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testify about michael flynn and russian ambassador kislayak. at today s briefing, sean spicer pushed back hard on the allegation and at one point the briefing kind of went off the rails when russia came up. listen. reporter: how does this administration try to revamp its image, 2 1/2 months in, you ve got this yates story today, you ve got other things going on, you ve got russia, you ve got wiretapping. no, we don t have that. regarding the allegations of capitol hill. i have said it from the day that i got here until whenever, that there is no connection. you ve got russia. if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that s a russian connection. but every single person no, sean i appreciate your agenda here, but the reality is, no, hold on, at some point, report the facts. let s talk about the facts tonight, the facts about this white house and those close to it and ties to russia. we want to show you a flowchart just so that ....
saw fairly recently at the white house when president trump announced judge neil gorsuch would be his pick to replace justice scalia. several people people will be in attendance whose family were killed from undocumented immigrants. at president trump s campaign rallies he d bring people on stage to talk about this with regard to immigration. this will be a discussion of potentially economic security, national security, and possibly immigration as we look ahead later in the week, ali, to the president revealing his revised travel ban. on friday remember, it will be a month that original ban has been tied up in court essentially since the stay was put on it. the president might talk about his budget, too, something a lot of members of congress are particularly interested in hearing. here s what he had to say when it came to what he would do with entitlement reform with cuts to medicaid and social security. listen. you have an omb director finally. he says you have to take an ....
i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. that statement by the attorney general on thursday came after the washington post revealed that sessions met twice last year with russian ambassador sergei kislyak. sessions scrambled to clarify. in retrospect i should have slowed down, but i did meet one russian official a couple of times and that would be the ambassador. sessions met with kislyak on july 18th, after speaking with a group of ambassadors in the republican convention and he met again with the russian ambassador at his office on september 8th, just three days after president obama took a hard line on russian sanctions in a g-20 meeting with vladimir putin. since the election, trump and his surrogates have repeatedly denied any contacted between the campaign and russian officials. i m telling you it s all phony, baloney garbage. all of the contact by the trump campaign and the associates was with the american people. you are not ....
we need to slow down and get it right. like mom used to say, you rush and you make mistakes. democrats are going to continue in their head-long rush to pass a government takeover of health care. from where i stand and frankly many republican senators stand who are troubled by the pace is of concern. we should have had more time to digest it. i guess history has a funny way of repeating itself. what a difference eight years doesn t make. republicans today sounding a lot like republicans back in 2009 on health care reform. only this time, they are battling themselves. can president trump and house speaker paul ryan bring their own party on board? this as one new report says at least 15 million people, joe, will lose their health care coverage under the new gop plan. this morning, we are going to speak live with the u.s. secretary of health and human services dr. tom price. plus, the man responsible for whipping votes in the house, republican congressman steve scalise a ....
himself for possible investigation. he was saying he survived this, but we did see gop lawmakers say that jeff sessions should recuse himself. let me ask you this. how much of a wedge will this drive between the white house and the gop? do you see that down the road? it has potential to. this is scandal after scandal. russia, we need a full independent investigation as to what degree russia was involved in influencing or attempting to influence our elections here in the united states. they are doing it in france and around the world and have been doing it for a long time. it s shocking that republicans would be refusing to investigate that. i don t care if it s a democrat or republican. when a foreign power is attempting to influence our elections. i want you to to follow-up on shawn a point. jeff sessions made a mistake and owned up to it. nothing to see here. it is not a mistake. this is a man who has been live and breathing and speaking the language of law since he gr ....