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John roberts is following it and brings us the latest. Good evening. Good evening. Congressional Budget Office should stick to dollars and cents and not try to project people or outcomes. Thats the message from the white house as the staff pushes back against the cbo finding that 24 Million People would lose coverage under the proposed new health care plan. The white house has criticized the cbo for not taking into account phases two and three of the overall plan which aimed to lower the cost of insurance and prescription drugs. Phases two and three havent been crafted yet. How are they supposed to take into account something that doesnt yet exist . I think thats a question for the house. There are constraints put on the cbo in terms of what they can consider. The point we want to make is if members are going to base their vote office score, they need to understand the totalit ....
The investigation into russias involvement in the election. By the way, the senate just went nuclear, changing its rules to confirm judge neil gorsuch to the Supreme Court. This morning well be joined live on the set with the chairman of the Armed Services committee, senator john mccain, also member of the Foreign Relations committee senator marco rubio. New york times columnist tom friedman joins. Bob woodward as well. Welcome to morning joe on this friday, april 7th. With us on capitol hill, we have columnist and associate editor for the Washington PostDavid Ignatius, washiton anchor for bbc world news america katty kay, and john heilemann. Good to have you all, this morning. We begin with the breaking ne ....
That request did not come to us. It went to the department of justic justice. Saying we cart restart civilization with somebody elses action. I will touch base with the president on that. Halle . I just want to go back to you just said a minute ago, what the president meant when he tweeted about the wire tapping. You all stood there and said the tweet speaks for itself. When do you decide when a president s tweet, when his words are open to interpretation and when though words stand on their own . Im sorry. Can you further explain . His tweets do speak for themselves. You interpret et it for peter. You said when he said wire tapping he meant he had it in quotes. Did you ask him . I did. What did he say . He said they were in quotes. It was referring to surveillance. He cited other reports in his conversation . He did. Thats what the tweet was based on . Good try. I have already been clear on that. I want to go back to the health care. Yes or no. Are cbo numbers legitimate or not . That ....
President trump just made a surprise visit. More on that in a moment. Police shot the gunman dead, and witness caught this dramatic footage of the shooting. [bleep] people have been cag 911 already. Kimberly joining us now, he is joining us outside of medstar national hospital. How is the congress meant doing . The last report we have from the hospital is that he is in critical condition. He suffered critical injuries and is in critical condition, but information from this hospital has been a very sparse. Unusually so. Ive never seen anything like this when youre dealing with a high level public figure who has been the victim of a gunshot wound. There have been a grand total of two communications from this hospital, one about ten hours ago as a tweet, and another about five hours ago. Another tweet, and that has been the sum total. We know right now, mr. Scalise is being visited by the president and first lady, a visit which has gone very quiet and eight sort of spontaneous visit. We d ....
Many of the building residents were sound asleep. London fire brigade commissioner says there are multiple fatalities, cant confirm number due to size and complexity of the building. More than 50 taken to five area hospitals. More than 250 firefighters and 40 engines working what officials call challenging and difficult conditions. Witnesses say streets up to a mile away are covered in a layer of ash. Another saw children dangled out of windows while others jump out due to conditions. Bill, what can you tell us . Reporter this fire broke out before 1 00 this morning. There are flames, smoke can be seen all over london. There are 120 homes in this building. It is not clear how many people were in when the fire broke out but it spread very, very rapidly. I have just been talking to a couple of residents who said it went up like a flash. And very distressing stories. Theyre talking about hearing people screaming from upstairs windows, saying save my children. Some people jumping from uppe ....