Several Senior Administration officials including the attorney general, including the director of National Intelligence and a couple of others, this weird refusal to discuss the nature of their conversations with the president about whether the president tried to stop this investigation which, of course, is something that points to the question, and i do say the question of obstruction of justice. You dont get to refuse to answer a question to the United StatesCongress Unless youre claiming your fifth amendment rights or if youre claiming executive privilege. Those are the two excuses by which you dont get to answer questions. They say the white house put them in a jam because they asked whether or not the white house wanted to exercise its immunity and they didnt hear back. If they didnt hear back, that means the white house is not exerting executive privilege. Thats the way its got to be. This idea that came up last week, im going to say nothing because i want to preserve the right of the president to invoke executive privilege, that means no one will answer a question around here again. My point is, they have to answer those questions so we can come to understand how intense the president s effort was to stop or slow the russia investigation. Congressman, appreciate your take on these issues. They all matter. Thank you very much. Thanks, chris. Thanks to our International Viewers for watching. For you, cnn newsroom is next. For our u. S. Viewers, we have new reporting and it is time to get after it i think its important that the Senate Moves Forward and passes health care reform. I cant imagine, quite honestly, id have the information to justify a yes vote within just a week. If we went and got the single greatest Health Care Plan in the history of the world, we would not get one democrat vote. Let us improve obamacare, but were in the going to destroy it. Theres great cause for concern in terms of Jared Kushner continuing to have a security clearance. Were a country of laws. Lets go through the due process. We attributed the hacking directly to the russian government. One individual in america to not accept this basic fact is the president of the United States. This is nude wiis nudnew da well soon know whats in the Senate Republican plan to repeal obamacare. Not even the president says he knows whats in it yet. Meanwhile, President Trump is back in Campaign Mode. He was on the trail, for lack of a better word, touting accomplishments and announcing new priorities. The president also making an eyebrow raising comment about his wealthy cabinet and advisers. We have it all covered for you. Lets begin with cnns Suzanne Malveaux live on capitol hill. Whats the latest there, suzanne . Reporter good morning, alisyn. The Senate Health care legislation has been shrouded in secrecy to the frustration of many republicans, even the key votes needed for it to pass. That will change at 9 30 this morning. Theyll get a chance to take a look at the legislation and have it unfold. Cnn has gotten an early look at some of the plan which, of course, is subject to change. I hope were going to surprise you with a really good plan. Reporter Senate Leadership hoping to appeal to both moderate and conservative republicans with a bill that is expected to phase out Medicaid Expansion starting in 2021, a year later than the house bill, and defund planned parenthood for one year which could be a deal breaker for two key republican senators. Republicans can only afford to lose two votes since no democrat is expected to support the bill. They made it clear theyre not interested in helping. This bill is mean, very mean. Reporter the bill is not expected to include the controversial house proposal that would allow states to decide on protections for people with preexisting conditions. But the senate may allow for a new set of waivers that could eliminate essential health benefits. There are still details we dont know about the bill that could decide its fate, including when obamacare taxes will be repealed, how much money will be allocated for highrisk pools and how the senate will calculate the distribution of tax credits, expected to be more generous than the house plan. Already some republicans are expressing frustrations. I cant imagine, quite honestly, id have the information to evaluate within a week. Reporter whatever the final draft, senate aides say the Republican Leaders want President Trump to stay far away from the negotiating, describing an earlier meeting as kind of a disaster. The president sounded hopeful at last nights rally in iowa. Ive been talking about a plan with heart. I said add some money to it. A plan with heart. Obamacare is dead. Reporter the Congressional Budget Office score is expected as soon as tomorrow, followed by senate debate. There are lots of changes that will be made. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell wants a vote on the legislation by the july 4th recess which gives little time for lawmakers or even the public to read or amend this bill. Thats right. That could be a deal breaker for some of them. Suzanne, thank you very much. President trump back in Campaign Mode last night celebrating election victories and making news with comments about hits cabinet and advisers. Cnns joe johns is live at the white house with more. Reporter its been eight months since the wleks night victory that sent dram here to the white house. Last night republicans were celebrating a pair of house seat victories and elections just this week, putting the president back into Campaign Mode, able to celebrate at least for one night on the road. All we do is win, win, win. We won last night. Reporter an energized President Trump returning to the environment he loves the most, a Campaign Rally. Its always terrific to be able to leave that washington swamp. Reporter going after his favorite targets, the media and democrats. And theyve been unbelievably nasty, really nasty. I am making it a little bit hard to get their support, but who cares . Reporter while touting his promised border wall. Were thinking about building the wall as a solar wall, therefore, mexico will have to pay much less money. Thats good, right . Reporter President Trump rallying his loyal supporters with this immigration proposal. Those seeking admission into our country should not use welfare for a period of at least five years. Reporter a rule that is already the law of the land and reiterating this rather vague concern about chinas influence on north korea. I do like president xi. I wish we would have more help with respect to north korea from china, but that doesnt seem to be working out. Reporter the president also touting his wealthy cabinet picks before making this eyebrow raising statement. I love all people, rich or poor. But in those particular positions, i just dont want a poor person. Does that make sense . Reporter only briefly mentioning the russia investigations hanging over his administration. They have phony witch hunts going against me. Reporter but mr. Trump is silent about russias interference in the 2016 election, an issue the white house continues to dodge when pressed for the president s position. I have not salt down and talked to him about that specific thing. Reporter a former Homeland Security secretary testifying tuesday that evidence of russian meddling is undeniable. In 2016 the russian government at the direction of Vladimir Putin himself orchestrated cyberattacks on our nation for the purpose of influencing our election. That is a fact plain and simple. Reporter one of the president s lawyers has suggested this might be the week the president would reveal whether there are recordings of his conversations with the now fired fbi director james comey. So far no word on that. The president has suggested journalists will be disappointed with the answer to that question. Chris and alisyn . Joe, appreciate it. Lets discuss. We have political analysts David Gregory and john avlon and cnn chief Political Correspondent dana bash. Well get to that in a second. We get the procession was secretive and we get that was opportunistic because they want to deliver on their promise to repeal and replace. Mitch mcconnell believes this is the best way. What does today bring . I think it starts to sharpen the debate, both within the Republican Party and then the senate overall. I think its really interesting to try to understand, as i think some of the reporting and the discussion on the program this morning has gotten into, what is the strategy of leader mcconnell in terms of how he gets the votes and how he sells the plan . One big takeaway for me is there seenls to be a conflict on what the president says has got to be Health Care Without a heart. Hes described the house bill as mean. How is he going to square that with what the senate wants to do, which has been described this morning on the program as obamacare light, rolling back provisions that are in obamacare while retaining some of the more popular provisions. How is that going to work . Thats that conflict between i think the president s reticents about the partys desire to move forward and do just that to please a conservative base that thought it was too much Government Intervention to begin with. Dana, help explain the math here of this bill. They can only afford to lose two votes and there are already three senators who publicly expressed being on the fence. So whats going to happen here . Well, one of those three has said no way, no how, rand paul of kentucky. And a couple of others are getting close to that. The math is what it is which is what makes this such a cliffhang cliffhanger. I was up on capitol hill talking to some sources this week and noting senator Mitch Mcconnell is really the ultimate tactician. The years of covering him i was saying to sources i have a lot of faith that he may have a series of rabbits in his hat that hes going to figure out. I was told maybe this time maybe not. Maybe he doesnt know exactly how this game is going to end, how this game of cles is going to end which is usually what he plays. And the reason s p because of the math, that he can only afford to lose two republicans, both sides of the republicans who have problems with a lot of the substance of what theyre doing. But also, just on the pure politics of this, he has concluded that win, lose or draw, this has got to be dealt with, that the senate has to deal with it, much like we saw earlier in the year on the house side, that paul ryan said we just have to do it and he gave up for a short time. That that is the calculous of Mitch Mcconnell, that even if it doesn doesnt, it will be bad, but worse would be not trying. Another big headline, trump has a rally last night. Trump taking a victory lap. Hes done well. You can see these are republican districts, but they won and the democrat made a hard push and fell short. He said something last night that was met with applause that requires your consideration. Listen to this. Somebody said why did you appoint a rich person to be in charge of the economy . Its true. And wilbur is a very rich person in charge of commerce. I love all people, rich or poor. But in those particular positions i just dont want a poor person. This i feel should bother a lot of people, not in that room where they were applauding, that wilbur ross, know him, covered him, smart guy, competent choice. Nice loafers. Nice loafers. He made a point last night that seemed to appoint some type of significance to weld that goes to competency that poor people wouldnt have. I was thinking, boy, i wonder what young, scrappy and hungry would think . Alexander hamilton revolutionized Government Spending and never had two nickels to rub together. Being wealthy is not bad. Its a virtue in america that should be applauded when done the right way. Hes done the opposite. They rolled back doddfrank and now hes saying i dont want poor people in certain positions. Hes got the wealthiest cabinet in history. Certainly a lot of the prospect of a populous billionaire is always tough to believe. But then youve got to go beyond the rhetoric to what policies hes implementing. There hasnt been a lot to try to shrink the gap between the rich and poor. As much as i wanted to hear you rap and i thought you were going there. Hes going there. Let me see if i can stoke the fire. What donald trump basically said is Alexander Hamilton need not apply for a job in my cabinet. The man who invented americas finance system, our first treasury secretary was an immigrant who was dirt poor, hadnt had any financial success. I think that goes to show thats the wrong criteria for the cabinet, wrong criteria you guys are being awfully quaint with this notion. No. In our cap lift society wealth equals success. It just does. Not always. It equals opportunity, advantage. It could have been handed to you. Someone could have a check written to get into college. Im saying that is the goal. That means these people have been im telling you im channelling how some of Donald Trumps voters feel, and that is these guys obviously have some sort of secret sauce and they want a part of it from somebody who has been wildly wealthy. Its the equating of that with insight, expertise, virtue. If someone has been economically successful on their own, i. E. , they havent been given to them. The crowd in cedar rapids is eating it up. Partly because its a tribal environment. Dana, my point is this you talk to different people and get lots of different opinions about it. But it was a big thrust, when trump was campaigning, what would he say to these people, the working class in general, i know these guys, i know how they make their money, they cant do that to me, ill take care of it. Instead hes surrounded himself with. Now hes saying, poor people, i love them, but theyre not as good as rich people when it comes to certain jobs. I went to trump rally after trump rally, definitely theyre not monolithic, but i did hear over and over again one of the things that were drawing trump voters to him was the fact that he made a lot of money or at least he says he made a lot of money. Alisyn is exactly right, it was aspirational and that he didnt care, he was going to bust this place up, this place being washington and all of the above. That was a part of it. The president knows that and he was completely playing into that by talking about wilbur ross. I would bet that, if he were to do it over again, if you would put truth serum in his wheatitys and say, would you say it just like that, i dont need poor people . Probably not. He was trying to make the flip side of that argument about the fact that he thinks that people who know how to make money, who have made money can be there. But i also think that Alexander Hamilton and others who are intellectually capable of understanding the economic process. You have all kind of people designing your economic opportunity. The rich doesnt necessarily mean theyre all one people. Let me add one other point. I do think this is an example of overly interpreting trump. Weve been around long enough in the Trump Presidency to watch him make these eye rolling statements that seem to be so offensive to people if they took it literally and some people will be offended on the merits of it. What hes basically saying is were going to come in from the outside, we want to win. Im going to get people who are winners from the private sector and theyre going to bust up government and finally do that right. Thats, a, not necessarily the case, and b, can probably turn a lot of people off. Can we just for a Second Square the circle on this literal dichotomy. We can square the circle on that now that hes governing, now that hes actually president. Where the rubber meets the road is what hes doing in terms of policy. And where his policies keep sidestepping that rhetoric about taking it to the rich and powerful and special interest and instead feeding them and creating loopholes they can drive through, thats where we need to keep our actions focused. Chriss point, because hes been surrounded by folks with a certain perspective, the rules and policies seem to cater to their interest. Thats a good point. John, are you tired of winning . Apparently he doesnt want to win anymore. Thats my problem with avalon. Understood. Were all exhausted from it. I feel that. Thank you all very much. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans are about to unveil their secret health care bill. What are democrats planning in response . Senator ron wyden tells us next. T summer deals up to 40 off. Visit booking. Com. Booking. Yeah tech when you schedule with safelite autoglass, you get time for more life. This family wanted to keep the game going. Son hey mom, one more game . Tech with safelite, you get a text when were on our way. You can see exactly when well arrive. Mom sure. Bring it tech im micah with safelite. Mom thanks for coming, its right over here. Tech giving you a few more minutes for what matters most. 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