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world, it is wednesday, august 3rd and i'm brianna keilar with john avalon this morning. >> good morning? in for john berman. good morning to you. and it is the morning after election night in america where democracy was one of the things on the ballot. primary races in five states setting the stage for what will be some of the most competitive races in november. also another test of donald trump's grip on the gop. in conservative kansas voters sent a dramatic message and a resounding defeat for efforts to eliminate state abortion protections. it's the first time since the supreme co...

Objected to turning over the tapes to the justice department and the supreme court said, yes, executive privilege is a thing, yes, it could apply here but when we look at the conversation it does not because it's meant to protect confidential communications between the president and his advisers as to legitimate policy and strategy discussions, but not as to potentially criminal discussions, not to just shield any manner of embarrassment or wrongdoing conversations. so we could be setting up for a legal battle here. >> all right. we will be looking to see how that plays out and how long that t...

Things written down. this is a public servant who did write it down and has it there to tell the american public, and this can go a long way towards shaping public understanding and perceptions. >> right, of what went down. >> of this piece of the process. >> of what was going on at the time. if the house is teaming up something that the senate will ultimately judge, there's two ways to look at that sort of firewall you described. one is if it really doesn't move at all, it frees the house up to make whatever broad case they want, that we've reported on members of congress who still think that...

Joining us with an exclusive preview are the framers of the plan, congressman mike johnson and roger marshall. thanks for coming on this morning with an early look at this. republicans got in a lot of trouble when they tried to kill obamacare and they said you didn't have anything ready to replace it with. this is an idea for that. tell us what this plan entails. >> thanks for having us. the american people need a real alternative to what democrats are proposing and we stepped into that void to provide real solutions. this is the largest caucus of conservative members, we are working on strate...

Talking points prepared. and strategy discussions. the president did none of that here. we had chairman of committee say i had no idea this was coming. so this is a complete mess from a political point of view in addition to the military hardship, and the -- or ally the kurds kind of being left out to dry and seeking help from syria or russia or whatever other power is willing to help them at this point. >> what's your take? >> i think that's right. this is not -- this is sort of a surprise announcement, but this is also that's been hanging out there for a long time. the president threatened t...