Signature law. Much of the criticism has been on the lack of a replacement plan by republicans. We are not going to see it repealed and have no replacement there at all. But theres real consequences. Thelg Care Coverage for 20 million meamericans is at stake. House Speaker Paul Ryan pressed by one of the Americans Last night at a cnn town hall. Why would you repeal the Affordable Care act without a replacement. We wouldnt do that. We want to do this at the same time and in some cases in the same bill. We want to advance repealing this law with its replacement at the same time. Well move on this as quickly as we can. We dont want to fund abortion. Tax rate dollars dont Fund Abortions right now. Right but they get a lot of money and money is fundable and it floats these organizations. And breaking several times from the views of the president elect ryan delivers tough talk on russian president vladimir putin. Russia say menace. A global menace lead by a man that is menacing. Vladimir put
Campaign between Donald Trumps associates and russians known to u. S. Intelligence. Pamela brown and evan perez broke this story along with jim sciutto, manu raju. Pamela and evan are out front. Let me start with you, pamela. What are you learning tonight . Cnn is told the fbi refused a request to knock down media reports about communications during the 2016 president ial campaign, between Donald Trumps associates and russians known to u. S. Intelligence. Multiple u. S. Officials telling cnn the white house sought the help of the bureaus and other agencies investigating the matter, to say the reports were wrong and there had been no contacts whatsoever. Youll recall cnn and the New York Times first reported that just over a week ago, the reports about these contacts that were made during the campaign. Erin, so far the white house has not commented. This was a very significant report. Evan, this is not a typical request. Its pretty stunning when you hear it on the face of it. How did it
Hearing but at an anything but routine time. What are we expecting here . Reporter youre absolutely right. The first testimony from fbi director james comey since the march hearing when he did divulge very carefully without giving statement beyond the simple statement that the fbi was investigating alleged russian meddling into the 2016 president ial election. There are going to be a lot of questions about that from both sides of the aisle. Youre right. Im here outside the senate room. The Judiciary Committee with a Standard Oversight Committee raerg. Very auspicious given everything thats happened, given the fact that Hillary Clinton spoke yesterday and laid much of the blame for her defeat at the feet of the fbi director. He just walked into the room. Didnt have a comment. Its all against the backdrop. Continuing to tweet is donald trump, the president tweeting this morning, fbi director comey was the best thing that happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for man
Questions the president may or may not have known. That assumes a lot. Mister kushners attorney has said he volunteered to share with congress what he knows about these meetings. What your question assumes is a lot of facts that are not substantiated by anything but Anonymous Sources that are leaked out. Reporter the mastermind behind the operation shutdown suggestions that there was any collusion with russia. The United States, we have access to the best data and the data we use on this campaign directly came from the Republican National committee and after the 2012 election to build a data set like never seen before. We didnt need data from anyone else. It was in the United States of america and the best data is here. All that is available to corporations in america are other people in america. Heather Michael Flynn agrees to provide documents to the Senate Intelligence committee has part of the investigation after invoking his fifth amendment rights refusing to testify earlier in th
It was an unprecedented attack on the very heart of american democracy. Russia is directly beene the series of cyber attack targeting the upcoming election. That in one remarkable year catapulted russia, the old cold war advair, one again to the center of american politics and the american sighky on an almost daily basis. I think every american should be concerned about what the russians did. Tampering a presidency. I own nothing in russia, i have no loans in russia, i dont havefully deals in russia. And jurn mining and ending the career of top president ial advisers. The president was very concerned that general flynn has misled the Vice President and others. The president s First National security adviser Michael Flynn fired for lying about conversations with russia. State the obviouses you dont want your National Security adviser compromised with the russians. His attorney general jeff sessions. I have recused myself in the matters. Forced to recuse himself from all russia investiga