our current senate calendar shows are you ready for that only 33 potential working days remaining before the end of the fiscal year. in does not appear to give us enough time to adequately address the issues that demand immediate attention. go find a guy working on ball joints all day in a auto shop in framing ham ask him what he thinks of the working calendar and what they should make maybe do to make sure he still has health care for him and his family. boy, it reminds you they know what is going to happen when they go home in the august recess. it s 2009 all over again except when the democrats went home back for their townhall meetings to talk about the affordable care act they got slammed. so it s not a surprise that number of these senators do not want to go home and they won t they want the appearance they re trying to fix something. our thanks to the panel.
we lost two in 1998, they lost their lives. so they have the best appraisal of danger and security and we re working with them as we go forward. are we going to need to have more townhall meetings? someone was telling me i m so stad because protestors showed up to a town meeting, but this is a democracy. if there is a need for local law enforcement to be involved, then a judgment will be made, but we must not misinterpret the outpouring of the voices of the american people as a threat. i wanted to ask you about the other big story of the day, reporting now confirmed, mueller s investigation now is into the possibility of obstruction of justice.
competition. by lowering the cost, you improve the access to healthcare. reporter: we talked just a second ago about bringing republicans together. there s a lot of divisions over this. the house speech oh speaker want this bill voted on. members of the freedom caucus saying we need more changes before we ll be coming on board. tomorrow night, the white house will host members of the freedom caucus at the tulane bowling alley. it s part of the white house complex here for a night of bowling, pizza, budget and healthcare talk. we ll see if they can get a few more people on board. sounds like a party. thank you so much john. jon: house republicans gather support for the new healthcare plan. they are facing a lot of push back from democrats, from voters at townhall meetings and even lawmakers within their own party. gop still trying to reach consensus on how far the healthcare bill should go.
hide. even the nation s most most vulnerable democrats like claire mccaskill, up for reelection, are avoiding townhall meetings as well. when you hear somebody like gabby giffords and what she went through, to advocate and say go out there and meet with their constituents, that says a lot. this woman almost died and she would still do it all over again there are a lot of politics involved whether or not people want to put themselves in these town halls. a lot of videos are going viral. all right, thank you so much. new signs the trump administration may be taking aim at the marijuana industry. why some legal pot supporters say they are bracing for a fight that s next. because when they ship with us, their business becomes our business. that s why we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country.
facing feisty voters, many democrats and other republicans are choosing to face the townhall heat head-on. the new jersey governor knocked down the rumors that townhall meetings are being filled with paid protesters. not my knowledge, i ve never experienced paid protesters and i don t think don t think that was true the other night. lance, to their credit, they have continued to have town halls despite the heat. some are opting out. they re acting not to go to these things. some are inviting lawmakers out of anger and a cardboard cutout stood in for bob portman in ohio on thursday. then there is texas republican representative louis gomer who said he s not having public town