and casey, while you were talking, we watched the bus carrying the senators arrive at the white house complex, so we anticipate that meeting gets under way in a few moments from now. i think you bring up a critical point, though, which is about fatigue. the president not ready to give up, though, as you point out. let me read you his tweet from earlier today, i ll be having lunch at the white house today with republican senators concerning health care. they must keep their promise to america. the republicans never discuss how good their health care bill is and it will get even better at lunch time, the dems scream death as o-care dies. one thing fascinating to me is that tweet perhaps would have been helpful several days ago. while that initial bill to repeal and replace was hanging in the balance. is there a sense on capitol hill that the president really seated his role here in trying to get this piece of legislation over the finish line? i do think that there is a sense that the
the kansas secretary of state, and the man heading up this commission. thank you so much for joining us secretary. you had your first meeting today, you laid out several priorities for the group, but none of them involved hacking into the election. is that something that was left out of the meeting today? will you be looking into it? whoever briefed you might have missed it. we did mention that as one of the topics. the security of our election voter registration rules. and i also note that the commission did take information at this first meeting about proving cases of voter fraud. one of them introduced documented of 938 convictions from the year 2,000. .
would be be interested in hearing what she had to say. and what about the fact that she was described by don jr. as just a russian lawyer, she has connections also, connections in fact to some very powerful people in moscow. well, it is complete nonsense she s just a russian lawyer. she s a russian lawyer, who represents a very powerful high level family in the putin regime. the patriarch of the family is a vice president to one of most important state owned companies, he use ed to be the vice governor of the moscow region, region bigger than france. and most importantly he s a real insider in the putin regime. he was paying the bills, paying huge bills to hire lobbyists to do this. this is a government sponsored putin directed operation, this is not some private initiative of natalia veselnitskaya. what about some of the other players who were present at that meeting who we now learned were present at that meeting?
house with senators today, they must keep their promise to america. and it will get even better at lunchtime. dems scream death as o-care dies. here is how the senators were sounding off before the meeting. if we fail, i imagine there will be consequences. we have some time to get this right, and i m still generally confidence we will. for seven years they said if you elect us, we will repeal obama care. we will look like fools if we can t deliver on that promise. our political reporter for nbc news is on capitol hill as well. it looks like you re in the washington news room. i can t tell. sometimes those screens are getting so good.
told him about that? the reason i know about this meeting is purely because of america s allies find the fact that what trump was doing not in terms of breaking any laws, but his ins difference to the g 20 unit. he has no problem showing off. understanding the dynamics at play here, what is going on? he knew going on that angela merkel said she was trying to preserve the global market system, keep a contact in place about climate change. that she would be warmer and cozier with russia? do you think he was deliberately doing that? i think donald trump for