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>> well, i would have to hear an instance where that happened. my understanding and i represented a rural district when i was a senator, if somebody walks in the hospital, they are going to give them care regardless of what it does for the hospital bill. and i had hospitals that actually lost money every year and were having a difficult time making a go of it because it was such a rural and poor district. but again, theres got to be free market principles in here if youre going to lower health c...

Lot of areas that he has been working very diligently on behalf of the government, on behalf of the presidents agendas. >> i want to bring in jane ross, writer, daniel w. dresner as a professor of international politics at tufts university and cnn political commentator mr. andre bower. emily, you first, emily. heres the jobs jared kushner is responsible for. advising the president, brokering middle east peace, office of american innovation, and he seems to be the shadow secretary of state for me...

>> or in this case kushner. >> i think its also safe to assume since he trusts jared that he takes his advice. we all have family members we trust but we wouldnt take advice from them. >> go ahead, andre. >> hes going to receive things like an update on the campaign to defeat isis. else not making policy, hes going back and reporting to donald trump, from my understanding, and giving him an overview of what he sees. hes just analyzing what he sees in each one of these different scenarios. a guy,...

Jared kushner is a very, very, very busy man in the trump administration today. the presidents son-in-law was part of american delegation meeting in baghdad with iraqs prime minister. also he likes diplomatic experience. the white house explained his presence this way. >> he has a team that he oversees and i think there is a lot of areas that he has been working very diligently on behalf of the government, on behalf of the presidents agendas. >> i want to bring in jane ross, writ writer, daniel ...

Oh, sorry. theyre making fun of me for the other night. >> you made fun of yourself. >> bad andre. >> shot out to andre bower. hes a bad andre sometimes. >> so im back with my panel now. so tara, the first lady melania trump gave the keynote speech today at 2017 international women of courage awards and said in her speech this. >> we must continue to work towards gender empowerment and respect for people for people from all back grounds and ethnicities remembering always we are all ultimately me...

The white house digging in its heels, defending president trumps wiretapping allegation. the republicans in congress say theyve seen no evidence to support that claim. i want to wring in kristen powers, jack kingston, cnn political reporter, nia-malika henderson, former communications director in the white house, and andre bower, a former lieutenant governor of south carolina. and jim acosta. i think we have enough people. >> jim had enough face time. >> ill get out. >> they kicked him off. dont...

It. this seems to be the conspiracy theory that he just cant quit. >> andre, sean spicer is saying, you know, accused jim acosta of cherry picking, right? couldnt he be accused of the same thing because no one said, okay, we were wrong about the crowd sizes after the park services came out and said -- and showed the crowd sizes at the same time years apart. millions of people voted. has not been investigated, is not true. no one has said anything about that. they didnt do a peep about that. and ...

Collusion. >> the great thing on the don lemon show is you let people like me and bowers like me come and speak. >> i had the "new york times" article. >> the failed "new york times." >> i have the "new york times" article. the reporter was on with anderson cooper. he said nothing in there said to what youre using and other people are using and sean spicer -- >> it was "the guardian," heat stre"heat stree street", and others and he talked about that today. >> those articles dont say what they sa...

President of the united states. but seriously -- >> other senators met with him. >> there were trump campaign aides who met with the russian ambassador during the republican convex in cleveland last summer. >> it was a group of 50 people. >> sir, that is unusual. let me just ask this of andre. let me ask this of jack and andre. if the hillary clinton campaign had advisers and aides meeting with the russian ambassadors during the democratic convention, at the democratic convention, you guys would...

I dont see republicans, who should be talking about this type of plan, i dont see them engaging in this. im glad theyre at least discussing it. but i file like theres too much of a hurry for too much of a complex topic to be trying to push for a certain deadline in april. >> andre bower, raise your right hand, im giving you a virtual high five for being so candid in that and not being an apologist who backs up everything the president says whether its right or wrong. thank you for your candor, w...