With the russian story and found zero proof, so now they go for Obstruction Of Justice on the phony story. Nice. Thats trump in tweet. Joining me now are three National Security reporters, charlie savage, adam entous and shane harris. Shane, youve got the story which follows up on what we had last night, that the Special Counsel is looking at the president for Obstruction Of Justice. My question is how do you have to add to that . What you have now is you have the president both trying to convince Director Rogers of the nsa to come out and shoot down these issues of collusion, but also privately still continuing to doubt the very intelligence that the nsa collected that led to the conclusion that russia interfered in the election. Weve seen trump publicly talk about the fact he thinks theyre nothing to russia, but to know that hes now saying this privately and continuing to argue with one of his intelligence chiefs about that, i think really reveals the degree to which this has
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facebook whistleblower frances haugen. she appeared before a joint committee of parliament that s crafting a bill to regulate social media. . we could have a safer platform that will work for everyone in the world, but it could cost little bits of growth and it s a company that lionizes growth. garrett, you and i have talked about this before. it s not day, another hearing. has anything stood out to you so far in this one and in light of the conversation the whistleblower has started? is the will on capitol hill starting to feel any different to you now? reporter: these are all facebook s competitors testifying today. each of them are taking pains to make the point they take additional steps to try to keep
final white house readout. jake, this does come as you re seeing president biden turn to another group of bipartisan senators who are working on crafting a bill essentially a plan b basically if the talks with kapito, the former top republican negotiator, fell through, so that is a conversation we re expecting president biden to have before he leaves tomorrow morning, early attorney general morning, to go to europe, but his aides will still be working behind the scenes on what an infrastructure proposal could actually look like back here in washington while he s overseas because if you listen to chuck schumer, the senator earlier talking about what he envisioned for this, he seemed to be hinting that they could be going on a democrat-only path, that there could be an idea of doing a smaller bipartisan bill or maybe they could pass it with only democratic support because they are not going to be able to pass what they believe the country needs in this big bold way were the words that
comprehensive health plan. this partial repeal bill is designed to get republicans just something to pass. a piece of legislation essentially a place holder that then they can take to a conference committee with the house where the real work of crafting a bill would happen. but here s the thing. as democratic senator points out, a skaltd back repeal bill just so they can get to conference equals unconditional surrender to the bill. since senate would go effectively, would it act as default for negotiations. and negotiations would be minim minimal. the senate gop would have lost all power to repeal it. it would increase the number of people of uninsured people. trump celebrated the passage of the house version in may before later calling it mean, mean, mean. but if the senate in the next
is in the past hour, this one, the so-called skinny repeal, the scaled down version. it would leave 16 million more americans uninsured by 2026 and crucially, also increase premiums by 20%. and it is far from a comprehensive health plan. this partial repeal bill is designed to get republicans just something to pass. a piece of legislation essentially a place holder that then they can take to a conference committee with the house where the real work of crafting a bill would happen. but here s the thing. as democratic senator points out, a skaltd back repeal bill just so they can get to conference equals unconditional surrender to the bill. since senate would go effectively, would it act as default for negotiations.