Election. The question now, is russia behind it . Shame on you shame on you that reaction at a town hall hosted by Republican Congressman tom reed of new york this morning. Its one of the first public exchanges between lawmakers and their constituents since thursdays health care vote. Take a listen to another one of congressmans reeds constituents. If i lose my insurance, we stood up and said to the pledge to the flag of the United States of america. Why should it matter what state i live in . But President Trump isnt finished with his victory lap, ramping up pressure on the senate to pass the houses bill. Heres part of his weekly address this morning. It will be great health care, and your premiums will come down and your deductibles will come down. So youll have Better Health care at a lower cost. And now im calling on the senate to take action. Also new today, politico is reporting on the potential for georgias special election to end up being the most expensive house race in history. Nearly 30 million in ad time has already been spent or reserved by outside groups and the candidates. Democrat jon ossoff and Republican Karen Handel and the election isnt until june 20th. The news out of georgia comes as the white house throws its weight in montanas special Congressional Election later this month to replace secretary of interior ryan zinke. Vice president mike pence will be campaigning there next friday for the states only seat in the u. S. House of representatives. Lets go to new jersey, not part from the president s bedminster estate. Kelly odonnell. Reporter the president does have one phone call with the president of peru on his public schedule today, but other than that we have not seen the president or heard any updates about what hes been doing while spending some time at his bedminster home. It is a sprawling estate. A golf resort, of course. That is where he likes to spend his weekends during the summer months, and were beginning that transition for the trumps now. No comment from the white house about new developments that deal with the russia investigation and some new reporting that talks about warnings put inside the trump transition, concerns they had about at that time advisor Michael Flynn and contacts he had with the russian ambassad ambassador. That is all a part of what will be unfolding in congressional hearings in the weeks ahead, and the president also has to fill another position after a sudden withdrawal from one of his nominees. Questions about russia swirling around the Trump Administration again this morning. The Washington Post reports former National Security advisor Michael Flynn was warned about the risks of his contacts with the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. Weeks before the december phone call that led to flynns resignation. A former Obama Administration official confirms to nbc news trump advisers asked to see a cia profile on Sergey Kislyak amid concern that flynn did not have a full understanding of the Russian Ambassador. This as nbc news has learned that former trump Foreign Policy advisor, carter page, has been asked by the Senate Intelligence committee to turn over any proof of any contacts with the russians. The senate panel looking into russn interference in the u. S. Election and whether any Trump Associates helped the russians leak damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Meantime, forced out by controversy. It is tough to run for office. Mark green, President Trumps nominee for Army Secretary, withdrew under pressure friday, accused of bias by the Lgbtq Community for comments like this. Now, if you poll the psychiatrists, theyre going to tell you that transgender is a disease. Reporter the Human Rights Campaign that made this video organized to block green, a Tennessee State senator. Green is a west point graduate and doctor, who treated iraqi dictator saddam hussein. In a statement green said tragically my life of Public Service and my christian beliefs have been mischaracterized and attacked for political gain. And mark green called the comments made about him and the sort of organized effort to pressure senators not to confirm him false attacks. He had been recommended by republican members of congress for the position. The president also has to fill this a second time. His first choice to be the Army Secretary also withdrew over issues of having to untangle financial wealth in order to meet government standards. So for the president , this is a position that has been harder to fill than you might expect, and important because weve seen that the president frequently talks about his commitments to the military, beefing up the military. Of course this position would work closely with the department of defense. Kelly odonnell, thank you, kelly. Lets talk more about health care for a moment. Joining me is maryland senator and democrat, ben cardin. Its good to be with you. The house of course passed the American Health care act. Now the ball is in your court. What do senators want . What kind of changes are we likely to see . First of all, were not going to support a proposal that would cost tens of millions of people their health coverage. Secondly we are very concerned about preexisting conditions as the way the bill passed the house of representatives. The process used in the house where it was not open, we didnt have the cbo, the Congressional Budget Office score at the time that the house voted on it. So im hoping that we have a very transparent process. We looked for bipartisan support to irove health care in this country and not to take away benefits that are critically important for people in america. Im glad you mentioned bipartisan support. Take me behind the scenes. How much input will republican senators get from democrats and what goes on into your version . Well, the ball is really in the republicans court. Were open to working with the republicans. We dont know how the leadership is going to approach this bill. If they try to jam it through whats known as reconciliation where they try to do it with the bare simple majority, its going to lead to a lot of controversy. I dont know if they can even do that. But if they reach out for a broader consensus, as we did on the fy17 budget that just passed this week, then i think theres democrats and republicans that recognize theres ways that we can improve health care, bring more competition, look to improve benefits. Those are things that we want to do together. But if its an effort just to pass a tax cut for the wealthy and to take away the protections for preexisting conditions or to put the states in a tough position on the medicaid budget, if thats their objective, were not going to be part of it. Theres another layer to this that we cant ignore. Some analysts predict this will hurt republicans in the next two election cycles. Are democrats planning any initiatives to capitalize on this . We want to make sure people have quality insurance, affordable insurance that is maintained. We dont want to push these burdens onto the states. The medicaid population is very vulnerable. So i think our objective is to make sure that the gains that weve made are kept and we try to improve upon it. The politics will play out. With that said, we hear this could take months to complete in the senate. Whats your guess . It really depends on how the Republican Leadership proceeds. I dont think its going to happen quickly. I think its going to take a lot more time. I hope it takes more time, because this is an area where the public needs to understand what were doing. We need to understand what were doing. So we need to get the facts and try to work in a much more open, transparent way. So it should take some time. Let me shift gears. Reuters is reporting the Trump Administration is pushing to finalize the sale of military hardware to saudi arabia, deals blocked by president obama. Youre on the Foreign Relations committee. You med with saudi officials this week. What can you tell us about these deals . I thought we had a pretty instructive meeting with the foreign minister from saudi arabia this week, the senate forerelations committee. Saudi arabia is one of our Strategic Partners in the middle ea. They have a very difficult time with whats happening in yemen. Theres outside influence in yemen, particularly from iran. So we want to help the saudis, but we want to make sure that they conduct their military operations in a way that minimizes the risk to civilian populations and maximizes an opportunity for a diplomatic end to the violence in yemen. I think the United States can play a very Critical Role in bringing that about, working with the saudis and using our influence to try to get all the parties to the peace talks. The president , of course, will visit saudi arabia, israel, the vatican later this month and the saudis are hoping trump can help destroy isis, push back on iran. I want to listen to what the president says and then get your take. Sure. Well begin with a truly historic gathering in saudi arabia with leaders from all across the muslim world. Saudi arabia is the custodian of the two holiest sites in islam. And it is there that we will begin to construct a new foundation of cooperation and support with our muslim allies to combat extremism, terrorism and violence, and to embrace a more just and hopeful future for young muslims in their countries. Senator, can he reset his image in the muslim world or the fight against isis considering all he said during the campaign and his recent travel restrictions on muslim majority nations . Will this be effective . Well, the president has some work to do, theres no question about it. His comments and his actions on immigration and refugees is certainly very problematic in the muslim world. Ive talked to a lot of leaders from muslim countries, and i know that damage has been done. But i think its the right thing to reach out. When hes in saudi arabia, its an opportunity to meet with the moderate arab leaders who we have Strategic Partnerships with and we have a common agenda to fight the extremists in that region, so its an opportunity. Im glad to see the president is reaching out. But he certainly has made it more difficult because of his policiesn our refugees and immigratn. I have to leave it there. We squeezed in a lot ofics there. 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Dozens of proTrump Supporters have gathered on the steps of the capitol. You can see a small number of counterprotests are also there. Well keep an eye on whats happen and if anything breaks, well brick that to you. Lets continue talking about health care. The bill faces an uncertain future in the senate but no matter how things play out legislatively, the House Republicans vote is in the books. Lets talk about it. Florida democratic congressman Charlie Crist is the states former governor and joins me now. Good morning to you. Good afternoon, sheinelle. You have a unique perspective having been a member of both parties. There was a big celebration as you know at the white house on thursday. I saw that. How do you think Congressional Republican members are going to feel when that cbo score on the bill comes out next week . I dont think good. I think the American People are going to feel even worse. This is a terrible bill. I mean lets be honest. You have a bill where 24 million americans are going to lose their coverage because of preexisting conditions, maybe it will be even more once we get the Congressional Budget Office, as you referred to the cbo, and they have their numbers that come out to us. You know, when you have 80 what is it, 85 billion taken out, you know, almost a 850 billion, excuse me, taken out of medicaid. That relates to poor people, disabled people, thats a catastrophe. Thats just unbelievable and unconscionable that anybody would support such a thing. When those actual numbers come out, and they may grow. Probably they will. I think those members are going to feel horrible and the American People are going to feel even worse about it. No wonder theres a reaction youre getting from town halls around the country. You know, there will be demonstrations, i am sure. Thats why its important to get this message out about how bad this bill is. Fortunately, i listened to your interview with the senator earlier. The senate is getting it. I think they understand how horrific this thing is, how damaging it is, how merciless it is to the American People. Thats why im optimistic and i think that our friends in the u. S. Senate, both republican and democrat, are going to take a hard look at this thing. Theyre going to try to do whats right. Even republicans like john mccain, lindsey graham, lamar alexander, they have already gone on record saying weve got to take this slow, weve got to be smart about how we look at this. Health care is incredibly important. The american peopl desve the very best. Were the richest country in the world. Frankly, were the richest country in the history of the world and we need to provide people who need health care a very good product and thats what has to be at the end of the day. You talk about being optimistic. If this ends in a best Case Scenario for Congressional Democrats and President Trump doesnt sign Obamacare Repeal into law, will there be a push to work on legislation that will help americans handle the massive premium increases were seeing in states across the country . Of course there will. Thats our job. We work for the American People. Theyre my boss. They pay me. Im grateful to them. And they pay all my colleagues. And so this is democracy. And democracy means that the will of the people shall be heard. Our greatest job is to listen. Got gave us two ears and one mouth as my physician father always told me and my Three Sisters and its good to respect his ratio and listen twice as much as you talk. The American People deserve this, need this, want this and they shall have this. With national defense, protecting our environment, good education and good health care, thats what im committed to. Thats why i ran. Ive held several offices in my past, governor, attorney general of florida. The reason i do it is because i love to serve. All of us have a role in this thing called democracy in this beautiful nation called america. Its a privilege and an honor t be abl to serve the people of my hometown of st. Petersburg. I want too look at this report. The Cook Political Report shifted, i dont know if you saw this, 20 house races toward the democrats after the vote and three of those 20 went from leaning republican and are now tossups. But how does your party keep up this momentum really for the next 18 months . Oh, my dpaugosh. Well, people are energized. The first evidence i got that people are energized about politics again, about government, about good Public Service, was the day after the inauguration. I went to the inauguration out of respect. I work for her, i did not vote for him. But he is the president of the United States and so out of respect i went. The next day i flew home to st. Petersburg from washington. And was attending the womens march here locally. They expected a thousand people. When i got there, there were 25,000 people in my hometown of st. Petersburg, florida. There had never been that many in a march or demonstration in the history of st. Petersburg. Not for civil rights, not for womens suffrage, not for the end of world war ii, nothing compared to that. It sent a loud message to me and i think the country because it happened in washington and all over america. Were upset, were concerned. Some of us are frightened, many are. Immigrants in particular, perhaps. And i think that its been a g