prosecutors. but two and a half weeks ago, june 13th, abc news was first to report that michael cohen is, quote, likely to cooperate with federal investigators. whether or not that story from june 13 is true, michael cohen does not appear to have been upset about that reporting. there was a single byline on june 13. it was george stephanopoulos. michael cohen does not appear to be holding a grudge against george stephanopoulos because this weekend he gave george stephanopoulos his first interview. the first interview in which he has gone on at length about this investigation he s embroiled in. i know this sounds like a little inside baseball but this is worth noting at pivot points in the news. george stephanopoulos was the first person who reported that michael cohen would flip. he also just got the first interview with michael cohen
the floor. that will be a little inside baseball. there s a bigger headline. after all the attacks from the right and some of them with great justification, boy, you shouldn t have done this iran deal. they are going to make this bomb anyway. it s too weak. they can get around it. this is a bad deal. mike pompeo gets up there and says i have no reason to belie th are i any rush to create any kind of nuclear vice. deal or no deal? jaw dropper. it was funny, chris, that was my thought during his testimony yesterday. it was a jaw dropper. he said, a, before the deal was done, iran wasn t rushing to a deal. he doesn t think they are likely to rush. he also said he completely accepts the notion that iran is actually implying wi actually complying with the deal. those are big headline moments. those were the light-producing moments of the hearing, if you
fallout. kate walsh, long-time right hand man of reince iebus, she s been here in the westin and is going to be leaving to shift over to the political arm, the outside group that is working to sort of help president trump promote his policies and agenda out in the rest of america, out in the real world, similar to what former president obama had during his tenure. so it is a bit of a shakeup, the question is how much is this going to resonate or develop as far as other dominos that now may fall inside the west wing? this is a little bit i ve got to say, craig, a little inside baseball, unless you live in d.c. or have connections to the city here, what does it matter? but it is an indication that there is some reassessment happening inside the west wing about leadership, about the way the direction is that they ve been going, as well. josh, let s talk about what s expected to happen later today
when you say fight you mean back the current you have to go to those conservative members of congress and say you ran on this for the last six years, you side you wanted to repeal obamacare. you promised you were going to repeal obamacare. this is your chance. if you don t do it, i m going to campaign in your district and imgoing to tell all of your constituents that you lied to them. jason? what should the president do? i m continually bewildered how the republican party didn t have a bill. as somebody who s helped to elect a lot of these conservatives and republicans, i think what have you guys been doing? a couple things. one, i was glad to hear an openness to potentially making changes that there might be a managers amendment, a little inside baseball, clean this up. several things we need for success for this bill. one, a much better job of making it clear to the american people or reminding them this bill obamacare is heading off a
and make no mistake about it, my friend, that is certainly a possibility. bill: so you have a federal law that prohibits funding for abortion except in case of rape and incest or to save the woman s life. how does the white house get around that ban in order to enact this new rule, kevin? reporter: okay. it s a little inside baseball, but i ve got to walk you through it really simply. inside washington we call this title x money. you may have heard title ix having to do with sports and opportunities for women, but this is title x, and it has to do with the federal family planning program and setting aside money for that sort of ties into what the white house is effectively doing here. because by requiring states to distribute dollars from title x of the public health service act without taking into account whether or not the recipient clinics do abortions or not, this edict lets the states be protected by tying the money to the larger, broader federal programs. and in case you re won