campaign foreign policy adviser, carter page. the fbi has its own investigation. indeed, none of the four charges in the mueller probe actually referenced the dossier. now, earlier this year, we did report that some of these allegations have been have been, in fact, verified. pam, republicans on capitol hill have raised significant concerns because of the revelation that the dossier was effectively paid for by a law firm retained by the dnc and the clinton campaign. so gop lawmakers have been trying to learn more about that matter. so expect them to raise more concerns and dig deeper into this in 2018, pam. all right. manu raju, thank you very much. and joining me now, ron brownstein, cnn senior political analyst and senior editor for the atlantic. paris dinard, commentator and former director of black outreach in the george w. bush administration, and michael nutter, cnn political contributor and former mayor of
things that democrats and republicans can agree on like infrastructure and other things that americans care about and put more people back to work. and the president said he hopes there will be a bipartisan effort to focus on infrastructure. paris, i want to give the final word to you. sure. go ahead. look, the president is is going to do something that is positive for the american people. when you look at repealing obamacare. he wants to do this because he campaigned on it, but he knows at the end of the day that it s a bad policy, and it s going to hurt more people in the long run than it s going to help. the reason he wants to have it done is because there are parts of it that are bad. there are parts that are beneficial to people like like the pre-existing condition which he would not take out. we have got to get to the bottom of this. for the senate at the end of the day, the senate failed to act. the house repealed it. the senate failed to act. senate has got to do so
in the states that decided the election. and that s where we will be a year from now heading into the 2018 election. republicans in congress will be dealing with big premium increases in states that will be critical battlegrounds in the 2018 election. that was the bed they had chosen to make. we ve got to wrap up. but it is worth noting, though, that enrollment is still high. obamacare, i think something like 8.8 almost nine million. with even more limited time frame to enroll. thank you all, ron, paris paris and things going up thank you all. got to wrap it there. thanks. ready to mediate. now russia says it wants to help de-escalate tensions between the u.s. and north korea. we re live from moscow. and the president says dems and republicans will come together on health care. really? we ll ask a democratic lawmaker. plus, just plain scary. snow and ice sends jetblue passengers a frightening ride.
not he lies a lot. he says things that aren t true. that s the same as lying, i guess. you know, 3 to 5 million people voted illegally, there was a new one about people going from massachusetts thousands and thousands in a bus. yeah. and, you know, that is not the norm for a president of the united states or actually for a human being. that s democratic senator al franken. and no laughing matter, citing unnamed republican senators as he speculates about the president s mental health. that will be our starting off point with paris dinard, and matt bennett. matt, first to you. you may not like the man in the oval office, but is it really
fair or a good use of senator franken s time talking about something like this publicly? kate, remember where this came up first. it was on the bill maher show first, he was kind of joking, he was talking about this in the context of a funny segment he was doing on a comedy show. then jake asked him about it yesterday. but the fact of the matter is, you don t have to be sigmund freud to think this guy has a fairly serious narcissistic personality order. he s consumed with himself. he s easily flattered and distracted. and as senator franken noted, he lies all the time. this is a serious problem. whether he s diagnosable or not not the issue. the question is, is he stable. paris? i was looking on the label to see if i saw doctor below