policy leadership now? congress members like senator reed and senator collins, frankly paul ryan, mitch mcconnell, should step up and own their article one agenda and authority to lead with policies they ve worked on for years. when they complete it, drop it on the president s desk and say, mr. president, sign here. congressman jolly, congressman kingston, thank you for joining us today. thanks. good to be with you. chris? big story this morning. research on traumatic brain injuries in football players. it is new and we have the details in the blee the bleache ahead. for my castle. we got it. and a slide, and a drawbridge. take on summer right with ford, america s best-selling brand. now with summer s hottest offer on ford f150. get zero percent for sixty months plus an additional thousand on top of your trade in. that s the built ford tough f150 with zero percent for sixty months plus an additional thousand on top of your trade in. offer ends soon during the ford summer sales
officials and senators file in. i think it s important to note here, ereturn, as all of this starts to happen, as this lunch happened today and certainly there is positive momentum. compared to what we have 18 over the last couple weeks. i am told be skeptical. very skeptical. that s a quote. reality on replace is there is a reason it collapsed originally t. ideological divides are real t. efforts to revive it, they will see what they can do, erin. phil mattingly, i want to show you the former adviser, jack kingston who joins me with the state department spokesperson. thanks so both. congressman kingston, you know you had a lost people who went 22 million came out, granted a lot of those were going to lose coverage because they opted out. that 22 million number was enough to get a lot of republicans to say they couldn t go forward. now you are looking at 32 million. how damage iraqi these numbers to the white house that is desperately now trying to convince senators to get on
congressman kingston, let me ask you, what do you make of this e-mail chain? it does look very damning in terms of the willingness of donald trump jr. to meet with somebody billed as being with the russian government, being billed as being information from the russian government that was damaging to hillary clinton. let me say this. everybody knew there were stories about hillary clinton and the russian government, whether it was podesta serving on a board of a russian company while advising her in the state department, whether it was the clinton foundation in the uranium swapping or whatever went on there. everybody knew that stuff like this was going on. in wikipedia that did not come out because of trump wikileaks. wikileaks, he excuse me. let s say what we re hearing from the democrats is a violation of treason. there s no treason there. i haven t seen anybody make a credible case about that. what do you think about the e-mails? the e-mails would bother me, understand
if that happens, though, what message do the russians take from that? within the last 24 hours, president trump is saying, nobody knows for sure whether the russians meddled in the election. it could be others as well. even though the classified information tells us, no one else was involved. i m not quite as optimistic as congressman kingston that we are going to hear this or jeffrey. frankly, when the new sheriff in town doesn t seem to be clear whether or not a crime was committed, it doesn t inspire hope that he s going to take the steps necessary to issue a stern warning. that also, frankly, interacts with questions about sanctions and about kicking out and closing the compound, the diplomatic compound from which the spying was going on. the russians said they want
we are just minutes away from president trump who will be meeting with russian leader vladimir putin. this takes place in hamburg, germany. we believe we ll see pictures of it when it happens. stick around for that. should be very interesting. while we wait, i want to bring in errol lewis. jack kingston, cnn political commentator, former senior adviser to the trump campaign and michael o hanlon from the brookings institute. congressman, i want to start with you here. a lot of democratic senators are saying the president would be in severe dereliction of duty if he does not bring up russian election meddling at this meeting. your response to that? i think, number one, he is going to bring it up, but i think he s going to do it in a way completely different than barack obama. barack obama when he knew about