Do you think hes saying it . Obviously congress is back, they have a budget to deal with. They have to deal with what they want to do about the dreamers, they have to move forward about infrastructure. That is not what the president was tweeting about today. The president was tweeting about health care, essentially saying hes all but dismantled obamacare by doing away with the individual mandate in the tax reform bill and saying that maybe eventually down the line republicans and democrats will come together to some kind of bipartisan fix when it comes to health care. And eventually may have been the key part of that tweet. So far we havent seen a lot of bipartisanship on capitol hill. Never mind the republican leader Mitch Mcconnell said he doesnt see that happening, especially when they come back theyre only going to have a onevote majority in the senate. Well put that aside. Lets talk about the other thing that the president seems to be focused on this morning. That is russia and the dossier is on his mind. Why do you think that is . I dont think its any surprise that this president has been repeatedly distracted by the russia investigation. Obviously over the weekend. We saw him going after the fbi. Today he apparently took in cable news and has become focusing again on this dossier which he believes to be entirely fake, although u. S. Investigators have corroborated some of the points in it. This is another thing that just infuriates the president. It leads him to believe once again that any sort of allegation of collusion between the Trump Campaign and russian officials must be false. He called the dossier garbage. Now, the president s lawyer spoke to the wall street journal over the last couple of days. And they continue to sound this sort of optimistic tone that Robert Mueller is going to wrap up his investigation sometime soon. Jay sekulow said i know we collectively, the lawyers, looking forward to an expeditious wrapping up of this matter. Hes part of the legal team. Outside experts, other lawyers involved say, hmm, an expeditious wrapping up of this might be a little bit too optimistic. This may take a little bit longer than the president and his legal team are hoping for. And a shameless plug for your reporting. You have a bunch of cnn reporters something on cnn. Com on just that, that not only are the president s lawyers saying this publicly, that it will wrap up soon, they apparently are telling that to their client, the president of the United States. We can talk more about that another time. Thank you very much for that report. For more on the president s latest attacks on the fbi, lets bring in our senior congressional correspondent, manu raju. Trump likes to say that this dossier we should say the dossier that was put together not by the government but a private source, and the funding weve learned over the past year or so that it was funded by a republican source, by democratic sources, but understanding the basis of what this dozens way is, what the president is saying today is that its not true. As sara said, he was watching a fox report. What does the role in the dossier actually mean for investigation thats youve been following so closely on capitol hill . Reporter the dossier has been a subject of intense critics. There are documents that are true. The most salacious allegations in the dossier have not been verified, though its broad assertion that russia waged a campaign to interfere in the election is accepted as fact by the u. S. Intelligence community. U. S. Investigators have corroborated some aspects of the dossier, specifically that some of the communications among foreign nationals mentioned in the memos did actually take place. The fbi has used the dossier, but it is not the basis of the fbis investigation into russia meddling. As we reported earlier this year, the fbi did use it as part of its own justification to secretly monitor the trump Foreign Policy adviser, carter page, during the Campaign Last year. None of the four charges in the special counsels Ongoing Investigation referenced the dossier, but Robert Muellers team met this summer with a British Foreign agent who wrote the dossier, christopher steel. This has become a lightning rod was effectively paid for by a law firm retained by the dnc and the clinton campaign. U. S. Law enforcement officials and intelligence officials said federal investigators did their own work, separate from the dossier, to support their findings that russia tried to meddle in the election in favor of trump. The u. S. Intelligence agencies, particularly the cia and the fbi, took steels research seriously enough that they tent it out of a publicly released january report on russian meddling in order not to divulge which parts of the dossier they had corroborated and how. But dana, with the president continuing to focus on the dossier, expect his gop critics in congress to continue to attack it, as well as we head into 2018. Its an important fact check to give us the real deal of what the dossier was and wasnt and what its meant for these investigations. Thank you so much. Joining me, conservative commentator kerry shefld, also executive director of Grassroots Group geared toward generation voters opportunity. Also with me today, cnn political commentator and former ohio state senator nina turner. And cnn political commentator and senior columnist at the daily beast matt lewis. Hi, everybody. Nice to see you. Hi. Well start in the studio. Lets start with the back to work comment that the president is pushing. And particularly on health care. Give me a reality check on that. Do you really think that there is a path to finally fully repealing obamacare, and more importantly, replacing it for republican its possible. I think this was a big deal that this tax bill got rid of the individual mandate. Thats the linchpin that we were told will keep obamacare afloat. You basically Insurance Companies are required to treat people with preexisting conditions. How do you do that . You have to have young, Healthy People who are mandated to also buy health insurance. Once the mandate is gone, theres the potential for this death spiral. Right. And that premium skyrocket, the thing could collapse. The concern that i would have, though, if i were donald trump and republicans is, yes, its possible that this thing starts to collapse and democrats and republicans Work Together and act responsibly and craft maybe more marketdriven conservative approach. I think its just as likely that democrats take over in the midterms and do something that Bernie Sanders might want. They do a single payer plan. It could be that republicans set this up to fail and you get a more liberal solution, you know, in a couple of years. Youre smiling. Speaking my love language. A more liberal solution. The majority of americans regardless of political ideology believe the government should take on more of a role when it comes to health care. You have lots of people suffering. To the fact that it seems as though the president along with the republicans take great pleasure in not repealing and replacing with something better, but great pleasure in being able to say they defeated president barack obama. And in actuality, what they are doing is hurting millions of people in this country and not hurting president obama individually but hurting the Health Care Outcomes for millions of americans. We should just also give a fact check on the notion of he effectively repealed obamacare. Youre right. He got got rid of the individual mandate which was supposed to be a crucial money generator for the whole system. However, you still have in there regulations, an expansion of medicaid, subsidies for insurance premiums, protections for preexisting conditions. Yes. But we digress. Carrie, i want to bring you in on the economy. If you take a look at what is going on right now on the economy which the president talks about sometimes, but he also kind of gets diverted with other things. Just look at this. A quinnipiac poll shows that stocks are at a record high, dow is up 25 this year. Unemployment the lowest in 17 years excuse me, the quinnipiac poll is there. His approval is 44 , disapproval up 51. However, stocks up according to the dow 25 . Unemployment is the low nest 17 lowest at 17 . Growth, threeyear high. Consumer confidence, 17year high. Should the president be talking about anything else except those figures . Thats a good question and very much its the economy, stupid. I dont think trump thinks the voters are stupid. I think well see better numbers Going Forward because of the tax reform plan. The wall street journal just reported today that because of the tax reform plan, were likely going to see lots of money coming back from overseas. Thats going to be injected into new jobs, more takehome pay for people. I think well see even better numbers. I think the president does get frustrated sometimes because the Mainstream Media isnt willing to report on some of the great numbers. Im glad that were talking about it here on cnn. I think thats part the why the president to twitter, so he can speak directly to the people. The polling i initially was a trump skeptic. As a conservative, ive come along in many respects. I think that in polling, for example, you just cant hold it to the same methodology with trump. So many people because of the negativity in the Mainstream Media, its hard for them to even admit to a pollster because the pollster is coming at it from a place of negativity. We could talk about polls another time. Im not sure i agree with you. I want to get a comment from you, nina, on the economy. I like to talk to you because you live in the real world, ohio. Ohio. And we saw the numbers, economic statistics. What about your friends, family, people who you know in ohio r. They feeling it . Yeah. Not just ohio, i traveled to about 12 states in the last two months. People are hurting. It is the quality of jobs, too, not just these numbers that say the Unemployment Rate is down. We also need to assess the quality of jobs. How many jobs do people have to work to be able to keep pace with the same standard of living that they are accustomed to . The knowledgebased economy is displacing lots of workers in this country. Not just in ohio, all over. We have to be concerned about that. Dont forget the scathing report that the u. N. Just gave the United States of america, the wealthiest nation on the face of the earth. Said that extreme poverty, were the worldclass champions in extreme poverty, traveling to california and alabama to dig in to that kind of poverty. We need to look at quality of life variables, not just whether or not the Unemployment Rate is lower. True. I want to turn to raw politics here. Matt, i want you to tackle this one. Utahs largest paper, the salt lake tribune, has a scathing takedown of its senior senator, longtime senator orrin hatch. It doesnt look like a takedown at first blush because it calls him the utahan of the year but demands he not run for reelection. It says the utter lack of sorry, the selection of senator orrin hatch as the 2017 utahn in the year has everything to do with recognizing his utter lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable thirst for power. Now people might not know that much about orrin hatch. He is a senior senator, not just from utah but the entire senate. I want to ask what you think it means about the broader fight within the Republican Party about companies being conservatives trying to pick off incumbents. There is pretty established paper. Not just not just a fringe group. Yeah. No. And look, i mean, i think that its interesting whats happening. You have orrin hatch who in utah has been around for decades. Pretty conservative. I mean, you know, it hes establishment but not a moderate or liberal like rockefeller republican. I think, look, even in utah there are liberal editors and editorials and so i wouldnt read too much into it. If you look at the polling out there they endorsed him out there. Yeah. Most utahans want him to leave. They probably want to replace him with mitt romney, another sort of moderate republican. Its unique as the utah girl, im from utah. I have covered orrin hatch since 2001. Ive known him for a while and his people. I will say the tribune as matt said, is the most liberal paper in the state. The desert news is the more conservative alternative. Matt is exactly right that this is more a fight between mitt romney and donald trump. The president has reportedly asked him to stay. What do you think this means as somebody who wants to get Young Conservatives to vote . What does this mean about the broader republican struggle for who should be in charge . Sure. I think it goes to the soul searching of the Republican Party. Like how much are they going to be willing to adjust their strategy based on what trump represents. The book shows the class divide within the Republican Party. I think that mitt romney represents that upper class. And trump, they call him the bluecollar billionaire. He spoke to the grassroots foot soldier within the conservative movement. Theres this divide. That divide needs to be unified. The Republican Party has to compromise. The establishment has to understand that trump represents a voice that was not heard for the last five decades. Carrie, matt, many athank you very much for nina, thank you very much for joining me. Coming up, a new report on why u. S. Officials did little to stop russian meddling in the election, even when they knew the threat was growing. What happened . The details next. Plus, skidding off an icy runway. Well tell you about the scary landing for passengers on a jetblue flight. One, two, here we go im alive, im alive im alive, im alive im alive, im alive alive gives you more vitamins and minerals than leading brands. Because when you start with more, you own the morning. Alive give a little bit give a little bit. Hello. Give a little bit. Of your love to me oh, haha. 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The post says the Obama Administration shelved various countermeasures including cyberattacks creating its own army of internet trolls, and even launching a global Propaganda Network to compete with russias statefunded