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Didnt answer. amy kellogg live for us, thank you. >> jon: president trump reportedly is pressuring members of his own party regarding the russia investigations. this is lawmakers crack legislation to protect special counsel robert mueller. who is probing any possible ties between the presidents campaign in moscow. the headline of a political are article catches our attention. the article goes on to say president donald trump privately vented his frustration according to people familiar with the ...

They need the american ideals exported there unlike what president trump said we should do, which is close off that door and not give the people that information. >> isaac and mark, thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> dana: the google employee that got fired for circulate ago memo on diversity is now speaking out. well play for you what he has to say about his former employer. wait till you hear why google cancelled and all hands on deck meeting just moments ago. its unbelievable. plus, his ...

That barack obama was coddling the last couple years, knew nothing about this is not involved or had no knowledge of it is simply absurd. >> isaac, i understand what president obama thought, this personal outreach would speed up the ability for normal relations. do you think this will set us back? >> first and foremost, we have to do all we can to protect our diplomats. our prayers are with those that are affected. but we need the rest of the facts. the details are still emerging. its not clear ...

Theesen and democrat isaac wright. its a bizarre story but troubling. this is irreversible damage that these people are dealing with. mark, you feel strongly about what we have ended up doing by reaching out to the cubans and trying to make nice. >> absolutely. look, one of the things that barack obama did when he normalized relations, he took cuba off the list of state sponsored terror. this was a terrorist attack against diplomats and families in cuba. they used a sonic weapon that could do mo...

Friend and colleague, sanders is often said this is not too comprehensive. what we need to do is go to the normal process. >> republican lawmakers still trying to make good on seven years of promises. citing rising costs. so what is next step for the gop after the death of the skinny repeal friday morning? gemini we have isaac wright, former executive director of a pro-clinton super pac and chris wilson a former ted cruz campaign poster and sealed wpa intelligence. ill start with you chris. lets...

Couple of times. tunic counties, too many people that will be without insurance because of where obamacare is failing. so really cannot keep putting band-aids on this. as a matter of trying to push the senate to be able to take action and find a solution once and for all rather than do three series of quick fixes. it is not the right way to do it? if it gets me to the end result of fixes that i say yes. >> 10 seconds. >> president trump has friend over and over to sabotage obamacare and for 20 m...

>> the president is trying to not use his power. hes trying to get sessions to quit. i hope sessions doesnt quit. >> jeff sessions is an honorable man. he did what i believe any ethical attorney general would do. i really think this is a distraction and will make it more difficult for the president to accomplish his agenda until its resolved. id encourage them to get together. >> jon: senate republicans coming out squarely in support of jeff sessions, who used to be among their number. as presid...

Wants a new attorney general, why not just fire him? >> i can tell you public opinion is never in recess, as we talk about a recess appointment. jon, heres what the president, if he would take our advice, should do. theres a remedy. one, instead of tweeting that the attorney general meet with him, sit down and still see if you have common ground moving forward. if not, i agree with lindsey graham and other senators, give him a graceful exit. finally, regardless of what you decide to do, my advic...

Campaigned on when she ran for re-election. >> jon: theres a bit of tit for tat going on, too, the reports that senator murkowski then essentially held up nominees for secretary zinkes interior department. obviously the interior department responsible for running huge amounts of alaska, the state she represents. adam, you can threaten a u.s. senator, but they have their own ways to get back the you. >> absolutely. this is a game where we all race around the same track, and eventually whatever we...

Less than one week? >> isaac, a chance to -- >> i think youre getting into the weeds of that legislative procedure. the american people dont care about that. frankly the american people by and large could not read the original -- the affordable care act either. it was thousands of pages. senate bill is 142 pages i think as it stands now. thats not what americas interested in. what america is interested in rightly so is going back to work. when i was in congress, i talked with small businesses. t...