affordable. >> these are our families that are being impacted, so let's please get it right. >> the trump administration says syria could be preparing another chemical attack. >> it's a very ominous statement but very much a red line. >> when you kill innocent children, innocent babies, that crosses many, many lines. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo, and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. welcome to your "new day." alisyn is off. brianna keilar by my side. >> good to be here. >> first up, republican leaders in the senate facing the prospect their health care bill could be on the brink of defeat. you have a lot of republican senators don't even want to debate it yet. why? well, most recently the congressional budget office weighed in and they show the impact of the senate version is just about as dangerous as the house version. so what's the response from the white house? well, of course to blast the bases of criticism n this case,

a non-partisan organization known as the kr,cbo, the white house says with a history of inaccuracy. the white house says assad is preparing for another chemical strike, telling the assad regime they will pay a heavy price if they carry out another attack. we have all of this beginning with cnn's suzanne malveaux live on cap towel hill. >> reporter: the senate health care bill is on the verge of collapse this morning, it does not have the support to bring it to a debate, coming amid the devastating cbo score released yesterday making it harder for the moderates to sign on. the senate health care bill teetering on the edge of collapse, after a dead stating nonpartisan cbo report estimates that the senate gop bill would result in 22 million more americans becoming uninsured by 2026, making a vote that much

harder. >> i can put all this together and getting to 50 it will be tough and the cbo score doesn't help any. if you had problems with the deal before you probably have more problems now. >> reporter: a white house official conceding to cnn republicans are right on the threshold of losing the heal care battle. >> the report makes clear trumpcare would be a cancer on the american health care system. >> reporter: four gop senators are currently planning to vote against even starting debate on the senate floor, which would sink the effort to pass a bill this week. >> i won't vote to proceed to it unless the bill changes. we have reached out to senate leadership and said we will negotiate. we've had no phone calls. >> reporter: moderate senator susan collins explaining her decision in a tweet noting "i want to work with my gop and democratic colleagues to fix the flaws in aca. cbo analysis shows senate bill won't do it." >> these numbers we're talking about, these are men and women. these are our families that are being impacted. so let's please get it right.

>> reporter: the number of gop senators currently opposed to the legislation has grown to six, with at least three others expressing concerns. leadership can only afford to lose two votes to pass the bill. >> my state is medicare expansion state, and so we have a lot of issues. >> reporter: the cbo report also estimates that over the decade the senate bill would reduce the national deficit by $321 billion, largely by slashing medicaid funding by $772 billion, leaving 15 million fewer americans covered under medicaid, hitting older and lower income enrollees the hardest, while providing a $541 billion tax cut to wealthy and insurers, but legislation would initially cause health care premiums to rise, but would ultimately lead to a 30% reduction by 2020. >> he had several calls over the

weekend hearing ideas and opinions about how to strengthen it and will continue to support ways to make the bill stronger. >> reporter: president trump ramping up outreach to skeptical lawmakers while the white house blasts the nonpartisan cbo analysis saying "the cbo has consistently proven it cannot accurately predict how health care legislation will impact insurance coverage." vice president mike pence will host four senators tonight, three of them undecided, one of them against the bill, mike lee, to try to convince them otherwise, and what we're watching for this afternoon, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, holding a gop lunch, and senior aides telling us that look, he is still pushing forward to the friday vote, this week's vote, but after that lunch, he could reassess. brianna, chris? >> suzanne, as you keep saying ten and it bears saying this is not just about politics, it's

about people. we have chris cillizza, abbi fill up and jackie kusinich. jackie, why do we say it's just people? look at susan collins in maine, she's a real republican but also a real issue, one in every five people in her state many in rural areas on medicaid, two out of three kids who need this kind of help, the disabled, elderly, a lot in convalescent centers, all of those funding streams are in this bucket of money we're talking about. that's driving even gop resistance. >> and to your point, i looked at the headlines of several papers of these moderate members and susan collins, older rural mainers would be hit hard by senate bill. to your point they're seeing this on the front page of their papers this morning, talking about this cbo score, and the people that are going to lose health care under this bill in the next ten years, so when rob

port l portman sees hospitals fear senate bill, he's going to get calls and questions not only from the people who are sick but also from people who take care of them at the hospitals and these providers. >> i wonder, chris, what is worse, not making good on this promise of repealing obamacare, or, for instance, taking someone who is in their mid-60s, is on, you know, they're getting $26,000 a year on their income, and you quadruple the cost of their health care. i mean this is a very tough decision for republicans, but which one is worse? >> that's the rock in a hard place question they have, brianna. it was never going to be simple to repeal obamacare and let me just add parenthetically, that's not really what the american health care act does. it certainly takes out large elements the individual mandate, largest among them of obamacare,

but this is not a full scale repeal of obamacare. it's why people like rand paul and ted cruz oppose the bill, but you've hit on the essential question, which is we're seven-plus years, this was the central piece, not a piece, the central piece of the republican argument for why they needed to be put in power. it is why the base voted them in control of the senate, gave them control of the house, elected donald trump, a pbig piece of that electoral map. the political reality as jackie nicely outlined local in these states is not that simple. overhauling health care is really hard. remember donald trump said i never thought it would be this hard. there's six presidents before barack obama, it's hard from a policy perspective and more difficult from political, because it touches almost everyone's life. this is not an abstract conversation for many people. it's a cost, it's a monthly can

i afford this conversation, and that's when politics gets personal and that's when it becomes really difficult and that's where republicans are 48 hours before they expect or hope to have some sort of vote on it. >> one of the perceptions is it's off reality. abbi, why do they want to repeal it? you have many people in this country who believe that they are suffering under the aca, if they're in the individual market, and their deductibles are too high and their premiums have popped or will pop, and that's who they are talking to, with this need for repeal. now, is that number as big as all the people who were going to be added to those who don't have care, no, but it's a real group. eight a mot it's a motivated group and they need relief so how do you handle that point? >> i think there is a need to

actually do something, and i think republicans know that. democrats actually many of them do know that, and this bill does some very small things that republicans haven't done over the last let's say six years, to stabilize the marketplace, which is funding these cautionary subsidies that keep the marketplaces afloat. so in some ways, they have within their abilities some tools to actually stabilize the marketplace and bring costs down for people right now, that they've refused to do up until this point, and in the meantime, they're working on this bill that now has a whole host of other problems and i think that one of the biggest issues going into the next couple of years is that the cbo estimated that the premiums and deductibles are probably going to rise in the near term under this bill before they fall a little bit over the long-term, so you know, i think they're trying to fix two problems, a political one, which

is that they have to say they're repealing obamacare and a tactical one, they need to stabilize the marketplace but the effort to repeal obamacare is not necessarily helping in making things better in terms of the costs in the near term and the long-term. >> she's absolutely right with that, jackie. when cost, it's about cost, it's about coverage. i remember because we were on the hill covering the passage of health care reform together and when it started out democrats who wanted to pass health care reform were talking about attacking those costs, fee for service, and all of a sudden it went away and we didn't hear about it because it's a big piece of this but a hard thing to achieve. this is a problem that republicans really need to tackle if premiums are really going to go down. >> but how do you do that when you have this condensed schedule? that's what you hear some republicans asking. this is being forced through in just a couple days after just a couple days of looking at it,

and the cbo score just came out yesterday, which is one of the reasons you hear republican senators not only balking on voting for the bill but a procedural measure to even take up this bill because they want to force the senate to talk about this more and to work out the issues. now, if they do that, that could create more problems, you may not have the same unity but at the same time you might end up with a better bill. >> remind us, when it was democrats there were cbo scores and then they would take the cbo score and you might tinker with something to try to adjust the number. this was seen in a way as not just the end point a couple days before a vote. >> exactly. eight not the end point yet either. we're expecting some deals to be made over the next couple days. we don't know what they are but mitch mcconnell needs to do something, other than whisper sweet nothings to get the members that are on the fence on board. >> chris cillizza, the political

miscalculation here, too heavy to repeal and not enough in realities. abbi pointed out about them stabilizing the markets, something they refused to do for years. the genuineness of helping people with premiums is exposed with the bill they should have been doing all along but one of the biggest reasons that premiums are going to pop not according to me, according to the experts is prescription drug prices. why isn't there more momentum around fixing that part, maybe even first, you know, because you might get everybody on board with that? >> well, okay. everybody on board, i'm skeptical of, only, chris, not because i don't think consensus could actually exist, but because donald trump's name would be around it, and i just don't think you're going to get democrats who are going to sign onto anything that has donald trump's name on it because they don't trust him. they just don't, they won't do

it no matter what mitch mccobble says. >> bernie has been talking about it, cosponsored bill with john mccain. lot of energy around per sipgs drugs. it pops 70%, it's time for that industry to get hit. >> there are bills out there that do that sort of thing. i talked about this a lot because of my own personal experiences, my sons have bad nut allergies. epi pen price gouging which has been in the news the past year and a half it's ridiculous, beyond ridiculous and i think that's a common sense thing. you don't have to be a republican or democrat to see $800 for an epipen or whatever your medicine is, is not practical, is not something that the average person can or should do. this is, though, why people feel so disenfranchised and dissociated from politics, because they view it to your point, these are things there's common agreement on that doesn't really exist in a partisan way, outside of washington, but because trump is who he is,

because tribalism is where it is, donald trump didn't invent political tribalism but certainly pushed everyone more into their tribes, jackie, to your point, talking about an amazingly truncated schedule, cbo report monday afternoon, vote thursday, that's better than the house which was vote, then cbo report. so you're dealing with this schedule that is not conducive to say let's all sit down together, let's figure out what we can do. that's not going to happen even though as you rightly point out, there are clearly issues here, not every issue, but there are clearly parts of this that will need to be addressed, and that both sides actually could find some common ground on. >> chris, abbi, jackie, thank you so all of you. we have breaking news, the white house has been issuing or is issuing an ominous statement has to do with syria preparing another chemical weapons attack,

warning bashar al assad and his regime will pay a heavy price if it happens again. barbara starr is live for us at the pentagon. what's the latest there, barbara? >> good morning, brianna. the ominous statement from the white house overnight, and so far this morning, no clarification about what they're talking about. let's get right to that statement, and it says in part, let me quote, "the united states has identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the assad regime that would likely result in the mass murder of civilians, including innocent children." the statement goes on to say that if syria were to carry out such an attack it would pay "a heavy price." no clarification from the white house, the pentagon, or the state department, about what is really behind all of this, what the intelligence is, what the u.s. knows and what preparations it may be making. is this a new red line from the president? is it another u.s. counter

attack in the works? we simply do not know the answer at this point. the kremlin this morning speaking out about all of this, saying that the u.s. statement, what it views as a threat to attack syria again n the kremlin's view, that was unacceptable, and even as all of this is going on, photos emerging of bashar al assad in searia, put out by state-run tv visiting wounded troops in that country. chris? >> it gets very complicated, very quickly. the simple proposition, you hurt women and children, the united states is going to step in. the president of the united states said bashar al assad doing that to his own people crosses a lot of lines. what does that mean? what can you do? so he said that the obama cair process moved too quickly. we're talking about the republican on your screen, senator saxby chambliss. that was his criticism at the

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republicans are struggling within their open ranks. you have senators there who have populations that are sensitive to medicaid, who need the funding that the cbo says is going to get cut in this new bill. so gop aides tell cnn that the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell still wants a vote this week. democrats say things are moving too fast. some republicans say that as well. we heard a lot during the obamacare debate. there are no hearings, there were so many. what needs to happen, next. republican senator saxby chambliss of georgia, he is a veteran of the senate. he was against the aca and is in favor of repealing and replacing. senator, thank you for being with us this morning. what is your perspective on this

process this time, which is certainly more accelerated than we saw with the aca? >> well, clearly health care reform in its current state is one of the most difficult issues we've addressed from a policymaker standpoint. it was tough back in 0009 to get it done. remember, democrats couldn't agree and democrats had control of the white house, the house and the senate, had 60 votes in the senate and they had a very difficult time coming one a bill that folks could agree on and in fact we all remember the famous line of nancy pelosi who said let's pass the bill and then read it. well you know, you can't do that now, because obamacare is crashing and burning. people are alarmed when they say the cbo says 22 million, 23 million people will be without health insurance, but remember, there were 30 million, 40

million, whatever the number was, of uninsured individuals in america when obamacare passed. well, guess what? when obamacare crashes and burns that's how many uninsured individuals will be. here is where mitch mcconnell is today. he said look i've got folks on both sides of this issue, this group meeting discussing, i've got this group and comes out against it, i've got this other group. okay, guys shall it's time to fish or cut bait. let's put the bill on the floor. let's thoroughly debate it and open before the american people. let them know what each side is talking about, let the democrats engage, they've got good ideas. let everybody engage on the process on the floor of the senate. whether he gets the 0 votes today or backs off and says okay, let's go back and discuss this some more, i don't know what's going to happen but here's what i do know. it would not be good leadership on the part of the members of

the senate on both sides of the aisle to let obamacare crash and burn without doing something to fix it or repeal it and replace it. think that's going to happen. >> you're painting mitch mcconnell somebody trying to have a deliberative process to get it out to the people so they can understand the competing arguments but that doesn't seem to be the reality, senator. he did it behind closed doors, there haven't been any hearings. they were intentional in making it secretive. is that a fair appraisal to say mcconnell wants this to be an open process of debate now? >> well how much do you need to debate something that's debated for the last seven years? >> a lot, when you're changing it in a fundamental way that doesn't address the concerns you outlined. >> yeah but you can't turn on your channel or any other channel these days without hearing this insurance company is pulling out of this state

from an obamacare standpoint. >> it's not as simple. lot of states didn't accept the medicaid expansion, you haven't had the subsidies guaranteed by this administration. republicans reluctant to do what they're doing now, shoring up markets with guaranteeing subsidies to the insurers in these markets in this bill that they wouldn't to for all these year, that helped destabilize. it's not as simple as the system failing. >> well, if you let obamacare run its course, chris, i don't care what states do or the federal government does, it's the insurance companies ultimately that have to make the call, and they're making that call and pulling out. president trump said we're going to continue and not leave these folks hanging, but you take a state like my state that did not expand medicare for what i at

the time were good and valid reasons. federal government will pay for five years but the end of five years my taxpayers will have to pony up another x number of millions of dollars over the next ten years. it's not a simple issue. >> understood. i'm saying the president is tacitly allowing those subsidies to go forward. he did dangle them over the head to insurers i'm sure in making this decision. hearing from people's elected constituents and elected leaders and let them make their decision about which way to go forward, we'll see if they do that. while i have you the president's recent statement and statement out of the white house and the ambassador to the u.n., nikki haley, that if assad drops chemicals on his people again, that's a line. if he crosses it there's a price

to pay. what do you make of that warning and what do you make of that implied promise of action on the part of the united states? >> well, i remember very well the red line being drawn in 2012 i guess it was, and we got to that point of it actually being crossed, and we backed away from it. i know how passionate the president was, republican or democrat, when they saw back in april the sarin gas dropped on women and children, and the reaction of those folks, and the death of them, so i think what the president's here saying we have an indication they may be doing this again and if they do they'll pay a heavy price. what is that price? i'm not sure what it will be, but i do think he's been very plain about the fact if you cross it, you're going to pay a consequence. does that mean we're going to stick our -- we've got our toe into syria now. are we sticking our foot in

there? leg in there? what are we going to do? i think it's ohm right that bashar al assad be called on the carpet for this, and that he be required to pay a heavy military price in the event he continues to kill thousands and thousands of people like he's done for the last decade. >> this has been a humanitarian nightmare for years. what will happen to change that? saxby chambliss, former senator, thank you for being on "new day." >> if the senate gop bill goes down in defeat, how are democrats part of fixing the affordable care act? we'll ask a democratic senator, next. ugh, see, you need a loan, you put on a suit, you go crawling to the bank. this is how i dress to get a mortgage. i just go to lendingtree. i calculate how much home i can afford. i get multiple offers to compare side by side. and the best part is...

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>> good morning, brianna. good to be with you. >> we're talking about the new math from the congression all budget office about the senate bill, there is an impact by the deficit reducing by $321 billion over ten years but the number for the uninsured depose up by 22 million. 23 million by the house bill, what is your reaction to this? >> first of all, the senate bill is worse in that more people lose their health insurance next year. i do think it's important to note the one thing that's exactly the same in the house and the senate is that people lose their medical care, seniors in nursing homes, children, families, to pay for a very large tax cut for very few people, top 400 people in the country, getting $33 billion in tax cuts. so that's the same in the house and the senate and they pay for that tax cut by cutting medical care for people. that has nothing to do with

making sure the insurance exchanges work better, which is what we need to do, because we've got folks that are paying too much out-of-pocket in the private exchange, and people all across the country paying too much for prescription drugs, and so i want to tackle that. you've got legislation to tackle those things, and that's where you get bipartisan support to work together is actually bringing down costs, not take away medical care for people to pay for another tax cut. >> i know you'ring looking the at the numbers in michigan and there was a rather modest increase in ream premiums that last year when you look at the overall average in the country. >> right. >> you look at this year, 16.7%, and then there's certainly a focus on your state, that could go up to more than 30% in the next year. >> yes. >> i know you have a bill out. you say you want to tackle this, but how is there a way that democrats and republicans could tackle that issue of cost? >> well, first of all, we've got to stop the administration from

sabotaging the private insurance market. when i talk to the folks in michigan, they say just stabilize things by keeping the commitments made when health reform has passed, certain agreements to make sure they'd cover preexisting conditions without costs going up. one of the payment has gone away completely. the other one the white house says we're not going to make. we have an insurance industry not knowing what to do about the ratings and cutting the amount of time people have to sign up for the private insurance exchanges, not trying to get younger, healthier people in anymore. what i hear from the insurance companies just do what you're supposed to do in health reform shall that's a great place to start then i have a bill that would provide a 50% tax credit to small businesses for

providing health insurance, they want to, that's where the majority of uninsured people work. let's help small businesses be able to afford insurance. >> i may know the answer to this next question but i want your perspective on this, back then health care reform, health insurance reform was passed, there was criticism they had to go it alone. mitch mcconnell has his process which only includes republicans but what can democrats do to be more involved in this? >> brianna, we went through a year and a half of, back in the process of health reform, 100 hearings in committee and in committee meetings before the bill was reported to the floor, 25 consecutive days on the senate floor. this has no relationship to that. now i reached out to republican colleagues, i think they're people of goodwill that want to

come together to solve the real problem. bringing down the cost of prescription drugs. >> what do they say to you, and is this just on incremental things, on a wider comprehensive overhaul? >>. >> there's three kinds of things that help republican insurance, the insurance exchanges, if you're buying on the ohm market by yourself, where costs have gone up, i talk to colleagues how do we create more competition, how do we bring down cost. that has nothing to do in terms of medicaid. in michigan three out of five seniors in nursing homes are getting their care through medicaid. we don't have to touch medicaid in order to bring down costs, in fact providing more help to working people so they can take their children to the doctor through medicaid, in michigan has saved money, $432 million in

the michigan state budget, taxpayer savings next year because children can see a doctor instead of families going to the emergency room which is the most expensive way to get care. there's things we can do. >> i want to get your perspective on a different topic, syria. >> sure. >> you've seen the white house reacting overnight saying there are indications syria is preparing for another chemical weapons atack, warning there will be grave consequences on the part of the bashar al assad regime. what is your reaction to this? >> first of all, what syria has been doing is outrageous, it is a crisis. we need to stand on the side of people in syria who are losing their lives, their children, their families. i don't know yet, we've not gotten a briefing, i don't sit on the committees that we see that first, but we don't know exactly what is being talked about. to me it raises other questions

as well. where is russia in all of this? we have an administration that does not get tough with russia on things that would protect our country. russia has been supportive, so one question i have is what are they doing to reach out with russia to get their support to stop this as well? >> all right, senator debbie stabenow of michigan, thank you for talking health care and syria with us today. appreciate it. >> thanks. up next, a cnn exclusive, inside raqqah, the de facto isis capital, right? what does it look like now? this is proof positive of progress on the ground. next.

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which covers more than 70 million low income americans while giving tax breaks to the wealthiest americans. the top 1% receive hefty cuts, $45,000 average per year but the savings those in the top 0.1% is higher, chris, they receive an average of about $250,000 a year pause the bill eliminates taxes that affect the wealthy, one on incomes above $200,000 and another investment income, overall the bill will reduce tax revenue by $700 billion the next ten years and look at the pie chart, 67% of that money flows to the highest income earners. brianna? >> my goodness, christina, have a wonderful morning. thank you for that. a cnn exclusive, undercover video taken in the heart of isis' self-proclaimed caliphate, as it crumbles. cnn's senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is live in erbil, iraq,

exclusive video inside rack kqq. what does it tell us? >> reporter: they are no longer fearing isis the way they used to. isis used to control tightly the propaganda allowed out of the city, the occasional snatch still frame from an activist. things have changed because frankly, it's a city under siege. this is what a reign of terror looks like in collapse. isis are losing here on the streets of raqqah, the capital of their fast shrinking caliphate. it's actually pretty easy to film them in secret, using a hidden body camera in these besieged streets lined with sandbags, encircled by american-backed syrian fighters they don't fear isis anymore.

this foreign fighter is a target as he makes a front line fashion choice and elsewhere, two russian-speaking fighters appear to discuss air strikes. are the egyptian looks with his military police tunisian man. streets meant to shelter the fighters from prying coalition drones above but despite the war, even the wounded hobbling around. why there stl so much food,

shipped by nearby, commerce alive and well in the caliphate. this shop even seems to offer to change dollars. sand wags give shelter and give positions for street-to-street fighters. some rebels already made this hostile terrain. one activist telling us how he pins night letters, death threats to the doors of isis informants. we can only get to them leaving message on their door, we know who you are. this soon stops them and some of our friend writing the word "free" on the walls of isis buildings, then locals started, the elderly writing it on walls and children on chalkboards making isis wonder who are these people? it's getting ugly for isis here, they moved their prisoners out, top commanders fled, their lieutenants drive around in low-profile normal cars. their enemy is literally at the

gates. isis' world vanishing fast and this may be among the last times we glimpse into their warped way of life. nick paton walsh, cnn, erbil, northern iraq. they have nearly encircled raqqah with syrian and kurdish militants backed with an awful lot of american firepower and guidance on the ground. almost complete about a kilometer away on the south until there's a court order put in place. it could be a fight, it is moving faster it seems, certainly than the fight of liberated mosul in iraq in its eighth month. when raqqah feels the pressure you'll see fighting intense in the streets, the sandbags laid out in defensive positions for isis but a much weakened force. >> a brilliant job of isolating just a main ingredient to peace there, which is resolve among

that indigenous population to take control of its own community. thanks to nick. so whether it is the situation of the united states in raqqah or in syria at large or in iraq or just in what people feel about this world, how is that reflected in a new poll? what does the world think of our new president in the united states? we'll debate it, next. i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. booking.com gets it, with great summer deals up to 40% off. visit booking.com. booking.yeah!

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how does the world see the president? well, a difficult question to answer, obviously, but a new pew international poll of people in 37 countries. a lot of ps and a lot of numbers as well. it shows people have more confident in russian president vladimir putin than in america's new president donald trump. can they be? does this matter? let's discuss. we have cnn political commentator and the former senior communications adviser for the trump campaign, mr. jason miller. and cnn commentator bakari sellers. jason, a chance to be a human bucket of cold water on this pew poll. the idea that putin's only at 27, but that puts him higher than our president at 22. that the main adjectives of global views when it comes to trump's characteristics, arrogant, intolerant and dangerous. what do you make of this? >> one of the sillier things

we've seen in quite some time. if you want to look how president trump is viewed on the international stage look at indian prime minister modi who greeted him with a warm embrace yesterday. the way president trump was warmly received when he spoke in sewage with all of our arab allies in the region. i think for folks around the world, this poll, to say that around the world is not receiving him in a good light is silly because the fact of the matter the president is restoring our standing on the world stage. that might ruffle feathers here and there, but the folks back here in america, this is why president trump won. >> so, bakari is that what this poll means to you? a reflection that not everybody is going to like america being made great again? >> no doubt at all. i find it humorous, because jason wants us to look at the hug from the indian prime minister or a speech in saudi arabia in which the president of the united states actually took an extra $200 billion with him for an arms deal instead of

looking at real numbers, instead of looking at real data. the fact is we've actually taken a step back, retreated from the world stage and now have people filling that void, whether or not it's angela merkel or whether or not it's vladimir putin. no longer is the president of the united states, and this is the saddest thing about the trump presidency -- but no longer is the president of the united states the leader of the free world. >> so, jason, where's that perspective coming from? that, what you call, muscling up, ruffling feathers around the world can be seen as embracive and disconcertive to allies? >> to be clear i said might ruffles the feathers of those when they see the president is restoring our strong standing in the international space. again, president trump isn't trying to be secretary-general of the u.n. president trump is trying to be the president of the united states and standing up for our interests. i think he's doing a good job for that. supporters of the president who worked hard to elect him are thinking that exact thing and the fact we have a president who's actually going to stand up

for what we believe in is a good thing. >> all right. got both of your takes on what the international scene is. switch to domestic. bakari sellers, it seems that the president sees currency in looking back at the obama administration and attacking it. now, that is not new in politics. right? i mean, we see it all the time, but it is enhanced right now for president trump. what do you think of that play? >> well, i mean, i think it works for its base. you know, the president built his career, his political career, got started with the birther line. so he's been tied to barack obama for a very, very long period of time. his infatuation with the 44th president of the united states is to use a donald trump word, "sad." you know, he's not a forward-looking visionary and there are a lot of are things, whether or not it's -- whether or not it's unemployment, the stock market, any economic criteria you look at, like the growth in every individual market or demographic under

barack obama. the standing and respect he got around the world. i guess there is a lot toish d jealous of, to pronounce that every day is not becoming of the president of the united states. >> i think the president is doing a good number rolling back burdensome regulations the previous administration put in. we've seen what the previous administration did with the health care. and hopefully the senate can come up with good fixes and changes. a lot of what we see with this president is a rebuke of the previous. >> and the president did everything to ignore the russian president's interference. every time that is said, even though they have nothing to do with the trump staff specifically, that's what the president hears and rejected that notion. now he has decided to accept the notion that russia did interfere, but only to look back at the obama administration and

say, they screwed it up, which is factually untrue, although there is room for criticism, but why do that? why go after the obama administration for what they did about russian interference instead of focusing on he'll do about it now that the ball is in his hands? >> glad you brought this up. this is a fundamental misunderstanding many on the left have of president trump and -- >> you're not putting me that that group? >> no, no. you're straight down the middle, chris. absolutely love you. >> you're going to get a lot of heat for that, jason. go ahead. what's your point. >> look, if president trump, i think he's right to call out the previous administration for their failure to address this issue because so many on the left want to pin all the russian meddling on president trump and make it sound like it's an indictment on him when the fact testimony on capitol hill, russians have been trying to affect or elections for decades. it's right for the president to

push back. if he doesn't stand up and do it nobody else is going it. >> quick word on this, bakari? >> that's not true. you can criticize barack obama because hindsight is 20/20 and the president at that time should have acted more decisively and took politics out of it. the fact is, you had a candidate running for president who actually went to the root of our democracy, asked the russians to play a role, to hack these e-mails and now will not stand up to the russians. you can't have any faith in what donald trump said. >> and not one shred of proof that -- >> you got ongoing investigations. the more we let them play out, the facts will be there or won't and we'll leave it at that. appreciate your time, as always. a lot of news. this battle over health care is not just about politics but it's about people. new information. we'll give it to you. let's get after it. republicans have gone from total secrecy to total chaos.

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