With obamacare. All this after the vote was postponed thursday after it was clear they did not have the votes. Frustrated with the Freedom Caucus after both spent the day trying to quote grind them down. One Senior Administration official said the president tried to address the Freedom Caucus concerns with the bill. They kept moving the goal post. Mr. Trump is just done. Another official says he wants to move on with tax reform. Now emerging with the white house laying the ground work to place the blame on others to paul ryan to caucus and others in the staff to roping him into the bill. The Freedom Caucus chairman mark meadows told members to vote their conscious. Im optimistic. I dont put grades or numbers on anything. That would make for a better headline. Im still optimistic that everybody is negotiating in good faith. Then among the horse trading, this dropped. The score from the congressional budget office. Worst than the first. This revised bill would cost more, but leave just a
The vote just hours away. Big questions. Will the president s ultimatum force the Freedom Caucus to fall in line . Will the president reject a vote later if the republicans cant round up the votes today and what may be the fallout if the dealmaker president cant close the deal . Our coverage starts with Suzanne Malveaux live on capitol hill. Good morning to you. Thanks for being up early for us. What do we expect today . Reporter dave and christine, everybody is expecting an early start. This will go to the House Rules Committee at 7 00 a. M. That is where the debate will start. We expect it will last three hours before they vote at 10 00. Then it will go to the full house. We expect the voting will start the debate around lunchtime and wrap up by dinner time. We will see what comes of all this. The stakes could not be higher for the president and Republican Party to push forward the signature legislation. Republicans have been fighting to repeal and replace obamacare for the last seve
Schumer also demanded the white house release specific documents and emails that could shine more light on the hold on military aid to ukraine. Take a listen. We say to President Trump, release the emails. Let your aides testify. We say to leader mcconnell, a fair trial with the facts. Only the facts. Schumers comments come after the Trump Administration released a series of emails to the center for public integrity. In one email, a Senior Budget Office official wrote to the pentagons controller about the hold on military aid to ukraine on july 25th. Thats less than two hours after President Trumps infamous call with ukraines president. It reads, quote, given the sensitive nature of the request, i appreciate your keeping that information closely held to those who need to know to execute the direction. Now, democrats say that proves the white house was aware that the nature of that hold was somehow improper. But republicans say that that is not the case. And the white house is saying th
Underway on this not so silent monday night. Good evening once again are from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,068 of the Trump Administration. The start of the holiday week brings no let up from the partisan fight over this looming impeachment trial in the senate. Late today the president launched new attacks from maralago against Democratic Leaders in the house and senate, quote, nancy pelosi is doing everything she can to delay the zero republican vote articles of inpeachment. That was the early spelling before the correction. She is trying to take over the senate and crying chuck is trying to take over the trial no way. While Speaker Pelosi weighs whether to delay transmitting the articles of impeachment to the senate, Senate Minority leader schumer has sent his colleagues a letter ramping up his original demand that witnesses and documents be subpoenaed for this trial. Schumer also cited emails the Trump Administration released to the center for public integrity,
Measures totally stalled between the congress and the white house, i talk to senator Richard Blumenthal as america grapples with another mass shooting. A remarkable speech from the attorney general. One of the ironies of today is that those who oppose this president constantly accuse this administration of shredding constitutional norms and waging a war on the rule of law. While the president has certainly thrown out the traditional beltway playbook and punctilio. [ laughter ] [ applause ] he was up front about what he was going to do and the people decided they wanted him to serve as president. [ applause ] so we are going to talk a lot about that speech in a bit with a story in jon meacham. The weekends are just as revealing as the weekdays. Already this weekend a deposition from mark sandy, a Senior Budget Office official. Now we dont yet know the substance of what he said. But Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff said in part, quote, if acting white house chief of staff Mick