it s extraordinary. we have the fbi director admitting there are investigations going on. we know the russians massively interfered with our elections and we had 1,000-page internet trolls that flooded the zone with fake news, and we have a series of people that are closely affiliated with the president who have had extensive ties with russia including the fact, 60 days into the administration. we have both the nsa director and the national security adviser that had to resign and the attorney general had to recuse himself because of those ties. how much does an active investigation in the fbi hamper the senate intelligence committee s ability to do an investigation? isn t it plausible it can t turn over these materials because they are done? there were prior examples. think back to watergate. there was a doj going on. you ll do both? i talked regularly with director comey. there will be times when we ll have, i m sure, brush-ups and we start our process in terms of open hearing
the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer because now they own obamacare. mr. trump also implied he might eventually have to work with democrats to fix the law. it is unlikely to happen any time soon, eager to talk about anything else, the president spent his weekly address talking not about health care, not about tax reform, not about infrastructure, but about exploring space. this week in the company of astronauts i was honored to sign the nasa transition authorization act right into law. the blame game is in full swing. the president tweeted this just a few minutes ago. democrats are smiling in d.c., and the freedom caucus with the help of club for growth and heritage have saved planned parenthood and o-care while some republicans are blaming the white house and others are pointing at speaker ryan and still others like the president is pinning the fault on the freedom caucus. joining me now is a former member of the freedom caulk us
to say house speaker paul ryan needs to step down. is that what the president wanted people to hear? i have spent more time in the last week with the president of the united states than i thought i would, than four years. i ve never seen him blame paul ryan. why did he want people to watch her show? the people to blame were the people who would not vote yes and they would vote no and when sen to lee is here. the folks who voted no are the folks to blame. he is want blaming paul ryan at all? there is no subtle campaign to undermine paul ryan? i ve been in the oval office with the president and with the speaker more in the last couple of days than i ever thought. i ve never seen the president for a second try to blame paul ryan for this. all right. are you going to repeal and replace obamacare before the end of this year? my guess is we will move on. you are not touching health care. when it fails, and it may be may, and it may be the end of this year, folks will come bac
there say huge difference between standing before a crowd in kentucky as he did ten days ago ask repeating campaign promises and governing from 1600 pennsylvania avenue and getting things done. i think we can see in the next week or so that mitch mcconnell will begin to take control on the senate side of some of the issues, deregulation and taxation, for example, getting gorsuch through. those kinds of things will begin to lift, but it won t be trump who is getting that done for him. i really think that this has not been fatal for trump. no question about that, but how nimble he s going to be and whether he can change. we haven t seen much evidence of that in his private life or in his public life, and i think that s what weave got to watch. it s interesting to me, his instinct is to want to work with democrats. there is an excerpt of the great robert draper piece on trump, and he wrote this and based on an interview that he did. trump seemed much less animated by the subject of bu
affordable. it had quite the opposite effect. congressman dent, i would guess you are in more agreement with senator cassidy. i spoke with senator cassidy and senator collins at length and senator cassidy from a very conservative state. louisiana. we have a health architecture now, flawed as it is, i voted against it the and we need to make it market oriented and patient-friendly and patient-centered. that debate has already been settled. we have a national health program. our job is now to fix it and make it much better than it is today because it s simply not working for too many americans. senator lee, congressman dent i ll leave it there and i have a feeling that there say divide here on the role of government that hasn t been bridged inside the republican party and until that s done we still may have this debate to go on and on and on. gentlemen, i appreciate you coming on together. it s good to have you both. when we come back, how deep is the damage to president trump fr