Are you getting any reaction to the president s tweet and what it really could mean . Reporter yeah, so, that tweet wasnt subtle by any means, kate. No. Reporter but look, there was actually intent behind it and i think its worth walking through whats happened the last couple days to lead to this point. The basic rationale here is between house leadership, between house leaders that kind of watched the Health Care Bill just implode last week, and the white house who saw the same exact thing, theres a recognition, that basically, they need to figure out some way, somehow to get those Freedom Caucus members, those three dozen members who are kind of proudly intransigent on bills that they dont believe meet their conservative threshold to come into line. If you listen closely to Speaker Paul Ryan this morning on an interview with cbs, kind of said the same thing. Take a listen. That this Republican Congress allows the perfect to be the enemy of the good, i worry well push the president into working with democrats. Hes been suggesting that as much. I mean, have you reached out to the democrats yet to work on this bill, pelosi . No. Im trying to get this bill passed. Nancy and i see things very, very differently. I dont want the government Running Health care. Well, the president saying hes going to work with democrats on this. I dont want that, you know why . Because i want a patientcentered system. I dont want government Running Health care. Reporter slightly different tact from the speaker, but the message is the same, and that is that they need to unify their conference. Im told behind the scenes this is a deliberate campaign by both the speaker and the president to try to get everyone together. The speakers threat basically, look, we have a president right now whos not ideologically tied to conservatism. He certainly wasnt a republican his entire life. The ideology doesnt necessarily flow through him, so perhaps it is a real threat that if this continues, he will turn his back and start to work with democrats. For a speaker in a conference that is very conservative, that won elections on conservatism, on repealing and replacing obamacare, that would be seen as problematic. I guess the president takes his own hardedged way of maybe trying to interpret what that dual message is supposed to but i think its an important one. Its an effort right now to almost spook the Freedom Caucus back into line as they try and attack what is a very ambitious agenda Going Forward, kate. Phil, great reporting. Thank you so much. Lets get some reaction to this. Joining me now is Republican Congressman from virginia, dave brat, a member of the house Freedom Caucus. Congressman, thank you so much for joining me. You bet, kate. Great to be on. Thank you so much. Youve seen the tweet. You heard Phil Mattinglys reporting. Are you spooked by the president . No, i think whoevers advising him, has his ear right now we all ran in the Freedom Caucus on exactly what President Trump ran on, right . Cleaning the swamp, repealing obamacare. The bill in front of us doesnt fully repeal, so we can have that debate, but the polling for the bill right now is at 17 of the american people, right . We can do better than that, and we are all getting to yes for President Trump on this bill, but we have to make it better. You have to lower prices. Prices under our bill go up 15 to 20 through 2020. Thats not good for the forgotten man back home. And when you have the federal government in charge of onefifth of the economy, thats not draining the swamp. So, we all ran on exactly the themes the president ran on. Were with him, but someones gotten into his ear. And yesterday, right, two days ago, the senate also i cant believe this wasnt covered by the news Republican Leadership in the senate said theyre not going to repeal obamacare in this process. It was covered. It was covered. We covered it. I promise you we did. I know, but thats huge, right . Let me ask you this all of this is huge. You say youre with him, youre with the president. Yes. You read this tweet, congressman, it does not look like the president is with you. He says, the Freedom Caucus is going to hurt the entire republican agenda if they dont get on the team and fast. We must fight them and democrats in 2018. Do you take that as a threat . No, i dont take it as a threat. All the conservative commentators know this bill is polling at 17 . All of the Public Policy think tanks, et cetera. Right, but the president did not mince any words. He didnt say i get it, i get it. Hes not necessarily mentioning health care. Hes very specifically mentioning 2018. No, im getting with you. And Newt Gingrich a couple days ago, everybody is saying we saved the republican conference. When you put a bill on the floor thats at 17 favorable with the american people, we can do better than that, right . Wed better thats what will botch it for the Republican Party. Were trying to help the Republican Party and the president by getting it right. The process was artificially short, right . Three weeks to manage onefifth of the economy. Its too short. You say youre working with the president. What is he missing here . Because this does not look like a tweet written by anyone other than the president himself. Right. He is not being told that our group is working with all of the other groups who, by the way, was a jailbreak, right . Its all that we were against the bill. They were more moderates breaking from the bill than the house Freedom Caucus. None of thats been covered, right . The good reporting has those numbers out there. And so, what hes missing is, if we bring the price down by negotiating between our groups, we can get him a great bill, and i dont think hes being told thats the case. So, fellow member of the Freedom Caucus, justin amosh, he had something to say in direct response to the president this morning. I want to lead you the tweet he put out. He wrote this it didnt take long for the swamp to drain, donald trump. No shame, mr. President. Almost everyone succumbs to d. C. Establishment. Do you agree with justin amash . I never get into the personal stuff. I just stick to policy. We can make the policy better here. It is true that it is very hard to drain the swamp, and when you start managing onefifth of the economy and all that goes with it up here, right, its very hard to drain the swamp when you take on onefifth of the economy. And were all okay, right, preexisting conditions, the safety net piece, the 100 billion for high risk pools back home. The house Freedom Caucus is fine. Theres been misinformation on that that i dont think has reached the president s ear. Okay. Were being constructive, but the one thing we have to have is free markets in the insurance space, or you end up like with the financial crisis ten years ago. We let the federal government run housing. That resulted in a financial crisis, and were still dealing with the repercussions. So, congressman, paul ryan said in an interview, which is pretty linked to what the president s tweeting, that hes worried if you guys dont get on board, that the president is just going to strike a deal with democrats to change obamacare. Are you afraid of that . No, im not afraid of that. Pauls got it right, but he can get us on board like this, right . We were within two points on insurance regs. If the speaker says yes to those couple things, were a yes, right . But you have to have look, if you were that close, congressman, what happened friday never would have happened. Lets be honest. Say that again. If you were that close to striking a deal, what happened friday when you guys had been running on repealing and replacing obamacare for seven years, letting it fail like that as it did friday, if it was as close as youre saying right now, that never would have happened. Lets be honest. Logically speaking, you would be correct, but that is what happened. We were that close on the insurance regs. A few things tied together will lower prices. That was an offer of goodwill that was made in good faith to get to a yes. That package was not accepted because moderates were peeling off in the droves, right . And that is the underreported part of the story here. Its always the mainstream media, et cetera, likes to hit conservatives. Im i promise you with James Madison and i promise you, im talking to moderates as well. Ive got to run, and i know you do, too. No, thank you, kate. How does it feel and i know you said youre not going to get into the personal, but lets talk personal, congressman. How does it feel to be lumped in with the democrats in an attack coming directly from a republican president of the United States . I dont care who im lumped in with. I love everybody, Everybody Knows that. We get along, its just a matter of getting good policy. So, the personal stuff just confuses and gets in the way of good policy, which is what weve got to get to. Congressman, thank you so much for your time. You bet. I love the dave brat perspective. Everything is great up here. We are all getting along. I want to know what it looks like when youre not getting along if thats what it looks like, congressman. Right, right. Thanks for your time. I appreciate it. You bet. Thanks, kate. All righty. Also breaking news, cnn now learning that President Trump is losing hope of striking a deal with russia as questions mount, of course, over the president s and his campaigns ties to moscow. Russian president Vladimir Putin is weighing in, was weighing in just a short time ago, calling the u. S. Meddling allegations lies. I just want to be very clear about this. You and the russian government did never try to influence the outcome of the u. S. President ial election, and there will be no evidence found. Translator Ronald Reagan once, debating about taxes and addressing americans, said watch my lips, he said no. Watch my lips, no. Of course, just a fact check of Vladimir Putin. Of course, it was not Ronald Reagan it was president george h. W. Bush who said, read my lips, no new taxes, and then he did raise taxes, but i digress. White house correspondent sara murray has some important, new information on why, whats behind the president s kind of fading hopes of restarting this relationship with putin. Whats going on . Reporter thats right, kate. We know President Trump as a candidate had a rosy view of russia. Right. Reporter he wanted a better relationship with russia. Now were told by Administration Officials that those hopes are beginning to fade. They were initially hoping for some kind of grand bargain to deal with ukraine, to deal with syria, to deal with combating isis, but now the president is sort of feeling a little bit more glum about the opportunity to do that. Its not necessarily because his view of Vladimir Putin has changed, but because he just feels that the climate is not favorable to actually accomplishing a good deal. He files like there is too much media scrutiny surrounding russia right now, combined with the house probe, the senate probe, the fbi looking into russias meddling in the election, and also the Trump Campaign contacts with suspected russian officials. And so, that sort of takes them back to the drawing board. It doesnt mean its off the table, that there wont ever be any kind of negotiations with russia, but were told thats kind of on the back burner for now. Its also worth noting the president has not yet met facetoface with Vladimir Putin. Putin said today that he hoped maybe they could do that on the sidelines of the arctic conference coming up later this summer, but a Senior Administration official says they havent even determined whether the president will attend that. And as of right now, there are no firm plans for when the two World Leaders will be meeting facetoface. Hmm. Arctic may be a fitting word for right now. Great to see you, sara. Thank you so much. Under way right now, the first public hearing by the Senate Intelligence committee on the investigation into just this topic, russias meddling into the election. And moments ago, a witness just told senator marco rubio he was a victim of russian hacking during the election. See how the senator responded. Two become one. Then youre a couple. Think of all youll share. Like snoring. Does your bed do that . The dual adjustability of a sleep number bed allows you each to choose the firmness and comfort you want. So every couple can get the best sleep ever. 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Manu, its been interesting already this morning and an interesting moment just moments ago involving senator marco rubio. Reporter yes, indeed. I mean, these witnesses have actually been saying, going into length about how russia has tried to foment unrest within the democratic process here in the United States, including potentially even impacting marco rubio, of course, who ran for president unsuccessfully, losing that republican primary against now President Trump. Now, one of the witnesses suggesting that perhaps marco rubio may have suffered anecdotally or as a result of what russia was trying do. That a listen. Through the end of 2015 and start of 2016, the russianinfluenced system began pushing themes and messages seeking to influence the outcome of the u. S. President ial election. Russias overt Media Outlets and covert trolls sought to sideline opponents on both sides of the political spekt rum with adversarial views towards the kremlin. They were in full swing during both the republican and democratic primary season and may have helped sink the hopes of candidates more hostile to russian interests long before the field narrowed. Senator rubio, in my opinion, you anecdotally suffered from these efforts. Now, that same witness, kate, also discussed how paul ryan may have actually suffered as