conversation that drew the attention of other world leaders that they were spending time together at the exclusion of other allies, but the white house would not say what they talked about during the meeting. president trump revealed more about what he said was in the meeting with president putin and put forth a new time line, basically saying it was much shorter. right he said the meeting was some 15 minutes or so to the new york times. i asked last night, a top administration official if the meeting was an hour long because that s what the people were saying that broke this story. and they said nearly an hour. the president saying 15 minutes. we know they stayed at that venn knew until midnight, long after it was scheduled. so i m not sure the 15 minutes is accurate. we ve seen story after story not necessarily the real story. the white house would not tell us today the length of the meet meting we asked sarah
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the feathers that were ruffled are going to be smooth. you have lying ted, little marco rubio, low energy jeb, those monikers will stick. others are involved and they have the ability to block a bill or not. molly, thank you so much for the chat. appreciate that. absolutely. to this, congressman pete sessions has his own ideas. he introduced the world s greatest health care plan of 2017. that is not my opinion, that s the actual name of the bill. it is the second time he and senator bill casady have offered up the plan. it would eliminate individual and employer health care mandates from obamacare but would not fully repeal the former president s signature law. sessions says he does support the plan from house leadership and this is not intended to compete with it. the president has tapped jon huntsman to be the next u.s. ambassador for russia. a venn diplomat. he represented the u.s. in singapore under president george h.w. bush and more recently served as president obama s
let s play the moment that you re talking about. gentlemen. we know how much you love hand-raising questions. so we 3r078s this is the only one tonight, the only one. is there anyone on stage, and can i see hands, who is unwilling tonight to pledge your support to the venn shl nomine of the republican party and pledge to not run and inpendent campaign against that person? again, we re looking for you to raise your hand now if you won t make that pledge tonight. mr. trump? okay. so he was the only one that did raise his hampbd. so what do you make of this moment? is it a big deal? i ve been on the phone with trump associates tonight and
anything nice. then some down the middle say they want somebody who is different, a businessman, somebody who will bring a different thought process to politics. so far, no lacking for interesting subjects or people or lines in the donald trump campaign, of all the campaigns to be on, rachel this is one that will get the most interesting action, no doubt. katy n terms of the the reason there s so much a tension on this event tonight, one it is weird to see donald trump in alabama. it is like chalk and cheese, you don t expect them in the same place. two because he made a big deal saying he needed a 50,000 seat venn knew to fit in the tens of thousands of people that wanted to turn out. what s the size of the crowd vis-a-vis the capacity of the venue. it is about half full. and the stadium is saying there are about 20,000 people here. it s not quite the crowd they expected or hoped for. it is still a pretty big crowd.