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Cnn should cover, but kellyanne, i think that -- >> helping -- >> the president has not given a terribly full-throated announcement that he believes that russia interfered. he says, they may have. it may have been china. >> alisyn, so were just asking, having the same conversation through six different semantic differences. thats fine. its your show. you can ask me what you want. i will remind you as politely as i can that this entire conversation was irrelevant to voters in the four special ewl...

I think that if there are people who want to make a name for themselves and increase their speaking fees asking the same question 50 different times and never asking about job creation, never asking how were tackling the odoid crisis what were doing for veterans and military families and job seekers and creators -- >> thats what youre worried about? >> im not worries about anything with respect to that because this is a very busy, very accessible press shop. all day long members of cnn and other...

we appreciate it. >> thank you. joining us now, we want to get to the counselor to president trump, kellyanne conway. good morning, kellyanne. >> good morning, alisyn. >> thanks for being with us. this is a busy day. >> my pleasure. >> as it always is. lots of breaking news. i want to ask you about adams reporting just shared from "the washington post," this goes the furthest weve seen to connecting president putin of russia to actually giving the directive to interfere in the u.s. election, ...

>> i understand. i appreciate the points but i know youre on a, a time, a tight time constraint. i want to get to the next topic. that is the tapes. the audiotapes that the president admitted yesterday didnt exist. why did the president 42 days ago suggest that there might be audiotapes of his conversations with james comey? >> so the president made clear in this two tweets yesterday and in an interview aired early this morning alisyn on fox news that he doesnt have tapes. didnt make tapes, but ...

Economy. this is important and what people want to focus on. yesterday the senate releasd their health care legislation. >> im glad youre bringing that up. lets talk about that. move on to health care. youre right. that affects every person in america and theyre very interested in this. during the campaign, the president elect 1said he would not touch health care. it says it actually would cut $800 billion from medicare. how does the president explain that change? >> what hes doing with medicaid...

Our youth on this. >> great. >> the opioid addiction is a gateway to heroin use, fentanyl. >> understood. >> were so happy we have bipartisan juice behind this. a meeting with ten senators, six democratses, happy to see that. >> we are happy to hear that. kellyanne, wed love to talk more about this. >> thanks for the platform. ill be back. >> we would love to have you back to talk more about this. >> thanks, alisyn. take care. >> you, too. david? turning back to the debate and battle over heal...

>> in waning seconds, since youre being pulled away what exactly is the president doing to fight opioid addiction? >> several things. here at the white house put full force in effect he and the vice president established the white house commission on odoid addiction and the drug crisis. it is headed by new jersey governor chris christie. a bipartisan commission. >> yes, and -- >> includes form are congressman patrick kennedy, a very outspoken recovering addict who fights for mental parity here. ...

What about the campaign promise, no cuts to medicaid and medicare? now thats changed. >> only in washington would something like this be call add cut where over time there are protections in place for the disabl disabled, the elderly, the non-working poor for the children, for non-working women, and allow states to decide what they need to help those in need. >> sure. >> with less money. >> in their states. >> states get less money. >> not necessarily. depends on the situation. >> there are cuts...

Expansion now who would then be covered on their employers insurance as opposed to medicaid. >> you think the votes there are in the end? you think it passes the senate? >> i dont know. my concerns have to be addressed. four senators are very open about their concerns, but i do think that theres a good faith effort. i repeat if two democrats walked into mitch mcconnells door now he would bargain. >> all right, senator. thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. alisyn? were she to ta we...

Time now for the five things to know for your "new day" -- a stunning report in "the washington post." the cia capturing russian president vladimir putin issuing orders to hack the u.s. election to help donald trump and defeat hillary clinton. number two -- alisyn, actually not this tall. and president trump is admitting he does not have any tapes of his conversations with former fbi director jim comey. >> number three -- prove it. the senate health care bill facing resistance from all sides. ...