>> it is wednesday, may 3rd, 8:00 in the east. sparring over the outcome of the 2016 election. but the president responding on twitter last night after hillary clinton talked about who she believes is to blame for her defeat, and that includes fbi director james comey. >> in two hours, mr. comey himself will be grilled about senators in his actions in the final days of the campaign and russia's meddling in the election vmt all this as the president pushes for a vote on repealing obamacare, whether it happened, whether they have the votes still very much in doubt. we have got it all covered for you. let's begin with joe johns live after the white house. joe. >> reporter: chris, here we go again after six months and that election battle, hillary clinton and president trump are back at it as the fbi director once again on the hot seat on capitol hill. president trump firing back at hillary clinton after her scathing indictment of the 2016

race, insisting that fbi director james comey influenced voters. >> i was on the way to winning until a combination of jim comey's letter on october 28th and russian wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off. had the election been on october 27th, i'd be your president. >> the president responding in a series of late night tweets, even slamming his own fbi director. fbi director comey was the best thing that happened to hillary clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds. the phony trump russian story was an excuse used by the democrats as justification for losing the election. perhaps trump just ran a great campaign. this response coming hours after clinton took a job at one of the president's source pods. >> i did win more votes than my

opponent. better that than interfering in foreign affairs. if he wants to tweet about me, i'm happy to be the diversion. >> comey expected to face a grilling from democrats at a senate judiciary hearing over his potential influence on the campaign. hillary clinton blaming comey's letter to continue about her use of a private e-mail server and wikileaks and russia for hacking her campaign chairman's e-mails. clinton refusing to say vladimir putin's name. >> he certainly interfered in our election and it was clear he interfered to hurt me and help our to upon innocent. i take absolute responsibility. i was the candidate. i was the person on the ballot. >> and now vowing to speak out against her former rival. >> i am now back to being an activist citizen and part of the

resistance. >> all this as sources tell cnn that former acting general attorney sally yates will testify next week that she forcefully warned the trump white house in january that then national security advisor michael flynn lied about discussing sanctions with a russian ambassador, directly contradicting the white house's version of events. >> they wanted to give, quote, a head's up to us on some comments that may have seemed in conflict with what he had sent the vice president out in particular. >> yates' testimony likely to raise further questions about why it took the administration nearly three weeks to fire flynn, a decision that was ultimately made on the same day the story was reported in the washington post. >> not to be ignored, that other russia headline this morning, the phone call between president trump and russian president s d vladimir putin. they talked about syria as well

as north korea. both sides now looking ahead to the g-20 summit when these two leader wills meet for the first time. meanwhile, today president trump is expected to meet with palestinian leader. back to you. >> appreciate it. lots to discuss. let's bring in the panel. david, your reaction to what we heard from hillary clinton in style and substance. >> yeah. if you were to gather -- if hillary clinton were to gather around her political advisors and say how should i talk about my election loss, i don't think this is what they would have advised her to do. yet, i think that's why we got sort of the most authentic, raw, certainly still angry, unresolved, maybe a little bitter about the election results. all of that was hanging out there. but it was real.

it felt like to me this is how hillary clinton is talking about her election loss with her friends. i don't think she's winning over any new fans from talking about it this way and blaming comey and putin, but it is clearly where her head is at and what she believes happened last year. >> so interesting, ron, because less than 24 hours after she basically said that james comey's letter ton 28th was the deciding factor, james comey is going to capitol hill this morning to talk about russian meddling, et cetera, et cetera. and they will ask him. democrat senators do want to ask him what responsibility he takes and if he overstepped his bounds. it will be very interesting. what are you looking for this morning? >> first, to david's point, i think both things can be true. she has a reasonable case that the comey letter was the tipping point in a close election. but the fact that it was that close to begin with when he was running against a candidate that 60% at that point and still to this day said was not qualified

to be president was extremely revealing and there was nothing in her remarks that showed any way forward for democrats on the big choices they face on how to regain power. today i think on director comey, first of all, you have the president essentially throwing his own fbi director under the bus going into this hearing, accusing him of being soft and almost covering up for hillary clinton. and then from the other side you will have democrats asking a pertinent question that harry reid was asking last fall. why announce the renewed investigation into the e-mail server but not announce you were investigating russian meddling in the election? >> so, patrick, you have the too much and not enough problem that we're going to have here today. in truth, congress should not obsess on what can you tell me on parter page, what can you tell me about flynn and where is the proof on collusion because comey shouldn't talk about that.

you should make a case that congress should be more focussed ond what happened with the russian meddling, how do we stop it the next time and then you have on the other spectrum, trump taking the bait again. >> right. and a lot of democrats feel that the party would be very smart to stay focussed on president trump and russian meddling and why the fbi made those decisions and not re-litigate the 2016 election. that's what president trump would love the focus of this to be on. sort of democrats, you know, still being upset, rendering their garments over hillary clinton's loss, what that meant for the party, what that meant, you know, for certain democratic -- the democratic program. but, chris, the bigger issue right now is what does james comey say when he goes in there, when he goes into the senate and how much is he able to reveal. how much is he able to set up

what sally yates is going to be saying next week about michael flynn, about the degree to which there is either just questions overall or a lack of transparency around the trump administration. >> trump may have done them a favor by questioning once again the legacy of this as a rouse by the democrats. it does give an opening for comey to say this is very real, otherwise i wouldn't be looking into it. but specifics, he really shouldn't say anything. >> no, he shouldn't get into that and he knows that. but in terms of the democrats and how they are pressing and how much the republicans try to give him cover, i think president trump did in those tweets, he could have just gone after hillary clinton the way that he traditionally has. but instead he decided to soften uch comey just as he's going for the senate. >> let's talk about another big issue, and that is the budget. both seedsides agreed to keep t government open through

september. the white house is basically saying, no, no, that's wrong. we got a lot of things that we wanted. when you lose rush limb because, you may have to look at the conservative tenants you see not being held up by this white house. >> if this is what happens, mr. vice president, why vote republican? what is the point of voting republican if the democrats are going to continue to win practically 95% of their objectives such as in this budget deal. there isn't anything of the president's deal in this budget and people are beginning to ask when is that going to happen. if you are going to shut it down in september, why not now? >> david? >> mike pence was not on the rush limb baug show just by

chance. they understand they had to rest the base around this budget deal. that's why you saw the president send the budget director to that podium and he did not like the headlines he was seeing that he got rolled by the democrats here. the clear priority for the white house was to keep the government open right now. they thought a shut down right now would be devastating to them and they did. they punted a lot of these battles to the fall. i do think and the president's tweets suggested it yesterday, gear up everyone for a real shut down battle in the fall because when you have rush limb baug complaining like this and you have to send out your officials like this, you are going to have to show a fight or you are going to lose folks. i would imagine donald trump is gearing up to show a fight. >> let's talk about that effort. what did you make of the director coming out there with pictures from a wall and say, what do you think this is? we're building this right now. the democrats don't want you to

know that. by all indications, that's just not accurate. but why have him go out there and then have him go out there and say something baloney. >> you're right. mid-term wave election happens when one party's base is anim e animated and the others is disparted. on the other hand, they are looking at a potential imagine of dysfunction, which is tremendous off putting to more independent and swing voters. the other government shut downs in the past was when you had divided government, when you had one party in control of congress and the other party in control of the white house and you had a clash over their priorities. the fact you can shut down the government with unified control is a new idea and one that would i think worry and in fact the initial reaction shows many republicans in capitol hill are looking over the struggles in health care and the image that

protects over whether this is a gang that can shoot straight. it has grown increasingly rare that no one has held complete control. there was a backlash against the bay they exercised it. i think republicans are worried about being in the same position. >> just one point on mull vany, he's out there showing pictures of a wall basically aimed toward one person. that's basically president trump. he knows he is on the ropes on this health care battle. he's facing jimmy kimmel on a late night dialogue who is being tough on pre-existing coverages. when any members of this administration go out and start talking, even if there is not evidence to really back it up and they start talking about the president's priorities, a wall, a wall, a wall, that is as much

to the president what he wants rolled out. >> gentlemen, thank you very much. so another big story. these numbers are not yet adding up for the republicans on their health care bill. cnn's latest count has 22 house republicans say that they will vote no. of course there is some last minute arm twisting going on by the president that could flip some people and we are live on capitol hill with more. what is the latest? >> reporter: facing a potential defeat on health care, president trump very much personally getting involved here, reaching out, calling about a dozen lawmakers yesterday. also today meeting with two privately in the white house. all of this is a part of an effort here to try to convince the undecideds or those leaning no that it is worth the political capital to work this through the house and pass it through the senate. >> how is health care coming, folks? i think it's time now, right.

>> president trump calling congressman bill loi long, who is against the bill to try to gain his support. the two men will meet at the white house today along with congressman fred uptown, who is also against the bill, over the issue of pre-existing conditions. >> i have supported the practice of not allowing pre-existing illnesses to be discriminated against from the very get-go. this amendment tor ped does that, and i told the leadership i cannot support this bill with this provision in it. >> republican leaders have yet to schedule a vote on the bill. cnn's current whip count has 22 republicans voting no. if this number holds, republicans cannot afford to lose another vote. another defeat on health care could damage president trump's legislative power and paul ryan's standing as speaker of the house. >> we're making very good progress with her members and our president has been

instrumental in that. >> this battle playing out on the spending bill that had more wins for democrats than the president's priorities. >> i think the democrats cleaned our clock. this was not winning from the republican point of view. >> president trump threatening to shut the government down in september when lawmakers negotiate the 2018 budget, a tactic at odds with the recent sentiment of governments, issuing their own government shut down threat, something he called terrible. >> president trump and white house budget director insisting that republicans came out on top in the budget negotiations. >> this is what winning looks like. >> when you heard in the last 48 hours about the deal, did you think we could build this? >> mull vany attempting to show money as fixing and replacing as a win for the administration, despite the fact there is specific language in the spending bill that prohibits any

money from going towards construction of the president's controversial border wall. >> for the third day in a row we will see the vice president here on capitol hill, mike pence. he is going to be doing some private arm twisting of the hold-outs on the health care legislation. the goal of the administration here is a self-imposed deadline, 24 to 48 hours to try to get the votes necessary before the house goes to another recess. that starts on friday. it's an 11-day recess. so far house speaker paul ryan not setting on the schedule a vote for this legislation until they have the votes to get this passed. chris. >> thank you very much. we have some breaking news for you out of missouri. flood waters are shutting down roads and rushing down neighborhoods. this is the scene in suburban st. louis. you've got to remember, this area, you've got millions of people in and around this area.

record breaking floods can be expected. take a look at that. >> more breaking news. this one out of afghanistan. eight people killed and three american troops among the wounded in a suicide attack. the blast truck during rush hour and targeted a con voi of foreign troops. isis is claiming responsibility. >> back to hillary clinton taking stock of her 2016 loss. how much of a role does she think ma sogny played in her defeat. we talk sexism in politics next.

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hillary clinton seeming unplugged in an interview about the 2016 election loss and she also blamed fbi director comey and wikileaks e-mail hack and sexism. >> were you a victim of misogyny and why do you think you lost the majority of the white female vote? >> i think it played a role. every day that goes by, we learn more about some of the unprecedented interference, including from a foreign power whose leader is not a member of my fan club. so i think it is -- it is real. it is very much a part of the landscape politically and socially and economically. >> all right. joining us now, cnn political

commentators and cnn political analyst. great to have you all here to talk about this. so mary catherine, was sexism a factor in hillary clinton's loss? >> there is part of it. no dumb my that covers elections think that only one thing caused the outcome of an election, right? but it is the better part of valor for her to concentrate on the things she did wrong because many people think those things exist. i think a simple i am always going to wonder if i should have went to wisconsin and i'm sorry i did not could do her a bunch of good. she also deals with the data problem that in the most recent washington post poll he would still beat her in a head to head on the popular vote. >> how do you make sense of that one? obviously it is weird to take a look at the numbers now and the support she has now when there

is no reason to support her now because she is not a viable candidate and back then. do you trust this assumption that trump would beat her now? he lost to her by three million votes on election day but now he beat her when he has record low numbers? >> it's always hard to know in these hypothetical situations, especially because she's going to be more popular now because she's not running and people are regretful. i think some people are regretful about how things turned out. so i don't know about that. but i think on the question with what she said, i think sexism played a role. a woman running for president in this age is going to deal with sexism. that's the thing, was it a defining reason for her to lose? you know, that's very hard to measure. it just was clearly part of the race. but i don't know -- i agree with mary catherine. i think that she talked about i made mistakes but she doesn't talk specifically about any

mistakes she made and she ultimately ends up with it wasn't really my fault and it is probably a mix of different things and i think she's quoting nate silver who said if the election had been held on october 27th that she would have won. late, breaking voters were going for trump. but of course late, breaking voters usually go for the challenger. so that's not really dispositive. and then he says, you know, white women were going for trump that were going to go for hillary. >> how does that square with sexism? >> in what way? >> the general analysis would mean i won't vote for a man candidate as much as i will vote for a role. but does that translate into women carrying the same prejudice? >> yes. women can be very sexist, actually. but i don't know that that's necessarily why they -- i don't necessarily buy that argument that they were necessarily always, you know, not voting for trump. we don't know. here's the thing. hillary clinton got it to the

point where these decisions had to be made. and, so, that's part of the problem is that why was she not able to lock these voters in? these were voters in the states we were talking about, in wisconsin. these are white women. why weren't they voting for hillary. >> of course, you were never a fan of hillary clinton, but do you think sexism played a factor. >> i do think there was a lot of factors in play. i also think there is some women that voted for her because they wanted to see a women president so in that way her gender was advantageo advantageous. but this comes to president obama saying you don't win by sipping lattes. he said i became senator of illinois because of down state voters because of going to vfw halls, going to fish fries. that is how you win an election by showing how you care, by

going to where they are and hillary clinton didn't do that. >> that's right. there was this principal, the candidate who was not doing the obvious things that you would do and she really paid a price for it. also treating the comey letter as it is this stand-alone thing. it came for a reason, because of this long brewing scandal that was ultimately the principal, the candidate's fault. that was part of the reason she didn't have these folks locked in and made it this game with none other than donald trump. >> it is interesting. i've sat through a lot of these analyses about the role of sexism with women candidates cht it is hard to keep it separate because, you know, you come into the segment, you know, populated with women to talk about this to put it on the table, but there wind up being these other factors that wind up being overlayed. did it matter that she was a woman? yes, good and bad. but there was all this other

stuff. how do you identify what the real threat is on this level of sexism and what you can do about it. >> peter wrote a really great piece for the at listen tilanti shows how people perceive women in those roles. there are all these sort of inherent biases with men and women. women also will look at a women differently. >> is she also proof of change because she wound up being at the top of the ticket twice in a row? >> is she a trail blazer even for republican women that would come after her? did she break a seal? >> yes. we could look at hillary clinton and say she broke that glass ceiling. but by the same token, we have to look at someone like kellyanne conway and praise her for being the first women to successfully run a campaign. >> i think we celebrated her on

the day it was announced she would be the campaign manager. she was here that day and she was excited and we celebrated. what are we to do with these lessons? it's hard to know. she was supposed to be the first female president, if you believe the conventional wisdom and then something went wrong. >> that's the question, too. you can do these hypotheticals, which are hard. but if a male candidate who was flawed and had the scandal with him and represented the status quo in what turned out to be a change election, i do think he would have been at an extreme advantage. we do not now how exactly that would have played out, but i think those factors were really important, that she represented something that voters were turning away from. the air apparent was not what they wanted. >> i think that's a strong point. it would be nice if you could focus on the sexism of it. but the reality is at the end of the day, from judge, democrats

were saying, yeah, it is hillary. but this love of a candidate and if i could againi liegeneralize little bit, they need to love your candidate. if you are on the right place on abortion, fiscal responsibility, you are going to be okay with most republican voters. it is not like that with democrats, and she had that problem from jump. she kept it close in a way it wouldn't have been if they had a different candidate. fair krcriticism? >> i think it's a fair criticism. my mom was just like, ah. but i'm voting for her because i want a woman president. there was a problem there that hillary wasn't connecting with a lot of people. >> ladies thank you for your thoughts on all this. so james comey set to face questions about his role in the final days of the 2016 campaign. what will he say about that?

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in about 90 minutes, senator democrats are expected to grill james comey about the election and russian's meddling. let's bring in the former director of both the cia and nsa.

good to have you with us general. hillary clinton and donald trump did jim comey no favors this morning. what do you expect out of comey on the hill today? >> let me say this is a kind of morning where i wake up and say thank god i'm a former senior intelligence official. because director comey is going in there with a prescheduled routine annual state of the bureau presentation to its oversight committee, and he's walking into a political firestorm. i mean, the republicans are going to beat him up about leaks. the democrats are going to beat him up about everything else. i have been in those circumstances, but i've got to tell you jim has a problem i never had. president bush always had my back, and with regard to what's happened in the last 24 hours, jim must feel like he's in no man's land, taking fire from both trench lines. >> that's a good perspective for us to keep in mind as we watch

this unfold today. can he provide any information on russia that we don't yet know? >> i would be surprised if jim says anything surprising. he's got an investigation underway. he's going to keep that very close hold. he may tell us a few more things, particularly in response to very specific questions from members, but i think his going in position is to keep the privacy of the investigation protected so that he does not compromise that very investigation. >> what's your take on who's more right about comey? did he crush clinton's chances by coming out in unorthodox fashion to address congress with these two letters about those investigation, or is trump right, that he gave her a complete pass? >> look, he was in absolutely uncharted territory. he was absolutely off the map for any former fbi director's experience. jim made the best decisions he

could in unprecedented circumstances. looking back, i have a right to second guess, but it is genuinely second guessing. i do think the things he did have an effect on the election. it is an effect we don't know and in fact, chris, it is an effect that's unknowable. so we should just stop talking about it because it doesn't lead to any positive action. >> but should he have sent that letter ten days before the election? >> if you are asking me my opinion as a krit seven, i would say no, but the poor man was in a space nobody had been in before and he was trying to protect the integrity of the election, the fbi and his relations with congress. >> one of the maims that might come up today is michael flynn. you know him. what is your take about what people should know about who he is as a man and what is your take on the allegations? >> i would first of all begin by saying that at the operational and tactical level mike flynn was a world-class intelligence

officer, and he made america proud by all the things he did to enable that successful campaign against al-qaeda and taliban leadership. i never thought that mike was a particularly good fit for the national security advisor job and i do think he made some mistakes, probably missteps would probably be a better word in that conversation with sergei kislyak and the ongoing relationship with a country tied closely to the turkey government. i suspect that in retro spect mike regrets having done that. >> we have information that sallyuate wills be speaking on monday to the senate and she will be testifying in particular about what she tried to warn the trump white house about michael flynn and the time line seems different than what the white

house said. she had weeks where she tried to warn them. >> the intensity of purpose she had. she was telling them, this is a problem. >> great point. they called it a head's up and it was more than that. do you think they should have gotten rid of him sooner? >> look. we have got conflicting narratives here of exactly what was said at what point with what intensity. i'm shading in the direction of mrs. yates. when the attorney general, even the acting attorney general calls the white house counsel and says i've got to talk to you, that should be a tech tonic event and should have caused more dramatic response within the white house, even given the reality they were still looking for their desks and chairs, this was very early on in the administration, someone should have picked up this is a big deal just by the very fact that the attorney general wants to talk to us. >> the fact that the senate got loaded into busses and went over to cia headquarters to get a

specific briefing about russia, how should we view this type of event? >> chris, i think we should view it as good news. look, i think director comey, director clapper, director coats are dpragreat officers in their positions, but they are political appointees. now you have got the members of the senate taking the bus up the george washington parkway, going to langley, looking at the documents and talking to the intelligence professionals out there who have no political dog in this fight. and, so, i think that's a giant step forward so that the members of the senate now get the true analysis, true feeling, the gut instincts of the people who actually do this kind of work. >> appreciate the perspective as always. >> thank you. >> we're always smarter for having spoken to you. thank you very much, general. there is rising flood waters and leaving neighborhoods in missouri underwater. as you can see on your screen

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. all right. we're seeing trump versus clun ton again. this time they're sparring in dueling statements about the outcome of the election, what caused it. how much responsibility do you think hillary clinton needs to take for why she lost? let's get the bottom line from david axelrod. it is very interesting. people took what clinton said very different ways. some heard her saying, it's on me. it's on me. but let's not ignore what comey did and all that stuff. other heard her push it away from herself and more on others. what did you hear? >> first of all, let me say that the 2016 race was a miserable slog and nobody in america is eager to re-litigate it except the combatants who keep going back to it. but beyond that, look, she has a legitimate beef because comey's

better was instrumental, think, in her defeat. so in a narrow sense she is right about it. but jim comey didn't tell her not to campaign in wisconsin after the convention. jim comey didn't say not to put any resources in michigan until the final week of the campaign. and one of the things that hindered her in the campaign was a sense that she never fully was willing to take responsibility for her mistakes, particularly that server. and, you know, so if i were her, if i were advising her, i would say don't do this, don't go back and appear as if you are shifting responsibility off of yourself. she said the words i am responsib responsible, but everything else suggested she doesn't feel that way and i don't think that helps her in the long-run. so if i were her, i would move on. >> let's listen to it for one second because i heard something else in there in addition to what you're saying. let's listen. >> i take absolute personal

responsibility. i was the candidate. i was the person who was on the ballot. and i am very aware of, you know, the challenges, the problems, the, you know, short falls that we had. did we make mistakes? of course we did. did i make mistakes, oh my god, yes. you'll read my confession and my requests for absolution. but the reason why i believe we lost were the intervening events in the last ten days. >> david, what do you think about the theory that she didn't go further there and sort of flush it out because she has a book coming out. she says you'll read my confessions and my requests for absolution as in like, stay tuned, that's coming up in her book. >> well, i think she would have well served to just stop before she got to the reason i lost. it takes a lot of work to lose to donald trump, let me tell you. he was the least popular presidential candidate to win in

the history of polling. and, so, it wasn't just the comey letter. the fact she was in a position to lose because of the comey letter is something that deserves some introspection. and maybe it will come in her book. but if i were her, if she's got a book coming out, let the book speak for itself and don't get involved in these sidebar conversations. >> you know, what do you think about trump taking the bait and the way that he took the bait, trashing comey again, saying that the russia questions are irrelevant again. does that help him? >> well, look, he knew comey was testifying today. i'm sure he wanted to use it as an opportunity to go back at this. he is frantic on this subject. and every time it comes up, he's very reactive. she gave him another opportunity to do it. and, you know, i think with everybody action and every tweet that this white house takes, they draw more suspicion on

themselves and, you know, but i think we're well passed talking about whether a tweet was prudent or not on the part of the president. he is the matt tweeter and he'll continue to do what he's doing. >> let's talk about something we know is near and near to your heart and that of course is the health care debate, as well as the pre-existing condition coverage. what do you think? you spoke very candidly and honestly about your having had a daughter who did have a pre-existing condition. what do you think about the jimmy kimmel effect and the fact that this is kind of gripped the country in what's going to happen with this health care bill? >> when i saw jimmy kimmel's very moving presentation, you know, narrative of what happened to him and his child and his plea that we make sure that kids with pre-existing conditions are covered regardless of how much

money you have, i said this could be the crushing blow to the efforts that are going on in the house to overturn the affordable care act. the big issue is pre-existing conditions, which cuts across lines of race, party, class, geography. everyone in america knows someone, if not in their family than a neighbor's family that has gone through these horrible, horrible experiencing with pre-existing conditions before the affordable care act took hold and gave people coverage that they needed. and, so, i think jimmy kimmel really put a human face on that issue. and if i were a waivering member of the republican caucus in congress i'd see that and say i'm not walking the plank on this one. >> anyone that says the mcarthur amendment keeps pre-existing conditions safe is kidding themselves. >> well, fred uptown made that point yesterday, and that was the death nail i thought because he is a senior member of the

congress and he made that very point. >> we'll see what happens today with the white house's persuasion tactics, but in the meantime thanks for the bottom line, david. cnn news room picks up after this break. see you tomorrow. up to 38% more than allergy medicine alone. shut your mouth and say goodnight, mouthbreathers. breathe right. your only worry...ty customer first guarantee... will be how to drink this monstrosity. get help with hotels, free twenty-four-hour flight changes, and our price match guarantee. travelocity.® wander wisely.™ ♪ you might not ever just stand there, looking at it. you may never even sit in the back seat. yeah, but maybe you should. ♪

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moms know their kids need love, encouragement and milk. with 8 grams of natural protein, and 8 other nutrients to provide balanced nutrition. moms know kids grow strong when they milk life. good morning, everyone. i'm john berman. poppy is on assignment this morning. we have live pictures from capitol hill because we are minutes away from high drama there. if you listen to what has been said in the last 4 hours, he either cost hillary clinton the election, b, was the best thing that ever happened to hillary clinton, c, is engaged in an investigation into a phony trump/russia story or, d, all of the above. now comey a walking 6'8" bundle of controversy testifying before the judiciary committee in a few