. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. back to work at the white house after a devastating defeat and as washington the blame game rages. the house speaker gets public love after a bizarre presidential tweet. >> he doesn't blame paul ryan. he thought paul ryan worked really hard. he enjoys his relationship with paul ryan, pthink that paul rya is a great speaker of the house. >> there is no conversation with regards to replacing the speaker. it's all hands on deck with regard to obamacare, tax reform, the border wall. >> never once have i seen him blame paul ryan. the folks who voted no are the folks to blame. >> the conservative group that would not help the president loses one member who says it's time to govern, but others are

defiant. >> we did the country a favor because this bill didn't repeal obamacare. this bill didn't do what we told the american people we were going to do. >> and talk of post health care debate bipartisanship is everywhere. don't buy it. fights over the supreme court, planned parenthood and climate change are just ahead. democrats, well, they see no need to play nice. >> the first is basic lack of competence. you cannot run the presidency like you run a real estate deal. you can't tweet your way through it. >> with us to share the reporting and their insights, margaret, jackie and cnn's phil maddingly. the white house met with women's small business leaders. no mention of the health care setback. instead the president wants to turn the page. >> it's my pleasure to welcome such incredible women, including

my daughter, and unbelievable untre -- entrepreneurs and small business leaders to the white house. you're working 24 hours a day is what the word is. >> trying to keep up with you. >> i'm not surprised. >> president trying to turn the page there, but as he does, what does he see as the big lessons to be learned. after the obamacare disaster -- by sunday morning he had decide they were his problem. at that same friday event the president praised sprooipaul ry. t the fox personality began her program by demanding that speaker ryan step down. >> i gl on recowill go on recor the judge and so does the president. there was no preplanning here.

the president -- >> why would he say watch her and then that's the first thing? >> because he loves judge janine and he wanted to do her a favor. >> look, i actually -- let's say the president wanted to promote her show, he thought it was going to be about wire tapping and it would be good for him. he could have cleaned this up quickly. instead it went on for hours about what he was up to. he could have quickly popped out a tweet saying no, i love paul ryan. he didn't. it took a while. >> that's the surprising thing here. because i think a lot of us have heard this. over the course of the last three or four days and the haelg haelg health care fight the president and speaker were on one to one. their staff, not so much having going back and forth. but the president and speaker by all accounts have a very good relationship and one that evolved i've been told in a positive way. a lot of lessons learned.

figuri figuring out how one another worked. then you have the opening segment and pure silence from the white house. he was not trying to direct anybody to judge janine's opening statement. i think it's one of those things where everybody is kind of scratching their head because everything leading up to that point seemed like they were okay. >> it certainly doesn't help the history between bannon is paul ryan. trump's right hand guy set his sights on paul ryan and getting rid of him i think by a report last year. you can't discount whenever there is this friction that a very high ranking official sent paul ryan's friend. >> if you looked on breitbart the days after this happened, it talks about paul ryan being on shaky ground. all throughout this whole conversation about health care of the grass roots have very much singled out paul ryan as to blame. people like sarah palin said that this is paul ryan's mess. tea party patriots, same thing,

blaming the house leadership. there is very much an appetite for this administration to blame paul ryan. >> during the campaign and the early months of the administration, the reporting about kind of how does trump work has always suggested that he sort of thrives on a little bit of chaos and competition among the internal channels, so the test or the question for him is is it productive at this point or not productive and are we going to see a reining in of this. on the one hand paul ryan is on his heels a little bit, cautious, careful. on the other hand, if what he really wants is a rock steady appliance between the two, this is not productive. >> that's the key conversation today. we can look back and have a lot of fun as political reporters because there's a lot of co as and mess and fingerprinting. the question is what are the key groups learning? the president says he wants to get to tax reform. the map's a lot harder. if you needed health care reform

the reason they went approximate first is there's a lot of money. number two the question what about the dynamics? the democrats are not going to rush to embrace giant tax cuts. he needs republicans on the issue. friday he says the freedom caucus is my friends. they said don't trash these guys. but then the president starts tweeting sunday morning democrats are smiling in d.c. that the freedom caucus has saved planned parenthood and obamacare. the president was wounded. he thought he could get the votes. they all cheered the president and all said they were going and almost all of them said no. how does it serve the president going into tax reform, going into other big fights? that's 20 something -- somewhere in the ballpark of 30 people that help or hurt. >> i mean, here's the thing. he's got a better shot of making friends with the freedom caucus again than making friends with

democrats who's he's trashed over and over again who he blamed initially for this going down. in terms whof who can he convin more to his side, i don't know. >> ted poe was a member of the freedom caucus. he was going to vote yes. most of those members said no. they just didn't believe it repealed obamacare. they thought it was too of the government in place. the conservative groups are cheering them for standing up to the new republican president. ted poe says we run the government, he stepped out of the freedom caucus. >> i got the opinion that some members of the freedom caucus would vote no for the ten demandments. it's so easy to sit back and -- we have a situation where we are not making positive changes in the country or leading. that's the problem we have. we have to lead. we're the party in power. >> you walk around with these

guys every day and are with them through this debate, it's hard for them. the speaker and the president are saying be a loyal republican. these guys are saying this bill does not do what i said it would when i came to washington. >> about how this was a learning experience. one of the greatest things they learn sd that t ed is that the key cog is -- he ran great in their zidistricts. they were getting calls to their office against their bill. so this idea that the president through his salesmanship could bring them along has now burst into flames. i think what congressman poe, great quip, but he's on -- everyone i'm talking to with the exception of congressman poe and maybe a couple others feels very good about what they did. they took a stand they needed to take. the big question is are they

chasing or emboldened. i'm telling you it's the latter. >> the salesmanship wasn't good t. was essentially if you don't come with me, then i'm going to threaten you, i'm going to come after you. >> and don't worry about the little stuff and the president didn't use the word stuff. that matters when you're trying to pass a piece of legislation that goes to the core of the philosophy. >> exactly. and one of the things they were worried about was premium hikes. how do they go back to their district and say they voted for a bill that would lead to premium hikes among seniors particularly. so i don't think there was much salesman ship by this president despite what you hear from spicer. >> he thought him being -- his personal could do it. there's an impact. let's look at the dow. the dow is down 49. the markets were down on friday. trump had this boom coming in from post election through inauguration, the earlier ceci the administration. now the markets are saying wait,

we bet on tax reform the president still has regulatory roll back powers. but what lesson does the president learn? does he learn in tax reform he's going to have to sweat the small stuff or can he still talk big? >> his advisors should be and i believe are telling him that this stuff matters probably more in terms of the implications on business in the market when it comes to tax reform than it did to health care. for constituent purposes, for middle america in terms of whether people have health care, that test really did matter. what they do in the follow through, how obamacare is administered is they figure out if or what to do about it, all that does matter. but the implications in the business world and the i investg world matters very much. don't forget there's a cr coming up. tax reform aside -- >> they've got to keep the government open, a fight over planned parenthood coming.

that's just the beginning. divide within the republican party. what is the sense from the republican leadership on the hillside? >> that dealing with the freedom caucus, if you give them an opening, they're going to ask for more. i think you have to understand, i've talked to dozens of people who were in these meetings with him. this is how he works. he's not saying no negotiation. this is part of his kind of conversant nature. repeatedly when the freedom caucus guys were trying to get in the details, he would brush it back. sure, we can talk about whatever you want to talk about. there was never supposed to be a negotiation negotiation. it wasn't supposed to help. the second the president opened the door, that's what short circuited kind of the very careful kind of make sure the conservatives have enough and the moderates have enough, that disappeared. if you talk to people that are involved in the process who are for the bill, who drafted the bill, they feel like they

deserves a lot of blame for what happened. i think the big question now is you need the lesson that -- is it a lesson you cut them out all together? >> hard to cut them out and you lose that many votes. everybody sit tight. much more to cover as we go through. spy novel intrigue right here in washington. questions for a member of the president's inner circle and new information about the intelligence chairman the day before he revealed key information about his investigation. ♪ (music plays throughout) ♪

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jeani . welcome back. new plot twist today involving two key players in the russian election meddling investigation. the president's son-in-law jared kushner has agreed to be

questioned by the senate legs committee about his election year contacts with two key russian players. we'll get to that. first the spy drama within the spy drama. house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes has some planing to go. he's already under fire about intelligence reports that nunes says trump transition officials were in contact with people under u.s. government surveillance. nunes raced to meet with the president to tell him before sharing that information with other committee members, democrats and republicans. nunes has refused to be more specific about the intel reports except to say they don't have anything to do with russia. he's also refused to say how he learned about them. now cnn has learned and nunes now confirms he was at the white house complex the day before his big announcement. cnn's manu raju joins us from the capital. democrats were saying he was trying to protect the president, not trying to conduct an investigation. i assume for the democrats this is another logon the fire. what is the explanation?

>> we're learning more about his whereabouts. putting out a statement saying that chiairman nunes met with te source at the white house grounds to have proximity to a location where he could view the information provided by the source. the chairman is extremely concerned by the improper unmasking of names and he began looking into the issue even before president trump tweeted that assertion that trump tower had been wire tapped. why is this significant? because nunes has not been saying whether or not this information came from the white house, but multiple times last week i asked him can you categorically rule out that this information came from the white house? he would not do that. he said i cannot reveal my sources and methods. but the reason why folks are concerned about this, particularly on the democratic side is part of the house intelligence investigation is looking at white house trump team contacts with russian officials during the presidential election.

they believe there should be a fire wall of sorts between what capitol hill is doing and what the house is doing and the possibility here that mr. nunes may have received this information from the white house and then briefed the president of the united states without tell his committee staff and then revealing this publicly to attempt to apparently muddy the waters on the allegation of wire tapping raises a lot of questions. speaker ryan has full confidence in devin nunes. actually a spokes person putting out a statement moments ago said ryan believes that mr. nunes can run a credible fair investigation but last yeeweek nunes came under fire when he canceled a tuesday public hearing on russia where another intelligence former intelligence officials were going to testify. i am hearing today that james comey who was going to have a classified briefing tomorrow instead may not actually appear before the house intelligence

skm committee. we're trying too get more information if in thafact that brief suggest going to happen. but as to whether this investigation can produce a credible report on the issue of russia ties and the trump campaign, particularly in light of the latest revelations. >> i think that certainly is a fair question. thank you very much. somebody help me. if the chairman has something, if the chairman has something that is significant and he has a legitimate beef he says about the unmasking, if somebody gets picked up in a phone conversation, he says this is happening like the obama administration, okay, that potentially a big deal. but this isn't the way to deal with it. to raise questions about are you protecting the president. why are you doing it? there is -- you're up on the hill all the time. it's been a while since i spep spent my days up there. there's a place the intelligence

committee meets. that tells you his source is in or near the white house complex. they'll let you bring an outside source into a security facility? i think not. >> it raises a lot of questions. >> this is a nightmare for any idea of nonpartisan investigation. this is a nightmare for house leadership. they obviously don't want to move it to an independent panel. they don't want a special prosecutor. th they want the two intelligence committees. also this is a nightmare for the senate kbiintelligence committe. everything that's happened, i got a phone call out of the blue saying did you hear where chairman nunes was the night before this all happened and there's lots of stories. everybody's trying to track down the source and where he went and how it happened. every piece, i've heard bits and pieces and i'm like that's absurd. and then they confirm it. so i think the difficulty here

is everybody trying to focus on what the chairman wants you to focus on which is the unmasking of the individuals t.'s very concerning to members of both parties if this is what's actually happening. you can't focus on that with everything he's done in the wake of finding this stuff out over the last couple of days. >> that's the thing. you would think, at least democrats think he's out there trying to help donald trump. but this is also a nightmare for donald trump. every day we're talking about russia and intelligence and unmasking in any sort of spotlight on whether or not there was collusion between this -- trump as a candidate or his aides and russian intelligence officials or russians just in general, that's a bad, bad day for him. i think if nunes's goal is to und undermine the credibility of the house intelligence committee, good job in doing that. >> if his goal is to undermine

his own committee, he's doing a great job. >> he's making a great case for one. >> in any line of -- he has to issue a statement saying he has full confidence in you, that's just not a good day. >> knowing what we know how which obviously isn't that much, if someone at the white house or the national security council was his sourt fce for this information, it raises the question why couldn't that person tell the president? either they could or lines to him already knew or they couldn't for some other reason in any which case why did the chairman -- >> he runs back and tells the president even though the information is coming -- yeah. >> there's just a lot of unanswered questions and it's hard to get to the bottom whof what is actually going on here? >> the committee members aren't aware of what's going on and i can tell you the e-mails and

texts and running into people on the hill, all of these theories about what could have happened and couldn't have happened. they're around. they're not just around smuamon staff. they're around members of the house intelligence committee. >> yeah. of needing to investigate the investigator. i mean, it -- >> so let's move to the senate side. the senate intelligence committee now has a deal to question jared kushner, the president's son-in-law. we're going to talk in a few minutes about things he's doing. he learned he had a meeting with a russian ambassador during the trump transition. let's put the statement up. throughout the campaign and transition, he served says primary point of contact with foreign government and officials. that's from the white house. could be absolutely nothing. the president's is interested in having better relationships with russia. what's the best way to get in

touch with you. who are your deputies on this issue. >> we asked the trump transition and then trump administration for months, who did you meet with. they didn't disclose. it turns out he also med with the head of a state run russian bank who happens to be incredibly close to vladimir putin. again, could be innocent. could be about economic contacts. but this bank is under sanctions by the obama administration. they didn't disclose it. by objenot telling us things, t raise suspicions. >> the drip, drip, drip is what's hurting this administration. it's not what happened. it's that we're fiennding out about it later. the fact that we're still talking abo talking about the trump officials, if they would have -- >> this idea that jared kushner is voluntarily going before this

committee, i voluntarily file my taxes every year, i mean, it's essentially the same thing. at some point this was going to happen. because there was such a spotlight all of these folks who were around the president, who have been very close to the president. and it also just points to the fact that they don't have a strategy in terms of how the deal with russia and all of the things that were coming up. it's no proactive strategy. it's all reactive. weeks ago they could have put out a list of this person met, this is what the conversation was. this is how many times it happened. this is when it happened. none of that. >> that's how washington traditionally works. they are untraditional in many, many ways. >> jared cu-- he and his wife obviously care a great deal about their personal reputations, their professional reputation, but beyond kind of before and after the trump administration. he's got his hand in a number of

ventures as we're discussing, mid east peace, international relations all over the world. his credibility on this has ripple effects and beyond. >> and the art of the segue, we're talking about jared kushner going up to testify before the intelligence committee. next the economy is turning to jared. how the white house lost the health care battle and what it sees as the lessons to be learned. ingredients.artificial kind never had to. we've used real ingredients, whole nuts, and natural flavors from the very beginning. give kind a try.

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. we will have so much winning if i get elected that you will get bored with winning. we're going to win and win and win and sometimes i kid, i say you're going to get so tired of winning, mr. president, let lose just a little bit. i say no, we're going to win so much, you're going to get so sick and tired of winning, you're going to come to me and say please, please, we can't win anymore. >> well, we're two-thirds of the way to the 100 day mark and we are not tired of winning. instead the president and his team are trying to understand and trying to explain a giant loss. >> i think what happened is that

washington won. i think the one thing we learn thd we ed this week is washington is a lot more broken than trump thought it was. >> i fthink if there's anything disappointing is that this place was a lot more rotten than we thought. >> and the dog ate my homework. you listen to this. look t look, it's hard. they lost and they're trying to put the pieces back together. the president is new to washington. he did spend two years on the road saying this is what it legal be especially obamacare. but a former member of congress, a former freedom caucus member for that meant. mike pence used to run the republican study group, the pol policy guide. tom price was the consecutive point man in the house on health care. isn't this supposed to be team that told the president you're new to washington, trust us

thr, this one's hard? >> this is a message to the core trump supporters. we told you there was a swamp. we told you it was going to take draining draining. it's worse than you can manage. the problem is twofold. beyond the base he has to try to hold the middle part. the people who were persuaded to h put him over the top, that message actually resonated. it a a temporary measure to try to say give me a little more time, i told you the system was broken and it's really broken. it's sort of an obvious messaging tool. but it has its limits. >> in the sense that they just called rotten are his friends. it was republicans who denied the president votes. there were moderates who couldn't go there either. >> and there's no group more

anti-washington and anti-government and anti-establishment thaen the house freedom caucus. there's some idea that they are the embodiment of the swamp and all that's wrong with washington is hard to believe. >> but they were keeping their promise. whether you agree or disagree, this is what you that said they were going to do when they ran? >> they are standing on what they ran for all these years. the president needs to figure out whether or not he needs the house freedom caucus. it seems like he needs nem more than they need him. >> tax reform, you're going to have all the interest interest involved and everyone trying to get their own piece of this. if they were appalled by this, it's not going to get any better at this point. and to your point, mick mulvaney was one of the members that in this situation they would be trying to convince him. he just happens to be on the other team. >> what do they do when the

president has attacked them on tw twitter? they are getting support from the ones back home who sent them here. the people that gave them money, the bigger groups, they're saying amen, this is still the government, thank you. what happens? we're days away from defunding planned parenthood. days away if you pass the continuing resolution to keep the government going. i don't assume the freedom caucus people very coward today. >> i feel like they were scorched by this process, you're wrong. they don't feel good about the fact that health care has been taken off the table. they were true believes in what they wanted to do. here's the interest thing and i'd open it up to you whether you think it's going to work but it's what i've heard over the course of the last three days. the idea and you heard them hint at it, if you guys don't want to play, then the legislation is going to become more moderate f. you didn't think this was good

enough, this is your play, you decide to sit this one out and the president who is as limber as anybody to sit in the white house has no problem saying goodbye to you. and the pitch being that okay, maybe they'll back off a little bit and at least be willing to deal on that. i think that's a fundamental misreading of how they operate and how they showed themselves over the course of the last three weeks. that is the pitch you're hearing right now. >> some of that we'll talk about this a little bit later too on infrastructure and trade, maybe you do some of that, but they decided to do health care first. that was a choice. i understand their reasons. you get money from health care form. that was a choice. and the outsider president decided to go with the insider game and do it that way. but the clock is ticking when it comes to planned parenthood and government shut down. they have no choice. >> there's not that many in -- if the freedom caucus doesn't have a lot of incentive for the president or loyalty to him at the end of the day, demes will?

no way. he's going to have to do a lot of work to get those members as mall as they are to trust him. >> it's hard to know who it is. you've heard from schumer at least early on this idea that he could work with the president and at some point the president called him a clown, called him a loser. called john lewis essentially said that he hdidn't done anything for his district. >> building relationships. at some point he was reaching out to people, but heeceven tha seems to have been frittered away. so this idea that it's going to be bipartisanship and there are all these dems who want to work with him, but i was surprised that hatred is the word that was used, they don't trust him, and if you look at these -- sk

>> i think the trust sissue really is part of the problem. part of the democrats calculations is going to be fundraising. part of it is going to be momentums for the midterms. the third part is on the tr transactional front. if they don't trust the authenticity of the negotiations and the terms of the deal. >> and the negotiator. >> then there's no deal to make. and that is president trump decides to go in that direction, move away from the ideology of the party, that's what he needs to go on. >> remember they said there was no plan b, now that they've lost health care, a lot of talk about that and a lot of reasons to believe it's tough. what makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple veggie dish ever? heart healthy california walnuts.

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in major programs affecting things like health care without including democrats from the very beginning. >> that's the ohio governor john kasich on cnn yesterday leading calls for bipartisanship in the wake of the obamacare repeal disaster. yes, working together would be a big change near washington. as we talked about last block, don't bet on it. there are giant policy differents different -- take bernie sanders for example. his definition of bipartisanship, president trump he says should back his call for a single run government health care plan. >> president trump, come on board. let's work together. >> odds are -- but that's where we are at the moment. i'm having a little fun with this, but yes, it's possible a

little bit on trade and possible on infrastructure down the road because a lot of consecutives don't know where the money is going to come from to spend for that. at this moment in time when democrats phones are ringing off the hook to fight the president and they see his approval rating in the 30s, but anybody waiting to go the president's way is going to be waiting a long time. >> when they tried and they were going through cap net n nominations, they were getting back lack. we talked a little bit about fundraising 2018. they see blood in the water. they don't want to reach out to this president and who hasn't really reached out to them. >> they would need some confidence building exercises. sort of maybe throw joe mansion one or something. you know. and swamp aside, it's harder without earmarks and harder out with the traditional levers. it's harder without greasing the wheels somehow.

rides on air force one. a willingness for the president to build those relationships. until that happens t, it's hardo see. >> the nomination of neil gorsuch. last week there was confirmation hearings and it was really not noticed because of all the other drama going on. if this is a procedural move, it happens a lot. again, that's just going to get the republicans back up a little more. there's nothing to uniify the republicans more than a supreme court nomination. after a very tough week, this is a good thing for the president for his base to fight about this. the bdemocrats are not going to reach out. it's no way he's going to get 60. >> no. they've said it publicly. i've been stunned by that. this guy has been the shining beacon of hope for the trump administration and no one's paid

any attention to him for the course of the last couple of weeks. democrats have clearly come to the conclusion that based on the record, based on the politics, based on whatever, there are not going to be eight of them that are willing to help get this through. and i'm slightly surprised by that. i thought if you're going to have a fight, i talked to a lot of democrats behind the scene who said this is the next seat they really want. tha do we want this option now and they're clearly decided yes. it has huge ramifications depending on what the majority leader does. >> he said to "the new york times" we're not going to sacrifice our values for the sake of compromise. not only are the democrats saying we're not ready to reach out to you, they think they can go after some of his guys. >> i think that's right. you saw some of that play out with the 17 day effort to repeal and replace obamacare. talking about a war on seniors. them talking about, you know,

all of the things that would impact negatively trump's base. so yeah, there is so little i think enthusiasm or any sort of backing the democrats would get from their base for them to play with donald trump in any way. it is anti-trumpism that binds democrats together. it's what gives them sort of hope and purpose at this point c. the idea that they're going to turn away and play ball with donald trump -- >> is there any possibility? he has defied every law of political gravity. is there any chance he can pull this rabbit out of his hat and somehow find a bipartisan moment? >> i don't know. the bipartisan question is one that we would need to see certain steps that haven't been taken. of course he could. but in order to be successful, he would need to do things he hasn't done yet. >> nobody scraped through that

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you might remember as a candidate donald trump openly talked about his love of golf and how prepared he was to give it up. >> but if i were in the white house, i don't think i'd ever see turnberry again. i don't think i'd see many of the places i have. i don't think i'd see anything. i'd want to stay in the white house, work my ass off, right? who's going to leave? >> well, 67 days in, turns out the president is seeing his golf courses and other places that bear the trump name quite a bit. check out this calendar. so far president trump has visited a trump property nearly one out of every three days as

president. most of that is the weekends down at mar-a-lago. so be it except you're making this point earlier, the president deserves a break. the president deserves to go on the golf course. it a's stressful job. they used to gel at george w. bush. the republicans including that guy there used to scream when obama golfed. >> that's the thing . if he had never criticized obama, this would never be an issue. this is a 27/7 job whether you're on vacation or not on whether or not you're in washington or you're in florida. it doesn't matter. but because of all the criticism, you've got to look at it now. >> i think it's also because he's going to his properties, he's branding them as the summer white house or whatever it is. the southern white house or the winter white house or whatever. that i think is part of the criticism too. part of the argument that i think republicans were trying to get at around obama was that he was lazy. he was spending his time golfing when he should have been doing

other things. i will say this. after they spent so few days trying to repeal and replace health care, you do wonder if he could have spent more time in d.c. more time meeting with people in the white house. >> or golfing with the freedom caucus. >> exactly. there's the secondary issue which is that he'll go to the property that has a golf course, but they will not confirm that he's actually golfing which seems like unnecessarily -- that's fine, you golf. who would begrudge that to any president, to get some fresh air, to stretch a little bit. >> the same people who won't tell us if they meet with russian officials during the campaign. >> which brings out this this. i know you're trapping this cloe closely. this is a stunt by democrats to say if the president is going to go to these places, then there should be recordkeeping, visitor logs just like at the white house. if you visit the president at

the white house, there are visitor logs. this has zero chance of passage, but the democrats who introduced it would acknowledge it's a stunt, but they think it's important to draw attention to what they believe is a legitimate issue. who is the president meeting with when he's off in these places. >> and it doesn't just extend to the properties but extends to the white house. they haven't updated visitor logs at the white house since he's twactually been in. it's a political stunt no question about it. it's an ability to map out a number of words that are equal to mar-a-lago. >> that's top nanotch staffers. that's "a" game right there. democrats clearly see this is an opening and an opportunity and the fact that on his properties and at the white house you have no idea who's coming in and out. the obama white house didn't make it easy on us, but at least they've dropped all the names. you can't see that and it raises concerns and it raises political

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hello. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks for joining us. up first, new developments in the russia investigation. the aftermath of the stunning health care defeat and where the trump administration goes from here. those are just some of the likely topics at today's white house press briefing set to begin this hour. look at the live pictures coming in from inside the white house briefing room. the white house press secretary sean spicer will be taking questions from reporters shortly. we'll have live coverage for you. that's coming up this hour. we're also following a new development stemming from russia's meddling in the u.s. presidential election. president trump's son-in-law jared kushner will meet with the senate intelligence committee as part of its russia investigation. sources say the committee chaired by