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And the democrats response with senator Dianne Feinstein. And democrats lost the house in 2010. After passing obamacare. What will happen now to republicans who voted to kill it . And sound familiar . A computer hack attack on the leading candidate in todays french president ial election. Why u. S. Intel believes the russians are at it again. Joining me for insight and analysis are rich lowry of the national review. Kristen welker, white house correspondent. Matt bai, from yahoo news. And iliana johnson. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, celebrating its 70th year. This is meet the press with chuck todd. Good morning. Chuck todd is off today. Its not often you see a white house signing ceremony celebrating the passage of a bill that has merely made it through the house. But after their health care win, President Trump and House Speaker paul ryan were more than happy to spike the football. Even if there is still a lot of green grass between them and the end zone. That said, the house did just hand a skeptical senate a bill not scored by the Congressional Budget Office, not read by most of those who voted for it. And that counts among its winners those with high incomes, wealthier people without preexisting conditions. The young and large employers. And among its losers, the poor, older americans, people with preexisting conditions and those who counted on obamacares essential Health Benefits. Still, this was a win President Trump needed and got. Many people declared the repeal and replace movement dead as recently as this week. But the president as he has done so many times before proved people wrong. The yays are 217, and the nays are 213. After a legislative victory a white house celebration. How am i doing . Am i doing okay, hey, im president. Can you believe it . The house of representatives voted to scale back health care for millions of americans. Bending if not breaking promises mr. Trump has made. I want to keep preexisting conditions. I think we need it. But the house bill would allow states to opt out of rules which prohibit Insurance Companies from raising rates on people with preexisting conditions. Candidate trump promised there will be no cuts to social security, medicare and medicaid, but congress to the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the first version of the bill, federal funding for medicaid would drop by 880 billion over the next ten years. In january, president elect trump promised insurance for everybody, repeating a vow he made on the campaign trail. Im going to take care of everybody. I dont care if it costs me votes or not. But the Congressional Budget Office estimated 24 million would lose health care. The house bill eliminates the essential Health Benefits requirement. Meaning Insurance Companies could choose not to Cover Services like maternity and pediatric care. Mental health and prescription drugs. Even under employer based plans. Republicans say it will lower premiums overall. Youll have Better Health care at a lower cost. The bill also ends federal funding for planned parenthood. Republicans still have to wrestle a bill through the senate that house conservatives will accept. Some republican senators already say the house bill falls short. Dont supporter the bill as currently constructed and have more questions than answers. Now with 13 Member Senate working group will write a new bill. In the senate bill if you have a preexisting condition, youll be able to get insurance. In fact, that law cant be changed. And after this emotional plea no parent should ever have to decide if they can afford to save their childs life. With a child born with a congenital Heart Disease get everything he or she would need in the first year of life i want i want to pass the jimmy kimmel pass. The democrats were taunting the republicans on the floor for other persons after the vote, the nonpartisan report changed the ratings of 20 seats to show new opportunities for democrats in the midterms and within an hour of the house vote, a democrat running for governor of virginia released this ad. Blaming republicans for crushing Affordable Care act. Well make sure that this happens in virginia. And joining me is the secretary of the health and Human Services, tom price. Thank you very much for being with us, mr. Secretary. Thank you for joining us. Thanks, andrea. Thank you so much. Good to be with you today. Well, good to be with you. Lets talk about the Health Care Bill as it was passed by the house. The president promised that he would take care of people with preexisting conditions. Critics say that this bill as passed by the house does not. No, i think its absolutely true that the president is fulfilling his promise to the American People and that is to make certain that every single american has access to the kind of coverage that they want for themselves and for their family. Not that the Government Forces them to buy. And makes certain that we insure that individuals with preexisting illnesses and injuries are covered but covered in a way that they want. Not that washington forces them. But youre talking about access. Access at what price . Are you pricing people out of the market . 84 of people 55 years and older according to your own departments studies have preexisting conditions. Are they going to be afford the price that is set because states can opt out and there will no longer be any requirement that this be affordable. Absolutely, we think it will be more affordable, andrea. But look at the people that were talking about. If you have medicare, if you have medicaid, if you have insurance through the v. A. Or tricare or othrough your employ or through your employer, none of this affects you in the preexisting illness or condition discussion that were having. If you have a preexisting condition and youre in the Exchange Market right now, remember that many, many people have increasing premiums, increasing deductibles. Theyre in an area in this country where there are its either one insurer offering coverage or in some places some. Those are individuals who cant get any care at all. They may have an insurance card, but they cant get care. This is a system thats not working for patients and thats what were trying to fix. I didnt mean to interrupt you, but let me stipulate, there are areas we know that in iowa, now in virginia that there are Insurance Market issues. That could be fixed, but lets stipulate that that still needs to be fixed. But what about this issue of preexisting conditions . You have 22 Major Health Care groups. Were going to scroll the names, let our viewers see, 22 groups including the ama, the doctors, the American Lung association, the american osteopathic association, the academy of pediatrics, the Childrens Hospital association, the aarp, nurses, even insurers, all of them are against the way that the house passed this bill. Are they wrong . Well, what i believe theyre not recognizing is that this is a different and we believe a better way to cover individuals with preexisting illnesses and injuries because it allows for every Single Person to get access to the coverage that they want. Look, nobody wants folks who have a preexisting illness or injury not to be covered. We want to do it at a lower price and broader choices for patients so that again theyre able to see the doctor that they want to see. Theyre able to go to the hospital that they want to go to. To the clinic that they want to go to. Not that washington forces them to participate in. So this is yes, its a different way, but its a way that we believe to be better and more comprehensive and ability to have those patients have the kind of coverage and care that they want. And just because we stipulate that there are places where theres only one insurer or no insurers, thats a major problem and those are the kinds of things were trying to fix. But you say that people are not going to lose what they are getting now. Well, lets take a look at what you said on fox business on friday. Under obamacare, the older folks and sicker folks could pay three times more than the younger folks. Whereas under this plan they might pay five times more. Thats going in the wrong direction. Well, its pricing for what individuals Health Status is. Thats important to appreciate. So youre raises the costs on the sickest people, the sicker people to pay for the pay who are healthier. Well, what were trying to do is to make sure that every Single Person has health coverage. Remember, there are 20 Million People right now in this country who have said to the federal government, said to the previous administration, nonsense, ill either pay a fine through the irs or ill get a waiver. Thats 20 million individuals who dont have coverage and we ought to say, why dont they have coverage and try to fix that. The fact of the matter is if those individuals who are sicker, who are older, who are poorer, they will get larger subsidies so that theyre able to gain the kind of coverage they need and want for themselves and for their family. We are our desire is to make certain that we have a system that works for patients. Not for government. Not for Insurance Companies but for patients thats the goal. We looked at the map and we looked at the states with those under 65 who have preexisting conditions. The highest rates of those under 65 are in states that voted for President Trump. What do you say to your own voters . I say to them and the president has an absolute commitment to make certain that they have the kind of coverage that they want. Look, this is a different way to do things. Theres no doubt about it. We believe its a better way because it puts patients and families and doctors in charge of health care. Not washington, d. C. This is this is a change in how we would manage to allow for individuals to gain the kind of coverage that they want. We understand that. And sometimes change can be disconcerting to folks. And thats why i would suggest that that list of groups that you had up earlier say they now oppose it. The fact of the matter is, theyre not focusing on the kinds of thing that are going to improve the system. Improve the system for patients and families and docs. Not make it so that government or Insurance Companies are in charge. Well, lets talk about women. When we looked at the rose garden and the celebration of this on thursday, they were all mostly all men and white men at that. There was no diversity there. Womens Health Issues arguably are going to be disproportionately affected. Obamacare includes maternity and newborn care, preventative care. Mammograms, Cervical Cancer screenings, birth control. All of this under the essential package no longer required under this house bill. Andrea, come on. Look at that picture. Congresswoman diane black, i was standing next to her. The administrator of cms i was standing next to her. Out of a group of dozens and dozens of people, you can cite two or three two or three women . These are prominent individuals who are leading who are leading in this area of health care. But the goal as i mentioned is to make certain every american, men, women, rich, poor, old, young, have the kind of coverage that they want for themselves and for their families. Not that Government Forces them to bieuy. Thats the change. Lets talk about what the president promised. I wanted to play for you what the president promised about medicaid during the campaign. Theres a percentage, a fairly large percentage that cant afford it. Then those people dont get taken care of. Thats a wrong. Well take care of that through the medicaid system. Well take care of those people. We have no choice. Were not going to let people die on the streets. Medicaid expansion is going to be cut in the first version of this bill and theres no cbo score because they rushed it through before getting the accounting from the nonpartisan congressional office, but the first version had 880 billion cult from medicaid. That goes right against the president s promise not to cut medicaid. No, what it does is say theres a better way to do things. Imagine a system if you will where if you have insurance through your employer, but you fall on tough times and you fall into the medicaid market, that that transition is seamless. Imagine if you go the other way, from medicaid to employer sponsored insurance thats seamless. Imagine you go from medicaid to the Exchange Market that that transition is seams will. Right now there are huge holes in the things. We dont want to pull out the rug from anybody. But you found with all due respect, you found 880 billion. Isnt this another way to come up with the close to a trillion dollars the president said as much to on fox business. Youre finding almost 1 trillion in savings in order to be able to pay a tax cut that is that is revenue neutral. Andrea, andrea, in the medicaid system right now, one out of every three physicians in this nation who ought to be seeing patients in medicaid are not. We ought to as a society ask ourselves why is that the case and fix that. The medicaid population is basically four different demographics. Seniors, its disabled, its healthy moms and kids. And what the federal government now stipulates is that those healthy moms and kids need to be cared for in exactly the same manner as the seniors and the disabled. That doesnt make any sense to anybody. So what were trying to do is to improve the medicaid system. Make it more responsive to patients so that there are more resources to be able to be utilized for the disabled and the aged that makes a whole lot of sense. I think a lot of people will wonder how taking more than 800 billion out of something is going to put more resources in it. But let me ask you one final question about health care. The office of drug policy drug control, the White House Office is being decimated according to one proposal. 90 cut. Why eliminate the White House Office of drug control at the very time when we have an Opioid Epidemic in this country . Well, this is a budget that hasnt been completed yet, but what i will tell you is that the president has a commitment to making sure we fight the Opioid Crisis. One of the top three priorities i have identified for the department of health and Human Services. We were able to put out 485 million in grants to states two weeks ago. Im moving around the country this coming week to go to states where wez want to make sure where we want to make sure theyre allowed and have the resources to address this Opioid Crisis. 33,000 deaths last year due to opioid overdose. We cannot tolerate that and the department of health and Human Services this is a priority. Whether its through the government i dont think the American People care. They care that were addressing this Opioid Crisis in the most aggressive and effective manner possible. Mr. Secretary, thank you very much. Well have to leave it there. Thanks for being with us today on meet the press. Thanks, andrea. And the house Health Care Bill does face an uncertain future in the senate. Republicans can afford to lose only two votes and theres an enormous gap between what conservative hard liners want and what more moderate republicans will accept me. Joining me is roy blunt of missouri. Welcome. Good to be here. Lets start with something that secretary price said. Hes going to improve medicaid by cutting at least in the first version of this bill and we dont have a score yet from the Congressional Budget Office as to how much would be cut from this bill. But youre cutting 880 billion but making it better . The president doesnt propose something he looks like the military will be made better by cutting almost 1 trillion from the military. He wants to spend more. Well, i think part of the point here, were on the path to spend 1 trillion and all really the only addition thats significant to Health Care Coverage under obamacare are people who got expanded medicaid as part of that. You know, this system is just not working. Its the the individual market is collapsing and has been. So why not fix those market issues . Well why not do the fixes rather than taking medicaid expansion, slashing it and addressing preexisting conditions by basically saying its not a requirement. Insurers can up the price and price it out of the market for people. I think the goal should be to include people in this system who arent in it yet, to give people more choices, to create more competition. I dont talk to anybody who doesnt believe there has to be a way thats better than the Current System to be sure that people who have preexisting conditions continue to be covered. And for the states to have more options in medicaid is a good thing. Not a bad thing. Every state is different. This is a huge budget issue in every state. People need a medical home if thats what the state thinks they can put together so you have a place to go. You know, coverage is different than access. And both in the Insurance Market where a lot of people have coverage, but nobody has a place to go because their deductible is so high and in medicaid doctors dont want to take the medicaid patients, those ought to be the problems were solving. Some of your republican senators have spoken out against it. Rob portman says that the house bill does not do enough to protect the Ohio Medicaid expansion population. Lindsey graham says it needs to be viewed with suspension. Is this dead on arrival, taking the house bill and starting to improve on it . What is happening is not dead on arrival, not taking the house bill and bringing it immediately to the floor, but taking what the house was able to do, looking at that carefully. And coming up with what the senate thinks the senate can do. This is the way that legislation used to be pass. There would be a house bill, a senate bill. Then youd get together. The conferees who understand by that time the intricacies of what theyre doing and come up with a bill that can go to the president s desk. I hope thats what we do here. Presumably you will read what youre working on and actually get a Congressional Budget Office score . The house didnt wait. Well, we will. From the houses perspective, you know, they added a few things late. But this is not a new issue. The senates going to have to have the kind of score to move this forward and the senate has to be looking at this to see if we can take the house work, look at what the house did. Look at what we can do to improve that in our view. And then see if thats a bill that in all likelihood you have to go back to the house and say heres what you think, heres what we think. Lets be sure we solve the problems of obamacare. You know, a third of the counties in america only have one Insurance Company willing to offer insurance on the individual market. Five states only have one company willing to offer insurance. Theres something dramatically wrong with the Current System. I saw one of my democrat colleagues this week who said that this system isnt working. And he said, im maybe willing to be part of the repeal and replace strategy and we need to hear and see more of that. Will you be able to do something that satisfies Susan Collins on the planned parenthood issue and also can satisfy the Freedom Caucus if you produce something that goes back to the Conference Committee in the house . Obviously if were successful we have to do something that either gets 50 senators and the Vice President or 60 senators for even more broad based change. We ought to be lookingling a both of those options. Let me ask you about the Senate Intelligence committee. You serve on the committee. The Senate Intelligence committee has written letters asking for a number of former associates or republican operatives who were involved in the Campaign Like Paul Manafort was the Campaign Manager and carter page, roger stone, asking what their contacts with the russians were. Are you going to get to the bottom of this possible russian connection that the fbi started investigating all the way back in july . I think theres no question there was russian interference in our elections like were seeing in france and in germany. In fact, in europe we have seen for over a decade the russians trying to interfere. We need to look at that. Thats one issue. We need to look at that in a way that better prepares for us 2018 and 2020. And in terms of bringing everybody in that should be talked to, i think, you know, the Senate Intelligence committee is the one committee thats been asked to reach conclusions here. That conclusion needs to include talking to anybody that a reasonable person thinks we should have talked to. Looking at anything that a reasonable person would think we should have looked at and a largely bipartisan consensus of heres what we found and i think what you saw this week was the indication that that process of now bringing individuals in after tremendous background effort to see what we ought to be asking is happening. Sally yates testifying tomorrow before a subcommittee of judiciary. There are indications that the trump transition itself was warned about mike flynn and his connections and the conversations he had with the russian ambassador. Well, i think in terms of the Transition Team and particularly the new National Security adviser talking to the ambassadors from around the world, theres nothing wrong with that. But the substance of what he said. What was particularly wrong was general flynn not being truthful about the substance of what he said. And the campaign was apparently the transition rather was apparently concerned about that early on and it appears they should have been. And the fact that you say that the russians were involved, the president has still not accepted that reality. Why not . Well, i think what i think the president i dont know what the president s view of this would be because i havent talked talked to him about it. But he denied it publicly and called it witchhunt. I think hes talking about collusion. Well determine that and where the facts lead us. Im not sure theres any reason for the president to believe theres collusion between his campaign. I think the president has to understand at this point that the russians were doing things to both increase their influence i mean, the russians couldnt be happier than to have us on a sunday when the french elections are going on that the russians figured out how to punch above their weight. This is a country that struggles economically. Its a country that resents its current role in the world. A diminished role it has now. And getting involved in these elections is one way that it can reassert itself in ways that its not otherwise able to and i think its unfortunate for every democracy involved and the world should have been more concerned about this when those little countries were also fighting back as the russians tried to involve themselves in their elections. Senator roy blunt, thank you so much for being with us on meet the press. Good to be with you. When we come back, democrats say they have no intention of passing a bill that looks anything like what the house just approved. Senator Dianne Feinstein joins me. And the democrats lost a net of 63 seats in the house after voting for obamacare. Will the same thing happen to House Republicans after voting to repeal it . As we have seen one democratic candidate for governor is using the vote to bash republicans. music plays throughout so we need tablets installed. 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Are they jumping to conclusions too quickly . The republicans know how to message, you heard tom price on message, were improving it, its failing. Thats what theyre going to say. No doubt theyre jumping the gun, trying to capitalize on this moment. One Democratic Group preparing to put out a sixfigure ad buy tomorrow, targeting 24 members of congress. I spoke to one top democratic operative who said the challenge is, they need not to just run against something but for something. Republicans are gearing up for a top of fight. Mitch mcconnell telling his team, lets bear down and get to work and theyll be targeting the preexisting conditions, andrea, theyll change that. Matt bayh, look at what republican congressman mo brooks had to say about the health care vote. Youre talking about a class of people, for whatever reason, either they lack the resources or want to game the system, theyve decided not to have insurance. Then they get sick and want other people to pay for it. So lets talk about this. He also already said the whole problem with people with preexisting conditions, people are sick because they didnt live healthy lives, its their own fault if theyre sick. The idea of people having insurance so other people dont have to pay for it is not a new idea, its the guiding principle behind the Obama Health Care program. Weve had three straight president s where the president has lost either one chamber during their first term, or both, and have lost both chambers during the course of their presidency. Weve never had that before in our presidency. So we have a volatile midterm climate every time. Thats one problem. And we have never seen a party try to roll back a major social program on this scale. We dont know what that looks like from a public point of view. When we talk about a messaging perspective, i heard secretary price. It was a lot of good rhetoric. He had very few specifics. It was basically a campaign kind of interview. I think they have to be very, very careful with the unknowns here. Its a very volatile issue and a very volatile political climate. I think one of the challenges youre seeing republicans grapple with here is they are trying to do something historic, which is to roll back a social program. The challenge is, theyre trying to do that without actually taking anything away from anybody who got something that they now like. Thats what youll see the senate grapple with. I am sort of puzzled by this assumption underlying the conversation that this is supposed to be a political victory for republicans. When you saw democrats pass obamacare in 2010, it was hugely unpopular and they paid an enormous price at the ballot box in 2010. I think the president , obama at that time, made the calculation that it was worth it because this was something democrats believed in. I wonder if republicans are going into this thinking that theres a price, that its worth paying a price at the ballot box if this is something they believe in. I dont know that these things are supposed to be costfree politically. And this is rich, the fact is theyre already running into some problems back in the districts. Raul labrador on friday was at a town hall meeting, and i think we have a bit of tape of the exchange from the audience when he claimed that this was not going to take anything away from them. You are mandating people on medicaid accept dying. You are making no. You know, that line is so indefensible. Nobody dies because they dont have access to health care. [ crowd shouting ] you can see why theres partisanship. Medicaid is not good health insurance. Its better than nothing but its harder to prove that than you would think. It provides a better sense of financial security, which is important to people. But its a system that needs to be reformed. The politics on preexisting conditions are horrible. But its disproportionate to the nature of the change theyre proposing, which is allowing some states to get a waiver on certain conditions, including that youre not going to get charged more if youre continuously covered, states have to have a high risk pool to catch people falling through the cracks. But the politics are so terrible, i wouldnt be surprised if the senate ends up dumping this provision. But rich, youve got to be able to pay for that. Whats cynical about this bill, and like everybody who voted for it, i havent read the entire bill, but its pushing everything to the states. You decide how to get out from under these protections and you figure out how to pay for it. You have governors saying, were not doing that, were not taking this, and were not going to go along with these kinds of cutbacks in medicaid. Thats right. And you asked the question, is this bill doa in the senate. I am told its not, but again, the preexisting conditions portion of it may be doa. They think the politics of it are very difficult. They think practice kickly its very difficult. And even though you hear them say, look, were not under any deadline, the reality is there is a bit of a deadline, because come september they have to deal with the spending bill, they have to deal potentially with the debt ceiling. Im told if they dont get something done by july or august, its going to be much more difficult. The president acknowledged this is to create a pool of money for the tax cut, because what theyre proposing on taxes is 1 trillion. Democrats passed a basically a transfer program, a social program that was masquerading as an Economic Growth measure. Republicans have passed a pure tax cut that is masquerading as a health care measure. Thats not a secret. I think thats what republicans said all along. They wanted to tackle Health Care First so they could then tackle tax reform. I think, you know, richs point about medicaid being equated with, you know, good health insurance, is valid. And i think what youre going to see the senate do, the goal is to get people on private insurance which has better proven results. The challenge with the house bill is it supplants medicaid over time with a tax subsidy that doesnt allow people to afford private insurance when its substituted out. Thats really dangerous politics for republicans. Well leave it there for now, well pick it up in a moment. Later in the broadcast, Hillary Clinton taking on james comey, vladimir putin, wikileaks, and the media stream media in explaining why she lost the president ial election. But up next, senator Dianne Feinstein on james comey. And on what the democrats plan to do about that Health Care Bill. But up next, senato im dr. Kelsey mcneely and some day you might be calling me an energy farmer. Energy lives here. What we do every night is like something out of a strange dream. Except that the next morning. It all makes sense. Fedex powers global ecommerce. With networks built over 40 years. That are massive. Farreaching. And, yes. Maybe a bit magical. Visit fedex. Com slash dream welcome back. When fbi director comey testified before the Senate Judiciary committee this week, he defended his decision to announce days before the 2016 election that the bureau had discovered new Clinton Emails and had reopened its investigation. If i were not to speak about that it would be a disastrous, catastrophic concealment. It was incredibly painful choice, but actually not all that hard between very bad and catastrophic. I had to Tell Congress that we were taking these additional steps. I prayed to find a third door, i couldnt find it. Senator Dianne Feinstein is not at all convinced that there was no third door. And she says the fbi directors october surprise helped sink Hillary Clintons campaign. Senator feinstein joins me here in washington. I want to talk about what comey said and the sally yates testimony tomorrow. But first, lets talk about health care. They passed it without reading it. But there are legitimate problems big problems with obamacare. The fact that some of the insurers, aetna and others are pulling out. Virginia is now going to be affected. Iowa doesnt have choice. Dont they have a point . Well, there is a point, yes. But i want to say something. 20 million more people are insured post the beginning of obamacare today. This bill which looks like this and is complicated to read. I have been rye thing to read it over the weekend. And this is the managers package that has the series of amendments. This is just come over to the senate. It has no score. Its probably one of the biggest bills that the senate will ever consider. We dont know its breadth and depth as analyzed professionally. We dont know its cost as analyzed professionally. And there are a lot of major changes which are going to have a dramatic impact on the Health Care Marketplace which is now onefifth of the economy. I think i was reading the chief economist at barclays this morning, andrea, and pointed out that this is going to have major impact on the economy. If it goes through. So i dont want to monopolize. No, im intrigued by your comments about this. You think that something can come out of the senate. Can enough democrats go over or enough moderate republicans be persuaded that they should vote for something or what has to come out of the bill for you yeah, first i dont know what the leader mcconnell has in mind. I dont know what the 13 white men when you have five republican women who are excluded from that these 13 men are supposed to sit down youre speaking of the working group. Its all male. Its all male. And Womens Health is a big part of this. And women are a majority of the population. And their Health Interests deserve to be contemplated in any reform. Any position is my position is and i believe this is the democratic position, dont repeal obamacare. Take those sections like the individual market, which has some problems with it and deal with it and fix those sections. And it can be done. Im really very worried that in the rush to judgment we create a Major Health Care problem for people. And we lose a lot of jobs in so doing and we create a whole atmosphere of unpredictability. I want to ask you about the fbi directors testimony. He said he was mildly nauseous at thinking he had impacted the election, but he thought he had no choice. You disagree. I disagree with him. I think you look before you leap. The fbi has a policy of not announcing october surprises. This was 11 days before the election. What he could have done is said, lets just be sure. Lets get a search warrant. Lets look at the weiner computer and lets see what there is. And if he did that, he would have the information that, well, theres no need for another investigation. We have all of this material already. 3,000 emails, 12 classified. We have already looked at them. So there was no need. So what he did was authorize what i believe to be a needless investigation, 11 days which i have no doubt and i believe that the clinton campaigns polls show this that it made a big difference. And the fbi should not do that. So i dont understand the march to do this immediately when he could have gotten the search warrant first. What do you want to hear from sally yates . She was fired, she was the acting attorney general. Shes going to be testifying tomorrow morning for the first time in public. Well, sally yates is very much respected. Shes a professional. Shes not a politician. Shes spent a lot of time in the department. She is very widely respected. And she apparently has some information as to who knew when. That she is willing to share and that would be what she knew about Michael Flynns connections to russia. And exactly what she knew they were. I dont want to in any way say that i know what shes going to say because i dont. But there are so many questions here as to who knew what when, what was done with this. Why did russia that always responds to sanctions, when president obama, pngd 35 russian kicked them out of the country. Right. Immediately. There was no response from russia, and that in itself was a message because russia always responds. This time they didnt. What changed . Thats what we need to know. What we now know is that the trump transition was warned about michael flynn. Why was he hired then as the National Security adviser . I wouldnt know the answer to that. Does it raise suspicions in your mind . It raises suspicions because he was fired by jim clapper from his job running an intelligence agency. Signal. When i saw a three star general shouting lock her up, i thought oh, my goodness. This would never happen. Never happened before. This is a three star general of the United States military doing this with no evidence. And it made a big impression on me. Dianne feinstein, we have to leave it there. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for coming in on meet the press. When we come back, republican members of the house celebrated the passage of the obamacare appeal, but how many obamacare appeal, but how many will live to regret their as after a dvt blood clot,ital i sure had a lot to think about. What about the people i care about . Including this little girl. And what if this happened again . I was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me . So i asked my doctor. And he recommended eliquis. Eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. Yes, eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots. 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Im not sure what the utility of a continuing to of her continuing to talk about this. Look, i never lost a National Election so im sure its a one that you thought im sure you could, matt. Im sure you could if you try. I appreciate that compliment. One that you thought you were going to win. Even harder to figure out. And to trump. And i agree with joe biden and what David Axelrod said on this. She did not lose because of comeys press conference. Comey put the attention back on her. He may have made it more of a referendum on her. Reminded people she was running for president. By all rights it should have been that referendum all along. She did not run an assertive campaign. Argumentative campaign. She hoped her opponent would implode and spare her having to do that. That was a huge gamble thats why she lost. Well, you were there. We were on every minute of that campaign. She points to nate silver and others that the polling was going all the way up. And then 11 days out comey and it starts to plateau and go down. When you think of the momentum i think everyone agrees there were a whole host of reasons she lost, her message and not campaigning enough in michigan. I was on the plane with her that day. Her campaign had Just Announced shed expand into arizona a traditionally red state. She was going to actually visit arizona. And then moments later on the plane, she learned the campaign learned the press corps learned about this comey revelation. You could feel the momentum in a single moment. Trump said that the election would be rigged if he lost and democrats recoiled from this. But since election day on the democratic side, its been rigging arguments every single day. Yes, she was vulnerable to any number of intervening events in the last ten days because this election was so close and it was so close because her campaign was so uninspired and basically incompetent. Whats amazing to me is that, you know, these were supposedly her most candid remarks but she sounded like a broken record since the election about why she lost and i think proved and driven home the point of why she lost the election. She sounds terrible. But trump also has continued to talk and talk and talk about why he won the election. Driving home the point that he won the election. They both remain in a state of shock. Trump that he actually won. And clinton that she actually lost. So they continue to talk about it. I do think the country at this point is still sort of grappling with the new political reality. And the changing political its extraordinary that everyone who votes the oval office lately, you have seen the pictures, the president is handing out the electoral map to try to offset and deflect in the fact that he lost the popular vote. Hes hoping somebody can find a flaw in it. Because the job is a lot harder than he thought. I think he had a panic period and then i think the first 100 days which we keep talking about was more of a traditional transition, okay, how do you do this . I think were just starting to get a sense of the Trump Presidency because of that jolt of him winning the election. To him too. And kristen, sally yates is going to testify tomorrow. Theres a lot of shadows hanging over this white house. What do we think is going to come out of this testimony . Well, its going to be extraordinary, andrea. It will be the first time that we hear sally yates talk about this. Of course theres been so much reporting. The anticipation is shes going to say that she warned the Trump White House days before flynn was actually fired, that he may have had an inappropriate conversation with the russian ambassador. But just how loud was that alarm bell, i think thats one of the questions that a lot of folks want answered. And on the other side i think the Trump Administration is bracing to paint this in political terms i am told. Theyre going to say, hey, if this was such a big problem why did she just keep it to that conversation . Why didnt she speak out more publicly . So i think youre going to see a very fierce push back. This is an administration that wants to turn the page and they want to be focused on the Health Care Victory and moving forward and russia kinds to overshadow. We have to leave it there. You have the last word, kristen welker. Thank you all so very much. Thats all for today. Chuck was off this week for the bat mitzvah of his daughter, margaret. Congratulations to margaret and her entire family. Chuck will be back next week. If its sunday, itsmeet the press. You can see more end game and postgame on the meet the press jshs facebook page. Press here is sponsored in part by barracuda networks. Cloud based solutions that simplify i. T. Frank talk about diversity. We all want it. 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