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In our election. that response by russia was to ban 755 u.s. diplomats and the president thanked him for it. it's wholly unacceptable but unfortunately, wolf, consistent. this is the president who doesn't value diplomacy. who wants to cut the state department budget by a third and hasn't even filled the key roles involving diplomatic security. it's appalling. the president ought to be standing up for the men and women who are serving our country in a different way, in the diplomatic corps, in a very important way especially in russia. instead he casts them aside at the same time that he yet ag...

Looking into a hoax? >> yeah. well, i mean, i disagree with the president on that. i think there's legitimate questions that need to be asked. there's answers that we need to provide the american people. my heavens, one way or another, the american people deserve an answer to this. if there's nothing to this, we need to tell them. if there's something there, once again we need to investigate that and to tell them. it's far better for the president not to have this hanging over his head. let us complete the investigation. if there's 2340g there, we're serving him by telling people that. if some...

If the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad, somehow that's a russian connection. but every single person -- well, no. that's, i appreciate your agenda here but the reality -- 2340, no. hold on. at some point report the facts. >> sean, do you have -- >> hey, sean -- >> sean -- >> sean! come on, sean! >> all right. so those were -- i mean pretty astounding moments you don't normally see with a press secretary. you covered president bush's, second president bush, you covered president obama's white house. when you look at those moments just in the last six months what do you think ...

Numbers. same as in presidential, keep states. des moines register iowa poll this weekend. president's approval rating in iowa, state kind to him, 43% approve. 52% disapprove. even in places back at the map of 2016, how the president got here, it's clear that six months in even among places where he has a base, people have doubts. >> right. right. and you know, this is really as good as it gets. as julie alluded to. he has lost his -- honeymoon period, and the om way to get it back is to, through presidential, through achieving things, and on every frofront -- there's nothing. >> how does he d...

Some of these senators to kind of lay down their political lives on. >> so jonathan, you're nodding your head to that. you helped craft obamacare. if the gop can't find a way to repeal and replace, can the democrat along with perhaps some republicans actually come up with a way to fix the problems facing the affordable care act? >> well, i mean, listening to the previous speaker, i mean, diane roland was very kind. the previous speaker was just lying. this is is a huge cut to medicaid. it doesn't made medicaid safer or promote it, it dramatically reduces is. one of the reasons there is such op...