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Fourth of july. i think they feel confident that theyre going to build to get this done. they need a little more time. it was quite a big push before the fourth of july, but the sad part is that the democrats who voted for hillary clinton, they think that these republicans want -- and members of congress, are going to kill 100,000 people, its murder and mayhem. just to get 1% of the wealthiest people in america a bit of a tax break. that makes absently no sense. if they think that, then they des...

When the president tells lie after lie while sarah huckabee sanders or sean spicer represent things that are simply not true, were supposed to say its unprecedented. were supposed to say thats aokay. >> no i think you want to keep pushing back but consider this. its not going to be that easy for example, in order to impeach a president, youve got to have the support of congress. and congress is made up of people who rely on votes to keep their jobs. and they still have a significant trump cheeri...

The third rail of american politics. todays bill thats proposed cuts to medicaid elicited dramatic and emotional reaction. a woman once celebrated for being the first woman ever to serve as speaker is now being thrown under the bus my members of her own party. garfunkel (instrumental)

An attempt to influence and abuse people. so when he is saying you better hope theres no tapes. >> theres adam schiffs point. >> right. what will fascinate me, because its a bunch of liars. a disappointing level of lying. someone going to claim when he said oh i hope theres no tapes when he said i hope -- people are going to try to parse this one way or the other. the larger issue is this. the president of the united states lied about his interactions with james comey. whether that lie comes in ...

All along. the house bill and the senate bill are essentially the same structurally. this thing cuts medicaid massively. it may phase out medicaid expansion a little more slowly. im not sure if they think that gives them cover or not. what i does is something even more draconian. even more right bing used to be totally a third rail in american politics. which is, theyre trying to cut medicaid overall as a program. theyre trying block grant it which means, giving each state a certain amount of mo...

Mueller. won a bronze star with valor. earned weeks after arriving in vietnam in 1968 after his platoon came under heavy fire. that was -- he also won a purple heart and a month later was back on patrol in the jungles of vietnam. talk to me about the political idiocy of trying to bring down a man like that. >> i mean, to really go after bob mueller, someone who has all kind of respects from -- respect from all quarterses i think is just like playing on the third rail. and i agree with john, i th...

Of congress that he had specifically asked the attorney general to tell mr. trump to stop having one-on-one conversations with him. that was the day after the meeting in the oval office. well, we dont know what happened but we do know that the president kept calling mr. comey at least two times more. >> youre really saying did the attorney general then let the president know that or not? and if he did not, why didnt he do that? and before we let you go on this, since jeff sessions did recuse him...

Schools. pat roberts, who is a very c conservative senator from kansas, he and i are co-chairs of the health caucus and we bonded over jack benny. >> thats nice. so there is still bipartisan ship happening. >> there has to be. and that was sort of the purpose. >> i want to ask you about kathy griffin. she found the third rail of comedy or at least a political stunt i guess as it wasnt funny. and she was roundly denounced for doing that. >> and properly so. >> so everybody thinks she went too far...

Reckon silluate and make -- reckon silluate and make a reconciliation around the values. people may have been from the le pen camp, le pens side may have abstained after the dismal debate, dismal performance of the debate, but people on the extreme left of melenchon. so this is one aspect. its a proof of a constant discontent by a large part of the population for the options that were given to -- during this election. the other aspect is i was struck and i was very interested by the last part of...

Celebrate in the sense that if they had failed here, they would have all gone home as molly said and that would have been a tough thing to explain. >> i just want to point out i think there are a couple of other lessons that the obama administration and the democrats learned the hard way in 2009. the republicans have not heeded here. one is that you disrupt the existing health care system at your peril. even if you believe you are helping a lot of people, that disruption to that system is someth...