senator lindsey graham whether or not there is an investigation ongoing into the donald trump campaign and those contacts that allegedly occurred with russian officials during the presidential election. since they have not confirmed the existence of an investigation, they have not even confirmed with senators, so in a private meeting between graham and whitehouse on march 2nd, james comey would not tell these two senators whether or not there was an investigation ongoing, even though they sit on a judiciary subcommittee investigating the issue of russia. comey according to sheldon whitehouse said he would confirm whether or not that investigation is occurring by this hearing that they re having tomorrow in this senate judiciary committee subcommittee exploring russia s meddling in the election. eastern yoeuropean elections as
committee and the top democrat mark warner told me going into the briefing there s no evidence whatsoever even though he met with james comey last week. one ot
we re simultaneously having negotiations with the chinese to see if we can reach an agreement. as the president said we want to cut the trade deficit $100 billion over the next year. we are proceeding with these tariffs. steve: the fight for free and fair trade is intensifying between the united states and china. what s at stake if they can t make a deal? and what does it mean for your wallet, your 401 k, your future? brian: no one contends that we don t have 337 billion-dollar trade deficit with china. so the president is deciding to tackle it people are getting nervous. the markets went crazy. what s happening behind the scenes, stuart. they are talking. that s the point. president trump has a specific style. he negotiates, starts from a very strong negotiating. brian: he will punch you in the mouth irs is. that s what he has done with china. knock this off. stealing our intellectual
Know, kind of stripping obamacare of some of the most popular elements and not enough to, you know, actually look at cost control and actually free market reforms that would help improve coverage. yeah. elise, that is the important thing. no free market reforms here. the conservatives, real conservatives could be excited about, that heritage would be excited about, that the freedom caucus would be excited about, that americans for prosperity would be. why does a conservative put their political careen e line getting behind this bad bill you owlast night, the cbo numbers, steve rattner, comes out and it ends up we don t know the exact numbers but the guesses are the changes will not improve coverage but will actually make the deficit go up even higher. take us behind the cbo numbers. it looks on bleak there too. well, as you know in the cbo report originally came out they said it would improve the deficit 337 billion. now they are saying it s 150
Government, give us the house, the senate, the white house, we promise we will repeal and replace and get rid of obamacare, which is this sort of amorphous thing people didn t think they liked and then they found that, oh, wait, that s my health care, that s my hundred and now you have this new cbo score that comes out and says that even the new bill, the new version, would knock 24 million people off of the health insurance rolls. it would reduce the deficit by $337 billion, the new one is now only $150 billion so it cuts the deficit reduction down and it would raise premiums on people by 15%. i am really baffled by how there are so many republicans who say that s actually not cruel enough, we won t support it unless you also take away the mandates for insurance companies providing maternity care. yeah. this is a far cry from donald trump wanting to cover everybody and give you something better than the affordable care acting. so i think we ve seen exactly where this entire sort of
we have been promising the american people we will repeal and replace this broken law because its collapsing and failing families. reporter: there was more bad news from the congressional budget office. a new score given to the republican legislation saying that it is now more costly this plan. we re talking about cutting the federal deficit of $150 billion over ten years. that is less than $337 billion cut under the original plan. also, they still estimate 24 million people out of health care coverage insurance over the course of ten years. as it stands now, dave and christine, we are looking at 216 needed to pass on the house side. this legislation, republicans cannot lose more than 21 of their own members voting no. the latest cnn whip count is now 31 no or leaning no. it is anyone s guess if this will actually go through and