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We'll take you and the press briefing the second that starts. let me broaden this out. i've got david chalian and maeve reston kicking off the discussion here. david chalian, listen, we can't begin to understand or explain why the president over and over is publicly belittling his attorney general, this loyal soldier and first senator to sign on for team trump. but what are we -- what more reporting do we have on how jeff sessions is feeling and his next moves? >> well, we can explain a little bit of why the president is doing this, because the president has explained it. it is all due to bein...

Chalian and maeve reston back in because i want to hone in on health care. yesterday we were all watching the senate and the chamber and the vote open to debate. david chalian, explain to our viewers what we will see with these three different votes upcoming this hour on, how do you want to describe it, different versions of votes? >> yeah, well, there will be some procedural votes but what you see there on that graphic up next, repeal and delay. this is the repeal only option. you may have heard rand paul or ted cruz or others really demanding that they have a chance to vote on a repeal only....

American people about why president trump fired director comey. the entire justification on tuesday night when this happened, from sarah, from sean spicer, from kellyanne conway, was about rod rosenstein's letter. that was it. today, in the interview with nbc news, we learned that president trump, regardless of whatever the recommendation came from the deputy ag, was going to fire jim comey. so we were lied to by the communications staff. president trump in that interview today threw his own team under the bus and in doing so, created a crisis of credibility with the american people and this w...

And we think by removing director comey we have taken steps to make that happen. thanks so much, guy. >> all of those questions still being shouted at sarah huckabee sanders. i'm brooke baldwin. first to david chalian, our cnn political director. i have one really simple question off the top here. that is, did she say that she doesn't understand why this is all so complicated? >> she did. she said, it's very straight forward. the president fired the fbi director. it's simple. no, it's not simple, because that's the man that's overseeing the investigation into his campaign's ties with russia. >...

Forward. it sounds like even if the white house tries y s ties to minimiz investigations, they're going forward. they're still moving forward on this issue of possible collusion between the utrump campaign and russia. >> manu raju, thank you very much. i've got david chalian and jim sciutto back with me here. on all the testimony in front of the senate intelligence committee, david chalian, what was your biggest takeaway? >> certainly the contradiction we were talking about earlier between what acting director mccabe was saying about morale inside the fbi versus what the white house is saying....