Care push. Not looking so hot today because for Senate Republicans, all about the scramble to sway the skeptical six ahead of the real test for this bill. A procedural vote happening as early as today. A lot to cover and we have our teams on the ground with all of it. Well start, though, with syria and the white house. Identifying potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the assad regime. You can see the statement there warning if this happens, their military will pay a heavy price. Heres what senator Lindsey Graham who sits on the Armed Services committee had to say just moments ago. An unnerving statement. I dont know what information the president has, but im all for deterring assad from using chemical weapons. Im all for him being replaced. The problem with a Statement Like that if you dont have backup for your military that we see this the same way as the white house is a bit unnerving. Hans nicols at the pentagon. You heard senator graham call it unnerving. Y
The house, you might be hearing tonight in washington come from just about a number of directions. Supporters of the Senate Republican bill to replace the Affordable Care act. Theyre angry at the Congressional Budget Office for estimating the proposal would leave 22 million fewer americans with coverage. Theyre questioning the assessment. But theyre also latching on to parts of it that they like, like the estimated deficit reduction. Womens health advocates, you name it. Just in the past hour and a half or so, two key republicans have broken ranks with their party. Dana bash has late word on that and joins us now. First on the cbo score. What impact is that going to have on the support for the Health Care Bill, especially among moderates . Its already having a big impact. You mentioned a couple of republicans already breaking ranks. The first was a couple of hours ago, senator susan collins, moderate republican of maine tweeting explicitly that it was the report saying that 22 million
The Senate Investigates russian hacking today. Does President Trump believe that the russian government interfered in the 2016 elections . I think i have not sat down and talked to him about that. Hmm, we begin today with the republicans victory in georgia. Karen handel crushing democrats hopes for an upset, winning the seat by nearly 10,000 votes. What it all means. The president s party is now undefeated in a string of special elections this year, and i got quite the team here to break it down with me this morning. I want to start first with msnbcs Garrett Haake live in roswell, georgia. Garrett, yesterday we were saying that this race was a dead heat. Walk us through the last 14 hours. Reporter well, stephanie, in the last few hours of this race, republicans really came home. Republicans feel like they had the stronger closing message. They made a big deal out of the fact that jon ossoff wasnt from this district. They doubled down that he would be an ally of nancy pelosi. In the pri
From a final decision as the Court Decides to hear full arguments in october. And demanding an apology. President trump admits russia interfered in the u. S. President ial election but insists the only collusion or obstruction came from president obama, and hes now demanding an apology. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news, the numbers are just out from the Nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimating that in less than a decade the Senate Republican Health Care Bill would leave 22 million Americans Without Health Care insurance than under obamacare. Within just a year, 15 million more people would be without Health Insurance compared to obamacare. Five republican senators oppose the bill right now, and others are on the fence. Senate Republican Leaders are insisting on a vote this week. The white house says President Trump has made several calls to senators to hear their concerns about the bill. Were standing by to hear from President Trump shortly as he me
Down the table next to the first lady of argentina. Across the table you can see. On the bot dom tom is President Trump. Hans is at the white house. We have been getting information about this. Whatever it is, its unusual. We didnt know about this. What we dont know or maybe we do know, was there any interaction or private conversation between President Trump and president putin . Reporter we know theres a conversation. It appears there werent translaters present. Its unclear how they communicated. Putin speaks a little bit of english. We know the meeting took place. We know theres a conversation. We dont know how long it is. Nbc news has confirmed they did speak. We dont know the duration or the sunbject. This follows on that 2 15 minute meeting earlier in the day. It went over schedule. It was at that meeting that trump announced the mini ceasefire and part of the southwest syria. As of a couple hours ago that ceasefire is still holding. We know that u. S. Troops dont have a presence