Crowning achievement is officially on the chopping block. Some on the right, many conservatives, are slamming theb bill including americans for prosperity, the club for growthg the Heritage Action committee and many others including author daniel horowitz. He released an article titled rhino care, a more insolvent version of obamacare only this time of the g. O. P. Owns it. Some Congressional Republicans are also raising very serious issues, lets take a look. What is been introduced is not the replacement plan, is not the Obamacare Repeal plan weve been hoping for. Nt this is instead a step in the wrong direction. There better not be a rule that prevents eight amendments that are badly needed. To fix this law bill. Obviously, we have some serious concerns, we havent been shy about the serious concerns as we look at that. With any negotiation, you look at the trade offs, what are the risks versus the rewards. The house bill put forward is obamacare lite come it wonthe work. Premiums and
The news has trump insiders buzzing today with questions swirling about papadopoulos and how an unnamed High Ranking Campaign official was also involved. Some observers suggest the papadopoulos arrest earlier in the summer is part of a Legal Process described to me as climbing the ladder, raising the question, who comes next . The indictments track with an up tick in the president s fury over the russia investigation and what one trump adviser today described as the president s neverwaning anger at his attorney general Jeff Sessions decision to recuse himself from the russia probe. The clearest sign yet that the president feels boxed in on russia. He took to his favorite medium and tried to distract from todays bombshell developments by tweeting this. Quote, sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump Campaign. Why arent crooked hillary and the dems the focus . Also there is no collusion. Lets get to our reporters and guests to break down these extraordinar
good to be with you. maria: first, let s talk about this e-mail from hunter biden to deafen archer. devon archer. it s quite specific. your colleague, ron johnson, is raising his hand about it. some sort of decentralization will likely occur in the east, if it doesn t, the russians will continue to escalate their destabilization campaign which could lead to a full scale takeover of the eastern region. the strategic value is to create a land bridge from russia to crimea. your thoughts on this e-mail and your calls to get a hearingen on what specifically is in these documents that have been identified at unsecured locations. well, the one hinge we know for sure is hunter biden didn t write that. hunter biden is not an expert on ukraine, on eastern europe, on russia. but that e-mail did help get him on the board of burisma. it did help get him paid $83,000 a month because it showed a
are run by de facto regimes that are fully subordinated occupation of georgian territories remains i would say moscow s most efficient instrument to exercise pressure over zelenskyy, and the most efficient hybrid tool of warfare. so do you think that s what ukraine can expect? should it lose even more territory in the south and the east, even if the war ends? a sort of never ending destabilization campaign? i think i think what we see now in ukraine is much different in a sense that russian troops have heavily underperformed in the battle for kyiv the fist couple of weeks of war. the weeks of war have shown a large incompetence, lack of planning, intelligence from the russian side. so this is i think the ukrainian performance as well, resistance
do you have any indication about whether president putin has made a decision on whether to invade? do you feel confident that he hasn t made that decision already? as of this moment i m convinced he s made the decision. we have reason to believe that. to be clear, you are convinced that president putin is going to invade ukraine, is that what you just said a few moments ago? yes, i did. yes. so is diplomacy off the table then? no. until he does, diplomacy is always a possibility. what reason do you have to believe he s considering that option at all? we have a significant intelligence capability. thank you very much. one defense official also commented to nbc news that, quote, the destabilization campaign has begun. russia has been amassing troops along the border with ukraine for months, reportedly waiting for a reason to strike. there are a number of russian troops in belarus, along