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>> it will be fascinating to watch because he's clearly in transition. he has a very presidential speech to a veterans organization tomorrow. he is right now and the balance, does he go back to much more divisive, angry rhetoric tonight? or does he stick with this presidential style which last night gave him enormous positives. my hope would be he will sidestep senators mccain and flake. he's going to need both of them this fall in terms of the agenda. this is not a place to pick a fight. >> bret: what about that? senators flake and mccain won't be there. he's not one to pull punches, though, ...

Way to save the republican's health care bill. some gop senators are saying the bill is likely dead. president trump weighing in on twitter fully approved and ready to go. and today protesters being removed from republican offices on capitol hill. take a look at this video including the offices of senators flake and cruised. a white house official is saying trump will not be playing a large role in selling this health care bill. what can you tell us? >> trump has been so inconsistent about the health care bill, and that's been a major struggle for republican lawmakers. remember a couple weeks ...

Embassies out of those countries. >> congressman van hollen, you agree with senator haley, i assume? >> i do. this was a very emotional moment, obviously, for alan gross and his family and our community in maryland. i've been proud to represent the family. i knew alan before he was taken prisoner in cuba. so this is a great day for alan gross and the gross family. it's also a very important day in american cuban relations trying to turn the page on 54 years of clearly failed policies to try to actually open up cuba so the cuban people have more freedom and more opportunity. >> chris van hollen...

The president did, i would argue the white house shouldn't be optimistic about what it can get done with this republican congress. >> hold on one second. i got jake tapper who is over there at the news conference where we're waiting to hear from alan gross. jake is joining us on the phone. jake, set the scene. >> we just heard from a family spokeswoman from the gross family giving us details about what happened exactly today. alan gross was in prison on the phone with his attorney, scott gilbert, yesterday morning when he was told he was going to be released from prison. we're told that that w...

Joining us, senator tom udall of new mexico with us, donna brazile is here, our democratic strategist who's with us as well. senator udall, thanks for coming in. you've hard to get alan gross out there. tell us what it was like. >> i was there a little more than a month ago with senator flake. we spent two hours with alan gross. it was an engaging conversation. my sense is his condition was getting better. it seemed like something was up. we were at the point where it really seemed that the cuban government was easing things in order to get to the point to do some behind-the-scenes negotiation...