as for the first question, we ll keep you posted when we have an announcement. as you guys know, the president is getting ready to depart for the department of energy and will be speaking on that soon. thanks so much. no apology from the president, sarah? all right. let s just dive right in. dana bash is with me. former fbi special agent who is now associate dean at yale law school is with us. cnn politics reporter and editor at large, cnn.com s the point, chris, and s.e. cupp, got a couple other faces. we re going to weave this through. all joining us to react to what we just listened to. let s just go round robin. dana bash, the tweet, your response, and the response to the response. it s like an alternate universe. i mean, i completely understand and watch exactly what sarah huckabee sanders was doing. she was speaking to an audience of one, the president of the united states who no doubt was watching to make sure that his
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that republicans couldn t afford to lose even one vote if they wanted to get it passed. but at last count here at cnn, there are now bills that could pass as written right now. you re still a no as we speak right now? yes, i am still a no. about 30% of the population of your home state of west virginia is on medicaid. > . and you don t like this projected growth of medicate. i am very disturbed by this growth of med care. 40% of the spending in that area goes for opiod abuse and drug issues, that s a major issue in our state, as it is in many states, and i m totally unsatisfied with how this bill would keep coverage for those folks both in opiod and other areas of health care.
ministry and dropping grenades. president maduro says no one was injured. let s go to our international correspondent, monitoring the situation from havana because cnn espanol has been repeatedly. we ve been asking for visas, waivers to get into the country. patrick, do we know the name of the suspect and what prompted him to do this? reporter: yes, we do, wolf. his name is oscar perez. he s a police officer and even for the standards of venezuela, a country that has been racked by violent protests for weeks, the scene yesterday of a police officer in a helicopter bombing parts of the downtown caracas were shocking. called a coup attempt by venezuela s government, the attackers rained down grenades and gunfire on government buildings in the capital city of caracas. no one appeared to be injured by the aerial bombardment further unsettled a country already on