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There has been a law that imposes a news blackout on anything related to the election for a full day before voting starts. We dont have anything like this in our country but its simple. The rule in france, its a legally enforced thing and you can go to jail if you violate it, basically the rule is, as of midnight tonight, local time france, from midnight tonight, friday night, until the polls close there on sunday evening. Legally there can be no reporting, no publication of any information that has anything to do with the election that could have any influence on anybody in terms of their choice between the candidates, their choice to vote. So what i am able to report here tonight on american news, it cant be reported there tonight where its happening because its after midnight local time there. As if this election was not dramatic enough. A couple weeks ago we had the first round of this election. Youll remember us covering it here on the show. Got International Attention and deserved it. The first round was a couple weeks ago. This weekend, this sunday its the runoff. So this is actually the definitive final contest to see who will be the next president of france. Its either going to be the centrist young obamaesque, obamaenboersed mainstream campaign macron or it will be someone before this year would be unimaginable of a major western nation. If its not macron its going to be Marine Le Pen, who is the leader of what has essentially been the french fascist party for decades. Her campaign has been funded by bank loans from the kremlin. She has promised to pull france out of nato. She is likely to pull france out of the eu. She is rabidly, openly antiimmigrant. She doesnt just want to stop illegal, she wants to stop all immigration into that country. She inherited the leadership of this far right party, the front nationale from her charming father who is a holocaust denier. So, this contest to see whos going to be the next president of france, it was dramatic enough already because of these two being the candidates. And because russia has a clear preference in this election, we have seen evidence of what we now recognize as russian Information Operation designed to try to influence french voters in their choice in election. Weve seen russia cyber warfare playing out already in this election. There have been reports of hacking efforts. Therebeen a ton of ssian generated and russian amplified fake news out macron in particular, which Marine Le Pen and her party and supporters have tried to spread themselves and capitalize on just like the Trump Campaign did when it came to russiagenerated fake news about Hillary Clinton. But that weve been watching that unfold over the course of this French Campaign through the first primary and into this weekend. As we headed toward the runoff this weekend, i didnt have much of an intention of talking much about the French Election tonight but then the late this afternoon, our time, late, late tonight their time this story just took a very serious turn. It was just before the blackout deadline arrived. The blackout deadline arrives at midnight local time. Just before that blackout deadline arrived, which shuts down all election related news and discussion in the french media. Just before that midnight local time deadline tonight, Macron Campaign suffered a huge cyber attack. All of their internal stuff got posted online. Their internal documents, internal emails. Things like contracts, accounting documents, strategy documents, all apparently hacked off their campaign servers, all posted online at paste bin. Which is one of these places you can post stuff anone mounsly. Its apparently about nine gigabytes worth of data. The Campaign Says most of it is, in fact, legitimate material that is authentic that was definitely stolen off their servers. But they say whoever posted it mixed in fake documentation as well alongside the real stuff, which is a hall mark of a wellrun weaponized hacking attack. S now, in terms of who done it . It doesnt seem like the people who did it tried very hard to cover up their tracks. Analysts thus far say the evidence pretty clearly points to a Hacking Group thats called apt28. Apt28 appears to be the perpetrator of this attack. Theyre a Hacking Group associated with Russian Military intelligence. You may remember the name the more memorable name that they also used to describe them which is fancy bear. Remember that from the intelligence documen about the attack on our ection . Fancy bear, apt 28, they are one of the groups named by u. S. Intelligence agencies carried out a similar attack on the Clinton Campaign last year and on the servers of the democratic party. In france theyve posted it on paste bin, but internal documents posted online for maximum political damage. Now again, this has just happened tonight. They apparently posted all of this hacked material, both the real stuff and the fake stuff, they posted it right before the blackout deadline in the french media. That deadline went into effect at midnight localtime which means french media cant report on this. They cant talk about it. They cant discuss its existence. Get this. At four minutes to midnight local time, four minutes before the deadline, the Macron Campaign put out their statement explaining what had happened to them. And im quoting from our nbc news translation here. En marche was the victim of a massive and coordinated piracy action this evening causing the dissemination of internal information of various kinds, mails, accounting documents, contracts, on the social networks. Those who are circulating these documents added false documents to many original documents in order to sow doubt and misinformation. Taking place in the last hour of the official campaign this operation is obviously a democratic destabilization as it has already been seen in the United States during the last president ial campaign. Its therefore important to take into account the nature of the leaked documents. The fact that a large part of them are simply false. They plead with the media to, quote, are consider the desirability of echoing this destabilization operation. You can hear the Clinton Campaign in that play, right . However far this plea is going to go in france, theres a whole different factor the have to contend with that we didnt. I mean, this plea from the Macron Campaign only circulated for four minutes before nobody could say anything in the french media about these documents anymore because the blackout is in effect. In fact, shortly thereafter, after the blackout went into effect, at 1 15 a. M. Local time, the minister of the interior put out this statement to news organization, we ask press not to distribute these documents and remind them that distributing false information could bring legal consequences. Quote, we have entered the period of reserve from midnight friday, meaning we are in a blackout. Do not say beep about this stuff. But is that a good thing or bad thing, though, right . The stuff is out there. Its not like people are not allowed to go on the internet. However much they tell people in the media and in the campaigns, even individual voters not to talk about this stuff, not to make any sort of public pronouncements about the election, this happened and the stuff is out there. Thanks putin. I mean, if you are in the if you are in the Macron Campaign or a macron supporter or if youre in the News Business in france and its your job to tell stuff whats going on, debunk, and explain stuff people come across online, you know this has happened but you essentially have to treat it as if its a secret. Which must be incredibly mindbendingly frustrating if you are french. That said, i am not french. Ready . [ speaking french ] my Poor High School french teacher is like, baboom in other words, nice to have you here french friends. I am sorry i cannot do this in french. I have a feeling more of you are watching than might otherwise be at a time like this. Despite what appears to be a massive russian attack at the last minute, the French Election is obviously still going to happen on sunday. Now the polls say that macron is expected to beat le pen by a lot by 25 points. With that said after brexit and the uk, after donald trump won presidency in the United States, you will be forgiven if you do not trust polls in a contest like this anymore. For what its worth, i got to tell you, the french polls did seem to be precisely accurate predicking the outcome two weeks ago. As for this second definitive round on sunday, though, there may be no reason to distrust the french polls, but we also have absolutely no idea what the effect is going to be of this lastsecond massive russian attack. Joining us now live from paris is nbc chief Foreign Correspondent richard engle. Thank you for being with us tonight to cover this very strange story. Appreciate you staying up for us. Reporter well, its strange but it is not entirely unexpected. I was waiting for Something Like this, for the other shoe to drop. I thought maybe it was going to be a terrorist attack or some sort of document leak. There was an expectation that outside forces would try and put their hands on the scale to influence this election and, frankly, thats why im here. The opinion polls have put macron way ahead so if you just believe the polls, theres no story here. Hes going to win. But these are unusual times and there have already been these reports going back weeks and a few months that russianbacked groups have been trying to influence the election. There have been numerous terrorist incidents including one right on the eve of the first round of the president ial elections. So, basically, were here because this kind of thing could happen. It was expected that Something Like this could happen or at least we expected it. Richard, in terms of the attribution for the attack, we have been reading reports, although its interesting, we can no longer read french media reports about this because were now within the blackout period, but weve been reading reports that suggest this is apt 28, this is fancy bear, this appears to be the work of the same russian Hacking Groups that attacked the u. S. Election. What credence doou place in threrts . Reporter weve spoken directly to the investigators and like i said, we thought this kind of thing would happen. Theres a group called trend my micro, a big Cyber Security firm. They have been following russian backed groups for a long time. Starting on march 15th, this group detected that the Macron Campaign was under attack, that it was getting what are called phishing emails. These are emails, like the name suggests, where they are probing for information. These arent the simple kind of phishing emails you might get on your blackberry or iphone that says, oh, click here and you could win a cruise in the caribbean. These were highly sophisticated comeon kind of emails that looked like internal Campaign Documents and prompted people to put in their passwords. They were spoofed documents that were being sent to key individuals within the Macron Campaign. This lasted for about a month, so from midmarch to midapril. Then they apparently stopped and the Macron Campaign at the time said it didnt think that any documents were taken off of their servers but they knew they were under attack. This same company said that it has no doubt that the company that the attackers that were trying to extract this information was apt 28, also known as fancy bear, the same group that was associated with the attack on the dnc and also associated with attacks on other institutions across europe. So whether that was the group that ultimately pulled the information, this nine gigabytes of information from the campaign and released it tonight, that were not sure. But we know that the campaign was under attack for about a month starting in midmarch and apparently ending a month after that by this russianbacked group. We know the campaign saying tonight in their statement that these documents that have been dumped tonight that have been posed online appear to have been stolen several weeks ago so that would fit that time frame. Reporter they said several weeks ago. The time frame fits perfectly and also throughout this time frame, starting even somewhat before the phishing attacks, there has been a Media Campaign against macron, primarily directed by russianbacked websites casting dispersions about his personal life, saying that he that he has unusual relationship with his wife and kags doubts that hes not the man that is that should lead france. So, theres been a Media Campaign as well in the background to this phishing attack and then this leak, this document dump. Whats significant is and you pointed it out, the Macron Campaign had to deal with this, had to put out a statement, a fairly long statement, fairly detailed and release it four minutes to midnight because they didnt want to go over it seems that midnight boundary and then get themselves in trouble with the law. And there were several media organizations in this country that started to talk about it and then the interior ministery sent out this warning saying, dont forget theres a media ackout in place. Beesponsible. Wo its just dsht strategy here is remarkable. The audacity is remarkable. Well see what the impact is. Nbc news chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel in paris, past 3 00 in the morning for us. Thank you so much. I appreciate it, my friend. Reporter absolutely. The parallels with what happened to our election are remarkable. You get the Media Campaign run by the russian staterun Media Outlets and also the bots that trace back to russia. Certainly you get the fake news stuff. Then you get the hacked documents that are strategically released at just the right time, putton line on these anonymous posting sites. We appear to have the same perpetrators here. But remember when the russians were doing it to us, they thought Hillary Clinton was going to win. They didnt think it would work they diplomat think they would throw election to trump. Their intention for doing it, even very late, right up to the end, was not necessarily because they were convicted they could help trump win. They thought even if clinton won, which was likely, this stuff would hurt her and delegitimize her once she took the presidency, and that would be valuable to them in terms of dealing with a weakened United States because of these attacks that they took part in during the election. In this case macron is absolutely, absolutely, favored to win on sunday. If he does, the russians will still have caused to see this as, you know, reason for celebration that theyll be able to use this against him as president and hopefully undermine his presidency even if he does go ahead and win this. Just remarkable. Big night. Theres more breaking news coming up from the Trump Administration. Stay with us. Whoa youre not taking these. Hey, hey, hey youre not taking those. Whoa, whoa youre not taking that. Come with me. Youre not taking that. Youre not taking that. Youre not taking that. Mom, im taking the subaru. Dont be late. Even when were not there to keep them safe, our Subaru Outback will be. vo love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. flourish spray noise flourish spray noise flourish spray noise flourish spray noise the joy of real cream in 15 calories per serving. Enough said. Reddiwip. flourish spray noise share the joy. Oscar mawe went back toig the drawing board. 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One, is that they like friday night news dumps at the Trump Administration just like all administrations do. The Trump Administration does it may be more than most but all administrations do this. This past friday night they waited until after 10 00 p. M. Eastern to announce that the epa was pulling all of its climate data off of the epas website. That was a classy friday night news dump last week. We got two more epa friday night news dumps tonight that will be getting to later on in this show. But in addition to the friday night news dumps where they just hide stuff late on a friday thinking no one will notice it, the other thing that happens with the Trump Administration on friday, and this, i think, has to be a coincidence, this is just god hates me, its that news about them tends to break on friday night as well. And that is the case tonight in the Washington Post and the Associated Press. The Washington Post was first. They front page the mike flynn and all the apparent warnings he was given about his contact with russian government officials during the transition. So, between the election and when President Trump was actually sworn in. According to tonights front page scoop in the the Washington Post, mike flynn was warned explicitly that his considerations with russian officials were, quote, undoubtedly being monitored by the fbi and by the nsa. Transition officials tell the Washington Post they also prepared a briefing document for flynn, specifically a profile of the Russian Ambassador who he liked to talk with and meet with so much. Officials say that despite the fact that they prepared a profile on the Russian Ambassador for flynn, they are unsure as to whether or not mike flynn ever bothered to read it. So, interesting reporting from the Washington Post. After the Washington Post posted theirs, the associate press also went live with their scoop tonight on mike flynn. Theyre reporting that the Obama Administration was so concerned about what they could see of these ties between mike flynn and the russian government, that they decided to delay telling the trump transition about the Obama Administrations plans to levy new sanctions against russia as punishment for messing with our election. The obama folks delayed telling the trump transition what they were going to do in response to that election hack reportedly because the Obama Administration was concerned enough about what they were seeing transitions contacts with russian oe fishlgs that they believed it was possible that someone in the trump transition might tip off the russian government about what was about to happen. They might give the russians enough time, enough lead time to clear information out of the two russian compounds that the u. S. Was closing down in retaliation for the russians attacking our elections. Now, nbc can add a little bit to that tonight. Nbc further reports tonight that in terms of that advance warning that the Obama Administration gave to the trump transition about these russian sanctions, nbc news reports tonight that that advanced warning was a matter of hours, not days. Even though they knew they were going to shut down these russian compounds for days, they didnt tell the trump folks for hours so the trump folks wouldnt have too much opportunity to give the russians a heads up to clean out those compounds just in case the trump folks were so inclined to do that. So, obviously there are a lot of questions that remain unanswered about how on earth the white house decided to hire mike flynn as National Security adviser despite what they must have come to know about his contacts with foreign governments and his contacts with russian government in particular. Nbc news reported several days ago that the trump transition even knew about mike flynns payments from foreign governments and they hired him anyway. This goes some distance to explaining people who were in contact with him and what they knew at the time that made that inexplicable decision that gave him that highranking National Security post. Reading between the lines, though, it also seems clear that people who want to remain government officials, people who dont want to have their careers blown up by any association with Michael Flynn and whatevers about to come next in the investigations of him, those people appear to be getting out ahead of any further Michael Flynn reporting. This sort of continues the pattern we have seen around him. Republican officials involved in investigations that get close to what flynn did and what is known about his actions, theyve all been fleeing from those various investigations. Devin nunes got himself taken off the house intelligence investigation. Jason chef fets took himself out of congress entirely. Attorney general Jeff Sessions recused himself from any flynnrelated investigations. Now weve got named trump transition officials saying basically in the press, hey, we tried to warn him. We noticed something was weird here. We tried to send up flags. We knew what mike flynn was doing with russia was wrong and risky. I dont know where any of these investigations are going with mike flynn, but the way that other people in republican politics are treating him, is like theyre grease and hes a drop of dish soap. So new mike flynn tonight in the the Washington Post and the Associated Press but that also brings us to tonights news dump from the administration, and that story is next. Stay with us. Nitrites or artificial preservatives. Now its good for us all. Like those who like. Sweet. Those who prefer heat. blows a breath of air and those who just love meat. For those in school. Out of school. And old school. Those who like their sandwich with pop. And those who like it with soda. For the star of the scene. Cut and the guys behind it. 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This of course raises yet more questions about why the trump folks went ahead with hiring him then as National Security adviser where he lasted for all of three and a half weeks before he got fired. After mike flynn didet fir, one of the interesting things at happened that i think maybe should have been a little bit of a warning sign for those of us watching this administration, is that the white house had a remarkably difficult time replacing him. U. S. Army general ray odierno they apparently wanted for the job, he took himself out of the running. Controversial david petraeus, he took himself out of the running. Vice admiral robert harwood, they wanted for the job, they apparently offered him the job and after they offered him the job, he said, no, he would not take the job. H. R. Mcmaster who was not a retired general, he is a sitting active duty general. You know what, theyre not actually allowed to say no when asked to do something by the commander in chief, so now he is our new National Security adviser. But its not just the National Security adviser position that proved hard to fill. Thats generally be true of the big National Security jobs. For example, look at the armed forces. The Trump Administration nominated a new york billionaire to be Army Secretary, a guy who had made his fortune as a High Frequency trader, one of the things the white house did not notice about him when they vetted him for the job was the Police Report that had been filed on him not that long ago after he punched a guy out at an expensive horse auction in upstate new york. Between his complicated business ties and the horse auction fistfight, Vincent Viola ended up pulling his name from consideration as Army Secretary. Then the next nomination they pulled was for the navy secretary. A guy named phillip billden was nominated to be navy secretary. He pulled his name. In february the Administration Still has not nominated anybody else for that job. There is no nominee to be secretary of the navy. After they lost their first nominee to be secretary of the army, the punchout of the horse auction guy, they did pick a replacement nominee but now tonight he has pulled his name from consideration as well. His name is marc green. Until recently he was a republican candidate for governor in tennessee. He dropped out of that race because of this better gig that he got offered by the Trump Administration. Secretary of the army. Now that that nomination has been pulled multiple pentagon officials are going out of their way tonight to remind reporters that this really was a white house pick. Dont blame this on the pentagon Unnamed Defense Department officials insisting to reporters tonight that it was the white house who wanted this guy, it was the white house who vetted this guy, it was the white house who missed this stuff about this guy. That was, after all, out in the Public Domain about him and findable by anybody with the google. Now you poll the psychiatrists, theyre going to tell you that transgender is a disease. No, were not going to issue marriage licenses to gay people because our state voted differently. Okay, supreme court. You said it, i dont care. School districts, you want to have a bathroom thats separate for all of the, you know, guys or gals with question marks. You set up your own bathroom and, oh, the aflcios going to sue you . Well, i got your back. The aflcios going to sue you . When he says aflcio, i will bet you 11 that he means aclu. Oh, but come on. Its not like military guys ever need to know acronyms. The aflcios going to sue you . They arent going to sue you. Anyway, so thats the bright light that the white house tried to put in charge of the United States army. And there are reams and reams and reams of this stuff from him in the Public Domain. Hes been a public figure for a long time. Hes a serving state senator for tennessee. He was running for governor. But apparently the white house never noticed any of this stuff before they put him up as second nominee to run the United States army. One by one, members of the Senate Armed Services committee started coming out against mark green as his record became more and more clear. As of a few days ago critics included that chairman, john mccain. Once the chairman of the committee is against you, youre not going to go far. Another critic is tammy duckworth. She came out quite strongly against mark green to be secretary of the army. We actually learned this afternoon here at msnbc that as of last night, the white house had given up on mark green and had started interviewing potential replacement nominees. I was all set to report that tonight when news dropped right before we went on the air, news dropped late this afternoon that mark green is gone. He pulled his name. The fact that mark green was ever nominated for this job in the first place, the fact that he is the second nominee who tried and failed to become Army Secretary is just in itself ridiculous, right . Its just a ridiculous process. Its ridiculous for him to have been a candidate given whats available on him in the public record. It is ridiculous for the white house that they put him forward without apparently doing any vetting. Their vetting process for National Security positions, even for really important National Security positions, appears to be about as difficult as the application process to get into trump university. But because these are National Security jobs, it isnt just ridiculous, its also stomachchurning, right . I mean, this guy was nominated to be secretary of the army. Within the last week a u. S. Navy s. E. A. L. Was killed in somalia fighting under combat restrictions that the Trump Administration just loosened there. Its the first u. S. Combat casualty in somalia since 1993, since blackhawk down. He was killed yesterday. Also within the past week two army rangers were killed in fighting in eastern afghanistan. Also within the past week an Army Paratrooper was killed on patrol outside mosul that the Trump Administration has been sending more and more and more u. S. Troops. Next week the top u. S. Commander in afghanistan is going to ask for thousands more u. S. Troops to be sent into afghanistan, once again. And whether or not you look at this new president and you think, thats a capable commander in chief, i trust him to be making wise decisions about the men and women of the American Armed forces, whether or not you look at him and think that, there is precisely one senateconfirmed nominee in the entire pentagon. Secretary of defense. Thats it. Theres like 58 senate confirmable posions in the pentagon. Theyavent filled 57 of them. 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There was a tiny headline in the corner about trump celebrating just above a headline about a republican senator trashing the bill. How about the National Review, theyve been railing against obamacare for years. No, the National Review barely mentioned the health care vote. It was an interesting reaction on the right. Obamacare repeal . What obamacare repeal. The reaction on the left, on the other hand, holy cow. Usually you expect the side that won to be all over it and the side that didnt win to be playing it down, total opposite this time. Swing left is one of these new groups working to defeat House Republicans in the 2018 midterms. They tell us they raised over 1 in the last 48hours, including 150,000 they raised instantly within the one hour after the health care vote. And liberal blog daily kos, they raised all that money for osoff, they have also raised 1 million in 30 hours. Over a million bucks, specifically targeting 24 Congressional Republicans who voted to repeal the Affordable Care act, who represent districts where trump didnt get 50 of the vote. Daily kos political director tells nbc news, they have never seen anything like this before. Quote, to put things in perspective, it took us a week to raise 400,000 for jon ossoff, and a year to to do for elizabeth warren. We raised that amount of money in the first five hours yesterday for this slate after the health care vote. So at least in terms of fundraising the left saw a huge surge of support to try to turf out republican members of congress, after the house voted to repeal obamacare yesterday. Moneys not everything, though. In terms of the on the ground response, the group indivisible. They put out a very interesting statement about about it last night, pointing that the next 11 days of congressional recess are crucial in terms of Holding Members of congress accountable, quote, on their home turf. Were already seeing signs of that playing out. In kansas they held a diein outside yoders office. Yoder voted yes. Its now been appropriated by folks who are fighting for health reform. In florida folks gathered outside congressman brian masts office with a giant sign that says clueless, other signs saying repeal and replace brian mast. Shame on you brian mast. Congressman labrador held a town hall in idaho. Lots of anger about his vote. People on medicaid except dying. You are making no one wants anybody to die. That line is so indefensible. Nobody dies because they dont have access to health care. Nobody dies because they dont have access to health care. They die for all sorts of other reasons but nobody dies because they dont have access to health care. That was in idaho this afternoon. Expect that one to foul Raul Labrador around for the rest of his political life. There will be a lot more to come this week because there is an 11day recess that starts tote. 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Mitchell explaining to her congressman that she had a brain tumor, and she was worried about losing her Health Insurance because of her preexisting condition. Congressman faso hugged her and promised her he would never let that happen. Congressman faso then voted to repeal the Affordable Care act. If what the house voted for yesterday is made law, it will have the effect of decimating access to Health Insurance for people with preexisting conditions. Almost immediately after he announced that he would cast that vote, his office was apparently inundated with angry phone calls. And that led to a tweet from another member of congress from new york, actually from a neighboring district from democratic congressman sean patrick maloney. This was his quote. Hey, john faso, could you turn your phones on . Your constituents are calling my office. Apparently congressman faso is really hard to get ahold of. He has held only one town hall since taking office. That was last night. The local invisible group has invited him to join their town hall. They have scheduled in their district for this monday. Now another challenge. Quote, john faso, these folks deserve answer. If you wont explain your vote for trumpcare, i will. Joining us now is new york congressman sean patrick maloney. Good to see you. Nice to be here. Are you trying to take the heat off him . Are you trying to do him a favor here . Are you trying to help his constituents . Its really simple. If you listen to a woman like andrea, what i was struck by is she felt naive that when her congressman told her, promised her that he would not do this to her, this is a woman with a brain tumor who is not playing some political game. She was desperate in that video. He promised her he wouldnt. She said i felt maybe i was naive when he promised me he wouldnt do it and he did it. I felt like sayi to r, andrea, youre not naive because i believed him too. I tell you. What there are members of congress who will look you in the eye and who will not lie to you about something that serious. And if this guy wont stand up and explain to it you and the people he represents, my neighbors in the hudson valley, well, im going to do it. I think every republican who voted for this thing ought to have to stand in front of their voters and explain it. And if it takes a democrat to go in and do it for them for a while, ill explain what is in this bill. And if he doesnt like it, he should stand up and explain it himself. I think we ought to get on offense on this. And maybe a democrat ought to go into every district where a republican who supported trumpcare wont hold a town hall meeting and do it for them. Sit in that chair and say ill stand here and answer your questions until your own congressman starts doing his job. Did his constituents really start calling your office trying to reach him . Yes, yes. And after a few dozen phone calls, we started to wonder what was up. And they just couldnt get through. And i want to tell you, i spoke to congressman faso before i came on the show. I said john, im going the light you up. I hope we can still work on lyme disease together and Veterans Issues together. Because i work across the aisle. But i feel too strongly about this. And he was upset that we had that tweet. I dont want to relay a private conversation. But i said people were calling our office. And they werent getting through to yours. And were being a little tongueincheek. But its a serious issue. And my goodness, these guys have got to stand up and defend this vote. If you notice, a lot of them wont want. To theyre saying things like oh, the senate will fix it. Or were just having a beer party at the white house and we wanted to have a win for the president. And that doesnt cut it. There are 65,000 people in congress fasos district who are going to lose insurance under this bill there are 400,000 people in that district and in mine who are getting insurance through their employers, and now because of a totally unspoken about provision in this bill, employers can forum shop any state that gets a waiver and use the lower standards of that state with their employees, even in a state like new york. So the 400,000 people in most congressional districts who get emoyerbas insurance right now who have a heart conditi, who have, you know, hiv, they are at risk of being driven down to that lower states standards, like wisconsin, where the governor said today he would consider getting a waiver. So, look, this is not a game. And i think my goodness, if a Congress Person cant stand in front of their voters and answer questions about their vote, then something is wrong. And they may, if they follow your example, start getting other districts members of congress answer questions for them. Well adopt a district. Im adopting new york 19. There is a bunch more. All my friends in the democratic caucus. You can adopt your own district. The congressman for the 18th and now sort of the 19th district too. Until further notice. Congressman sean patrick maloney. Great to have you here. Thanks. Its friday night. Yet more stuff to talk about because the news never stops on friday nights anymore. Thats next. Stay with us. Mom, i have to tell you something. Dad, one second i was driving and then the next. They just didnt stop and then. Im really sorry. I wrecked the subaru. I wrecked it. Youre ok. Thats all that matters. vo a lifetime commitment to getting them home safely. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Everything your family touches sticks with them. Make sure the germs they bring home dont stick around. Use clorox disinfecting products. 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