that they re going to really open up as senator mccain called for in his speech to a drafting process, maybe even set sitting down and trying to decide what would make foshag the best health care plan for americans. not especially, brian. a conference committee by rule has to have members of the both parties in it. it will be nominally a bipartisan process. you d have democrats the appointed to the committee from the house and senate side. but the numerical dynamics would be the same. still republicans controlling the process. and, again, the open question here tonight is whether republicans senators trust paul ryan s word enough and ryan has said in a statement and privately on the phone to some of the senators that he will go to conference committee. the the defining question of the bill tonight may be whether republican senators trust the republican speaker of the house not to pass their bill. that is just unbelievable. we ll only do this if you promise it will never become
mistake of trusting a reporter. you re the communicating adviser. he made the most rookie mistake which is to not say it s off therd are. by the way if he said it was the off the record he would have been the primary leaker of all information that ryan lizza would have published. to use another sports metaphor. welcome to the nfl. he can t play this game and he has to learn how to do it. i think he is self-immolating while he is trying to learn. i watched the entire white house ceremony giving the medal of valor to all the first responders in alexandraia virginia including the two u.s. capitol police officers there you see them right there behind the president who were wounded and so bravely moved into the breach to put down the gunman. i had tears in my eyes i imagine everybody watching did. sadly, again, our news agenda has been swipeda from something like that. a truly presidential event in
the house will never become the law of the land. there is this jaw dropper from alaska, minutes after our broadcast last night when the alaska dispatch news reported trump administration threaten retribution against alaska over murkowski health votes. the story detailed phone calls from interior secretary ryan zincy to the state s two gop senators. lisa murkowski the latter describing his call as troubling and here was senator murkowski s response. i did have a conversation with the secretary. and he told me what i already knew, which was that the president wasn t pleased with the i m sorry i m looking for which room i m going to wasn t pleased with the vote that i had taken. and i knew that. i had had a conversation. the reality is it was a
month no the tv. i see stories of chaos, kay owes. yets it the exact opposite. in administration is running like a fine tuned machine. . and the other thing chaos. there is zero kay ross o oeotherwise. s in a fine tuned machine. on that note let s bring in tonight starting panel. white house reporter for the wall street journal eli stokols. physical his piece today scaramucci ee rumts over priebus leakers roblt costa national political reporter for the washington post . undersecretary for public diplomacy public affairs at the state department former managing editor of time manage mp a veteran of the business world. mr. costa i watched your reporting tonight almost stream of consciousness on social media. where do you put the after-action report right now as
what we can t repeat is what he said about steve bannon which is if true would make bannon a gymnast. as the damage piled up scaramucci said this late today on twitter. quote i sometimes use colorful language. i will refrain in in arena but not give up the passion knit fight for donald trump s agenda gd. he later added quote i made a mistake in a trusting in a reporter. it won t happen den for the record the reporter ryan liz aire said scaramucci placed no conditions on their conversation. the daley beast reported the following earlier. the president specifically gave scaramucci the green light to go after reince on air if necessary. one adviser told the daily beast citing conversations with president trump. . sarah huckabee sanders was asked whether the president has confidence in priebus. she did not notably say yes. sarah does the president have confidence in his chief of staff?