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Point that you made is, it has the essential benefits like pre-existing conditions are left up to the states. the way people have said it to me at town meetings and across the country and airports and wherever i see people is, they will say, this is a death panel bill. because people will die. martin luther king said of all the inequalities, the most unjust and stunning is the injustice of access to healthcare because people will die. so what were doing is to fight that legislation and to make i...

The whole point right now is to defeat that bill. because that bill raises costs for fewer benefits, has an age tax for anyone 50 to 64, kicks 24 million people -- 24 million fewer people will not have access to health care, undermines medicare and the point that you made is, it has the essential benefits like pre-existing conditions are left up to the states. the way people have said it to me at town meetings and across the country and airports and wherever i see people is, they will say, this ...

A serious investigator by his midnight ride down to the white house and back again, and then back again. he looked like a fool, and hes probably not a fool, but he looked like one. i think anybody that deals with this white house has to risk that they will be used to protect the president, not to protect their own integrity. thank you. theres bipartisan reaction and alarm on capitol hill as you might expect with this report from "the new york times" tonight. here it goes. >> if mr. comey is alle...

Priebus was against this, was not in favor of this, you know, abrupt firing because he was concerned whattled do the legislative agenda. now, he does not have the juice necessarily to enforce or to stop the president. im told he didnt even go that far. but initially he was resistant to this. but others sort of allowed this to go forward. theres no one i have heard min my reporting -- well see how this plays out, were still early in this -- that told the president not to do this. >> stunning. mag...

With someone like assad of syria. >> yeah, the language is sort of stunning, but were all a bit used to it after 112 days i think it is. you step back from that, the atrocity in terms of what sarah huckabee sanders was describing is james comey did not run his remarks past attorney general jeff sessions and the administration. never mind that the fbi director is supposed to be an independent official here. thats why he has a ten-year term. supposed to be separate a bit from partisan politics. an...

The top of the hour. lets go back to our senior legal analyst -- actually, lets go to david gergen. you have seen a lot of administrations work with republicans and democrats. what do you make of whats happening in washington tonight? >> stunning. anderson, stunning. i could hardly remember a night like this until i went back to the saturday night massacre during the nixon days. i happened to be in that administration and that, of course, was more shocking. this i think -- i think its deeply tro...

Fbi agents in los angeles in order to have some face time with them after all this public talk of investigations and just have some face time when he learned from watching television, we understand, that he had been fired as director of the fbi. a lot to talk about with the panel. if youre just joining us now, the top of the hour. lets go back to our senior legal analyst -- well, actually, lets go to david gergen, who we havent heard from tonight. david, youve seen a lot of administrations, work...

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Some sort of involvement that rushes and evolved to the level that its affecting a presidential election, the lets have an investigation and lets let the truth bear out because we cant just go believing something based on accusation. we have to have evidence and i think everybodys fine with an investigation. but we cant sit here and have these petty witch hunts and be going and having outrage over everything. with comey, i wish there were some people who would make up their mind. either they wer...

Were back with former acting attorney general sally yates. shes breaking her silence. she was fired by president trump for refusing to defend his travel ban happening days after she said she warned the white house council then national security advisor michael flynn lied to the vice president. most stunning, that the russians knew flynn had lied to the vice president making him vulnerable to blackmail. >> we began our meeting telling him there had been press accounts of statements from the vice ...