Mike Lee, Hugh Hewitt battle over how to run the Senate

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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on Thursday battled with radio host Hugh Hewitt go into a spat Thursday morning after Hewitt offered what he said would be a grown-up way to find compromise in Congress.

“Hugh, don’t tell me what the grown-up thing to do with my job is. I don’t tell you how to run your show, don’t tell me how to cast my votes,” Lee told Hewitt. He made that comment after Hewitt suggested that Congress vote on Sen. Jeff Flake’s idea to protect special counsel Robert Mueller, along with a related bill from Lee, in order to allow Flake to support President Trump’s judicial nominees.

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