Senator Lindsey Graham whether or not there is an investigation ongoing into the Donald Trump Campaign and those contacts that allegedly occurred with russian officials during the president ial election. Since they have not confirmed the existence of an investigation, they have not even confirmed with senators, so in a private meeting between graham and whitehouse on march 2nd, james comey would not tell these two senators whether or not there was an investigation ongoing, even though they sit on a judiciary subcommittee investigating the issue of russia. Comey according to Sheldon Whitehouse said he would confirm whether or not that investigation is occurring by this hearing that theyre having tomorrow in this Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee exploring russias meddling in the election. Eastern yoeuropean elections as
committee and the top democrat mark warner told me going into the briefing theres no evidence whatsoever even though he met with james comey last week. One other s
republicans who said they were going to repeal obamacare. 2018 is just around the corner. he s setting up a dynamic where he is chipping away at the law and not putting anything else in place. what are these republicans going to run on when they face their constituent who is have seen premium increases or coverage losses? some republicans are actually feeling like trump is putting them in a position to save obamacare or the outlines of obamacare. if he create this is gap where he is taking things away and there is no solution being put on the table, they are the ones who have to work within the confines of the system and they realize congress is in a rough spot to do a broad repeal. that s uncomfortable heading into a mid-term. and democrats are pounding. i want to read you the tweets. chuck schumer said it is a
only a partial analysis that will not include the impact on coverage, and that is disturbing to me. is former missouri secretary of state and the senior economic advisor for the trump campaign. here we go again. i thought we would have the last of the conversations and here it is again. steve, it doesn t look like we ll get a full cbo score before the bill goes up for a vote. how can members of congress understand the full impacts of this bill without it? susan collins is waiting but most of the coverage losses won t be in this report. there will be a score on what the budget cost is. some of the other elements, for example on coverage may not get it done on time. i think, look, the big point here i ve been watching your show all night tonight, don and your previous discussions on this. when you talk about what states
welcome back. a big afternoon and evening ahead in the united states senate. and the obamacare repeal debate. you know the had istry. seven years ago republicans vowed if given the chance to outright repeal obamacare. the past couple years, the slogan morphed into repeal and replace as the gop realized just taking away obamacare was a tough political fight. and skinny repeal as republicans leaders try to get a vote to president trump sometime in his first year in office. today and tonight will tell us a lot about the road aheadened the president offered a tweet this morning. come on, republican senators. you can do it. the president said. after seven years, this is your chance to shine. don t let the american people down. democrats, though, aren t impressed with the new label. we call it repeal and run plan. they may call it skinny, but it is huge in terms of the cost increases and coverage losses.
it does not appear again, we don t know exactly what they re going to be starting to vote on. they don t know. but the best we can deduce was what mcconnell is going to put forward tomorrow would not sea the concerns she s expressed in the past. but she lives in a state, let s not kid ourselves, that not only voting overwhelmingly for donald trump, but i think it s number one in deaths from over dozens. so what do you do? and i believe it was president trump s strongest state in the 2016 general election. he won it by a larger margin than anybody sells. senator capito has been pretty consistent in having concerns about specific aspects of this bill. she s talked about medicaid coverage losses under it. it s very difficult to reconcile with any of the things that senate republican leaders are trying to do. whether she s ultimately get on the motion to proceed is one question she s technically still undecided on that. maybe something like he through to dean heller that he still wan