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Tweets he is a smart man and pins a tweet. then tillerson says, hey, guys, it is an intractable problem. listen, were just united states of america. this is just our national security, so we just have to move forward. really? is that strength? is that retaliation? is that a response? >> thats not what he said. >> and now lavrov has said that donald trump accepted putins admission that, hey, we didnt do anything. and the white house its been hours has not contradicted that statement. the question...

Listen to the democratic and republican chairmen and ranking members of the house and senate intelligence committees who also have been briefed on this, and they say the same thing. it is not a partisan issue, its a fact. and the fact that the president wont say that in explicit terms in public is a question. we dont really have an answer as to why that is. >> jim sciutto, stick around. going to bring in some reinforcements here. i joining me now is my panel. david gergen, i want to start with y...

Today while talking to the press. later on on air force one, white house officials were asked three separate times about putins remarks and each time they declined to answer. they deflected the question. lets talk about it. new york times contributor and cnn commentator. ben, why is the white house not coming out and saying putin is lying, thats the president of the u.s. believes his own intel community more than russia? >> i think there is two things here. one, they had a meeting and realized t...

At an impasse here. when we pass situations like this in the past, the fact that a foreign country is denying something that it has done, has not prevented us for acting. i think the key question going forward and even if you agree with the argument from president trump and secretary tillerson that the key issue is what happens next, the best way to influence what russia does in the future is to impose consequences for what they have done in the past and it is still an open question whether pres...

Now he needs to say outright he doesnt accept what vladamir putin said. i imagine if he takes any questions, that will be the question thats asked. steve hall, back to the original point here that president trump did bring up election meddling, which is something maybe he wasnt planning on doing as recently as a week ago. will that have any impact on the intelligence community here who has at times been in conflict with the president? how do you think it will play with the skeptics, even politic...

Does that reassure allies? >> that leaves a huge open question. trump has, you know, in the past, has raised questions about nato. those questions are going to linger, no matter what he says today. theres a bigger question, whats going to happen in the meeting with vladimir putin and how close is the u.s. going to look to be with russia, how friendly is trump going to be with putin. that will send a message to other european allies. many fear russia, some like poland with large, long, historical...

Cbo, $880 billion over ten years for medicaid, these would be more dramatic cuts. now regulations, these were a huge issue in the house, obviously a very big issue for conservatives, as well. they took a different track. they didnt do the state waivers like the house bill did. they tried to use an existing affordable care act waiver to give states the ability to get out of things like the essential health benefits, the top line ten benefits required in every obamacare plan. that could help, but ...

Democratic ranks at a time when there were not a lot of women in power in this town, and has proven to be a good organizer, youve been through this several times. is this deeper than before, the same as before? are there more of them than before? >> there are a few more of them. i think its -- the danger for her, it is that its the accumulation of times that this happened, right? the open question is exactly what you said -- if not her, who? >> i also am skeptical about what you said about the f...

The ceo would be out, the coach would be out. and there would be a new strategy put in place. >> on the surface that sounds fine. you dont fire all the players on a baseball team. the manager gets fired when the teams not playing right. the democrats lost the majority in 2010, and nancy pelosi has said give me another cycle, give me another cycle. her side says nobody can raise the money like nancy pelosi, and that parts true. and again, the critics say look at the ads running in georgias ick si...

Clothing. only this wolf has even sharper teeth than the house bill. >> as you can see, the bill just out little more than an hour, the partisan debate starting very quickly. with us to share the reporting and insights -- cnns dana bash, michael sherr of "the new york times," cnns reporter. phil, the secret negotiations are over, the bill is public. what are the biggest policy headlines especially when you look at the senate proposal and compare it to the house bill? >> yeah. you have to view it...