then you need to go back home and explain to republicans why you re no longer for repealing obamacare. that s interesting wechlt . d we had this whole conversation at the top of the show over health care and obviously since we know repeal and replace isn t happening thanks to those two republican senators last night and now there are three republican senators saying thanks but no thanks to this whole notion of repeal now, replace later, that was senator rand paul saying hang on a second, let s wait, i would like to do a vote where we do a partial repeal and replace later and he s hoping those republicans jump on board. the notion of maybe still holding a vote even though at the moment it seems doa. we re waiting to hear from the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell. that s significant because he, too, is obviously coming out of this republican luncheon there on the hill and when we see him, we ll take it live. let s move on and talk about more breaking news, this on the fire sto
thank you so much. so, on the political fallout, let s go there. i have david chalian, our cnn political director joining me and cnn national political reporter maeve reston. david, just to you, going back to the president s words there, saying let obamacare fail, republicans won t be owning it, he s not going to own it, you know, let the democrats come to us, how significant was that sound byte, do you think? i have been racking my brain to think of a statement i have ever heard from the president of the united states of either party as cynical as that statement. this is not the first time president trump has said this but it s in a new context. people would see it as a threat or an incentive kind of thing to make sure that republicans stay on and get this through. well, in this context of the bill falling apart, it is hard to imagine how these words are not going to hang around him and
american who attended this meeting is ike kavalodze. he is a senior vice president at crocus group, which is the real estate development company run by russian oligarch agalarov. as you ll recall, brooke, the agalarov family were mentioned in that e-mail exchange that don junior released as being sort of orchestrating this meeting. his personal website says that he holds responsibility for multiple elements of the company s russian development projects so several projects in russia. he studied at the moscow academy of finance and kaveladze is an attorney and has worked for the agalarov s business since 2004 when means he was with the company when it partnered with the trump organization to pull off the 2013 miss universe pageant in moscow. in fact, it appears he s seen this video from 2013 that cnn
exclusively obtained and you ll see him in the video. he is with the agalarov family and he is with donald trump there. and so he s clearly, he goes way back with the agalarov family and he is seen there in the same room with donald trump in las vegas in this video. the special counsel s investigators are seeking information from kavalodze as part of the russia probe and his attorney says that he is fully cooperating. let s broaden out the conversation. asha is with me. cnn legal and national security analyst. asha, you know, she just laid out exactly who this eighth person, you know, was, but you tell me, what s the significant of robert mueller saying, okay, to trump junior and paul manafort to testify in public. so, there s an upside to mueller here and there s a potential downside. so, the upside for mueller for these people to testify under oath is he gets to lock down
light, my sense is that he probably would have worked that out with congress and i would think that congress in this case would not want to interfere with this investigation. what do you think, shy of a pants on fire moment, what do you think the chances are that they actually take him up on this and do testify publicly? that congress will? that these two men that these two men will say yes to testifying publicly. that s a great question. you know, if i were their defense attorneys, i would not want them to do that, precisely because of what i just explained, and the trouble it could get them in. from a pr perspective, it makes them look very forthcoming, but it can have a lot of legal implications. congress could subpoena them, though, and they would be forced to testify and they could take the fifth and we could go down to that road. let me move on. an administration official tells cnn the white house is worried that jared kushner s security clearance is actually in jeopa