face-to-face meeting with vl vladimir putin at the g20 summit. how will he stay on message? senior congressional reporter for the washington examiner. david, great to see you again. the senate bill that was scored by the cbo that senator dean heller of nevada says he won t vote for, where are we with that? are they still tweaking it, going back to the drawing board or what? it s a little of both. looking for ways they can bring conservatives and moderates along, satisfy a lot of concerns about the medicaid expansion. some people want more money to fight opioid buchlts have you conservatives on the right that want a more aggressive repeal of the obamacare regulatory regime, believing that is what is required to reduce premiums and deductibles. i think that they re spending the week exploring all of their options. allison, i would expect these negotiations and this effort to extend for most of the month of july. i don t expect any major
weekend. it s red meat for his base, and it makes him feel like it feeds the narcissistic beast that people are talking about him, and it varies the story of obama care is popular. we can talk about both of these things. i can walk and chew game at the same time, but you get this one. ben sass has been speaking out. he also had this tweet. random quote as we re loading four-wheelers. hey, uncle ben, did you know the president used to be a professional wrestler? if that s the take away, david, is that trump winning or losing here? i think trump thinking he s winning. he looks at this different than a typical politician. one day when we look back and play a word game and said what one word defines trump s presidency, we can look back on
miners. you are having industry leaders saying they are going to withdraw from presidential commissions and they are saying this isn t the way to actually create jobs. it is going to decrease jobs and it is a really poor decision in terms of leadership, dipmatically, but also economics. so the eu in china came out with a joint statement today and they say climate and energy refer mags, that means new tech in terms of renewables is a, quote, significant driver of job investment opportunities and economic growth. jobs, the president loves jobs. trump wants more jobs here. do you think this is seeding the way to china, david and then general, to take over and to take over in that and to create more jobs than here? possibly. the obama put a lot of money into solar. it didn t work out. i think it is more of a chance for china to lead dipmatically. the president faces another deadline today. he s got to decide whether or
angela merkel and later with the european union. he had pretty choice words about climate change saying climate change is a global challenge no country can develop outside this issue. so clearly it is a big issue here in this visit and one with the europeans and the chinese are already talking about broadening cooperation. and that s certainly something that really looks as though america might be on the fringing if the u.s. decides to exit that agreement, guys. in london, thank you for the reporting. joining us now to talk about it, former general and a cnn global affairs analyst. nice to have you both here. david, let me begin with you. these are terse warnings from angela merkel, you know, the head of the european union. not only did he say china will fill the vacuum. he also said the law is the law. everyone must adhere to it. not everything that is written into international agreements is
over here. you wonder what conversations they have had and what the parameters are about what he can and cannot say. it is certainly an open question. david druker on the subject of what the president is saying. it was on twitter this morning saying the big story is the unmasking and surveillance of people that took place during the obama administration. this maybe not surprisingly not coincidentally at all follows devin nunes, a close ally of the white house issuing subpoenas. you know devin nunes. you report on him. you get a sense of what he s doing here. he sort of separated himself from the investigation. now he s issuing subpoenas. what s going on here with the chairman. yeah, look, i m not surprised. first of all we need to step back for a minute and understand that chairman nunes was exercised about the unmasking issues going all the way back to january or february when the stories about michael flynn first broke and everybody was wondering where the leaks might have come f