a former trump advisor who has deep ties are russia said he never discussed or heard anyone mention russian involvement in the race to defeat hillary clinton. michael caputo testified friday. today the president tweeted out his gratitude saying thank you to former campaign add visor for saying so powerfully that there was no russian collusion in our winning campaign. cnn senior investigative correspondent sat down with caputo and brings us this exclusive interview. sandy beach and company. reporter: it s his testimony before the house intelligence committee happened behind closed doors. now a fill in radio talk show host in buffalo, new york. wanted it live broadcast and in full view. instead he says he s telling cnn exactly what he planned to tell the committee about russia and
scarborough how many republicans have parents in our facilities because of medicaid. let us show you, joe scarborough can t emphasize that enough. middle class children are in our nicu unit which will be shut down if you slash medicaid and medicare for tax cuts. you look at the numbers and you go you know what? s that s not good for my district or this country. one of the positives of this in terms of the overall body politic is that when i was in congress and you were in congress it was running and familiar narrative, democrats would say we would argue, some rightly so the republicans don t care about the poor, they want to cut programs and republicans say about democrats they want to spend money and no regard for the overall deficit. you see republican senators, sass, johnson, collins, portman, heller, caputo, from the right saying for the reasons we enumerated here caring about medicaid and understanding how crushing it would be to the bottom lines of their states and
so mike pence saying they are going to work on this as long as it takes to try to get something done. this obviously pretty major setback for the republican bill as it was written and just as we were waiting for talk to each other, ali, senators portman of ohio and caputo of virginia have put out a release, they oppose it in its current form. we re getting a sense of how intense opposition was behind the doors of the republican conference today. kasie hunt hill, part of capitol hill. i ll take it. that wraps it up for me. i m going to see you back here tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern with stephanie ruhle then again at 3:00 p.m. eastern. deadline white house with nicole wallace starts right now. it s 4:00 and republican senators have made their way to the white house to talk to the president about the health care
recess. they ve been having those secret meetings that we keep hearing about. the trouble is that as soon as they stop being secret, the chances of moderate republicans, they re still in the same position in the senate. how are you going to get enough moderate republicans to sign on to get the bill pass bid the house passed? that was not in making that bill more conservative, in making that bill satisfactory for the freedom caucus, it s very hard to see how they get that through moderates. they ve still got the same problem in the senate. you know, there s some talk, mark, that rob portman and senator caputo from west virginia are moving towards getting rid of the medicaid guarantee. but, again, even if they try to pass that through the senate, that cuts against the very people who voted for donald trump. well, look, this is a multi-step process on both the legislative front and on the pr front. mitch mcconnell wants to get
children, let s talk about that. and number two, when you look at that 13 person working group with the exception of ted cruz who is latino, it is 100% white over the age of 50 male working group. how on earth can the gop, if their goal is let s just get this through at all costs maybe that group works. but if the goal is to represent this country, how do they even say yep, that s what it looks like? on the second question, the gop has to pull from the talent poll, only five female senators, one is joanie earnest and deb fischer but the other three are maybe no votes caputo from west virginia and alaska and collins. i guess they were too dicey to include in the working group. on the kids issue i wonder if those were the same kids lebron james rented for the decision. does seem the grammar school shield doesn t work. as far as optics you know this, it s going to work, but on tv