committees do their jobs. there is a health committee, a finance committee, we re there to work on health care issues and make improvements. i had a round table yesterday with families of kids who were disabled. when you cut medicaid as this bill does, by total of about a trillion three over ten years if you add up their bill and president trump s budget, 16% of medicaid recipients in virginia are children. i met with children and their families yesterday and the stories they told me about how medicaid cuts would affect them are heart breaking. if we get this in committees, we can have a hearing and let the family members testify. but the effort to do it behind closed doors not only doesn t include democrats, but more importantly doesn t include the public. senator tim kaine, thank you so much, sir. thanks for being with us today. you bet, thanks so much. coming up, more on our breaking news, donald trump jr. s e-mail exchange with the business associate offering, quote, russia
probe. the story, and i need your patience, i m sorry, a secret of piece of intelligence intercepted from the russians spurs the fbi director to deliver one of the most dramatic moments of the 2016 election. that damming press conference that ended with word there would be no charges against democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton. what was the piece of intelligence in according to source whose spoke to the post, the russian document cited an e-mail exchange between debbie wasserman schultz and benardo. the u.s. intelligence community had assessed that the hurussian hacked the committee during the campaign. the post says this piece of intelligence wasserman schultz told benardo that they promised a cl campaign staffer that the investigation would not go too far. if the e-mail existed it would proof of what the republicans
and they can also explain how the last white house dealt with these issues and lawmakers we expect will test whether their actions were appropriate or perhaps politically driven in this case, shep. shepard: walk us through this incidental collection and why that may be crucial today. we talked a lot about it on your show and very early into this, which was totally the right move. but it s really worth sort of decoding it. when the u.s. government is tracking a foreign target like a russian ambassador, they don t actually need to go to a fisa court because they re not an american citizen. they is surveil or trap their communications. so phone calls, text messages, e-mails. but in the process, they pick up who is on the other end of the phone or on the other end of the e-mail exchange or on the other end of the text. that s called incidental collection. in this case, what we know from our reporting is that there was incidental collection. at least with mike flynn and
tape were locker room talk. but since then 12 women have come forward alleging he did to them almost exactly what he told billy bush he likes to do to women he finds attractive. now there s today s news that fbi director james comey turns up e-mails related to clinton s private e-mail server. the source of those new e-mails, an unrelated investigation into elicit text messages exchanged between a 15-year-old girl and anthony weiner, the estranged husband of hillary clinton s closest aide, huma abedin. on the eve of an election that could give us the first woman president of the united states. you have this piece earlier in the year, of course, it s donald trump. of course it would have to be donald trump to be the first woman would have to hurdle over like the billie jean king beating bobby riggs, this cartoonish misogynist. today we have an e-mail exchange. of course, of course it would be the case that down the stretch anthony weiner of all people,
hotel in washington, d.c. we will be listening for that for any campaign news. if that happens, we will bring it to you. at the same time, we are watching this. a brand new batch of hacked e-mails posted by wikileaks, this time it s about the biggest controversy that s faced hillary clinton s campaign. her use of private e-mail servers and what those closest to her said about it as the story was breaking. want to bring in adam hodge, communications director for the democratic national committee. great to see you again. i want to read to you part of the release we just got from wikileaks of the hacked e-mails. it s an e-mail exchange between neera tanden and john podesta. this was early on. why didn t they get this stuff out like 18 months ago. so crazy. she s talking about hillary clinton s e-mail server. podesta responds unbelievable. neera, i guess i know the answer. they wanted to get away with it. my question to you is get away with what? look, john, let s be clear. what we k