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Republicans have been vowing to repeal and replace it and that is part of the argument that the president is likely to make to the senators that he's talking to and calling them was a koch brothers event and talked to senate whip john cornyn who acknowledged it was going to be close and i talked to a senior white house official who said it was going to be a rocky week and a lot to walk for. >> athena jones, on top of it. and let's talk about the race to repeal obamacare. joining us, senior reporter, and stephen colinson and how many people could lose insurance and highway much this plan could ...

Diplomat has some kind of connection to russian intelligence. so that would be a big surprise to many americans who still think the game is played by certain rules and the russians don't play by the rules and never have. >> i don't think there are that many illegals and you have a spy next door and it was probably more the exception than the rule and not quite as dramatic as we envisioned and stephen, bee accusi accusing president obama not doing nufr, is president trump inviting or exposing himself to criticism of how little he has done to respond to russia's election meddling himself. >> thi...

Pen. it wasn't until he said that. but in recent weeks she's been distancing herself from trump particularly on the syria question. so i think should she win the runoff election would the policies be call into question. president trump has kind of walked back on his anti-eu, anti-ea nato stance. these are ideas that le pen sticks very firmly so. as she sees president trump moving a little bit towards the center, i think it remains to be seen whether as a french president she would do the same or would that put the u.s. and france on odds of foreign policy. given that france is one of the close...

Force in the french parliament. >> okay. stick around. stephen, thank you so much. ron and patrick as well. we're going to begin the next hour of the newsroom right now. this is cnn breaking news. welcome back to the newsroom. i'm fredricka whitfield. we begin with this breaking news out of france. looks like independent candidate emmanuel macron and marine le pen are headed to the second round of the french presidential election. we're waying for le pen to come out and speak to her supporters. when that happens we'll take those remarks live. i want to bring in jim bittermann who is there ...

Times" deputy culture editor. stephen, you first. is it advantageous that any of the three remaining contenders would throw their support behind macron when he is up against le pen? we know already one has thrown his endorsement behind macron, but is that advantageous when we're looking at two who are considered outsiders, nonestablishment candidates? >> i think what you would expect to see is the establishment center right and center left parties in france to throw their support behind macron in a way trying to sort of amass forces against le pen. francois fillon one of the candidates who was...