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Mcconnell is done. we will make all committee hearings public and the use of rule 14 bypassing the bill to one of those hearings and going directly to the floor, senate floor. noheargs. >> and the argument here that some have used is that we've been talking about that f many years. everybody knows that democrats won't get on board with this and that republicans campaigned on the promise of repealing so why do we have to rehash the stuff that happened during obamacare, all of the hearings, all of the year of listening to people coming to congress? >> and the bottom line is republicans have a po...

>> the reality is it's important for our constituents, but the american people, to understand what this senate version of the bill will do to their health care. i don't know how you do that by hiding behind closed doors. as you indicated, even senate republicans are worried about that process. it's interesting the other day, a senator told his local newspapers that this 13 member secret senate group was actually open to others. i would like to know when and where we can meet. kate, it's important to have that kind of input from experts, from patients who are going to be impacted, from medical ...

Much of a lack of transparency there is here. there has never been a bill this important that hasn't had one legislative hearing. we had hearings this year about hot tub safety, about the maritime administration, about shipping issues and those are all issues that are worthy of a hearing but nobody can tell me that those are more important than one sixth of the american economy. it is legislative shame that we don't get to see what's in the bill. but more importantly that this will not be subject to any real scrutiny through the hearing process. >> now, one of the things that mitch mcconnell s...

That. president of the united states is now going to nominate somebody in the senate is going to get to go through that hearing process to make sure that that 10-year term for fbi director is filled with somebody of the highest integrity. >> martha: thank you. we got to leave it there. the deceived tonight. thank you both. so the use of anonymous sources during the trump administration has exploded and the report that has followed james cummings firing, the usage of these very sources has led to some very big media mistakes. it will take a look at those that analyze them with lisa boothe and m...

You've got folks, both detractors and proponents at home calling and e-mailing you. this stuff bubbles up. in some way it's a degree of political cheap shot. no member of congress can read every bill that's out there. it's a hot button issue. the bill is less than 200 pages in the original text and rit l literally and dozens of additional amendments. but that's what you have staff for. so you have to conflux of you folks in the media, advocacy groups, all boiling in on you. and this bill, whether you look it or not, was reasonably vetted. i don't like the process overall. i still think it was ...