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Some people think the president is now ready to fire robert mueller. he is a special counsel not an independent counsel. if he violates the terms of his contract, or the mandate, he could be let go. that is likely something we expect to hear in the briefing. no shortage of topics. >> julie: we will have that for you live which it happen any minute now. thank you very much. more drama as senate republicans have some votes coming up. including a straight repeal of obamacare scheduled for this afte...

Problem in the short term and create even bigger problems in the long term. >> katie, we watched this week as the president tried to make chums with senate republicans and be friendly and use the charm offensive and the power of the house, but he also has been tweeting about this is aing that republican senators must step up to the place, with the tax reform and infrastructure. when? exclamation point. do you think his charm offensive is working in any way? >> theres no question that republican ...

Battling? >> well, i think definitely were ready to move in the house. there is an eagerness to move on the health care issue, ill be confident to address it in the house in a relatively quick fashion. what we may end up doing as 22 republicans and the problem solvers caucus that if that doesnt work we still have to do something. i hope to come together on and announce publicly this week about where we could find some fixes to the individual market and deal with some of the affordable care act i...

>> sandra: saying, we will have to see how this plays out. democrats are not interested in working together. >> bill: and mitch mcconnells idea to get the pass, and then you have a two year transition period to wind down obamacare as guy benson points out, that is a challenge. more coming up as vice president mike pence in a moment. another big story. a fox news alert. susan rice, and other formal obama team officials are scheduled to appear before the senate intelligence committee this week. jo...

Until the election last fall which surprised me. i didnt expect donald trump to win. i think most of my colleagues didnt. we didnt expect to be in this situation. given how difficult it is to get to a consensus it was hard to force that. >> they didnt expect to be in a position to pass any sort of health care bill. thats pretty remarkable. >> bravo for being completely honest about it. look, this is what happens when you overpromise in politics and campaigns. campaigning is different from govern...

Oppose of them trying to repeal every word of own obamacare. even president obama said its not perfect. lets make it better. lets make it work. we cannot have a one sided republican sort of health care conversation and health care fix in this country because thats where the problem is. i would like to see republicans and democrats come together and universal, this idea of a mandate, everywhere around the world we know we have to increase the pots a and the num of people buying into health care. ...

Tonight senate democrats will try to begin blocking senate business. this is a direct response to the secrecy of the gops revised health care plan to take down obamacare, of course. but what is in that senate bill is anyones guess at this point. let me bring in republican congressman lee zeldin. so you supported the house version of the health care bill. then it was kicked to the senate. the senate said it will work on its own. it has been behind closed doors. do you have any insight of whats in...

Are there actions the public or private sector can take, or are we in a new normal? >> i dont accept anything like a new normal. it is a really important question. there are pockets of this country. not trivial pockets. not just here or there. where globalization, technology, weak labor markets have left people behind. and policymakers need to take direct action, like direct job creation, bring opportunity to those places. its interesting you should ask that because i testified in congress last ...

Huge giant massive failure in the early days of the trump administration. namely, trumps inability to rally republicans around the central party promise of taking down obamacare. so what was actually in the mystery bill that went down in flames today? and what do the republicans who held out want to let insurance do to consumers without the protections of obamacare? that that have two-minute break.

>> shannon: al-qaeda have directed these kinds of attacks and know they dont have to investigate anything in it as long as they have somebody willing to do it. >> psychological warfare. >> shannon: good to see you as always. >> ed: a fox news alert on the frenzy on replacing obamacare and republicans divided in the showdown. president trump will lobby for the bill again and its a do-or-die moment and well speak with congressman kevin brady next. >> shannon: a woman lost in the middle of a desert...