he's been strongly support bid republic ed supported by republicans and democrats, including warren hatch. in 2010 senator hatch said he would be a clear consensus pick, and that he would help him get the votes. that was five years ago. it feels like a lifetime ago. but really a centrist pick, and obama had a choice. he could have picked a nominee with gold standard credentials and a record and integrity who might appeal to moderate republicans and might be able to be confirmed or there were hundreds of judges, qualified judges, who would have been much more liberal and progressive, and appealed more to the democratic base in an election year. he chose a hopeful pick that hopefully judge gar laland was acceptable candidate to republicans in the senate. >> they have vowed to not hold hearings on this nomination. what kind of legal precedent would that set? >> it's unprecedented. there's never been anything like this in american history. there have only been two nominees that failed for lack of senate action, and it was 30 days before the new president took office, not months before the ele

. >> and warren hatch told reporters yesterday, quote, i'd probably be open to resolving this in a lakeme duck. but this was an early talking point with the biden rule. also, bringing up the fact that then senator obama voted against president bush's choices as proof of why or a justification for lack of a better description of why they will not allow the process to work. >> well, that also is absurd, because those were not in the last year of president bush's presidency, so what they're saying now is that just they will never vote on a supreme court nomination if they don't like the president? none of this, i mean, look. i had a career before this one where i was, part of what i did was identify absurdity, and i'm seeing a lot of it here. look, the president nominated a guy who, by every report, is impeccable in his credentials, is brilliant, is a thoroughly decent guy who even my republican colleagues have said great things about. so the president did his job and did it well. now it's time for those of us in the senate to do our job of advise and give advice and consent through hearin

a growing you are of republican senators including party elders like warren hatch advocate containingmp by trying to influence and work with him. this week, for example, after trump's response to an endorsement by david duke, mitch mcconnell created distance but never mentioned trump by name. >> senate republicans condemn david duke, the kkk and his racism has nothing that is not the view of republicans that have been each elected not united states senate. >> reporter: paul ryan took a similar approach avoiding personal anting a information aimed the trump. the g.o.p. frontrunner seemed to approve . >> i am going to get along great with congress. paul ryan, i don't know him well. i am sure. if i don't, he is going to have to pay a big price. okay? thegom establishment fears in november, it's the party that could pay the biggest front. many believe with trump as nominee, the party could lose control of the house and senate. en if trump wins the white house, his running away from republican positions foreign policy, the economy and social programs. donald trufrm is going to destroy the

child suffering from a rare disease like cystic fibrosis, the bill from senators bennet, warren, burr and hatch increases the chance that researchers will find a treatment or cure for your child's disease. that was the good work of the committee last month. today we met all morning, and we considered seven more bills, about 15 more proposals were incorporated in those bills. each of those bills, the senators feel, is an important step forward. for example, senators casey, isakson, brown and kirk offered a bill which was passed to create drugs to treat or cure rare diseases in children. burr, bennet, hatch and donnelly proposed and it was passed to create a new system for breakthrough devices that's similar to the breakthrough for drugs that senator burr and senator bennet and others worked on in 2012 and that has showed such promise and such results. everyone is pleasantly -- i wouldn't say surprised but may be surprised by how many new drugs have been approved by the f.d.a. using the breakthrough process from 2012. we hope the same will be true with the breakthrough for devices. then senators