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Presidents comments on the flynn investigation before going public but his failure to do so has led to serious consequences. >> the president said he hoped for an outcome. mister comey took it a different way. this cant be mushy. if he thought the president meant something different then he said, he should have said, mister president, exactly what do you mean or are you telling me i should do this? you cant just sit and let this happen. i prosecuted lots and lots of cases. you cant prosecute som...

Governing is nothing like -- >> say that again about the white house chief of staff. what comes through again? >> all of these basic governing skills in the white house. the communications. everybody being on the same page. >> it depose through -- you mean a -- >> it all comes down from a white house chief of staff. >> a competent chief of staff. >> competent ten white house chief of staff. >> everyone who has worked in the white house. historian, the david gergen type of adviser they have all s...

>> do you think -- we have both houses, we have a republican president. do you think well have major legislation this year? >> you cannot write major legislation with one party. it doesnt work. obama tried it. obamacare is, you know, under fire every day. if the republicans do it and they do it alone, it isnt going to last and if you go back to the last time we had tax reform, because this is one of the hardest things to do, there was a really -- >> why is it so hard? because youre picking winne...

Who is saying that the white house has done nothing to impede any of these investigations. >> thats not what he said. >> youre talking about mccabe and he was answering a specific question i believe. so you have to look at it in context. he also may not have known about the comey memos. >> that doesnt matter. >> hold on one second. >> no, but let me just -- the fbi didnt impact any of the operations in the fbi with all of these officers and field officers that were doing their job. >> right. it ...

Waging. this is a real threat we can feel. >> eboni: to nikki haleys point, we talk about diplomacy being the preferred option but it doesnt seem like north korea wants that at all. >> adriana: it doesnt work. all of those years under president obama, he talked about strategic patience, another way of saying doing nothing. sanctions have failed to work and i would like to see diplomacy and sanctions work before we take a risk on a military operation which could be devastating. it could go wrong....

Youre strapped up to things and that awkward moment. >> you cant run. >> you cant turn. it looks awful. and it was too quick. >> it draws significantly more attention than anything else, which i actually -- >> the kid in the skeleton suit did not know what was going on. >> there are members of the working group under the age of 50 but there are not any -- >> ted cruz. >> bill, i want to ask you this. as we look at this bill we have been told by people who voted for it, listen, insurance companie...

Insurance companies. >> i want everybody in the individual market to be protected against pre-existing conditions by getting into the group market and letting market forces work. it can work, but the current bill acknowledges that it doesnt work and then we just subsidize the insurance companies which i think is deplorable. >> so where are we today? again, significant achievement, especially given what happened six weeks ago when they went off the rails. the house has now passed a bill. the pres...

Oregon. i hear about it when im home, which i am almost every week. people say i dont qualify for the right thing here miechlt premiums have sky rocketed. my deductibles have gone off the charts. i may have access to insurance but i cant afford it. when you go to pay a $2,000, $3,000 deductible, im priced out. it doesnt work. we are trying to fix it so it will work for all americans. >> good talking to you. thank you so much for being with us. bob costa, final thoughts? >> i will say this, bob...

Now and we move on to tax reform, we lose the ability to pass anything under reconciliation in 2017. >> a big part of the reason this president was elected, he campaigned on repealing and replacing obamacare. so why should he and the congress not deliver? >> four or five votes down might as well be 14 or 15 votes down. the charade of having to states opt in or waive pre-existing conditions becomes a race to the bottom. whether its the freedom caucus or moderates, whatever label you want to give,...

Conditions, its simple. they would hold hearings and would allow the cbo to do the impartial evaluation. no one should take my word for it. no one should take any politicians word for it. and i think the bipartisan congressional budget office would lay it out pretty clearly. high-risk pools have really, not a very good history at providing coverage to people. most people, if you ask them, would you like to be in a high-risk pool and have the additional costs and different kind of access to care ...