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Everybody knows that at the heart of all of this is whether the russians have had ties fougto the trump campaign and their effort to erode american democracy, destabilize american democracy. we have new elections just around the corner. its imperative we understand what happened in the last election. and to throw the fbi director out at this very, very sensitive moment after this president has already fired, you know, people like yates. hes fired flynn. there are several people who are tied in o...

President decided to fire the fbi director because of how haenhe handled the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. thats their public line. theyre saying essentially that he fired jim comey for the very conduct that candidate donald trump praised james comey for. so how do they intellectually connect those dots, or can they? >> first of all, this is not a white house or an administration that necessarily bothers to connect dots or bothers with consistency, even. but i do think that the events of...

Republicans on selling this to their constituents? >> look, there was certainly a messaging issue there. it is never good to kind of dismiss the fears of the questioner. raul labrador should have said, look, i get that this is a deeply personal issue, i understand your fear, i recognize that. you know, with recognizing that, i think your fears should really be at the sinking "titanic" that is obamacare, the fact that several states are facing the real dire consequences of having no insurers in t...

>> rene: thank you. whos next? oh! >> chef seven: and so here i have a dish of, um, strawberries and cream. i decided to go out on my bike and see what i could get so all e flowers that are here, the lady let me pick them in her garden. so i have strawberries that are pickled in rose vinegar and a crème fraiche at the base thats been infused with burnt roses and rose pollen. >> rene: can we just clap or? >> anthony: and then that might well end up on the menu? >> rene: no. this is not about put...

American people a full repeal of obamacare. >> this is not that. >> this is not even close to a full repeal. so youre going to have the same dynamics at play in the senate where i think you have less of a political imperative to move fast. so the speaker of the house thought the president of the united states demanded they do this in the house now because he wanted a trophy. heres the question, is it a participation trophy or do they get the final trophy? >> thats obviously the big question. i w...

Momentum very late yesterday mainly because from the political imperative, they think theyve got to pass something that theyve been promising their base for seven years. the reality is theyre rushing to judgment because they think the facts are going to be against them. the facts are going to undermine their ability to pass this bill. we dont have a cbo score, which paul ryan in his book and said passing something without a cbo score is irresponsible and should not be done. and in addition to th...

Will have a very adverse consequences on their people and on the insurance capability and access and cost for almost every american. so i think theyre going to be against this bill. the really issue is whether republican members of the senate are going to reflect what they know to be the case, this is not a good bill, not good for the american people or theyre going to vote based upon what they think is their political imperative. well see but i dont think this bill is going to go anywhere in th...

This vote. i guarantee you because of what you are saying. this is such an easy issue that the democrats learned in 2010 to advertise on and pick one piece out. >> 7 out of 10 say dont mess with pre-existing conditions. >> it is not a popular fix. the overall, we have seen as this is debated, this is not a popular fix. i do think what you are finding is as chris is saying, the political imperative of delivering on the promise may win day-to-day, but it doesnt mean there is not political peril fo...

You know, a lot of us have been waiting seven years to cast this vote. many of us are here because we pledged to cast this very vote, to repeal and replace obamacare, to rescue people from this collapsing law. are we going to meet this test? are we going to be men and women of our word? are we going to keep the promises that we made? >> was this vote imperative for reassuring that republican conservative base? >> absolutely. and it was imperative, too, for letting the republican base know that t...

This is something we have to provide to people. it would be the same thing as providing paving roads or providing defense or a medicaid thing, health care for old people. for some reason in this country, until obamacare, that really wasnt the conversation. but youre right. now it really has shifted. i think republicans feel like in order to take this away, theres going to be a price to pay. >> this is coming. think about it. this has been all over our news feed, all over cable. this is having an...