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Transcripts For CNNW Wolf 20170329

Willing to engage with lawmakers on a new Health Care Reform bill. First, to the russia investigation. The house intelligence chairman nunes rejecting calls from democrats and now at least some republicans to at least recruise himself from the investigation into russias meddling in the 2016 president ial election. Among the unanswered questions, who exactly cleared nunes to go on to white house grounds so that he could meet with a source and view secret intelligence reports. Thats something the white house was asked about once again today. You said to us from the podium you would look into how chairman nunes was cleared here and with whom he met. Do you have any information to live up to the commitment you made on monday to provide more details about how that happened in a process you just told us yet again is above board and totally appropriate. I dont have anything for you on that at this time. But again. Did you look at it . I have asked preliminary questions and not gotten answers yet. Im asking you about something you told us. I said i would look into it. I will look into it and whether or not. Il live up to that obligation. I said il continue to look it and will continue to do that. For now the house investigation remains at a standstill. Its a different story on the senate side where the Intelligence Committee is planning its first open hearing on russia tomorrow. Lets bring in senior White House Correspondent jim acosta and senior conscious greasingal reporter manu raju from capitol hill. Jim, you just left over there. Sean spicer faced tough questions once again about the House Committee chairman devin nunes. Update viewers on the very latest were getting. Well, wolf, as you heard during the briefing with press secretary sean spicer, he was asked a number of times in a number of ways as to lo the source is for that information that the house Intelligence Committee chairman devin nunes met with last week before he dropped that bombshell that at least the white house felt supported the president s claim that he was wire tap by former president obama. I asked sean spicer point blank, do you know who that source is. And he said no, he does not. He was asked earlier this week could you please get to the bottom of this information who cleared the chairman into the white house grounds and then who gave him access or helped him get access to that information. He said hes still trying to obtain that information but did not have it for us today, wolf. That was perhaps the only development on that front. No news on nunes. But at the same time, we should point out, there are many other questions that came up, particularly this puzzing comment that the president made last night about Health Care Reform and how he thinks it would be easy to get a deal such an easy one. He said roughly to some of these lawmakers some senators over here at the white house last night featuring the president and first lady. He also said that u. S. Troops are fighting in iraq like never before. And i asked the White House Press secretary about both of those comments and whether or not they were really in touch with reality. Sean spicer said, well on health care, he was just joking when he said that it would be such an easy one. He was sort of poking fun at i suppose the fact that they were not able to turn this into such an easy ones in terms of Getting Health Care pass 37d heres a bit of how that played out. If you couple that comment with the comment on health care, it being an easy one to get that done, it sounds like hes you probably have heard this and come across this notion hes detached from reality in making those comments. First of all, i again woman respectfully ask you to review the tape. He was having a lighthearted moment. Its on tape. He was poking fun and making a joke. Theres been comments before how he didnt get it and he was joking about how easy it was. Okay . It was a lighthearted moment. It was on tape. I think everybody and the idea there is this like trying to make it look like hes being utterly serious at the time is a little bit of a stretch. And on the iraq comment, wolf, as we know, u. S. Troops are in iraqing in an advise and assist role. They may come across combat situations from time to time but the iraqis are in the lead in that fight, particularly in the bat to retake mosul with, of course, the assistance of u. S. Air power. When i pressed sean spicer on that, spicer said that the president was referring to progress being made in iraq in mosul and in the fight against isis overall. But of course, when you say that u. S. Troops are fighting in iraq like never before, that, of course, completely disregards what was going on during the Bush Administration and part of the Obama Administration when u. S. Soldiers were fighting and dying by going house to house and trying to beat back not only al qaeda in iraq but later on isis in iraq, wolf. Jim, stand by. I want to go to manu up on the hill. Were expecting to hear from the two leaders of the senate Intelligence Committee in the next hour. What do we expect to hear from them . Clearly theres much greater bipartisan cooperation in the senate Intelligence Committee than the house Intelligence Committee. Its an effort on the senate side to try to reassure the publicing that this committee on the senate side is conducting a credible and thorough investigation particularly aftering what happened in the house that that investigation bogged down in politics and now you the utterly gridlocked and questions whether the house can produce anything on a bipartisan basis or continue forward on its investigation. On the house side, the reason why theres a dispute right now theing is beak over process. Democrats are calling for a public hearing that was canceled yesterday by chairman devin nunes to be back on the books alongside a private briefing with james comey, the fbi director and mike rogers, the nsa director. But earlier today, devin nunes said that well, democrats have not submitted their witness lists yet and he doesnt think theyre being very serious in the investigation. Adam schiff, the top democrat on the house panel just issued a statement pushing back saying there the minority submitted a list of witnesses to the majority yesterday. This list represents only the first of many witnesses we believe should be called to testify. He goes on to say that they have yet to receive a response from devin nunes. So no ingredient yet on process which is one reason why the Senate Leaders are trying to show they are doing a very deep dive into the issue of russia, any of those connections that occurred between russian officials and Trump Officials and to answer some questions about their upcoming testimony theyre going to hear from jared kushner, the president s soninlaw, something im told will be done in a private setting likely under oath. Theyre going to probably lay out some of their time line for hoping to achieve some of those, get some of that information. So well hear from them and just later this afternoon, but in the meantime, not much progress on the house side. As all meetings canceled this week, questions whether they can meet anymore as democrats call for nunes to step aside which he will not do, wolf. Well look forward to that briefing from the leaders of the senate Intelligence Committee coming up in the next hour. Manu raju, and jim acosta, thanks very much. Coming up later today in the situation room, ill be speaking live with representative adam schiff about the russia investigation, tthe situation room airs 5 00 to 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Schiff will be live during the 5 00 p. M. Eastern hour. Tomorrow the Intelligence Committee digs into the russia situation with two hearings. As they look into ties between russia and the trump campaign. A story sean spicer says is media manufactured and President Trump calls fake news. Joining us now, the wyoming republican senator john barrasso. A member of the Foreign Relations complete. Thanks for coming in. Thanks for having me. Is all this Fake News Media manufactured that russia interfered in the election. I believe russian did interfere and tried to do more in the election. Theyre also trying to interfere in the upcoming election in germany and in france. This is clearly worthy of congressional investigation. Absolutely. The senate Intelligence Committee is moving along with the seriousness of purpose to get to the bottom of all of this. Its a bipartisan effort to make america safe, strong and secure. This is nothing sacrificing when you think about vladimir putin. Is he cunning, aggressive, opportunistic and will do anything he can i believe to try to destroy democracy worldwide. Does it bother you the president calls it all phony, fake, whatever adjective when he describes this russia probe. I believe its real. We need to get to the bottom of it. You have a Bipartisan Group in the senate. All the senators want to snow the truth and share that with the american people. In addition to the senate Intelligence Committee investigation, theres going to be other investigations into lindsey graham, Sheldon Whitehouse are working on their own investigation. Theres a house investigation going on, not going along that great. Should there be beyond that an independent commission taking a look . The stakes are enormous if the russians did what the u. S. Intelligence community believes threw do do. I have great confidence in the committee to get to the bottom of it. You dont think theres an independent commission needed. No, its doing its work. Are you frustrated by what you see going on in the house Intelligence Committee . The House Speaker ryan will make decisions on that. You see it with chairman richard brrr,ing with mark warner the senator from virginia who said this is the most conscious convention counsel thing hes done as a u. S. Senator he said it to me, in fact. I want to move on to health care. A little confusion. You were at the reception last night at the white house. Republican senators, Democratic Senators are all invite there had. The president was speaking. First i want to play what the president said and then sean spicers reaction. Okay. I know that were all going to make a deal on health care. Thats such an easy one. I have no doubt thats going to happen quickly. I think it will actually. I think its going to happen because weve all been promising, democrat, republican, weve all been promising that to the american people. So i think a lot of good things will happen there. The deal hes looking for is willing to have members come and talk to him and engage with on this whole area and figure out what it would take, what their ideas are to get there to grow that vote. If they can do that and get to an area where we have a majority of the house, were going to engage in na. You were there. Was the president joking when he said thats such an easy one talking about health care. I think everyone in the room smiled when he said it. It was an important thing to do to have republicans and Democrat Members of the senate there. We all realize its also very serious in terms of what we need to do for the american people, even the day before the Health Care Vote failed in the house, seven out of ten americans said you either have to repeal in total or in part the Obama Health Care law. Are you ready to work with dras to try to come up not necessarily repeal obamacare but to improve it . Are you at least ready to take that initial step . Because democrats say if you forget about the word repeal but improve, fix, make it better, were willing to work with you, are you willing to work with them. I was talking with one of the Democrat Members of the senate this morning what we need to do to move forward. Americans need relief from this health care law. Their premiums have gone up. Costs have gone up. The choices have gone down. In my state of wyoming, theres only one person selling insurance. Rates have gone up 25 the past year across the country. Americans need a better solution. Whats the bottom line . Are you willing to work with democrats and come up with an improved Health Care System . Forget about the word repeal at least for you. Let me tell you from the beginning, i thought the democrats were wrong to do it working loan. We need something that, would for all of america. As a doctor, we needed Health Care Reform before i got to the senate. We still need it. We are not there with president obamas plan. And i just think you need to Work Together to find the best solutions and as a physician, i am committed to that solution. Lets quickly talk about neil gorsuch, the nominee for the United States Supreme Court. The Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell set a date for a vote, april 7th. The democrats are threatening a filibuster. That means you need 60. You have 52 republicans, 48 democrats. If necessary, would you go along with whats called the Nuclear Option eliminate that filibuster option if you will, and go down to a simple majority 51 . But lpt the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees . Every Supreme Court vote in the United States senate for over 200 and some years has been an up or down vote. Neil gorsuch deserves that. I am committed to having him on the Supreme Court. I will do whatever it takes to make sure that happens. Including Nuclear Option i will assure you that come the next week and a half, he will be confirmed and on the Supreme Court. You would vote for whats called the Nuclear Option. I do whatever it takes to confirm him. He is the right person. Hes mainstream. I think hes the best choice that President Trump could have ever made for the Supreme Court. He understands that its important for a judge to apply the law and not legislate from are the bench. And thats what hes going to do. Ill take that as a yes. Thank you, senator ba ross so. Thanks for coming in. Democratic senator jeff merkley joins us. Well get his take on the russian interference in the u. S. President ial election. Yes says hell be voting against judge neil gorsuch next week. Well speak with him live right after this. Talk about this. Its time. It is a big decision for us. Lets take the 1000 in cash back. Great yeah, i want to get one of those gaming chairs with the speakers. Oh, you do . Thats a surprise. The volkswagen 3 and easy event, where you can choose one of three easy ways to get a 1000 offer. Hurry in to your volkswagen dealer now and you can get 1000 as an apr bonus, a lease bonus, or cash back. But theyre different. D kind its nice to remove artificial ingredients. Kind never had to. Weve used real ingredients, whole nuts, and Natural Flavors from the very beginning. Give kind a try. Senate republicans are pressuring democrats to stand down on threats to filibuster the confirmation of the u. S. Supreme Court Nominee judge neil gorsuch. A group of senators along with former gorsuch clerks gathered on the steps of the stream Supreme Court last hour to make their case. Heres senators Chuck Grassley and lindsey graham. Hes easily cleared every hurdle in place of him in front of him for this position. It leaves me then very stunned why theres this talk about a filibuster. Its quite clear that if he isnt qualified, then nobody is. To my democratic colleagues, if he cant get 60 votes, neil gorsuch, that tells me that you dont care about qualifications any longer. I voted for sotomayor and kagan under the Obama Administration. I would not have chosen either one but i thought they were well qualified. Joining us now senator jeff merkley of oregon, one of 28 democrats saying or at least suggesting they would go ahead and filibuster. Hes joining us live from capitol hill. Thanks for joining us. Youre welcome. Good to be with you. So you were one of the first to say you would vote against judge Neil Gorsuchs confirmation. Why is that . The american bar association, for example, says he is highly qualified. Well, because im not going to be part of a Court Packing scheme. This seat for the first time in u. S. History was stolen from one president and delivered to the next with the hope of packing the court to the far right. And with gorsuch, were talking to the very far right. If this effort to steal a seat succeeds, then forever more the temptation is going to be there to do the same. It puts a big cloud over any 54 decision and it puts a big cloud over the integrity of the court. In fact, if neil gorsuch had principle, developed turned down this nomination on the basis that the person who should be nominated is Merrick Garland. Merrick garland was nominated

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