it, but it is interesting that flynn immediately started bringing up those comments around the senate testimony, i think it was originally, that he would be interested in maybe in exchange for immunity. but you re saying immunity for what? the other thing that s been pretty well note second dod is consistently changed his financial disclosured. you wonder if it has anything to do with how the investigations are proceeding. wow. i was going to go to bob. bob, you ve seen your share of investigations over the years. what s the significance here of a grand jury being impanelled in washington? there s an existing grand jury in alexandria, virginia but now moving one inside washington d.c. what does that tell you? this has always been a very serious investigation. the tentacles, if you were to
arrests. some people made it upstairs, 15 activists crowded into the office, wrote him a song to he s a jolly good fellow expect they changed the word to you should vote no on health care. protesters were less jolly here, yelling, your job is on the line. eventually they were kicked out of that office. they parked themselves on the floor right outside the senator office door. police made more arrests there. include this woman in a wheelchair who kept chanting. more than 30 people were arrested at the capitol today. while they were going on, a group stopped a bunch of senators at their d.c. offices. they call thoechlss the little
today or tomorrow. we knew from senator mcconnell s vote that he wanted a vote by thursday. an impending vote can be something that presses the point, makes people decide what they re going to do. so we knew those triggers were coming. but then this weekend senator john mccain was admitted for emergency surgery or admitted for surgery to repair a blood clot. we re told that was serious surgery, the reaction in political terms from republicans was that they wanted to delay their vote until senate mccain was recovered and back in washington. obviously everybody wishes senator mccain the best. it was a little jarring to see the political response immediately from his party that the way they re responding was by holding off this vote. that s what they said. then we learned that the cess n congressional budget office wouldn t be putting out their score today or tomorrow. all that meant is the triggers that were going to happen this
and still pass this thing, what we have been expecting is that that would sort of open the flood gates and you would get, in all likelihood, you will get a whole bunch more senator saying no once some people have sort of broken the ice there. so what frank was saying about expecting the moderate senators to sort of all pour out now saying we re all no votes on this as well. i will tell you from perspective of my staff f staand steve s ex which i trust a lot, this that is what a lot of people 0 expecting. this year we ve learned to expect the unexpected. we tend to look at news from congress as to what happens there is driven by forces that are prurly inside washington, d.c. you re covering stuff in washington and so you look around in washington to see what explains what just happened. i continue to believe, though, that if you really want to understand why republicans are failing again to pass their health bill, right, why
timi timing, it was me observing this out of washington in terms of what i expected. did people expect that tonight would be the night we would get a whole bunch more republican senators saying no? there wasn t the expectation that this is going to happen tonight. i think that there was an expectation that most of these republican senators who were on the fence were waiting on the cbo score and now that had been delayed we were expecting the announcements to happen once that came out. but there was also an expectation that folks, they didn t want to be the one senator one the one that doomed the bill. so the idea that senators lee and moran came out together and did this together, it makes it a lot of sense. it allows them to be able to do it together, now it s four, not three. neither one of them is the one senator that decided to be the nail in the coffin for this current version of the bill. but, you know, notably, you know, somebody like jerry moran,