since the carter years, it s been republican. and the impact would be for democrats that they would really be able to recruit candidates more easily, because nothing succeeds like success here. i think they could be even more t strident on health care. health care was a huge issue, and ossoff talking about being against the president s plan on health care reform. so i think the democrats would take this, and they would run with this right into 2018. dana, the president has made a big deal of other special elections, praising republican wins. hard not to imagine him taking a victory lap and arguably deserved. no question. if in fact karen handel does pull it out, you bet he s going to take a victory lap. you know, republicans will do it, just like democrats would do the opposite if they win. but i have to say, we ve been
practicing. and i m very worried about 2018 and 2020. and that s what we re going to be talking about with u.s. intelligence officials, but also with state election officials. this is a big deal. senator king, appreciate your time, thank you. just ahead, new results coming in from tonight s house race in georgia. jon ossoff pulling ahead. details on that next. and later for the first time, police video of the moments shooting of philando castile.e a jury acquitted the officer involved. the question is, will the video make you question the verdict? you ll have a chance to decide for yourself. here s to the safety first.
special counsel bob mueller was meeting with leaders on capitol hill. reportedly met with leaders in your committee last week. can you say the purpose of those meetings? is it to figure out what the boundaries are between his investigation and your investigations? yeah, that s exactly what it is. the term i used is deconflick shun. it s to be sure we don t step on each other s investigations. they re really different roles. our committee s investigation is about the facts, what do the russians do and how do we prevent it and the question whether there were contacts between the trump campaign and the russians leading up to the election. his examination is more in the nature of were there laws broken? and so he s going to be looking in different areas than we are. but we want to be talking and communicating again. so for example, we don t want to give immunity to somebody who would then be lost as a
does the president share those views? i have not sat down and asked him about specific reaction to them. so i would be glad to touch base and get back to you. that was sean spicer today, his first time back in a while. not his first time uttering those words. keeping them honest, this isn t even a tough one. each agency in the intelligence community weighed in on this. each one agrees, it happened. 16 agencies, employing tens of thousands of professionals have reached a conclusion, and the president is chief executive and commander in chief of them all. in some ways, the whole exercise asking sean spicer about this is sort of absurd. the president has all but spelled out his contempt that russia interfered in the election. his statements and tweets suggest the answer is no. but mr. spicer won t answer the question, are there tapes of the president s conversations with james comey? do people contribute to global
after weeks of closed door meetings, with very few details, mitch mcconnell announcing today there will be a discussion draft available and released publicly on thursday. the big open question here, anderson, is where they stand on the policy. when you talk to senators, republican senators, all of whom will be expected to vote for this bill, if it s going to pass, they don t know where things stand, on things like the m medicaid expansion, how many regulation also be cut back. all still open questions. we should get and will likely get answers to those on thursday. but until we get those answers, until the senators get those answers, it s tough to know whether this bill will pass at all. even though mitch mcconnell has made very clear he wants a vote next week and expects a vote next week. the secrecy of this process, how is that playing? reporter: democrats have made no secret with their problem with this.