Health care deal while laying out the stakes. The president sources telling cnn warning republicans behind closed doors their seats and the entire gop majority will disappear if the bill fails. Something Speaker Paul Ryan agreed with. President told your members he believed many would lose their seats if this doesnt pass. Do you agree with that asaysment and tubl youve done enough to assuage their concerns . Yep. Absolutely. There was no animosity. No browbeating. I have to tell you, the guy is talented. Reporter but not everyone listening was convinced. Did you change your mind at all . No. I said the president did a great job and i appreciate the president , but the bill is still bad. Reporter youre going to vote no on thursday . Thats my plan. Reporter and the chairman of conservative House Freedom caucus warned support isnt there enough. Not enough votes to do this. Reporter that even after republicans sweetened the deal designed to bring both sides closer together, adding block gr
But they were saying you cannot get to 270. I went to maine four times. For one vote and i got it but i didnt need it. This was a victory for all of us, a victory for all of us and in the audience, by the way, i see my great brother and i see ann marie, thank you for being here. I see my sister marian and david. Where is there, right there, who happens to be a court of appeals judge. He is tough. She is tough. But highly, highly respected. I see my sister elizabeth, which is great. Im so happy youre here. We actually have a very, very good family. We have a family. We have a family that gets along. My sons, look at them standing there. Did they i say why arent you campaigning today . Eric and don and tiffany, who was incredible. And barron is home. But we had we had a great group of people, right . We worked hard. In the audience we have somebody thats under no pressure whatsoever because hes got a Great Quarterback named tom brady and a great coach and a great coach named belichick, b
In exchange for his testimony or cooperation in terms of the fbi. Those discussions, understanding it happened in recent days, and a statement out from Michael Flynns lawyer saying he would agree to testify under certain circumstances and they have had these conversations. His lawyers are saying their concern is not so much Michael Flynn had something to hide, theyre saying he doesnt or something he should be concerned about but that in this political environment he would not be treated fairly. Hes asking for immunity from any prosecution to be able to give his testimony and cooperate and not have any consequences should something arise that could be criminally prosecuted. The fbi as well as the House Intelligence Committee and the senate, the House Intelligence Committee spokesman for chairman nunes said Michael Flynn has not asked for immunity. The lawyers statement does talk about the house dependence House Intelligence Community and the senate. It doesnt address the fbi, correct .
Ambassador. That is why you had the head of trumps Transition Team, his National Security Transition Team Marshall Billingsley ask the Obama White House to provide a classified cia profile to read ahead of his conversations with the ambassador. One thing that isnt clear is whether flynn read that document. Now i should mention that there is some bush pushback to this storyline. Several officials who worked on the trump transition are telling my colleagues that theyre calling this revisionist history say iing im sure everybody is telling the fbi they warned flynn against talking or about talking so its important to take some of this with a grain of salt. Theres one more interesting tidbit that my colleague was able to confirm and that is that a former u. S. Official says the Obama White House was troubled about the handling of classified information. Some highly sensitive documents were copied and removed from a secure room in the transition headquarters in washington. Because of that o
General, Holiday Weekends . All the more so. So i do hope you get some time off and enjoy your weekend if general, keep in mind, this is one of those times to sort of keep eyes opened. All politician, all public figures to a certain extent have to manage the art of diverting peoples attention, creating the subject, creating deliberate distractions, some politicians are better at it than others, all good politician versus to be able to do it to a certain degree. Our current president is very, very good at it. He doesnt just have that skill like a normal politician. He has a peculiar nuclear version of it. Let me explain what i mean. A normal political way, a normal politicians way to change the subject, the way a normal politician does it is to stop talking about whatever that person finds inconvenient or unfavorable or uncomfortable. Stop talking about that thing they dont want to talk about. Instead, Start Talking about something else, hope you bring people along for this new topic th