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Situation if it gets through the senate is going to be in the house where its just conservatives are going to be angry that its withbeen watere down. moderate members will be upset about cuts to entitlement programs. i think this is a very long way from getting to the presidents desk, and i think i was up on the hill yesterday during votes and house and senate republicans were telling us they dont really want to walk the plank for a president who behind the scenes calls their legislation mean an...

An attempt to influence and abuse people. so when he is saying you better hope theres no tapes. >> theres adam schiffs point. >> right. what will fascinate me, because its a bunch of liars. a disappointing level of lying. someone going to claim when he said oh i hope theres no tapes when he said i hope -- people are going to try to parse this one way or the other. the larger issue is this. the president of the united states lied about his interactions with james comey. whether that lie comes in ...

Health care and there are plenty of changes we need to make to the affordable care act doing this behind closed doors is not what we did with the affordable care act. >> senate republicans -- not every said definitive yes. last week senator rand paul told a group of reporters, quote, i am more than willing to vote for partial repeal if they cant get a complete repeal, but im not willing to vote for a republican entitlement programs. in addition to health care, theres changes to the obama policy,...

Senator rand paul told a group reporters quote im more than willing to vote for partial repeal. im not willing to vote for new republican entitlement programs. find votes among democrats isnt going done easy either. >> i think the democrats in the congress should do everything possible to defeat that legislation which is to my mind unspeakable. how do you throw 23 million people off health insurance. reporter: threats also immigration and tax reform. theres a component of it that im working with...

Of reporters, quote im more than willing to vote for partial repeal if i cant get a complete peel. im not willing to vote for new republican entitlement programs. in addition to healthcare, theres tax reform, immigration and now it changes to the obama cuba policy, republican jeff slate is calling on senate leadership to allow a vote on legislation to lift restrictions that prohibit americans from traveling freely to keep you. some of them can say regardless of the issue, right now, the senate i...

>> american people would like to see us work together on healthcare, there are plenty of changes we need to make, behind closed-doors is not what we did with affordable care act. reporter: senate republicans hold madg majority but barely, t everyone is a definitive yes. if i cant get a complete repeal, i am not willing to vote for new republican entitlement programs. in addition to healthcare there is fax reform, immigration, and now with changes to obama era cuba policy, to lift restricts that ...

>> the defendant has a right to testify. i have no idea why his lawyers said theyll not put him up. no strategy behind that. the judge will always say the person has a right to testify. if you want to bring that out during his testimony he can say i listened to my lawyers, they said one thing but i think its important ladies and gentlemen of the jury you hear my side. >> thank you, sir. martin? in puerto rico they are headed to the polls to vote whether or not the u.s. territory wants to becom...

Those are driving spending. if you take those off the table you cant really make sensible adjustments to the rest of theta budget.dont you see that in the fact that they dont really have theef defense money they need. they dont really have a sensible strategy on cutting nondefense forums. theres massive cuts in places like national institutes of health. >> what you like about the budget? is there anything you think is useful that is in there that is much-needed? >> there is a medicaid reform. we...

Ever-rising spending that fuels the red ink. if you take those two off the table, you cant really make sensible adjustments to the rest of the budget that add up. and you see that in the fact that they dont really have the out-year defense money that they need -- paul: right. >> -- made room for it, and they dont have a sensible strategy on cutting non-defense discretionary program. theres some massive cuts in places like national institutes of health, but they need that in the budget. thats the...

Future. thats our investment in our roads, in our education of children, and all the things that we need to make our country successful going forward, our future. >> another thing mark sanford said, something the "wall street journal" said a couple days ago, stop with the cutting on discretionary spending, stop with the gutting of r&d and transportation and all the things we need to grow. youre going to have to look at the massive entitlement programs to figure out how to save them. okay. weve g...