conditions, you cannot now not be denied by insurance companies for your kids and for those americans who have preexisting conditions. those are a big deal. i m sorry, are they bundling those arguments in their television ads or is this just what they re talking about on line in the town hall meetings? no, they re starting to talk about this in town hall meetings and frankly bill: so the statement i just made is still accurate for now. mary catherine, what were you going to say? i actually spent the week watching the first tv ads coming out of the top 64 tossup and leading races races and the house and i felt almost nothing related to health care, unless it was south dakota, saying dinot vote for this. it s very clear that folks are distancing themselves from the president, manchin himself is suing the administration over mining stuff now. bill: that came out yesterday, right? that was something else. the balance of the tv kph-rgs always certainly is
crossing the half-hour now. opening statements and formalities now over, republican senators are ready to grill supreme court nominee elena kagan. she ll face a full day of questioning before the judiciary committee. also on capitol hill today, general david petraeus goes before the senate armed services committee. he s hoping to be confirmed as the new troop commander in afghanistan. and the spies next door. rgs r russia says the arrest of ten people trained as undercover operatives in the united states is regrettable after the obama administration s relations were reset with the country. fbi says for more than a decade this spy ring tried to get their hand on inside intelligence posing as average joes living in the suburbs and trying to cozy up to u.s. policymakers. plus, a hurricane warning along the south texas coastline as the state braces for alex. it s still a tropical storm at this point, but alex could strengthen, according to forecasters, into a category 2
of the campaign sent an internal gop e-mail predicting cris will not win the primary. despite his own endorsement of cris he says if partisanship is all that matters rgs whether or not you supported our endorsement of governor cris, we all share the same goal of keeping the seat in republican hands. let s bring in david weigle. thanks for your time. thanks for having me. from john mccain, party first. what should independents be taking away from this news? that doesn t sound like anything a maverick would do but we know john mccain was never a maverick. independents are watching. the message from this is that the republican party apparatus are going to chase out anyone who makes independent noises. remember the tipping point for cris in the past few days was
to what end? was it going to be a dpod deal for the united states. so talking to a lot of the republicans yesterday, and bob corker told me yesterday this is a minor set back in his view, because i think there was that apprehension what exactly is the united states rushing into? perhaps it s better to wait this out, see what happens, and maybe war could be staved off and they can work with this diplomatic. i m not sure the plug has been pulled. not just the president saying it could still happen. talking to administration folks this morning, still a sense that actually, you know, we could. and to your point about there is a lot you hear from inside the administration rgs that even secretary pompeo, the new secretary of state met twice with kim jong-un was a bit surprised how this happened. because he thought they were still moving forward. understanding there is still some issues to work out and blames it on john bolton working the system. proximity does matter. john bolton has the
the president and his team are sending mixed messages here, but the bottom line is it is hard to imagine that the president s millions of twitter followers are stay something up to speed on his lawyers attempt now to walk back what he said. boris? that s right, athena jones reporting from the white house. thank you, athena. let s talk about the rgs rgs investigation and much more with our panel. ellis henican, brian morganstern, and steve more. steve, start with you. we ve been asking the president and his press corps for several days about whether or not he s under investigation. we got no answer until we saw that tweet. now we hear this seeming reversal. is there a grey area here though where it is possible that the president s tweet and what his lawyer is saying could both be true? anything anything could be true, lately. let me tell you how this works. what you have here is an investigation that we all know is under way about russian