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Ca -- herd cats. >> one nation health coalition here great to have your input and insight within the speak ears braea ers bran, and former tax investigative counsel finance committee. beginning with you david, if you can crawl into speaker ryans brain, you worked with him as recently as december as the president has been talking about freedom caucus folks hes been talking to the moderates in the house, is this just par for the course, washington politics 101? >> a lot of it is. >> it is? >> yeah...

Flynns contacts. investigators are trying to determine whether they unwittingly or wittingly worked with russians in some capacity to try to influence the election. of course theyve all strongly denied any wrongdoing, anderson. >> both republicans and democrats on the committee today focussed on different topics. >> yeah, it was certainly a partisan hearing, with democrats focussing on collusion with russians and the trump campaign. and the republicans focussing on whether it was a crime regardi...

Institutes for health. why? thank you. why? because we think theres been mission creep we think they do things outside their fund. theres tremendous opportunity for savings, a couple of facilities we recommend be combined and this comes back to the presidents business view. if you look at this on a spreadsheet and say why do we have seven when we can do the same job with three and the answer is yes, so part is focussing on efficiency and doing what we do better and with regard to climate change,...

Who may have kids in head start. is it also hard hearted budget? >> no. i think its one of the most compassionate things we can do. >> not focussing on elderly and kids? >> were trying to focus on both recipients of the money and folks who give us the money in the first place and i think its fairly compassionate to say were not going to ask you for your hard earned money anymore. single mom of two in detroit give us your money -- >> but the head stard -- >> please let me finish, that that money ...

>> were not hearing that. its just not okay for the president of the united states to make this unsubstantiated claim. obamacare repeal and replace, getting this travel ban through courts, getting his nominee neil gorsuch on the supreme court. theres no end to the list of things he should be focussing on and pushing through on his agenda and this is a complete distraction from that. >> do you see he could potentially do what i just said a lot of his supporters would maybe like him to do and go a...

Proceeding in the house and the senate. there may very well be a select committee or a joint committee there. we may end up with an independent, what we call a special counsel under the rules. so i think that its all focussing in at least the russia stuff has got to be looked at. and that is as simple as the relevant committees requesting the returns from the irs. >> jeffrey -- >> it only takes a signature from orrin hatch. >> can i just say, we have spent two years saying about donald trump, he...

Assertions, technically whparti the people around him have made so many false ones about russia. and its not just russia. weve had a lot of very troubling information about financial benefits, trademarks, very valuable trademarks coming into mr. trump as hes changing his china policy, so we want to see what the tax returns say about financial actions there. >> why are you so sure that his tax returns will be released? you said youre sure theyll come out. >> weve seen this time and again in washi...

Democrats on the hill get this. the best way to try to beat president trump politically is the talk about issues. talk about health care. talk about jobs. try to poke holes in the presidents agenda and stop focussing so much on all of these wild goose chases that the president gets off on if theres something there at any time, it will all benefit them. >> quick word david. >> look, the republicans are leading this charge on russia as well. john mccain is the most outspoken about this. you can wa...

Obviously because this is -- theyre doing this under the rules of budget reconciliation, its complicated down in the weeds. the important thing is, they have 52 republican senators, and they need 51 votes, but that means they can hardly afford to lose anybody. and one person who has been out there today, raising some questions about whether they can do it is senator ted cruz. take a look. >> the key to getting it done is focussing on areas of consensus that bring us together to actually solve th...

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