this country that said are we in afghanistan? they don t know where afghanistan is, they never encountered a family member of someone serving in afghanistan throughout their day. should we send troops to syria, there are troops in syria being shot at today. serving all over the world. as we are reminded with those two deaths on wednesday, still in harm s way. ahead, starting new comment s from the president about north korea. we will bring in the reporter who interviewed him. plus julie pace who had her own interview with the president that generated one headline after another. and bob costa, covering all the twists and turns in the health care fight. and later, historian michael beslos. after expanding our fiber network coast to coast. these are the places we call home.
figure out the math in congress to get anything through. julie, as republicans continue to kick health care down the road, the closer we come upon the midterm elections, we ve seen what s taking place at republican town halls. i m curious to know your thoughts on whether or not it was a mistake or is it going to be more difficult to sort of appease the more moderate republicans, given that they ve caved in to the freedom caucus the longer they stall on this and can t get an actual bill they could pass? that s a great question. one of the things that you can t forget in all of the conversation about health care is the calendar, the political calendar. so, one of the benefits of trying to move something through quickly even when it s complicated is that you do it when your lawmakers have some distance from their next election. and the longer that this goes on, you re going to see, in particular, moderate republicans who are going to be going back to their districts, who are going to