Hold on tight. Before we get the latest from our team of reporters on the ground, let me get you caught up on the latest changes we know of to the gop bill. This is important. People who make more than 200,000 a year will still have to pay a medicare tax. Its being extended for the next six years instead of eliminated. The money the government makes on that, about 15 billion, goes to the states and could be iced to pay for maternity and newborn care, Mental Health and substance abuse. Those are changes aimed at pleasing moderates in the house. Finally, obamacare requires Insurance Companies to provide Certain Health benefits. Now that requirement goes away and its up to individual states to make those rules starting in 2018. That was a change meant to help conservatives come on board. This vote, lets not waste a minute and get to where the action is. My colleague Chris Jansing has us covered from the white house, kely odonnell has a very tough job today keeping track of all this on cap
To fix not repeal obamacare. I predict that president will get a win in health care. And all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Breaking news from the Washington Post minutes ago. From the infamous 2016 meeting at trump tower in which don junior was told coget information on hient Hillary Clinton via the russian government. President trump deck tated his sons misleading statement on meeting with the russian lawyer. Joining me now, phillip rucker, who just broke that story for the Washington Post. Phillip, my understanding is the original plan when the first news of the meeting broke is for don junior to get out ahead of it and issue a statement that wouldnt be contradicted and the president intervened to do what . Thats right, chris. Advisers around the president and around donald trump junior thought he should offer a fairly full and complete statement acknowledging what happened in that meeting and what happened is the president overruled them. He took m