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Floor. i think there was a sense among leadership that that may have been an optics ploy on meadows part that he wanted to be seen in public as appearing to be angry at the speaker. this will unfold over the course of the next few hours. a lot of votes we will see will be procedural votes. there will be a vote on what is called the good lap bill. that has no chance of going anywhere. it is likely to fail in the house. so the critical vote is not going to come until about 5:00. i think what we ar...

Settlements out of their own pocket without their client knowing. so there has to be trepidation in the cohen camp because now donald trump has said hey, you represented me and a small amount, but you did represent me in this matter. where it is also dangerous in the southern district of new york we were having this discussion about whether or not the voluminous materiality accumulated was too much and they needed to slow down but he said he only represented him in a small amount of matters. the...

I think the response is a little more haphazard than might otherwise be if there was a plan in place. >> thanks, mike. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> well, after a lot of speculation and public arm-twisting from president trump, floridas republican governor rick scott is in. hes running for the u.s. senate. the governor formally announcing campaign within the last hour. >> why have to go to working on the and get to work. were tired of washington working for them. they need to start work...

>> during the next effort to repeal and replace in may, there was 14 million americans who were going to lose their medicaid coverage because the president expanded medicaid. it passed the house. >> this is a real plan, this is a great plan. >> but it hit a snag in the senate. president trump tried to muscle the bill through, with some trademark arm twisting, such as this public teasing of nevada senator dean heller. he wants to remain a senator, doesnt he? >> as well as his typical twitter taun...

Reform? he said, access exactly right, when you lose, you lose. >> in march 2017, when the house of representatives first planned to vote to repeal and replace obamacare, the republican party had too many charlie departments. >> we did not have the votes to replace this law. >> during the next effort to repeal and replace in may, there was a bill the congressional budget office said would cause 14 million americans to lose their medicaid coverage. because obamacare expanded medica medicaid. >> t...

Debate. >> that was the majority leader. we also heard from democrats. they are calling it the trump shutdown saying the republicans have control of the executive branch of the house and senate. it took almost two hours for the vote to become official. that is almost unheard of. >> through that time, it was a foregone conclusion, but the arm twisting continued. we have how it all went down. >> reporter: at one point on friday, with the clock ticking, it appeared, at least to some democrats, ther...

Perfectly honest. the first step is this has to clear the house. house republicans have to do it on their own. if republicans cannot muster the vote in the house, democrats absolutely at the table making demands of their priority list because republicans are going to need them to help fund the government. if it can clear the house, which republican leadership seems to think they can do with arm twisting, although that is not clear quite yet, then it goes to the senate and becomes more difficult....

Weve been talking about arm-twisting on jeff sessions recusing himself with the russia investigation. here with us tonight is our panel. jack, the -- actually, phil lets start with you. this new reporting that it wasnt just don mcgahn trying to basically arm twist or pressure jeff sessions, there were two other high-ranking senior white house officials involved with that, does that raise the stakes in this? i mean, it seems like everybody would have to have their stories all on the same page in ...

Needed to get something done and in this one bill theyve done a lot. cut taxes for corporations and individuals, they have opened parts of alaska for drilling for the first time in a long time. they have gutted a main part of the healthcare law. so this is -- if youre a republican and you look at this package, its a big deal. a huge accomplishment. one person we cant forget is vice president mike pence who drew on relationships that he had for more than a decade as a member of congress and helpe...

Demonstrate, tilt the benefits in favor of the wealthiest and corporations and creates trillions of dollars in debt for our children and grand children. it threatens our national defense. the former chair of the joint chiefs of staff once said famously the big of threat to our national defense is our national debt. because it undermines our ability to acquire those weapons, training young and women for our military. it also undermines social security potentially and medicare. so i think that our...