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To do our jobs as elected officials and this includes our constitutional obligation to advise and consent on a nominee to fill the supreme court vacancy. different views were offered on the replacement process. watch this. >> it doesn't matter to me who the president is. the president under the constitution has the authority to put forth supreme court nominees, and then we have our job to do in considering them. i felt that it was a mistake that justice -- that judge garland was not given a hearing in full consideration by the senate and i think it would be a mistake if the democrats repeated ...

>> over the weekend lot of talk from democrats about the comey replacement process. first of all the jeff sessions is leading the search. lot of democrats think he should recuse himself from the russia investigation. secondly, some democrats in the senate are saying that before they will consider the president's next nominee they want a special prosecutor appointed to look into the russia investigation. can you respond? >> i think this is a process that's running completely as it should, as being headed by the deputy attorney general and the attorney general. as you've noted in the past the fb...

-- unlike they have done for these cabinet secretaries. it will be harder process. heather: we have republicans, we heard a lot from them, the repeal and replace, dealing with immigration, tax reform. how do they get that done? >> integration and tax reform will take a backseat to obamacare, trump is backed into a corner because of the rhetoric we are hearing about obamacare and how fast to move on that. the replacement process, some people may be hoping for at this point. >> we will watch the first 100 days very closely, good to have you here this morning. first 100 days. the time is 17 minut...

Associations to buy insurance more cheaply and expand health savings accounts which has been a perennial goal of both parties and republicans say they'll do it and reforming medical lawsuits, controversial and many republicans an conservatives think that is taking away possibilities of penalties and boost health care tax deductions and make insurance premiums deductible and the big stuff, reform medicare and medicaid and gets into the entitlement debate which will be a very very, tough one and all of these things, just the beginning of what republicans say they want to do. now that they've rep...

Oil disaster in the gulf, b.p. engineers are optimistic that the replacement containment cap they are installing will form a new perfect seal and collect even more oil than the last one. the replacement process essentially involves removing the current containment cap that is off now. then you have robot cut the pipe, doing it today. after that a new cap will be lowered on the well head which should form a near perfect seal. of course, the ultimate solution is still the relief wells. the first of which b.p. hopes to have done by the end of this month or sometime early in august. b.p. is hoping...