good morning, we ve got breaking news overnight. marathon meetings, two house committees pulling all nighters, one pushing through the gop health care bill and other now debating it for nearly 24 hours straight. here we are 4:24 in the morning a full-court press, president trump meeting with con seservat groups at the white house, many opposed to his new plan. the question, did he actually convince them? i don t think it was a lip service but maybe i m overly optimistic. plus, trump s man in russia, former utah governor jon huntsman tapped. julian assange speaking out this hour. we are going to begin this morning of course with the administration s push to get its own party behind the health care bill. house republicans push to just get out of committee. it took 18 hours to get the bill
that when it s wikileaks and who has an ongoing relationship with russia that we know with our intelligence community. we ll take you to that press conference in a few minutes. is jon huntsman who has a strong reputation, picking up a hot trump s potential ties or the trump campai s ties to russia? it s not like they have been friends before. i mentioned that tweet. last night ted cruz bringing his wife and daughters to the white house for dinner. i mean not just what president trump said about ted cruz wife and torched her for working at goldman and now flanged by three goldman people in the white house. what goes on in the minds of these guys saying, yep, this is a team i want to get on. it s kind of interesting, he suffers no political consequence for these things he said and the one about huntsman i think huntsman is probably a good pick for russia. he can t give away to the united states to russia by comparison to china, we almost do no trade
joining in the investigation and finally, we think these documents actually are authentic and this cia was aware of a breach at the end of last year. so this investigation could have been ongoing for some time. it s important to note in the cyber space that the cia as well as the pentagon works with outside contractors. plugging the leaks isn t as simple as seeing who inside the peg and cia had access. this is a broader net and that s where they are going to start the focus of their inquiry. talk to me a minute about utah governor jon huntsman accepting the nomination for u.s. ambassador to russia. it means russia will have a potential meddler on their hands. when jon huntsman was ambassador to china, president barack obama s first a.m. bambassador china, he would be spotted out speaking mandarin and attending democracy rallies and someone that mixes things up, whether in republican primaries or serving
china. why do you think he would tap jon huntsman for a role like this? i mean, i have no idea, given the level of criticism to be honest. some have speculated that it was another way to kind of diss mitt romney but that s speculation, i don t really know. what i think is serious here, really serious is how much russia has a continuing involvement not just in our election, not just in the months before the election but it seems that they could likely have a continuing involvement to undermine american democracy. and what i find deeply disturbing is that i have for a president who tweets a whole heck of a lot, he has not i haven t seen him talk a lot about what s happened here with the cia and wikileaks. this is a real threat to our national security and that s what the president is job is to protect our national security. doesn t seem he s as focused on
as a diplomat. this would be his third tour. he was ambassador to singapore then under obama ambassador to china now will get russia. it s a question of how good of a lingist is john huntsman, fluent in mandarin. we ll see how quickly he picks up russian. you did it in 48 hours, you get the alphabet down then you re fine. for me it s i like spicy food and i also like vodka and caviar, you ve got a real global citizen on your hands. i want to bring the panel back here. i want to start with you for a moment. president trump has been critical of jon huntsman in the past and i know we can say that he has been massivally critical of everyone, but he had written, jon huntsman called to see me an i said no. he gave away the country to