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Problemed based on what they saw thursday will tell us about what is in this bill and when we find out what the top line numbers are and the medicaid spending and things like that look like on monday and if the bill comes out thursday it might lag a few days. that is extremely telling of where this thing goes next. >> monday it is. that is the day were watching. thank you very much. i want to bring in now former governor levitt. let me ask you this. you heard garret talk about this cruz amendmen...

And i dont think were anywhere near treason at this point. >> i dont think you need to get to treason. the thing about this mueller investigation and the way trump operates all sorts of various wrongdoing and financial stuff that mueller is looking into. why is the white house so about this? there is some very serious wr g wrongdoing that they dont want discovered. doesnt have to be about the fact that trump is sensitive that he didnt win the election fair and square. a serious cover up can indi...

With bipartisan support. currently tied up in the house. i want to get where you are on that bill. do you support that? >> absolutely. absolutely support that. >> do you want to see it come to the floor? >> absolutely. russia is going to mess with our elections. they clearly did. they should be held accountable. vladimir putin is a kgb thug. we should treat him like what he is and that is an adversary to western values. i think the sanctions are a good way of doing that. >> congressman chris ste...

Medicaid and dealing with the opioid epidemic. those two lawmakers in particular are going to decide -- were going to know -- they are going to determine whether we have a vote next week. >> theres all of this other stuff that congress is supposed to be doing. they wanted to get health care out of the way to raise the debt limit by sometime between august and october. they cant agree on when. republicans have historically tried to attach policy riders trying to reduce the deficit. if the governm...

>> reporter: republicans feeling the heat over health care. activists staging loud protests in more than a dozen house and senate offices. at least 80 demonstrators arrested. republicans still huddling behind closed doors trying to thread the needle who say the first draft of the bill -- and moderates who thought it went too far to slash medicaid. congressional sources tell nbc news theyre hoping to release a second draft by thursday with tweaks to sweeten the deal for both sides, but moderate r...

Some hesitation. >> we can fix this bill by doing a tweak here and a trim there. it needs a complete overhaul in order to garner my support. >> i think theres still a path. im not polyannish about this. its very difficult when you can only lose two votes, and there may already be two that are irretrievable. were in a tight spot. we have to give this every effort. >> some of the possible changes to the health care legislation include $45 million for opioid funding and expanded use of health care ...

As president trump looks to score with health care. kristen, good morning. >> reporter: president trump will spend the day preparing for his upcoming trip to paris and will spend the day pushing to get the senate health care bill passed. this is a big campaign promise and right now it looks like the bill is faltering. president trump expected to work the phones. vice president mike pence will be on capitol hill today. hell have lunch with senate republicans and then he hits the road tomorrow to ...

With additional legislation, which weve talked about being bipartisan all along. it is a process. >> let me ask you to get in the political weeds a little bit. do you feel a little more freedom perhaps to oppose where your party is going on this because of your standing in north dakota, do you feel thats playing in politically to your decision-making, in the sense that you can if the president wants a bill say no and feel comfortable about it? >> i want to get to a good solution for my state of ...

And the lack of travel weve seen from donald trump out there trying to sell this to his supporters. >> president obama held a news conference tapitch it to the american public. >> i think people are too lost in the weeds on this bill. the headline is the bill cuts -- >> would never think you would hate being in the weeds. >> cuts a trillion dollars on spending over a decade. the bill will require individual americans to spend a trillion dollars more out of their own pocket on health care over th...

Utah governor mike levitt and epa administrator in the george w. bush administration. back with me holly and josh borro with "business insider." garret, you have been running around and doing a ton of reporting on the hill. fill us in on what you got. >> sure. i think were seeing senators start to come back today and theyre facing essentially two big political realities. the number one they went home and heard from their constituents and they know the bill they left town with is not popular and ...