Plus, Senate Shutdown . Democrats threaten to grind government to a halt unless republicans share their secret Health Care Bill. We have no idea whats being proposed. Theres a group of guys in the back room somewhere. Will there be a public hearing soon . And the best political minds will be here with insights on what happens next. Hello. Im jake tapper in washington with the state of our union is on retreat. President trump awoke this morning at camp david for the First Time Ever. Hes spending fathers day there with his son baron and First Lady Melania Trump who posted this photo with the caption family sport weekend. The president s been on twitter posting defiantly this morning the making America Great again agenda is doing very well despite the distraction of the witch hunt. Many new jobs, high enthusiasm. The witch hunt hes referring to the Law Enforcement congressional investigations into russian interference in the u. S. Election and possible collusion by members of the trump team, the Law Enforcement probe of this expanded this week with new lawyers joining the team of Robert Mueller the special counsel. In another tweet this week the president seemed to confirm reports that mueller is now also investigating trumps firing of former fbi director james comey. Joining me from miami is republican senator marco rubio of florida. Senator, thanks so much for being here and happy fathers day to you. And to you and to everyone watching, all the fathers, happy fathers day. So let me ask you, President Trump took to twitter this week to lash out at special counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. Let me read you one of the tweets. You are witnessing the single greatest witch hunt in american political history led by some very bad and conflicting people makeamericagreatagain. Some of your senate colleagues, as you know, are worried President Trump is preparing to fire mueller or mueller and rosenstein. How would you react if he did . Well, first of all, thats not going to happen i dont believe its going to happen and heres what i would say. The best thing that could happen for the president and the country is a full and credible investigation. I really truly believe that. If we want to put all this behind us, lets find out what happened, put it out there, and lets not undermine the credibility of the investigation, and so my view on it is that is the best thing that could happen for the president and for the country, and i believe ultimately thats what will happen, irrespective of all the other stuff thats going on out there. Would you have predicted he was going to fire comey . I wouldnt have. Well, i dont think anybody saw that coming, but i dont think that has in any way impeded the work of the fbi on these matters and in fact i know it hasnt and they testified so publicly as well and it hasnt impeded the work of the Senate Intelligence committee so you know, these investigations continue to move forward. Theyre broad. Theyre about everything, at its core the senates work is about russian interference and how they did it and if it involved working with americans, whether wittingly or unwittingly that needs to be a part of it but again, i think everyone should wait for the report to come out, and we continue to make progress in that direction. Do you have any questions about the integrity of mueller or the way hes conducting the investigation . No, i have no reason to. His reputation is stellar, as everyone has said, and i believe hes going to conduct a full and fair and thorough investigation that we should have confidence in, and ill continue to believe that based on his reputation and years of service to our country, unless theres any evidence to the contrary. You said that the investigation is making progress. Do you have any idea when it might be concluded . Hopefully soon. I cant really speculate about the time frame. Thats up to the chairman and the vice chairman on the time frame of it but theres a lot to work with here, a lot to do and hopefully well begin to pivot back and focus on the core issue before the United StatesSenate Intelligence committee, which is how did the russians interfere in our election, what methods did they use and its important for the American People to know that because were going to have elections all the time in this country. Were going to have them in off year this fall, were going to have them next year for congress and throughout the country for governors and statewide races in places like florida, and so people need to know this. The best antiseptic to these interference efforts is to know exactly how theyre conducted, so that we can be prepared not just to prevent it but to react. You spent time with President Trump on friday just hours after he lashed out at the people leading the russia investigation. Did the president have anything to say when you were there with him about mueller, rosenstein or the Russian Investigation when you saw him . Nothing that he hasnt already said in public and he said it to a big group and its the same thing hes said over and over again, i had nothing to do with this, the same stuff youve seen him say on twitter, it wasnt the core of our conversation but the same thing he has said on twitter and in front of the press, but obviously that wasnt the centerpiece of our visit, so but the president has strong feelings about it and what i would communicate to the white house and to the world through this broadcast is, let this ming work its way through, let it be thorough and complete so no one will have any doubt. I think im telling you that is the best thing for them and it is certainly the best thing for america. Just to underline this and well move on to the issue with the president the new cuba policy. Its not a witch hunt. You believe in the integrity of the investigation. I do because i believe in bob muellers record of serving the country. If there was ever any evidence to the contrary, obviously that may change, but i dont anticipate that being the case. Turning to cuba the president announced a new policy friday one that seeks to undue some of president obamas normalization relations with the communist nation. President trump said he was motivated by Human Rights Concerns, that was really the focus of his speech, but you know, to be candid, President Trump has downplayed Human Rights Concerns in his dealings with any number of other countries including china, egypt, saudi arabia, the philippines. I know thats not your position, but that is his, this double standard. Does that bother you at all . Well, the one thing i would say to you is that they challenge the world to do more, to create stability in their own regions and the western hemisphere is the region were in and i would say as International Security interest to have human rights and democracy in our region because the absence of those two things leads to migratory pressure on the United States is created by instability in the western hemisphere so there is a National Security interest in our region in creating stability and democracy and the other thing i would say is, if you look at the western hemisphere, 30 years ago, the majority of the countries were governed by dictatorships or strong men. Today every country in the hemisphere has had at least one free and Fair Election in the last decade and a half or so except for one, the island of cuba, and so hopefully were getting closer to the day when that happens there as well. Lets turn to health care. One of your republican colleagues, senator Lisa Murkowski of alaska says she hasnt even seen the Health Care Bill because its hatched and devised in secret. Take a listen to her. Ive got a problem with it. If im not going to see a bill before we have a vote on it, thats just not a good way to handle something that is as significant and important as health care. Do you share her concerns, senator . Heres how i would characterize it. When you work on Something Like this, like what i did on immigration theres a group of people that works on it and they put out a package or they put out a bill and that bill goes through the process. Floor action, amendments. That bill will not go from that group to the president s desk. That bill has to have at least a vote in the senate and i hope its a vote that allows time for debate, analysis and changes and input and if thats the process we follow, it will be fine. If it is an effort to rush it from a small group of people straight to the floor on an up or down vote that would be a problem. The senate rules are not conducive to that sort of action and so again, i think that we need to all kind of stop here and understand no matter what that group works on and produces, its only a starting position. From that, every other senator will have an opportunity, i believe, should have had an opportunity to, weigh in and make changes or propose changes. The Trump Administration announced this week it will not immediately eliminate protections for the socalled dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came to the u. S. , were brought here as children through no fault of their own. White house officials friday said President Trump had not made a decision about the longterm fate of the program. Are you encouraging President Trump to keep these protections in place for the remainder . We havent talked about it, but ive said publicly before that i do think that daca has to cop to an end at some point because i do believe its unconstitutional, whether you agree with the merits of it or not, but i also believe that it should be replaced. It comes to an end, replaced by something thats constitutional which is a legislative action, and i think the vast majority of americans would say if you were brought here as a young child, have grown up in this country, have a lot to contribute to our future it doesnt make sense after years of investing in you in our Public Education system and the like, to send you to a country you perhaps have no memory of because you happen to have lived there until you were 4 years old. This policy in place to yank it away from people who have those permits now would be disruptive not just to them but to the places they work as an example. A lot of these young people are now actually employees and working for people. 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Doctors report that House Majority whip Steve Scalise continues to show signs of improvement and was upgraded to serious condition saturday. Scalise underwent another surgery saturday, and is positive, even speaking with his loved ones. Mike mika is undergoing additional surgery, his family expect him to make a full recovery and doctors say krystal griner, a Capitol Hill Police officer sustained a gunshot wound to the ankle but is in Good Condition at this hour. Im joined by senator Bernie Sanders of vermont. Thanks for joining us and happy fathers day. Lets begin with this weeks horrible shooting. You said on the senate floor that was carried out by someone who had apparently volunteered for your campaign. Has Law Enforcement been in touch with you or any members of your staff to try to find out more about him . Not in touch with me. I am not aware that they have been in touch with my staff. And i just want to wish representative scalise a very, very quick recovery. What happened was a tragedy, unacceptable. There should not be any Violence Associated with politics in america. On a human level, what was it like for you when you heard the shooter was one of your supporters . Did you look at his Facebook Page . What was your reaction . Well, let me just say this. In our campaign, we had hundreds of thousands of volunteers. We had rallies that spoke in person to over 1. 4 Million People. We had rallies in some of the poorest communities of states. I remember in the south bronx, there was zero violence, no violence at all, and i am absolutely convinced the overwhelming, not overwhelming, virtually all People Associated with our Political Movement understand you have the right to stand up, debate, you have the right to protest, but violence is not acceptable. So obviously it was distressing to find out that this particular person had been a volunteer i believe in iowa for a period of time. I want to read you a tweet from a Democratic Political consultant named james devine based in new jersey. He wrote, we are in a war with selfish, foolish and narcissistic rich people. Why is it a shock when things turn violent . Then he wrote huntrepublicancongressman. In an interview with a local news site, he said if you want to invite a class war, then you have to expect people to fight back at some point. Senator, have you not only never advocated violence you condemned it repeatedly but you have been speaking the language of revolution for many years. When you see a comment like this from this political consultant and see what happened wednesday, are you concerned some individuals are able to take your rhetoric as a literal call to arms . Well, i think theres sometimes rhetoric on all sides that are not quite acceptable. Jake, my hero, political her row in recent American History is dr. Martin luther king jr. And king not only advocated nonviolence. What he understood is that the only way you make real change, whether it is racial justice, whether it is social success, economic justice, is when millions of people come together, stand up and fight back. Thats what we have to do right now. But we dont do it in a violent way. That is unacceptable, and in fact, counterproductive. Now, right now what we are seeing in washington with this Health Care Bill, where the Republican Leadership wants to throw 23 million americans off of Health Insurance, raise premiums for older workers, defund planned parenthood, cut medicaid by over 800 billion, this is the worst piece of legislation to have passed the Congress Since i have been in congress. It is an outrage and it has to be protested, and we have to make sure that nothing like that gets past the senate. But it has to be done, of course, in a nonviolent way. And i would also add that the trump budget that was presented a couple of weeks ago would provide 3 trillion in tax breaks to the top 1 at a time when we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality and make massive cuts for working class families in terms of health care, nutrition, education, and whatnot. So i think this is a moment where the American People have got to stand up, fight back to a congress which is out of touch with where working families are, but it goes without saying that violence is not part of that process. A source telling cnn that Senate Democrats are currently weighing whether to bring the Senate Chambers business to a halt in an effort to pry open what ar