About 95 of those senators invited here today for lunch to show up. They hope this is more of a strategy session where, like you said, they can figure out what theyre going to do next. The question is, what strategy are they going to purr . Theyre meeting request a president who publicly advocated for several different strategies including repeal and replace then repeal and replace at a later date and letting obamacare fail which is what President Trump brought up yesterday during a meeting here at the white house. It will also likely be a venting session for these senators who dont think trump has done enough to publicly advocate for this bill. He never gave solo speeches dedicated to this Health Care Bill leaving more of the leg work up to Vice President mike pence. Now, during the last dinner, the Health Care Bill essentially collapsed when senators lee and moran came out in opposition against it. Donald trump said that that surprised him though it didnt surprise many other people. It will be interesting to see what happens today because donald trump often distances himself from the party calling them the republicans and today he said the republicans have to fulfill the promise they made to the American People to Fix Health Care. The white house said this isnt him distancing himself from republicans but noted their promise to Fix Health Care comes along before his. The republican, like a strange version of the ohio state which i always take issue with in and of itself. Joining me now, former Communications Director at the rnc and former top staffer doug he heye. Hi, guys, great to have you here. Thank you. So im confused. Kaitlin lays it out. Forget the ohio state, well get to that later. Repeal and replace, repeal now, replace later or let obamacare fail and then well figure it out. The reporting is that theyre going to go into this lunch and the message from the president is inaction is not an option. Which of the menu of those three are we at . Im quite confuse zmd. Everybody is confused. Were not at plan b or plan c, were at plan q and until we figure out direction from the president , we wont know anything more. If you look back at the dinner republican senators have, theyll tell you donald trump spent more time talking about the parade in paris than he did in health care. We need to see a change in action at the white house, not talking about they but talking about we. Move moving things forward and talking about this. The absence of his voice meant there was a vacuum meant it was filled with bad cbo numbers and bad process stories. We cant do anything if that doesnt change. And the lack of we youve often heard with President Trump when it comes to things when things are not going well legislatively when it comes to his agenda. John, what do you there are meetings what do you think could come from this meeting if the republican senators show up . I dont think very much will come from this meeting. I cant see what would have changed from the other day when the Senate Republicans had their lunch after moran and lee came out and killed the bill. So hard to see what the president can offer at this point. I agree with doug completely. President ial leadership is essential for major pieces of legislation like this and president obama worked really hard to stay on message, to bring members along, to try to shape the bill in ways without being dominant. But at the end of the day, the other problem with this legislation is its just not a very good bill and i dont think you can message your way around this. Theres only so much the president can do with a bill thats going to take away insurance from 23 Million People. Well, heres one thing about it, at least as of yesterday, well see where the president lands today. As of yesterday, the president said he was he would be fine with just letting obamacare fail and if it did he wasnt going to own it. To remind our viewers, this is what he said. Well just let obamacare fail. Were not going to own it, im not going to own it, the republicans are not going to own it. I want to make a point on that before i get your take. Thats a total contradiction to what the president ran on. One of his strong points was hes from the outside and hes the only guy or gal he can send to washington to fix the system. Just listen to this from the convention. I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people who cannot defend themselves. [ applause ] nobody knows the system better than me. [ cheers and applause ] which is why i alone can fix it. So what does this failure right now prove . Well, i think it should, if things work, give us some hope. If you go back in 2014, republicans struggled to put any kind of legislation not even legislation, language on a health care replacement. I worked on it for six months and we got nowhere and the only dynamic different between today and last year when we struggled and five years sag that we have a President Trump and we own this because we own the house and senate and white house. If were not working together with an all hands on deck mentality, we wont do this that leadership has to come from the president. As of this moment it doesnt seem like it is when he says we will not own it, i will not own it. What did you think when you heard the president said that yesterday . Obviously he hasnt been a great supporter of the members of his own party along the way. He called the house bill mean. He often tries to shift blame a away. He often tries to shift failures away from himself. Just because you control all the levers of government, doesnt mean you have to do anything by yourself. Democrats i think genuinely want to work with republicans to fix some of the things in the Affordable Care act as long as that effort isnt designed to repeal the whole law. George w. Bush, even though when he came into office he controlled the senate and he controlled the house, reached out to democrats on a whole host of priorities. I worked on the 2001 tax cut bill. But dont be pollyanna. I think some democrats would truly enjoy to see whatever the republicans end up doing good, bad, or ugly fail so they can use in the 2018. Im not being pollyannish about this. Theres no way democrats will agree to a bill that repeals the Affordable Care act. At all. Full stop. If those are the terms of the negotiation democrats are going to be hardnosed about that and they should be. However, if it means working with the republicans to make a few minor tweaks so Peoples Insurance markets operate more effectively i think democrats are game for that. Democrats are going to have to lose the term minor in terms of the tweaks. This is about more than health care, this is about whether or not a Republican Party owning the government can govern. We are having problems in a lot of different areas. Lets first if they will own health care. Great to see you, thanks so much. Turning now to new questions in the russia invest. First it was jared, now ivanka, what did ivanka trump know and did she disclose it . Some democrats are calling on the fbi to review what the first daughter put on her security clearance application when she joined the administration as a white house adviser. This comes amid the everevol everevolving explanations coming from her brother and updated disclosures coming from her husband after their meetings with russians. Lets go to Jeremy Diamond following this side of the story. Jeremy, what is the basis for these calls for democrats to look into ivankas security clearance . Congressman don byer, a democrat, is leading a group of 22 members of Congress Calling on the fbi to review ivankas security clearance application potential emissions. The emissions theyre talking about are in particular about Foreign Government contacts, thats a part of a contact that asks you to disclose your contacts and family members. Hugh, Jared Kushner, donald trump jr. Who we learned last week had this meeting in june, 2016, with a russian lawyer who donald trump jr. Believed was representing the russian government to pro dirt on hillary clinton. So let me read you a part of this letter from congressman don byer. We believe ivanka trump has engaged in similar deception. The High Standard we hold public servants, particularly senior advisers to the president of the United States requires questions be raised and promptly answered. So democrats have turned up the heat of Jared Kushner calling for his security clearance. Now theyre turning up the heat on ivanka. The white house and ivanka ice attorney have yet to respond to cnns for comment. Kate . So you have that. And now theres also more coming out about the eighth person who attended the meeting with donald trump, jr. At trump tower and his links to a congressional investigation. Not just a congressional investigation but a federal investigation into russian Money Laundering. What can you tell us . We found out just recently that ike calpe canaver ike cape kaveladze was being investigated with regards to Money Laundering. He has denied any connection to Money Laundering efforts at the time. He called the gao, if Government Accountability offices investigation a witchhunt. Familiar words were hearing from the president of the United States. But senator carl levin a democrat on that Congressional Panel just put out a statement on facebook. He says as gao reported, kaveladze established some 2,000 u. S. Corporations and Bank Accounts for a number of them. The owners of those accounts moved moved 1. 4 billion through those accounts. He claims he did all this without knowing for whom he was doing it. He goes on to call kaveladze the poster child of the practice of Money Laundering. So more questions being raised about cape canaver about kaveladze who was the eighth person in that room. Joining me now on this to discuss is former u. S. Attorney michael moore. Great to see you. Go into. Good to see you. The eighth person in the room, kaveladze, from the 2016 meeting, hes being linked to the federal Money Laundering investigation. This was back in the 2000 when this was being investigated. Is Robert Mueller going to look into this . I think bob mueller will look into a lot of it. These investigations take a long time,ing more will come out, hopefully we dont have leaks. But the problem with the explanations about the meeting is like the Russian Dolls that you open up and theres another doll inside. Called a babushka doll. Thats how this is. Every time we look into the meeting we pop the top off and another little russian pops out. Thats where we are. The real problem with the meeting is its essentially a time when we gave the communists a win, gave putin a win both in the pr end and counterintelligence world. I dont know what the administration was expecting. I dont know if they thought putin would ride up in a 1947 tank wearing a fur hat but they send people in to set these things up and what the trump team did is set up the potential for blackmail and extortion going down the road. I have another question on this eighth person in this investigation that were now just learning about. The investigation looked at hundreds of u. S. Bank accounts. More than a billion dollars was funneled through them and former senator carl levin says, as jeremy laid out, that this guy became in essence a poster child for this kind of moneylaundering practice. He was never charged in this but how serious is this . Its serious any time you link somebodys name with Money Laundering. Thats a federal violation and its especially serious since we dont have tax returns from the president to see if maybe he had interest interests or deals with these corporations that are set up. Those could tell us a lot, too. So the web continues to get thick and were not getting the information from the administration that we need and for some reason they seem to be particularly protective and interested in having these ongoing discussions with the russians. On bob mueller, dianne feinstein, senator dianne feinstein, the top democrat on the Senate Judiciary committee, she said mueller has given them on judiciary, given them the green light to bring in, to ask to bring in donald trump jr. And Paul Manafort to get them to testify a about this meeting. Can you read anything into that about the investigation that mueller is doing that he is okay with them testifying . My guess is that hes probably got information from a cooperating source. He may have the information he needs about the meeting and is now willing to see whether or not statements come out that are contrary to what he thinks he can prove from other everyday. So if he was in the midst of wondering whether or not there was some nefarious intent, i doubt he would have given his okay but my guess is maybe its from Michael Flynn or somebody else, hes got information about what the intent was behind that meeting, probably well beyond even the emails that weve seen from don jr. We will stand by to find out. Great to see you, michael, thanks so much. Coming up, me questions after we learn the president met with Vladimir Putin a second time at the g20 summit. Why didnt he bring another american with him . Any official, any translator, and why didnt anybody know about this until now . Ill speak live with one former ambassador who says putins goal was just that to get the president alone. 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Moments from now, the president will be playing host far meal with some serious high stakes. Hes invited all republican senators over for lunch at the white house. The topic, health care. So is this going to be more of a postmortem or a fresh start at this point . Where do things go for from here . Joining me right now, republican congressman Michael Burgess who helped craft the Health Care Bill that passed in the spring. Good to see you. Thanks for coming in. Thanks for having me on. Appreciate it. Congressman, how hopeful are you that they are going to come out of this lunch, Senate Republicans and the president , on one message on health care . Well, i dont know in thats if thats a possibility. But i think its good that they are meeting and ji dont know that the final answer will be in today. Leader mcconnell has said that there will be a vote on a motion to proceed next week. I think we know at this point how important it is to the president and Vice President. Although it has been difficult to get here. Here we are right on precipice of getting this accomplished and i believe the president is going to be all in in talking to the senators about how important it is to move this along. Maybe the message today, but just yesterday congressman the president says he made very clear that he was okay with just not doing anything and letting obamacare fail. Are you comfortable with that position . No, the fights not over and i believe the senators have a i know the senators have a duty to go to the floor and vote. It may not be a successful vote but my opinion they are obligated, they cant do this by mailing in a press release, they have to go to the floor of the senate, they have to be recorded yes or no and you saw the editorial of the wall street journal this morning, does any senator in that group want to be the one who whom it is forever affix it had title this is the senator that s