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Sean spicer pushed back on claims that the trump administration tried to block sally yates from testifying before the house intel committee on russias meddling into the 2016 election. a hearing yates was scheduled to testify in last week was canceled by devon noin nunes. a lockdown has been lifted at the white house after a secret service says a man threw a suspicious package over the fence calling that bomb. man was taken into custody. in michigan a judge is holding a hearing on a plan to r...

Repealing and replacing the entire law is the first priority. it is the best option. if thats not possible, and it doesnt seem to be right now, i would remember that of the 50 or 60 votes to repeal -- partially repeal, replace, et cetera, the health care law under president obama, half-a-dozen or so went through the democratic controlled senate and were signed by president obama himself. there are places where cooperation is possible. >> bob, what we keep hearing over and over again from both si...

To both parties is under a lot of withering scrutiny for the way hes conducted this oversight and whether he is independent. >> do we have any idea why he would have canceled this hearing? >> again, to be fair. depends on your theory of the case. hearings on capitol hill are not usually of national import. they are frequently moved, altered and rescheduled. >> this one is different. >> this one is different. right. why is this hearing different from so many other hearings? well, for starters, th...

>> when are you getting that information? >> about when it proceeds? >> no. the information about what he got and who he got it from? >> he has laid out the process for that. hes already begun the discussion including with adam schiff, the ranking member on the democratic side, explaining to him the information that was provided to him and setting out a course for the committee to review from the nsa. admiral mike rogers has already agreed to a schedule to provide the information of the intercep...

Kushner, values his counsel. i think this is an opportunity for them to lay out the facts in an open hearing, get this out there and put it behind them. >> im a little confused because russia was such a big story around this time. it was a big story before that. its been a big story since. what would be the strategy for a meeting -- more meetings with the russian ambassador given everything that was going on at the time. in addition, a meeting with a state-controlled bank that is under u.s. sanc...

Wants to and if that is something that members of congress want to see happen. strong pushback against that original "washington post" story. as you heard one of the reporters sitting in the front row push on, what was the encouragement. you heard spicer read from that letter, sean spicer read from that letter from a lawyer for sally yates to white house counsel. >> hallie, thank you. a ari, talk about the timing of this. this happened on friday. sally yates sent a letter to the white house sayi...

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And the saga continues. this is more than technically whether the white house intervened -- which, by the way, this are things that are executive privilege, both partie parties presidents claim that from time to time. other thing thats getting lost i would like to add for contest -- the most interesting things sally yates knows as acting attorney general would not be said in an open hearing anyway, anything that would touch on classified or on aspects of a criminal inquiry. >> they are not going...