be felt. and to you, carroll lee, you ve been doing a lot of our reporting on all the tensions. a lot of this does involve secretary tillerson, the push against him, the criticism of him undercutting him. corker an ally of tillerson. this is part of the fallout. the senator corker defended tillerson last week in those remarkable comments where he said that not just secretary tillerson but secretary mattis and john kelley, chief of staff, were the only things standing between chaos. and so you know, one of the outcomes of this is if the president were to decide that he wants to get rid of secretary tillerson, you know, bob cork ser going to have a big say in whether whoever he names nominates as a successor gets through a confirmation process. so that adds a whole other wrinkle to all this. michael steele, to refer to bob corker as a retiring senator, one of the disputes on twitter with the president was whether or not the president had actually urged him to not retire
constitution under article 2 that says they can do so. you ve got the code of federal regulation that you can do so. you ve got a whole host of laws so i m not clear why you would use the argument that it s unconstitutional when that has no bearing on a case that has not been decided by the tuultime arbiter of the constitution, the supreme court. i ve got all these lawyers and i appreciate that you are back and forth on constitutional and not constitutional. ultimately, it was up to the president. we can t change the past, the man has ruled vis-a-vis his a.g. so this program is getting rescinded. you mentioned, you know, campaign trails, which got me thinking about the politics of this, julie. you know, when you add six months to this, that puts us roughly at march which is, you know, right smack primary season. in the lead up to midterms. what you were asking before, the push/pull did have to do with this question of unconstitutionality because
out. i don t necessarily think there is a lot of appetite for that here. i this i this week is consumed by debate over the cruz lee amendment. a conservative package aimed at selling plans that don t meet obamacare requirements in an effort to lower premiums. that is what everybody is fighting about. we have senator flake he may support that. so i think that s the shape of the debate you will see over the course of the next couple of days. they are still hammering out details behind closed doors. i think the question is how many moderate members are there? i talked to is you is not collins today at some length. she said look, we need to start over entirely. i m watching the republican party make the same mistake when he passed obamacare with no republican support. so i think that s going to be kind of the push/pull tension going forward here. thanks so much. kasie hunt from capitol hill. if republicans don t fall in line they risk getting a
neighbors. reporter: still in the know. i m still in the know unless the bill is dramatically changed. congress comes back from recess next week. [ gunshots ] gunfire in the streets of raqqa as u.s.-backed forces close in on the self-declared isis capital of syria. they just breached an ancient wall, a big strategic blow. cnn senior national correspondent nick paton walsh on the push to penetrate the heart of the city. nick? reporter: brooke, it is potentially a key moment in the move to take raqqa. it s about 8 kilometers and 6 miles long, the wall, and goes around the whole city in the heart of raqqa. they said they breached two substantial holes in that wall enabling the group of syrian kurdish and area fighters for
that not only trump and tillerson are standing up to russia like this and tillerson s comments are very bold basically saying they are either complicit in helping assad hide chemical weapons they pledged to get rid of in 2013 or can t control him. i manage when tillerson is in moscow next week, the push or ask, because in the document that josh rogin saw last night, the government says the russian posture into syria must change. we are imagining that tillerson will ask them. you either clean up the rest of the weapons in the country or you do this and that to control assad. i don t think the russians willis evwil will listen. they want to get out of the conflict agreement. that is the most dangerous thing. that s where there s potential for rapid escalation if we have an accidental strike on a