trying to make the best judgments they could on behalf of the american people. it was just before the senate intelligence committee about a week ago where they heard from government witnesses who for the first time testified that the russian probing or scanning of state board of elections was much more widespread than previously reported. they counted at least 21 states that were impacted, bill. bill: the president s former campaign chair is back in the news. how come, catherine? manafort has filed for his work in the ukraine his spokesman issuing this statement to fox news that reads he, manafort, started this process in concert with the foreign agent registration unit in september before the outcome of the election and well before any formal investigation of election interfere answer began. his primary focus was always directed at domestic campaign work and that is reflected in today s filing.
this president that a lot of stuff gets published that should never see the light of day. bill: seems to be happening so often. is that because of technology? is that because there are more news sources? how would you characterize that? technology gets us off the hook. the rush to be first and get it out there before somebody does contributes to the recklessness and sloppiness in some stories. it s easier for news organizations to justify attacking president trump who has gotten negative coverage, sometimes the negative stores east are legitimate. often as in the case of cnn they are not. bill: excellent points, howard kurtz. check him out on media buzz on sunday. shannon: in the middle of all of this deputy press secretary sanders going off on the media. you might have seen it at the briefing yesterday. several outlets are playing a dangerous game. if the media can t be trusted the report the news
promised repeal, why don t we make the bill look more like a repeal. bill: he came out with four new ideas today. can the senate get to yes when you have a minimum of nine that won t even allow it to go forward? i think the senate will get to yes. i have a lot of faith in senator mcconnell and having the senate work its will on this. i do believe they ll move forward. would we like to see this as something that is more fair to everyone involved in process, that allows individuals to have access to affordable healthcare up and down the range, absolutely. do we think we re moving that direction? yes, we do. bill: the white house, was early may, the president got involved after you sputtered in march, i think it was. you came back two months later. what did he do in may that enabled the house to get to yes?
hope will be bipartisan. bill: before we get to that come back to the white house involvement. i know mike pence has been working everybody on the hill. you probably don t get the yes unless the president was involved back in may. i think it did take the president. bill: if that is the case, is his level of involvement now where it needs to be? i do believe that it is. you had senators that were down there yesterday that were working with the white house staff and the president. and the president, i believe, will continue to work through what we see as the fourth of july week and will try to get something that can be scored by the cbo and ready for a vote. bill: thank you for your time. you re welcome. bill: it seems like it s a long way to go still. we re committed to it. we are determined to get this done. we promised that it will be done so it will be done. bill: thank you very much,
he is the second former member of the trump campaign who filed retroactively with the justice department and both he and the former national security advisor mike flynn based on our reporting are subject of the special counsel s investigation. bill: catherine herridge in washington shannon: senate republicans kentucky senator rand paul telling bill last hour that one of the most vocal critics of the senate bill says this. republicans have to get it together. the half of republicans that hate it are conservatives like myself who went to rally after rally after rally saying we were going to repeal obamacare and now we re not repealing it, we re keeping it. so these weak-kneed republicans saying we have to spend more money and keep medicaid forever, the expansion. they need to get over themselves and they need to remember what they were for, repealing obamacare.