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Go irish! see that? yes! im gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. ♪ >> harris: welcome back. mitch mcconnell says republicans will go it alone on tax reform. this after democrats sent a letter with a list of demands which includes dropping the 51 vote threshold, budging not to cut taxes on higher earners and a plan that one add to the deficit. mcconnell says the g.o.p. will pursue tax reform without trying to win over democrats. watch...

60-vote threshold should be disposed of and it should go down to 51 votes. >> he and i have had this conversation. most people dont understand there are actually two 61 votes before the 51 votes pass the bill. you need 61 people to start the debate, 61 to meet the debate and 61 to pass the vote before it goes to 51. let the party get a bill, debate the bill, if the minority isnt heard, you dont get enough amendments, then the minority can prevent it from going forward. but the majority party sho...

Comey was treated by learning he had been fired on the news rather than by the president. the call took place while comey was traveling back from los angeles toe washington may 9th, after learning the news. comey declined to comment to us about the story, as well as others contacted for the story, alisyn. >> okay, and you understand that the call might have even gone further than that? >> thats right. it was a sort of lengthy conversation were told, and kelly was so angry that he even told comey...

Graham was saying lets destroy the country and, of course, thats an option. but really terrible one. as you pointed out, as senator feinstein pointed out, that would be devastating to millions of people. and not necessarily take care of all of the risk that is here. i think that what senator feinstein was suggesting in terms of a high level effort, quietly, if possible, to really engage and see whats possible here while we put all of the rest of our tools to work, sanctions, military posturing, ...

Proposal. its a good one. its a good start. its incremental. we republicans get some things, real relief on the employer mandate, changing the threshold from 50 to 500 employees and returning back to a 40-hour workweek, repeal the medical device tax, democrats get things, too, on cost reduction sharing payments. this is progress. there are parallel efforts ongoing in the house and senate on bipartisan reform. the mistake democrats made with obamacare, they muscled the law through on a partisan b...

And call russia a threat not united states as the president signaled a friendly approach to moscow. the chances that general kelly can do what none of the intelligence services, all 17 of them have been able to do, which is to convince donald trump that a russia is a threat to the united states and no a end from, what do you think of his chances of being able to do that? >> general kellys opinions to himself about whether hes for the wall or not even as they were coming out of dms, they wont mat...

Dont. >> yes, they do. they buy extra plan, but they love it. try taking it away, brian. >> congressman, do you miss washington right now? >> no. >> not yet. >> and look, its not enormously popular. it did just cross the 50% threshold, so it is more favorable than unfavorable and that is not enormous. here is the basic problems right now. there are three constituencies when you look at a health care bill and the first is those that received coverage with pre-existing conditions and there are tho...

The goal to not do any of that? isnt the goal to make sure there is a functioning system? weve already heard criticism from both sides of the aisle. maines republican senator susan collins send ends cost subsidies would not just hurt insurance companies but detrimental to the most vulnerable citizens if the payments were cut off. bernie sanders echoing that sentiment as well, and arguing that the president should not be trying to sabotage health care. one more thing i want to mention, fred. you ...

It and what happens when you have these type of calamities as you have voter apathy. and the question is will the excitement be on the preserve and protect obamacare or on the still repeal and replace and fix. i dont know. all ive told you is, if you own health care, you probably going to lose at the ballot box. i dont know who owns it right now. >> and the idea of collapse is about the nongroup market. you are talking about the very people republicans got to pull over to donald trump. you are t...

60-vote threshold for appointees, everyone except for the supreme court several years ago. this year, republicans got rid of it, for supreme court appo t appointees to get justice gorsuch on the bench. and the president got 59 votes and the threshold was 51 for this budget reconciliation bill for health care. lets move now to this big shift in the white house. and general, let me come to you, because you know general kelly, secretary kelly well. and so does retired rear admiral john kirby who wr...