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To attempt to intimidate james comey, which obviously didn't work, because he's got the real tapes. he's got -- well, hees got notes of everything. he seemed to be very meticulous in every meeting he ever had. >> but it also led to the hiring of the special counsel which is essentially what the now fired fbi director wanted. david, thank you very much. >> thanks, brooke. got democratic senator to be casey waiting in the wings for us, joining us live from capitol hill. senator casey, a pleasure, thanks so much for coming on. i promise you we'll get to health care but we have to talk about thi...

Terror network often influenced by the internet. you get those lone wolves, like the tsarnaev brothers in boston. >> we're talking about al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula. >> is an off-chute, their own creation. what we have to do, i think, get away from the politics for a second and understand the severity of the terror threat, the fact that it has sort of metastasized, has an element here and there. this is a new kind of threat. to simply play politics and say, oh, president obama said al-qaeda was gone, that al-qaeda has been dismantled thanks to republican and democratic efforts. >> al-qae...

>> chris, obamacare is unfair, unworkable, affordable, and very unpopular. even the democrats who wrote the bill say it's a train wreck. president obama has agreed it's not ready for primetime. >> i understand that you don't like that, but what about republicans lo say it's crazy. >> the point is it's a very destructive law. it's going to hurt our country and hurt a lot of people. this may be the last opportunity to stop it. there is no republican that i'm aware of that wants to shut the government down. the whole point we need to fund the government but we should not fund obamacare as this is...

Fundamentally get this economy growing again so that people can find full-time jobs and we can take away the impediments like obamacare and red tape coming out of this town. >> you talk about creating jobs, growing the economy, but you have spent the last week in the houseworking on and passing your agenda, a series of bills called stop government abuse. included in the buys, let's put it up on the screen, block the irs from enforcing obamacare, place limits on taxpayer-funded conferences, require congress to approve new regulations that cost more than $100 million. here's what democratic cong...

The individual and employer mandate, got democratic votes. senator mcconnell on thursday night tried to put it on the senate calendar, invoked a mysterious rule 14, that i don't understand, and i think they might be able to force a vote in september. i give them credit for pushing, for fighting, which is good. there are more intelligent, tactically ways to fight than to say we're going to defund all of obamacare, voting for any continuing resolution that doesn't defund obamacare is surrender. it's going to be extremely difficult. >> chris: i have to say bill kristol was disappointingly diploma...