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Thing is we promised to repeal obamacare. the current bill looks like were keeping large parts of obamacare. in fact, one of the architects, jonathan gruber, has come out and said, it looks like theyre not really repealing obamacare. and i think thats accurate. were keeping subsidizes, boosting subsidize and i think it looks a lot like obamacare. >> okay. so the number you have on your screen, here it is. four. just in terms of doing the math, so we know that the senate republicans have finally ...

Anarchists. to the shooting of steve scalise. it was such a repulsive over-the-top campaign. i think what it proved is that even republicans who are very uncomfortable with donald trump, they hate liberals more. interesting to see online, even a lot of never-trump conservatives were celebrating karen handels win. you know, ultimately they hate -- >> the thing that i think gets lost in all these races is the role that super pac money has played. its like, oh, money doesnt matter anymore. but in r...

Did. the answer is no. it goes more slowly. that is something they wanted to have in the bill. on the tax credit side, a lot of criticism from the president himself that the subsidies were not generous enough. thats largely backed up by analysts that show it would be difficult for lower income individuals to be able to finance their ability to pay for health care. this bill tries to address that changing the way the tax credit would be applied here, going by income instead of age entirely, tryin...

Interesting to see online, even a lot of never-trump conservatives were celebrating karen handels win. you know, ultimately they hate -- >> the thing that i think gets lost in all these races is the role that super pac money has played. its like, oh, money doesnt matter anymore. but in races of this matter, there were those who played to ossoff, who raised a lot of money, but in all of these specials weve seen huge amounts of super pac money come in. they have to pay higher rates. but they dont ...

Interested in that. >> the reason theyre rushing this things through is because mcconnell knows politically its a dog, its an unpopular bill. they dont want to run on repealing health care, they want to tell their base that, because that obviously is what the base wants, but they want to run on economic growth, tax cuts, america is booming again. and this is more of a taking care of a promise to the base, lets get it done and move on. >> the presidents own new threshold is that it have heart and...

My question is this, do you think that bob mueller is looking at the reason for the firing? do you think thats part of his probe? >> i have no idea. >> would you be surprised if he is? >> theres a fundamental threshold question there that the presidents authority to terminate the fbi director is based on the constitution. >> thats a conclusion. thats a conclusion. >> no. im saying thats actually the predicate. you dont even go to that if -- you dont even go to looking at what the facts are based...

Obstruction from some republicans in a car that is devoted to seeing it be a total blog, the president just gives them wood to put on this fire every day. >> meghan: add to that judges that have used some of his statements on the campaign trail, and from social media, against him in their ruling. so that is all now legally within the threshold, and we will see you when finally makes it to the supreme court, but i dont think its going to neutralize with the federal judges have said in the foundat...

Deputy attorney general that james comey should not be leading the fbi. its ironic based on the action they recommended and that he took in consultation with others hes now being investigated by the agencies that told him to take that very action, removing the fbi director. so this idea, this is the threshold constitutional issue that has to be addressed before anything starts. when we talk about investigations before you can get to investigation, you got to determine does the constitution allow...

Gingrich who is a close trump ally, spoke on friday at the national press club. lets run a clip of what he said. >> the president of the united states cannot obstruct justice. the president of the united states is the chief executive office of the united states. if he wants to fire the fbi director all he has to do is fire him. >> were going to ignore for the sake of our conversation that when gingrich was speaker of the house he voted to impeach president clinton for obstruction of justice. let...

Theres been concern about james comey. it was put forward in a referendum, thats what the presidents referencing, from the deputy attorney general and the attorney general requesting the removal of james comey as the fbi director. and ultimately, its the presidents determination. heres the constitutional threshold question, chris: the president takes action based on numerous events including recommendations from his attorney general and the deputy attorney generals office, he takes the action ...