whether or not whether or not you like nancy pelosi or you do not, you saw how strong a leader nancy pelosi was. her pure leadership skills. paul ryan does not have that. paul ryan has a caucus that s running all over the place. and not only that, but you didn t see one democrat you don t have one democrat that s in the yes column for this piece of legislation. and i m supposed to be shocked, how? in the past, you ve had moderate democrats in swing districts that would come out and support a president or gop leadership. you don t see that, that s strong leadership by nancy pelosi. or you re being a little altruistic thinking any democrat would come over on a repeal and replace of obamacare. democrats got replaced by republicans that are swinging in the wind. congressman kingston will take us in the room and tell us exactly what the arm-twisting feels like. up next, new evidence pointing to trump associates coordinating with russians. and president trump defending hi
clinton, nia-malika henderson, davidgerden, mark preston, jack kingston is here, amanda carpenter, and former democratic member of the south carolina house of representatives, bakari sellers. mo brooks is not moving. that s about the state of play for that member of the house freedom caucus. david, but he s deep in the details. pull us back for a second. what is at stake tonight, as they head into this meeting, for republicans and the president? well, one sixth of the american economy and the welfare of millions of americans, first and foremost, is at stake. you know, this is why it s so cli complicated. we re dealing with a massive piece of the american economy and trying to reorganize it. that s why so many presidents have failed at this. it is complicated, and hard to rally. but i think that donald trump s presidency to a significant degree rests upon pulling us out tonight. he pulling out before it s over to get a vote out of the
we asked him about that during the campaign and he couldn t if memory serves me correct, he couldn t come up. kayleigh, do you think he should? he should clarify, especially if it s not direct evidence of obama tapping trump. and i agree with van, twitter was not a place to raise this. i fully think there was something suspicious going on, maybe not orchestrated by president obama, people within, that s not hard to believe based on the felonious leaks we ve seen. so i do think there was something strange going on. i think they ll provide some sort of evidence of surveillance. whether it was ordered by the commander in chief, that s a far stretch. this is why twitter doesn t limit itself to making these allegations. if there s no evidence i think he should clarify like the democratic senator who tweeted she never met with the russians, i had no room in my office. congressman kingston, the current president of the united states calling the former president of the united states a ba
a speech that was well received by many including myself, quite famously, and the next day, rather than getting his wonderful high praise, people start talking about the fact that jeff sessions had committed an act of treason, that the top come had committed a crime and donald trump, by all reports, started going off on people, screaming and yelling, and guess what? he tweeted out nonsense to change the subject. we re not sitting here talking about the fact that the top cop committed an act of perjury. we re talking about ftotal nonsense. trump is winning againwy doing nutty stuff and having us chase the rabbit around the barn. there is no way in the world you can spin or polish that tweet. you can t do it. in fact, i don t think trump is that man, talking about jeff sessions. congressman kingston, van is saying this is a machiavellian way to turn the attention awayer or go down the rabbit hole, but you can t ignore the president
of donald trump. i asked adam schiff that directly today and he said that s what he expects. schiff would be in a position to know. he has spoken multiple times with comey. they had a private briefing talking presumably about this topic as well. so we ll see if comey goes forward and goes public on monday night. but this is a question that will come up at this high-profile hearing and we ll see if comey expresses reservations or goes out and publicly rebuts donald trump the way that he s now expected to do so. monday. joining us is kirsten powers, kayleigh mcenany, van jones, busy tonight, messy truth town hall after this show. and jack kingston. keirsten, i m not sure where to begin but that press conference today at the white house, the white house has gotten in deep on this and doesn t seem to be able to back out. they re in a situation because sean spicer has to defend donald trump because he doesn t want to back down from