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
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Washington. Im elizabeth prann. Leland im trying to figure out a saturday that wasnt busy in recent memory. Nice to be with you. Im leland vittert. Its the weekend, but President Trump is getting ready for the election mode. We have endorsements for republicans ahead of primary elections this year and new details for the president s plan for hitting the Campaign Trail for some g. O. P. Candidates in vulnerable districts around the country. Ellison barber travelling with the president up in new jersey at his golf club. Hi, ellison. Hey, leland, President Trump has spent a lot of time on the road of late. Hes set to head to tampa on tuesday for a Campaign Rally there. Traditionally in election mid term years, the party, no matter who it is, whoever is in the oval office, their party tends to lose seats, but President Trump says he is confident that this year republicans can buck that trend. I am going to work very hard. Ill go six or seven days a week
when were 60 days out and i will be
Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. When a meeting of that nature, would it constitute a violation of the law . You have to look at what laws, rules, Regulation Statutes are violated here. When did you learn that the Denial Wasnt True . Well, let me tell you two things on that. I was on the case a couple of weeks, and there was a lot of Information Gathering and as Rudy Giuliani said, i had Bad Information at that point. In a situation like this, you have over time, facts develop. Thats what investigations do. Lets start with nbcs white house correspondent, Kelly Odonnell who was covering the president in new jersey first. Before we g to to to the rest o great panel this sunday. What are you hearing right now . The president is certainly going after the Special Counsel today, isnt he . Reporter well, good to be with you, richard, and the president is really hitting a number of his major frequent targets, the Special Counsel, the medi
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. To roll the dice and gamble. I think the question of a pardon is huge. And intimidating to the whole process here and the president is wise to step back and not do that because the act of that and interesting to see. The mueller team can look at that as destructive conduct. In these circumstances what is best for him and, honestly, the best thing to do is not to plead but to cooperate, as well. Reverend al sharpton who is one of the few people that Michael Cohen has reached out to to discuss where his head is at but right now where his head is at but what about exactly is going to happen. He has come to an agreement with the prosecutors in the Southern District of new york. That is not the Mueller Investigation. We need to figure out what role the Mueller Investigation is going to have in this agreement. In the end, this all has to be presented to a federal judge,
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Were used to seeing from the president. Perhaps this statement was lawyered, it was in response to a request that my colleague Ashley Parker and i made to sarah sanders, first to interview the president. He wasnt available for an interview, but she offered to get a statement from him which he provided. Look, its important because he seems to be creating some wiggle room for his son. We know from our reporting that theres anxiety in the president s inner circle including by the president himself who has fretted to associates and friends that hes worried about don jr. , worried that there could be some legal jeopardy, legal exposure there, and theres a feeling in the orbit that something could potentially happen in the next few weeks. We dont know what that might be. But this maybe the president trying to protect himself, distance himself from anything that may be afoot with his son. All right. So theres the issue of the Trump Tower Meeting which we know mueller has a good deal of inform