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Creative in our diplomacy. >> so nikki haley there for the u.s. saying that all the countries need to stand together and to take a unilateral approach. russia seemingly has a different stance. whats behind that? >> well, i think russias stance is that they want to stand together with the rest of the international community, but with a view to getting the north koreans into a process of diplomacy and negotiation. the russian foreign minister spoke about this issue just yesterday as saying he does...

Xfinity. the future of awesome. congress broke for the fourth of ju fourth of july holiday with no vote. senate majority leader mcconnell trying to speed up the process. phil mattingly is on capitol hill. phil, president trump on twitter urging congress to repeal obamacare now and replace it later. is there a sense that theres been any support for that? >> reporter: look, theres support for it almost certainly from conservative senators, people like rand paul, senator ben sasse and mike lee sa...

Economic security issue and the health security issue, and he pointed that out, that there is no fallback position to ensure that this expansion stays in place, that it is problematic in many ways for the state of arizona. and medicaid, 20% of people in assisted living and assisted care not only across the state but across the nation, medicaid takes care of that situation for those individuals that deserve quality assisted care. what happens to them? what happens if you start to wean the people ...

Intelligence community that it was indeed not just russians but the russian government notably the russian interrogation services. youre asking the right question, which is okay, why is he talking about this now? why did he sort of allow it to say okay, maybe it was russian but it wasnt russian government. and it could be simply that the forensic evidence is just so strong its kind of silly to continue to say it had absolutely nothing to do with russia. the fallback position is wow, we have good...

A sore point with me. maybe hes frustrated that hes not getting to do that. >> mike was in the room when the house speaker was talking. what was your takeaway? did you get the sense of frustration that we could feel from the other side of the tv screen? >> reporter: clearly theyre concerned. this is the first crack in the wall. what theyve conceded to is an investigation by a republican run committee of the house of representatives led by jason chaffetz. the house oversight committee. the number...

People say im not going to sign up nafor that if its going to disappear. theyve created this crisis and say were not offering you much but its better than nothing. >> the republicans should own whatever happens next, whether theres a replacement, whether theres not. is that going to happen? >> the president saying, fallback position is lets not pass anything. lets let obamacare fall apart. lets help obamacare fall apart and then blame democrats. will that work? its anybodys guess. certainly if t...

Thcountry, just across the river from where we are in alexandria, virginia, a federal judge heard argument on that question. leoni brinkham, whether its constitution or legal on a lawsuit by the state of virginia, which is almost identical to the others, tough for foreign students and faculty and people who work for high-tech companies. so its going to be in court. the question in the meantime is, can it be enforced while they prepare to have these legal battles? >> and didnt the justice departm...

Ingraham and the american center for law and justice, jay sekulow is with us. youll find us an amicus brief in this case. our u.s. shocked as i am? i felt that you put in issues in your brief that the government and the department of justice representative that was arguing they should have been using that they didnt use. the juicy information of the lower left on the table here? >> i did. look, i think this is a really clear cut case. the lawyer for the department of justice was asked a question...

Fallback position we have not seen before. if you are going to uphold the seattle district court, at least limit it in some way to the people who have been previously admitted to the u.s. think of someone on student visa traveling back and forth home. the travel ban would knno longe apply to them. we have to see what happens here because the plaintiffs say you just unleash chaos if you tried to put the travel ban back in place. the appellate court has several options for how it could rule. well ...

Case, justice reporter laura jarrett is live in washington for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, christine. everybody anxiously awaiting the oral argument later tonight. we saw a number of court filings yesterday. the justice department filed a legal brief last night doubling down on the previous arguments we had seen before. about the problems with federal judge in seattle. second guessing the president on immigration like this. they also now come up with a new fallback position. if ...