On heerndz me here as we wait to talk to republicans on the senate side on healthcare, but on your question about Jared Kushner, i do think there is going to be a heightened level of scrutiny and pressure for kushner, because these will be members. Remember, he talked to Committee Staff yesterday when he testified or was interviewed, excuse me, before the Senate Intelligence committee. So this is going to be something. We we heard from michael caputo, you remember the other person who has, former trump adviser who had been questioned in a closed session from by the house Intelligence Committee, came out very critically saying he felt members mischaracterized his testimony after the fact and tried to warn Trump Associates away from testifying in this kind of a forum. So to a certain extent, the stakes are a little different for kushner today. There will be questions whether or not these members think his testimony is consistent with the information that they have at their disposal. These investigations, remember, have been running concurrently are still distinctly different investigation. So to a certain extent, you will have a different set of interests from these members. Remember its the house side focused on this question of unmasking names. I think that may be a topic we hear more about today, at least from republicans particularly interested in that. But again the stakes still very, very high for kushner t. Rules a little bit different. There are, of course, penalties, potential consequences for lying to congress in any form, but being under oath with the members is a key stings. Casey hunt, i want you to stand by, there is a lot of happening on capitol hill. We watched Jared Kushner walk into the house side. This is him getting out of his suv just in the last 45 seconds ago. You watched it here live. This is a rerack of that tape as we say it. Casey, its not just Jared Kushner who is on the hill today. Nbc news has learned from a source close to Paul Manafort in the next 24 hours, palm manafort the former Trump Campaign chair is expected to be on capitol hill to talk with Senate Investigators specifically about that june 2016 meeting at trump tower. And all of this is happening as Senate Judiciary issues a subpoena for manafort in the last couple of minutes here. You spoke with senator grassley about this, right . I did. And the Senate Judiciary committee has subpoenaed Paul Manafort now to testify before the committee. Remember they have an open hearing tomorrow morning, where they have requested that he and don jr. Both testify here. Actually im going to walk a bit. Senator Dianne Feinstein is approaching our cameras here. He has agreed to be a part of this, essentially it takes her and senator grassley to agree to these subpoenas. Senator, can we ask you quickly about those subpoenas you have just issued to palm manafort . I wonder if we can talk to you later about it. Im just figuring it out right now. Reporter thank you very much, senator. Senator Diane Feinstein without comments she and senator grassley the chairman of this committee have just announce thad they have issued. This is a little of a dispute between committees, halle, it seems, i know you have been doing reporting on this, there had been an agreement for manafor to the assist the Senate Intelligence committee in their investigation. This Judiciary Committee wanted to see the documents and information surrounding that. Essentially, there seems to be no agreement that was made on that, so the Judiciary Committee said, okay, fine, we will compel you to come up here and do what we are asking you to do t. Judiciary committee is a very powerful committee up here on capitol hill and the fact that there is bipartisan agreement between grassley and feinstein to do this, i think is pretty significant and one place where the Judiciary Committee is focused is the department of justice, you could see more coming out of this committee. Prior to this news breaking, a source told me paul manafor is the working to accommodate all these requests he is getting from members of congress. Lets set the stage for a second t. Reason you are stalking the hallways on the senate side is not because of whats happening with Jared Kushner at least not today, even though we know right now she behind closed doors talking with members of the house intelligent committee, being interviewed by them. We know we may in the next 48 hours see palm manafort and take another look at Jared Kushner arriving. We know this morning, the other dominant headlines is healthcare. Right . We dont know what a bill will look like if, in fact, senators even get to the point where they decide to start debate in the first place, that tees us up to what will be happening, that is the expectation we will hear from senator mitch mcconnell, what they plan to put out. What this vote to start debate could be and casey the big return of senator john mccain, hes back, days after getting the diagnosis of brain cancer. It sounds like he will probably support a motion to move forward on the debate. Again, thats like the very first hurdle. The senate has to get past that before they can look at the bill in the first place, senator angus king was out this morning. He was breaking down what could be in the Senate Health care bill in the first place, here he is. Let me give you a quick synopsis of what i know about the bill that were going to be voting on this afternoon. Ha, ha, ha. Wow. Im serious. Silence from the senator king there, casey. Can you fill in the blank . What is happening and who are we looking for in the next two hours here to help us gauge where this fight actually is . Reporter we cant fill in the blanks for you, halle, on what the policy will be ultimately. What we do know is that theyre going to debate, theyre going to vote to open debate on the house version of the bill and then theres no clear path forward from there. Its essentially going to be something of a free for all on the senate floor. There may be a vote on straight repeal. There may be a vote on repeal and replace. There may be a vote on repeal and replace with the ted cruz amendment. Its something where people dont have a good sense here, instead the argument from leaders, from the white house is now, hey, we cant do anything if we dont get on the bill, thats senate speak for open up debate on the floor, there is a sense among leadership that may change the calculations people have been making, it may allow them to put additional pressure on members, members to put their on stamp on this, potentially, but ill auto hinges on this make or break procedural vote. This is, you know, somebody said to me privately the man, the myth, the legend, john mccable, coming back to be potentially the 50th vote on this health care legislation. The mark short the legislative affairs direct ore earlier was on tv earlier today. He said, well, pittsburgh cane will be the 50, 51st vote. Thats the most optimistic scenario for republicans here. Although i have to tell you there is a growing sense on capitol hill this is something that may go through. This motion to proceed may be if better shape than it was necessarily initially thought. But that doesnt necessarily make the underlying math for the policy better. So a make or break do or die day for republicans on capitol hill, if they are open to debate. Ten we got a long unpredictable process ahead of us on this question. Casey hunt. I will let you chase down senators who will be dipping back into your cameras. We are watching over on the house side, not just Jared Kushner, House Speaker paul ryan set to hold a News Conference any second, we will bring that to you. We expect most of the questions to involve President Trump. Frankly, as we have seen week after week, specifically on health care, you talk about health care policies, somebody who informally advised senator lonnie chin. He served under president george w. Bush. You have been listening to this conversation where the math is here. Who supports the motion to proceed . Who supports the bill . How is this math going to change from last week when this whole thing seemed to fall apart . Reporter well, whats changed between last week and this week is a couple of thing. First of all, you had a number of outside groups getting on senators on the fence, look, this is a crucial vote, not on the policy mind you but the vote to actually go to consideration of the bill. All of these groups have key voted. This vote, in other words, they will be watching carefully where senators are on this vote. Thats important. The administration has come in wrong as well. They have issue added a minstration policy, one of their first basically saying we will be watching how senators are voting on the professional motion and the president yesterday in his remarks was the clearest in his advocacy for the senate bill that hes ever been. I think the political terrain has changed if not the policy terrain. Get out your crystal ball. If this thing goes through, if senators decide to support debate, what is the bill they end up voting on going to look like . Reporter well, i think its going to look very much like the bill, the last version of this bcra, the senate bill that includes some of the spending reductions in medicaid the transition of medicaid to a cap allocation where the federal government capped its contribution to states. You will see a relatively ro bust system of tax credits to help people at the lower end afford coverage. You will probably see this ted cruz amendment, which would allow for states to offer for, for insurers to offer estate plans that have a more basic benefit structure. So i think it will look very similar to what we saw out of the senate i guess about four or five days ago. Lonnie chen, thank you very much for joining us here. Lets talk about the bottom line this morning, because this is a big deal day. Not just for republicans on capitol hill as you we heard casey hunted describe, but for President Trump. Hes talking about the health care site. He got his soninlaw on the hill. He has his attorney general left out to dry on an island as the president goes after him than some of the republicans to go on board. Look at this tweet from the president this morning. You have probably seen it, blasting his ag, attacking him. High drama and high stakes. Its an ominous and frankly extraordinarily start of the day if you are Jeff Sessions, looking at what your boss is saying about you. Kristen welker is saying more on all of this. Kristen, the president is calling the attorney general weak. He is once again bringing up Hillary Clinton. Will is a drum beat coming from inside that west wing behind you aimed directly at the department of justice. Reporter halle, the president has been every day intensifying his attacks against his own attorney general who has been very clear. He has no plans of resigning or stepping down. President trumps main frustration with the attorney general a, of course, that he recuse himself in the russia investigation. Now, we know the behind the scenes the president has even started to look at talk about possible replacements, names that are being batted about. Rudy guiliani, ted cruz, both of them saying that theres nothing to see here, ted cruz insisting that he hasnt been contacted by anyone within the administration about this. Rudy guiliani making it very clear he supports Jeff Sessions decision to recuse himself. He thinks that was not only the right thing to do but the legal thing to do. The president top one of his top advisers, duke director Anthony Scaramucci was pressed about this on the hugh hewitt show. L take a look at that exchange. Its clear the president wanting him gone. Reporter one of the things that caught our attention amid all of this discussion about the attorney general is today the president as you pointed out criticized him for not going after Hillary Clinton effectively. And whats notable about that is that as the president elect back in november, mr. Trump said that he had no intentions of trying to open up an investigation into Hillary Clinton. So potentially, a little bit of mixed messaging on that point there. The question will hold the president will hold a joint News Conference later on today. As you know, this afternoon, with the Prime Minister of lebanon. We will get to hopefully ask him about all of this. Kristen, its a busy day at the white house. Thank you very much for that. Watching too some of the reaction on the hill from this with senator Lindsey Graham tweeting a couple minutes ago, the Jeff Sessions comments from President Trump as i read them here. Highly inappropriate. That is a statement now from Lindsey Grahams office. I want to bring in the folks hanging out with me for the next 50 busy minutes. The political reporter for the guardian and Politico Magazine tim alberta. Lets pick up where kristen left off, tying it to the next big news of the day, which is health care. Some of these republicans worked with Jeff Sessions, they voted for him, six months in, they are seeing him essentially left hung out to twist in the winds here by the president. Halle, you used the word extraordinary. You cant overstate how extraordinary a president s public attacks on his own attorney general are. We are used to using that word with trump. This really crosses a bridge in the minds of many republicans. You have to remember, this is not a president that has a lot of good will when it comes to his own party, those looking no advance his legislative agenda. He marked six months in office. This is a day where republicans want the president to focus on health care. So far he has been very disengaged and they have grown tired to responding to the outrage of the day. They are concerned about the ramifications if he did fire Jeff Sessions. We seen a president engage in the sense of that public event yesterday. We are also when you talk about republicans and wanting to talk about their agenda, paul ryan is about to talk. We are watching the gop leadership conference, tim, you want to bet every question will be about the president . Okay. So the broadest possible context, right t. Make or break moment of repeal and replace obamacare. Is seven years in the making promise. As casey said earlier, a do or die moment. How does the president start his day . Before 7 00 a. M. By attacking on twitter two of the nations chief Law Enforcement officials the acting fbi director and the attorney general on a day the senate is set to take this makeorbreak vote. To step back fur, i think any of these three things we have been talking about in the first five of ten minutes the soninlaw the president on capitol hill, investigating teching rather in front of investigators under oath. Thats story one. Story two, the Health Care Vote thats about to happen in the senate, which spoke of the magnitude of that vote. Story number three, of course, is the president s aforementioned on the tax on his chief Law Enforcement officials. Any of these three stories in any administration would be one of the single biggest stories, something historians would talk about for years, theyre all happening on the same they. This is a day, write about it in your diaries, all the days especially this one. Is this relationship with Jeff Sessions, again, we talked about the relationship with twice two guys the first senator to come out for him when that was not a popular thing to do. He put the make America Great again hat on. Does this relationship have a way to get past this . There is no way to imagine how you would get past these level of public attacks, which have only intensified in recent days. Jeff sessions has not only been a loyal supporter of trump through the early campaign, he has through the Justice Department advanced trumps agenda with cracking down on immigration enforcement. He defended the travel ban, but that had more to do with the way the white house had craft thad policy, not Jeff Sessions and the Justice Departments own defense of that policy. Also i think one thing to watch is it looks like trump is eyeing a recess appointment if he were to fire sessions, if session is poised to resign, if trump were to make a recess appointment, that nominee would circumvent the usual Senate Confirmation and avoid tough questions about russia and how they would oversee the investigation into the Trump Campaign. It is like six steps down the line at least for now. I want to mention we are watching Kevin Mccarthy he is speaking paul ryan took the pedium. We will listen in, when he starts to take questions, we will bring that to you live to pick up where sabrina is leaving off, lets say attorney general sessions gets so frustrate thad he quits although at this point our reporting from the department of justice, thats not the case, or lets say the president does fire him,