fox news has attacked and said because his wife was involved in democratic politics he somehow is suspect. mccabe was one of the people comey was briefing in addition to the memos to say here s the truth as it happens, why, according to james comey, because the president lied so much he felt he had to commit it to paper and to witnesses. now mccabe is one of the people being attacked so that s according to these leaks about chris wray. the bottom line is a lot of people were keeping track of what s going on and some of them now appear to be according to some of these reports in the white house cross hairs. this is fascinating stuff. thank you. be sure to tune in to the beat with ari melber tonight. i will be watching because i know you ll lay all this out for us. capitol hill has a couple of its own russia investigations under way. garret hague joins us from there now. any reaction there? reporter: lawmakers have been in their weekly policy lunches
lower than virginia although it did pick up. violent crime rose in virginia in 2016 the state has one of the lowest rates of violent crime in the country. garret hague got the reaction to the president s tweets this morning. i appreciate the president s support very much. when you are going to be the governor of the commonwealth of virginia 20 cents of every dollar is a direct federal dollar. you have to have a good working relationship with the president of the united states and the vice president and the cabinet. i will be able to do that. if i m elected today it will not be my job to always be for president trump or against president trump but always for virginia. msnbc s garret joins me live from virginia. the one and only steve kornacki. garret, you have been out there and talking to voters. what are you seeing and hearing? what are you smelling? what are you feeling?
you re reading way too much into george papadopoulos. senate intelligence chairman down playing yesterday s indictments and the guilty plea from papadopoulos. with the news looming over the white house the president is trying to shift attention away pushing long awaited tax reform plan at the white house last hour. the democrats will say the tax bill is for the rich but they know it s not. they don t know the tax bill. the tax bill hasn t been put out yet. it will be out in the next short period of time. house speaker paul ryan will be speaking with the president about the plan which is scheduled to be unveiled tomorrow. garret hague is on the hill. before we get to the tax plan,
the republicans can pass something and what we re seeing is a lot of negotiating. if you want to get something changed, you have to hold out. they have to give it to you. as was pointed out by garret. they have campaigned on this for seven years. to a large extent, this boils down to a discussion about whether or not we re going to claim this as repeal and replace or repair. and of the affordable care act. there is a lot of areas where there is agreement that things need to be changed. and the question for mitch mcconnell is do i have to go to something that is bipartisan or can i fulfill the republican promise of repealing and replacing. how do you get there? you were the health secretary. where is the room for compromise. what do you put in so the balloon doesn t pop from your analogy from earlier? we don t know what cards and
call today. comcast business. built for business. get your popcorn ready for thursday, gang. that is when we could see health care 2.0 on the hill with the release of the senate plan and the reaction of those senators who right now do not support their own party s proposal. nbc garret hague is on capitol hill and we re joined by former