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>> ari: its controlled mad chaos. thats what it is. meetings began on time and ended on time. you want to take the podium, but you keep getting more stuff coming into you. what do you do? i dont think the white house press secretary is calling donald trump, jr., and saying tell me all the facts because he is not a white house staffer and they probably shouldnt do that anyway. its going to be a miserable briefing because the press secretary doesnt have a lot of knowledge. >> harris: sarah huckabe...

National who was very close to the kremlin. donald trump jr. claims that he didnt know who it was, he didnt get the name, and so how should he have known what was going on. well, when somebody -- when a foreign national from -- i would say a foreign aggressor contacts your campaign and wants a meeting, you sure as heck better find out who that person is. i also never would have had high-ranking officials, the campaign chair, who later became the campaign manager, the presidents son, the presiden...

And they shouldnt have -- they either shouldnt have taken it or had somebody much lower on the food chain doing it. i will also point out that only a few days after this meeting was when that first dump of information came out from gucifer 2 whos a front for russian intelligence. but i want to pull back for a quick second and say why this is important. this gets to what jason was saying. donald trump is the president. hes held to a very special standard. and it is unclear right now who is drivin...

Recess, which again, i think they should work until the roof is done, but one thing about that, and then the issue of actually being effective and governing as a party when you say you will do better than the other guest for seven years. >> congress is slow. it always is. during the bush years tax cut got done in june 2001, but the next one, education reform, to get done totaled 2,002. im not worried, so long is that it is on a trajectory to get past, and i am worried it is not on it, because in...

He said, as he said before, that he choked. but in fact, you have been around when president obama has dealt with putin, and in president obamas own words, he took him aside and he told him, this has to stop. >> he did, we know that he did. he said it to the american people and we know he did. what is so confusing about president trumps stance, he keeps saying, if the russians did it. maybe another country did it. he said it yesterday, not six months ago. and on the other hand he said why didnt ...

I got off and boy, they were all taking morgue shots. >> in the very last conversation i had with him there, we were talking about this break-in, in california. the elsberg psychiatrist break-in. and he said, i didnt know about that, did i? and i had to indicate to him that he did know about it. >> that, of course, is a totally out of our -- have you ever heard of this? >> yes, sir. >> i never heard of it, john. i should have been told about that, shouldnt i? >> im not so sure that you werent. m...

Regularly on twitter and in person, im going to tell you to your face that you are lying. >> she is saying, kevin, basically this president should be sort of immune to criticism and shouldnt get away with it. i mean the president -- to president trump and his spokes people, this is all about the president who feels that he is under attack. they feel theyre under attack. does it trouble you that the president views himself as a victim here? >> yeah, i think you have to recognize that that comes w...

Healthcare. it is not a given. >> bill: marc siegel. thank you there in new york. want to bring in rick scott out of florida. good morning to you. mitch mcconnells office says this about the cbo score. lowers premiums by 30%, 2020 compared to current law. provides more than $331 billion in deficit reduction. a big number. cuts taxes by $700 billion. ron johnson was in that chair last hour. he hasnt bought into this. he doesnt believe this bill has done enough to lower premiums. what is your view...

So how does that jive with what your goal is as a lawmaker for how to change health care in the individual market? what should government do and what shouldnt it do? >> first i say, my goal is not as a lawmaker first. its as a position for 25 years focused on the physician/patient relationship. our goal should be to make that patient, that family, our first priority. if we can do that, it works. >> right, but you are -- whether you like it or not, people who are covered will not longer be covere...

Country saying government shouldnt be doing that because they cant do it right and then look at the problems of obamacare and say yes. >> that is who is writing the bill and that is the question is should this be the governments job or private sectors job? lots of evidence that the private sector cannot get this done. this is not a new problem. look at some of the key provisions. medicaid rollbacks dont begin to happen until 2021. thats not only after mid terms but after next presidential electi...