Senate offices around the country and in the has the capitol hill, and at the cincinnati last night, both on the floor where Senate Democrats held the floor for hours, and they went outside and held the Capitol Steps, an impromptu protest which started with senator corey booker, john lewis, and soon grew to be hundreds of people on the steps of the capitol deep into the night after a score from the Congressional Budget Office that said the rep bill to kilobama care would kick 22 million americans off their Health Insurance . Not just off the Health Insurance youre on now, it would kick 22 million americans all of all forms of Health Insurance and leave them uninsured. After all of that, today it became too much for the republicans in washington to bear. For a while i think they thought they could hold the line and stop their own senators from peeling off the bill. They knew they had lost dean heller and knew they had lost Susan Collins of maine, and i think they thought for a while the
Laura Huckabee Sanders defended the soninlaw in an offcamera briefing today. Ive been on several campaigns. People call offering information. As i know many of you receive similar calls of people offering information. Don junior took a very short meeting from which there was absolutely no followup. What a hoot. In a statement yesterday, Donald Trump Jr said i was asked to have a meeting from an acquaintance i knew from the 2013 Miss Universe pageant and this individual i was told might have information helpful to the campaign. I was not told her name prior to the meeting. I asked jared and paul to attend but told them nothing of the substance. President trumps legal team put out a statement saying the president was not aware of and did not attend the meeting. The Washington Post first reported the acquaintance of trumps who put together the meeting was a music publicist named rob goldstein. He was representing a rock star whose family has ties to putin and trump. Trump even appeared in
Insurance you are on now, it will kick all forms of Health Insurance and leaving them unensuu uninsu uninsured. Today it became too much for the republicans to bear. They hold the lines and they can stop their own senators from peeling off the bill. They knew they lost dean heller and susan collinss a. And they thought they can still pass the bill by having Vice President mike pence coming in and casting a tie breaking vote. Not only did they hold that line of those two senators allowing them to pass the bill, that line collapsed today. It was not just heller and colli collins. It was the third and fourth and fifth and seventh and ninth. Yeah. Again, this is not republicans trying and failing to get democrats to vote with them. This is not some negotiations between parties ta failed because of partisan differences between the parties. Republicans were trying to repeal obamacare without talking to democrats about it and without trying for a single democratic vote. They probably would no
Five to six times stronger than the North Koreans nuclear test last september. Condemnation pouring in right now from around the world and from President Trump. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts joining me now with more. Reporter trish good morning to you what has the white house concerned this morning is what we saw in photographs released by the north korean regime last night, lets put it up on the screen so you can see. This is kim jong un reportedly inspecting a Thermo Nuclear a Hydrogen Bomb warhead capable of being mounted on an inter continental ballistic missle. Now as all things with north korea its impossible to confirm whether its actually a bomb or if its just a shell or a mockup , but certainly the white house is playing close attention Sarah Huckabee sanders the press secretary saying the National Security team is monitoring this closely, the president and his National Security team will have a meeting to discuss further later today and will provide updates as
Up that were going to be talking about something that nobody else is talking about tonight. And self consciously so, it involves the Justice Department, potentially a huge deal, it looks like its about to happen but its not done yet. So were going to be sticking a flag in that story, fully cognizant theres a lot of other news going on, and nobody else is talking about this story, but i think its important enough we have to do it and do it tonight. We also just got news about the robert ert mueller special counsel inquiry on the trump russia investigation, pulling in someone knew to testify before the grand jury. We have that news this evening. We have interesting news about the president s eldest son being called to testify in the trump russia inquiry. Theres big breaking news from politico. Com within the last area about the course of the bob mueller inquiry and a dramatic move that mueller has just made that may be designed to do a end run around the possibility of President Trump pa