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except for all the competing elements stepping on that narrative. the latest just breaking in the past few hours, the republican health care bill is again dead in the water in the u.s. senate. two more republican senators mike lee of utah, jerry moran of kansas, both together say they are going to vote no to advance the bill. they join the two other republican no votes. collins of michigan, rand paul of context, that means despite having the majority in the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell now does not have the votes he needs to move this legislation forward. a reminder here is the what the president promised about health care legislation back in may after the house passed their version of the bill. we re going to get this passed through the senate. i feel so confident. moments ago, the president responded to this news on twitter and we ll get into this as well. quote republicans should repeal failing obamacare now. and work on a new health care plan that will ....
attorney general rod rosenstein spoke out today insists it s not a fishing expedition and downplayed the subpoenas. in general, chris, it doesn t say anything about the likely indictments because we conduct investigations and make a determination as some point in the point of the investigation whether charges are appropriate. what s the advantage in terms of an investigation taking a case to a grand jury? many of our investigations, chris, involve the use of the grand jury. a way to gather documents. sometimes bring in witness witness for full testimony. a tool we use like any other tool in the course of our investigations. the subpoenas are widely seen in washington as a big step forward in the case. here s what a ranking member of the house intelligence committee said earlier today. instead, if these allegations are true, it s moving into a new phase with the impaneling of a grand jury so that special counsel can subpoena witnesses and documents. that wouldn ....
on this monday night good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 179 of the trump administration. this week s white house theme is made in america. except for all the competing elements stepping on that narrative. the latest just breaking in the past few hours, the republican health care bill is again dead in the water in the u.s. senate. two more republican senators mike lee of utah, jerry moran of kansas, both together say they are going to vote no to advance the bill. they join the two other republican no votes. collins of michigan, rand paul of context, that means despite having the majority in the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell now does not have the votes he needs to move this legislation forward. a reminder here is the what the president promised about health care legislation back in may after the house passed their version of the bill. we re going to get this passed through the senate. i feel so confident. moments ag ....
the president, john dowd. for more, msnbc s jeff ben tet white house, nbc news and msnbc legal analyst, senior fellow and government toids at the bookings institution, and editor and chief, carrie johnson, and jeff mason, reuters correspondent. we ve had development in the last hour, reaction to the report that s come out so far. what? richard, the top-line takeaway from the new york times report is the white house counsel don mcghan, over the fear that the white house was setting him up to take the fall over any obstruction of justice, is now cooperating with the special counsel. it s a fairly breathtaking revelation. the new york times is reporting that in a series of interviews totaling some 30 hours, mcgann is telling the special counsel about the president s outrage, his anger over the russia investigation and how he has urged mcgann to respond to it. this includes things like firing james comey, pressuring the attorney general, jeff sessions, to do the presi ....
providing information to federal prosecutors. weisselberger s ties to the president go back decades. he acted as trump s financial gatekeeper overseeing the trump oregon and trump foundation. now he has been granted immunity and is talking to prosecutors about hush money payments to two women ahead of the 2016 presidential election. this a day after trump s long-time media ally david pecker accepted his own immunity deal and two days after his former lawyer implicated him in a campaign finance violation. yesterday, i said the walls were closing in on this president. today this is how time magazine is illustrating a presidency in peril. they filed this cover in the deep. our in deep. excuse me. the new york times reported that manhattan district attorney s office is considering criminal charges against the trump organization, and two senior executives. a probe would focus on the documentation of $130,000 payment to trump s long-time attorney michael cohen and whe ....