Fabulously corrupt convicted republican super lobbyist, jack abram off. He alsoer represented john edwards quhefs charged with illegal i using Campaign Contributions to pay for the Living Expenses for his secret second family that nobody knew about. Abby lowell has been the defense lawyer, he has been the defense lawyer in the middle of taunl of lurish d political scandals. Jim wright who was the first speaker of the house to ever resign in scandal, he had he abby lowell as his lawyer. And the man who went straight from being the cheryl of the ways and Means Committee to serving 17 months this federal prison, abby lowell was his lawyer. And now hell be the defense lawyer for Jared Kushner too. Mr. Kushner is keeping his existing lawyer, another washington alister. But in addition, he is now adding abby lowell which means like mike pence, president ial Senior Adviser and president ial soninlaw and de facto crown prince of the trump administration, Jared Kushner and mike pence now both have better legal representation in this matter than the president does. And i dont mean to be weird about this but to face this scandal, to mount a personal defense, the president himself has hired this guy. Like handled some of his divorce stuff. He hired a lawyer who mostly does religious right televangelist stuff and he hired this guy. Youre going to want to watch this next piece of video that we have. He is out on bail after being convicted of all 14 counts of couldnt spearcy and fraud. His attorney has promised to appeal those convictions. This is the video that i was talking about. Cnbc caught up with mr. Dowd a short time ago. Thats what i got for cnbc. Wow thats what i got for cnbc. Cnbc. Doesnt usually have to blur hand gestures. It is like business stuff. You know what i mean . But the president has hired this star wars bar scene legal team to mount his own defense in the russia scandal. And that is fine. Thats his prerogative. He gets to do it however he wants to do it. It is worth noting that now this contrast, his Vice President , mike pence, and his soninlaw Jared Kushner, in contrast to what hes done, theyve hired real big name lawyers with tons of experience in big name political scandals. Mike pence hired richard cullen. Jared kushner just hired abby lowell. Well have more coming up in a couple minutes about why Jared Kushner may be feeling the need to add such an alist lawyer to his personal pay roll. There are two things have just come up that may explain the sense of urgency with his legal team and hiring one of the most famous criminal defensor attorneys in the country. So well get to that in a couple minutes. I want to start with this airplane with a banner which was seen today flying high over, well, flying high, well above what typically counts as american politics. The plane is on the left side of the screen. The banner is on the lower right. Can we zoom in so you can see what it says . Senator heller, keep your word, vote no on trump care. The only problem with this high flying message is that although this message targets senator dean heller of nevada, this banner actually flew today over charleston, West Virginia. Which i think was just a screw up. I think this is also a heads up to the people of nevada that somewhere above reno or las vegas, youre probably about to start seeing a plane flying a banner for somebody named senator, that was meant for virginia. Theyre probably going to have to swap their biplane banners. The senator did get wrong banner for the wrong senator flying over her office in charleston today. But the senator got a lot of people on the ground in exactly the right place. Her constituents coming to her office in charston including a half dozen residents who not only came to the office but they came inside the office and they said they would stay in there. They would sit in in an act of peaceful civil disobedience. They pledged to state until she pledged to vote no on the Republican Health care bill. They said they would stay until she voted no or until they get arrested. Whichever came first. And this afternoon they got arrested. Six of them were arrested at senator capittos office. She is one of the republican senators who might vote no on this bill. The high number of people in her state that would be expected to lose all Health Care Coverage and have no fopgss this bill becomes law. She has not said anything about how she is going to vote on it. You can see the arrests today. You can see the people at her office today. Watch this. I want you to see a picture of somebody, a face. Thats my daughter. Okay. Okay. She is beautiful. She doesnt take after her mom. Thats okay. I want you to see her in treatment. How old is she . 41 years old. Shes been fighting this cancer. Whats her name . Aily elizabeth stills. Shes been fighting this cancer for four years. Very diligently. She has maintained her jobs. Shes gotten promotions. Has led teams. As sick as she has been. She would not be alive today if it wasnt for the aca. Is she on medicaid . No. Shes working. With her job. But if she ever lost her insurance, in seven months, she went over he 1. 2 million. And this has been going on for four years. Preexisting condition . And were not sure how long shell be able to work. Maybe forever. Thats what our goal is. But these are real people. My daughter. So i want you to have that in your brain. Look at this. I understand pressure. I understand what, no, i dont. I want to you stand up against this immoral bill. Senator shelly moore capito, one of those votes who will be a make or break vote. S the Congressional Budget Office today put out its new score of what the bill will do. That scoring projects if the republicans are able to pass this thing, it will kick 22 million americans off of Health Insurance. Before todays score, nevada senator dean hell her already, in fact, said he was a no vote on the bill. After the score came out today, senator sues an collins of maine said she too will be a no vote on the bill. Thats two. Thats all the no votes republicans can spare. If they get to three, if just one more republican senator decides to vote no, this thing will be over. Senate democrats tonight are once again holding the floor of the United States senate. Theyll be holding the floor of the senate indefinitely tonight. Theyve been there already several hours. Theyre trying to rally more no votes against it. The democrats takeover of the senate floor tonight was led by the hawaii senator who will be leaving the senate tomorrow to undergo a second round of surgery to fight Kidney Cancer which she was just diagnosed with. So tomorrow, she will have lesion her rib removed in conjunction her cancer treatment. But tonight she is leading the senate. In this effort to try to save the Affordable Care act. But you know, no matter how dramatic things get in this fight on this issue in washington, d. C. , the real poet end politics of this have been shaped not in d. C. Theyve been shaped at home, in the home states of all these people. Every time they show up in their home districts is that ho, in tr home states. If you want to travel fast, if you want to travel far, go together. We are going to make the changes, we are going to fast bill and we are going to repeal obamacare. That was not the response that texas congressman Pete Sessions wanted to get from a room full of his constituents there. Thats what it has been like. Theyve been getting an earful from town halls. It is also involved these organic Grassroots Group that was sprung up all over the country in every Congressional District in the country. Indivisible movement, holding rallies at lawmaker offices. Demanding that their representative dozen town hall events and meet with their constituents and explain their votes. Sometimes it has involved creative prospects. This was a very good one. Each of these balloons delivered to new Jersey Republican congressman tom mcmccartkar mac office, each one representing 1,000 people who would lose coverage as a result of his vote for the bill that he helped pass in the house. You will notice the balloons are themselves filled with confetti which creates quite conundrum in terms of what do you with all those balloons once you get them in the office. The activism has been tremendous in the home states and home districts of representatives from before the inauguration. The first moments people are organizing to see if the republicans would do what they said they would do. It has involved a lot of meetings with the staffers. It involves not listening to the staffers when they try play indicate the crowds. They found that out the hard way. A constituent event in february where you can tell, they were not prepared. We need help with medicare and social security. So many of you have already sign up on our signup sheet. If you have not, this is how well be calling folks back in to discuss matters. Huge constituent crowds were a staple of life for republican lawmakers whenever they went back home this spring. Now were seeing the protests which never really went away. Now were seeing them spring up with a new sense of urgency in response to the bill that is pending in the senate. In asheville, north carolina, hundreds of people gathered to protest the new senate bill. They got it at the vance memorial in asheville. Nose attendance said the rally was aimed at the he 22 Million People who could Lose Health Care coverage if this bill becomes law. Protesters show up outside the offices in florida. 100 or so demonstrators showed up outside marco rubios office to channel vote no, marco, vote no, marco. The protesters stage ad diein, a technique from the aids activist movement which started in this country in the late 1980s. People lying down to represent people who they believe will be killed as a result of this legislation. If you can hear what theyre saying there, theyre saying marco polio, a rif on both marco rubio and marco polo. In charleston, protesters rallied in senator Shelley Capitos office to make their message heard. If this bill passes, if senator capito does not vote no, 170,000 West Virginians will be losing their health care. Over 25,000 West Virginians will not be able to get drug treatment. Senator capito certainly knows that. To protect West Virginians, we need to vote no. To protect our whole nation. 22 Million People who Lose Health Care if this is not voted no. Were showing any ounce of courage today, it is to inspire senator capito to show that same amount of courage in this odd state of politics where defending the health care of 22 Million People requires courage. It should be common sense. Senator Shelley Moore capito. That was her district nofs charleston, West Virginia today. She is one of the republican senators who appears to be on the fence in this bill. It is down to one vote right now as to whether or not this will pass. If it does pass, the cbo projects will result in 22 million americans not the just losing the Health Insurance that theyre on but altogether lflt protests through the spring like we can continue to see today affect the way this vote ultimately goes. Joining us, the coexecutive director, one of the architects of the protests against these efforts to repeal the Affordable Care act. Thank you for being here. A lot has changed since we first talked with you about this Little Movement seemed to be springing forth out of nowhere. Im surprised as you are. We have an average of 13 groups in each district. 13 . 13 and this is not just an east coast thing or a west coast thing. This is indivisible alabama, in tennessee, there are groups in maine that spent last week going to every single Congressional District office that Susan Collins had. They only had five of the six covered. So one of the groups drove four hours to drive to the caribou office. They did a sitin there. Drove back the next four hours. Then they went to their weekly indiiesible meeting to do more. She announced this. This is working because people are standing up. When we look at the short history, the group that you have been part of and you helped start as a staffer, the growth of your organization and the visibility of the protests is something that is remarkable and it is easy to track. Your track record on the aca, however, was that i think that the work that you guys did slowed the republicans effort to pass it in the house. In march, they put it up for a vote. It didnt pass. In april, they tried to bring it back, it didnt pass. Then in may they brought it back and it did pass. What did you learn from that in. Early on tlfrgs a tunnel of pressure during the february recess is when people were back in their districts. They were hearing from their constituents and they heard from people in the deep south, in deep blue districts, from all over, that they didnt want to see this Health Care Bill go through. Ultimately they rushed it through right at the end. They were able to get it through. Not without pain. They barely did it with two votes. Then we saw mitch mcconnell, he is smart. He saw what happened in the house. What did he was try to keep it in the dark. For the last several weeks, hes been cracking this bill in the dark. He knew if there was sunlight on it, people would see everything that was wrong. They would stand up and pressure their senators to oppose it. So what has happened with the cbo report, the actual bill. We know it is really bad. We know millions of people lose their Health Insurance. We know thousands could die. This is all in service of cutting billions in taxes for millionaires. But theres one good thing. It is public now. We know about it. So people are coming out. We identified 11 republicans in ten states a couple weeks ago. They look gettable. In each of those states, there have been indivisible groups going out the past couple weeks saying, look, i could be bankrupt or dead without the Affordable Care act. You need stand up for me. Dont stand up for trump care. We see thats working right now. It is not just democrats standing up against the bill. Weve seen senator collins in maine. Were they two of the ones you targeted some. Absolutely. Theres a brought resistance out there made up of folks joining planned parenthood or working families party, a lot of folks are coming out against. This not just democrats. This bill has an Approval Rating less than 20 for a reason. People recognize that it will really affect their lives. For folks watching, the answer should be clear. Look at what is going on. And stand up yourself. There is a rally going on outside the white house, or outside the capitol, senator booker, john lewis, theyre saying this isnt just about health care. This is a massive social justice issue. If you look throughout history and wonder, what would i do . Would i stand up . The answer is, it is what youre doing now. People all across the country are standing up now. The next 48 hours is crucial. We need one more republican to drop off this bill and we can save thousands of lives or health care for millions. The coexecutive director and one of the founders of the indivisible project. Thank you for coming in. 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He was named as the new nominee several weeks ago but tonight the white house finally put his name forward to the se