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Course of ten years. this bill has $321 billion in deficit savings. why does that matter? americans care about that. that gives them $200 billion above where the house came in and that matters because all they have to do is match up with the house deficit reduction to kind of comply with senate rules. that means senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has $200 billion over ten years to work with, to hand out to moderate senators saying that they care about opioid funding or they feel like it phas...

Researched to me and the rest of the team here were from january and the president said i think russia interfered. may have been other countries as well. havent been the full-throated condemnation of what happened that some critics of the president would like to see. i would note in this pointing the finger at president obama, president trump is doing something that we have seen him do on the campaign trail. its kind of the im rubber, youre glue sort of defense. taking criticism level the at him...

Donald trump is now acknowledging, that there was this meddling in the election, ron, but when he finally acknowledges that there was russian meddling, he is blaming president obama, blaming the obama administration, talking to democrats. there is criticism of the obama administration on this, but is this where the focus should be? >> this is just head spinning. first of all, for the president po say that he just learned that president obama knew about this -- the intelligence committee pout out...

2018? >> if every democrat thats running for the house seat gets asked, who are you going to support for speaker, are you supporting nancy pelosi? are you sending a message of change to voters, oh, i thought we voted that out? >> i have a lot of things to say, first of all, i think if each of us does not start to take responsibilities, we are not going to win. thats one of our biggest problems. as you know, i cared deeply of the issues of the coast and i cared deeply of urban issues. i care issu...

I am also an accountant. thats kind of foreign to watch and you see i am no not -- washington dc is an alternate universe. people talk about policies void of facts and of information you need to solve the problems. we dont have enough information, i dont have the feedback from constituents will not have enough time to review the senate billment . we should have started the process, reaching out to the democrat and pointing out the fact that obamacare did not work or driving supreme up. lets ackn...

>> i think the role road block is those senate democrats who have refused to do anything. they refuse to work with republicans and i think the special elections in georgia and south carolina are proof that this obstruction agenda is not working. its not a message that resinates with the american people and unless the democrats get a real unifying message and they all get on the same passenger and create some sort of positive message for their voters, i think 2018 is going to be a really ugly ele...

Care act, obamacare. you would think that an important day like this they would want live coverage of what the white house reaction to all of these developments is. but theyve decided, what, only after the briefing will we be able to play the audio only but no video. is that what im hearing? >> reporter: thats right. its essentially embargoed audio until after the briefing concludes. you will not be able to listen live. and one of the things thats worth pointing out is obviously people who are w...

How they perceived it, what really matters is if the president acted with corrupt intent to influence or obstruct and getting to the intent, its really difficult making any obstruction charge tough to prove, but of course, this is likely an issue that mueller and his investigators will continue to probe. >> so president trump, of course, had another tweet storm on russia enlight of former homeland security jeh johnsons congressional testimony yesterday. the latest top intelligence official to st...

Members of congress heard a chilling account of the russian interference in the election. an official at the department of homeland security confirmed publicly for the first time, election systems in 21 states were targeted by russian hackers. theres no evidence that any actual ballots were changed. but heres the thing. witnesses warn that hackers will be back. appearing before the house panel today, president obamas form he homeland security secretary jay johnson said he personally contacted th...

Counting. maintaining they wanted to avoid the appearance of political interference, and pointing to claim by then candidate trump the election would be rigged. johnson was unequivocal about who was responsible for the hacking and the urge ency of doing something about it. >> orchestrated cyber attacks on our nation for the purpose of affecteding our election. now the key question for the president and the congress is, what are we going to do to protect the american people and their democracy fr...