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Said in his statements, as secretary price did, we have got to make sure that we continue to protect people through this transition process, let the bill work its way -- but this is the first time as we address the medicaid portion of this, this is probably the first time that we've really he is addressed an entitlement aspect of something in almost 30 years. i think we have got to let this piece of it work its way through the house. but there is -- remember, one of the things that happened through the medicaid expansion was the goal has always been of medicaid to help people who were disabled...

To make sure we continue to protect people through this transition process. let the bill work its way. this is the first time as we address the medicade portion of this. this is probably the first time we've really addressed an entitlement aspect of something in almost 30 years. we've got to let this piece of it work its way through the house. remember, one of the things that happened through the medicade expansion, the goal has always been on medicade to help people who were disabled or poor or met a specific number of criteria. for the first time in obama care, we expanded obama care or the ...

Sworn in as attorney general, one of trump's top officials is already facing calls from some to resign. >> and in retro suspect, i should have slowed down and said but i did meet one russian official a couple of times. that would be the ambassador. >> more revelations about people in donald trump's circle. we're learning that there was an in-face meeting between jared kushner, donald trump's son-in-law and now his senior advisor at the white house, former national security advisor michael flynn and the russian ambassador in 2ru6r7 tower. this was first reported by the new york times but was no...

The state dement. one ofhe problems, as you know, when the democrats have drug out all the confirmation processes, then the secretaries themselves haven't been able to put in their own team. i know that is the case in all the cabinets, they're now trying to backfill some of the human bodies that they need just to get the machine to run on time. again, i don't know where they are on a spokesman, but it is very important that -- >> couldn't they pick staff, phil? he didn't just get confirmed, it's been almost a few weeks now. and you can always be looking at staff, that's part of the transition ...

Administration himself. >> that's right. and we are told, my colleague sara murray is reporting that president trump met with some of the candidates for this pick today. yesterday afternoon. so this just occurred in the last 24 hours. obviously, as things were unraveling for andy puzder, this white house had to get cracking in terms of finding somebody else and we're told that this just happened yesterday afternoon. that he was talking to some of these candidates, including alexander acosta. this is much more of an establishment pick. he served in the bush administration. he's going to be the ...