swing the presidential election to donald trump. one of the reuters reporters that broke that story, ned, either talk about that think tank. how do we know they are linked to vladimir putin. this is not a think tank in the sense of western think tank, council on foreign relations or brookings, this is an in-house government research policy shop whose chief is appointed by putin and whose ranks and the head of this think tank internal kremlin policy shop is actually a former head of currently a former head of russia s foreign intelligence service. so it s a place for spies or former spies, and it reports to president putin. and you and your co-writers write that putin had the objective in mind all along. he asked the institute to draw up a road map to try to swing the election. was this a road map about
to believe that someone in that relationship in a policy shop, which, let s just be honest, i mean, donald trump s policy shop from the standpoint of putting forth a lot of detailed proposals, that was not his strength. that s not what he did. and what sam was basically doing was usually just sort of taking people coming in, trying to get that information, put forth some ideas to the campaign. but again, it was not the highest level inner circle of the campaign. so, i sort of see this as what happened in my presidential campaign you get lots of people that want to come in, they want to help, particularly if you re doing well. you say, yeah, sure, come on, you re starving for people. come on in, we ll take your help, we ll listen to your ideas, and you know, we ll sort of put them in the mix. but that seems to me to be sort of the extent of what carter page was involved with. i also found it fascinating, brian that carter page, he wouldn t answer the question about who brought him i
that i will have a tremendous responsibility to keep our judicial system strong. nbc justice correspondent pete williams live at the supreme court with more. pete, what do we know about her? precious little is the answer to your question. briefly involved in the policy shop and now the white house counsel, the person who succeeded alberto gonzales when he went to the justice department to become attorney general. but she s never been a judge. and that is unusual in terms of nominations to the supreme court. it means learning the nominee s judicial philosophy is going to be even more important than it was for john roberts. this is a pick that was made from weakness, an opportunity here to show strength, and confidence and i don t know if this is it. miers met with senators which was worse. when asked how she did, he responded, harriet, you flunked. we can t do this, we know, he
allows children to stay on their parents insurance until age 26 and that s another hold-over from obamacare and has tax credits for people to buy it themselves. that s one of the most significant new things. not in the bill is a process to sell insurance across state lines and negotiate lower the cost of drugs and lower the cost of health care. these are all things the president talked about on the campaign trail and in his address to congress. what s interesting is right after laura ingram pointed that out on fox and friends the president tweeted don t worry getting rid of state lines promoting competition will be in phase two and three with the nod to fox and friends saying i m working on competition and pricing for the american people will come way down. the white house policy shop is going through the obamacare bill to find out, quote, where the holes are. one of the concerns are this has not yet been scored so we don t
drafting the executive order. the white house counsel s office instead of the policy shop is taking a lead role in the drafting. we heard from the head of homeland security over the weekend that the rollout will likely include a phase-in period instead of automatic switch and green card holders will not be affected. instead of what left many stranded across the country last month. one critical issue is how the new order will deal with visitors like student visa holders. several lawsuits brought by states argued the travel ban was hurting student enrollment at public universities from foreigners abroad. if visa holders are not protected this time around, it will be interesting to watch what happens in court. laura, we hear the order