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Comey was not the right person to lead the fbi. >> joining the discussion now, ron klain, former chief of staff to vice presidents joe biden and al gore and former senior aide to president obama. hes also a former chief counsel to the senate judiciary committee and was chief of staff to attorney general janet reno. also with us, david k cay johnston, and mieke eoyang is still with us. ron klain, lets work in reverse order on these stories. the james comey developments tonight, including this let...

Interviewed hillary clinton. does the president know about this, and does he believe that that adds weight to his decision to fire comey? >> im not sure if he is aware of that revelation, but if it is as accurate as they say it is, i think that would certainly give cause and reason that james comey was not the right person to lead the fbi. >> joining the discussion now, ron klain, former chief of staff to vice presidents joe biden and al gore and former senior aide to president obama. hes also a...

Is there something the state can do to go, hey, landlords, back off for a little bit? what do we do? >> well just keep working with our partners on that to figure out a smart answer and we owe you and them that answer. lets work on it a little bit. >> two more before weve got to go. >> that is governor abbott of texas with a number of military, coast guard, national guard folks representing south comm, so the impression there is this isnt just a national guard issue, the u.s. military is fully i...

That sandy legislation, and do you maybe have convincing to do with some colleagues have to look some colleagues in the face from up in the northeast and say, look, i know i voted against this back then but i need your help now? >> well, well have that discussion. i think most of them understand that when youve got someone who votes against something that, for a particular reason, may not agree with the reason, but im pretty easy to get along with. i have good relationships. joe kennedy calmed m...

Brian, this is something that everybody -- most everybody in the senate thats a republican ran on. were going to repeal. i know people are saying well, its dead, we have to move on. we have to do tax reforms. business has got to have those reforms but at the same time there are too many people that are hurting. >> bill: what is your bet, adrienne, they come back and get it done? >> well, look, you know, who knows, right? these guys are going home for five weeks for a recess and they will hear mo...

Attempt, obviously, three bills, different structures, they all failed. i think that right now, there is an interest and a concern given the reaction of americans, to what happened in all of this, wildly unpopular bill that they kept trying to promote. the that didnt work. lets work at fixing the problems. its not -- its not about rhetoric anymore. its about health care. lets fix the system and i think there is broad bipartisan support to do that. >> how about the immigration bill that the white...

The problems continue to come out. they are all going to have some tough votes ahead. >> senator cruz saying eventually they will get back to this. in your opinion, i know this is just spit falling, but at what point do you think they might get back to discussing this for all the americans were hoping we would have a repeal at least sometime soon and a replacement? >> i think that is a great question. we saw some of the back and forth there as senator mcconnell was saying. the next thing up as t...

Were up to f, and you cant get much worse of a grade than f. they have been calling this the skinny -- the skinny proposal as you know, the skinny plan. to me, when you look at that cbo score today, the congressional budget office score, this is nothing but a skin and bones plan. thats what it leaves so many americans with. 16 million people would be kicked off their health insurance, premiums up by 20%. and not only that, one sixth of the american economy in complete chaos because there would b...

Doing this when we have people that could work together. we have opened the doors and said, lets work on reducing prescription drug costs, strengthening these exchanges and making them more affordable. thats what we would like to do. >> i know that the democrats have been a united front on this. democrats have been voting no on all of these aca repeal bills no matter what they are. is it your sense, though, that the democrats -- sorry -- that the republicans are going to be able to put together ...

>> well, i just dont think it makes sense to repeal now and then suddenly put 30 or 32 million people, you know, taking away their coverage, thats going to create chaos. and, you know, especially in rural areas, i know in colorado, when you look at rolling back medicaid, you look at the consequences of not providing, you know, stability to the private market, it impacts rural coloradans and rural americans much more directly and so these are many people who support the president, and i think the...