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Providing opioid care to millions of americans, for example. i think that we would have to start from scratch and if the republicans think that this is going to be done by the july 4th recess, i dont see it. >> you have some of them like senator jon cornyn pointing to august 1st as the deadline. let me ask you about this. you have such a big role, obviously, as deputy whip. as you know, your party did not father we fa fare well in these special elections. you have been an ardent supporter of nan...

Colleagues, theyre not golf buddies, dinner buddies. theyre professional. long professional respect. >> you can see the push and pull between instinctual trump and lawyered up trump. trump wants to cast a shadow over mueller. theyre very, very good friends. even though we just know theyre colleagues that worked together in the past and remembering he has to stay on message. theres no obstruction, no collusion and bob mueller is an honorable man. you would be very hard pressed to find more than a...

Plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. you can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. download the xfinity tv app today. a lot of breaking news tonight. all this time related to obamacare. house speaker paul ryan says republicans will strip planned parenthood of millions of dollars of federal funding as part of their push to repeal the afford annual care act. jon cornyn said theyre not going to draft a compre...

Step, anderson, of a long process here in repealing obamacare. >> and republicans have been getting a lot of heat for not really having a plan to replace obamacare immediately if they repeal it. it looks like there may be some kind of plan emerging but it wont be a comprehensive replacement. what do we know about it? >> anderson, republicans have many ideas to replace obamacare. after all, theyve been voting again and again over the last eight years and more to replace this with a different type...

Senators introducing legislation to change the law for which you were the backer. jon cornyn who are saying the same thing. this brought about the unintended consequences when you began treating central american kids differently from mexican kids. they seem to say is the first thing we have to do is change that law. >> first of all, you are setting me up in an odd opposition to the necessary changes of law that have been a factor. >> not at all. >> im just telling you it is more complicated than...

Supreme court trying to stop these guys im practically on a first name basis with the bailiff. >> that was awkward. also last month, lindsey graham sounded the tea party bugel horn by blaming russias invasion of ukraine on benghazi. >> when you kill americans and nobody pays a price, you i viet this type of aggression. and jon cornyn with this epic tweet after the administration truck a deal to halt irans nuclear deal last fall. amazing what the white house will do to distract attention from oba...

Post" and rick tiler is a republican strategist. is it a case that having benefitted from the energy of the tea party, now in order to survive the tea party, republicans essentially have to become the tea party. >> no, i dont think so. i think the tea party as you know is not one thing. the tea party here in southwest florida is different than the tea party two coupties over. has loose affiliation with the state. but i think overall, the tea party has really mostly in large part, the last severa...

while not taking a position on the constitutionality of affirmative action itself, the court says states have a right to vote on whether or not to ban it. justice anthony kennedy wrote for the majority saying quote, there is no authority in the constitution of the united states or in this courts precedence for the judiciary to set aside michigan laws that commit this policy determination to the voters. deliberative debate on sensitive issues such as racial preferences all too often may...

michigan whose voters amended their constitution in 2006 to ban affirmative action. a lower court of appeals had overturned the states action, saying the majority could not place unique burdens on minorities. but today in a 6-2 decision, with justice kagan recusing herself, the supreme court disagreed. while not taking a position on the constitutionality of affirmative action itself, the court says states have a right to vote on whether or not to ban it. justice anthony kennedy wrote f...

fallen on the street. claiming no russian soldiers were occupying crimea. >> he denied that there were any russian troops in crimea, occupying crimea. >> he really denied there were troops in crimea? >> yes, he did. >> i think that it is clear that russia has been working hard to create a pretext for being able to invade further. >> trying to give putin room to save face and back off. >> there is a strong belief that russias action is violating international law. president putin seems ...