years old in the second grade. both are honor students. i know that because i checked their grades. i want to say congratulations to the both of them. santa will be very busy this year especially if i am confirmed before december 25. i want to thank their school, not only for their support for recognizing the importance of having our children witness firsthand an opportunity of a lifetime to observe this invaluable judicial process. when the process is over, and a ma

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and if the president is going to the ramp up, he has to make sure that as senator rubio is talk aboutn't have other pressure valves to turn to, the russians and the chinese and let me say one thing about what senator rubio said and he is dead on, not just about weapons. the biggest enny the region for the saudis is iran. and you know who iran's closest allies are, the russians and the saudis. the saudis are trying to pretend they have a lot of options, but we are the biggest option, and they won't turn away right away. >> thank you, phil mudd for your take. >>> and now, we are a year into the metoo movement to give a voice for sexual assault and harassment, but has it been weaponized by partisan politics. i will talk about this with the movement's founder next. numbers to examine investment opportunities firsthand. like a biotech firm that engineers a patient's own cells to fight cancer. this is strategic investing. because your investments deserve the full story. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. - at afor the financialt's time world to stop acting the same old way. you need a p

and when you are weaker than marco rubio, you weak.his is our president who has not stood up to presumed murder and like putin just seems to accept and well, they did say. he said that we will look into it, and we had better, but i am struck that trump's brand is strength, and with putin and the sau saudis, the president seems weak. >> well, i want him to have all of the facts, and if these people did do it, we can't allow it. and we have to stand up to that and you can't allow economic interests overcome u human rights interests, but the president should not do a thing until a all of the facts are known. >> i will say that the president and we had insight into his thoughts in kentucky last night, and he noted that, look, i get a lot of, and i do a lot of business with the saudis, and they are good people, and so i am concerned that the president is allowing the economic interest, a tnl personal economic interests to cloud his judgment on this issue, but luckil luckily, i think that congress is going to be stronger here and push donald

i want to thank senator nelson and senator rubio for their support. at this time i would like to introduce or acknowledge, family members and friends that travel to our nation's capital on support my nomination beginning with my beautiful, loving and intelligent wife of 15 years dr. tangela smith. she's a learning pathologist for the public schools and she's a wonderful mother that blessed us with two amazing, talented and very smart children. bee have our daughter morgan. she's 12 years old in the seventh grade and our son bryce who is 7 years old in the second grade. both are honors students and i know that because i check their grades, and i want to say congratulations to the both of them and she would be very busy this year especially if i'm confirmed before december 25th. i want to thank their school, calvary christian academy, not only for their present support, but for recognizing to have our children to observe this invaluable judicial process and when this process is over and no matter what the circumstances are, i hope that i have inspired o

let me start with where we left off with former cia director and marco rubio.ull-page ad from "the washington post" saying on tuesday, october 2nd, "washington post" reporter jamal khashaggi entered the consulate at saudi arabia and has not been seen since. demand answers. andrea mitchell, what did you hear? >> i heard congress is going to take action when they prove this. they will prove it, whether they claim it was an accident, a misguided kidnapping attempt. kidnapping rendition is also violence, taking someone. if we had intelligence, it's unclear from my reporting when we had intelligence. it may have been realtime or afterwards or after the fact. but there probably should have been a warning if we had anyway of stopping it. in any case, there will be action from congress. the president's hand is going to be forced. they've already in the foreign relations committee gone with the mag nits ski letter saying you are under an affirmative requirement, legal requirement to investigate this which the administration did not want to do, investigated with a time l

you supported marco rubio. how's president trump doing?i think the economy's doing great, so, again, i was bill clinton's second largest contributor when he ran for office. you know? i'm neither a democrat, nor a republican. i tend to be in the middle which means very lonely -- [laughter] the country's become very polarized. maria: i would push back on that. i feel like we're all hanging out in the middle. very few of us have these monolithic views that you're all republican everything in your life or all democrat everything in your life. >> i know there are people that are very passionate on left, and there are people very, very passionate on the right. i tend to be in the dispassionate middle, you know? the kind of boring, dispassionate middle, and i thought, you know, very close friends with tony blair and bill clinton. that was called third wave back then. that was -- bill clinton was a centrist. you know, tony blair was a centrist. marco rubio's a centrist, mitt romney's a centrist. those are my politics. in terms of assessing the tru

i know congress will do it. >> senator marco rubio, thank you for coming in. thank you for sharing your views. >>> joining me now former director of the cia john brennan, a one-time stakes chief in saudi arabia. welcome back. >> good morning, chuck. >> it seems as if in the early parts of the obama administration, if there was a problem between the obama administration and saudi arabia, you were the one sent to try to mediate the situation. so let me ask you this, what is the cia doing -- what would you do doing right now trying to figure out this mystery? >> working with our longstanding partners, the turkish intelligence officers as well as saudi intelligence officers and others, to see what information they might be able to share with us, but also looking at what other types of collection capabilities we have and going back into systems and databases and seeing if there are any indications of what may have happened when jamal khashoggi went to the saudi consulate. >> we have tight intelligence sharing with the saudis, do we not? >> yes. >> how likely is it

senators rubio, shelby and jones have submitted statements of introduction and support. without objection they will be admitted into the record. universaltalk about or nature -- or nationwide injunctions. do you all know what i am talking about? where a single federal district prosecution ofn a particular statute. i do not have -- i do not know how many admiral district judge as we have, let us say 600. one federal district court judge ,an enjoin a statute nationwide shut it down, even if the other 599 district court judges disagree. you are not limited to your own jurisdiction. everybody following me? judge whetherith etherell, what is the legal base for that? mr. wetherell: i understand the concern. i want to be careful because the issue about the legal authority throughsue percolating the courts. i do not think it would be up propria for me -- sen. kennedy: i am not telling you what the law will be. telling i'm at -- i'm asking you to tell me the legal basis. mr. wetherell: the question of if there is legal authority is the question that justice thomas spoke about in

building what are we talking about in the building was saudi if dead said republican senator marco rubio today the u.s. must respond or it risks its own standing. now the administration seems to have very strong trust in saudi arabia they assure us that saudi arabia will get to the bottom of what occurred and what actually took place in the incident eventually. we're going to give them the space to complete their investigations of this incident when they issue their report before our judgment about their next step and the decisions they make about accountability connected to that. so the world just has to sit back and wait and have faith in the kingdom of saudi arabia. but update live from our correspondent in new york thank you. i said to germany now where a kindergarten has courted controversy for promoting itself as being a nursery with quote hardly any migrants the daycare center says that its message is simply be misunderstood but it's attracted criticism for other promotional initiatives too and he said he explains. when hunting for a daycare center for your children what tops the

jeffrey: the marco rubio metric? gov. christie: right, when marco rubio talked about his hands and hisets his -- he wets pants, it didn't work. or jeb saying, you are the chaos candidate. it doesn't work. trump is an entirely different phenomenon that has disoriented regular political folks. what you need to do if you are the democrats is to come back with someone who is conventional but not of washington, kind of to play it down the middle, say ok, you have trump here, you have elizabeth warren and kamala harris and cory booker over here, but i am the guy who is going to try and play this straight and make the government work the way it is supposed to and treat people the way they want to be treated, no matter which party they are in. i don't know if that person can win a democratic primary, given the feeling in the democratic party right now, but there is still some time for that feeling to ebb and flow, depending on the way the midterms go, but i think that's what you have to do. if you put up a traditional washington

marco rubio earlier asked where is the body? a torture gone wrong is your best explanation for why this u.s. based journalist is now dead, is that a good explanation? >> right. why did it take two weeks for them to arrive at this story? you know, i mean, that's what is preposterous to me. we see this in so many different instances. president trump is a loose talker. you know, he says what is on his mind, he reveals things that he shouldn't. he has taken a very tough line against saudi arabia calling this killing disgusting, saying there will be severe punishment. and then later in the day he says we're still weighing the information for a diplomat, that's a nightmare. i have every confidence that mike pompeo will do that. as you know, it is complicated because every administration faces the fact that the kingdom is a vital ally when it comes to countering iran. then you have to ask the question why is it that this self-described reformer in the crown prince thinks that he could get away with something so brazen? does he think th

florida senator marco rubio, thank you so much.there is anything you hear that we need to know, if there is anything the state is not getting from the federal government that you need to bring attention to, whatever, we are here. please let us know. >> thank you. i appreciate that. and i talked to the president earlier today, and i'm confident that fema's position to provide the assistance the state needs, that this is going to take a while. we've got to see what the damage is, and we're just getting images. but when we're finally on the ground and get to see it and the assessors get in there and start looking at it, we'll know more about what we're dealing with here. obviously, there will be some people whose lives were turned upside down. and we'll make sure the federal government is there to help. >> senator rubio, thank you for your time. more than 30 million people across six states under storm warnings or watches. our breaking news continues after this short break. stay with us. don't you get the best price booking at one of

i spoke to the florida senator marco rubio earlier. joining me now is senator marco rubio, good morning. i know you've been in touch with authorities on this hurricane, the national hurricane center and speaking to the director. what do you want the people of your state to hear and know right now as we await this storm? >> it almost becomes cliche but taking it seriously. every storm is different. this storm is a monstrosity at 145 miles per hour and won't weaken as it comes in. the wind is one thing. the water is what we're really concerned about and the water kills the most people. it is not survivable at 6 to 9 feet. i'm deeply concerned a lot of people have not evacuated that were ordered to and some of them couldn't afford to. they didn't have cars or ways to get out. i'm very concerned about loss of life right now. >> sandra: what is being done about that? you are talking about the storm surge estimated could reach as high as 13 feet in some areas. as far as evacuation shelters, what about the response that is being planned right

if the senate is the check here, you have republican colleagues of yours, rubio, graham talking aboutctioning saudi arabia. graham went that far. is there a bipartisan discussion today about hard moves to penalize saudi arabia? >> yes. i think that any saudi deal with the united states is now on the table for rejection. we came very close, a 53-47 vote that barely preserved a sale of weapons to saudi arabia just a year ago. but i think a lot of that support that the republicans gave to the president a year ago has now evaporated. and so i believe that any further arms deals to saudi arabia are now on the table and very likely to be rejected if it cannot be proven that the saudi royal family did not order this hit on the journalist. >> briefly on that point of the arms deal, though, you heard the president say and make the case, some of your fellow senators on the republican side say, if you stop the arms deals, you cut this off, you open the door to russia and the russians. concerning to you? should it be considered? >> i think that it's complicated for the saudis to be cutting arms d

eric: senator rubio talked about living through hurricane andrew.red that for fox news back in i guess 92.191, whatever it was. the power of hurricanes are unbelievable. we actually saw a car. he moved a car physically. we could not believe what we are seeing. but now after houston, after north carolina, and with the chilling video that we have from the drones of the widespread devastation, in mexico beach, people are not really getting the message that they have to evacuate. they had to listen to authorities. these hurricanes are more frequent and are getting stronger and more powerful and more deadly. >> we hope that people who were here in the panhandle of florida and around anywhere in the hurricane area, recognize as they see this and other storms, that it is critically important that they prepare ahead of time. throughout the year, we all need to be prepared as americans for the disasters that we face. and when we hear an evacuation order from hurricane, flood, fire, we need to follow that. we need to be parroted home, school, communities and

we just heard florida senator marco rubio say mexico beach is gone.re going to see it firsthand. >> reporter: we are, poppy. we just took off five minutes ago from destin, which was spared, thank goodness. we're flying directly along the coastline. in about 15 minutes from now we should be passing over panama city beach to be able for the first time to see the devastation. my goal with my pilot here is to get to mexico beach. the challenge for all of our crews on the ground has been it's simply impossible to get there on the ground because of the wind speed from yesterday clocked at 155 miles an hour. there are so many trees down. our only option was by air. and, so, 40 miles down this gorgeous coastline here in the florida panhandle is mexico beach. and what we will see, i think, will be devastating. i have seen the photos. i have talked to people who have homes in mexico beach who lost everything, roofs gone, homes underwater. we have seen some instagrams from a 12-year-old girl who has been there huddled in her home with 12 people. i am bringing wa

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she then went on to endorse marco rubio for president. after rubio dropped out, she endorsed ted cruz before she unenthusiastically voted for trump. in march 2016 he attacked her saying the people of south carolina are embarrassed by nikki haley. haley responded tweeting directly at him, bless your heart. so it came as a shock when she agreed to join the trump administration, one of the most high profile foreign policy positions as u.s. ambassador to the u.n. there were eyebrow raising moments, like when trump said this in april of 2017. >> she's doing a good job. now, does everybody like nikki? otherwise she can easily be replaced. no, i am kidding, we want her. i promise. she's doing a fantastic job. >> then there's this. when the president made his controversial comments after the deadly violence in charlottesville, virginia. haley avoided confirming or denying whether the president acknowledged he made a mistake, even though she had these comments about the incident. >> i picked up the phone and i had a private conversation with the p

>> honestly, i don't necessarily know because i'm not sure that marco rubio necessarily knows. he did mention also in the interview on cnn it could be the magnitsky act, which would perhaps allow sanctions on individuals of the saudi family, if they were to be found guilty or complicit in this luring in of the journalist and murdering him. but i don't even know if that would work. there's been a lot of talk about freezing arms sales to saudi arabia. the defense industry will lose their mind if that occurs. you might also have a lot of diplomats who might say, what are you doing? this is our foothold here in the middle east and our two other colleagues can speak to that with great knowledge. the fact is, this is an extremely complicated situation, and in some ways, it was good that president trump didn't necessarily come out and say, as elise said, what the end sanctions are going to be or what the united states actions are going to be, but for him to come out right now and also as we have all been noting, to really just mouth the saudi official line is kind of ludicrous, and ju

if he does nothing, what can rubio and congress do?well, they can come up with their own sanctions, dave. and i mean this is like a daniel da silva novel. what tremendous story angles. the president and jared kushner made a big bet on this prince. there could be implications for the markets, for gasoline prices, for the state of the saudi economy. and most intriguingly politically this president who's had iron control over his party is now going to maybe lose a war with republicans who want to do something. >> what about the saudis? i mean, what can they do? we have heard there's this op-ed that appears to be sanctioned by the saudi leadership that said the kingdom affirms the total rejection of any threats and attempts to undermine it whether by threatening to impose economic sanctions using political pressures or repeating false accusations and it will respond with greater action. what can they do? can they jack up oil prices? >> sure they can. i mean, their response over the weekend was so defiant. basically saying, you know, dare u

angry marco rubio. >> and when marco rubio went as low as you could possibly go, it did not behoove him. >> he's been embarrassed about it ever since. >> exactly. nonetheless, i do think there is this urge for pugilistic response and somebody is going to have to figure out the way to look like he or she is pushing back without being dragged into the trumpian mud. >> i thought of something here with the -- we in the media like to play the shame police and i have no problem with that. i would like, you know, you want to say i'm biased toward civility, color me guilty. republicans don't care if the media is hammering -- democrats do care. >> good point. >> i think the republicans know this and they're almost trying to bait the democrats. >> you can see this is a live argument among democrats in -- >> it is. >> remember the joe biden remark about taking trump behind the school. >> and punching him. >> he apologized for it, saying i shouldn't have done that. there is that ambivalence. >> when did donald trump ever apologize for saying something like that? >> the only time i can recall him ap

senator marco rubio, a key voice too, says essentially the u.s.ld risk their credibility on human rights if they have a weak response here. so that's really important, saying we need more than just a slap on the wrist here. we have to send a very strong message. and not only a strong message, but back that up with some real action, whether that forces the white house hand here, still too early to tell. >> all true. not a word from the house republican leadership. nothing will happen without them. nothing will happen. in my view. they are a rubber stamp for donald trump. the house republicans will never criticize him on a foreign policy matter. do you think? >> i think -- i mean, past is precedent certainly here, and i think that's a very strong argument. it seems that this has particularly hit a chord, and i think emotions are strong. whether that lasts in the next couple of weeks, and pending the results of the investigation if it sorts out to be credible. >> clearly, susan, the president wants to take the saudi denials at face value, whether fro

as which heard from senator marco rubio, communication is spotty at best.nd out of the region is difficult, sometimes dangerous. lisa baldwin last heard from her brother just as the storm was coming ashore. she joins us now. tell us about the last contact you had with your brother yesterday. >> hi, thank you for having me. yesterday around 2:00 or 1:30 excuse me, he texted many ethat they were okay and that it was hitting right then and then we lost contact after that, that's the last i heard from him. >> and has his girlfriend, i understand his girlfriend was with him at the time. has anyone heard from her in. >> no, not as of yet. just hoping it's because he's probably out there helping people, if i know him, he's a great guy and maybe still because of no cell service i'm hoping. >> our brooke baldwin was out there, gave her cell phone to somebody. there are people that don't have access to communication. i understand the friend is currently looking for him, trying to get into the mexico beach area. have they had success getting there? >> well, i heard fr

marco rubio was out there morning saying this. watch. >> i don't care how much money there is, there isn't enough money in the world to purchase back our credibility on human rights and the way nations should conduct themselves. we lose our credibility and moral standing to criticize putin for murdering people, assad for murdering people, maduro in venezuela for murdering people. we can't say anything about that if we allow saudi arabia to do it and all we do is a diplomatic slap on the wrist. >> i think what we're seeing right now in washington and also in istanbul with the turkish government is a debate between idealists and pragmatists. we can leverage something out of the saudis, that means we have to give something to the saudis, the coverup, these guys did this on their own, the crown prince didn't have anything to do with it, so they can escape this heat and go on with ruling saudi arabia. otherwise, if we hold their feet to the fire. it's clear that republican voices on the hill, marco rubio, lindsey graham, say this is a

it also talked about targeting marco rubio which i mentioned marco rubio when i testified in the senate beat up by this propaganda machine while their colleagues are rushing to moscow to have meetings with russian legislators. >> forgot about that. >> so how do you feel if you're marco rubio or john mccain when your colleagues are rushing to build relationships. >> super fast. >> what's interesting i hear the president talking about china let's look at what a disinformation is, it's hacking infrastructure and no evidence of that. he needs to put it out there if it's there. do we have state-sponsored propaganda that they're penetrating the u.s. audience space? no, we do not. they know rt now and they don't know china daily news and those sorts of things. >> do we have covert persona that talk like americans that are trying to convince voters about issues? no. there's been no evidence offered about that. this is a pivot because the president wants his base to hate on china. this is the war that he wants. the war that he has is russia and he doesn't even want to talk about it. it struck me

michael rubio has also come out against this. there is growing consensus in both housings of the congress that what the saudis have done is crossed a red line, that the -- mbs is going to have to play a price. the relationship with saudi arabia is going to pay a price. it is going to be a long time recovering i think because both parties are so outraged by what has happened. >> all right, congressman, to david's point, i want to play what marco rubio said. >> this is going to alter the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia for the foreseeable future. what those measures are is up for debate. congress will act. we'll see what the administration does. sounds to me like at the end of the day they will also follow suit. >> do you believe this? >> no, i don't. i want to see action. sometimes in politics you have a moral dilemma staring you straight in the face. this is not the first u.s. ally to kill somebody. this is not the first type an american president has practiced -- there are times where a moral dilemma is r

where marco rubio and senate foreign relations committee taking a strong stand.onomic argument and one is international and of course they do cross. neil: they do indeed. real quickly your sense who has got the momentum for the time-being? who is more jazzed to get the polls? anger issues, midterm, usually those most ticked off about something will walk over broken glass and fire to get to those polls. who is in that camp? >> i think democrat women were walking over broken glass and fire from the day president trump was elected. i think that is still absolutely happening. i had a democratic strategist recently tell me, there was a bonfire raging. they basically poured fuel over it with the kavanaugh hearings but it was already there. those people were already showing up. there did get a bump in enthusiasm from republican base voters with this kavanaugh issue but it is not yet clear if that sort of will match that and how many people are jazzed up on each side. we're really looking at the middle, who shows up, those independents, those moderates. are they willing