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When you unmasked somebodys name in an intelligence document, there is a threshold you have to meet. the threshold is clear, is there an imminent national security issue at stake? it is incumbent upon her to explain to the senators wife in these cases she believes there was, they will decide, they will make their own assessment. >> she told judy woodrow in march that she knew nothing about the unmasking of trump associates, and rice turned around and told msnbc later, she did admit that she soug...

Going to cross that 0-vote threshold. >> how does that happen? >> what i would say to that is democrats have offered to come forward on this. you look at joe manchin yesterday. for months hes been saying let us in at the table, into the negotiating room. so is claire mccaskill and heidi hide camp. and the republicans havent done it. sure, you see people like president trump shedding crocodile tears saying the democrats are obstructionist -- >> you think chuck schumer says lets get together, you ...

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If she allegedly unmasked names that she thought were involved in the trunk campaign with russian collusion, there still hasnt been any they are there, what protocol did she have to do that? how much of a problem with that be if that happened? >> gillian: as background the process, there is nothing inherently illegal about unmasking names within the intelligence community, and happens fairly regularly. there is a threshold that needs to be met. if youre a senior government official and you suss ...

>> our original attack was to actually do it in two separate bills. we said why dont we put the same thing on his desk that we put on obamas task that he vetoed and then go along with that. i can tell you that we are so close right now. we are one or two senators away from getting a deal. im hopeful the next 48 hours bring some of them together. but if not, i do believe that if we separate that out youll get really strong support in the house. hopefully that threshold in the senate. could you at...

Howard kurtz, our media critic weighs in, plus the senate working on a new plan to repeal and replace obamacare, sending yet another version to the cbo even as a repeal only plan seems to be picking up steam. will have details on that head. "happening now." >> sandra: thank you. >> meghan: hes at it again. director michael moore appearing to jump on the democrats resistance summer bandwagon. the liberal phone maker took to twitter this week urging followers to ramp up their protests against repu...

Replace obamacare. im saying the realities of the 60-vote threshold in the senate and the 51 votes on reconciliation, i think that is much more plausible to do it in smaller pieces. >> okay. but that doesnt mean tweaking obamacare, you want to get rid of it. >> well, again, as much of it as we can, but, again, im being realist. im saying it has to be done piece by piece. ultimately if we can repeal all of it or a lot of it, listen, in has to be still be a certain amount of medicaid. the fact is ...

Is it okay if you dont get health care passed? because president trump said that he would be okay if the bill doesnt pass. >> well, listen, we have to try and get something passed, but its wrong to pass something for the sake of passing it. i think if we can pass a smaller package, if we can -- first of all, its almost like the doctor, do no harm. what we should try to do is repeal what we can, and if it has to be limited, so be it. then we still have, again, the next three years of president tr...

Bernardino where trump seized on the fact that he married this woman overseas and who was she and how did she get here? being a fiancee became a politically active consideration. fiancees were already carved out in immigration law as having special access to this country. you could say here for a certain period pending your marriage. now thats been undone. for 90 days, what happens at the end of 90 days? theres so many questions here? >> i think thats a very good point. the questions are not goi...

Once at the airport, i think theyll say if the state department gave you the right to come here. if you want a ban thats going to cost chaos. we dont agree with the risk assessment so the department of homeland security went and say, all right, if you wont agree to a ban, is that a compromise. thats what we see now, for example, sniffer dogs. i think theres a compromise between the europeans who have a lower risk threshold than the europeans and the europeans say you can give us a few rules, but...