susan collins is the ranking republican member. we have passed almost all of our bills out of committee on a bipartisan basis. i fight for wisconsin and only wisconsin which means i will work with republicans or democrats. republican administrations are democratic administrations to get the job done for wisconsin but also stand up to them if necessary. sen. baldwin: i told you both -- moderator: i told you both there would be time to respond so we will go to the last question which we call defending your record. >> throughout the campaign and in this debate, you've heard criticisms you may believe were inaccurate or unfair. would you elect -- would you like to respond to them? here's your chance. you each have 60 seconds. by the coin toss, eric hovde goes first. mr. hovde: this is the last question? moderator: yes. mr. hovde: there are so many lies senator baldwin has made up. she has perfected the art of lying. she takes what i've said and puts it on the context and tries to say i'm saying something different than i said. you've h

in 2020 only student -- susan collins managed to maintain reelection. i think the math is much tougher for jon tester. he is also running against a stronger opponent. but in ohio that is a state that trump won twice by eight points. the margin is smaller for sharad brown to perform. he is sort of the last democrat standing in the buckeye state. he has a populist image. yes been able to appeal to this disaffected white working-class voters democrats struggle with. he needs an extraordinary number of tickets letters this election cycle as well. his opponent is a former luxury car dealer. he is a colombian immigrant. but brown has been able to heavily outspend in the race. now we are seeing a lot of outside money coming in. and so polling has brown with a very slight lead, within the margin of error. but he has led pretty consistently. i think republicans see where marino has struggled to consolidate those trump voters behind him. if he does that that becomes a much harder path for sharad brown. we are at the point in the cycle where voters start to put on

and it was awfully important to see a bipartisan group of senators in this case in particular, susan collins, republican of maine, and carl levin, a democrat of michigan, jointly releasing all these records, and collins in particular as a republican making an unequivocal statement about mccarthy, condemn his behavior, condemning his tactics and and really calling out that sort of abuse of the oversight power. so it was quite significant. and now, you know, we understand. the era better, much now than we did before this was released. and another from maine back in 1950, margaret chase smith spoke out against joseph mccarthy. and this is what she had to say. here's a portion of her speech from 1950. i think it is high time that we remember that we have sworn to uphold and defend the constitution. i think that it is high time that we remember that the constitution as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech, but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation, whether it be a criminal prosecution in court or a character prosecution in the senate. there is little practical distinct

susan collins is the ranking republican member. we have passed almost all of our bills out of committee on a bipartisan basis. i fight for wisconsin and only wisconsin which means i will work with republicans or democrats. republican administrations are democratic administrations to get the job done for wisconsin but also stand up to them if necessary. sen. baldwin: i told you both -- moderator: i told you both there would be time to respond so we will go to the last question which we call defending your record. >> throughout the campaign and in this debate, you've heard criticisms you may believe were inaccurate or unfair. would you elect -- would you like to respond to them? here's your chance. you each have 60 seconds. by the coin toss, eric hovde goes first. mr. hovde: this is the last question? moderator: yes. mr. hovde: there are so many lies senator baldwin has made up. she has perfected the art of lying. she takes what i've said and puts it on the context and tries to say i'm saying something different than i said. you've h

so people know that they're digitally altered. >> what is obviously josh hawley, susan collins, lisa murkowski accepted. and anyone else who's who's on board with your bill accepted. what is the republican opposition to this bill is it, is it a first amendment issue? what their problem, i mean, i can't imagine that you know as senator mcconnell would think, it's cooled for deepfake adds to depict him doing things that he never did you got that right? >> it is they're making a claim on first amendment political speech but these other frauds and they show people doing things or not doing and if we don't have some rules in place, pretty soon, they're going to dominate the internet. we have been really reasonable about this in that we've said we talked to democratic leaders, republican lawyers. we made sure they followed existing law and the constitution so that you allow parody, all kinds of things but in this case, i think why do i think they're really stopping it? because i think they're going to mess around the last month of the election and you're already starting to see it happen w

susan collins, once more general. >> but you're looking at also the house to like i mean, you don't reallyw. >> like, i mean, trump has had problems wrangling republicans in the past to get behind us deal. but i mean to your point exactly. they're republicans are significantly more behind trump than what they were in 2016. >> well, right. and if trump were to get reelected after all of that, it does. the party is going to be that much more consolidated behind him. no. >> oh, 100% fit for sure. and especially the ones that he's helped get elected since whether be since being president, like these people love him and mitt romney's can be replaced and so it's like a lot of the people that were intact and they stick to trump in his first term are no longer going to be there. >> all right. risk gorman for us this morning raised so grateful to have you. thank you all right nikki haley has a message for donald trump put me in coach. haley confirms she hasn't spoken to the former president for months. and while she reportedly offered available dates to the trump campaign, she has not been asked to

in 2020 only student -- susan collins managed to maintain reelection. i think the math is much tougher for jon tester. he is also running against a stronger opponent. but in ohio that is a state that trump won twice by eight points. the margin is smaller for sharad brown to perform. he is sort of the last democrat standing in the buckeye state. he has a populist image. yes been able to appeal to this disaffected white working-class voters democrats struggle with. he needs an extraordinary number of tickets letters this election cycle as well. his opponent is a former luxury car dealer. he is a colombian immigrant. but brown has been able to heavily outspend in the race. now we are seeing a lot of outside money coming in. and so polling has brown with a very slight lead, within the margin of error. but he has led pretty consistently. i think republicans see where marino has struggled to consolidate those trump voters behind him. if he does that that becomes a much harder path for sharad brown. we are at the point in the cycle where voters start to put on

we heard from boston's fed president susan collins, take a listen. susan: looking ahead, preserving the favorable conditions will require adjusting monetary policies so as not to unnecessarily restrain demand. that will require a careful databased approach as we balance the risk. there are risks on both sides. >> this buzz word of balance is catching the markets i because we do not want them to talk about the risk to inflation being in the upside that would dent the equity market. let's look at how equity markets have behaved. we are very close to all-time highs, just a quarter of a percent away. so we could pivot in today's session. we want to hear fed members keep talking about this balanced approach, which makes you think they could look through a possible string of hot economic data, we do not want the market to start thinking about a pause or a skip on the cards if they keep easing through economic data that is the bull case for the equity market. tom: breaking down what we've been hearing from fomc members. to a corporate story on a major one, t

i'm going to co-sponsor a bill to codify roe along with susan collins and lisa murkowski. there are republicans already voting that way. - how do you get to 60? - right now, no one could get to 60 either way on almost anything. but that's what we have to do. we have to try to get down there and win some votes and find some bipartisanship. - so then the democrats say we have to overturn the filibuster. - well, i don't think we should. i think the last thing we need is more partisanship and jamming things through on a partisan vote, because they've got to be careful what they wish for. they jam through something on a 51st vote, the next time, the republicans are going to jam things through. and what we really need are people coming together and working in a bipartisan way. the kind of deliberative body of the senate, and the filibuster, is what keeps us from going off the rails and keeps us from the pendulum swinging back, you know, every two years or four years. - in 1973, william f. buckley jr. hosted a discussion on impeachment and the question of how to hold a president

ladies in german, susan collins, senator from maine. >> good afternoon.hat an honor it is to participate in this congressional gold medal ceremony for america's rosie the riveter's. these enterprising and patriotic women answer the call to serve on the home front during world war ii, and forever changed the role of women in the workforce. at a time of great peril for freedom, both here at home and around the world, and estimated 16 million women stepped forward to learn new skills and to produce the munitions, battleships, warplanes, and equipment required by our troops to win the war. mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, answered our nation's call to action by working tirelessly in factories, farms, shipyards, aircraft plants, and steel mills in support of our armed forces. the can-do spirit of rosie the riveter's has inspired generations of women ever since. a few years ago, i had the pleasure of meeting eleanor otto of california, one of the original rosie's. shortly after the attack on pearl harbor, this single mom with an infant son, learned how to op

the boston fed president susan collins is clear that further adjustments will likely be needed.er remarks echoed those of san francisco's mary daly who sees one or two more cuts this year. the dallas fed president lorie logan said she had been behind a .50% move in december. this is all ahead of the cpi release and it is expected to show price increases moderating on the month with the annual inflation figure easing to 2.3% according to dow estimates. our u.s. colleagues get the first conversation with the chicago fed president austan goolsbee after the data hits the tape. do not miss that conversation. it's coming up at 3:00 p.m. bst. >>> i want to flag u.s. treasury yields here as well. this has been another mark in the market for you. look at this, the two-year and ten-year. the two-year at 4.08. and 4.02. let's unpack this. i'm pleased to say we have daniel here with us. da daniel, great to have you here. thanks for the vconversation. the two and ten holding above 4%. at what point does this become competitive and how are you reading the rise that we're seeing? >> yeah, i th

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would she reach across the aisle to moderate republicans like susan collins and lisa murkowski. >> what concessions would be on the table, religious exemptions? >> i don't think we should be making concessions on a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body. >> reporter: she's clear she's not willing to negotiate. she described the harrowing stories of women who did not receive the care they needed. >> julio, the vice president was tasked with finding the root causes of migration. hundreds of thousands of venezuelans came to the united states in the last couple years. i know you asked the vice president specifically about her positions on venezuela. >> reporter: yes, and it's important -- it speaks to the first sound bite you played at the beginning, jose. president trump defining her as a socialist. what's her position on venezuela? the president in venezuela lost an election in the summer. what is going to happen if he doesn't leave office in january when his term ends? what is the u.s. going to do if kamala harris wins the presidency? this is what she said. >> we're no

of course, donald trump was behind legislation that john mccain's ultimate no vote along with susan collins lisa murkowski kept them from overturning it. it was his administration that signed on in a legal brief in an effort to overturn the affordable care act through the courts during his first term as well. now he says that he wants to replace it with something better. as we heard from the debate with kamala harris, he has concepts but the republican nominee has not presented an alternative. >> yeah. it was the exclusive nbc reporting by our colleague sahil kapur who has the memo electric -- from mike johnson how they want to do exactly that. mike memoli, vaughn hillyard, thanks to both of you. >>> here with me now, alencia johnson and chief impact officer of 1063 west broad, and mark short, former chief of staff to vice president mike pence. welcome both. a lot to chew over. it's not surprising that the two campaigns are going at each other. trump in the garbage truck, of course, the most memorable visual of this. harris is jumping on the women's comments. they clearly feel that if they

. >> to republicans, for example, like susan collins, lisa murkowski, if republicans controlled congressuld you offer them an olive branch? or is that off the table? is that not an option for you? >> i'm not going to engage in hypotheticals because we can go on with the scenarios. let's start with a fundamental fact. a basic freedom has been taken from the women of america, the freedom to make decisions about their own body. and that cannot be negotiable, which is that we need to put back in the protections of roe v. wade, and that is it. >> joining us now in philadelphia is nbc news washington correspondentia yu yamiche alcindor covering the harris campaign. >> reporter: that's right. we have sources confirming to us it is the harris campaign and vice president harris looking to have a speech on the national mall next tuesday. that's notable because the vice president talks a lot about january 6th, talks a lot about former president trump's role in the attack on the capitol. and of course he delivered a speech on the capitol. we're looking to see whether or not it's going to be in the e

we had a bipartisan group of 10 to 12 senators, i often remember meeting and susan collins office and mike and i ended up leading the bill that would have built the wall and dealt with the dreamers . that was the deal, that was the compromise area we had the votes as oftuesday night . late tuesday the trump white house threatened to veto the bill, they said it was going to destroy the country . republicans support melted away and we ended up getting 54 votes and become this time we had the strongest border bill in 40 years negotiated by james lankford is one of the smartest guys in the senate, most knowledgeable about the border and it was endorsed by the wall street journal and border patrol union, not exactly liberal organizations yet the former president from the word out to the republican this issue run on in november, i don't want to live and to have a win and the votes disappear that's not a way to make policy, we should be trying to solve problems, not saving them for the election . >> i want to give you a chanceto respond, one minute . >> i went to the border three months ago,

i like the idea of finding that bipartisan compromise but i will work with susan collins, lisa murkowskiide to get that done. chuck: you think 60 votes should be -- mr. hogan: i think making washington more partisan and allowing things to be jammed through by one vote, which she has been complaining about most of the thing, now she says she wants to do it for this one thing, but when the pendulum swings back every two years or four years, everyone will push their

people like mitt romney and my friend young from indiana and, you know, susan collins and people like that. and then 43,000, the market hitting all-time highs. how can republicans not like that? there is a lot of things to like. and the vice president -- >> what about -- >> is welcoming us -- >> i want to remind you -- >> permanently barred if you support nikki haley. that's what donald trump has said. >> right. >> and vice president -- >> what go -- >> come on in. >> what about, yeah, what about how you would feel about you now from 15 years ago? i'm curious. >> oh, sure. no. this is my first time to vote for a democratic presidential candidate. no. this is not what i would have expected to do. and the vice president joked about that with all of us, you know? and that is certainly the case. but this is a unique situation with donald trump, who has told people he doesn't want you in the party. he has been dividing the party, dividing the country. his own vice president and, you know, dozens much people in his own administration, general milley, mark esper, dan coats, all these people

i like the idea of finding that bipartisan compromise but i will work with susan collins, lisa murkowski on my side to get that done. chuck: you think 60 votes should be -- mr. hogan: i think making washington more partisan and allowing things to be jammed through by one vote, which she has been complaining about most of the thing, now she says she wants to do it for this one thing, but when the pendulum swings back every two years or four years, everyone will push their other chuck: things. when it comes to lowering the votes, that concerns you? ms. alsobrooks: i talked to senator cardin, and he says whoever is in the majority control of the agenda, and he believes the filibuster has been used in such a way we no longer have the deliberative body we used to have. it becomes destructive. we really have to form and abolish the filibuster, so i agree that we are going to have to do something. we see the progress has been thwarted. chuck: all right, deborah has the next question. deborah: i would like to talk about gun violence. it was about a month ago when maryland witnessed a fatal shoot

marines including tours in iraq and afghanistan before working for senator susan collins on the homelandecurity and governmental affairs committee and then winning a seat in the maine legislature. he has served in the u.s. house since first elected in 2018. austin theriault was a nascar driver who later turned to training in managing new drivers in racing. he has served one term in the maine house of representatives. we are going to try to get a good idea of where these candidates stand on issues. we will be looking for specifics, we will be looking for their specific solutions to problems, and away from canned talking points. they will each make a closing statement at the end of the hour. thank you both for coming. we appreciate you joining us. let's start with what the polls tell us is the number one concern of people in the second district. that is the high cost of living. now, inflation certainly has come down. that battle appears to be won. but many people are still struggling to get by financially every day and every week. let's start with this question. what specific, concrete ste

that's republican susan collins who won in 2020 when joe biden carried maine. but she's awfully moderate. but to pick up on where jeremy left off about who those voters are that he can appeal to generally and tonight specifically, who are the voters, do you think, who might be trump-allred voters? >> that's a great question. and i think that there are plenty of independent voters, especially in the suburbs of the big cities of san antonio, austin, houston, dallas. we've seen in the trump era texas go from a state that voted by 16 points, plus 16 for mitt romney in 2012, to about 5 1/2 for donald trump in 2020. so the state has taken a move to the middle. and that's largely been powered by the growth in urban areas but also shifts in the suburbs. i think particularly suburban women. the allred campaign has of course made reproductive rights an issue. i think they're going to continue to do that. he's also had the resources as you mentioned earlier to do that and do that effectively. he's outspending ted cruz. then, chris, people don't like ted cruz. he is just i

. >> i did that when susan collins, which says now that the vice president is just ceremonial, there'se slate of electors that's going to be accepted. there can't be the mass chaos that happened on january 6 will be prevented by some of these changes that we've made and are now law. but iran bulleted i haven't spoken to jamie directly about his comments and he's a very smart guy, so i'm going to talk to him, but i understand why people are already raising the flag like i am and saying, hey, what some of the extremists on the other side are doing now on the ground there laying because they're concerned they may lose the election mission is outrageous and ones we need to get together and say it's completely and totally unacceptable all right. >> representative josh gottheimer. thanks so much for being here. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me great to see you when we come back as people in arizona consider who to vote for immigration and reproductive rights are front and center in that crucial battleground state you're in the cnn newsroom arthritis pain relief when a tough call fin

about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body, to republicans like for example susan collins, lisa murkowski, who would back some nothing like this on a democratic agenda if in fact republicans control congress, would you offer them an olive branch or is that off the table? >> is that not an option for you? >> i'm not going to engage in hypotheticals because we can go on with variety of scenarios she wouldn't engage in hypotheticals once he was asked whether she would pardon former president donald trump if she were elected in november. >> she was also asked about something that's come up with for president baracoa bama's remarks, other sexism is what is factoring into some men not wanting to vote for the vice president. she wouldn't engage on that and said keeping the focus on what she has said on the campaign trail about protecting fundamental freedoms. and on that front, wolf reproductive freedom is going to be featured prominently over the next several days including later this week, when the vice president is going to go to texas, a bit of an unusual stop in the final we

so can jon tester do susan collins was the only one in 2020 republican senator of maine, a moderate the only one in a state that voted one way for president. they voted the other way for said, there was only one in 2020, right? is she remembered jeanne shaheen did this back in new hampshire back and one of the tea party elections is your personal brand. she was jean, she was not a democrat. she wasn't senator shaheen. so it can he be john? yeah. right. can he be john? is your personal brand enough to overcome the headwinds, but in a state as you know, trump's going to win by 50 points that is but it's so interesting because in trump has polarized the electorate in such a different way than other presidential candidates have. and that's why split ticket voting just doesn't exist in the trump era. >> yeah, you know, i'm so glad you made that point. so right now, there's only i believe it's five us senators who are elected from one party when that state went a different direction. and the presidential only five out of 100. and by the way, one of those is west virginia, which is going to go

rob: no, susan collins, and was the one candidate where biden won it and she was the republican and won it as well. this is why i believe democrats are functionally get out of montana very soon because tester is down outside the margin, he is down six, and trump is going to win it by more than 10, and you look at that delta and say it is really hard to run more than 8 points ahead of a presidential candidate, or underneath it. i've seen people do both, but it is really hard. the search you are going to see is going to go in ohio and not in montana, because that state is gone. steve: anything? jarrod: no, to your question, i do think that they know that abortion is an issue, which is why these positions -- why you saw trump take the positions he has taken and why jd vance said what he said that the debate and why the video, the melania video came out. i don't think this is missed by anybody there, and i think there has been a concerted effort for several months to address it. steve: kiki mentioned north carolina, where there is a governors race. i don't know of anybody in the room, folks

rob: no, susan collins, and was the one candidate where biden won it and she was the republican and wont as well. this is why i believe democrats are functionally get outf montana very soon because tter is down outside the margin, he is down six, an trump is gog to win it by more than 10, and you look at that delta and say it ireally hard to run more than 8 points ahead of a presidenti candidate, or underneath it. i've seen people do both, but it is really hard. the search you are going to see is going to go in ohio and n in montana, because that state is gone. steve: anything? jarrod: no, to your question, i do think that they know that abortion is an issue, which is why these positions -- why you saw trump take the positions he has taken and why jd vance said what he said thathe debate and why the video, the melania video came out. i don't think this is missed by anybody there, and think there has been a concerted effort for several months to address it. steve: kiki mentioned north carolina, where there is a gornors race. i don't know of anybody in the room, folks who have been follow

in 2016, every senate race when the same way as the presidential race. 2020 only susan collins managed a delta of just a couple points per we could see split tickets in arizona, for instance, were trump is favored. lisa: can you walk us through what a red sweep looks like, given the fact that not all republicans are the same, not all democrats are the same -- how much are we looking at trump truly having a clutch over the republican party in a way where he can get through his policies very easily, even with a civil majority? >> that is why republicans want to get to 53, 54 seats, because if it is a very narrow majority, the most important people in the senate become moderates. susan murkowski, lisa collins, they have such a favorable map and want to take advantage of this, especially if you see trump 20, and the house is deadlocked, only four seats one way or the other. there are places like in new york and in the california that are more democratic areas that republicans need to run ahead of. then we have seats in michigan that will be very close. i think it is probably the way the pr

i really like my colleagues susan collins and lisa murkowski but they haven't convinced me of the people in their caucus either. so for the fighting. can you believe we are fighting over idf? but that's forwarding because we believe in letting families have ivf treatment. i believe climate change is real. i believe that as passing the climate reduction act set this up into state of washington to not only innovate here and diversify our energy sources but we are leaving the world and some of the most innovative energy, whether it's a hydrogen hub for smart grid or battery technology in moses lake, or some of the innovation that is being done at the p&a lap we are on the next generation of energy front that is great help us meet these climate call. >> thank you, senator. dr. garcia would you like response? >> yes. first of all of what you want to know that have participated in ivf so of course i some support it. i'm also in favor of hydrogen, and we're lucky as senator cantwell stated to have at&l here in our state. what are the only 13 labs in the country. we want to be in the forefront,

in 2020 only student -- susan collins managed to maintain reelection.nk the math is much tougher for jon tester. he is also running against a stronger opponent. but in ohio that is a state that trump won twice by eight points. the margin is smaller for sharad brown to perform. he is sort of the last democrat standing in the buckeye state. he has a populist image. yes been able to appeal to this disaffected white working-class voters democrats struggle with. he needs an extraordinary number of tickets letters this election cycle as well. his opponent is a former luxury car dealer. he is a colombian immigrant. but brown has been able to heavily outspend in the race. now we are seeing a lot of outside money coming in. and so polling has brown with a very slight lead, within the margin of error. but he has led pretty consistently. i think republicans see where marino has struggled to consolidate those trump voters behind him. if he does that that becomes a much harder path for sharad brown. we are at the point in the cycle where voters start to put on their