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somebody said that her visa or her passport to come into the country was approved by attorney general lynch. maybe that s wrong, i was surprise today to hear that a while ago, that she was hear because of lynch. she was here because of lynch, the former attorney general, deflecting the blame back to the obama administration. reporter: right. willing to venture a guess that loretta lynch didn t personally sign the form of approval for that visa. yes, there was reporting yesterday that emerged that this russian lawyer obtained her visa during the obama administration. she has been connected with other lawmakers lobbying for the rollback of the act advocating for changes to russian adoption laws. that was what she was doing in washington. it s not surprising that she sought an audience with the trump campaign, not surprising that she was in washington if ....
Politics to know better than to stay away from a meeting like that. the president referring to his son as a good kid on air force one. as he stands alongside the same-age world leader, emmanuel macron. very nice. both of them are 39. turning the page to what the president knew and when he knew it, how would it change the entire story, the entire dynamfix in fact the president according to yahoo! news learned about the meeting and emails several weeks ago? reporter: i think the distinction is that the president s legal team learned about the emails several weeks ago. that s important because it means the legal team should have had weeks to prepare for hamming the fallout handling the fallout from the emails, expecting they would eventually come out. i don t know that that necessarily took place because the legal team, the pushback has not been as forceful as we have seen when other russia-related revelation has come out. it makes sense that president trump s legal team would s ....
Joining us from the parade route along the champs d elysees, cnn s melissa bell. good morning. it s interesting that the president has come to power on the america first slogan. this is a reminder that it was the american leadership that defined the last century. reporter: you put your finger on it, christine. you have to understand that with donald trump s victory in the american election, all eyes in europe were very much on what was likely to happen next. and indeed, alarm continued to grow with everything that donald trump had to say about nato, with the retreat behind american borders. and the question for the rest of the world is what is america s role as the leader of the western liberal order? what happens if that goes away? over the last few months, you ve seen the idea that that was necessarily what was going to ....
That we have not heard a definitive opinion from whether they are in or out. what do you think the chances are that the changes made to this bill will find enough votes to get through the senate? reporter: well, this was always the risk with this strategy that the administration seemed to embrace, certainly leadership considered seriously which was to negotiate primarily with the conservatives and hope that the moderates could be brought on board with political pressure. they were potentially less ideological. so you saw vice president mike pence go to bat for the consumer freedom amendment, the amendment put forward by ted cruz and mike lee that would have loosened restrictions on what kind of insurance plans providers can sell to offer the bare-bones plans that don t comply with the aca. if they re offering aca-compliant plans, that would have lowered the cost of premiums, that s a very conservative amendment that was put forward on that bill that the white house did offer its supp ....
Situation. certainly they re trying to overturn every stone to find a solution to the health care bill. still got holdouts like dean heller and jerry moran, rob portman we still don t know about. he was very concerned about the medicaid cuts but did get money for opioids. if i could circle back quickly to the russia story and what you re hearing consistently from the right, donald trump s favorite outlets, that, well, okay, the president and donald trump jr. may have done this. but what about this democratic operative working in conjunction with the dnc who reached out to the ukrainians for dirt on paul manafort? is this at all similar or apples and oranges? reporter: it s a really interesting comparison new york stock exchange both cases there was a foreign government that was comparison. in both cases there was a foreign government that was trying to aid one another, providing damaging information. it s not a direct parallel in terms of the ukrainian work with ....