Trump puts North Koreans on notice as they launch fireworks of their own on the fourth of july. How far is trump willing to go to stop them . Plus the best political minds will be here with insights on what happens next. Hello, im dana bash in for jake tapper where the state of our union is deconstructed talks with the russians. News this morning of a previously undisclosed 2016 meeting with the trump team and a high profile russian national. This time, its donald trump jr. Who, according to the New York Times, set up a meeting with the russian lawyer at trump tower two weeks after his father won the republican nomination. The lawyer is best known for fighting a law president obama signed that blacklists russian human rights abusers. Putin retaliated by banning American Families from adopting russian children. Donald trump jr. Says the meeting was also attended by trumps soninlaw and adviser, Jared Kushner and former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and it was primarily about the adop
Tonight President Trump says his new Health Care Strategy is to let obamacare fail, now that his promise to repeal and replace it has been doomed by his own party. In a dramatic chain of events, two Senate Republicans declare their opposition to the gops repeal and replace bill overnight, effectively killing the legislation and apparently blind siding the president. Now the Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says he wants the senate to vote on a repeal only bill soon, but that back up plan appears to be dead on arrival with three republicans saying theyll vote no. Mr. Trump acknowledges hes very disappointed by all of this, but hes refusing to accept responsibility, blaming democrats, even though republicans control congress. Also breaking, the white house just revealed a second previously undisclosed conversation between mr. Trump and russias president Vladimir Putin at the g20 summit this month. This as were getting new information in the russia investigation. Senator Diane Feinstein no
Welker at the white house. Two miles between the white house and the capital, but feels a lot more distance between the president and his party. Listen. There are going to be times when i disagree with him and when i da, i usually state that very as well. Its populism, but its not a governing philosophy. Were here trying to do our duty. I am going to do what i think is right and sometimes that means im going to be agreeing with the president and sometimes it means that im not. Kase, the president not exactly instilling fear in some of these republican lawmakers over on capitol hill. What is going on and what does this mean for his legislative priori priorities . Well, hallie, i would frame it more as the demands that the president is making of Senate Republicans right now. They are simply not doing. They are not, for example, going to end the filibuster on legislation as the president has repeatedly demanded. Theyre not going to vote right now to repeal the Affordable Care act. Instead