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Budget and priorities and finishing that up. he now is setting forth his own budget, his own priorities and hes indicating the fight for that will come in september. >> let me go to jim acosta. pretty extraordinary what is going on right now. >> reporter: absolutely, wolf. mick mulvaney was going over the spending bill that is likely to get passed this week and signed by the president to keep the government open all the way through the fiscal year of 2017. at the end of this briefing, mulvaney w...

Why would the american people want a shutdown when you accomplish something that a lot of american people would like to see more of. and thats a budget compromise where not everybody gets everything and they have to make some deals to keep the government running and fund projects that people care about. and i think he was -- mick mulvaney was sticking to his position that at the end of the day, if they dont feel like they are getting what they want and i think what they want perhaps more than an...

Time and in terms of hillary clinton, there was somehow a deficit of that over her career. authentically raw orbiter or authentically pissed off at the election results that while she noted she was taking responsibility, her name was on the ballot but clearly placing the bulk of this on putin and wikileaks and clearly thinking that an election that she believed was sort of rightfully hers, that she was winning, she said, was taken away from her in those cases and shes clearly not resolved that y...

Acosta and sunlen serfaty. jim, well get to obamacare in such a moment, but we have some new reporting on what the trump administration is doing with michelle obamas girls education program. update our viewers on that. >> thats right, wolf. this is something that came from our great white house producer. he reported this, that the trump white house has decided not to continue michelle obamas let girls learn initiative. this was a program that was used to help adolescent girls in developing count...

Rating in the fiif ilthe philippines. >> it is an opportunity for us to work with regions who can play a role in diplomatically and isolating north korea. >> it is an affinity for strong men. >> it is great to be with the president of egypt. >> from inviting the president that was jeff zeleny reporting for us, our senior white house correspondent. lets get back to our panel, chris, why would the president of the united states extend an invitation to duterte to come to the white house, given th...

And no indication tonight that kim can be trusted on any of this. u.s. officials say they know the foreign ministry statement out of the north koreans saying that they will continue to bolster their own program for preemptive nuclear strike potentially on the u.s. wolf. >> barbara, thank you. barbara starr at the pentagon. joining us is democratic senator chris coons of delaware, a member of the foreign relations committee. senator, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> do you believe th...

Whether or not thats going to be expanded, thats going to be up to him to decide and im sure he will as he has in the past come and brief us here in congress. but look, i think that donald trump had some good picks and i think secretary kelly was one of them. >> always good to have you here in the situation room. congresswoman kathleen rice of new york. thanks very much. >> thank you for having me, wolf. >> shutting down questions about his controversial wiretap claims against the former preside...

Care act which for the last seven years has been relentlessly attacked by the house republicans, think took up and voted repeal bills to try and overturn the aca dozens and dozens of times. the idea that it may not clear the house at all on a second try is really striking, but even if this updated version of the aca repeal and replace bill did make it out of house, i see no signs to suggest that it will pass the senate. thats cause, wolf, they have rejected repeated offers by senate democrats to...

Of september? >> were still looking at it. theres things about it i really do like. the budget control act for example. it continues to obey that which obviously were trying to address our countrys debt and deficit. it increases some spending for the military and our world has become more dangerous even than it was over the last couple years. so theres a lot of good things about it. but wolf, let us continue our analysis please. >> no funding for the border wall and it continues funding for plan...

And they are changing it and changing it. >> that would be permanent? >> of course. >> everyone gets preexisting no matter where they live? >> no but the states will have a lot to do with it because we ultimately want to get back to the state. the state is going to be in a much better position to take care because its smaller. >> im not hearing you mr. president say there is a guarantee of preexisting -- >> we have a clause that guarantees. >> so when he says that, does it have a dramatic impact...