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Trump. i think president trump's failure is that he hasn't moved any sort of agenda. the russia piece that will take care of itself. i'm confident in mr. mueller. i'm confident in the committees investigating him. and the people back home feel that way too. they want to see that investigated. but they want us and they want the president to focus on the things that they actually worry about. i mean, representative collins and i probably share that. he said people are concerned about jobs and the economy. they are concerned about it back home. where i think we part company is that president trum...

Trump. i think president trump's failure is that he hasn't moved any sort of agenda. the russia piece that will take care of itself. i'm confident in mr. mueller. i'm confident in the committees investigating him. and the people back home feel that way too. they want to see that investigated. but they want us and they want the president to focus on the things that they actually worry about. i mean, representative collins and i probably share that. he said people are concerned about jobs and the economy. they are concerned about it back home. where i think we part company is that president trum...

The concerns i had with the original proposal. so i remain a no vote. >> so do you think -- here's one thing that chris collins i think said this. i believe he's from new york state. his point was, look, hey, i don't like this, but it's not going to affect my people. we're new york. new york is never going to go for these state-based waivers to get rid of these protections. if the freedom caucus and the folks in alabama want to screw their people with pre-existing conditions, so be it. why don't you have the same logic? >> well, because i represent new york city. one of the amendments for the ...

I'm not privy to the whip vote. i was a no on the original proposal to replace the affordable care act. the amendment that was proposed this week, the mcarthur-meadows amendment that dealt with and allowing states to opt out from providing essential benefits to people and the pre-existing condition clause that you just spoke of earlier didn't address the concerns i had with the original proposal. so i remain a no vote. >> so do you think -- here's one thing that chris collins i think said this. i believe he's from new york state. his point was, look, hey, i don't like this, but it's not going ...

But not this time. you have no questions about who knew. you have no curiosity even though it deals with the heart of national security? >> to be honest, i just live in a world where i always move forward. in a busy world you don't dwell in the past. >> come on, congressman. it's valentine's day and for love the truth, you cannot say that you just want to move on and if there were the obama white house, if we were talking about president hillary clinton and you found out her counsel knew weeks ago that which means that her mouthpiece knew weeks ago that this man was playing with the russians a...