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The president is back just in time for congress to return to the hill after a week long recess with republicans more divided than ever on how to deliver the promise they made for seven years, repealing and replacing obamacare. joining me now, msnbc contributor, ian tuttle from national review, paup opinion columnist, katherine ram pell and robert george from "new york daily news" editorial page, my old stomping ground. >> indeed. >> thank you all for being here. there's so much going on between russia, this new meeting of "new york times" reporting on, health care, i want to jump in on what li...

That republicans and democrats don't get together. and i'm open arms, but i don't see that happening. they fight each other, they -- the level of hostility. and, by the way, this isn't just trump; this has been like this for years. you've been doing this for a long time. it's been like that for a long time. but the level of hostility, as an example, the health care bill that you are reporting on and everybody's reporting on. it would be so great if the democrats and republicans could get together, wrap their arms around it, and come up with something that everybody's happy with. it's so easy. ...

Fired enacting attorney general, who fired an fbi director. how much wiggle room is built into that statement? >> a little bit. you've heard that the president, they believe the president does reserve the right essentially. people serve at the pleasure of the president is the line you've heard from the press briefing. from white house officials over the last couple weeks. said that, we know what the procedures would have to be. you would have to direct somebody else to ultimately try the to get rid of robert mueller. it seems as though there is no intention of that. listen to what else the pre...

Forced to resign from the trump campaign because of his connections to russia. "the washington post" obtained a statement today from mr mr. kalimnik in which he insisted that nothing improper was discussed at that meeting with paul manafort. joining us now, rosalind helderman, political investigations and enterprise roerts for "the washington post," and david cay johnston. rosali rosalind, it is your story in "the washington post" here that we are basing all of this reporting on. it sounds like you had some interesting communications with mr. kalimnik. he provided you a written statement and d...

Helderman, political investigations and enterprise roerts for "the washington post," and david cay johnston. rosalind, it is your story in "the washington post" here that we are basing all of this reporting on. it sounds like you had some interesting communications with mr. kalimnik. he provided you a written statement and did that through paul manafort's lawyer. >> yeah, that's right. we became interested in . kalimnik in part because we obtained a subpoena that was issued out of the eastern district of virginia this spring that related to paul manafort and mentioned mr. kalimnik's name. we t...