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Did not come to his side or did not agree with them. and now seems to be changing that a bit. >> sounds like what youre saying is john mccain doesnt sound like he wants to work on these bills but from john mccains statement in july before he voted no on the skinny repeal and now on this graham/cassidy is that what he wants to do is work on it but he wants to work on it through the regular order, through markups, through cbo report on how much it will cost, how many people will gain or lose cover...

People to be loyal to that administration is to know that there is merit to the job that they are doing. that they are accomplishing something thats worthwhile and thats recognized as important to the administration and important to the country. but to do that, you have to have people in place. youve got to have supervision. youve got to have people who are willing to control whats going on in the various departments and agencies, and right now, thats a real problem, in terms of the discipline o...

Like a christmas fib. but it is a fib. so when they talk about going to regular order, what theyre talking about is working with democrats. a.b., if you work with democrats to get something on which there may be moderate democrats and moderate republicans that come along, you lose the freedom caucus. theyre gone, right? >> not only do you lose your conservatives, you lose more time. look at the time they put into this. six months in. they wanted it done by august or week one as you and i can rem...

Problem that republicans have identified. number of people without insurance will go up, premiums will go up, costs will go up. the hearing process is a process that gets you a better product. but for republicans this is really about a bet. a bet that if they rush this through as quickly as possible people wont get to the bottom of how truly evil this bill is. they know this is an em bar raising product. they know this is going to hurt millions of americans and they hope that if they rush this t...

Period for considering this is so compressed that even at this late date, which were told is less than a week before they will vote on it, theres no actual language of an actual bill. for people who dont care about congressional procedure and dont know how these things are normally done, why is the way theyre doing its so materially important here? >> i think theres two answers to that question. the first is there is actually a practical benefit that comes from having open hearings. you hear fro...

Mcconnell is done. we will make all committee hearings public and the use of rule 14 bypassing the bill to one of those hearings and going directly to the floor, senate floor. noheargs. >> and the argument here that some have used is that weve been talking about that f many years. everybody knows that democrats wont get on board with this and that republicans campaigned on the promise of repealing so why do we have to rehash the stuff that happened during obamacare, all of the hearings, all of t...

>> the reality is its important for our constituents, but the american people, to understand what this senate version of the bill will do to their health care. i dont know how you do that by hiding behind closed doors. as you indicated, even senate republicans are worried about that process. its interesting the other day, a senator told his local newspapers that this 13 member secret senate group was actually open to others. i would like to know when and where we can meet. kate, its important to...

Much of a lack of transparency there is here. there has never been a bill this important that hasnt had one legislative hearing. we had hearings this year about hot tub safety, about the maritime administration, about shipping issues and those are all issues that are worthy of a hearing but nobody can tell me that those are more important than one sixth of the american economy. it is legislative shame that we dont get to see whats in the bill. but more importantly that this will not be subject t...

That. president of the united states is now going to nominate somebody in the senate is going to get to go through that hearing process to make sure that that 10-year term for fbi director is filled with somebody of the highest integrity. >> martha: thank you. we got to leave it there. the deceived tonight. thank you both. so the use of anonymous sources during the trump administration has exploded and the report that has followed james cummings firing, the usage of these very sources has led to...

Youve got folks, both detractors and proponents at home calling and e-mailing you. this stuff bubbles up. in some way its a degree of political cheap shot. no member of congress can read every bill thats out there. its a hot button issue. the bill is less than 200 pages in the original text and rit l literally and dozens of additional amendments. but thats what you have staff for. so you have to conflux of you folks in the media, advocacy groups, all boiling in on you. and this bill, whether you...