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Ever meet with russians and deal with the campaign, you are saying -- mr. carter page, who led that meeting going to the press reports has been reported as saying i am going to russia, i made no response to him. you are accusing me of lying about that? that is not fair, mr. jeffries. >> i think you can make the case that your stories never change, these of the reasons your stories haven't changed. you can't make both of those arguments at the same time. look, there is a deep irony in some of the questions, democrats for eight years are suddenly interested in the politicization of law enforceme...

Mr. jeffries. that's not any indication that i in any way participated in anything wrong. the same with mr. papadopoulos, he talked about it was reported in the papers, he said something about going to russia and dealing with the russians and i pushed back. i don't think it is right to accuse me of doing something wrong, i had no participation in any wrongdoing with regards to influencing this campaign improperly. >> thank you mr. attorney general, this question was not giving you any benefit of the doubt at all to what -- i hear what you're saying and you didn't do anything wrong here. i want...

You could possibly support it and get other democrats to do the same? >> it's not a bill i can support right now in its current form in terms of trump care. the notion we went from 23 million who were going to lose health insurance with the house version to 22 million going to lose health insurance under the senate version, people between the age of 50 and 64 paying three and four times the amount they currently pay. co-pays going up. i think we have to start over and start over in a bipartisan fashion. the leadership on the other side of the aisle made a decision early on repeal and replace w...

Republican issue or blue state or red state issue. it's an american issue and impacts every single american family, those that are represented by democrats and republicans. for too long we've been dealing with the health care dynamic through the partisan lens. i believe it's a tremendous step forward for the american people in terms of protecting them against preexisting conditions and making sure women can't be discriminated against solely on basis of their gender allowing young people to stay on parents health insurance through age of 26. 20 million gaining health care that's affordable that...

Who oppose the bill in the hopes that these senators will not change their minds. let's please bring in lawmakers from both sides of the aisle now, republican congressman dan donovan of the 11th congressional district, member of the foreign affairs committee and congressional caucus on prescription drug abuse. democratic congressman jeffries of new york's 8th district, the co-chair of the house democratic policy and communications committee making him part of democratic leadership. gentlemen, welcome, i want to start by sharing a bit of what lindsey graham had to say about getting this bill th...