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Senator Lindsey Graham whether or not there is an investigation ongoing into the Donald Trump Campaign and those contacts that allegedly occurred with russian officials during the president ial election. Since they have not confirmed the existence of an investigation, they have not even confirmed with senators, so in a private meeting between graham and whitehouse on march 2nd, james comey would not tell these two senators whether or not there was an investigation ongoing, even though they sit o...

Republicans who said they were going to repeal obamacare. 2018 is just around the corner. hes setting up a dynamic where he is chipping away at the law and not putting anything else in place. what are these republicans going to run on when they face their constituent who is have seen premium increases or coverage losses? >> some republicans are actually feeling like trump is putting them in a position to save obamacare or the outlines of obamacare. if he create this is gap where he is taking thi...

Only a partial analysis that will not include the impact on coverage, and that is disturbing to me. >> is former missouri secretary of state and the senior economic advisor for the trump campaign. here we go again. i thought we would have the last of the conversations and here it is again. steve, it doesnt look like well get a full cbo score before the bill goes up for a vote. how can members of congress understand the full -- impacts of this bill without it? susan collins is waiting but most of...

Welcome back. a big afternoon and evening ahead in the united states senate. and the obamacare repeal debate. you know the had istry. seven years ago republicans vowed if given the chance to outright repeal obamacare. the past couple years, the slogan morphed into repeal and replace as the gop realized just taking away obamacare was a tough political fight. and skinny repeal as republicans leaders try to get a vote to president trump sometime in his first year in office. today and tonight will t...

It does not appear -- again, we dont know exactly what theyre going to be starting to vote on. they dont know. but the best we can deduce was what mcconnell is going to put forward tomorrow would not sea the concerns shes expressed in the past. >> but she lives in a state, lets not kid ourselves, that not only voting overwhelmingly for donald trump, but i think its number one in deaths from over dozens. so what do you do? >> and i believe it was president trumps strongest state in the 2016 gener...

More about the coverage losses and hear about the places they wont be able to get coverage does not seem like a good movie to mitch mcconnell. when you see senator mccain make jokes about this, a lot of republicans in the senate are saying it is a terrible process, i share your frustration. three republicans can say were not going to vote for this bill. until they put their money where their mouth is, i dont take these jokes as meaning much. >> how can this iteration of the senate bill survive i...

Say specific members of congress are going down, but the number of lawmakers this puts in danger are far greater than 20. there are 23 lawmakers sitting in districts where hillary clinton won. pretty much all those lawmakers were already in danger and most of them voted for this bill, which is probably going to the add to the danger theyre facing. >> so, kevin, who sticks out as the most vulnerable here? >> so you look at someone like carlos carbello in florida.. he comes from a district that vo...

Pre-existing condition could cost you $12,000 a month. unless you can guarantee something, which is why this is so complicated and time consuming to do, you cant necessarily sell this as improving the situation. i dont care if you call it trump care for obamacare. this is where people will be able to measure this accomplishment by their own experience. if they like whats new better than what exists. >> it will be shocking if they could get the votes in the house by moving the bill to the right. ...

Facing pressure with the promise of health insurance for everyone. more on all of it with jim acosta. >> its a rare moment when president trump passes up a chance to speak his mind. thats what he did when asked about the budget office analysis with the republican proposal to replace obamacare. the white house is pushing back on the plan that found 14 million more americans would be uninsured by next year and 24 million by 2026. as one top source put it, the headlines are terrible. >> the estimat...

As one top gop source put it, the headlines are terrible. >> cbo coverage estimates are consistently wrong. >> reporter: the white house did concede scores of american, perhaps millions, will be without health insurance if theyre no longer mandated to buy it under obamacare. >> would you concede there will be some coverage losses? perhaps in the millions? that will there would be millions of people who will not have health insurance as a result of what youre doing? >> well, again, sure, except y...