fbi. he wasn t vetted until at least eight years in by the press. he was given quite a honeymoon. trump didn t get three weeks, right? and it s kind of like the where s dave bratt piece. the press has been all over let s gi him a month or two and see what he can achieve. thank you for joining us tonight. we appreciate it. you bet, thanks katy. april analyst and a former advisor to senator rand paul and your political senior write we are politico. let s react to congressman bratt. elise, what do you make of that?
slimmer marginally two votes to work with. and four republican senators who have signed a letter saying we re not willing to do this if it doesn t keep the medicaid expansion. and at the same time you have enough conservative senators, rand paul and ted cruz and mike lee who said if you don t do that quickly enough, you won t vote for the bill either. the senate remains by far the harder challenge to balance those conservative and moderate factions. they need the senate at some point are they going to need to find a way to work for democrats? is that possible at this point? katy, i don t think so, no. chuck schumer is definitive. as long as this is cast as a repeal bill of obamacare, there s just no way. democrats are likely to hold firm on this. i think if this was something that republicans managed to do. if they got passed and chuck schumer said this privately or we ve reported that he said this privately, if they get passed that kind of initial, okay, republicans have got telho
state rex tillerson saying today, all options are on the table when it comes to north korea. north korea must understand that the only path to a secure, economically prosperous future is to abandon it s development of nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other weapons of mass destruction. during a news conference with south korea s foreign minister, tillerson appeared to imply that the u.s. would consider ung military force as a way of preventing an attack, a first strike not just in means of retaliation. that might not play too well in china which is the next stop on tillerson s first trip to asia as secretary of state. nbc s hans nichols joins us from the pentagon. hans, how significant is this for the u.s. to say that they don t believe the diplomacy has worked and they are willing or even thinking about taking first action? katy, this is a new policy. not just the all options on the table which other presidents of the defense secretaries have said, but the fact that it wa
involving president-elect trump and there s no american fingerprints on this. the british spy agency issuing a rare and angry statement calling the allegation ridiculous. but is the white house actually sorry? now spooirs is telling reporter s he doesn t regret anything about those comments, and he says he never said sorry. the white house says he was simply citing news reports. joining me now, ali rousey in lond london. and ali, let s again with you in london. how is the uk reacting to this? well, katy, the british are clearly furious about. it. so much so that gchq, one of the three agencies took the unusual of breaking with protocol and commenting on the story. something they would normally never do. they said, quote, the rect allegations of wiretapping of the then presint-elect are nonsense. they re utterly ridiculous and should be ignored. a spokesman for the prime minister weighed in saying, prime minister theresa may
weighed in calling the allegations ridiculous. saying they were assured they wouldn t be repeated. now the u.s. has agreed not to repeat the claims, but some here don t feel that s enough. a former british foreign secretary told the bbc and i m quoting here, he said that s not the same thing as saying it didn t happen, it s not the same thing, it was rubbish in the first place. people here are expecting the white house or the spokesperson to come out and say not only this is unclear or in it may or may not have happened. they want to come out and say this was untrue and absolutely rubbish. they re very angry here, but still being somewhat diplomatic, katy. what s the potential damage? look, i mean sean spicer should regret this. and he should apologize whether privately or publicly. because there s an enormous degree of damage to our credibility abroad. and this is with our strongest ally in the world. i mean, i keep thinking about what a phone call must have been like or what it s