Choice. As speaker ryan puts the pressure on, the president seems to be brushing off the mounting opposition from seniors and doctors and hospitals against the American Health care act. President trump tweeted this, quote, despite what you hear in the press, health care is coming along great. We are talking to many groups and it will endi in a beautiful picture lets go to jeff zeleny. We know speaker ryan declared now is the time, this is the plan. Last hour at the white house briefing, the tone seemed to me more open to phases or changes. How did you interpret that . Indeed, brooke. That is definitely the president s plan here. He is saying, look, he is open to making small changes in this. He is listening to all these concerns from these conservative groups. But going back to his tweet for one second, ive talked to a lot of people here and republicans on capitol hill. They were struck by it will be a beautiful picture. They said, look, legislation is seldom beautiful. How the sausage
Treats those remaining contests. Once you vanquished all your rivals, do you keep running in those remaining states . Do you make a show of competing for those contests when you really are the only one left . I think oftentimes the answer to that depends on whether the candidate thinks that he or she has a chance at winning those states in the general election too, so even once the primary is settled if there are competitive states, swing states left on the primary cal, thats a great reason for them to get additional candidate visits, get additional political attention. On the other hand states that are never going to be in contention, states that are firmly red or firmly blue for the general election, they wont get as much attention. A state Like Washington state would not have expected too much in terms of political attention or a hard fought contest on the republican side of the race. John kasich quit the race may 4th. Washington state held its primary 20 days later on may 24th. So
500,000 for a speech. Ed henry in d. C. Tonight. So how did that gag order get lifted, ed, and what do we know about this informant . Interesting. A lot of interesting details coming out today. We have heard the president himself, directory attorney general Jeff Sessions, they lifted this gag order because they felt it was important to do. But a wellplaced source is insisting to us that the decision was made by senior officials inside the Justice Department, not the white house. When it comes to the informant, we know so little about this informant that, in fact, some senators probing the matter say they dont even know his name, but they are about to find out, not just his name, but a lot more information about the informant. That could be bad news for bill and Hillary Clinton. This informant told the fbi about alleged bribery in the uranium market, including charges that Russian Nuclear officials bought influence with large speaking fees for the former president and millions of contri
Angry. He came and grabbed me by the shoulders here and pulled me out of the shower in a rage. Another shakeup at the white house. The resignation of one of the president s closest aides. Staff secretary rob porter resigning wednesday after his two exwives first told the daily mail he physically and verbally abused them. He helped flow the information to the president. He was a frequent presence at trumps side. The daily mail publishing this photo of porters first wife. Multiple outlets are reporting that porter is dating Communications Director hope hicks. Now the question is, who knew what and when . His updated response reads, in part, i was shocked by the new allegations released today against rob porter. Sources say he knew about the two Domestic Abuse charges. Certainly reflects poorly on the general. Which means, kelly didnt care and, even now, is defending this conduct, which is so sickening. He just decided that the white male employee working for him couldnt possibly beat his
Our jobs are cleaning this country. They are going to mexico, they are going to china. Rob time for a curtain call on saturday night lives political playbook, fox and friends first continues right now. Where have you been hiding out until you spend a lot of money everybody is talking about still rock and roll to me jillian both of us bobbing our heads a little bit. A successful friday. Rob a very new york artist every new york song. Jillian a live look outside the building at the plasma were 3 doors down is going to be performing for the summer Concert Series so stop on by. Good morning, you are watching fox and friends first this friday. Rob thanks for getting up early this friday. The bombshell Inspector General report has been released finding fired fbi director james comey was insubordinate in the clinton investigation. Jillian a top investigator vowed to stop donald trump from becoming president. Doug luzader is live with more on this gazing report. A lot to comb through. Reporter