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Somebody we know wants to destroy our democracy and our democratic institutions and seems president trump is not just willing to play along, but willing to help him out in doing that. >> so, brian, shes making strong allegations there that national security is at risk because of this. your reaction? >> my reaction is simple. when hillary clinton was under investigation for leaking classified documents, nobody on the democratic side called for the revocation of her national security clearance. th...

Russian deputy sergey lavrov. >> a lot of eyes will be on that. matthew chance, thank you. right now, president trump is heading back to the u.s. as the russia fire storm grips washington. he is sure to face more questions when he lands. joining me now, maria cardona and brian lanza, communications director for president trumps campaign. great to have you on. >> thank you. >> im going to start with you, maria on this, the democrats calling for an immediate revoking of jared kushners clearance....

Plans and the $45 billion in extra funding to go toward opioid treatment. one change he did not make is to medicaid. this has a lot of moderate republicans worked up and worried. they did not like how it was in the original bill as they hoped to see the cuts less. mcconnell did not make those changes. that is why we saw a number of republicans including dean heller, murkowski, those members huddling with mcconnell after he unveiled that bill. one thing they are going to be watching very closely ...

E-mail chain that donald trump jr. participated in. we dont know if a phone call was made, when the phone call was made, setting up the meeting. a lot of critical, facttual issues to be explored. >> to point out, the lawyer denied there was ever a phone call. however, they told me, there was a phone call between them and don jr. a few months before. so, still a lot to look at in that regard. im going to go to you, david, the security issue is being brought up again. jared kushner gave it in janu...

Donald trump. i mean, thats all they have talked about. even the latest situation, i mean i have had i dont know how many thousands of dollars spent on me doing opposition research and i think if -- >> this is a foreign government. this is the presidents son -- >> thats what im saying. >> -- under the pretext that a foreign government was trying to help the trump campaign by offering dirt on the opponent. that is not, in talking to several people on both sides of the aisle who dealt with campaig...

Mj lee is tracking the latest developments and joins me from capitol hill. >> reporter: good morning. mitch mcconnell has no room for error as you mentioned. two senate republicans said they would vote against the motion to proceed. what that means is mcconnell cannot lose another senate republican if he wants to move forward on this bill. as though mcconnell needed more pressure, president trump weighing in on the health care issue from his overseas trip. he said on air force one the only thing...

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