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perhaps. it doesn't offense me. somewhat amuses me. >> on the plaque he said who's to say that didn't happen? several club members wouldn't talk to us on camera either. one member told me i'm sick of everything being blamed on president trump. >> brian todd, thank you. thank you for watching. erin burnett "out front" starts now. >> next, 13 men crafting the senate's version of trump care. they couldn't find a single woman? and new developments in the russian investigation. the senate ready to subpoena former trump top aides to testify on capitol hill tonight. plus could one mistake force donald trump to release his taxes? let's go "out front." good evening. i'm erin burnett. "out front" tonight, 13 men. 13 men are deciding the future of american health care tonight.
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they are the republican senators who will take the house bill passed yesterday and crafts an aversion called trump care. that version could be the law of the land and there is not one table at the table to represent more than half the population of this country. let me show you the 13. there they are. lots of questions, including this. why couldn't they find one woman to represent the concerns of 126 million female adults in the united states of america? what can they realistically bring to the table when the conversation turns to, let's just say, childbirth, maternity leave, ovarian or even breast cancer? i want to read what one of their aides told our dana bash. i want to read it in full. they said --
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well apparently that's what good governing is these days according to those 13 white men. we begin with phil mattingly on capitol hill. it seems like a pretty glaring omission, right? we're talking about 51% of the country not included. there are big medical differences between men and women. are republicans really going to cut women out of their process? >> reporter: yeah. it was hard to miss. there are five female republicans high profile, well thought of and are expected to play a big role in this process. i think what it underscores is they're at the early stages of
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this and there are going to be a lot of people involved. what's interesting over the course of the last 48 hours was their reception to the house bill at all. take a listen to how they responded to the passage. >> well, the senate will write its own bill. that's the way it works, right? >> we will work together carefully to write our own bill. we will make sure we know what our bill costs when we vote on it. >> yeah. so when you heard from lamar alexander, the chairman of the health committee over in the senate, basically a little bit of a not so subtle shot at the house for moving their bill without knowing what it costs and making it clear they're moving in their own direction. this group of 13 is talking -- moving in a diverse perspective. changes are expected. whether it's the medicaid expansion, the shape of the tax credit, whether it's the obama care regulations that became such a hot issue in the house but also another issue that i
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think is really important, planned parenthood defunding. that's in the house bill. two of the women in the senate, susan collins and lisa her cow ski have made clear they don't support that. they can only lose two of their members and still pass the bill. you talk about who's going to be involved, how they're going to be involved, they don't have a choice. everybody in this conference is going to have to play a part of this process. >> right. >> to your point, it's better to be in the room early than outside and consulted earlier. >> you could have thought they would brought them into the room, if nor nothing else to avoid this glaring gaff. >> what does it mean for millions of americans who have preexisting conditions? dr. sanjay gupta is "out front." >> # 3-year-old valerie daniel does all the typical things a
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mom of two does. also typical, she suffers from a chronic illness. in her case it's crohn's disease. an inp plamgs of her g.i. tract. there will be winners and losers in the new health law. the winners, the young, the healthy. on the losing side could be millions of americans with chronic conditions like valerie. every few weeks valerie makes a 40-minute drive to the hospital for treatments. >> this is a lifetime commitment. >> you couldn't not takes the treatment? >> i have no options. at this point i have are tried every drug, surgeries, procedures. this was my option. decisions -- >> without insurance, a year's dosage could cost valerie about $20,000. >> are you worried about the affordable care act being repealed and the impact it would
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have? >> i'm nervous not knowing the future, knots knowing exactly what's going to be voted on. what are they going to keep? what are they going to do for people like me who have chronic illnesses. >> under the house bill now at the senate, insurance companies could possibly put limits on coverage of certainly treatments, depending on the state. states may no longer require insurers to cover essential health benefits like emergency and preventive care and people with a chronic or preexisting condition like asthma, diabetes, or kroens skis like valley has could potentially have to pay more. >> how did you do? >> if valerie maintains her health insurance without any gans longer than 63 days, the proposed law should protect her from any jumps in her premiums. problem is that can be hard to do. on average 30 million people have gaps in their insurance
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coverage because they're out of work, too sick to work or cannot afford it. >> my husband lost his job three years ago. there was a time we were unemployed. we were told we had no choice. >> when you look at this overall, as a consumer, someone who uses it, what grade would you give our health insurance system? >> i could probably say about a c. >> c. all right. >> maybe a b minus. >> one of the things that comes up, erin, obviously, when you hear from someone like valerie is obviously people with chronic illness, they utilize the health care system more. listen to this. about 1% of people in this country account for 21% of health care cost. 5% account for 50%. if cost issue is something that's really not addressed in either one of these plans onand something that has to be
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addressed to fix the health care system once and for all. >> right. as you lay the numbers out, ultimately, that's the issue. sanjay, if you could stay with me, i'd really appreciate it. i want to bring mark and phil. when you see sanjay's reporting and you take valerie's story. there are millions like her with chronic illness across this country. you hear the statistics, right, on how 20% of the people account for 80% of the costs in this country. are lawmakers ever going to be honestly saying that these people, people like valerie will not lose coverage? >> listen, i think that -- no. i don't think so i have think they may believe it. they may say it enough times that they think in fact it is a fact but the bottom line is there are people who are going to be hurt. up think we'll know in a week or
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so what the cbo shows. 40 million people were going to lose insurance. we'll see when the budget office actually scores this bill, reviews it and these members of congress, the house members who are back home perhaps they'll start getting an earful from their stwentconstituents. >> sanjay, on that statistic front, when you can say 1% accounts for how much? >> 21% of health care cost. 5%, 50%. >> is that part of the calculation here for some of the members in the senate. when they look at this they're hoping that the statistic is more powerful than the individual story? obviously 1% accounting for 21% of the cost, that's a small group of people. from a purely voting political perspective, that might be something they could overcome. >> yeah, look, that's really the rational of what you saw come through in in the house.
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it is the divergent idea logical views of how health care should be handled. i saw it crystal clear over the last couple of weeks. if you want to gets premiums down, some of the things you would need to provide people that help drive costs up might have to go away. that's exactly the core of the internal debate we saw in the republican party over the course of the last three weeks. i think the big issue is now -- you can hear it from sanjay's piece -- this is real. this is real life for a lot of these people. when you have the effort to maybe address the majority of your constituents who don't have to deal with while you still have to deal with personal stories, it is a very, very difficult position for lawmakers to be in. one that senators kinds of reconsider rewriting portions of this isare going to have to grapple with every day.
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>> so the bill -- look, we know it's going to change in the senate. as you know, there's the calculus that republicans are playing with right now. i wonder how much it's going to change in the senate. president trump talked about health care last knights in the meeting with the proimsz of australia. he said something that everyone on this panel will find pretty shocking. let me play it for you. >> we have a failing health care -- i shouldn't say this, great gentleman and friend from australia because you have better health care than we do. we're going to have great health care pretty soon. obama care is failing. >> they have a universal health kaifr system, australia does, which the president and senators say is anathema to them. bernie sanders seized the moment and responded. >> let's look at the australian health care system. let us move to a medicare for all system that does what every
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other major country does, guarantee health care for everyone. thank you, mr. senate. we'll quote you on the floor of the senate. >> did the president realize he just endorsed universal health care? >> i don't know. it's clear he doesn't understand the health care system is now, he doesn't understand how australia executes its health care system. it's comments like this that make it more difficult for republicans as they're selling the plan and frankly, its makes it more difficult for people to buy into the idea that they have the right proposal to overhaul health care as we know it right now. we understand there are problems with obama care that need to be fixed. but when president trump does that, erin, he dishimself no good. >> i think what mark mentioned is a crucial point here. the reality of it is obama care was not working for a lot of
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people, even the people it was supposed to help. some were helped dramatically. others, the preems you may answer were surging so much, they couldn't afford them. the reality is the system in this country is broken at this time, right? >> there are problems with it. i wouldn't say it's completely broken. some of the problems were also of the republicans' making. obama care had a lot of risk protections in the back of it to help lower premiums and help insurers get through this but the republicans blocked some of the fund norg, so the insurers had to increase premiums a lot because they weren't getting the risk protections on the back end to help cover these high-cost patience. >> another thing we pointed out which seems important, knots from a political point of view but actually from a health care point of view, a health care working grew up in the senate, the republicans getting togethers to put this together. they're saying they represent their constituents, it doesn't matter where they're from, what race they are, what jenlder it
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is. the reality of it is is it is all men, 13 men. flgts not diverse in any respect at all, but certainly not in terms of jenlder. what do you think about that, just from your perspective as a medical doctor, given that women, of course, have medical needs and risks that men simply do not have? >> on one hand, there are certainly male medical doctors and people in the medical profession who take care of women's issues, breast cancer, cervical cancer, some of the things you mentioned. on the other hand, you're talking about a very -- hopefully, a comprehensive bill and the idea that you wouldn't have some other -- you wouldn't have women on this panel offering their points of view, i think probably is being really shortsighted. i don't want to say that there's not men who can address some of those issues that you mentioned, but i think it seems like an oversight. >> all right. thank you very much. i appreciate all of you taking the time tonight. "out front" next, breaking news
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on the russian investigation. the washington post is reporting at this moment that general michael flynn was warned by senior members of the trump transition team about concerns over contacts with russia's ambassador. so why did they say they knew nothing about it? we have the breaking news. plus more breaking news. why is trump's second pick for army secretary dropping out tonight? an outrage over a rain by two teenagers. the administration not backing down, even though charges are dropped. hi guys. it's great to be here. in the desert. at the mall. on the mountain. at school. at the beach. in the big easy. yeah. yeah. today i want to show you guys the next-gen chevy equinox. what do you think? that's pretty. pretty sexy. it's all-wheel drive. look at that. it looks aggressive. but not overbearing. it's not too big. not too small. it looks like it can go off-roading. but at the same time, it looks like a car you can take to a nice event.
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warned by senior members with trump's team weeks before, weeks before the december call that eventually led to flynn's firing. cnn is seeking comment from the administration and from flynn. evan perez is out front in washington. we have a lot of news on the investigation tonight. although this crossing literally minutes ago. when did the trump transition team know about this? does it conflict with what they said later when they said they didn't know about some things snoo. >> it does appear to conflict with the explanations that we've heard from the administration. certainly conflicts with the way they handled the flynn matter, because as you recall, even after sally yates, the acting attorney general, came to the white house and warned them about discrepancies between what flynn had told the vice president pence and the explanations that had been offered an what was discussed with the russian ambassador in that december phone calm, even after all of that, it took weeks
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before the white house took any action against michael flynn. it was only after the washington post published a story about the sanctions discussion that they finally did move to get rid of him and to fire him. it does conflict with a lot of what the white house has explained about how this was handled. >> evan, stay with me. i know you have more breaking news. i just want to get reaction to this. tony blinking is with us, the former deputy si secretary of state and our analyst paul. lets me ask you, trump's transition team warned flynn about his kaktsds with the russian ambassador in late november. how serious of a development is this, given that it could contradict what time line they gave later? >> what we have is a long litly of the trump administration and campaign not being forthcoming and denying things that later prove to have happened. it's like any of these situations in washington. when something like this
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happens, put everything out right away. just get it all out there because instead you're faced with this drip, drip, drip where everything you said winds up being contradicted and that's not good for the administration's credibility. so again, i think if there's more, they just get it out there, let the chips fall where they may and be done with this. >> bhar you saying? they're saying that they -- obviously it would now appear that they knew that there were issues and they warned him about them. then they said they were aware of no issues, they said for weeks, if not months. >> well, it's clear that they were really worried about him because they forced him out of office. the president, however, kind of surprised everyone when flynn went shopping his immunity deal. the president said go ahead, you're an honorable man, you haven't done anything wrong, you should get immunity. this suggests they were looking at a lot of things it's just another example of the president going out on a limb and making comments with incomplete
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information, i think, and i think it's why you keep quiet when you haesh there's an investigation going on. >> when you hear immunity, you said usually people don't ask for immune tip -- the president did this -- unless you've done something wrong. >> that's correct. >> and with this development? >> it leads united states down the road that flynn was worried about exposure and that he did something wrong. i want to be clear. not everybody who asked for community has done something wrong. usually, there's something they're worried about, seriously worried when they make an immunity request. >> evan, you have more breaking news, which is -- the senate calling, putting out thelers of who they want to come in and testify. carter page on that list. others, of course, high profile witnesses from the trump campaign. carter page is responding with a pretty stunning response, rights? >> that's right.
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all along carter page said he was ready to come in and help this investigation. he said he was willing to cooperate. in other words, he was saying bring it, i have nothing to hide. but then today he said that well as an average citizen he doesn't have all the means to provide the information which the committee is asking for, financial reports of ties with russians, etc. that's what the committee is looking for from carter page, roger stone and michael flynn, among others. we have a statement which says i expect the physical reaction of the clinton-obama geechl perpetrators will be along the lines of severe vomiting when all the facts are exposed. what he's troefrg there, the comment that director james comey said from the fbi said this week,000 essentially he was feeling mildy nauseous at what the fbi did last year on
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handling the thing last year had an effect on the election. >> if carter page is refusing to cooperate, you heard evans words that all the facts would come out and induce severe vomiting. what do you make of page sending such a letter to the committee when they are asking for serious testimony? >> erin, a couple of things. first, it's important to remember that to the extent that mr. page was the target of surveillance, that would have been done pursuant to a request not from the obama white house but from the justice department or the fbi, and the basis for that warrant has to be probable cause that either he committed a crime or was a foreign agent and that warrant is issued by a judge. so if he's pointing the finger at the obama administration, he should really be looking in the mirror instead and as to feeling nauseous, i think the american people may well feel sickened at the fact that russia interfered
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in our election and that the possibility that people colluded with the russians in that effort. >> and paul, just to be clear. it was a pfizer request and it was for carter page. he had met with a known russian spy, exchanged information with him. he had taken money from russian -- >> oh, he's in deep. when a support issues an order saying it's ok to surveil an american citizen, as tony says, you have to have probable cause that a crime has been committed and a strong suspicion that the person has something to do with the crime. so clearly he's looking for an immunity deal. >> thanks very much to all. next, breaking news, another trump pick for a top government post dropping out tonight. why? and the white house used an alleged rape case as an example of why the united states must
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crack down on illegal immigration. the rape charge, though, dismissed tonight. what is the trump administration saying now?
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. breaking news at this hour. a top nominee of president trump dropping out. mark greene was trump's second pick, second try for army secretary, made a host of controversial comments chicago saying that being transgender a is a disease. justifying his withdrawal saying unfortunately due to attacks against me this nomination has become a distraction. athena jones is at trump's golf course in new jersey tonight. what does the administration say tonight? >> erin, the white house is declining to comment. so is the pentagon. but as you mentioned, greene is with drawling after coming under fire after past controversial statements have come to light not just on transgender issues but also on islam and evolution. greene is a retired army
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southe surgeon and he's the president's second pick for this post. the president tapped greene in april after his first choice, a bill air had to withdraw because he had issues divesting with his financial holdings. greene is, as some say, is the liberal left but it isn't just liberals whoovk critical of him. erin? >> obviously, a blow. i mean, in terms of they need to get those positions in. now they have to find someone else for that. there was, though, very big news and good news for the president today, the latest jobs report, 4.4% for unemployment in april. that is the lowest rate in the decade. how big of a deal is this, does the president think this is? >> well, this is a big deal. this is a president who ran on being a jobs president. in shah video the white house put out last week, a week or so
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ago, touting his accomplish in the first 100 days, one of the data points was about the number of jobs he's added since being in ufsz. it's a bit surprising to not see him take to twitter to celebrate. he did tweet later in the day, sometime after 3:00 saying jobs, jobs, jobs, and a link to a fox news clip that talks about this, what they call an exceptional jobs report. the white house not making as big a deal out of it today as you might expect. >> not as big a deal but of course he came out with all caps and came out with his nernlt that tweet. thank you for your report. now, to our panel. jonathan, 4.4%, lowest level in a decade. that puts it back to the peak of the incredibly job market before the great recession. how much credit do you give president trump?
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>> very little credit and i think in fact any honest economist will say presidentsing don't have that much effect on jobs at that level. certainly, trump's only been in office, as we know three months, and it has very little to do with him, even though he's been a pathological liar about this, and i have some standards from this. fortune magazine looked at the claims he's made over the last three months, looked at some and found most . the bls saided in that time period since he'd been in office, only 533,000 jobs had been created. fortune gave that a false grade. he gets very little credit for this. i could go through others. >> steve, very little credit? >> well, i think this is confirmation that there has been a trump bounce in the economy. we saw it the day after the
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election with the stock market really taking off. by the way, there's relief in the white house. because we had a bad jobs report as you recall. >> right. >> the gdp number that came out a week or two ago for the first quarter was very week, less than 1% growth. >> yeah. >> i think there's a sigh of relief that it looks like the economy's back on track. it's interesting with these numbers right now, we have a situation where we're getting -- while we still have a lot of -- we still have a lot of people out of labor force. >> right. >> that's what i mean -- >> but -- >> we're getting close to getting to full employment where more and more employers that i talk to erin are telling me that one of their biggest problems is finding workers. >> so -- >> and filling these jobs that are out there. >> let me take off on those points. i agree with steve that certainly it's a sigh of relief but it is one month and we have to look, you'll agree, several months -- >> sure. >> -- and see how that plays
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out. here are the two points. i think the first one steve will agree. people's wages will still low, that's part of the problem. the buying power, particularly in a economy, people wages are too low. you may not agree that this is one of the reasons we've been pushing for a hike in the minimum wage to $15. i know you probably don't agree with that. if you look at productivity over the years, about $20 an hour it should be. if i can say one last thing. >> ok. >> if the affordable care act is repealed the millican institute under indicates we'll lose between 1 trillion dollars if it's repealed. >> i want to ask you about this, steve. the president came out today, jobs, jobs, jobs, ok? >> uh-huh. >> he's proud of this report. here's the thing. he has a trail 50 miles long and
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he doesn't try to hide his trail. here is what he said in the past about the jobs numbers and whether we can trust them. >> the unemployment number, as you know, is totally fix. i hear 5.3% unemployment. that is the biggest joke there is in this country. the 5% figure is one of the biggest hoaxes in american modern politics. >> ok. if 5% was the biggest hoax in modern politics, i don't know what 4.4 is, steve. >> i feel a little gmt. i was telling him these unemployment numbers are misleading. because we have so many millions of people outside the labor force. that's true. there's another statistic that -- i don't want to get in too much details -- people who have dropped out of the work 230rs or can't get a job.
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i think that should be the number we should be using. another quick point about the jobs report that i think is interesting. i've talked about this on your show and others and been criticized for it. in terms of the mining industry, another 8,000 jobs created in the mining industry this month. >> which he promised he would do. >> and he's creating them. >> mining jobs is not the future of this country but health care is. we're going to lose if the aca is repealed. >> i got to address that. there are two things that deterred employment in the obama deem. one was a 50-worker rules. a lot of employers became 49ers, they capped the number of hours you could work. people cut back on hours as well. both those things hurt, not helped employment. >> i don't know whether it was you guys or what it was, but anyway, the president has just tweeted great jobs report today -- it is all beginning to
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work! somewhere in the depths another tweet has emerged. >> i'm not taking responsibility for that at all. >> thank you both. "out front" next, reign charges against two undocumented teens dropped. what's the white house saying about that now? one state may have found a way to force donald trump to release his taxes. so says the united states attorney general. he's my guest out front front. cloirt builder weedd, bill has nothing to worry about. it kills weeds cloirt cloi
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. tonight, the white house not backing down, refusing to retract its comments on an alleged rape case that they used as an example of why the united states should crack down on illegal immigration. prosecutors have dropped rape charges against two teens who entered the united states illegally and were accused of attacking a 14-year-old class might in a bathroom stall. >> reporter: a starting case that drew national attention. a 14-year-old girl allegedly attacked and raped by two teenage boys in a maryland high school bathroom. the fact that the boys has
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entered the united states illustrate legally a few months ago drew an attack from the white house. >> it's disgusting what this young woman in rockville went through. i can't possibly imagine. >> press second sean spicer didn't stop there. framing the case as an example of the need for tougher immigration standards. >> but i think part of the reason that the president has made illegal immigration and crackdown such a big deal is because of tragedies like this. >> reporter: but that story that drew such a strong reaction from the highest person of american government has changed dramaticcally. >> i comment the state's attorneys office for dropping the rain charges and doing the right thing. obviously, this young girl was not raped. >> reporter: prosecutors today dropping the kpargescharges answer henry sanchez and jose man tanno after evidence that there was not enough to corroborate the girl's initial claims. >> we have concluded that the facts this case do not support
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the original charges filed in this matter. >> the suspects' attorneys have argued from the beginning that the encounter was consensual. at this point prosecutors have released new child porn charges because of exchange of photos over the telephone. >> this case blew up because they bleedly assumed they were immigrants and as a result they immediately assumed that they were rapists. >> reporter: despite the new dynamics in this case, the white house refuses to retract its earlier statements. >> is there a general danger that the white house in its rhetoric are animating too many people to jump to conclusions against immigrants and in the process diminishing the entire immigrant community, whether they're law abiding or not? >> not at all. the president has been
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incredibly outspoken against crime in any form, fashion. look, this is a law and order president. he's focused on restoring law and order. >> reporter: meanwhile, the maryland school district where this took place has no interest being the focus of a political argument here in washington. at the time, the montgomery county public school superintendent jack smith said they support everyone who walks through the door. he said safety and security is on the minds of every snunt their schools. erin? >> thanks very much. coming up, president trump's tax returns may be released. new york's attorney general is my guess. madeline mccann dominated headlines. you remember the sweet face when she disappeared decades ago. will new details reveal what happened? >> they described what they called an ugly pockmarked
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. new tonight, a plan to take down trump care. it's only been a day since it passed but already the new york attorney general is threatening a lawsuit. out front attorney general eric snyderman. unconstitutional? >> if the bill's passed in its present form, it's illegal. if they pass the bill in the form the house passed it, it is
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unconstitutional. it includes an unconstitutional attack on women's right to reproductive health services, including abortion. it's drafted in a way that really in a tricky way tries to wipe out planned parenthood, goes out states funding prohibited funds but prohibited in the way that the only thing in the country that applies is planned parenthood. that would pose an undue burden. >> according to the supreme court, it is still the law of the land. >> if you can't be a qualified health plan you're off the health care exchange because you can't qualify for subsidies. all this offends the constitution in two ways. you can't place an undue burden. this was pose an undue burden on
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women in that area. you can't require a state to stop funding breast cancer screenings because they also fund a constitutional protected fund. this is an earth to cut off funding for breast cancer screenings, education on sexually transmitted disease. it places an undue burden on women's constitutional rights. >> this is not the law of the land. it could change dramatically in the senate. >> right. >> you're not filing this until it's a law. >> we're going to make sure this never becomes the law of the land. it's unconstitutional in that it has a provision that's targeted directly at new york state to intervene and how we provide our medicaid funding for health care that we now divide the funding between state and blol governments. there is no legitimate federal interest in interfering with that. that's an effort by some
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congressman. they wanted this in return for their votes. it's a cynical ploy. i hope it will never become law. i hope we'll save a lot of time and trouble and not have to bring this litigation. >> you're moving to force president trump to release his tax returns. it would require elected officials in the state to release their tax returns, which would theoretically apply to president trump? >> it would apply to a lot of us. it would apply to me. >> i know you've released yours. >> we've been relying on convention for people to release their returns. obviously, that's not working anymore. i think if we have to have it by statute, i think people would agree with it. >> you can't you could make it so every
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elected official can do it. it might not pass in that record. >> most people in public life have accepted the fact that today's public world, people embrace transparency. >> do you think that you could push this through and force him to release his new york state returns. >> i think the best way to disclose it is to voluntarily disclose. the failure to diverse and the failure to disclose is going to go on. i think sooner or later this is going to come to head. >> do you think there's a smoking gun in there? >> i think you've got to disclose your interest. you can't start amending the tax laws without people knowing how it will affect your taxes. it's just not something that's going to pass with the american people. >> thank you so much for your time. good to see you. >> out front next, the unsolved
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it's been a deck indicate since the 3-year-old little girl at the time mysteriously disappeared during a family vacation to portugal. her parents sat down with cnn. >> reporter: back home in eveninglan england, a decade after their ordeal began, the mccanns face another milestone, ten years come and gone without any sign of our daughter. >> these are by far the hardest days. by far. >> it's important, though, because despite how difficult these days are, just keeping in mind how much progress we have made and while there's no evidence to give us any negative news, that hope is still there. >> they have that hope, do investigators think she could still be alive.
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>> they do, simply because nothing is telling them she's not. they don't have a body, there's nothing to say that madeleine mccann is dead. her mother is holding out hope, she still continues to buy christmas presents for every christmas since she's been home. could it be some type of adoption or sex trafficking ring, it's all very possible. >> and you're saying there were other people watching that apartment, they had left their little girl, but they had done that several nights in a row, so it's conceivable that somebody saw their pattern and actually took her. >> the investigator that was working the case said that their room was very expose. they went about 50 yards from apartment 5a.
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>> they did these listening checks, even though there was child care available at the resort, they did the listening checks every hour so the children could stay in their beds. >> special report tonight, madeleine mccann's disappearance tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern. anderson is next. good evening, thank you for joining us on what is a very busy friday night, we begin with breaking news in the russia white house watch, a report that senior members of president trump's transition team warned national security advisor michael flynn about his contacts with russia's ambassador. this is reported from "the washington post." adam, explain what you have learned, that the trump france situation team, who was it that warned flynn and what did they warn him about exactly? >> basically this is soon after the election, there's what's referred to as landing teams which have been set up for different government agencies by