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Had five girls, all of whom went to college, and he became a united states citizen at age 50. thats what made america great in the first place and were losing our way with donald trump and steve king and steve bannon. theyre divisive rhetoric and that dark undercurrent of intolerance. so as democrats, we need to stand profoundly against that sort of rhetoric and thats exactly what were going to do. >> hopefully everyone will check you guys out. where do we follow you on twitter? kim weaver how d...

4:00 eastern here in new york, im ana cabrera, youre live in the cnn news room. we begin with fallout from president trumps stunning defeat on health care. his first major policy proposal since taking office ended in failure friday, candidate trump promised again and again to replace obamacare with something better. but the man who sold his public on his savvy for big deals couldnt make this one work. now president trumps number two man, is pointing the finger at a familiar scapegoat -- congress...

>> he will own it if it passes because he will take the victory if it passes. if it failed, logically, he should take the blame. >> will it pass? >> i dont think so. i dont think so. it could. i dont think so. >> greg, will it pass? >> even if it passes in the next few days in the house, it is dead on arrival in the senate. >> wow. could they reschedule a vote? >> sure. absolutely. by the way, on trump taking blame. he will find a scapegoat. it wont be him. >> fake news. >> fake news. maybe the ...

New. >> it does seem to me like 12 hours before the vote they might resist the temptation of a scapegoat. >> you think this is what it is? >> absolutely. theyre setting him up for a fall. the american people arent going to go with that. one thing this white house has not delivered is public support for this bill. when this pole came out today its aastonishing only 17% of americans toll the poll they approved of this healthcare plan. so im already surprised theyre starting to point fingers. i gue...

In part because weve seen nothing so far from the department of justice, from the congressional investigatory committees in terms of turning up any of the stuff that weve learned about trump and russia, for example, or trump and his ethics conflicts or trump and his business stuff. thats all come from the press. its all about investigatory work by the press. >> true. >> and reporters have done not just the lions share of the work, reporters have done all the work that weve got in terms of everyt...

Park family is now being put into question. >> stephanie, for all of her protests that are happening around kouj south korea at the moment particularly in seoul where you are people are celebrating her impeachment, she does have a good amount of support as well. do her supporters have a good reason to back her? does the evidence actually suggest that she has been made a scapegoat and a victim in this? >> reporter: well i think that for those supporters they are her stanch supporters. they voted ...

Tonight, ducking the question of whether the white house has confidence in comey. but is all this just a distraction from the real issues facing the administration, and the country? i want to do something i dont normally do, i want to say a few things before we get started tonight. what happened over the weekend from the president of the united states is not politics as usual. it is not normal. and none of us in the media or at home should pretend that it is. this is at best a clumsy attempt to ...

The rationale that they back him up. he was upset, yelled at everybody on friday because jeff sessions recused himself from the russia investigation. so, jeff sessions, when fbi director comey comes to him over the weekend and says, you need to come out with a statement saying that what the president said, this allegation, is baseless and we dont have anything to back it up, sessions wasnt willing to do it because hed already gotten his hand slapped by the president earlier in the week. >> for r...

Looking for a scapegoat. republicans have the goods on donald trump, in my opinion, and can turn on him at any moment. they have the gavels in congress. if it turns out that obamacare becomes a political liability they will turn on donald trump. i believe thats going to happen. >> sort of the last straw that broke the camels back theory? >> i honestly think for these governors in these blue states, the best thing they can do is govern and focus on their constituents. tired of the political disco...

Rhetoric hes been using for most of the last 40 days? >> there was some disconnect between some of the tone and some of the things we saw. many people pointing to the folks in the audience who tragically had family members who were killed by illegal immigrants. david, you tweeted about that. and you wrote, this is terrifying. imagine packing a gallery with families of people killed by jews or muslims or african-americans. i take it you were not won over by the presidents new tone? >> no, i mean,...