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Puerto rico theyre not any different than the people who suffered during harvey and during hurricane irma. i want to play that sound byte for you, lawrence, right now. >> he is our president as well. and we deserve the same attention and the same support that everybody else in the mainland. >> reporter: i wanted to hear the other sides to the story as well. i contacted the coms person of the port, this is a government person, nothing to do with this company, and he said the same thing, for them ...

Alt primary voters into the future. >> i caught roy moore here a minute ago and i asked him would you support fellow republican incumbents going and being removed from office in 2018? and he said, ill look at those each individually. but i think what we want to is doh is look at the fact that the crews campaign manager was the top consultant for luther strange put had trump, fence, they had the full backing. they were outspent. roy moore was $3.5 million from the mcconnell aligned super pac just...

>> i caught roy moore here a minute ago and i asked him would you support fellow republican incumbents going and being removed from office in 2018? and he said, ill look at those each individually. but i think what we want to is doh is look at the fact that the crews campaign manager was the top consultant for luther strange put had trump, fence, they had the full backing. they were outspent. roy moore was $3.5 million from the mcconnell aligned super pac just went in against roy moore alone. >>...

Now has conceived of. >> its not surprising because it seems that president trump cut a deal with the democrats and undermined the republican leaders on this. you just heard in that sound byte, paul ryan called this notion of a three-month extension ridiculous. thats what the speaker of the house, the leader of the republicans in the house called it. donald trump emerged from the meeting saying, weve got a deal with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. so that is one part thats surprising is that don...

If he sees a disconnect saying congress needs to act but he uses executive orders quite a bit. kristen? >> katy, thats right, im sorry, i thought we were going to a sound byte. the administrations argument there would be that yes a president can use executive orders, but not when it comes to immigration reform 37. >> got it. >> thats really where the crux of this argument comes from, thats where the crux of this debate has been, and will continue to be. now, of course, if you talk to officials w...

So, these things are all very interconnected to the extent that we project real strength, the ability to stay involved, i think we have a much stronger hand to speak with the russians about pulling back from what theyre doing. >> i want to ask you, leon pinetta spoke after the president gave his speech and he said one of the things that concerned him was the president talking about winning this war. he said this is not a war to be won in the traditional sense. that shouldnt be the focus. what is...

With a live report ahead. >> we have a lot of things to do before the end of the fiscal year. i dont want to put the cart ahead of the horse. >> sandra: senator cornin expect a big session when the senate returns in the fall. his colleague cant wait to start summer vacay. today, after only one week. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. mike what are top senate leaders saying about getting things done? >> reporter: well, sandra, to give you context about that sound byte, he was asked if there mi...

Explain for our viewers how the two of them are knit together in at loes in one way theyve both men in small rooms with men named donald trump? >> yeah. well, thats certainly the case. i mean, they are from different social circles in this city, moscow, of course. i mean, look, i think to some extent what you see with the russians is a certain amount of trolling of america and of washington. i mean, theres nothing that russians like better than to try to kind of get a response out of the america...

Today indicated that the white house would be willing to work with democrats. but brooke, i think democrats have to come to the table now. >> but congressman, she also put the blame squarely on democrats, when its been your party for seven years whos been saying, repeal and replace, repeal and replace, and now this sound byte from the president will be used by democrats in 2018, because he hasnt fulfilled his promise. >> i think we have to work on this issue before the election in 2018, and i am...

>> thank you so much. so, on the political fallout, lets go there. i have david chalian, our cnn political director joining me and cnn national political reporter maeve reston. david, just to you, going back to the presidents words there, saying let obamacare fail, republicans wont be owning it, hes not going to own it, you know, let the democrats come to us, how significant was that sound byte, do you think? >> i have been racking my brain to think of a statement i have ever heard from the pres...