Ad myre Admiral Mike Rogers answering questions about Cyber Threats as questions arise about previous testimony from the fbi director. Cnn has learned that james comey might have overstated some details about Hillary Clintons infamous emails. And i want to talk about this now with cnn political director David Chalian and cnn justice correspondent evan perez. Evan, lets start with you. This seems like a big mistake that he made testifying before congress. Its definitely a mistake, and i think the fbis now trying to figure out how to clean this up, perhaps theyll send a letter to congress. What comey should have said is that huma abedin had set up a forwarding system, a backup system, whereby her work emails were being sent to Anthony Weiners laptop. Thats her husbands laptop. In some cases, perhaps she did forward some emails for him to print out. The way comey said it during the congressional hearing last week, however, he said that she forwarded routinely hundreds of thousands of emails and that the intention was for him to print them out for her to present to the secretary of state. Perhaps thats what she did in a few cases. It certainly was not an intentional thing the way it was for hundreds of thousands of emails. And thats obviously a very important distinction, David Chalian. The surprising thing i think for many observers, you included, is that the fbi is sort of just trying to figure out right now how to respond to this when it seems pretty clear something was wrong, why dont they just say, heres what really happened . Well, evan made this point, but to me, if youre someone like jim comey, who holds himself up to be the arbiter of truth at all things, and even when he makes controversial decisions, he stands by them because he believes thats where truth is, its very hard then when you make a mistake. Right. Because then you have held yourself as this person who delivers the truth, and if you make a mistake, youve set yourself up to get this kind of blowback and criticism. So, it seems i went back to the letter that he wrote to fbi employees last october, explaining his decision of why he was looking back into the clinton matter and why he sent this letter to congress. He said i feel an obligation to do so, given that i testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed. I also think it would be misleading to the American People were we not to supplement the record. Well, i dont know how the same person who can have that guiding philosophy to make sure the record is correct not now correct the record with, as you reported, an erroneous statement to congress. Because it says there are a couple of sources this is according to the propublica story. They first broke this. And theyre saying, including in law enforcement, there was only a handful of emails that were forwarded. Just to, again, point out, that is a huge distinction between hundreds of thousands. Hundreds of thousands. I think he said hundreds and thousands. Hundreds and thousands that comey made it out to be. So, what is the fbi trying to figure out as they decide how to respond to this . I think given the propublica story last night and given our coverage and other peoples coverage today, its pretty clear what the fbi is going to have to do. I think certainly as david points out, the standard that the fbi director has set is one now that whenever he makes a mistake in his testimony, hes going to have to correct it. Look, covering the fbi, weve seen him make mistakes before, nothing of this sort of magnitude and certainly not with this kind of attention, but weve seen him make mistakes. At one point, he described incorrectly the procedure by which they got sensitive information, and describing how the rn yank hacked. It wasnt. So, weve seen that before and the fbi generally just papers it over. In this case, i think given the attention its going to get, theyre going to have to clean it up. Because hes been such a sort of interventionist on this issue. I want to ask you about something Lindsey Graham told our manu raju, and this was in relation to something that was asked of the former dni director, james clapper, yesterday, where he was asked about Donald Trumps business dealings and if that may have had anything to do with the russian attempts to meddle in the election. He said no comment. And it seems this is whats following from republican senator Lindsey Graham. Lets listen to what he wants. The russians funded any of these trump golf courses . I dont know. Thats you know, this is hopefully, people are looking at that kind of stuff. And its not wrong to do business with russians. Theres no crime in that, but the trump team said they never did business with russians. So, all i want to know is i want to know everything about what happened in 2016 between the russian government, trump campaign, and dont complate the two. The russians tried to undermine our election. Thats different than colluding with the trump campaign. Thats an important distinction as well, but there also seems, perhaps, to be some bipartisan appetite for dissecting the president s business dealings. Well, i think Lindsey Graham was one of the republican senators on the panel, and there were a few others, youre right, that show a bipartisan effort, but to get to all questions about russian interference with the election. And if business ties are part of that calculation or not, or if theyre part of the collusion accusations or not, that needs to be run down, according to graham. It is interesting, though, how because when clapper was asked about it, he also stressed that there was nothing about the business ties that came to the level of being included into the Intelligence Community assessment that was delivered last year. That it did not rise to that level. But then when pressed, well, after that assessment was delivered, did you find any connections . And thats when he said, i cant comment, because that may have impact on the investigation. And keep in mind, i mean, at the time of this investigation, when, credential wh what clappe about, decemberjanuary, theres been a lot done since then by the Intelligence Community, by the fbi into this version and i think the bottom line from the hearing yesterday, certainly with Lindsey Grahams questions, is that this is a bipartisan thing that is not going to let this russia story just go away. All right, evan perez, David Chalian, thank you so much to both of you. Some schoolchildren in dubuq dubuque, iowa, got a crash course in the sometimes contentious relationship between politicians and the media. Let me set the scene for you. Republican congressman rod blum of iowa was getting ready for a town hall meeting with constituents, and before that, a local tv interviewer was interviewing him in a classroom full of children. The reporter asked blum why he was making people show their i. D. S before they could get into the town halls, checking to see if this were constituents of his district. That was when things went from awkward to over. Take a look. Well, i think some would make the case that you represent all iowans. The decisions that you make impact all iowans, so shouldnt all iowans have a voice at the table, or at least have the option to . I dont represent all iowans. I represent the First District of iowa. That be like saying, shouldnt i be able to, even though i live in dubuque, go vote in iowa city during the election because id like to vote in that district instead . Reporter would you still take donations from a republican in iowa city . Im, im, im done. Reporter we havent even weve just started. This is ridiculous. This is ridiculous. Hes going to sit here and just badger me. We just asked why you wanted to do the interview. That was it. Congressman, youd come on. Take a seat. And joining me now is that investigative reporter, Josh Scheinblum from kcrt tv. He said you ambushed him. I would disagree with that, i think those are reasonable questions you asked, but he is under a lot of pressure as well. From your view where you were, why did he get so upset here . I think thats a question youd probably have to ask the congressman, why he had gotten upset. What i can tell you is that i try to conduct interviews the same way whether republican or democrat. Im interviewing dave lopesack from iowa city, a democrat. And you know, we had sent email correspondence, weve been speaking on the phone. This is something that we have been doing for weeks with his staff. The very last email that i received, they asked me to come to that Dubuque Community center. There was no attachment about there being an event or anything like that. He did say he was there before, but thats about it. I would tell them i would meet them anywhere at anytime, any day, weekend, you name it, i will drive to your location as soon as youre in the state of iowa. They gave us a location. I said id be there early so we could set up our cameras, and that was that. Okay, so, you set up the interview, and he went after this right into a town hall meeting. How did that go . So, our interview was before the town hall. Thats right. And after your interview that he walked out of, he then had a town hall at this school. Was this contentious . Well, i was not at the town hall meeting. We had another report who was covering that. And actually, representative blum talked with that reporter and said that he was under the impression that we would be talking about the tour that he was doing with that school, that the reason that we were there was simply to talk about that, and that he felt as though he was ambushed. All right, he felt as though he was ambushed. Sounded like valid questions to me, though. Josh scheinblum from kcrg tv, thank you so much. Thank you. Now to an unlikely player in the Health Care Debate, jimmy kimmel, defending his emotional monologue last week about his newborn sons health scare and his plea to lawmakers to help people with preexisting conditions. The latenight comedian offering a backhanded apology to his critics. Listen. One week ago tonight i made an emotional speech that was seen by millions, and as a result of my powerful words on that night, republicans in congress had second thoughts about repeal and replace. They realized that what is right is right, and i saved Health Insurance in the United States of america. Thank you [ cheers and applause ] and i would like to apologize for saying that children in america should have health care. It was insensitive. It was offensive, and i hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me. Bill cassidy is the United States senator for louisiana. Hes a doctor. Hes a gastroenterologist, married to a retired doctor. His wife, lauren, was a surgeon. He cofounded the Greater Baton Rouge Community clinic that provides Free Health Care to the worki working uninsured, so he obviously cares about Peoples Health and i asked him to join us tonight and hes with us. Lets talk about health care. Why first question is why are the vast majority of republican politicians against making sure americans are truly covered when it comes to health care . Well, if you take the most prominent republican politician, donald trump, he said that he actually wants all to be covered, he wants to take care of preexisting conditions, without mandates. Americans hate mandates. And lastly, maybe most importantly, he wants to lower premiums. Right now, families have premiums 20,000 and 30,000, almost 40,000 a year with 6,000 to 13,000 family deductibles. Now, a middle class family cant afford that. We have got to have insurance that passes the jimmy kimmel test, but a middle class family can no longer afford. Do you believe that this health care, the Health Care Bill that they passed, does that, lowers those costs for middle class people . The house plan was scored by the Congressional Budget Office as actually raising premiums, which is why on the senate side we need to make it work, because we have to lower those premiums so that if another child is born, that child can get the care she needs, not only on the first year, but every year thereafter, as you mentioned so well. I want to bring in my panel now. Cnn political commentator and former executive director of the congressional black caucus, angela rye, and former Communications Director for the National Republican senatorial committee, brian walsh, with us here today. Okay, so, angela, you hear jimmy kimmel there, and hes become this lightning rod in the middle of this debate over health care and what republicans want to do to president obamas signature plan. What do you think of the backlash and also the fact that there did seem to be this very interesting discussion on his program with a key republican senator . Well, i think that, obviously, senator cassidy has it right there. The Republican House version of this Affordable Health care act is not palatable at all. He referenced it being scored by the cbo, but we now know, of course, it has not been scored by the cbo, for viewers that are watching. You can go to the Congressional Budget Office at any time and see that hes talking about the bill that was scored more than two months ago now at this point. And if we were going to rely on that bill, he talked about, you know, we want to make sure that premiums go down for hardworking families in this country. Well, the way that the premiums go down under the current bill structure, it would be by cutting medicaid upwards of 880 billion over the course of ten years. That is also not a good fix. There is a reason why republicans in the house, more than 60 plus times, worked to repeal obamacare. They couldnt deal with the replacement because it was too difficult, and reality is, where they landed is also not a good place. Brian, where they landed seems to be dead on arrival in the senate. Well, i think the senates doing the right thing by taking a step back, looking this back over, having more hearings, hearing from more people, and you know, getting the input of millions of people across the country. And look, i dont deny that jimmy kimmel had a very powerful moment. It touched me. Im the father of a 1yearold little girl, and it touched me as well. But i also we have to understand that millions of people across this country have had bad experiences with obamacare. Myself, my Health Care Plan has been canceled three times in the commonwealth of virginia, my premiums have doubled, my Health Care Costs have gone up, and millions of people across the country have had those same experiences. So i think we need to, you know, come together and find a plan thats going to work for more americans. And the senates doing the right thing by taking a step back and starting over here. Angela, i know that you are shaking your head at that. Yeah, and its just because i cant, of course, speak to what happened with brian, but i can say for me, my plan i was able to keep my doctor, i was able to have my premiums did go up, but modestly compared to what there would have been if there was never an obamacare solution. And i think the reality of it is, to brians point, we do need to work together. Working together is not repealing a plan more than 60 plus times. You cause governors all over the country to doubt whether or not the thing is sustainable, so then, of course, insurers pull out. That is what you see in the stock market every day. When theres risk involved and that increases and no longer looks like a strategic or smart risk, people pull out. That happens every day. Its business, unfortunately, but its on the backs of poor and hardworking families. Donald trump wanted to create a tax reform structure in a Health Care Plan, and that benefits the wealthy. And unfortunately, this particular plan hurts poor people. So, i hear you, brian, on it shouldnt be a partisan issue, but every single day last congress, the Republican Party didnt get that. As we do look forward, though, brian, i do want to ask you about this, because theres this task force now in the senate. Many senators who you are familiar with who are looking at what to do when it comes to the senate Health Care Plan all republicans, of course, put in place by the Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell. The knock on this is that they are all white guys. Theres no representation from women, theres no representation from the sole africanamerican senator in the republican conference. You know, what do you say about that . Well, i think the Senate Democrats have done a clever job at spinning this, but i worked in the senate for over 15 years, and every republican, every democratic senator has a powerful platform, has a powerful voice. I can say with a great deal of confidence that nothings going to pass the senate, at least on the republican side, with republican votes, without significant input from Susan Collins from maine, Shelly Moore Caputo, west virginia, other women republican senators, so is it a misstep, though, to appoint a panel that really has no diversity, or do you think that that was on the mind of leadership as they did that . Do you think Mitch Mcconnell normally would anticipate Something Like this, no . So, what is the reason for not having some of these senators on . Is it because they are in tough states . Is it because actually things might get pretty dramatic on the panel . Wha