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Blue states, it wasnt confined to Democratic Party events. It was real grassroots in every Congressional District in the country and every Congress Person felt it left, right, and center, an inescapable truth about the politics of this issue. I might have seen snippets of some of that, but it felt like i was seeing it for the first time. Thanks, man. Appreciate it. Thanks, rachel. Paul ryan is in very deep trouble tonight. He failed his first big test as speaker today. His first big test of managing legislation. Everything he did with legislation during the Obama Administration was fake. They knew they could pass any repeal of obamacare and it would be vetoed. It was not real. Now its real. And paul ryan failed to pass the repeal as promised, on schedule, the way legislation is supposed to have move. He is working tonight to see what he can salvage from that failure, if anything. And possibly more importantly to paul ryan, he is hoping desperately tonight that everyone will forget what
Thanks, man. Appreciate it. Thanks, rachel. Paul ryan is in very deep trouble tonight. He failed his first big test as speaker today. His first big test of managing legislation. Everything he did with legislation during the Obama Administration was fake. They knew they could pass any repeal of obamacare and it would be vetoed. It was not real. Now its real. And paul ryan failed to pass the repeal as promised, on schedule, the way legislation is supposed to have move. He is working tonight to see what he can salvage from that failure, if anything. And possibly more importantly to paul ryan, he is hoping desperately tonight that everyone will forget what devin nunes said about paul ryan yesterday. At the end of the day, sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the wrong one. He just apologized. He didnt specify what his apology was about. Instead of coming to the committee first, our chair went to the president. I have not seen anything like it. And its very disturbing.
Has them . Do we know . And we know that it covered two key topics, mccabes own topics with the president as well as what he was told about the former fbi director james comeys separate conversations with trump. We recall that comey documented the conversation, and he said that mccabe did that as did comey because he felt that trump would lie about his conversation s so his ability to corroborate comeys story is important here as Robert Mueller continues to investigate. And he is seeing the firing of james comey to his own termination late last night and saying in the statement in part, heres the reality, i am being singled out, and treated this way, because of the role i played, the actions i took, and the events i witness ed in the aftermath of the firing of james comey. The release of this report was only accelerated after my testimony to the House Intelligence Committee revealed that i would be able to corroborate former director com comeys accounts of his discussions with the pres
Building case against the president. Sources say cnn Robert Mueller has in his possession memos from Andrew Mccabe, the now retired and fired Deputy Director of the fbi who was just dismissed from his job last night. The memo said to discuss conversations between mccabe and the president and james comey. Also learning late today, the mccabe gave an interview to the special counsel and was asked about the circumstances surrounding comeys firing. Those developments are the back drop for another remarkable attempt by the president to humiliate his own Justice Department and potentially poison the well as the special investigation reaches closer to the president. Cnn has been all over these fast moving developments in the past 24 hours. Lets begin with laura in washington. What do we know about the memos Andrew Mccabe turned over to the special counsel and his interview with muellers team . Well, anna, we have confirmed one of the topics covered during that interview with the special couns