will compel this president to do that. i saw john carl earlier when spicer couldn t answer the question, and basically admitted this president won t release them unless he s forced to. congressman jolly, while it doesn t look like fun. i interviewed congressman donovan from new york a week ago. he has teletown halls and he ll meet with small numbers of constituents. he blamed organized protesters, several of whom got in touch with us, and said, we re just constitue constituents. chris collins is open about it, doesn t do town halls, he ll meet with small groups. i imagine, though the pressure is going to grow and grow. everyone is finding out how kind of reluctantly popular obama care was? . and the pressure should grow. the bucket of things we don t
aside from the russia investigation and republicans trying to reach a compromise on a health care bill before the recess, which starts tomorrow. i want to bring i new york republican congressman dan donovan. congressman donovan, thank you for your time this afternoon, sir. thank you, craig. let s get your reaction to chairman nunes decision to step aside a few hours ago. i think it s a personal decision. i know there s a lot of pressure on the chairman. he had the confidence of the leadership. he had the confidence of speaker ryan. for some reason, devin decided now is the time for him to step aside and let the investigation continue under the leadership of some other members. and that s a personal decision he had to make. i was a prosecutor for 20 years. there was times when i recused myself of investigations or prosecuting cases for reasons that i had, so i give him credit for standing strong at the time that he determined that he was going to continue with the investigation.
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let the committees do their work. let the investigation take place. let the ethics committee examine and hear the evidence and then once they decide, then we ll know what actually occurred. let s turn to health care here. the bill s failure defeat for the white house. defeat for congress as well. p ldership as well. now the white house and house leaders say they want to move forward. this is part of what speaker paul ryan said a short time ago about the health care bill. this promise is just too important and the consequences of inaction are just too dire for american families for us just to give up. that is why over the last couple of weeks we have encouraged members from across the conference, you see many of them represented here today we encouraged members from across the conference to come together and to try to find consensus. congressman, has there been a real attempt to reach a consensus? i believe so. i ve given the president and speaker ryan all of the credit in the w
soon? well, chris, i held an event actually i was a guest at the brooklyn chamber of commerce, 150 of their members came to exchange ideas about tax reform and health care. and that event was taken over by protesters who had professionally made signs. about 40 of them had to be removed by the police department. and it just disenfranchised the people who came to exchange ideas. i ve been in public office 25 years. i ve had protesters, i ve had people disagree with me, take out full-page ads against me. that s part of being in public life. what it wasn t fair to, it wasn t fair to the people who came there for the purpose of exchanging ideas, talking about health care and talking about tax reform. congressman donovan, good to see you. thanks so much for your time. thank you, chris. and coming up, a heated exchange in the white house briefing room that has a lot of people shaking their heads this morning. did press secretary sean spicer cross a line? he s speaking out about it t