where is your head today now that some time has passed, what you saw? you know, it s kind of on one end i m sad. i first would like to say rest in peace to heather heyer and also the two police officers who lost their life. this is the result of the country that we are living in tod today. to see what s going on and to wake up to the news that we see every morning, it s something that is not surprising, dealing with who we have running our country, but it is disheartening. montae, what did you see when you were on the ground? did you see very fine people as the president said there were very fine people on both sides there? honestly, when it came to the
has consumed his attention. there s been no collusion, no obstruction. there have been public comments that suggest there s been no overwhelming evidence to suggest there was collusion. it s not for me to judge before we end, i can only address it as milestones of what we know as of tod today. reporter: new this morning, we re hearing secretary of state rex tillerson is expected to meet next week in germany at the g20 summit with his russian counterpart, sergey lavrov. there s still a question as to how substantive any meeting between president trump and president putin might be at that very same summit. back to you. that will be interesting. the kremlin had said there s still time to schedule a meeting. let s see what comes up there. let s discuss this new travel ban that goes into effect and what is going to be done vis-a-vis russian interference if anything with cnn political
what s important here is that this is a middle step to what could be a radical way in which the senate works. harry reid lowers the filibuster number and exempts supreme court. tod today mitch mcconnell does so. the third shoe to drop and this would be big legislation? is legislation. let s say you want to pass health care reform, for example. you still need 60 votes on almost every provision to do that to end debate and bring it to a vote. that still exists. but ten years ago if you asked me if they had gotten rid of the filibuster on federal judges and not supreme court justices, i would say no. it s certainly sliding in that direction. chris cillizza, come back. i will. thank you for having me. coming up next on cnn, president trump welcoming chinese president xi to
president of the united states tod today, on a response, even if it s a limited response, but a response all the same to the images we ve seen coming out of syria? what would your advice be? i d start by saying, joe, we can t take our eye on the main ball here which remains the islamic state. we don t want to lose our momentum there. let s part that. in terms of response to the chemical weapons, i think richard haass got it about right, big opportunity. i d get the allies together. you ve already heard support from france and the unit kingdom and perhaps starting to put more effort into the syrian oppositi opposition. the real analogy here is perhaps the balkans. i think a quick reaction would probably entail getting the allies together, notably the turks who have the largest army in nato looking at a creation of
instructions that we gave to them, we re not able to amend it. however, we were able to get an opportunity for our committee to have four different areas of instruction that they re sending to the rules committee that will again make the bill better. we have to stay in the fight here, this is not the end. i m really glad after being here for seven years i m experiencing regular order. if you could amend it. everyone would take your amendment, what would it be? one of those is that i think we ought to give states more opportunity to have control over when they get their medicaid dollars. right now in the bill, there s a per capita. some states want to have block grant that is give them more latitude to do what think want to do with their medicaid dollars. i m for that. that s one of the provisions we passed out of our committee tod today.