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Care battle on capitol hill is now in high gear. Day 50 of the Trump Administration. Lets begin with joe johns live at the white house. Joe . Reporter good morning, chris. I think you can take whats going on on capitol hill as a sign that lawmakers have picked up the pace of their investigation into russias interference in the last election. The question is the extent to which the fbi director is willing to share all he knows with members of congress. Reporter fbi director james comey heading to thrill as tension builds between the Justice Department and lawmakers over President Trumps unsubstantiated wiretapping claims. The Justice Department under pressure to deny or provide evidence of the president s allegation. Comey meeting with the gang of eight, the Bipartisan Group of lawmakers clear to receive access to the nations most highly classified intelligence. As part of the gang of eight, we want to be informed on a periodic basis. Reporter this intelligence set to be extended to all members of the house intelligence committee. Prior to the meeting, taking issue with comey saying he hasnt been forthcoming with intelligence regarding russias interference in the election. Clearly we have some questions about whether or not last year we were read into everything we should have been read into. Theres no way we can discharge our responsibilities if the fbi isnt willing to cooperate with us and tell us about any counterintelligence investigation that is going on. Reporter congressman adam schiff accusing comey of stonewalling in a briefing last week. There were very large areas that were walled off. Those walls will have to come down if were going to do our job. Reporter the Justice Department continues to decline comment on whether President Trump is or is not the subject of an investigation, once again leaving his press Secretary Sean Spicer spin zblg the Justice Department is saying they never gave you the assurances that you gave us. Okay. The assurance i gave you, margaret is im not aware. That is 100 accurate. When you said no reason to believe, it was im not aware . Thats right. I dont know that theyre not interchangeable. Im not aware, i dont believe ill look up in a thesaurus to find other ways. I dont know that theres a distinction there. Reporter were expecting an opportunity to at least pose a question or two to the president of the United States himself today, likely to see him in a couple of photo ops. Hes also meeting with his Homeland Security secretary as well as the cia director. Alisyn . Joe, thank you for that. This morning cnn also learning new information concerning a possible link between computer servers belonging to a russian bank and the Trump Administration. Cnns pamela brown is live in washington with with the details. What did you learn . Reporter we learned the fbi probe remains open between as poable Computer Connection between the Trump Administration and alpha bank. This is the same server mentioned in a breitbart article that a white house official said sparked President Trumps series of tweets last saturday accusing investigators of tapping his phone. We are told that there was no fisa warrant on this particular server. Questions about the connection between the server and the russian bank were widely dismissed four months ago as an attempt by the bank to block spam. We learned the fbis counterintelligence team, the same one looking into russias suspected interference in the 2016 election is still looking into it. One official i spoke to said the server relationship seems odd. Investigators are not ignoring it, but the fbi still has a lot more work to do to determine what was behind the unusual activity and whether theres any significance to it. The fbi did decline to comment and the white house didnt respond to our request for comment. Alisyn . Pamela, when you say the relationship was odd, what was so peculiar about those communications . Reporter whats odd about the communication is this russian bank repeatedly looked up the unique internet address of a particular computer server in the u. S. Used by the Trump Organization. In fact, last summer during the president ial campaign, the russian bank looked up the address to this trump corporate server some 2800 times. More lookups than from any other source. The only other entity looking it up was Spectrum Health let by dick devos, the husband of betsy devos who was later appointed by President Trump as u. S. Education secretary. Those two entities alone made up 99 of the lookups. Computer scientists we spokes to find that plain weird. All the corporations say they never communicated with the Trump Organization. They dont all agree. For example, the russian bank thinks it was receiving trump Hotel Email Marketing last summer but hasnt provided cnn with a single email to back that up. Meanwhile, the American Marketing Company that would have been sending those trump emails says it wasnt doing that at the time. Alpha bank stressed none of its top executives have any connection with President Trump or the Trump Organization saying neither the bank or its principals have or have had any contact with mr. Trump or his organizations. So this potential computer link remains a mystery, doesnt mean anything nefarious, no evidence of wrongdoing, just a lot of Unanswered Questions here. There sure are, pamela. Thanks for sharing your reporting with us. Well check back. You have the political questions and also a policy battle over repealing and replacing obamacare. It is intensifying as the bill inches closer to the house floor. Youre going to see a showdown in the senate for sure. Many republicans saying this bill would be dead on arrival. The white house is trying to figure out what to do to get this Party Together to take on the democrats. Lets bring in cnns Suzanne Malveaux live from capitol hill. This was at least an intensity that couldnt have been expected within the ranks of the gop. Reporter thats right. It looks like they very much are split here. You have the Health Care Bill at least going through two hurdles now, the two house committees sending it one step closer to the full house floor, but it has a long way to go, chris. At issue here were talking about how many federal dollars go to the states for medicaid. That is theish yoo u that threatens to pull apart the moderate as well as the conservative republicans. The white house undermining Republican Leaders with mixed messages on their partys plan to repeal and replace obamacare. The president publicly giving solid support to the American Health care act. We have a plan that is going to be i think fantastic. Reporter privately telling hard line conservatives hes open to negotiations centered on obamacares Medicaid Expansion, potentially changing the bill to phase out the Medicaid Expansion years sooner than currently called for. A speedy rollback would win over some conservative critics. It says were going to repeal obamacare, but were going to keep Medicaid Expansion and extend it. Thats not what we told voters we would do. Reporter it could doom the bill in the senate. Several moderate republicans backing the current bill says that could change their vote. The expansion of medicaid is tremendously important to 184,000 west virginians. Rolling back the expansion would likely infuriate republican governors whose states get medicaid funding through the expansion. There are very conservative republicantion in the house who are going to say get rid of the whole thing. Thats not acceptable. Reporter cutting the expansion which covers 11 million americans could also anger voters after thencandidate trump made promises like this one during the 2015 president ial announcement. Save medicare, medicaid and Social Security without cuts. Have to do it. Reporter Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan continues to roll up his sleeves to pitch to the gop that its now or never. This is the closest we will ever get to repealing and replacing obamacare. The time is here. The time is now. Reporter speaker ryan is stressing the sense of urgency because he believes theres momentum. He says this is what republicans and the president ran on during the campaign, repealing and replacing obamacare. And at the same time Senior Administration officials are saying President Trump now has a renewed interest in selling this plan. He really sees it as a test of his negotiating skills, as his skills as a dealmaker. Later today were going to see the president meeting with key members of the house. Alisyn . Suzanne, thank you for all that. Joining Us Democratic congressman keith elson. Representative elson is also the deputy chair of the Democratic National committee and the cochair of the congressional progressive caucus. Good morning, congressman. Good morning. Good to see you. So much news to talk about this morning. Lets talk about something that i know you feel particularly strong about and we havent talked about it much this morning. That is the white houses revised travel ban. To remind people of what this new version looks like, let me pull up some of the tenets of it. It will exempt legal permanent residents, meaning green cardholders. Visa holders also exempt now. It will avoid any priority of religious minorities as had been in the first one. There will be a phasein period. So there wont be the confusion we had seen at airports. And that ban on Syrian Refugees that had been indefinite has now been reduced to 120 days. You still dont like it. Whats the problem . Well, it starts out with bad intentions. He campaigned on a muslim ban. He said that explicitly. One of his deputies, Rudy Giuliani came out and said, look, he wants to ban muslims but he wants to lawyer it up so it passes muster. We know the intent has not changed. I want to stop you for one second, congressman. Now in terms of the language and many terms of what it sets out to do, maybe originally that was the intention. Now it has gone through different iterations and there isnt anything about muslims in it. Its changed. It has changed, but its not changed to the point where its no longer intended to harm and block people based on their religion. Here is the thing. So whats the National Security justification for this thing . We know theres been no syrian refugee who has been associated with terrorism, who has committed acts of terrorism in the United States. We know there are countries if you look at the three countries where terrorists came from and committed acts of terrorism in the United States, saudi arabia, uae and egypt. Theyre not on the list. The list is actually irrational. The problem with trying to cleanse it from its original taint is that then you end up with just an irrational policy that doesnt have any real point other than to so thats what we have right now. Let me also make one more point, alisyn, that i think is key. Right now east africa is going through a major drought and famine. Refugees who live there who literally are dying, starving and dying of thirst, need to be able to get some relief. With this ban, those people would be barred. Let me tell you, days count when it comes to drought and famine. I have a lot of people from somalia in my district and they have loved ones in the middle of this drought. These people are going to be held up because of this irrational ban which started out as being a very negative thing. Well, well see what happens. Already hawaii has launched a lawsuit. We have many legal experts, including our own Jeffrey Toobin who believe it will pass legal muster. Just because its legal doesnt make it right. Fair enough. I want to ask you now about another thing brewing on capitol hill, and that is the repeal and replacement of obamacare. Whats the democrats plan . This is being fasttracked through the house. We heard dissension on both sides. What are the democrats doing . Were trying to, one, make sure the public understands how harmful and dangerous trumcare really is. Were trying to how it abandons the commitment to fill a doughnut hole, how it will restrict the expansion of medicaid and cut medicaid in some cases. Were talking about how it cuts planned parenthood completely and harms womens health. Were making it clear that perhaps as many as 10 Million People, maybe more, will be abandoned without health care when they had it before. On top of that, wealthier people who were being taxed to help support this program are going to get a tax bonus with this repeal and replace. Theyll get bumps in terms of hsas. Get bumps in terms of even Insurance Company executive salaries its helping the rich, hurting the poor and the middle class. Its a bad thing. Your plan is to talk about it as often as possible, raise awareness, and then i guess you expect town hall grassroots folks to confront them at town halls. The First Amendment is a very important piece of our american landscape. People have a right to express their outrage and their support, in thats the case, to their elected representatives. We encourage people to use their First Amendment rights, freedom of expression, freedom to get news from a free press. We support these things and believe that this is the right time to express yourself if you think health care should be something that everybody can get. Lets move on to the allegations of russia possibly meddling in the president ial election. Director comey of the fbi was summoned to capitol hill and met with the gang of eight, those lawmakers who have access to the most highly classified information. What do you want to hear from director comey . I want to hear director comey talk about exactly what this server connection might represent and what the facts indicate that it does represent. Why is there a computer server link between the Trump Organization and alfa bank, what was it doing . Did somebody try to shut it down when they got discovered . Why would they do that . Why flynn and now sessions have been found saying things denying they were in contact with Russian Diplomats when they were. I want to know why they were misrepresenting the truth. We know they were, but why were they. These are things i think the fbi could shed light on. I hope theyre in it for the long haul. I dont think the truth is going to be forthcoming. If it were, mr. Sessions would go back to the committee as senator franken has invited him to do and clarify exactly what he meant when he denied any contact with russia. Thats what im hoping we can get from comeys presence on this. Im glad were trying to get to the bottom of this. Look, this is stunning when you think about it. Far worse than watergate when you believe a hostile foreign power engaged in an attempt and with the collusion of the sitting administration hold on. You dont know that we dont know it. You said collusion. Theres no evidence theres collusion. Alisyn, if people in the Trump Administration are having meetings with russian officials and it is around election time and we know that theres been russia has wanted to turn this election to a certain direction, those meetings are important. Im not saying there was collusion. Im saying those meetings indicate that there could be, and i think that needs to be investigated. You see what im saying . Im not making an accusation. Im saying theres ample basis for an investigation. Thats what i think comey can clear up. Thank you for clarifying that, congressman keith ellison, nice to talk to you this morning. Thank you. We have heard from those against the house Health Care Bill, but what about what we expect to see that excites in this bill . Were going to speak with a florida congressman who voted to move the plan ahead next. At blue apron, were building a better food system. 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Repeal and replace obamacare has cleared a couple of committees as the gop is trying to fast track this bill through the reconciliation process. But, as President Trump tries to sell the plan, you have all these different factions popping up. Who is going to fall in line . Joining us now to discuss is florida congressman carlos krebs bellow, part of the house ways and means committee. They spent 18 hours debating the Health Care Bill earlier this week. You want to move the bill for ward. What do you say to the members of your party who are saying no way, this bill is not what we promised the american people. It is just obamacare light . Chris, good morning from the hill. Im still recovering from that 18hour hearing but very happy to be with you this morning. What i tell my colleagues, and not just them, but really the american people, is that all americans deserve Something Better than the Current System. We know we have increasing premiums, fewer choices. There are a lot of counties including one in the florida keys where theres only one insurance provider. Clearly the Current System is broken and we need Something Better. The approach that we take in our Health Care Bill is different than the aca. For example, the aca punishes and threatens individuals and really tries to coerce them into buying Health Insurance. Still millions of americans dont do it and have to pay a fine. We come in from a different angle. We encourage americans to take care of themselves. We empower them with advanceable, refundable tax credits to buy the health care thats best for them and for their families without threatening them, without fines and without all these burdens and government regulations. This is entirely different, and more importantly, i think its going to be much better for the american people. Theres a premise that underlies what you call better which is it assumes that people will have the means to buy this health care that is supposed to be more affordable. In florida especially thats a tricky proposition. Your population is the hardest to cover, disabled people, lowincome seniors. They have been rising faster, those populations, than the national rate. Florida is a state that did not expand medicaid though offered under the aca. And the rates of problematic growth, premium increases, are higher now in florida than they were before obamacare. So what do you say to that . Thats exactly right. That is why we have to change it. One of the things that the aca did which to me makes no sense is they proposed to reduce Health Care Costs and increase quality, and then they added all these taxes into the health care system. In florida, for example, medicaid advantage is popular with seniors, yet the aca imposes a tax on every single Medicare Advantage plan in the state. Of course, Health Care Costs have gone up for seniors. Thats why we want to empower the consumer. We really believe the only way youre going to contain costs in health care is sf the patient, the consumer, has a greater role. What better way do to do that than empower the consumer with the resources he or she needs to buy the Health Care Plan that is best for him or her . Thats the goal of this policy. Right. Except youre cutting what theyll get. Youre not adding to it. That takes you back to the same question. The critics will say, hey, if florida had expanded medicaid, the rate of increase would be like in many other states that we see under the aca, that the rate of increase nobody wants to see increases, but thats the reality of health care, the way it is right now is less than it was before the aca. Not in florida because you guys didnt embrace the law the way you could have if you expanded medicaid. Now youre doubling down on your own problem. Right now you get about 61 cents on the dollar reimbursement from the federal government. Youre going to cut that. Youre going to reduce the number of dollars but say to people theyll be able to get more care. How . Youre referring to a decision that was made by the state legislature. We here in congress cannot compel any state to take a Medicaid Expansion. The Supreme Court ruled that way a few years ago. So under this legislation, states like florida will actually benefit. Why . Because states that did not expand medicaid will get more funding for their disproportionate share hospitals. Those are hospitals like Jackson Memorial hospital in miami which does a wonderful job its one of the top hospitals in the country. They take care of undocumented immigrants, people who still dont have Health Insurance despite the fact that we have the aca. Those hospitals are now going to get a boost under this legislation. This legislation takes health care resource, targets them towards low and middle income americans so people who need the most and creates a Health Care Market and a lot of people arent taking that into account by creating a Health Care Market where theres price transparency, where consumers take dollars and make the best decisions for themselves. That is actually going to put downward pressure on health care cost, not the Current System which just keeps pumping more and more taxpayer dollars into it and it keeps chasing these increasing Health Care Costs. Were never going to win this way. Thats why we need to change the equation. The only thing that brings down Health Care Costs is reducing the level of risk to the insurance providers. You guys wont touch those companies apparently, so that will be the big question, is how do you remove the mandate and incentivize Healthy People to get out of risk pops and yet bring down the cost overall . Well have to see the details to get more into that. Youre welcome back on new day to do that at any time. Let me ask you about immigration. You dont hear a lot of republicans talking a lot about pathway to citizenship for the dreamers whochlt are the dreamers to remind people at home . They were brought here young, maybe teens, by parents who are undocumented, but they came here it is suggested unknowingly, innocently and living good lives. Youre saying those people should be helped. Not popular within your own party. How do you sell it . Chris, theres a growing consensus here on the hill and inside the Republican Party that we really need to take care of these young people who were brought to this country like you said involuntarily. They came with their parents. They were brought across the border or families that may have overstayed their visas. You heard the president say this group needs to be taken care of. There are many, many republicans here on the house and ten of us today are introducing this legislation that really believe we need to make sure these young people are given a clans to fully incorporate themselves into our society. These are people who are contributing to our economy, working hard. Some of them want to serve in our military. Others are at colleges and universities earning degrees. These are americas children, and its about time that we accept them and we give them that path to full american citizenship so they can fully participate and enjoy in the american experience. Right. You would just need to change the r to a d to make that argument. Youre going to have republicans who look at you and say they broke the law. Were the law and order party, they have to go. What do you say to them . Well, like i tell you, chris, a lot of people havent made public statements yet, but many republicans here on the hill believe that is the right way to go. So three, four, 5yearold child brought across the border did not break any law. Many of these kids only speak english. A lot of them dont even remember their countries of origin because they were so young when they came. We need to do the right thing. We need to put partisanship aside, just like we need to do in health care, and do right by these young people who in my opinion are already americans. We just need to recognize it. Youre going to have to define who the we is and make that fight. We will cover it. I also direct people to read the op ed you wrote on march 1st about your concerns about the national debt. Because when we get the cbo score on what this new Health Care Proposal is, it will be interesting to see had the governments reckoning is of how much it will cost. Please come back on then. Thats coming on monday. Have a good day, chris. You, too. February jobs numbers are coming in. What do they look like during the first full month of the Trump Administration . 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Its especially so when its a customer thats doing such good and important work for the environment. Together, were building a better california. The february jobs report was released just moments ago. Its the first full month of jobs data under President Trump. Chief Business Correspondent Christine Romans at the magic wall with the numbers. Another strong month of job creation, guys. Wages up, Unemployment Rate relatively low. January and february, 235,000 net new jobs in february. This is the first sort of full month of the Trump Administration. It shows you that companies continue, continue to be bullish about hiring and needing these workers. Lets look at the Unemployment Rate, 4. 7 , relatively steady. When i look inside these numbers, i see people coming off the sidelines and into the labor market. You might have seen this number fall. Its Strong Enough the labor market is Strong Enough for this number to keep falling. People being lured off the sidelines to look for work. Here is the Labor Force Participation rate, very sticky here, barely moving. Here is why. Lots of people are retiring every day. Youve got 10,000 baby boomers hitting retirement age. We have a labor market, a workforce that is sort of shrinking here. Thats a longerterm issue. Sectors, Business Administration services, high paid jobs there, construction, manufacturing, high paid jobs there. Thats why you saw wages pretty strong, up 2. 8 . Here are futures right now. Theyre up, looking like a solid start to the day. These numbers i think tell us the fed will be comfortable enough to raise Interest Rates next week. You have an economy thats heating up here. The fed likely to tap on the brake a little bit. Christine, come join us if you would. Earned a seat at the table. Lets bring down these numbers with cnn Senior Commission analyst and adviser for the Trump Campaign, steven moore. Is this the trump effect . I think it is. I think employers like donald trump a lot and his agenda and i think hes more pro business from the previous administration. I think christine nails it with her analysis. I love those numbers on manufacturing and construction. Those are the kinds of jobs that those middle class trump voters in the states like michigan, ohio and pennsylvania want to see a recovery in. I think things are very much looking up. I think, christine, youre right. This will give more of an impet impetus for the fed to raise rates. I dont think it will have much of an impact. The question is this is a trump bounce or a trump moon bounce . The country seems to be firing on all cylinders. Yesterday there was an estimate out higher than the estimate. The actual is higher than the expected. Good news period. I was expecting closer to 300,000 based on that earlier report. What was the number, christine . 235. Thats why we wait for the real number. Yesterday people were honest. Why wont you report this . Because it was wrong. Do you think this will be the president not question the Unemployment Rate as to why its so low . Are we going to finally hear that misleading number, its really like 60 of people who are add because you like to add in retirees to those who arent work . By the way, ive worked with donald trump for about six months. The one thing i learn is you never anticipate what hes going to say. I cant really tell you the answer to that. There is still an underlying weakness in this economy. I think christine would agree with this. We still have too many people on the sidelines. Theyre starting to nudge back in. Those thats a problem because we still have a lot of people in the prime working years that are on the sideline. The other thing i saw in this report, christine, youre right. The wage bump was a nice one. Still about 6 Million People who are what we call forced parttime workers. Theyre people who want a fulltime job but cant get one. I happen to think this is a controversial statement i think if we can get rid of some of the regulations under obamacare that encourage parttime employment, we could see some of those people move into full time jobs. Their hours have been cut for whatever reason, a lot of them happen to be in retail because of the big challenge from amazon. Some big shifts going on there. You talk about this other number, the underemployment rate, 9. 2 . That seems real high, way more than 4. 7 . Thats been coming down steadily, too. Even in very, very good times in the past weve had an 8 or 9 underemployment rate. Theres always a fraction of the economy that isnt fully engaged. Im not hearing a lot of talk about skills. I hear from companies that they need workers with skills and they cant find them. The people you say are sidelined, do they not have the skills to be absorbed . 325,000 skilled manufacturing Jobs Available in america that are unfilled. Youre exactly right. In fact, thats where i was headed with this. When i travel all over the country, and when i ask employers what is your biggest problem, they say, look, we dont like the taxes or the regulations are too high. Christine, the first thing they always say to me, about 80 of them, i cant find the workers i need, i cant find the workers with the skills. You tell that to a trump voter, theyll say youre blaming the victim here. We need to focus on where are the jobs are being created right now. The truth is, if you have any useful skill right now. If you are a welder or a pipe fitter or an engineer or can do construction or do plumbing, those are all in high demand. I think one of the things we have to think about societally, we or graduating kids from college with psychology degrees and sociology and Political Science, not a lot of demand for that. Theres a new movement that i think is really interesting in some of the states we should keep an eye on. What about this, guys, if somebody gets an apprenticeship and a useful skill, why not give them the equivalent of a college degree. Train craft and give them financing to get to trade school. Mike rowe was a big proponent of that. People need these trade skills. Good, honorable jobs. Stephen and christine, thank you for breaking down the numbers. Have a good weekend. Were halfway through the president s first 100 days. How close is President Trump to keeping his promises . Lets do a little plus minus action next. Get help with hotels, free twentyfourhour flight changes, and our price match guarantee. Travelocity. ® wander wisely. ™ bp engineered a fleet of 32 brand new ships with advanced technology, so we can make sure oil and gas get where they need to go safely. Because safety is never being satisfied. And always working to be better. It is day 50 of the trump presidency. Halfway through the president s first 100 days, where does he stand . Lets get the bottom line from political director david chalian. David, you put together something of a status report. Lets go through it. Lets look at where people give the president high marks in these first 50 days. Jobs and the economy. We just saw the jobs report, very good. Gorsuch nomination for Supreme Court and his joint session address in front of congress. Your thoughts. The Business Community could not be more enthusiastic right now about donald trump. That is great for him out of the gate. Obviously the market is responding thusly. Hes highlighted companies where hes able to make job deals. The Gorsuch Nomination is i think his best day, rolling that out, of the entire presidency thus far. Big play for conservatives to be happy with the Supreme Court pick. So far hes being well received on capitol hill. Confirmation hearings still to come. Of course, the other high mark i gave is the joint session address which got stepped on immediately with the sessions stuff. Well talk about that in the low marks. But the speech itself was well received both inside the hall and out in the public when we polled those who watched the speech, gave really good marks. Transitions from the high marks to the low marks, one of the turnabouts was that people said, well, did you set too low a bar for the president in the joint session because of everything that came after it. What do you make of the low marks . Obviously the mike flynn firing, resignation, was a debacle, showed a huge vetting problem, one that even in todays headlines is continuing, how much trump and his team really knew about flynn and his association, so that was a dark mark on the administration. Sessions not telling the truth to congress, recusing himself from the russia story, thats what killed any momentum out of that speech that day. Of cows, the initial rollout of the travel ban was a complete disaster. To their credit, they retreated and put a new one out, obviously it will be challenging the courts. Clearly through an interagency process they tried to develop a travel plan that my pass constitutional muster. You have lingering questions, somehow boiled them down to two. I expected the list to be longer. Russian contacts, youve lumped that into one and of course whats going on now, the Obamacare Repeal and replace. Its television, alisyn. I was trying for brevity. Appreciate that. No problem. I cannot overstate the importance of these lingering questions. Both these things i think could derail the entire presidency perhaps because if, indeed, the russia investigation leads to something where there was collusion or somehow Trump Campaign associates were involved in russias attempt to impact the election, that could derail everything. Obviously, if he cant get his first major legislative goal, the promise of the party for the last eight years or so over the hurdle out of the gate, that also is going to have a Significant Impact on derailing what he can do Going Forward from that. Theres no underestimating the power of President Trump deciding to accuse president obama of a felony. And now it is fed into this entire investigative process which is getting bigger, not smaller. Yes. Brevity, i see it. It is the key to wit and television, david chalian. Good morning, guys. Have a great weekend. Great to have you here. You know whats the key do to comedy . Timing. Shes never used that before. Up next, the video youll be talking about for the rest of the day. Wait till you see what happens during this live shot. Weve all been there. Mapping the oceans. Where we explore. Protecting biodiversity. Everywhere we work. Defeating malaria. Improving energy efficiency. Developing more clean burning natural gas. My job . 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