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well, a couple of firsts for
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president trump. he is back in new york tonight since the first time he took office. now, if you see him and house republicans today, you would think that would be the end of the story that obamacare is out and trump care is in. that is certainly not the case. this is just the first step. >> reporter: it was a critical first step on delivering a campaign vow to repeal and replace obamacare, and the president was making even more promises that trump care is going to deliver for consumers. >> as far as i'm concerned, your premiums are going to start to come down. we're going to get this passed through the senate. i feel so confident. >> reporter: they were all but reading obamacare it's last rites. >> wer going to finish it off and go onto other things.
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>> reporter: in victory speech after victory speech. house speaker paul ryan tried to make the case that obamacare isn't worth saving anymore. >> the truth is this law has failed and is collapsing. premiums is skirocketing and choices are sappearing. and it is only getting worse, spiraling out of control. >> reporter: other t republicans were offering a prebutal of the major decisions faced with trump care. those americans gop leaders insist, will be protected. >> any care for pre-existing conditions when there's no care at all? multiple, multiple layers in our bill that we pass today would not only protect people with pre-existing conditions but also focus real targeted money on lowering premiums. >> reporter: but they can see
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they're in a vulnerable position. >> the bill is passed and without objection it's laid upon the table. >> reporter: after obamacare was passed in 2009 and then congressmen ryan blasted democrats for rushing their bill in congress. >> well, yes, i don't think we should pass bills that we haven't read, that we don't know what they cost. >> reporter: which is why democrats appear joyous singing as they passed -- >> let me just say they have the tattoo on the them. this is a scar they will carry. so it isn't -- it's their vote. >> so, jimmy, is the white house saying anything that's coming?
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because tt cou potentially be bad news? >> reporter: that's right, anderson. and don't forget the last c congressionling hearing. sarah huckby sanders, a white house spokesman was telling us earlier today they don't know how many is going to be seeking these waivers from that requirement in obamacare, that people with pre-existing conditions be covered. and because of that it's impossible to score just how many people will lose health insurance and what the ramifications will be. tonight we hear you know what, this bill is going to change a bit in the senate and perhaps even get better. that will obviously be something we will all be waiting for. >> phil mattingly is on capitol hill. he joins us now. so how do republicans feel about
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a lack of a score from the krksbo. it feels like it wasn't a big deal for them? >> it seems like that. it's interesting, i spent a lot of the day with a lot of my colleagues asking member after member of the house republican conference are you concerned with the idea you'd be moving forward on a bill where you don't know how many people it would cover and how much it would cost? this is what they had to say. >> how do you feel that they voted without a cbo score? >> yeah, the three amendments that are new aren't going to change dramatically that cbo score. so the basic cbo score is still going to be in the ballpark. and then everything we've said, is a good move on policy grounds. >> how do you know this is going
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to be right given there's no cbo analysis to exactly say how many people lose coverage and the impact this would have on the economy. >> i know we are doing the right thing. >> but how? >> i know. >> reporter: a lilt bit of blind faith there, anderson. but, look, you heard from gym that the cbo current necessarily proposals accurately. the models don't accurately reflect what they will do. they said, look, the initial proposal was scored. there's no question about it, the fact they were willing to move forward on this proposal with that score, meant one thing. they had the votes and they were willing to pull the trigger, anderson. >> so practically speaking can you just talk about what we knew is actually in this bill? >> i think this is really important point. we've all been talking about the
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politics the procedure even. while there are point in this process where things seemed thafrp cobed together or in the most transparent fashion you've ever seen, there were still dramatic changes here. i want to walk you through starting with the subsidies. this would be a shift. they would change over to refundable tax credits. you would also have a cap on medicaid funding by enrollee. anderson, this is dramatic shift in how medicaid would work. this is something conservatives have been working for decades now. you also have more generous health savings accounts, another big conservative principle they've been trying to get up to this point. because on the dramatic changes that also means there'sdrumtic changes to what obamacare would be. the subsidies themselves, they
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would change. they're not as generous as they would be structured in the affordable care act. also that money that has been so crucial to the funding and insurance of more than 11 million americans with obamacare. and you also have them charging older enrollees just three times more than younger inreallies. i think this is also a big deal. incrux of this, the willingness to allow states to opt out of price protections for those of with pre-existing conditions. again, this was a late change for the bill. it's one republicans say democrats are blow blowing out of proportion, but their willingess into touch the portion at all, they can change the prices ifho states opt out. this is an issue that isn't going away, and it is a major, major policy shift, anderson. >> so basically people in those
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positions that opt out or basically gotten the labor, would pay more? >> not necessarily. they try to institute protections here. if you have a plan with those pre-existing conditions, that plan would be grand fathered. over. if you move states, then you would also have to drop off your insurance. then an insurance company would be able to essentially price you at whatever they think you would be. and that would be dramatic price increases. this is the latest change for the bill, the one that got them over the finish line, earmarking $8 billion to go and try to address those price increases themselves. but the willingness to even touch this issue, anderson, is a very big deal. >> thank very much. he was briefed on it.
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i spoke to him earlier today. >> congressman, gary obviously a big win for republicans and the white house. you said, quote, i don't think any have read the bill. that's why we have staff. did you have a chance to read the bill before you voted for it? >> so our entire staff read the bill. i would be dishonest if i said i vajally read it all. that's why we have a legislative staff. but the goal we had is to see paradigms where we would see premiums and deductibles go down. so the paradigm is about affordable care, not about coverage i think this is going to move us in that direction. >> you -- how do you respond to that the. >> elwith, let me say this
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first, i don't follow linda graham on twitter. >> that doesn't actually surprise me. >> with all due respect to senator gram, we had plenty of time to review this bill. because while the compopant parts they filtered over time, they were all there. and our end goal was to redice premiums, reduce dedoubles. the affordable care act paradigm, the last cbo scoring was a false one when they said 24 million americans lose coverage. we saw a story that the average dedouble for a family of four is 4, 6, $10,000. with we're talking about care. we feel good about where we are. >> so is that one of the reasons you would say there's no reason to wait on a new cbo score on this bill before bringing it to a vote? >> well, look, ultimately i've been in congress for a few months. they don't consult with me
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before they bring new bills to the floor. why it came on the floor wn itdize did, would be a question in the place of leadership. but i'm happy to do this. it's been a long time coming. what we're told is it was this or nothing, and it's now or never. if you want proof the aca was broken. beyond iowa losing all their providers, follow the money and look at ed nuand anthem who had in the years following the affordable care act 160%, 170% gains in stock. that was the dark field made by the obama administration and aca. we need to push the savings to people and not worry about the insurance companies. obviously, for a lot of people in the senate and a lot of people in the country, the question of pre-existing conditions is first and foremost. that was a big sticking point as
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far as we know in the house version as well. where do you stand on that, because it team seems like this $8 billion had been set aside. is that enough? is that a real figure? >> so that $8 billion is not a real figure. let me give a hack to gary in louisiana, we have a dotty to ensure that even folks with pre-existing conditions can get care. but if you create high-risk pools and then finance those high risk pools and then let a majority of the market finance independently, it doesn't take a genius to deduce that they will have high premiums. then there will be subsidies to make sure they have access to care. but when you put everybody in the same pool the
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distribution -- it's my pleasure, have a wonderful weekend. >> just ahead president trump said something tonight, ahort time ago about australia's healthcare system. we'll talk about it next. also the latest in the fbi watch. what we know coming up. tired of paying hundreds more a year in taxes and fees on your wireless bill? only t-mobile one gives you unlimited data with taxes and fees included. that'll save you hundreds. get two lines of unlimited data for a hundred dollars. that's right. two lines. a hundred bucks. all in. and now, the brand new samsung galaxy s8 is here. so what are you waiting for? get the new galaxy s8. plus get 2 lines of unlimted data for a hundred bucks. taxes and fees included. only at t-mobile. with an unlimited mileage warranty on your certified pre-owned mercedes-benz, you can drive as far as you want
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so prufrm is meeting with australia's prime minister tonight. listen to hut the president just said. >> premiums are going to come down very substantially. the deductibles are going to come down. it's going to be fantastic healthcare. right now obamacare is failing. we have a failing healthcare. i shouldn't say this to our great gentleman and my friend from australia because he has better healthcare than we do, but we're going to have great
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healthcare very soon. >> you know -- well, last year during the campaign don't forget you guys know he was talking about the healthcare in the u.k., so he's been all over the map on the substance of healthcare. he wants to sign a bill to get a legislative victory. >> so thepress said he thinks australia has better healthcare. also, we just talked to senator bernie sanders and senator sanders km sanders extented on what he said. >> they don't throw 2 million people off of health insurance. so maybe wn we get to senate we should start off with looking at the australian healthcare system or the canadian
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healthcare system when guarantees healthcare to all people at a much lower cost per capita than we do. >> so jeffrey lord has one of donald trump's bookin' otherwise his desk. >> "never give up." >> his name adorns the cover. he was thinking about running as an independent for president in 2000, explicitly calls for a single payer healthcare system. now, having said that he hasn't felt that in two years. at least he certainly hasn't advocated that in two years. but i think what we just saw goes to show is that donald trump is don't sweat the details and compliment the person you're with. >> always. that is a ticket. >> let's say that when he says we have a failing healthcare
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system in one breath and then the next breath says yours is better than ours, i don't think that's a big felony like you said, he compliments people. he is a salesman. >> do you know of any conservative -- and maybe i'll ask jeffrey this -- do you know of any conservative republican politician who had have turned to somebody and said you have a better healthcare system who has national healthcare? >> i know lots of gracious republicans. >> again, let's think about george bush coming down there and saying to browning. >> but browning works for him. >> all the time where the bar is fundamentally lower. he doesn't understand the debate going on around him. today he had a ceremony in the rose garden, and it's almost
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like we have to go back to conjunction, junction what's your function. you've got 20 million more people without health insurance -- >> there's nothing remarkable about -- >> you just took it away in this bill, though. >> remember, billclipten after he was impeached that day brought the house democrats down to the rose garden for a rally. that was bizarre. this was just good salesmanship. >> in fairness to donald trump, he did get very personally involved in this process. whether he understands the details or not, he clearly invested himself. >> i had a conversation with somebody today, e-mail conversation, that said he was working the phones considerably,
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and this person was on the phone with him on occasion. that he was work wrg, working behind the scenes to get this done. >> but i think the big question here is why was he working the phones? he needed a political win. paul ryan wanted a political win, and that's what -- >> but that's what he wants. >> i'm not saying this is better. neither have the republicans, hardly neither of them have read the bill. he had a political win for a second there, but the problem is the repercussion. >> mark meadows, and mark sapdferred and the freedom caucus were actually correct. what we saw today is if you get the freedom caucus onboard then the moderate republicans will fold. and that's what we saw today. moderate republicans just folded into the process. >> but the politics for them is
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much, much worse. >> as embarrasses as it is, you can quote paul ryan who don't know the cbo score and voted for a piece of legislation. >> they said now is the moment they had to close this deal. this is what they campaigned on. >> yeah, you're going to recess, taxes are in june, a lot of folks are cutting taxes, working on a healthcare bill. so yeah, time was of the essence here. i think the mentality is every day we're close door the calender of 2018, it becomes harder to deal with healthcare. i'll be totally canned dud with you. a lot of members of congress on the republican side, they just want to declare a victory. they just want it go home and tell their base we repealed and replaced obamacare. are they going to do exactly
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just that, perhaps not. but they want to be able to sell that back home. and this is why. mid-terms is based on the own enthusiasm of your voters. after seven years of voting to repeal it, they would have had a heck of a -- >> are they excited to be about their mid-terms that this is going to hurt republicans and they're going to run on this? >> i think it's immature. at the same time, we don't really know what's going to happen. especially if this is going to the senate or -- >> we have no idea. >> yeah, i think i would be -- i would hold back a little bit. >> but you know in 2010 barack obama lost 63 seats in the house and a half a dozen seats in the senate so -- >> after he got obamacare. >> well, that's what i mean.
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so the point is this could be a problem. we republicans, we do like taxes. we like economic issues. this freeze us up now because there's $840 billion in tax relief here that now we can start talking about something we're really passionate about. that's number one. number two is bernie sanders tonight he said i want to work on a bill. we haven't seen it with -- >> even barack obama came out and said if you want to work to make obamacare better, i will work with you. this is not a new concept. >> well, republicans are going to work with bernie sanders. >> the problem is its off the house's uh-uh genda now. the senate will have pressure. i like to see centers have to work. >> that's the problem. today was a disappointing day
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for the united states of america on both sides. you have a republican congress in leadership who failed to fundamentally do their job. at least understand what's in it if it's going to affect our economy. and then you have democrats who looked childish and looked -- i mean i was disappointed in many of my mentors and many of my colleagues for singing on floor when you're going to have woom who are going to have breast cancer and won't be able to get healthcare. >> house republicans padsed the bill without waiting for a congressional budget office. with the travelocity customer first guarantee...
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tonight the gop healthcare bill has cleared its first hurdle in congress. the next step obviously a tough sell in the senate. they passed the plan without waiting for the senate to pass the bill. back in march the krrkbo said the original bill that was introduced would leave 4 million people uninsured by 2026. joining me now is an author and a senior economic adviser for the trump cal pain.
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secretary rice, this bill, who wins or luszs? >> well, the winners are people who are lerly people healthier. and the losers are people who are poorer. we don't know exactly how much the winners are going to win and the how much the losers are going to lose, because the cbo haept scored yet. but undoubtedly, there's going to be money on the table, and that money is going to go to a tax cut for wealthy individuals and to private corporations. and i use these words, this is morally repugnant. >> bob, i mean you know there were millions and millions americans across the country who are facing incredible financial stress because of obamacare. i live in virginia. we just lost, anderson, another insurance keechl there.
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so we're one of those areas where there's almost no competition left because so many of the insurance companies have dropped out of the market. i believe with greater competition, you could cover everybody in this country, anderson. and this is what the republican bill aims to do, and do it at a much lower cost so it's affordable to people. the last 15 years or so the average middle class worker has not had a pay raise. and it's because healthcare costs or so expensive that any raise workers would get is going to pay for higher and higher healthcare costs their employers have to pay. i don't believe, anderson, that obamacare on the current path its on is sustainablemism you're going to have tens of millions of people lose it because of -- >> you said moments of ago that a lot of people are suffering
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hardship under the affordable care act. we done know how many millions are going to lose their health insurance now. those, subsidies, by the way, kept up with increases in premiums. health insurance costs are going up all over the country even for people gnat are not in obamacare. it is generic problem right now. how can you possibly say that obamacare, the affordable care act was actually was cruel or a burden to people? that is absurd. >> well, let me answer the question. because every promise that barack obama made about obamacare turned outtabe allie. it is not true in many cases you can deep your own hospital and provide your own health shoourps company. if you're a $40,000, $50,000 a year family in income, and you have to pay thousands in
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insurance, that's a big -- >> steve, let me ask you -- steve, is it right that republicans voted for this in many cases without actually reading it? >> well, look, would i rather have 72 hour, 96 hours to read every page of the bill, yeah, but let's face it, anderson. it was nancy pelosiy said we'll read the bill after we passed with obamacare. so democrats are being a little hypocritical there. well, i think the big debate here is a conflict of vigs about just listening to your debate earlier, anderson, but whether we should move towards a government run system. it's something robert rice is very much in favor of. and i think let's have that debate. do we really want to have that healthcare system in america where -- >> well, that's not we're
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talking about now. what we're talking about now is a system that was doing pretty well. >> it's not doing well. >> wait a minute, although there were flaws in it, it was doing well. the preme wriums were keeping u with incressased costs. over the last six months, there was a lot of earn surnt in the market, but it could have been fix. and it still can be fixed and i hope the senate -- wait a minute, i hope the senate will actually exercise some sense and get rid of this kind of -- >> guys, i got to jump in. we'll let you continue after the break. just ahead i'm going to talk to senator mccain and does he think the house should have waited. mr. stevens? this is your new name.
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to take advantage of this offer on a volvo s90, visit your local dealer. as we said the gop healthcare bill that the house passed today now goes to the senate where it faces an even steeper hurdle and scrutiny. it passed without an actual cost estimate in direct contrast, i should say, to what paul ryan was calling for back in 2009. listen to what he said back then. >> i don't think we should pass bills that we haven't read that we know don't know what they cost. we shouldn't rush this thing through for some artificial deadline. let's get this thing done right. >> repealing and replacing obamacare was a key promise president trump made. we some signals what that might
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look like. i talked to senator mccain tonight on all this. >> what do you think of the a vote that's taking place? >> i'm glad they got it done, and we are bicameral. and i believe the senate should take it up. but we obviously have our responsibilities. there's a lot of questions including a state like mine which a medicaid expansion state. but i'm glad we're moving forward. >> what are the big questions? what do you hope the coverage version the. >> coverage is big. pre-existing conditions is a concerning issue. yes, we should have had a cbo estimate. quite frequenly, i disagree. but we should still have an assessment from them, and that's got to be part of the debate.
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>> your colleague tweeting out yesterday, amendments have not been scored and three hours of debate should be viewed with caution. >> that's absolutely right. and i don't know try to tell the house of representatives how they should conduct themselves, but -- how that should be in the senimatech. >> didn't get a lot of pick up. but he said something i thought was very interesting. he said u.s. foreign policy should sometimes separate values, things like freedom, dignity, and way people are treated in foreign policies around the world. basically, it's sort of a definition of what the marn first trump policy is. is that the america you want? >> as you know, i like so many others was a proud foot soldier in the reagan revolution. and i think historians have all
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agreed that ronald reagan won the cold warl without firing a shot. that was margaret thatcher, former prime minister of england's comment. and what was the basis of ronald reagan's then approach to the soviet union? it was adherence to human rights and values and freedom and matching what we had in our country with what took place in the soviet union. >> andrea merkel in a meeting brought up the witnesses in russia. that's something that's sort of putting human rights in the conversation is something americans should do. >> if we don't stand for human rights as a fundamental principle, that doesn't mean it's the only principle. but it is a fundamental principle, and we're really no defer than any other country. >> do you think president trump has that opinion? >> i hope so.
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i know he was deeply move bide the chemical weapons use and the micktures of the dead children as a result of bashar al assad's use of chemical weaponmizech and believe that was the motivation for the cruise missile stiek strike. >> he invited the president of the philippines to the white house. >> i do not understand the comment about the north korean crazy dictator who is capable of cruelty that we can only imagine and -- >> he shouldn't be honored to sit down with him? >> no, it should not be an honor. in fact, i wouldn't sit down with either one of them unless there was a tangible result that would come from it, and that what we were just talking about would be part of the conversation. the president of the philippines is now practicing and
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legitimizing extra judicial killings. >> he's encouraging police and others to just kill. >> yeah, and i understand he even bragged about when he was a mayor of doing it himself. if you count that kind of behaver, then you count it in other countries as well. so there has to be a price for him to pay in order for us to have a normal relationship. >> the power centers in this white house from the outside it's sort of hard sometimes to figure out, obviously, to know who has the president's ear. but i know you have great faith in general mcmaster. >> mattis. >> mattis as well. it seems like a number of times data has been used to assure allies well, the president may have said this, but our policies remain something different. >> that's the best example. the president said the south
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koreans would pay for, and mcmaster said not to worry about it. we have to focus more on what he does. and i think sometimes, and i'm not trying to sicoanalyze or something. but i think sometimes he says some things and get his advisers around him and he listens to them. i know he listens to mattis and mcmaster. >> in terms of the investigations into this president that are ongoing, how much confidence do you have in the committees that are investigating? do you think there should be a selective committee? >> i do. and i think that there's cooperation particularly now in the house intelligence committee. i think their cooperating more. i think in the senate there are
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two good men and women on both sides of the aisle and our intelligence committee. and i think that this issue t n transcends intelligence committees. there's all kinds of activity that took place during the period the russians tried to change the outcome of our election. >> you think it's not just smoke but fire there? >> i am sure the russians tried to interfere. now the question is then what are the events surrounding it, what individuals played in it? and if they did, what roles did they have? there's so many aspects of what started as just an investigation about the russian attempts to change the outcome in the election of 2016. >> and in your experience when there's so many issues, there's something there. >> there's no doubt in my mind. we already know there was things
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there. we already know general flynn didn't report some of the money he received. we already know mr. manafort had a closer relationship with the russians and the with covech, the putin sponsored dictator of that time. we know the report of this. >> senator, mccain, thank you very much. up next more testimony from director comey today behind closed doors. with this level of engineering... it's a performance machine. with this degree of intelligence... it's a supercomputer. with this grade of protection... it's a fortress. and with this standard of luxury... it's an oasis. the 2017 e-class. it's everything you need it to be...and more. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing.
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with the house intelligence committee. he was not the only one they heard from today as they put on a more united front in russia's meddling into the 2016 election. jim sciutto has tonight's russia/white house watch. >> reporter: republican and democratic leaders of the house intelligence probe of russian meddling in the 2016 election, trying to send a message of unity. after partisan bickering. >> we're working very well together, the whole committee is. >> reporter: they emerged from behind closed doors where they heard from mike rogers and fbi director james comey. lawmakers say comey has a tough road ahead as the fbi's investigation which includes probing links between trump advisers and russians during the campaign continues. >> it's no secret. comey doesn't get invited to many parties on capitol hill. he's about as popular as cholera. but i respect that about him. the impression i get of comey is, he's going to do his job and he doesn't much care who gets mad at him.
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>> reporter: it comes after comey's four-hour testimony wednesday, where he defended himself from accusations that his actions during the campaign helped tip the election to donald trump. he made it clear that russia is still interfering in u.s. politics, targeting both parties. >> is it fair to say that the russian government is still involved in american politics? >> yes. >> is it fair to say we need to stop them from doing this? >> yes, fair to say. >> do you agree with me the only way they're going to stop is for them to pay a price for interfering in our political process? >> i think that's a fair statement. >> reporter: a total of four congressional committees are now investigating russia's role in the election. members traveling from capitol hill to cia headquarters in virginia to review classified materials. cnn was first to report on wednesday the former national security adviser susan rice is declining an invitation from senator lindsay graham to
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testify before a committee he chairs investigating russia. a source familiar with rice's deliberations said rice refused because the invitation was not bipartisan. the ranking democrat told wolf blitzer, her testimony is not relevant to the committee's relevance on russian interference. >> i think it would have diverted from the thrust of the hearing for her to come there. >> reporter: president trump, however, took aim this morning on twitter, saying, quote, susan rice, the former national security adviser to president obama, is refusing to testify before a senate subcommittee next week on allegations of unmasking trump transition officials. not good, exclamation point. cnn has reported that both republican and distribute lawmakers who have examined the unmasking request found nothing unusual or illegal. >> we just saw in your piece, the house intelligence committee
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members trying to present a very bipartisan united front. are they really working in a bipartisan way? >> from what we hear, no. or at least not enough. i think we saw some of that on display at the public hearings like the questions, like the members, were split along party lines. republican members focusing on leaks, that kind of thing, and democrats focusing on alleged ties between trump advisers and russians. we hear behind closed doors today, no longer playing for the cameras, but again, the questions were along partisan lines. that's in the house committee. and some of their divisions have been very public, as you know, going back to devin nunes. but we're beginning to hear that not only from democrats, but also republicans, the splitting along the lines. the senate probe is supposed to be the adult in the room for this. they're making something of an evident here. but the signs right now don't look good for this being a truly bipartisan effort. >> we'll be right back.
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here's the thing. this is not about winners or lose es. it shouldn't be. this is life and death for millions of americans. you'll hear from them tonight in this broadcast. but first, i want to bring in our senior white house correspondent jim acosta, also political analyst david drucker, and author of at mama's knee, and the author ofly billy eology. president trump is in new york tonight finishing up a speech there at the intrepid. his speech finishing up just moments ago. president and republicans taking a victory lap for this house vote. a victory today for them. it barely squeezed by, 217 to get it done. they needed 216, they got 217, just one over. the president took that victory lap. take a look and then we'll continue our conversation. you first, jim. let's listen.
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>> i went through two years of campaigning, and i'm telling you, no matter where i went, people were suffering so badly with the ravages of obamacare. and i will say this, that as far as i'm concerned, your premiums, they're going to start to come down. we're going to get this passed through the senate. i feel so confident. so the journey continues. we will get it done. we will have great, great health care for everyone in our nation. >> so jim, the president obviously really needed this. it has been said that that's how he got that win. members felt like he needed at least a win. so no doubt he got a deal done in the house. is he celebrating a little prematurely? >> don, i think they might want to call it schoolhouse rock on youtube. holding a victory party in the rose garden of the white house

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