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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 this multi-billion dollar fund. it is not a bailout. it is a payoff. >> all right. thank you for breaking down. i appreciate it. >> coming up next, the brazen bluff that landed the president and the special investigation. and ahead, eric swalwell on what the director of national intelligence...

>> well, what one colleague -- one white house official told my colleague, jennifer jacobs, is that the idea behind the initial tweet was the president trying to tell comey that, hey, if youre going to start leakin things, you better be honest, because there may be tapes. and this strategy of tapes is something that the president has used before to sort of, you know, as a threat, you know, by some people. another one of my colleagues, tim obryan was threatened by the president, but when it came ...

Like a veiled threat. might that be witness sb intimidation, anything further than that. >> no. and i dont think the president could look any more foolish. i dont know what he would be laughing about, because he put this out there, the possibility there might be tapes. comey immediately called his bluff, as it now appears to be, and said, bring it on. bring the tapes on. ive testified under oath as to what happened in those conversations. and lets hear from you. and so, the president said, maybe...

One administration source told me, send the initial tweet about tapes to force james comey to tell the truth, the truth that he was talking about at the time was, get out there that im not under investigation. the events that he sparked with that tweet ended with comey getting out a lot more than maybe the president bargained for, including allegedly that the president told james comey to drop the flynn investigation, which now means theres a special prosecutor that actually potentially is looki...

Comey, trying to call his bluff, maybe even send him a warning by saying, you better be careful, there are tapes. we are told, was for him to try to get james comey to tell the truth. at the time, what the president was desperate for, that truth, was for james comey to say publicly that the president wasnt under investigation. but what that ended up doing, down the road, after he and by the way i think there should be a special prosecutor comey tried to out maneuver the president, now there is a...

That anyone was bucking or wiretapping the oval office or the president of the united states without his awareness. leaking is not bugging. >> john: ab is watching a tennis match here. >> donald trump behaves recklessly. when he tweeted that to begin with, even though it was a " "bluff" or ats, i cant imagine the oval office, talking about june 23 is coming and you will have to come up with an answer on these tapes. obviously there were no tapes but he had to say i dont know. maybe im being tape...

How he made him -- i cant imagine the white house thinks it was a good thing. the way i looked at it, i think newt gingrich said it well today. he said that trump was trying to bluff kl and he has a history of doing it. he said he had dramatic revelation about barack obamas birth place in 2011 and there was nothing there. during campaign he said he had a secret plan to expedite victory over isis. there is no such secret plan. he is following barack obamas plan. do you know this as a real estate ...

Not only was does it appear to have been an attempt to intimidate comey, you better hope you dont have these tapes, it was a dumb attempt to do so because youre talking about a guy, one guy who has a reputation for telling the truth. one guy, president trump, whos got a reputation for not telling the truth and our new nbc wall street journal poll almost two to one say they rate him poorly for being honest rather than strongly for being honest. its kind of like some flabby old dudewalk ugh up to ...

House. >> everyone says that twitter is the problem. thats not the problem. lying is the problem. i mean, bluffing is a nice way of saying it. i play poker a little bit, and bluffing is lying. then you have to ask why did he bluff? i mean, comey was there. he knows what was said and assuming comeys being honest and he has a contemporaneous memorandum, so why would you say you have things on tape, i think for other people who had been in the oval office who might have said things they shouldnt ha...

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...