The first indications the winds are shifting at the state level in a way that could turn into a major storm nationally. Like early weather forecasting when you see the low pressure developing off the coast of africa. Anyway, mini canaries. Were claiming were coining this phrase. Thats all for the tonight. Well be back tomorrow. The beat starts right now. Is this butter fly theory like weather . Or baby canary . Were going mini canaries. Wait a minute. A canary is already small. But hey, theyre state legislative seats. We feel like congressional seats are the canaries. I wanted to go with finches personally but that annoyed some people. Getting darwinian. Chuck todd with the analogy and watching the races as a leading indicator. Thank you. President trumps approach to Law Enforcement is under scrutiny after he snubbed the swearing in ceremony for his own fbi director today. And we can tell you, thats
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Here. And the real problem is donald trump is not the closer. He cant call these people up and say, hey, ive done so much for you, you need to vote for this for me. This is not going to sway senate republicans. Darlene, a lot of the opposition in the bill isnt something that the sweeteners will necessarily be able to fix. A lit more money here or there to alaska or maine. The critique is more fundamental from Susan Collins. So how does senator graham and cassidy get over the hurdle . Thats a good question. You mentioned Susan Collins and rand paul who is always for repeal and his opposition to this bill now is based on the fact that it does not entirely repeal obamacare. So i dont know how you flip him on that basis. And can President Trump close the deal . That remains to be seen. This is one of several headlines moving forward throughout the day here. What is happening on the health with health, happening on the
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While 30 say it has given them a less favorable one. 61 said it had no impact. And finally, this is the most troubling number 46 said they feel that President Trump fired comey to slow down the russia investigation. And 38 buy the original explanation from the white house, that it was done over legitimate concerns over how comey handled the Hillary Clinton email issue. And theres a report that a frustrated President Trump is considering firing many of his Top White House aides. It adds up to a week, at best, the administration has a communications problem. Or at worst, it is facing accusations of obstruction of justice. I was going to fire comey. Donald trump contradicted his white house aides and his Vice President , adding to questions as to why the president chose to fire fbi director james comey when he did. No one from the white house. That was a d. O. J. Decision. He took the recommendation
but the president needs to back off and let the investigation go forward. We need to call
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