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Hurt hillary clinton. republican donors are now facing a new reality. this really happened. lets discuss with cnn political commentator and the former lieutenant governor of south carolina, andre bower and the former communications director for the jeb bush presidential campaign, tim miller, both republicans here with us. thanks for being here. first to you, andre, cnn reporting that this latest development, the e-mails here and the meeting, in the russia story are starting to make republican do...

>> what do you mean dont get caught? >> if you rob a bank and dont get cash -- she wasnt investigated. they let it go. >> andre, this isnt just about the law, okay? you want to make this just about the law. just because -- if you try to rob a bank and you failed, that is still a crime. >> you still get prosecuted. >> just a minute. hold on. hold your thought. tim. >> yeah. >> hold your thought because i just want to point out, andre, what you just said about they tried to investigate and let the...

Campaign. we know he went to a meeting where it was reported he tried to set up a back channel with russia. i think if this was not a son-in-law, i think that, you know, the appropriate course would be for him to take a leave of absence and not have a security clearance until this investigation is over. because hes a son-in-law, that creates these uncomfortable issues so i dont know if i agree exactly what representative flores is proposing but i think the nepotism laws need to be looked at for ...

Enjoying but in the meantime, lets turn our attention back to the russia investigation, the news about don junior, his e-mails, his meeting and in fact were just learning, this just crossing as were speaking, that special counsel mueller is going to bring in an fbi official who oversaw the clinton e-mail investigation. andre, a little irony here? >> well, i hope its not just irony. i hope when we investigate russia, we dont just investigate one side. whether its uranium 1 or donations to the cli...

The clintons as well and that was one of the candidates in this race so i think the american people want to know all the facts, not just part of the facts and not just one side of the political equation. >> tim, whats your reaction? >> donald trump is the president right now. what the american people need to know is if -- and i think we already know, but the question is, the extent to which the president and his closest advisers knew that they received help from a country that is our enemy on th...

All right. this morning the president on twitter urging republicans to pass a new health care bill, but a new kaiser family foundation poll shows that more and more people are not that optimistic about the house version of the bill that was passed. 49% view obamacare favorably compared to 31% who view the house bill favorably. only 16% think the cost will be better under the gop health care bill. in the house, and 36% feel it will be about the same. lets discuss with andre bower, cnn political c...

Get your beat on this because as john pointed out earlier in the show, frank interviewed michael bloomberg and heres part of what he writes that stood out to us. democrats are searching for the right issues and words. and theyll step on each other. there is a 55% chance that trump gets re-elected. what do you make of that, governor? >> i think hes pulling that out of the air, but i do think that democrats have got to take donald trump seriously and when donald trump says hes speaking for the for...

Answer the question brianna keilar was asking her. simply will people have preexisting conditions see their premiums rise under the new gop health care bill. thats at the center of this conversation in large part. >> she didnt seem to be able to get an answer out of her, but that is the overriding question for most people. thats one of the biggest crux of this whole bill. >> joining us now to talk more about this, former south carolina lieutenant governor andre bower, good morning to you. >> goo...

Pre-affordable care act world where essentially, you know, most of the people who bought coverage in the individual market were those who didnt need it and if you actually needed coverage, it was very hard to obtain it. so this is a big philosophical change that moves away from the idea of establishing in essence more of a community vision of how health care is provided. >> andre, quickly, i want to play for you something from a town hall meeting last night, idaho congressman raul labradore, the...

And take more time to do it allows to show a difference. but theyve got to have a bigger discussion than just shifting. >> how can republicans claim that they want a fiscally responsible way of doing this without knowing how much its going to cost? >> well, until you have a way to bring health care coverage down, and that hasnt been part of the discussion, youre not going to know what its going to cost. i dont see that anywhere in the discussion. >> they would at least have an estimate from the ...