Bill. It would be limited to repealing the obamacare is of individual and employer mandates and the medical device tax. The measure would go to conference to cut a deal with the house. After the procedural vote, Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell pledged to keep working to get there and noted democrats doug two struggled with passing obamacare. We watched a similar process seven years ago. They had a lot of differences. We are going to sort this out with a so thoroughly open amendment process and a situation where 51 votes can change the bill. This democratic leader tried to convince moderate republicans to oppose this effort. Dont be fooled by this ruse. A vote in favor of the motion to proceed will mean deep cuts to medicaid, it may be even deeper than in the house bill. It wont be an easy lift going forward, but leadership was able to get past the first hurdle and has an opportunity to keep working at it to keep a Campaign Promise going back
seven years. Bret live on the hill, thank yo
democrats jumped on the revelation a second whistleblower has come forward. whether they were in the room or had firsthand knowledge or talked to somebody with firsthand knowledge people who were in the very core of all of these events are saying this can t happen anymore. again, the president s problem is not with the democrats or adam schiff but the fact the people around him are saying we can t tolerate this anymore. at this point we expect the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. on the hill tomorrow and former ambassador to ukraine is scheduled to appear friday. republicans are trying to keep the heat on house intelligence chairman adam schiff. schiff has been under intense pressure for his depiction of president trump s call during the initial house intelligence hearing and his description of his committee s contact with the whistleblower. we shouldn t have to take adam schiff s word for it with a wordsmith press release or tweet. there is not much and we don t really need to look
about a range of issues that the committee has been concerned about. i found it was straightforward, forthcoming. he wanted to answer every question that we had. on twitter, the president seems to mock the congressional russian pope to my prose. jared kushner did very well yesterday proving he did not collude with the russians. witch hunt, up 11 year old darren trump. a source today at fox news that the subpoena has been withdrawn in the last few minutes. senator dianne feinstein has told fox news that manafort and donald trump, jr., will not be appearing tomorrow at the public hearing. they are looking for a date on the calendar in september, in the meantime, they are saying they are trying to get all the records from both witnesses before the meeting. bret: one of the members at today s house intelligence hearing, congressman trey gowdy, the chairman of the house oversight committee jointly right now to talk about all of this.
after fbi director james comey disclosed the investigation during a house intelligence hearing. quote, can we ask him to shut down the investigation? are you able to assist in this matter? one official told the washington post about the line of questioning from the white house. according to the post, trump s conversation with admiral rogers was documented at the time in an internal memo written by a senior nsa official. and nbc cites a former senior intelligence official confirming that rogers and coates exchanged notes about their conversation with the president. the former official says the two men did not believe they were being asked to do something illegal, but were sufficiently concerned that they took care to write it down. the white house told the post it will not confirm or deny unsubstance eighted claims based on illegal leaks from anonymous individuals. coates and rogers will both testify on capitol hill in
kentucky right now, speaking at a campaign-style rally. ryan nobles is there. the president is speaking right now. has he responded yet to the fbi director s comments? reporter: he has not, anderson. and it s pretty interesting, because he s been speaking now for more than 25 minutes to a raucous crowd in louisville, kentucky. no mention whatsoever about the hearings that took place today in washington, and the president himself has not responded directly at all. the only response we ve seen to this point has been a series of tweets from the official potus account which could have been run by anybody at the white house, where throughout the hearing they were refuting some of the claims made and also taking out of context some of the things that were said as well. as i said before, anderson, 25 minutes into this speech, no mention by the president at all about these serious accusations that were leveled this morning at that hearing. we should point out, the tweet we talked about was