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Ourts for insurance companies and bailouts for members of congress will end soon. joining us is republican congresswoman marsha blackburn of tennessee. are you getting a bailout from the federal government? >> no. all members of congress are on the affordable care act, on the d.c. small business exchange. as the federal government has done, they provide a portion of insurance as a benefit to employees. >> the president doesnt like those for members of congress. >> thats right. so many of our emp...

Theyve been the gang of seven and eight. i want the gang of 51. i want the senate to show some spine and fix this problem. >> that seems to be impossible. what youre calling for -- they are not all of one mind. >> 51 of them need to make a decision that theyre going to fulfill a promise to the american people and send the house a bill so we can get this issue resolved. its not fair to anybody, alisyn. i had a telephone town hall last week. 80% of the people on that town hall regardless of what s...

Of it and are sort of born-again russia hawks. this is a very big deal. >> saved sanger, lets talk about north korea. they had yet another ballistic missile test and president trump seems to be quite frustrated, particularly with china. he tweeted this, i am very disappointed in china. our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions a year in trade, yet they do nothing for us with north korea, just talk. we will no longer allow this to continue. china could easily solve t...

So vice president pence is addressing russias retaliation over the im paneding u.s. sanctions. russian president putin dealing a serious blow to americas diplomatic presence in russia, cutting u.s. staff at diplomatic missions by more than half. cnns claire sebastian is live from moscow with more. what are the latest developments, claire? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. 755 people is the number the russian president says will get cut from the u.s. diplomatic presence in russia. a couple of ke...

Collapse, whatever word you want to use. that, of course, would have wide ranging implications for a lot of people. as we heard in that earlier piece, it was arizona senator john mccain who cast the third no vote, this despite the president seeking with senator mccain, trying to lobby him in a last-minute phone call on the floor as vice president mike pence had gone to the capitol hoping to cast the tie breaking vote. in the end, he played the role of last-minute lobbyist. the white house is lik...

Executed on. he said repeatedly when we can finally execute the agenda, when we can execute the agenda, i read that as the white house communications director saying that the last six months have been for not when it comes to executing the agenda, which i thought was a really astonishing concession. >> pause. you know, one of the reasons its so extraordinary because alisyn and i have sat together next to all of this as its unfolded since the beginning is that theres so many layers of whats going...

Breaking news. white house communications director anthony scaramucci tells "new day" exclusively this morning that hes putting white house aides on notice. >> the president and i would like to tell everybody we have a very, very good idea of who the leakers are, who the senior leakers are in the white house. >> okay. scaramucci also told us that his now-deleted tweet where he called out white house chief of staff reince priebus over the leaks was not a threat. talking about this and so much mor...

Suppose it was kind of him to exempt abraham lincoln from his declaration. but alisyn, those we consider presidential have earned it, not declared it, fdr, reagan in berlin. president trump continues to engage in self-promotion, suggesting he is above accountability and obviously the division through insults and in his twitter feet. why we should be concerned is in moments of national crisis, in moments of national decision, i dont believe this po of president has positioned himself to be one th...

Lets wait until his story is in history judges you. hes not going to wait. the but i just -- i think the entire thing is somewhere between absurd, hilarious and panic-inducing. >> matt, lets move on. the jeff sessions. is he long for this post? >> i dont know. i mean this is the painful thing. ive known jeff sessions and had deep respect for him. theres a lot of sessions people who are pop eulate the throughout the trump administration in important jobs. i saw him election night in trump tower a...

>> reporter: democrats promising to keep pressure on republican colleagues as they fight to preserve president obamas signature health care law. >> we have lost an important battle today but we have not yet lost this war. >> we are going to fight and fight and fight until this bill is dead! >> reporter: so what is next here? possibly up to 20 hours of deb baept as they look at various republican proposals in the days ahead. then the senate goes into whats called a vote rama where any republican ...