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Discussions. again, to talk about potential ways forward. so those conversations have occurred. i think that s what i mentioned to blake. i mentioned some of it yesterday. and if we can find a way forward, we ll do it. but i don t think just so we re clear, john, to your question, i m not saying we ve picked a strategy and we re going to go with this group or that group. i think the president was several people reached out and expressed an interest and the president s view is that he s willing to listen to them. and hear what their ideas are. i made a comment yesterday that was that just so we re clear, we have let s call it 205, 207, somewhere in there, votes. maybe 210 depending on what it is. the point i made yesterday to get to 216, 218 depending on the day of the week, there are certain things that people want that would take what i think the president views as a very good ....
To share ideas and additional ways forward. so there has been a discussion and i believe there will be several more. what would you say to the folks who have a genuine concern that if you will could not get health care done, how do you go about getting big ticket items like tax reform and infrastructure done? people say if you can t get one, how are you going to do the next? again, i think as i i mean, we re going to build a coalition for this. i think each of them have different con tet wstituent. i don t want to prejudge. outcome at this point. john. thank you, sean. we ll do both. all right. sorry for jessica. ....
you ve gon with republican votes, not democrats. however we get there, john. yesterday you wreren t able o tell us very much about congressman nunes s visit to the white house grounds to give you classified information. a democrat on the committee said the white house would have known that he was here. the same democrat also said it looked lying a criminal cover up to him. my question to you is have you learned any more information since we had conversation yesterday about how he would have got ep ten in and how he w have gotten cleared and do you think he should recuse himself from the investigation. it s not up to me. he s a member of the house. he s appointed by the speaker. we re not going to start commenting on that kind of stuff. i do think that he is running an investigation which we asked for. and i think the thing that s important to note is there ....
Drops by. he has to understand the gravity of his job and the politics of the moment. even if he s doing the right thing, democrats are going to look at this politically. even if you have a trust issue, you have to take the ranking democrat with you. if you said i got something i can t really tell you about it, but you ve got to come with me, we wouldn t be in this mess. there s a lot of main streak folks in the republican party asking what s going on here. they know the chairman. he was a mainstream member. he s really sort of falling for trump in a lot of ways. and it s puzzling to a lot of folks on the hill. real fast, john, taking a step back looking at this politically, every story about this investigation is just creates a distraction for trump. it s a cloud over his head. an additional cloud. he can t help himself, he responds. an additional cloud is that the chairman canceled the hearings this week including one today in which the former deputy attorney general sally ....
Have been saying at this hearing today. we don t know what john brennan, the former cia director what he would have been saying. but until january 20th, they were in charge of the national intelligence community and had good information about what was going on and in the end they decided that is not going to happen. now we re hearing, we will be a hearing, i wonder if you re hearing additional information before not the house intelligence committee but the senate intelligence committee where there seems to be greater bipartisan cooperation between the chairman and the ranking democrat. certainly there has been much better cooperation between those two senators. a senate intelligence committee is sort of viewed as a sacred bipartisan ground, if you will. they ve done many investigations. they have their differences between each side, but so far at least as of now, the senate investigation seems to be proceeding in a much more cordial basis here. they have given an indication that they ....