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Joining us tonight, kelsey snell back with us from her job at congressional reporter for "the washington post." her latest reporting is on mcconnell delaying this august recess to complete work on health care. matt nussbaum has been kind enough to agree to stay with us. so kelsey, i think i've actually asked this question before. which members of the house or senate with an "r" after their names especially those up in 18 are going to put out for this president and that's really what the relationship has to be at this point wounded as he is, consumed by russia, six months into his presidency? >...

Emerging new approach that i will talk to you about in the next 24 to 48 hours that i think may actually work. and i've never felt better than i do right now about the republican party coming together around an idea that may actually attract a handful of democrats. >> bracingly effusive from senator graham. joining us tonight, kelsey snell back with us from her job at congressional reporter for "the washington post." her latest reporting is on mcconnell delaying this august recess to complete work on health care. matt nussbaum has been kind enough to agree to stay with us. so kelsey, i think i...

This latest reporting, about a kremlin-linked lawyer meeting during the campaign with jared kushner and donald trump jr. and paul manafort, this is on the one hand just the latest in what is now an incredibly long string of meetings and contacts between people in the trump campaign and russian officials. during the campaign and during the transition. meetings that were all denied. none of which were initially disclosed until the press figured them out one by one and then oh, yeah, one by one they've admitted to each of them. oh, yeah, i forgot that one too. oh, yeah, i forgot that one too. in ...

>> but we'd have to see a reason, an excuse, some reason why it was omitted. this is -- this is na form thats supposed to be submitted with a complete accounting, that tells you up front there's a penalty of perjury on it, and maybe you have a chance to change, to add things that you've forgotten later, but you don't forget dozens of meetings with foreign officials, especially when that subject has been in the news about other officials. >> so, we'll see how the fbi responds. i do want to talk to you about health care, because there's a lot going on. we know this, the government gives money to...

Privately, they are saying other things. one, they assumed clinton was going to win and had plenty of time to respond. secondly, they didn't want a cyber escalation with russia. also, there was a concern, there were some people in the intelligence community that didn't sake this as seriously as they seem to be taking it now. there was a concern the hacking would be worse. the nightmare scenario would be interference with the actual vote count. what they were really concerned about is hillary clinton wins the election in a close race but there is enough russian misinformation that hacking and f...