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David gregory joins me. >> who doesnt love a health care debate in the middle of summer. >> your beach read? >> i had to take it to china in orders to finish it. >> fantastic. heres our starting line -- the senate health care bill is facing resistance from all sides. four gop senators publicly saying that they oppose the plan. mitch mcconnell will have to turn two of them by next week to get his bill passed. and former president obama is slamming the bill. he calls it "a massive transfer of we...

Now said he didnt record these conversations. i mean, a, do you take him at his word, and b, the idea that the president of the united states would make that, i dont know if it was a bluff, or i dont know what the idea behind it -- does the whole thing make sense to you at all? >> i wonder if this president realizes how much damage hes doing to the office of the presidency. when youre president of the united states, the most important thing you have as president of the united states is the trust...

Was he trying to intimidate? or discourage potential witnesses from speaking out? he has created another controversy and jonah, that tweet precipitated the appointment of the special counsel. that was a fairly costly tweet for the president. >> it was. it was a bad idea. it got him into a a lot of trouble. he still try to back out of it. i dont really care about the bluff about the tapes. i always thought it was a bluff. he tries to run his presidency like a reality show. wait for the big reveal...

Squirmy, that is how we feel as an average american. >> julie: its perfectly legal. are the wisest choice? somewhat argue maybe not, but any time you walk into the oval office you better assume that somebody is surveilling yo you. >> i dont think -- if the president doesnt know about it, i will be very suspicious to suggest that someone is taping the president and the president doesnt know about it. >> julie: the president knows about it. defending president trump, newt gingrich went on to say t...

My story was always a straight story. my story was always the truth. but youll have to determine for yourself whether or not his story changed. but i did not tape. >> all right, jeffrey, how do you interpret that? >> well, its amazing at many different levels. first of all, you have the president of the united states saying he put out essentially this false tweet, this bluff which implied that there were tapes, even though he knew that there werent. presidents dont bluff generally. you know, whe...

Dershowitz. great to see you. thank you for your time. you write on the hill.com. heres the opinion piece. trumps a plus purposely legal. >> his bluff was to let comey not know whether he had tapes, so once the seven testifies in front of a grand jury, yes i think in the back of his hand, he has to be very, very careful about what he says. i have done that myself. i had a policeman on the witness stand of lying about what he told mike client. i let him to believe i had a tape recording of it by ...

Now, you know, in the private sector, you can bluff, you can lie and do all kinds of things, and the only price you pay is probably with regards to your reputation as a businessman. but when youre president of the united states, and you lie to the american people about something like this, there is a huge price to be paid. which is that you undermine the trust of the american people in the office of the presidency. and at some point this presidents going to face a major crisis. in which he has t...

Guess in reality tv terms, that there are no tapes of jim comey. do you agree with your colleague in the house adam schiff who thinks the original tweet may constitute something more serious, more than a bluff, an effort to silence a witness? >> it looks like attempted intimidation. thats wasnt the only time he he has done that. he pressured him in the office. so -- and he has pressured other individuals. and certainly dan coats, and so forth. and so we see case after case after case of presiden...

Amendments considered and 100 republican amendments adopted eight years ago. this is zero months to consult with constituents. for that reason alone my republican colleagues, this is not a dictatorship. this is a democracy. >> thank you very much. great to have you here with us. lets go back to david. so much news to cover today. remember president trump threatened there may be tapes with fbi director james comey. did the president further damage his credibility with his bluff? we will ask a r...

This. and part of what is insidious about this, what youre pointing to. this sort of shos a lot of money toward the insurance companies to keep them neutral. >> if you look at the affordable care act, they try to put healthy people into the insurance markets. in this iteration of the bill, there is nothing that replaces the mandate. the house bill had something called continuous coverage. it was a shot. this has nothing. i asked people, how will you keep insurance markets stable? and they have t...