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even susan collins who is the most -- most stickler for process she's been basically pretty silent in support of where chuck grassley, the judiciary committee is doing? >> yeah, no breakage whatsoever. you even have rand paul saying that, you know, he was the one that people were most concerned about, he said that he will be a yes vote, you still have the hold-outs of murkowski and collins, lisa murkowski from alaska and susan collins from maine, they have not said where they will go, but a lot of credit to chuck grassley who has been managing the process i think fairly and that has given a lot of confidence to those republicans that are still unsure and they want to know they crossed t's and dotted i's. paul: still ahead after fired peter strzok for antitrump texts, house investigation for another department official, just who is bruce ohr and what do they hope to learn from him? >> i think bruce ohr is a disgrace, for him to be in the justice department and to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace. with the right steps, hasn't left my side. 80% of recurrent ischemic strokes could

senator susan collins of maine had this to say in reaction. "while brennan has been far too political in his statements, unless there was a disclosure of classified information, of which i'm unaware, i don't see the grounds for revoking his security clearance. that being said, if this is political retaliation, david, is there a sense of how far it could go? >> well, there is no sense, i don't think we have a sense, of how far donald trump wants to use his power for retribution on critics. but it's clear that's what this is and i don't think you need to be a critic of the administration to say that. i think it's in donald trump's words. i think he makes it clear in the "wall street journal" interview, i don't think there's any pretense here to what is going on and that this is much like in his interview with lester holt that this is part of the pushback on what he believes is an unjustified russia investigation and mueller probe. i would just say that what i find so interesting in listening to all the national security officials you guys have b

. >> reporter: susan collins is considered a key swing vote. she has a lot of power over his future as a potential supreme court justice. i think speaking to the significance of the moment, the fact that this meeting today, which just is under way right now, is scheduled for two hours on the clock. collins going into that meeting says she's done a massive amount of research, read up on his record. aides saying she has not come across anything disqualifying but certainly she has come across issues in her words that raise questions. that top on the agenda. check out the rest of the day he has on capitol hill. claire mccaskilccaskill, senato, senator harris and another big meeting today, senator minority leader chuck schumer. he has been the democrat leading the charge to get the documents released related to kavanaugh's time in the george w. bush white house. all this two weeks before the confirmation hearings start up here on september 4. >> thank you very much. two hours, a long meeting ahead and a big day for him. >>> university of maryland fo

coming out of that meeting, senator susan collins just addressed press. she said essentially that she had not made up her mind, not settled, or not revealing what her vote will be for kavanaugh. certainly she had positive things to say about him coming out of the meeting. she said it was an excellent session, very productive, informative, and she questioned him about his judicial philosophies, of course, but most specifically, importantly, as you noted, she talked to him about precedent and abortion cases, specifically she said she pressed him on whether he considered roe to be settled law or not. so certainly an important meeting lasting over two hours here today. he moves on to a slew of other big important meetings up here on the hill. many democrats on the list. mccaskill, patrick leahy, of course, amy klobuchar, and senate minority leader chuck schumer, leading the charge to get more documented released. a significant day up here on the hill leading to the confirmation hearings two weeks from today. >> sunlen, appreciate the update there. >>> next fo

>> susan collins wants to make sure kavanaugh is a qualified judge, not a partisan. susan collin, as you know, is a moderate republican who says she's not made up her mind yet over whether to vote to confirm kavanaugh. and that's why her meeting with him today could be the most important meeting of the entire confirmation process. a source close to kavanaugh says they know fully what's at stake here and, in fact, his entire rollout has in many ways been designed to appeal to collins. to show her he's someone she can support. now, kavanaugh's nomination has really set off alarms among progressive groups that he might try to help overturn or least try to curb roe v. wade, that landmark abortion rights case. collins has already been on the record saying she won't vote to confirm anyone who displays any sort of hostility toward roe v. wade and the state of play in the senate right now is if no democrats vote in support of kavanau kavanaugh, then the republicans cannot afford to lose a single gop vote in the senate. >> then there was that memo released yesterday. it shows

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susan collins says brennan is too political in statements, but doesn't see grounds for revoking clearance unless there was a disclosure of classified information. senator john kennedy of louisiana was all for stripping brennan's clearance. >> i think most americans look at our national intelligence experts as being above politicians. mr. brennan dplemonstrated thats not the case. he has been totally political. i called him a butthead and i meant it. >> and paul ryan speaking out. >> i think he is trolling people honestly. this is something that is in the purview of the executive branch. i think some of these people already lost clearance. some people keep clearance. that is something the executive branch deals with. >> according to the recent report of the office of director of national intelligence, nearly 4.1 million people have security clearance. >>> hundreds of newspapers are sending a message to the readers today. the press is not the enemy of the people. "boston globe" organized it. the editorial board saying it is an essential end point of trump's deluge of dishonesty. to label th

it is pretty little lies you tell susan collins so she can say i asked him and he said he was ok. and now dutifully as a republican i will vote for him. those who didn't meet with them, should they -- those who met with kavanaugh, should they have met with them? host: guest: of course they should, it doesn't mean they should vote for him. tom carper of delaware should be embarrassed for his vote. kavanaugh's one of most right-wing justices in the country. tom carper has a primary and delaware coming up, we should vote them out. host: line for republicans, nina, good morning. you are on. guest: i just had -- caller: i just had a question about paul manafort. he has been doing this shady stuff with tax fraud and all for years, why has it taken this long and why under this president before they started delving into all of his misbehaving's and tax evasion? host: do you think it is more about the president that he works for then his own deceit? forer: it is not so much the president, but they've known about this for years and it is kind of hypocritical they waited until this president

we will hear from jeff flake and klobuchar and susan collins and richard durbin and hillary clinton. >> we set out on a deck and watched the creek and talked about arizona and curse of the -- and personalities he admired and particularly those and those that put politics to the side and he had a huge funds in this for a democrat from arizona -- fondness from a democrat from iz

susan collins of maine, lisa murkowski of alaska. the question is will they suing? >> the reality is judge kavanaugh is a highly qualified nominee and there's nothing in the documents. they haven't found a single thing. >> do you know how many documents were talking about? remind me. >> total scope could be melons. arthel: no, the one senator schumer strength again. >> he wants every single document. that could be seven, eight, nine pages of documents. set to reveal about 800, 900,000 pages which is almost eight to nine times any other nominee. so it's kind of crazy we are talking about stuff you never weighed in on, didn't say anything about because it's a stall talk to. to stall as long as possible. eric: perhaps they are trying to stall is what you're saying. it's a tight game. anything to push the ball over the line they are trying to do. i do think this meeting will go with the judge and the senator? do you think it's going to be a personality litmus test for an effort to get an accurate gauge on judge kavanaugh's decision? >> i would like to say it's a fair me

collins who has not made up her mind yet told reporters the judge agree that roe versus wade is said law why did they get that. you know larry settled precedent and lot of the land and these kind of code words that not only cavanagh is using but some of the senators who are meeting with them are using is frankly treating americans as if they're idiots the supreme court is the thing that sets precedent and pret cavanagh has not had the ability to overrule precedent with his past roles as a judge if he becomes justice make no mistake roe will be got it reproductive rights at the state level will begin to disintegrate even more than they already have and in many places right now abortion is legal in name only there are so many women who does not have an actual choice areas where being a wealthy woman means you can get access and drive say two hundred miles to the one point five clinic in your state or take off of work or get child care for the children you already have poor women women of color and women who are more marginalized than already just being women a woman and what that means

susan collins has made a name for herself. heidi heitkamp hasn't had the chance yet so perhaps in a couple of terms from now, she would have the same policy influence. but part of it is the story of the constituents and the pw and what they've long identified and have been standing for versus north dakota, and south dakota myself, are a little bit of a different variety i guess. but some of it is individualistic and makes it challenging. >> i think you've identified the politics of the last decade or so are not enjoyable, for politicians and for us. but i think you've also identified that there is enough division in the two parties that it's going to continue and it seems as though it's gotten worse over the past few years and i'm concerned your studies show it might get even worse. so when that happens we are looking at a country that has two organizations that seem to be somewhat fundamentally opposed to the existence of the other one. what can you say about how we will be governed based on what you've learned so far if we h

senator susan collins has put herself out there and she won't make a decision about kavanaugh until september 4th, so we are right up against that hearing, that day. what do you make of that? are you concerned that roe vs. wade becomes an issue with regard to the confirmation of brett kavanaugh? >> senator thune: i think it will be an issue that the democrats will try to raise and most of their attacks are animated by their far left. the attacks that they are going to throw and judge kavanaugh won't have anything to do with his records or opinions, it will have everything to do with his outcomes and ideology. >> harris: susan collins, that is her issue, too, she says. so what do you say to her? >> senator thune: susan has met with a judge and she said the meeting went well. my guess is, in the end, i'm hoping that we will have all republicans and i think some democrats will end up supporting this judge. but everyone has a process, their own process and their own way of thinking through this issue, and they will have an opportunity to do that. what's discouraging though is a lot of democrats a

senate, senator susan collins of maine and senator lisa murkowski of alaska. the democrats are looking somehow in those documents millions and millions of documents for a smoking gun to hit brett kavanaugh with. they have not come up with a gun so far and i don't think susan collins or his a murkowski are going on a wild goose chase on behalf of nothing and if nothing is produced the republicans and should fight back against producing that many documents, you know, having forced mitch mcconnell to blow up the "nuclear option" so that you only need a majority of votes in the senate, the democrats are going to remain on the losing side of this battle over brett kavanaugh. paul: the thing that that makess works so far for kavanaugh is kavanaugh's credentials. >> yeah, 12 years of judicial opinions, 11 cases where supreme court backed him. paul: that makes hard to attack him. you have to go somewhere else, you have to attack his character, his wife's record chevy chase, whatever they're looking for. and, you know, the american public says basically make -- >> the

that could be key in potentially winning over senator susan collins' vote. certainly kavanaugh has another big meeting on the hill. he's right now meeting with senator claire mccaskill, later today senator leahy, also amy klobuchar and camela harris. also meeting with chuck schumer, who is leading the charge to get more documents released from his time in the bush white house. this is just two weeks from his confirmation hearing. >> sunlen, thank you very much for that update. >>> we're following two major developments right now. the first one on paul manafort's trial. the federal judge telling jurors to keep deliberating after they appear to be stuck on one of 18 counts. and more breaking news. president trump's former personal attorney and fixer michael cohen, who's facing possible criminal charges, is now in serious talks with prosecutors for a potential plea deal. we'll have the latest on that as well. stay with us. gimme one minute... and i'll tell you some important things to know about medicare. first, it doesn't pay for everything. say this pizza is

that's according to susan collins, who tells cnn while in her opinion brennan has been, quote, far too political in statements, unless there was disclosure of classified information of which i am unaware, i don't see the grounds for revoking his security clearance. and that's the key thing here. you would think the white house to take this unprecedented action would have been prepared with mountains of evidence, classified information being divulged, all of that would be needed to revoke the security clearance that spent 25 years with the cia, that served republican and democratic presidents. when sarah sanders was asked does she have any evidence whatsoever that brennan misused classified information, she couldn't answer the question. in fact, the question was very direct from major garrett. he says does this suggest he misused information or monetized access to it. he asked directly. her answer, no, i wouldn't make any assumptions. i am telling you what the decision was based off of. no evidence. yet unprecedented action was taken without consulting america's top security agencies. s

i think the person who best described what he's been telling senators on abrtion is susan collins. she met with him tuesday. let's lien to what she said he told her. >>e talked about whether he considered roe v wade to be settled law. he said he agreed with what justice reports said at his nomination hearing in which he said that it s settled law. >> this seems to be a mantra o supreme court nominees and it's something kavanaugh is sticking to. we hear democrats and republicans alike say this is what he's tellng them. >> woodruff: aring this is, what are most democrats saying? >> they say it doesn't matter if it's settled law. the question is whether he's willing to overturn it. chuck schumer said it's settled unl it's su sun settled. we also hear democrats pointing to justice gorsuch who used the same standard saying he saw ro assetled law, but democrats like chris kountze today pointed out gorsuch voted to overturn a 1977 supreme court case about labor law. gorsuch did vote to overturn that, so democrats are concerned that, whether it's settled law, these justices could be willin

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sandra: susan tol collins, a pivotal republican said you shouldn't fire him. marie: he's not serving has president trump's personal attorney general. the politics will be an issue here. i do not think the senate as closely divided as it is can replace him. he was a senator and he has a lot of friends up there. the president had probably the toughest week in the press as president. he's lashing out at everyone including jeff sessions because the situation is dire. there are three ongoing investigation, people are getting immunity every day. sandra: not every day. marie: every day this week. sandra: the white house is saying it has nothing to do with the president and there is no implication he did anything wrong in all that. sections is firing back which is interesting because we haven't seen him firing back in such a public way. he said he'll not let the department be influenced by political considerations. gillian: a lot of people were shocked to see that tweet when it came out thursday. i disagree with marie slightly. whether sessions is fired or departs aft

. >> narrator: fellow republican senator susan collins had been pushing mccaino vote against the bill trump was backing. at lisa murkowski and i knew that he had resens. we were talking with him about the bill, and all of a sudden, he pointedo both of us and he said, "you know, you two are right." it was then that i felt a tap on my shoulder, and i turned around, and it was vice president pence. >> narrator: pence had come to pressure mccain to support the president. >> the vice president stood toe- to-toe with john mccain, and he was in his space, it was very close. they went on for, i don't know,s med like 15 or 20 minutes, back and forth, back and forth. >> one of the things i most admire about john mccain is, he cannot be intimidated by anyone or anything. >> he ew he had the power to enable trump's presidency, to give him a new lease on life, o to enscritical defeat early in his presidency. >> vice president pence turned on his heel and walked away. >> narrator: and then it was time for mccain to vote... >> you saw mitch mcconnell looking more and more unhappy, his arms were clos

i do think susan collins is somebody willing to challenge the president. she had that message there. bob corker somebody who is willing to speak out strongly. bob corker won't be in congress in a couple of months. that's the untold story. no matter what happens the democrats and the wave there are going to be far fewer people holding elected office in washington who are willing to oppose the president in his own party. >> an interesting game to play, what if the other president -- two days ago what if obama called a woman, a white woman a dog. imagine that. and it's just amazing on a daily basis what we put up except as a norm which you've assigned it to any other previous president would be a stunning impossibility and what the reactions would be. >> one thing that the united states senate has held very deer to it, itself, its own institutional prerogatives. that's why they protected the filibuster for so many years. that there has been this sense that what goes around, comes around, some day we won be in charge, so it's in the interest of everybody to pr

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collins a pivotal republican. she wanted the same thing. you firearm, you may not be able to replace them. >> and it shouldn't matter whether it's before or after the midterms. if it's wrong to fire him because he's not serving us president trump's personal attorney general, which is i think what donald trump had in mind when he appointed jeff sessions to that role, it should be a problem either before or after but the politics will be an issue here. i do not think the senate, particularly as closely divided as it is can replace him. jeff sessions, he has a lot of friends up there. and i think what you see is the president had probably his toughest week and the prosperity verylashing out increasingly at dire. there are three ongoing investigations. people get immunity every day. every day this week we had a new report of someone close to donald trump getting immunity and i think you see the president not knowing how to respond. >> sandra: what does all of that mean and apply for the president? and the white house

susan collins is a well recognized moderate, she is great appreciation for the environment, not the kind of person you would associate with the tough guy like john mccain that's gone out there and done things that other people haven't done and thenme you hear the statement from the senator from georgia. i was thinking about that, i'mou a few years older than he is a we have a lot of things in common. we were talking about him being drafted. i was drafted. i always remember i was can be at the university of mexico in mexico city in the international program and so att t that time i was at the university of colorado and i did all of my filing early to get back in time to go down to mexico. i got back to tulsa where i'm-- from and i got a letter from the very important person, the president of the united states. i thought how nice of eisenhower to remember me. the discipline that comes with being in the military, then there always euros that you deal with and we are dealing with euros when we deal with senator mccain. i've often said that i think timothy, when he wrote second timothy 4 - 7

after that susan collins and dick durbin discuss their one-on-one meetings with judge kavanaugh on capitol hill. r, opponents of the nomination hold a rally outside the supreme court. "newsmakers" welcomes neera tanden president and ceo of the center for american progress. c-span viewers are familiar with the progressive think tank based n washington, d.c. let me introduce you to our reporters. darlene superville covers the white house for the associated press. jerry seib, executive editor for the washington post. darlene: i wanted to start with the big news of the week. how should democrats respond to paul manafort, his conviction on financial crimes. also, the guilty pleas by michael cohen, president trump's longtime personal attorney. how should democrats respond to those developments? neera: there are two issues at play. those cases see the idea of a culture of corruption in washington. democrats have been talking about the challenge of corruption. we have these 2 incidents with the news around duncan hunter and chris collins, members of the house of representatives, and died of for se

republican senator susan collins from maine, calling it totally inappropriate and the top democrat on the house intelligence committee adam schiff was blunt, this is an attempt to obstruct justice hiding in plain sight. when the white house was asked was this pressure from the president to stop the investigation. >> it's not an order. it's the president's opinion. >> reporter: negotiations over what will be asked of trump by exploratorium mueller's team has been going on for months. "the new york times" says he wants to meet with mueller but trump's lawyers don't want them to meet in person. >> you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. waking up to a frizzy morning in san francisco. financial district 55 a little warmer. mid 50s up and down the bay shore into the south bay, 58 in saratoga, we have mid to upper 50s pleasanton, and walnut creek. 64 pittsburgh, tracy, north bay mid 50s until heelsburg, daly city 51. you can see the mist hanging in the air and look at breeze blowing the flags on the ferry building. that's what's going to keep us in the fog an

but what about lisa murkowski and susan collins, what do you expect from them? >> we do know that they voted for brett kavanaugh's nomination to the d.c. circuit, the position that he currently holds on the circuit court of appeals. so i mean, if history is a guide, i mean, kavanaugh had a tough time getting to that point because of different, you know, sort of thicks that came up with his -- sort of things that came up with his nomination in the early, mid 2000s, but they did vote for him as a circuit court nominee. and collins and murkowski, you know, are not -- this seems a little different than other times that they have departed from the republican party line, like with the affordable care act debate last year. they both seem like they are not really drawing some firm lines that they are going to cross. and it would seem that this is -- i mean, this is a fairly easy vote, i think, even if you are an established republican because brett kavanaugh comes from kind of the establishment wing of the republican party. eric: collins has voted for every nominee for

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a lot of people do not know this but senator susan collins of maine, senator lisa mccroskey of alaska voted 100 percent of the time for president trump 's nominations. >> yes. >> so have a strong record of support and we have no reason to believe the republican side is not going to be unified in support for kavanaugh. the question is what the red state democrats senators will do. we have the three that matt mentioned, they came over. i want to show you some polling results from the red states. in north dakota where heidi heitkamp is running for reelection, 60 percent of the voters there say judge kavanaugh should be confirmed. only 22 against. in west virginia, 55 percent say confirm. 30 against, indiana where joe donnelly is running for reelection, 52 percent say confirm, only 34 against. they are swimming upstream as they are going to oppose judge kavanaugh. and indeed, they are the only three democrats have either met with judge kavanaugh or are scheduled to. and manchin met with him this week for two hours, donnelly and heitkamp will meet with him on the 15th. so at the moment, th

sandra: susan collins, a pivotal republican, she warned of the same thing, if you fire him, we may not be able to replace him. >> that's right. it shouldn't matter whether it's before or after the midterms. if it is wrong to fire him because he's not serving as president trump's personal attorney general, which is i think what donald trump had in mind when he appointed sessions to that role, it should be a problem either before or after. the politics will be an issue here. i don't think the senate, particularly as closely divided as it is, can replace him. jeff sessions as juan mentioned, he was a senator. he has a lot of friends up there. i think what you see is the president had probably his toughest week in the press this week as president. he's lashing out, increasingly at everyone, including jeff sessions because the situation is very dire. there are three ongoing investigations. people get immunity every day. people are working with prosecutors -- sandra: not every day. >> every day this week we had a new report of someone close to donald trump getting immunity, and i think you s

a lot of people do not know this, but senator susan collins of maine, and senator lisa murkowski of alaska, have devoted 100% of the time for president trump's judicial nominees. we have a strong record of support, and we have no reason to believe the republican side is not going to be unified in support for kavanaugh and the question is what the red state democrat senators will do. they came over. i want to share some polling results from those red states. , 60% of voters say judge kavanaugh should be confirmed. only 22 against. in west virginia, 55% say confirmed. 30 against. in indiana, where joe donnelly is running for reelection, 52% say confirmed. only 34% against. ify are swimming upstream they are going to oppose judge indeed, they are the only three democrats that have either met with judge kavanaugh or are scheduled to, and hide camp will meet with him on the 15th, so at the moment, they are the three we think are most like me to come over, and we will have to see. they are in a real box. they had fight their way through that political bind that they are in. we have a lot of conf

that's according to republican senator susan collins who met with kavanaugh tuesday. collins has said she would oppose any nominee who's hostile to the landmark decision. the senate's top democrat, chuck schumer, isn't buying kavanaugh's statement, though. schumer says kavanaugh refused to answer when he asked if roe v. wade was correctly decided. his confirmation hearing begins september 4th. >>> a disturbing new allegation against a catholic priest in pennsylvania. 30-year-old reverend kevin lonergan now faces criminal charges of indecent assault against a 17-year-old girl. he's accused of sending her nude photos and groping her. the charges are separate from the report released by the pennsylvania grand jury just last week accusing more than 300 in the days since that report, hundreds of people have called a clergy abuse hotline. >>> actress asia argento, one of the leaders of the me too movement is denying accusations that she gave alcohol to a 17-year-old and sexually assaulted him. she says she never had a sexual relationship with actor jimmy bennett even though

collins who's not made up her mind get told reporters the judge agree that roe versus wade is said whole law why did they get that. you know larry settled precedent and lot of the land and these kind of code words that not only cavanagh is using but some of the senators who are meeting with them are using is frankly treating americans as if they're idiots the supreme court is the thing that sets precedent and pratt cavanagh has not had the ability to overrule precedent with his past roles as a judge if he becomes justice make no mistake roe will be got it reproductive rights at the state level will begin to disintegrate even more than they already have and in many places right now abortion is legal in name only there are so many women who does not have an actual choice areas where being a wealthy woman means you can get access and drive say two hundred miles to the one point five clinic in your state or take off of work or get child care for the children you already have poor women women of color and women who are more marginalized than already just being women and a woman and what that

that tweet angering some in the president's own party, susan collins calling it inappropriate, saying the president should not be talking about the investigation at all. >> he used the word should, he didn't use the word must. >> reporter: but some of the top democrats say it is an attempt to obstruct justice hiding in plain sight. and sarah sanders said this was just his opinion. >> it's not an order. it's the president's opinion. >> reporter: the white house is struggling to explain this comment by the president at a rally tuesday night. >> the time has come for voter i.d. if you go out and buy groceries, you need a picture on a card. you need i.d. >> i've never had to show an i.d. when i go buy groceries. >> certainly if you go and buy beer and wine you're going to show i.d. >> is that what the president who doesn't drink meant? >> he doesn't mean when he went in. he said when you go to the grocery store. >> reporter: stemming from his unfounded claim that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election. maggie rulli, abc news, new york. >>> more witnesses are set to take t

you have susan collins, a well-recognized moderate. she's one who understands and has great appreciation for the environment. not the kind of person that you would associate with a tough guy like john mccain, that's gone out there and has done things that other people haven't done, just talked about. and then you hear the statement from the senator from georgia. it's just -- you know, i was thinking about that, i'm a few years older than he is. we have lot of things in common. he was talking about being drafted. i was drafted. i always remember, i was enrolled many, many years ago. i was going to be at the university of mexico, mexico city, in the international program and so i was at that time at the university of colorado and i did all of my-- all of my finals and all of that early so i could get back in time to go down to mexico. and so i got back to tulsa where i'm from and i got a letter from the very person-- very important person, it was the president of the united states. and i thought, how nice of eisenhower to remember me. an

republican senator susan collins from maine calling it totally inappropriate saying the president should not be talking about the investigation at all and the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, was blunt. he says, this is an attempt to obstruct justice hiding in plain sight. >> if the president is innocent, he should act like it. >> reporter: trump's attorney offered a different take on cnn. >> he used the word should. he didn't use the word must, and there was no presidential directive that followed it. he didn't direct him to do it, and he's not going to direct him to do it. >> reporter: when the white house was asked was this pressure from the president to stop the investigation -- >> it's not an order. it's the president's opinion. the president is not obstructing. >> reporter: negotiations over what will be asked of trump by mueller's team has been going on for months, but according to a "new york times" report, president trump does want to meet with mueller. it's trump's lawyers who don't want the two to meet in person so trump doesn't, quote, legally ex

this week he visited with senator susan collins, and she spoke to reporters after about roe v. wade. called fork schumer a delay in considering brett kavanaugh for the supreme court. take a listen. >> you said you have some concerns after looking through his record and what are those, what did you talk about? talked aboutely them, i talked to him at length about his position in the garza case, the only case dealing with abortion which he has rendered a decision. we talked about whether he considered roe to be settled law. he said that he agreed with what justice roberts said that his nomination, in which he says it was settled law. we had a very good, thorough discussion about that issue and many others. considering judge kavanaugh has such a bloom's record on the issue of executive authority on which he seemed to take an almost monarchical view, his refusal to say a president must comply with a subpoena should give everyone, everyone great pause. just as the president is implicated in criminal activity, the senate is considering a nomination of someone to the supreme court bel

the tweet outraging even some in the president's own party, maine senator susan collins calling it "totally inappropriate." saying, "the president should not be talking about the investigation at all." and the top democrat on the house intelligence committee was blunt. "this is an attempt to obstruct justice hiding in plain sight." it all sent the president's lawyers into immediate damage control mode. >> he used the word should, he didn't use the word must. and there was no presidential directive that followed it. he didn't direct him to do it, and he's not going to direct him to do it. >> reporter: in the past, aides have insisted that the president's tweets are official white house policy, but press secretary sarah sanders says this one was just his opinion. >> it's not an order. it's the president's opinion. the president is not obstructing. >> reporter: but today's tweet, not the only presidential statement his aides struggled to explain. at an overnight rally in tampa -- >> the time has come for voter i.d., like everything else. voter i.d. if you go out and you want to buy groceries,