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we need to slow down and get it right. like mom used to say, you rush and you make mistakes. democrats are going to continue in their head-long rush to pass a government takeover of health care. from where i stand and frankly many republican senators stand who are troubled by the pace is of concern. we should have had more time to digest it. i guess history has a funny way of repeating itself. what a difference eight years doesn t make. republicans today sounding a lot like republicans back in 2009 on health care reform. only this time, they are battling themselves. can president trump and house speaker paul ryan bring their own party on board? this as one new report says at least 15 million people, joe, will lose their health care coverage under the new gop plan. this morning, we are going to speak live with the u.s. secretary of health and human services dr. tom price. plus, the man responsible for whipping votes in the house, republican congressman steve scalise a ....
country? i hope he did write those letters. i hope he does call those family members in the coming days. he was wrong to try to make up this just awful lie that president obama didn t do that. but my concern is more about what it says about future decisions he ll make about putting soldiers in harm s way. or point of fact, current kinetic military taifd by this nation in places like niger were frankly, senator, i bet if he polled a thousand americans, 999 couldn t have told you that the u.s. had members of the armed service there s in harm s way in niger. what is going on there? what is striking to me, four americans were killed there, and what do we know about why we re there, what the strategy is, what the u.s. government is doing? well, listen, to be fair to president trump, this counterterrorism strategy of pushing special forces out wherever al qaeda was gaining president talked about at length today, and i want to ask you, because i have you here and you ve been very ....
honest with how the trump administration can reconcile that claim with images like this and sounds like these. those are children crying waiting for the parents they have been taken from. the audio obtained by pro publica. this is not separation anxiety, this is separation. real trauma. we will be joined by a pediatrician that wrote several letters calling for this to stop. in part, because it could lead to this. it was, as we reported and as members of the administration openly stated when they were selling this policy, a deliberate choice. now when faced with the consequences and the bipartisan up roar against it, the response has been to deny responsibility and shift the blame. and i say it very strongly, the democrat s fault. they are obstructionist and they are obstructing. we are stuck with these horrible laws. what is happening is so sad. it is so sad and it can be taken care of quickly, beautifully and we ll have safety. this could really be something very special. ....
The latest news from around the world. reporter: trump jr. testified he never told his father about the meeting. when asked, did you inform your father about the meeting or prior to the meeting? trump jr. responded, no, i was not. when he was later asked why he didn t share news? i wouldn t tell him anything until i knew what was myself. last year he testified before two congressional meetings. a source familiar tells cnn, he did not testify trump had any advance only in of the meeting. now his attorney rudy guiliani is attacking the credible. man is a liar a proven liar. there is no way you will bring down the president of the united states on the testimony uncorroborated of a proven liar. i germany tee you, this guy is a proven liar. reporter: when just a few weeks ago, guiliani seemed to have plenty of faith in con s truthfulness. if he believes it s in his reporter: no, they re not. but i think in this sort of lexicon of international diplomacy, which mr. put ....
being with me. i m fredricka whitfield. president trump is spending the weekend at the golf resort in bed minu bedminister, new jersey. the news of a booming economy and the president fulfilling a campaign promise overshadowed by the latest bombshell in the russia investigation. the man who once said he would take a bullet for trump is now telling special counsel mueller the president knew about that infamous 2016 trump tower meeting ahead of time. this is something the president has repeatedly denied. and now the president is doubling down on that denial. cnn s white house reporter sarah westwood joins us live from new jersey near the president s golf club where he is spending the weekend. how is the president handling this? reporter: president trump is settling in for a weekend facing many unanswered questions about that 2016 trump tower meeting involving his son, donald trump, and a russian lawyer. trump refused to answer questions about those claims from his attorney mic ....