clearly used for abusive conduct. i should have seen that coming. i didn t see it coming. now that i ve seen the result of it i want to undo it as quickly as possible. quickly, the health care deal. on again/off again/on again srb off again/on again. do you believe you will ever sign on to a deal that does have this money for insurance companies in order to bring down premiums? what the money is for is for the people buying premiums, buying the health insurance from the company to subsidize their premiums. so does the money go to the insurance companies? yes, through the consumers. we re giving them a break on the premiums they pay. but we want to make sure it doesn t go for any other purpose. so let me give credit where it s due. we have two senators, republican, lamar alexander, a democrat patti murray who accepted the challenge given to them by congress and the american people to finally get together and do something in washington on a bipartisan basis. soon as they did, the m
first, republicans are divided. had to win a bloody primary and jones had the field all to himself. second, jones is blanketed air waves dexcrying a broken washington and republicans aren t respond, at least not yet. and remarks on this program, opposed to restrictions on abogues. won t play well for voters in alabama and money from the campaign apparatus. does he have real money and will bannon help moore? some of mitch mcconnell s friends might not be helping moore. a long way until december and the big test for jones proving his 42% is a floor and not a potential ceiling. we ll be back in 6 a seconds.
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i added amendments i thought were available. my president, barack obama, a man i served with on the senate signed it into law. all good arguments on the side of the law, but the net result of it, lack of vitch wlevigilan is unacceptable. they need to be health to a higher regard with regards to these opioids. this story strikes me the distrust between the public and washington. i sit here and ask myself how do 100 extraordinarily intelligent people get snowed by this bill? what do you say to the american public? they have a legitimate interest in it and legitimate reason to be skeptical how this was handled. i look at the end product and say i didn t see this coming. i certainly wasn t there standing up saying i ve got to find a way to go easy on distributors senting many more opioid pills into communities than they could possibly need.
together. what does the confusion mean for the chances of this fix getting passed? we ll get reaction from senator bill cassidy. at the forefront of the health care debate. and questioning sessions i can neither assert executive privilege nor can i disclose today the content of my confidential conversations with the president. will executive privilege continue to shield the attorney general from questions in the russia probe? we ll talk to senate judiciary committee member dick durbin. this is mtp daily and it starts right now. good evening. i m chuck todd near washington. welcome to mtp daily. folks when there s a hugely important issue like health care it s important everybody knows what the president of the united states wants and where he stands