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the week ahead. They are james hol mapp of the Washington Post annie lipsky, and politico playbook he every morning. Welcome to all three of you. I have to begin the news of the day as President Trump is tweeting this morning. Let me bring people up to date with what he has had to tweet. John mccain never had any intention of voting for this Graham Cassidy bill. He campaigned on repeal and replace. Let arizona down. Arizona had 116 increase last year with deductibles very high. Chuck schumer sold mccain a bill of goods sad. Large block grants to states in is a good thing to do. Better control and management. Great for arizona. Mccape let his best friend l. D. Down. I know raupbd Paul Skpeuplg he m and i think he may come through. A lot of drama. Let me start over here with you, ana. Does it pass . No. Its not passing. No. It is barely on life support, if that. At this point basically donald trump is unaudible to convert on this, right . His problem is he is making phone calls to senators like john mccain who he has zero credibility with. Personal animosity towards each other. He had no ability to close the deal. This is about reflecting blame. This likely isnt going to get through. I wouldnt say nephew. You could have rand in your back pocket as we saw trump alluding to. I would say dont say its dead, but this i think is trump trying
to say i tried. Any. The definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. We have seen this twice already. Nothing has really changed. The same players are making the same moves. And youre not going to see collins or murkowski turn around on this. I am the optimist. I think you can get murkowski and rand paul becomes a key. James, you followed this relationship. How much of this would a psychiatrist is john mccain unable to see his friend Lindsey Graham achieve the great legislative achievement in 20 years that eluded john mccain. Thats a good question. Obviously lindsey and john are so close. Two of the three amigos. Mccain doesnt like donald
the summer. And she was surprised by the conservatives who came up to her and said, thank you for supporting obamacare because my kid is sick and i need it. That hit her i think very hard. Graham cassidy is not the first to appeal. Significantly different. Well see. Let me go to the underreported story of the week. Ive been gone. What did i miss . I think Alabama Senate debate was one of the most interesting things that i watched this week. Judge moore. Absolutely. It was fascinating to watch. Luther strange essentially for one hour just said one thing. His message is donald trump is behind me. He said nothing else the entire time. And people in the audience were laughing. At some point he was saying it so often they were saying, gosh, hes going to go to that. The endless loop. I think tom price private jets, politico story. If if was any other administration other than the donald trump administration, this would be wall to wall coverage. Spending 300,000 of tax payer dollars. This is i think one of the most under reported stories. I saw it in london. They all take private jets. Its different because in particular he is a congressman railed against this issue. Thats true. Saying nobody in the members of congress, the white house should be doing it. None of his previous srb sebelius. They are paying for it out of their own pocket. I think this is one of the biggest stories that isnt going to get any prep because were in
a time when everybody is onto the next thing. When we return, ill ask the panel what breaking story they are working on for next week. A preview of coming attractions. Stay tuned. Switch to flonase allergy relief. Flonase outperforms the 1 nondrowsy allergy pill. When we breathe in allergens, our bodies react by Overproducing 6 key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. Flonase helps block 6. Most allergy pills only block one and 6 is greater than 1. With more complete relief you can enjoy every beautiful moment to the fullest. Flonase. 6 is greater than 1 changes everything. Hes on his way to work in alaska. This is john. Hes on his way to work in new mexico. Willie and john both work for us, a business that employs over 90,000 people in the u. S. Alone. We are the cocacola company, and we make much more than our name suggests. Were an organic tea company. A premium juice company. Weve got drinks for long days. For birthdays. For turning over new leaves. And all of our products rely on the same thing we all do. Clean water. Which is why we have john leading our efforts to replenish every drop of water we use. We believe our business thrives when our communities thrive. Which is just one of the reasons we help make college a reality for thousands of students. Today, Companies Need to do more. So john and willie are trying to do just that. Thank you for listening. Were listening too. Xfinity mobile. A new kind of network designed to save you money. Call, visit or go to xfinitymobile. Com. We are back with my panel james, anna and any. Which numbers are driving the news this week and which are covered partly in the shade right now but moving soon to the center of attention. Who is the person that matters the most not named trump . Rocket man. Why . Explain. First of all, we all had to google dotard this week and what did it mean. Obviously this is very seriousment we keep going closer and closer to nuclear war with them. I think this is going to be the international issue. You said we are closer and closer to nuclear war with them, which i believe to be true. I dont think it penetrated the minds of america. I think it is very disturbing, very scary. It is something i dont think the vast majority of americans are paying attention to. Bob mueller. Significant developments while you were gone this week. They basically are on a phishing expedition. 13 different categories of things that mueller is interested in as part of his probe to potential obstruction to justice. We learned a lot of new developments about the way that mueller, how aggressively he is going after paul manafort. They did a noknock search of his apartment in alexandria in the summer. We learned mueller was taking pictures of manaforts suits in
the closet. They were really going hard. They were going hard after Michael Flynn too. Former National Security adviser announcing a Legal Defense fund. Lots of developments. Special counsel mueller did not request surveillance. I asked to do those applications when i worked for the attorney general. They authorize the use of the most amazing material. Stuff in the 80s that is classified. Who knows what they can do now. They know everything about him if they had a fisa warrant on him. Im going to play off what anna said. Jim mattis is the most important not named trump because of the threat from north korea that ana mentioned. How the United States will react to this threat of a Hydrogen Bomb being tested in the pacific, something that hasnt happened in 60 years will be sort of chilling to the entire world. On friday, hugh, i had coffee
with a former senior very, very senior person at the Defense Department who left quite recently. And i can tell you they are nervous over there. This kind of talk is something that strikes them to the core. Its a very serious story that has people secretary mattis is one of the best people to ever serve. He knows wars begin with muss calculation. If rocket man hits the wrong thing, stuff happens. My person is theresa may. Probably because i have been in the uk. Her government is falling apart. Boris johnson was going to leave. Pulled everyone on a plan to get out. She is presenting it in florence. It appears she pulled it off. I thought she was the walking dead. Former chancellor on osbourne said about her. She is back to the grave and putting it together. Tell me what youre working on . Tax reform next week. From administration, congress. Its a plan that from what we have heard will affect states like the one in new england. Could be quite significantly. These are places that have very high real estate taxes. And so were going to be looking at that really closely. State is and local Tax Deduction will destroy california and new york. Massachusetts. And new hampshire. Which relies quite heavily. It cant go away. The entire country. James, what are you working on . Alabama senate race. We talked about it in the last block. What are the polls . Internal polls that i have seen show the race tightening. Recent show roy moore up nine points. But i think it will end up being close. They expect 20 , 25 of the elect rat will turn out. It is a close primary. It is a close primary in can you register on the day of . I dont think so. Which makes it harder for some
of the traditional trump vote stories show up. But also theres a lot of we talk about this a little bit with virginia for 2018. Bob corker, tennessee, chair map of the Foreign Relations committee, he said in recent weeks he is considering retirement because he doesnt want to have a nasty Primary Challenge from the trump populist part of the party. Judge roy moore is like judge roy bean. He is like a hero. His people will not not come. Ana, what are you working on . I think the big story is Mitch Mcconnell right now. What happens on tax reform. What happens on health care. What happens with this Alabama Senate race which he has gone in full force with his entire
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reading that soon. James, what are you reading . I recommended the hillary book. That was a good window into her. The new biography bunny mellon. She was most recent in the news with john edwards. She was funneling money to help him take care of his love child. They called it bunny money. She died a year ago, close to 100. Big socialite. Jackie kennedys best friend. She kind of had a close relationship with lady bird johnson. She loved ronnie reagan, hated nancy reagan. It has great stories. Theres so many things named after mellon. A window into 50 years of washington, a different era. Whats the title again . Bunny mellon. Elizabeth warrens latest book this fight is our fight. It has the word fight in it a few times. Ill be honest with you, it is just sitting on my Bedside Table because i cant get into it. Its just not that good. But if you do want to read a good book by elizabeth warren, i would recommend her first book she wrote with her daughter called the twoincome trap. She wrote it before she was running for anything. It gets into her research about income equality. It is a bit academic but written for a general audience. Her students loved her. I get the last word. The last minute. This is unbelievable. Katy tur. For people like we are journalists. Its the real deal. Ate many doughnuts for dinner is my favorite line. I have never been a road
warrior. You three have. If you are at syracuse, ma dill, Stanford Daily Paper and you think, i want to do that. Did you read it yet . No. Im going to steal it yet. You cant have it. I interview her on the radio tomorrow. It is really a Remarkable Book because it drives home. She was part of the campaign as Well Reporting on it. Its a great read. Katy tur. Tweet me hughhewitt. Well right back. Managing blood sugar is a series of smart choices. And when you replace one meal. Or snack a day with glucerna. Made with carbsteady. To help minimize blood sugar spikes. You can really feel it. Now with 30 less carbs and sugars. Glucerna. vo more Dper Rollres For Mom more Doing Chores For Dad per roll more earning something you love per roll bounty is more absorbent, so the roll can last 50 longer than the leading ordinary brand. So you get more life per roll. Bounty the quicker picker upper. P3 its meat, cheese and nuts. I keep my protein interesting. Oh yea, me too. I have cheese and uh these herbs. P3 snacks. The more interesting way to get your protein