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Remember, obamacare is dead." but right now, as you saw, there are four republican senators who say that they oppose this bill. ted cruz, mike lee, ron johnson and rand paul along with three more republican senators who are concerned and are seeking changes. what do you think, jason miller? >> well, don, there's a big difference between saying that they're absolutely opposed to this bill and this reform in any way, shape, or form and there's no chance they can ever get there or it's not there yet an they're using it as a leverage point and want to see a couple of additional tweaks or changes...

Hacking. he said it in this meeting supposedly he was using that as a leverage point, almost trying to make the russians feel guilty for casting a cloud over him. he was using it to extract concessions in the future. this is unusual diplomacy to say the least and unwise at best when you are under investigation. >> i think it was fareed or jeff earlier who pointed out -- jeff toobin that by saying he was -- the pressure had been relieved by or eased by the firing director comey, it undercuts the argument he was trying to use this as a leverage point like i'm under a lot of pressure, you gotta g...

Truth, then he has just admitted to the world that he invited the fbi director for a dinner. the fbi director's purpose of that dinner was to stay on. and in a dinner where he wanted to stay on, the president then used that leverage point to pressure him about an investigation against him, all of his men, and the white house. he loses in either case, doesn't he, jonathan? >> unfortunately, he does. the irony is that he came up with a bona fide reason to fire comey, if comey answered those questions. he created it, but he came up with one. it's clearly inappropriate for the fbi director to give...

Along the u.s.-mexican border. let's bring in our experts and crystal, the conventional wisdom is if there's a government shutdown, the president's party, the republicans, would be blamed by the president. do you believe that? >> i think president trump is the least conventional politician we've seen in the minor political era. if you control the white house and control the senate and control the house and the government shuts down, it's unlikely to be a good thing for your parliament plus, remember, one of the things they have to prove broadly speaking is they can govern, right? this is a gov...

Russia. the previous administration gave the ayatollahs everything they wanted. our president is the master of the deal. he needs to offer russia a deal they can't refuse. russia needs to offer assad with eddie snow den in moscow because they deserve each other. it's all possible because we don't want first of all what happened in libya when obama/clinton used u.s. air power to take off qaddafi. what has to happen is our president needs to make a deal with putin, as difficult as that may be. there is a lot of leverage with russia. they're called sanctions. sanctions done the right way can op t...