is that the president s job? is that congress job? it s everyone s job. every single member who is going to go home for the fourth of july in the house and the senate ought to have a set of positive talking points. they ought to talk about what they are going to do in a positive way, how they are going to lower premiums, how they are going to bring back the insurance companies to places that don t have any choices anymore. i think there are thousand counties with no choice. because obamacare has crushed the marketplace so decisively. they need to talk about how you can use, for example, high risk poll pools so everyone is covered. you don t have to have obama style centralized bureaucratic system that is groskly expensive which is the other thing. we are the party that wants to get to a balanced budget. the democrats are the party that wants to spend everything they can find. so by definition they are going to promise more than we are. when we need to have the courage to say that.
lightning. minor injuries reported as well, bill, mostly related to the heat. back to you. bill: claudia cowan east coast bureau. shannon, what s next? shannon: video of a gunman caught up in deadly shootout with police. the dramatic images and the back story on that next. plus, republicans trying to sell their healthcare plan making the case simply that well, obamacare has got to be replaced. is that a good enough message? is it getting through? newt gingrich has a few ideas of his own. but, first, dr. krauthammer. what the republicans, particularly the president, does not seem to understand is that making the case that obamacare is dead is not working.
tougher for everybody than the trip to saudi arabia. i m sure he ll be vigorous in stating his positions and good for the others to hear that. shannon: dr. krauthammer wanted to hear more from the president about russia. a real threat along with emphasis on terrorism. what do you think? on one of the rare occasions that i ll disagree with charles. this was a very brief speech to dedicate the memorial to 9/11 and the berlin wall and specifically the article v issue which the president also addressed. i think that you could have added a lot of other things, too. he could have talked about nato s decision making but it was a very positive address on what, after all, is the most successful alliance the united states has had and in human history. shannon: in 2014 russia was kicked out of this alliance. it is now down to a one-day meeting. russia is on the list, syria,
brad, you re an attorney first in life. is the there there at this point? i don t think so. look, the f.b.i. has been looking at this for 10 months. it is based on evidence that i believe has already been gathered as far as electronic eavesdropping by international intelligence agencies, which is the c.i.a. they don t do domestic spying. mueller shouldn t have any problem reviewing the 10 months worth of work and coming up with a conclusion immediately clearing the president. that s first and foremost his job is to take the cloud away so the president can get on with doing the business of the people. bill: krauthammer s point is nobody can locate the crime. marie, can you? his other point is everything president trump has done make him looks guilty even if no crime and collusion is found. bill, can you imagine if president trump had not fired jim comey? we would be sitting here today probably talking about something else. we would not have a special
those activities with director mueller and the f.b.i. so that we don t inadvertently interfere or impede his investigation. we don t have any indication that any of these congressional investigations will slow down. the top democrat on the senate intel committee told me yesterday that they are really speeding things up right now and from warner s perspective there have been able to be congressional investigators doing their thing while a special prosecutor does their thing. he doesn t think it will be a problem. we ll hear from some of these lawmakers after they talk to the deputy attorney general who is in the building now hopefully within the next couple of minutes. bill: a busy two hours. peter doocy, on the hill there. shannon: a new op-ed from krauthammer suggesting the structure of our political system can t contain president