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Ryan and majority leader kevin mccarthy held a phone call late this afternoon with president trump on that pathway forward. one major red flag they probably talked about, ross lehtonen, a republican, a moderate, just came out in opposition to the bill as its current written. her rationale, wolf, she just discovered there simply would not be enough coverage for her constituents. >> all right, phil, thank you. phil mattingly up on capitol hill. the white house is warning nervous republicans agains...

Avoided any contact with the russian ambassador during the campaign season, he did not. but people on both sides of the aisle are saying you cant assume something nefarious here. lets take a listen and well get your reaction. >> the notion that there was something somehow wrong with a senior senator on the armed services committee meeting with a foreign ambassador, i think thats a nothing burger. and the testimony jeff should have been more clear. >> if facts are there that he met with them the ...

Fault. maybe were not here for the right reason. lets take advantage. lets see if theres some changes. i think president trump wants to reach across the aisle. hes told me he does. i want to sit down and get to work and find out that pathway forward. hopefully well have some democratic senators that will work with us and make something happen. >> neil: thanks, senator manchin. good seeing you. >> you too, neil. good to be with you. >> neil: senator joe manchin. i mentioned on fox business and il...

Significant frustration on the part of the obama administration which had made middle east peace a significant priority from right the outset. here we are eight years later and wur further away from a two-state solution than ever before kerry having devoted countless hours, two years of deep effort to try to bring about negotiations and i think what he wanted to do was to leave behind as comprehensive a picture as possible of what it is that the united states sees as the main issues on the table...

Someones a republican or vice versa, no matter how, i hope were all americans first and weve had divisiveness for far too long. people want this country to come together and they want congress to start working. and thats what my job is. so i went up and had a very good interview. i was very pleased to meet with president-elect trump. i met with his staff. i met with steve bannon. reince priebus was there. i met with jared, his son-in-law. very nice. i met his beautiful young daughter ivanka. and...

>> companies are not going to leave the united states any more without consequences. not going to happen. >> reporter: the president-elect touting the deal, spearheaded by his runningmate, current governor of indiana to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in the state. >> carrier chose to stay in indiana because america chose to make donald trump the next president of the united states. >> reporter: and, guys, an interesting wrinkle to that secretary of defense pick. james mattis is not eligible to be the se...

Mandates. there are congressional in a jorties republicans have now and paul ryan house republicans we saw this morning are eakke eage move forward. what theyre elected to do, push forward and agenda. >> fascinating. i hear republicans hanging their hats on congressional republicans. not the white house. seeing a pathway forward , and t is with paul ryan, mitch mcconnell and congress many republicans and not the white house? >> paul ryan spent the last three moss not just campaigning for congres...

It out-niggered again. the black folks are taking over. trump, the mexicans who come in and the chinese. fear is a motivator number one in many other ways. so theyre a lot alike in that. you had to play on fear, you know, fear of this group or that group. theyre going to get you and so forth. motivate people to vote. >> i would like to read a little bit more of what peggy wallace kennedy told us today in a statement that she gave us. she said in 1968, the wallace campaign slogan was stand up for...

Campaign slogan was stand up for america. today donald trump asked voters to lets make america great again. neither offers a pathway forward, but both remind the average joe that america is sitting on four flat tires, and thats worth a whole lot of political capital. judy turnipseed, do you agree with that? >> yeah, i do. i think that both of them appeal to the same type of person, to the poor, working class people who were really want to make america great again, or in their opinion great again...

Ground. >> it is time for the bleed not guilty syria to stop. it is time to deprive the terrorists of any single kilometer in which to hide. it is time that we come together to help the syrian people embark on the difficult but extraordinarily imperative of rebuilding their country. >> i guess michael, the question is, is that realistic considering where we are in syria now? >> i dont think we have a solid political strategy for syria and therefore, i dont think were going to get the whole world...