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Own lives and fought to save each other when the two ships collide maryland the middle of the night. the efforts to save each other included heroic efforts to save the captain of the ship. the report describes how five sailors used a sledgehammer and a kettle bell from the ships gym to smash their way into the destroyed state room of the ships captain. the ships captain, his state room took a direct hit in that crash. the sailors trying to save him did get in. the ships captain according to the ...

Consolidate messaging regarding anthony scaramucci not easy to do with a president that is still firing off tweets that catches cabinet members by surprise. on that note he is asking congress to revisit healthcare legislation via tweet and hes holding a metaphorical sledgehammer over their head. he wants obamacare to implode and he can take a first step to expediting that on august 1 when he can legally undo the executive order that funds cost-sharing reduction payments which are propping up wha...

A sledgehammer by donald trump. >> i have said, ill tell you one, i just dont think they set up the west wing to succeed and i dont like the way the west wing always handles all kinds of questions, including some of the topics you handled today. i reveer the halls of that place. i spent a lot of time there, you did, others have. and i think there is a certain amount of refr ens you should have for the institution of the presidency. when it comes to questions like the boy scouts and stuff, he is ...

I want to know about this, you had a long discussion with senator susan collins about the senate bill this week. collins says she wont vote to move the bill until she sees significant changes. what more does she tell you? >> basically we were just talking about the impact of medicaid in her state and my state. i mean, theyre two different states and shes -- rural hospitals, i have the new york city hospitals, also the hospitals on long island which i believe are the largest employer, not just in...

Senate bill this week. collins said she wont vote to move the bill until she sees significant changes. what more did she tell you? >> basically we were just talking about the impact of medicaid in her state and my state. theyre two different states. shes concerned with the rural hospitals. i have the new york city hospitals, also the hospitals on long island, which i believe are the largest employer not just in my district but in all of long island. and basically we were just talking about how -...

Covered him for years, what do you think is going through his mind with regard to past presidents not interfering with current presidencies, how eager is, if he is, to jump in on whats going on? >> i have to think this is somewhat frustrating to him. hes watching his successor come along and brick by brick, take a sledgehammer to his legacy. just yesterday -- plan to repeal obamacare, just a week or so ago, president trump said he was reversing at least part of his cuba policy. weve seen the tra...

And whether or not they -- the principles that they were saying they stood for, you know, including whether or not this is even democratic. and theyre doing the exact same thing. i mean, its -- and if you follow their kind of thinking, they want to pass it by july 4th, theres no way to -- >> its faster because the aca took a while. they did pass it. its sort of under the cover of darkness, but it took them a while to get to that point. >> absolutely. absolutely. and, i mean, it will be smaller. ...

General jeff sessions believes that going after the drug dealers will reduce shooting deaths. >> going forward, i have empowered our prosecutors to charge and pursue the most serious offense as i believe the law requires. most serious readily provable offense. >> reporter: now the trump administration has overturned obama era policies that reserved its most severe drug related sentences for high-level and violent traffickers. >> you cant address crime by locking people, all people, up. >> report...

Administration has overturned obama-era policies that reserved the most severe drug sentences for high level and drug traffickers. >> you cant address crime by locking all people up. >> reporter: jake oliver is ceo of the african-american newspaper, published in baltimore for 125 years. >> i think theyre taking a sledgehammer to a problem that needs to be more sensitive in it being addressed. you just cant eliminate something by stomping it out. the program that his attorney general produced is ...

Government. youre going to have secretary of state rex tillerson start a task force to try to improve human rights and expand internet rights on the island and the president will speak on the need for human rights reform on the island and will also talk about the opposition to any efforts to end the embargo through the united nations. the campaign promise that trump made throughout the 2016 election, especially when he was in florida, its also the latest example of the president trying to really...