it is hard to see a path if you can't beat susan collins. if you have the most moderate senator endorsing the republicans most moderate senator, it is not necessarily helpful for the campaign. they don't really have a candidate yet so that is part of the why -- reason why he is willing to step out and election is 1.5 years way so it is easier to say that now. collins is a centrist. king actually endorsed her in 2014 but has said, she has not officially launched yet. joe manchin went further. kavanaugh fored the supreme court. that is why she is going to be a target. she has done quite well in her senate contests. at some point, they are going to have a candidate. maybe we'll see him go up there. >> i want to switch gears. thursday afternoon, everyone ller report from the justice department. what do you anticipate? >> i think republicans would say this as well. there is going to be material that does not make the trunk campaign or president look super great. at the same time, as long as what the attorney general put out is essentially a corre

it is hard to see a path if you can't beat susan collins. if you have the democrats' most moderate senator endorsing the republicans' most moderate senator, it is not necessarily helpful for the campaign. they don't really have a candidate yet so that is part of why he is willing to step out and the election is a year and a half away so it is easier to say that now the next september or october. >> collins is a centrist. angus king is a centrist. king actually endorsed her in 2014 but has said she has not officially launched yet. he does not have to make the decision. manchin went further. they have known each other a long time. they both backed brett kavanaugh for the supreme court. that is why she is going to be a target. she has had competitive races before and she has done quite well in her senate contests. without a doubt at some point, they are going to have a candidate and maybe we will see manchin go up there. >> i want to switch gears. thursday afternoon, everyone is awaiting the mueller report from the justice department. what do y

one person has not mentioned kavanaugh yet, and that is susan collins. of all the people who really mattered, i would put her at the top of the list. senator collins gave an explanation of her vote that is the epitome of what the founders had in mind when it came to advise and consent. it was logical, well-researched. she took the allegation seriously. she thoroughly vetted him personally and looked at every case he authored, acquired a law professor to advise her. spent an enormous amount of time looking through bret's record and came to the conclusions that the accusations against him were unfounded and unjust, and that the body of his work demonstrated a keen intellect, a solid traditional conservative judge. so i want to thank susan collins for saving the rule of law. now -- [applause] sen. graham: what susan did is sustainable. if every senator did what she did, you may not vote yes, but you'll at least have a process that is fair to the nominee, consistent with the constitutional understanding of senate, and it would make the country proud. it was

last week, senator susan collins sent a letter to attorney general bill barr asking him to reconsider the decision, writing, "the administration should not attempt to use the courts to bypass congress." republican state attorneys from ohio and montana filed amicus briefs with the appeals court monday, arguing striking down the aca would cause major disruptions for patients, medical providers, insurance companies, and employers. trump's push to repeal and replace the aca failed in the republican-controlled senate in 2017 and many republican lawmakers said the move hurtrt incumbents and candidates in last november's elections. leading to a democratic victory in the house. meanwhile, over 100 democrats are backing a medicare-for-all bill in the house and all democratatic 2020 0 hopefuls hae expressed support for a medicare-for-all system. we'll have more on healthcare later in the broadcast. in britain, lawmakers failed to agree on any of four proposals

>> the big significance was the last time susan collins was in spotlight it was hurt her numbers withd democrats back in maine, and a lot of people up there have probably forgotten that she voted with john mccain, lisa murkowski and all the democrats to save the affordable care act back in 2017. she needs to remind those voters this is what she is. she is a moderate. try not to look over here on the kavanaugh vote. look over here on her defending healthcare. >> what if this gets kicked up to the supreme court and kavanaugh ends up voting to strike down obamacare, so clearly she needs to cover herself because healthcare was such a potent issue for democrats in the 2018 mid terms, and it's clear the strategy going after people like susan collins, one of the most vulnerable republicans. >> kavanaugh told her in a way he would vote with roberts in defense. aca. >> we may get to put that one to the test. >> up next, the president continues to raise the border bat. has his defense secretary weighed in? >> mr. secretary, has the pentagon been asked to cloche the southern border? >> i won't a

so, look, i'm friends with susan collins. i worked with her on the tax bill.the republican senators. i think they respect my economic expertise and my record. but i have said, look, if i become a liability to an i don't think it's going to come t. fr- people think this has been kind of a sleaze campaign against me. incidentally, i have 110 prominent economists who have signed a letter endorsing me including dozens and dozens of women, so i just think that the perception is very different from the reality in terms of my attitude towards women. >> you might have some trouble in the midwest though because of the comments you made back in 2014, want to show everybody that. >> if you live in the midwest where else do you want to live besides chicago? you don't want to live in cincinnati or cleveland or these, you know, armpits of america like that. you want to live in chicago, right? >> armpits of america. senator sherrod brown says you have to apologize and retract that statement. >> well, you know, i am a homer. i'm a chicago boy, george, so i've always -- cincin

susan collins was one.inton back then. >> he's chief law enforcement officer of the land and he encouraged him to lie. he lied. i think he obstructed justice. i think there's a compelling case that he has in fact engaged in conduct that would be better for him to leave office and stay in office. >> in the end i just felt that it did not reach the level where it warranted removing a popularly elected president from office. there were certain of my colleagues who expressed disappointment with my vote and tried to show me other evidence that they thought might persuade me. >> interesting honesty about the politics there from susan collins. >> yeah, and i think that she probably -- you know, i would be surprised if she had a different view today about the impeachment question because i think that her view is actually -- could be fairly consistent between then and now. lindsey graham, opened, i mean, could you almost transpose his words from then on to now, and he would be on the other side of the debate. the re

is susan collins right, and if she is, does the administration care? >> i think she is right.e administration is going to care. i think it's very difficult to see a legislative pathway to get healthcare reform done this session of congress. more so, i don't see where the senate would even bring a bill up if senator mcconnell is not able to identify 60 votes. remember last congress we only needed 51 because we had reconciliation, we don't have that this term of congress. i think the president would be well-advised to just focus on reducing drug pricing, that's a political winning issue, and he does seem to really double and triple down on t i think this is much more of a distraction and very difficult to attain politically and legislatively. >> ryan costello, the president, as you know, claimed to have a group of four or five senators working on a plan here. it's cnn's reporting that that's just not true, there aren't republican senators working on a plan, in fact, a senate republican aide told my colleagues over the weekend i think the president just listed off the names of pe

susan collins in your intro is probably a little softer because she is afraid of a primary, and rudyiuliani is, frankly, off the edges, rims again and just being the president's lawyer and a donald trump sycophant. >> thank you. jamal? because i want to know who is going to speak for the republican party, say when everybody starts to do their revisionism in five or ten years when trump is gone bye-bye and they're trying to make themselves look like they were the most responsible people. will it be the sycophants, the panderers, the ones who want jobs and need them or is it going to be the occasional person who says, you know what? this guy disgusts me. >> remember when john mccain ran for president it was the mantra country first. these people have decided it's not country first, it's trump first. they're willing to sacrifice whatever it takes in the country in order to help trump. and i don't understand what it is -- what the spell is that he has over them, but history is not going to look kindly. everybody looks back at the clinton impeachment, but if we remember what really happen

all democrats opposed the move and they were joined by republican susan collins and mike lee. it is the third time in six years the majority party has used the "nuclear option" to unilaterally change years old rules of the chamber with a simple majority vote, this time to work through a backlog of president trump's cabinet's. the house debates a bill to restore net neutrality standards in place before the fcc decision last june. watch the house on c-span. the senate spent much of the week on nominations. republican leader mcconnell filed motions to limited that limit debate on six nominations. watch the senate on c-span two. you can see both on c-span.org and listen to congressional debate on c-span's free radio app. >> are this month on c-span we will feature the winners of our

[video clip] >> you are friends with senator susan collins. been with you on the leaders with no labels group. she is up for reelection in 2020. >> i would campaign for her. >> if she wanted me to, i would campaign for susan collins. -- in americalose to lose susan collins was be a shame. >> she may take you up on that. >> i will be there. >> do you think the party would be happy? >> no. >> chuck knows me well enough. i think the world of chuck schumer. we understand each other. we are able to get into it sometimes, but we will always walk away as friends. he knows how i feel about people. i vote how i want to vote. said that i will be going there and you find people pressuring me. i will say i thought it was the right thing to do. susan collins is a great people to be in the senate. >> have you had republicans try to convert you? >> every time they beat me. >> have you had a discussion with mitch mcconnell? >> many times. >> is a serious about it? >> completely serious. mitchell, there is no way. i said health care, taxes, we are so far apart

senate democrats oppose the move they were joined by republicans susan collins and mike lee. mcconnell says it was necessary to prevent democrat obstruction. alexandria ocasio cortez calls a new complaint bogus, congresswoman enters campaign manager, to raise more cash than he could bring illegally. the complaint claims the manager who is now her chief of staff offered she for consulting services to her and other democrats. the first complaint filed last month accused the campaign of directing $885,000 in donations. the queen of country is about to be the queen of the racetrack. ♪ working 9-to-5 ♪ what a way to make a living ♪ getting by ♪ >> reporter: dolly parton sponsoring her own race car. tyler reddick will speed off at a race this weekend and dolly's home state of tennessee. that is awesome. let's see that. 20 minutes until the top of the hour, donald trump putting the crisis at the border ahead of the economy. >> security is more important to me than trade. shannon: what message does that send voters with 2020 on the horizon which are voter panel is here to weigh in. ♪

[video clip] >> you are friends with senator susan collins.he has been friends with you on the no labels group. in is out for reelection 2020. would you support her? >> i would campaign for her. if she wanted me to, i would campaign for her. in 2020. would you supportfor america toe susan collins, it is a shame. >> she might meet you. >> i would be glad to. you think my party would be happy? i think the world of chuck schumer. we understand each other. it, butble to get into we will always walk away as friends. he knows how i feel about people. i vote the way i want to vote. around --e been the but around me long enough, it is do.right thing to susan collins is the right person. had republicans try to convert you? >> every time they meet me. >> has mitch mcconnell? >> every time. he throws the whole enchilada at me. i say there is no way. health care and the taxes, we are so far apart. blocks of human life. we are different on that. , and ithem i'm a proud ,ruly a proud, compassionate conservative, but a compassionate political person. i look

don't see a lot of democrats doing what the susan collins and rand paul and republicans do, standing up against their own majority. you don't see that. when they embrace roe v. wade, the proabortion decision, they made it impossible for -- there is one bob casey, the senator from pennsylvania is pro life. but what they did was the drove the catholic -- their catholic base out of the party. the catholics became part of the religious right, and protestants and catholics united on these issues. and they created a political force that first elected -- roe v. wade was '73. 1980 they elected ronald reagan and in 2016, they elected donald trump. the venom of liberals towards religious people is the product of the derange. parallel to the hatred, both of reagan and donald trump, it is hand fest in the attacks on religion by the new eightest movement, whose spokesman, i the most entertaining one was christopher hitchens. but its chief spokesman was richard dawkins, the scientist. this is what dawkins has written and contempt of religious people. quote, religious ideas are irraggality. religio

does nasdaq drop 17 for a political move tonight, joe manchin is endorsing republican senators susan collinsaine in her reelection bid next year. made that comment to c-span come of the two have worked together in the past. collins has not declared opponent yet, but her vote to confirm brett kavanaugh to the u.s. supreme court led to the creation of a democrat campaign front for a prospective democratic challenger. opposition is growing within republican ranks to president trump's announced intentions to nominate herman cain to the federal reserve board of governors. north dakota's kevin kramer is the fourth g.o.p. senator to express his dissatisfaction with that idea. that would appear to doom kane's chances of senate confirmation assume all democrats vote against him as well. no comment about this from the demonstration so far. south bend mayor and democratic presidential candidate pete pretty egg is gaining traction in the race. joe biden leads there with 27%, even though he's not in yet. bernie sanders has 16%. in new hampshire, mayor pete is up to 11% trailing by 23. outpacing neighbori

susan collins, another female republican is concerned and looking into his writings more. marsha blackburn, the first extensive comment on this controversy and she said she's known steven moore for many years and she is still open to meeting with him but said clearly he has some questions to answer. >> i've known steven for years. and have worked with him. always have a good relationship. and if he is the nominee, i will guarantee you one thing, this is something that will absolutely come up in that conversation. absolutely. >> do you think from what you've seen so far that should disqualify him frommine being nominated? >> i think what i'll do is sit down with him and talk with him because comments like that sure don't make me happy, i'm sure they don't make you happy either. >> now of course stephen moore has launched a campaign to save his nommination. over the weekend he said he apologized and those were writings from 17, or 18 years ago and columns that he's embarrassed for now but the white house is reviewing the comments and the writing even though they are standing

>> yeah, but mitt romney is a susan collins and jeff flake. what is he going to do about it?t going to do anything. although i a plaut his statement, we have susan collins who has called it an unflattering portrayal as if she was reviewing a tv show. in the absence of republican leadership, we have the democrats who will have to exert leadership because it seems that the mueller report punts it to them. it's a damning portrait, joy. it's a venal corrupt government. we can trust our eyes and ears. president trump invited russia to hack hillary clinton's emails, we've seen abuse of power, we've seen intimidation of witnesses, michael cohen's testimony. enough is there to create a damning portrait of this administration and now you have rudy giuliani who's slithering who now in the morning today said, hey, it's okay if a political campaign accepts material stolen by a hostile foreign government. the same man who said truth isn't truth. he's the same man who was sent out yet to be like luke gabrazi to be a hit man on donald mcgahn. so this creates, if you will, an increasingly da

how do the republicans, especially those up for reelection like the mitch mcconnells and susan collins of the world recover from all this? >> if the democrats can't win an election based on this, they really should go into a different line of work. this is a layup for them. they don't even have to speculate. we know what happened. the president promised he had this fabulous healthcare plan in 2017. they tried a variety of things, all of them led to tens of millions of people losing insurance or paying more for insurance. it was used in part to justify a rollback in taxes for the rich. that went over like a lead balloon. they couldn't agree when they had the house, the senate, and the white house. they now don't have the house. and when they ran on this in 2018, they had to lie. they had to say that they weren't opposed to preexisting conditions being left without protection, when in fact their plans would have repealed those protections. so they want to do that all over again in 2020? the strategy really is mind bending. understand that is going on right now. so any day, any week, any

. -- expectask that susan collins to flip, but the fact that it is a number in the center of the caucus concerns, not good. when herman cain dropped out, there was some thinking, he was the second initial land, this will be good for stephen moore. past writings, things that he has said about child labor, women referees, not great. senator shelby is not known as a bomb thrower in the senate. joe: not a swing voter among republicans. david: whether mr. moore stays or not, we still have the herman cain vacancy. are there other people that would fit the bill for president trump? as far as i could tell, would like loose monetary policy. joe: it depends on what fitting the bill is. this may sound insulting, but there are a fair amount of people who have advocated hawkish monetary views for most of their careers, but that would be willing to be dovish, if it suited this president or the time. it doesn't seem there are a shortage of people who would be malleable about their own beliefs for a shot. the supreme court that happen, and then look what happens when they got there. eisenhower said, wh

research for a cure and provide a comprehensive approach for care chairman of the committee senator susan collinsf maine i stand with you to do everything we can 10 make alzheimer's itself. memory one day senator collins says progress has been made and accelerating research and advancing care but there's more work to be done. in washington. morgan right. >>medical care here in the us is costing americans billions of dollars a new survey finds americans borrowed $88 billion in the past year, west health gallup releasing those statistics today nearly a quarter of americans reduce their spending on medical care. a 65 million say they avoid a treatment altogether because of the high costs with 45% worrying major health event could lead them to bankruptcy. president trump has offered proposals to help lower health care costs and he's got support from both sides of the aisle. the survey says that the us spends more than any other country on health care. it consistently ranks near the bottom of major health indices. >>the fda wants to know more about what do containing an ingredient in marijuana at the

what centers like susan collins, mitt romney and others are saying, if you want to get stuff done, youed us. to me that is the -- the world has plenty of highly qualified people to be fed -- on the fed board. herman cain had fed experience, political experience, understood the economy. he was qualified. i understand the allegations. i'm not reducing them. but for me, the big news is that there's a handful of republican senators that are now willing to push back against the white house. that's the news i take. >> neil: you're right about that, professor. think about it. this is among the same group that has challenged the president at the emergency at the border thing. but gary, is it your sense -- what president wouldn't want someone on the federal reserve who has an easy view on monetary policy? not raise rates and the rest. this is deemed to be more blatant. i don't know if it was much more blatant. what do you think? >> well, i think trump was right to try to get cane. i think he's right to try to get moore. he wants free market people. the fed almost by design is a little bit anti-

this from susan collins, she wrote this to the ag bill barr.ther than seeking to have the courts invalidate ac, the proper route for me to propose changes to the aca or once again seek its repeal." she answered this -- "the administration should not attempt to use the courts to bypass congress." as you know, they very nearly did that except for the mckay vote. that's why we are where we are today. >> harris: kevin corke, thank you very much. this is happening this hour, democrats are moving forward with a plan to subpoena the entire mueller report as attorney general william barr appears likely to miss tomorrow's deadline, which democrats set to release it to congress. he says he plans to send a redacted version in the coming weeks. this, as republicans are shifting their focus now to investigating obama-era officials' actions during the 2016 election. they say they want to talk with fbi director james comey, ex-attorney general loretta lynch, former cia director john brennan, and ex-fbi officials peter strzok and lisa page. i want to bring a n

susan collins, in maine, her needs are very different from john cornyn's needs in texas. >> melissa:ublicans have a good plan right now -- they say it's getting tracks and, the fair care act. it addresses so many of the problems. >> kennedy: but how do you pass it through the house? how do you get that through the house with no democrats on boar board? >> harris: that's why the president is so angry. nobody has bicameral leadership, he doesn't have that now. i want to give brian a chance. >> brian: [laughs] this isn't even about passing anything. it's about being willing to have the conversation. republicans have been licking their wounds since 2017. they had an opportunity -- >> melissa: but this isn't from republicans, this is the fair care act. it has great stuff in it. >> brian: it does, but guess who won't engage with it? republicans. they are running away. >> melissa: but they are, it's in the house right now. >> brian: are not doing anything with it. they're not saying to the president to lead with it. they are saying, "let's let it go until 2020, we will fix obamacare in the

. >> kennedy: meanwhile, republican senator susan collins urging the trump administration not to kille letter, "rather than having the courts inability of the aca, the proper route for the administration to pursue would be to propose changes to the aca or two once again seek its repeal. the admission should not attempt to use the courts to bypass congress." the president this morning also weighing in on twitter, saying, "the cost of obamacare is far too high for our great citizens. the deductibles in many cases our way over $7,000. it makes it almost worthless or unusable. good things are going to happen." well, we fret about good things in the past government , govern. yet here we are. >> gov. huckabee: i think the biggest mistake of any federal approach health care is it assumes you can lay template over all 50 states and it's going to work. health care ought to be done by the states. it should be block printed back. even more than that there's a big difference between the demographics of massachusetts and mississippi. governors and legislators and the mike in those states will bett

senator susan collins calling it an unconventional nomination, saying among her reservations is mooreed trump to fire fed chairman powell for raising interest rates. from what i have read, he always wants to return to a gold standard. i'm not sure what the implications are of that. adding to the concern coming from the group of republican women senators just in the last hour up here on capitol hill, senator lisa murkowski admitted she does, indeed, have reservations about stephen moore. she acknowledged he has written an awful lot. in her words, erin, she says there's a lot in there. of course, this particular group of republican women and senators, their voices carry so much weight because they will give the white house an early indication of how difficult or impossible it will be to get him through if he is, of course, formally nominated at all. >> all right. thank you. next, hanging up on the president of the united states. >> my final -- >> they have no common sense. >> final question, mr. president -- >> unless -- ♪ introducing the all-new 2019 ford ranger, it's the right gear. w

senator susan collins and rob portman were also critical, president trump responding directly to senator met romney tweeting "if mitt romney spent the same energy fighting barack obama as he does donald trump, he could have won the race, may be." and rudy giuliani also firing back, listen. >> stopped the bowl, stop this pious act that you were not trying to dig up dirt on people. >> melissa: attorney, i meant to say, i promoted him. [laughter] >> ari: my take is that the president deserves some criticism to coming close to anything that could involve obstruction, but the criticism should not be the way that mitt romney is doing it, i tweeted that there are three things to be learned here, one, russia is a problem, two, there was no collusion and that is a huge win, three, everybody needs to realize that you do not even come close to obstruction charges with the staff to live. there is room to reflect on that and say that, so people learn lessons coming forward, but mitt romney goes too far. there was a judicious criticism of the president, they did it wisely. met romney makes me scratch

and spare me all the talk of the rhetoric from susan collins or senator romney. those are the cheapest words known to mankind. so hope springs eternal. as you know and your viewers should know, it would take 67 votes in the senate and that's an awfulfully big hurdle. >> david jolly, we have elizabeth warren saying to rachel on friday night even if she knew ahead of time that the senate would not remove the president, she believes the house should still move impeachment against this president. >> the house does not work for the senate. the house is the house. they're responsible for their actions or for their inactions. and that is why it is so critical and the american people and frankly many democrats are looking at the democratic leader saying do you understand our anger? to the politics lawrence, this is very important. i was in the house when bill clinton was impeached. in december of 1998 he was impeached. the nation knowing that was inevitable still gave republicans the popular vote in congress one month before. republicans only lost five seats. two years l

you might see that different from people like susan collins who are senators who are up in purple orlue states for reelection. we're seeing wavering. these cases are different because these are prominent names. people know who herman cain is. that's completely different from trump's judiciary transformation. >> they have spoken out against the president but it's on issues that their voters would not be irked on like jamal khashoggi. that story is not resonating with their voters, it's not hitting their pocketbooks. i want to read something from "the washington post." trump recently gathered with generals and others, military leaders for a meeting about the mexican border. at the meeting, which was held in the white house, an aide passed trump a note informing him that cain was in the building. he summoned cain to the meeting and told military brass they needed to come up with a 9-9-9 plan for the border. referring to cain's tax plan. and the joke fell flat. so is this kind of a tendency within the white house and president as well that it's hard for them to read when the president is

. >> and on the senate side, seen susan collins, for example, coming out with serious concerns as wellrise given her political position. >> one of the few republicans has opposed efforts to repeal the aca, up for re-election and written a letter to the attorney general condemning the decision to get involved in this lawsuit and support the full elimination of the aca. wants it reversed. i don't see that resolution going anywhere in the senate. mcconnell and his allies remain with the president on this. don't want the aca but also don't want to wade into a debate about repeal and replace again. >> thanks to the both of you. that does it for us. busy hour of "msnbc live." happy to hand it over to my colleague ayman. >>> and breaking news. ed president's administration is calling for more agents to the border. and the 2020 money race. first quarter numbers trickling in. democrats running for president hoping for big, bold headlines about how much donor love they got. we'll tell you about who impressed and who may need to worry. and nipsey hussle, the rapper turned entrepreneur gunned down

and lisa, we've already heard from people like senator lisa murkowski, senator susan collins, even senatorheir concerns about some of these statements. i don't know that this is the final straw, but it's not going to help. >> yeah, i mean, these statements are really bad. there's -- some of -- in the me too era, sometimes you have these scenarios where maybe there's a debate and there's some gray area, like joe biden is touching -- there's a lot of debate, right, about how people felt about that. these are not those kinds of statements. these are things like, women should not be referees at sports games. these are things like, maybe women shouldn't play sports. is there any area of life where men can get a vacation from women. these are pretty bad ones. and i do think that's part of the reason why you see the wheels starting to come off this nomination. >> i think you can actually, though, even make an economic case on this one, because as the reporting goes further to say he was also talking about pay equity and what a ridiculous idea that is, obviously, and it's not obviously a bad idea.

as one example senator susan collins, republican from maine noted. "i want to dispel the notion that somehow we think alike, or share the same political views. just as men in the senate span the spectrum so do the women. i do believe the style of women senators is more collaborative. ". a majority of women express the view that they are more partisan, more likely to collaborate across party lines. one of the way that bipartisan is sponsored is through the annual charity softball game. the democrat from oregon explained "when the men play softball, the democrats play the republicans a walk over the big stadium. the democrats the same one section aware blue, the replicants stay in one section where read. a few weeks later the women play their softball game. is to the plane each other, the women in the house and senate all form one team and play against the press. it just exemplifies the difference in the more collaborative approach. rather than saying let's play each other, let's play together. finally the third way women in congress see themselves as

senator susan collins disagrees. in a statement she says if mr.congress and the american people another opportunity to better understand the facts and conclusions that he reached during his investigation. joining me at the table now, elizabeth holtzman, former member of the judiciary committee during watergate, who voted to impeach president nixon. and the rest of the panel is with me. liz, great to see you. this is really relevant, this whole last few years has been relevant to your particular experience during watergate, but this is really relevant now because we have what we have in the mueller investigation. after all these pages and redactions, there are still a lot of questions we don't have answered. we're more certain about some things, that the trump campaign absolutely benefited from whatever it was the russians were doing. and there are real questions to be answered. do you feel that more -- that it will be clearer if the judiciary committee is able to interview robert mueller and bill barr? >> well, they won't find anything out from bi

i have been using it -- >> we have a bill, collins-nelson and i will announce it with susan collins, who is not here. that would be a fix. it could reduce 20% to 40% overnight. >> we would be happy to work on that overnight especially in conjunction with the alexander murray, collins murray. >> those bills have been laying on the chairman, on the majority leader mcconnell's desk for close to two years. >> we would be happy to work with you on those. where we have a stumbling block, murray was funding would have the protections. that was the stumbling block at the end of the day. >> thank you, senator. >> if you want to stay for a minute, there will be time for more questions. senator shaheen? >> well, thank you, mr. secretary for being here. i would say there's an agreement between both sides on the alexander murray legislation and a strong list of bipartisan sponsors. it's unfortunate that because there was opposition from the white house, because there was opposition from the leadership in the senate that that bill wasn't ablg to come to the floor. i encourage you, everybody who's b

>> well, susan collins, my dear friend, is helping me.ray have a great piece of legislation that would help repair that and reduce the rates for the private payers who are getting squeezed in the middle can reduce it by 30 to 40%. this is asinine caught up in a political fire storm. i've told the president many times i said mr. president, you can fix this. why don't we call trump repair care. you can fix it. let us fix it and put it in place. now they're talking about all these ideas that people have, we can't even fix what's in front of us let alone start over from nothing. >> senator, like you, i am surrounded by people i grew up with who voted for donald trump against their best interest. people in unions, firefighters, police officers, please take us to west virginia. take us to cabin creek, explain briefly, what's the magic here? what resonates with them? >> mike, i'll tell you one thing, i've tried. i go everywhere i can and say come on, guys. they say well, they like -- they just basically think he's going to be there fighting for

susan, you might be referring to susan collins in maine. caller: maine, yes. for those good republicans, and there are still -- there are some gentlemen in washington that are good republicans, but they are keeping silent because of the party. i don't feel that dedicated to any party. i think, i see, i listen, i read between the lines. more importantly, when you have people like barr on television yesterday testifying, i watch carefully. that is why i drew my conclusion about him appearing to be uncomfortable, but he did what needed to be done for trump. thank you for listening to me. host: here is more of the attorney general on television yesterday. in exchange with lindsey graham, senator from south carolina over this review of what happened with the fbi in 2016. [video clip] >> do you agree that every american should be concerned as to whether or not a warrant was obtained against an american citizen with unverified information? >> absolutely. i think the fourth amendment is one of our most cherished civil liberties. >> you think that is an appropriate thi

. >>> senator susan collins urging the attorney general obamacare.he justice department will ask the federal court to throw the affordable care act out entirely. she wants protections for those with preexisting conditions. >>> a chance to see the clinton's for cheap. tickets are selling 57% discount on groupon. president bill and hillary clinton began their 13 city tour in november, with tickets going for $700. by december, tickets were selling on secondhand cites for seven bucks. back to you. brian: food value. ainsley: thank you, jillian. this picture of joe biden with former defense secretary ash carter's wife is making the rounds again. what is really going on here? this morning she is setting the record straight. steve: u.s. senator marsha blackburn voted against blocking the president's emergency declaration. what does she say about the president's threat to close our southern border? we'll ask her next. ♪ ainsley: straight to a fox news alert. president trump threatening to shut the southern border as soon as today. steve: the president just t

senator susan collins of maine and senator cory gardner of colorado. under president obama, deputy, and in the colorado senate, formerly serving in john hickenlooper's cabinet in the department of higher education. you are not qualified. seriously, you need the go back and do a little more. i hear a lot of former obama staff members, cabinet members, who are running for office, who are going out there, trying to make a difference. you're one of them. >> yeah. i think there's been a number of people around the country who have, particularly in 2018, a lot of the seats we saw flipped out of the 40 seats that flipped. a lot of them were candidates who, like me, had a record of public service, but not in politics. particularly in foreign policy or national security. you had locklin in michigan. >> incredible. >> spanberger in virginia. kim in new jersey. we saw others around the country. crow in colorado, who has a record of service but never had been in politics. i think what we found was voters responded to these national security democrats who voters co