you know, the federal minimum wage hasn't been raised since 2009. many states, though, are doing it themselves. now staggering these rate hikes, the wage hikes so it doesn't burden businesses all at once. the rallying cry, of course, has been $15 per hour by progressives. that may not help workers the way advocates hope. at least if you believe a study that found that when seattle hiked its wages, workers' hours dropped. ultimately earning about $125 less each month. the jury's still out on all of those wage hikes. >> far from over in that debate. >> thanks for joining us this friday morning. i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. "new day" starts now. have a great weekend. we'll see you next week. i'm appalled. this is the president of the united states. >> when he gets attacked, he's going to hit back. >> he has a role to play in uniting the country, and he threw some gasoline on the embers. >> to refer to a female's face as someone that's involved in politics is just not approved.

>> a huge distraction from the real issues at hand. >> could have a lot to tell us about russian intentions, russian engagement, how russian active measures work. >> intelligence reports show russian hackers talking about ways to find secretary clinton's emails and get them to general flynn. this is "new day" with chris cuomo and allisisyn camerota. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day." it's friday, june 30th, 6:00 here in new york. clarissa ward has been with me this week. you've been great. thanks for being with me. >> thanks for having me. >> one of the -- always a pleasure to have one of the best by my side. washington has found a point of agreement perhaps. donald trump's sexist comments about another female tv host are beneath the dignity of the office of president of the united states. the white house is engulfed in bipartisan outrage from the latest self-inflicted roadblock

which is preventing the president from moving forward more aggressively with his agenda. white house officials, even a female press secretary, defending the tweets, excusing it as a response to being attacked mercilessly saying the public is eating -- is fighting fire with fire. >> new reporting on russia's election meddling from the "wall street journal" that says a longtime gop operative tried to get hillary clinton's e-mails from hackers which implies he had a connection to fired national security adviser michael flynn. and the partial trump travel ban now in effect with fiances now making the cut under the administration's definition of a bona fide relationship. travel ban 2.0 already facing a court challenge. we have it all covered here. let's start out with cnn's reporter in washington.

>> reporter: the president had a full agenda yesterday, not only with the implementation of the travel ban but also legislation cracking down on sanctuary cities. of course, the debate over the repeal and replacement of obamacare. but with a single 51-word tweet sent before 9:00 a.m. yesterday, he took the conversation in a very different direction. >> president trump, do you regret your tweets? >> president trump silence over growing outrage over his shocking personal attack on msnbc host mika brzezinski calling her crazy and falsely claiming when she visited mar-a-lago over new year's she was bleeding badly from a facelift. >> it's frustrating because this is beneath the dignity of the president of the united states or at least it should be. >> the vitriol sparking widespread condemnation from republicans and democrats alike. >> i think it's blatantly sexist. >> frankly, i was stunned by --

>> i'm not going to defend his tweet. it was ugly. >> do a job as president of all the people of this great country and stop, stop the disrespect. >> reporter: deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was quick to defend the president's insults. >> the american people elected somebody who is tough, who is smart and who is a fighter. i don't think it's a surprise that he fights fire with fire. >> reporter: crafting the president of the united states as a victim of the press and insisting that president trump has never promoted or encouraged violence despite evidence that proves otherwise. >> knock the crap out of them, seriously. just knock the hell -- i promise you i will pay for the legal fees. >> what we're trying to do is improve the tone and civility of the debate. this obviously doesn't help do that. >> reporter: the first lady also condoning her husband's cyber bullying despite saying she made

combating this problem a focus while she was in the white house. >> we have to find a better way to talk to each other. we must find ways to honor and support the basic goodness of our children especially in social media. >> reporter: her spokesperson writing in a statement, quote, when her husband gets attacked, he pushes back ten times harder. the president's outburst the latest in a string of tasteless comments about women. on the campaign trail he criticized carly fear rin any's appearance, retweeted this unflattering picture about ted cruz's wife and said this. >> you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her, wherever. >> reporter: one last note, chris and clarissa, a new poll shows 61% of people think the president should stop tweeting

from his personal attack. this poll was taken well before yesterday's tweet storm. back to you guys. >> as we always say on the show, boris. can't get enough insight or windows into a president's thinking, what's in his head, what's in his heart. fine with the tweetsment it's what he tweets that should be the concern. boris, appreciate that roundup. let's bring in our political panel. we've got political analyst david gregory, "washington post" congressional reporter karoun demire gentleman. >> david gregory, a lot of time has been spent diagnosing the president. isn't it's cally as impressive in the kind of outpouring of what happened yesterday, what you're hearing from other gop politicians. to me that drew my eye yesterday. i'm not surprised by what the president does and says. but how people respond to it seems to be increasingly important.

>> i think that's right. i think there can still be more. i'd like to see republican leaders like paul ryan come out more -- >> especially him. >> he's so uncomfortable when he speaks about it and says obviously this isn't helpful to civility in congress and to our political debates. he should go farther. in the reality is in america we had lincoln at gettysburg and now we have trump on twitter. same office, same country. isn't that embarrassing, just embarrassing, and yet this is where we are. we have a president of the united states unfortunately has on numerous occasions expressed misogyny, hatefulness toward women, tweets about personal appearance. it shows himself to be a person of low character and really

questionable temperament being in the white house. these are serious concerns. there's plenty of people who still support him who will find a way to contextualize all this. there should be a forceful speaking out against this. it's wrong on its face and so personally self-destructive and it hurts the country and hurts the agenda. it also to me is shocking that there are people within the white house who are willing to kind of check their integrity at the door to defend some of this. but there are, and that's our reality. so this is who the president of america is, and we'll see what the ramifications are. i think we've seen kind of a numbness to this where everything can keep on moving on. in the middle of trying to get health care accomplished, it's hideously wrong, really self-destructive from the point of view of working the agenda.

>> what's interesting, you heard yesterday from dep tep press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, that he's just defending himself, fighting fire with fire. we also have heard recently from his daughter, ivanka trump, that he's the victim here. i want to play you some sound from ivanka trump. and we can talk about this idea of trump as a victim. take a listen. >> there's a level of viciousness that i was not expecting. i was not expecting the intensity of this experience. but this isn't supposed to be easy. i think some of the distractions and some of the ferocity, i was a little blind-sided by on a personal level. >> karoun, you heard it there, viciousness, distraction. do you agree with this idea, what do you make of this idea that president trump is the victim here and not the

aggressor? >> well, you know, you have to learn to take some criticism, especially when you're governing over a divided country politically. it's important to note the difference in tone. when she was talking she said i'm surprised by the viciousness. she wasn't lashing out as someone who is a high profile person has to do. this idea of making it okay when the president gets attacked he's going to hit back ten times harder. anything that is made as a reasoning is taken an an example. the idea we would be okay that, okay, if you're challenged, you challenge back ten times harder yourks don't say walk away. also there's a question of is it apples and oranges. i was not watching "morning joe" that morning. unless she was talking about something oozing from the

president's face, it's not a similar comment. she was probably saying something about policy. >> let's call it all what it is. joe and mika deserve our respect. they're our colleagues, also our competitors. they take a lot of cheap shots that are personal at the president. there's no question about it. that's a different show. this is a news show. that's a commentary show. that's what they do, they offer opinions. sometimes it's hyperbolic, part of the appeal of their president and the president doesn't like it. there's no question about any of this, margaret. it becomes about how he responds. you can't compare the most powerful man in the world to us or to a common stater on msnbc. he has to be above that fray. that's why he's the leader. but when you go at this guy personally as a man, donald trump, it doesn't go anywhere in his head except to make him want to respond. i've seen it my entire life,

being around donald trump. you know who said it best? his friend, howard stern. listen -- let's be reminded of what howard stern said about what this atmosphere of negativity and unpopularity, which just comes with being president, would do to donald trump. remember this. >> i actually think this is something that is going to be very detrimental to his mental health, too, because he wants to be liked. he wants to be loved. he wants people to cheer for him. and all of this hatred and stuff directed toward him, it's not good for him. it's not good. listen. there's a reason every president who leaves the office has grey hair. >> i'm not in the practice of quoting howard stern very often, but it is a meaningful insight here. nobody likes to be criticized. but you're dealing with somebody

who does not have a personal ability to let it go. that's not how donald trump works as a man. the question is, is any part of that going to change with him as president? it seems the obvious answer is no and the people around him are going to congratulate him for it and that's when they're going to make it worse. >> when you see a response like you did from the podium yesterday, of course what happens is before any press secretary goes out and makes remarks, there are meetings and planning sessions behind the scenes where they try to predict what are the questions we're going to get today and what is our collective agreement on what the response is. sarah huckabee sanders was not speaking off-the-cuff yesterday. this was the position she was asked to go out and project. i think the thing to watch, there's the long view, the cultural implications of, should the president be held to a higher standard or is it the president's role to calm an unite americans. but then there's the political reality which is, does this serve president trump well? the problem is when you have republicans feeling emboldened

to separate themselves and speak out against him, it shakes loose that key support that he has. the republicans in control of congress are his insurance policy on the russia investigations, on the explanation for why more legislation hasn't passed, on the agenda. they are holding hands together heading into these midterms. the more they feel emboldened and a prompted to separate themselves from them, the shakier that alliance becomes. >> we have a decision to make as a political class. in the media, republicans, democrats, how crude do we want politics to go? we're in a media environment that is extremely fractured and the state of the news media allows for people to go into their own corners and seek information that suits their own world view. now you have a president of the united states who exploits that, who is a product of all that, who injects a level of crudeness into national discourse. this is different. our children hear this, and we have to explain it to them as i

did to my daughter on the way to a swim meet yesterday afternoon, and it is embarrassing that the president of the united states expresses himself this way. it is embarrassing that he is so thin-skinned and insecure and self-absorbed that he can't rise above this. this is why the institution is supposed to matter. the presidency matters. it is not just about him. ultimately it becomes a question of how effective he can be. all americans are cheering for donald trump because we're cheering for america, because we want to see good legislation passed and for progress for the country on the part of the government. what he's doing by being so personally self-destructive -- you're right, joe, are there cheap shots taken by joe and mika? absolutely. all kinds of criticism. to hear ivanka trump, all respect to her as the daughter. this is her father after all, express a naivete about how vicious it was going to be, where does she think this viciousness came from? number one, he's president of

the united states so he's going to get plenty of scrutiny. he introduced a level of crudeness and viciousness, personal viciousness into the discourse of his campaign and into the running of the country. that's where it came from. can we not all see that and agree on that? and if we can't, then you're not being honest with yourself. >> we've been saying from the beginning with this tone change, what you ignore, you empower. there are have been politicians in his party around him from the beginning who have chosen to say, well, it's inappropriate, but i'm going to do my job, like paul ryan did yesterday, which is not leadership. you're not just there to push an agenda, you're there to lead. values matter. we said all along when you say it's okay, you'll get more of it. that's the way politics has always worked. >> what we're talking about as well is impulse control. i wonder, and maybe karoun you can speak to this, president trump is going to be sitting with president vladimir putin. we hear russia is the number one

adversary. he is extremely disciplined, a trained kgb agent. at what point does there have to be a concern about the temperament or the lack of impulse control when you're going toe to toe with an adversary like russia and the stakes are so high. >> i think there's always been that concern. i think his tendencies have been on display since he was a candidate. people have been asking this question openly, usually his critics, not his supporters. i don't know exactly how to answer that question because maybe trump has more respect for putin than he seems to have for some of the women he's dealing with and making these comments about. it's difficult to see where his ego is being flattered. i don't know how he speaks to the president, but if he chooses a tone that the president doesn't find challenging but flattering, he wouldn't be

coming to the point where he makes an outburst. it's certainly a question because there will be meetings that he has that he is challenged and how does he respond to those? with a tweet? okay. something more serious than a tweet? not okay necessarily. >> all right. panel. thank you so much for breaking it down with us. we'll be talking to you a lot more. up next, new reporting in the "wall street journal" raises new questions about russian hackers, and there's a familiar name that pops up, michael flynn. our panel will be talking all about it. that's o coming up. when i look in the mirror everyday. when i look in the mirror everyday. everyday, i think how fortunate i am.

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the wall street journal is reporting that a republican operative was tracking down hacked e-mails from hillary clinton's server and implying that he received fired national security adviser michael flynn's help before the election. cnn's phil mattingly live on capitol hill with the latest. this isn't our reporting. what do we understand from theirs? >> this is from the "wall street journal," a researcher who believed there had been stolen e-mails from hillary clinton's private server and was reach og out to individuals trying to find a way to receive those servers. people implied he was connected to michael flynn, a senior campaign adviser to now president donald trump. he in an interview with the "wall street journal" before his death said that never occurred. a trump campaign official said they had knowledge of this and michael flynn himself did not

respond to a request for comment. cnn has not corroborated the story but it's something of interest given all the things people are looking into. as all these things are happening on capitol hill, they're ramping up vary sagss. sources telling cnn that next month, susan rice, the former obama national security adviser has agreed to come in and testify behind closed doors. guys, why that is important is because for republicans there's been a lot of allegations that susan rice may have miss hant ld classified information. this goes to the unmasking issue that republicans have talked about, the idea that intercepts from the intelligence community that had redacted u.s. names were unredacted essentially by u.s. officials. this will be her first chance to testify. she's vehemently denied doing anything wrong. that will certainly be something to keep an eye on. to wrap all this up, here in the u.s. senate, they've gone home for july fourth recess. they don't have a deal on health care. while this is divergent from the russia topic, this is a very

important issue. the idea they'd final lie a compromise proposal by the end of the week, that's now gone. they are sending different drafts of proposals, but anybody who thought republicans could finish this, lock this up so they would be prepared to vote when they came back, they would be wrong. >> let's be honest, phil. i think what happened with the president and the demands for gop electeds to step up and talk about it hastened their exit out of town. we couldn't find anybody to come on this morning, and it wasn't just because they had longstanding vacation plans. phil, enjoy the holiday, if you can, with family. >> a lot to break down there, chris. let's bring back our panel, david gregory, karoun demirriji, margaret tall leave. it continues to be a continuous drip, drip, another story. larger picture starting to form here. what do you make of this, david?

>> from what we can tell, i think the thread that is general flynn, what's so interesting, if you go back to the republican convention and then candidate trump standing up -- actually this is the democratic convention in philadelphia. he invited russia to try to find the missing e-mails from hillary clinton's server, which is such an outrageous thing for a candidate to say, to encourage that kind of hacking. yet what seems to -- what the article points out is there may have been an attempt with somebody close to trump to do just that. that becomes interesting. the link between russia and the campaign is general flynn. and whatever legal jeopardy he faces is one of the reasons why we haven't heard from him. but i think that is a part of the investigation that is certainly interesting in terms of, we haven't seen any widespread evidence that there was collusion between the

russians and the trump campaign. but this figure, flynn, is the one you want to keep your eye on. >> phil, is that where you introduced the tandem, carry bag satchel in the airport? is that the first time that came out? >> it was actually new hampshire. i'm a little sorry you don't remember that. >> i have a catalog of pictures of the different things you bring. karoun, what popped out to me as i was reading the reporting is this is another scream in the ear of how intentional the russian activity was, how determined they were to find ways into the campaigns to mess with this election. that language in the "wall street journal" reporting about how intel intercepts were finding the russians were chatting about how can we find a way to get these e-mails and who can we get them to.

when will this become an obsession for our leaders and for our white house? not the collusion. let's see what the investigation brings on that, if anything. they really did this, they did it more than they ever have before, scared the bejesus out of our intelligence community and they don't know how to stop it. >> i think everyone is aware of what a massive problem that is. i think everybody does not know what to do about it, and sometimes too daunting to make that the primary focus because it's a question that requires all kinds of collaboration, planning, figuring things out, more public discussion, frankly, of things that have to be talked about mostly behind closed doors because people are worried about disclosing what the sources and methods are for figuring this stuff out, but the public has to be aware of the level of threat to be on guard against it. remember, it's not just a question of hacking, but also what's done with that information, these active measures so to speak that russia

has done very well in other parts of the world and done to a degree of success as well in the 2016 election here. so that's something that certainly is being discussed. it's being discussed in a more long-term context. that is troubling given the fact that pretty much every senior member of the intelligence community has said watch out, 2018 will be the next time this happens. >> margaret, let's take a moment to talk about health care. we've been talking about it all week. i think we expected to be talking about it more today. obviously things got a little derailed for various reasons. but no deal before the recess. new numbers that the cbo has been crunching in terms of medicaid spending, and it doesn't look good. at what point does it die? >> this is part and parcel of the republican party's promise and president trump's promise in terms of repealing obamacare. the white house has been creating space between itself and the congress so that, if the

effort stalls, president trump potentially doesn't have this sort of hanging around his neck. look, there's two sometimes discore dent means. one is the commitment to repeal obamacare, the second thing is taking care of voters in west virginia, ohio, places where there's high medicaid numbers, opioid addiction. this really is very important both to the president's personal pledge as well as to the republicans' midterm calculations. i would say this, if you look at the calendar ahead, a week from now president trump is going to be essentially a week from now meeting with vladimir putin in germany and a bunch of other foreign leaders. congress is looking at summer recess very close by and in the fall, which is just around the corner, that's when the midterm machinations begin.

you see the time window closing and a lot of other legislative priorities competing. >> what's striking about that is it's so important they make good on this. if they do fail on health care, it will essentially be because republicans couldn't agree amongst themselves when they control the entire government. republicans would never take on the issue of a government created health care, insurance system for the individual market. it's not something conservatives believe about what government should be doing. it's here they're trying to tweak -- you have a president who wants to retain as much of it as he can for his supporters and others with an obamacare-light system but there's an agreement. i think the idea of tax reform being in in peril if they fail on this -- >> definitely a domino chain working here. david gregory, thank you very much. karoun, margaret, appreciate the perspective as always. another big topic in the

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all right. president trump's travel ban 2.0 now in effect. there's already a new legal challenge as the administration makes a key revision to the guidelines. cnn's laura jarrett live in washington with the latest. this was an important clarification. fiances had been treated independently by the pentagon for a very long time. there was an exception to the process. fiances had been left out of this. but that's been remedied. >> no the trump administration, the way they're implementing

this travel ban is how it's being challenged in court. the supreme court has said people from six muslim majority nations must prove a bona fide relationship to a person in the u.s. in order to enter the country. the state of hawaii says the government is using this decision to wrongfully exclude a host of people like grandparents who do have a close family relationship and is now asking a federal judge, the same one that blocked the travel ban back in march, to weigh in and clarify exactly who can come in and who can't. the judge has now ordered the justice department to respond to that motion by monday. for now the travel ban remains in effect. in the meantime, the state department says, as you mentioned, that fiancees are allowed into the country after originally putting out guidance that they weren't going to count as a bona fide relationship. despite the lingering questions on how exactly it's going to play out in court, the scene at airports has been calm so far, and no sign of mass protests

like we saw in january. clarissa. >> laura, thank you so much. coming up, the president's sexist tweets raise a lot of questions. in particular, why does president trump target women? we're going to dig deeper. that's coming up next. get help with hotels, free twenty-four-hour flight changes, and our price match guarantee. travelocity.® wander wisely.™

just when late night comics thought they heard it all, the president's tweets hit a new low. stephen colbert ripped into him last night. take a listen. >> i want to say something that i didn't think was possible anymore. i am shocked by something donald trump sa trump. someone bleeding at your door? it sounds like your health care plan. this is shocking and vicious. on brand. the reviews are in. vulgar, crude, a new low. no, no, it's the same low. lindsey graham tweeted, mr.

president, your tweet was beneath the office and represents what was wrong with american politics. hold it right there, lindsey, this is not what's wrong with american politics. you don't see paul ryan throwing shade at chuck schumer over his eye job. >> his eye job. joining us cnn senior media correspondent and host of "reliable sources" brian stelter and sarah ellison, contributing editor at "vanity fair." we have what the president tweets, says, does and the reaction thereto. we do a lot of time examining the first part. we know who donald trump is now. the response to it can be equally appalling. fair point? >> the response to it meaning what, the media criticism? >> the inaction. paul ryan, a man who stakes himself on family values, supposed to be a leader, the speaker of the house, the tweet is inappropriate, talk about understatements of the year coming from a politics, but i'm here to focus on my job.

is that the right way to lead in this situation? >> it's not leadership. if we talk about the word leadership, there's a lot of people like president trump that watch television coverage of themselves, public officials who get angry at the tv. leadership means not yelling back, not going as low as the people commending on you. you're absolutely right, that we saw a lot of republican politicians yesterday say as little as possible or make understatements about this. >> that's why the show is so unpopulated this morning with gop lawmakers. >> that's interesting. >> they have to go underground. >> they run away when these things happen. they're not so crazy about defending policy. we have to cherry-pick there and find people in support of actual policy. we welcome them on "new day." >> it's an awkward moment for them, isn't it? >> it's why they went there. call out indecency and what's wrong. >> it is disappointing. i have a piece in "vanity fair"

about trump's enablers. i look at key republicans who have objections to him but decided not to object to him anymore because they have their own priorities about health care and tax reform. you hear disappointment. you do wonder at a certain point when you need to hear more from them. there's a sort of deteriorating call in response, when you talk about the response that he gets. you need people to take the high road and say what needs to be said, i think. >> i'm curious to get your thoughts on this. we heard the deputy press secretary say this is defense, fighting fire with fire. >> a woman, sarah huckabee sanders. >> is this self-defense or is this misogyny? >> i think the president has revealed himself time and again, whether he talks about the look of women, talked about megyn kelly, heidi cruz, carly fiorina fiorina. this is deeply misogynistic

behavior and words. i think to say -- i have children, i have two daughters who are 4 and 8, you want to hide them from this kind of discussion. at the same time, because he's speaking about a journalist who is a woman, you also have the issue of how much he's been attacking the press. brian, you've talked about this, where he's not only attacked cnn, he's attacked "the washington post," "the new york times." that's almost as serious an issue. because the media performs an important function and the media needs to keep its eye on the ball in terms of covering the things that need to be covered, whether it's health care, immigration, all these things that really actually matter. >> today we're having to kind of apologize saying we wish we were talking about health care, but we need to acknowledge what the president has just said. his media attacks have a corrosive effect. >> is it a tool? >> is he trying to deflect -- >> is he a master of obfuscation? >> the biggest mistake anybody

makes when it comes to donald trump, the man, questioning his intelligence. he's a smart man, master of media manipulation. >> sometimes it is a distraction. sometimes there are attack-tics where he knows it will work well. what we saw here with mika brzezinski, i don't know how much of it is female. maybe that comes into how he comes back. on a personal level, the office has not imbued this man with a sense of being better than. if you come at him, he's coming back at you, no matter who that hurts, no matter how it hurts, man or woman. both of us have felt the bite of the president of the united states. how he responds to women i think does reveal something. fair point. but i'm saying it doesn't mean that men are immune. he just comes at you differently. >> it's the roy cohn playbook. i think what the press are doing

right now is encouraging basic decency, standing up for american values when we don't see that from politicians. >> when they say, but they came at him -- that's also fair criticism. joe and mika have made a commodity -- yes, it's an opinion show. this is a news show, there are different standards, but they have pushed the envelope. they call him nasty things on a regular basis. they're political commentators. he's the most powerful man in the world. >> joe and mika have raised questions about his mental stability, fitness for office. you can imagine how furious he must feel about this. but then causes a lot more questions about it. the kcolumn titled "donald trum is not well," trying to focus the story on his emotional stability. >> do you think that will be effective? >> effective to do what? get him to lash out again? in some ways you want to ignore

this behavior. i think what nbc said after he went after mika was i never thought i would have to say this, but it's beneath my dignity to respond to the president of the united states. i sort of feel the same way, that this is not something -- again, it's this response, mika and joe go on. they say something nasty. he says something else about them. it's good for ratings. this is not what the american people are that interested in. >> feels like we're trapped in a vicious cycle. brian, sarah, thank you very much for helping us break it down. >> always opportunity in it, right? this was an opportunity for leaders to step up and show what they want their discourse to be about. what they choose to ignore, they empower. coming up, police in florida investigating a fatal car crash they say was caused by tennis great venus williams. details coming up in the bleacher report.

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what do we know? >> according to palm beach garden police, the accident occurred on june 9. the victim, jerome barson was a passenger in a car driven by his wife linda. according to the report, linda barson told police she was traveling west in the right lane and approaching an intersection slowing for a traffic light. the reports state that the light changed to green and barson said she drove through the intersection when williams' 2010 toyota sequoia cut across in front of her. linda barson said she was unable to avoid crashing into williams. reports say williams, who was just goings five miles per hour is at fault for violating the right-of-way of the barsons. there's no mention of williams being cited. her attorney in a statement tells cnn this is an unfortunate accident and venus expresses her deepest condolences to the family who lost a loved one. >> a terrible story. up next, senate republicans having a tough time striking a

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bipartisanship in washington. members of both the democratic and republican parties say it crossed a line. joining us to discuss this is congresswoman debbie dingell from washington. let me start out by asking your reaction to this tweet heard around the world. >> it was disrespectful, distasteful, discourteous, disappointing. it shouldn't have happened. we're trying to change the tone of civility in washington, and he did not contribute an ounce to trying to change the tone. >> we did hear some of your republican colleagues coming out condemning the tweet. was it forceful enough to your mind? or do you think potentially the republican leadership has missed an opportunity here to come out in a more broader bipartisan way and just condemn this kind of language, this kind of behavior. >> well, i think a lot of people attacked what he said yesterday morning. i'd like to see all of them

start to contribute towards let's try to change the tone. we've seen that have not been right in washington. quite frankly, i think it's a total distraction and may be a deliberate total distraction about what we need to be talking about which is a health care bill that could harm millions of americans across the country. as we head home for the fourth of july, what the people in my district -- quite frankly, i'm betting the people back home are not going to be talking about that tweet the way they're going to be talking about how frightened they are over what could happen if the senate passes the health care bill. >> we're hearing, speaking of the bill, the republicans are working on modifications, particularly on the issue of the opioid addiction which is ravaging this country. do you have any reason to be encouraged? do you anticipate major changes to the bill? what's your sense of where the republican party is moving towards on this? >> i'm certainly not part of any internal discussions. i know that senator mitch

mcconnell is capable of trying to co-opt a miracle. i think a lot of senators will be going home to people scared to death about legislation that will eliminate or remove protections that have been put in, protections for pre-existing conditions, removal of lifetime caps that people have had, a reduction of medicaid that helps children -- republican governors across the country are very concerned. in my state the governor passed healthy michigan. 50% of the children in the state of michigan receive their health care through medicaid. we have 10,000 people turning 65 every day, and as they begin to hit the 80s, sometimes they need help and care. 80% of long-term care is through medicaid in this country. i think people are very, very frightened about what they hear could happen. then when you have people who have cancer or a child that's got m.s. or downs, people are

very scared about what this could be doing to this them. >> you heard mitch mcconnell come out and say they're not interesting in working with us, in fixing obamacare. what should democrats be doing? is it possible for there to be a more bipartisan approach to such an important issue for americans? >> i got a little heartened when i heard senator mcconnell say that because republicans haven't been interested in working with us. they wanted repeal and replace. here is the reality. is the affordable care act perfect? no. i frequently say the last perfect bill was the ten commandments and in this day and age that wouldn't be considered perfect. there are things we need to work together on to improve. there is a small group of people -- sometimes we hear these numbers and we think everybody is paying way too much for health insurance.

there's a small group of people, more than 90% of the people are okay with where their health insurance now, paying too much and the deductibles are too high. we need to address that, we need to address the cadillac tax, talk about the impact on small izs. everybody needs to be talking peerks yod. we need to take this to the next step. people are paying too much for prescription drugs. we've got to do something to lower costs in this country and we've got to work together. we're in the going to solve this not working together. >> congresswoman, you raise a lot of interesting points there, thank you for joining us. we wish you a very happy fourth of july weekend. to our international viewers we say good-bye. thank you for watching. you'll be in the good hands of max foster with "cnn talk" next. for the other viewers, president facing a backlash over sexist tweets. "new day" continues right now. >> this is madness, beneath the president of the united states. >> he's very aware of how he's

received. >> mr. president, do you regret your tweets this morning at all? >> i don't think it's a surprise to anybody that he fights fire with fire. >> he is embarrassing. he is shameful. he is disgusting. >> i would hope that with the 30 million people who follow him on twitter, there will be a better message. >> made good progress and we'll keep working. >> 15 million americans will lose their health insurance next year if this passes. >> america will be happy with what we give them. >> let's see, all the democrats hate it, half the republicans hate it. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning and welcome to your "new day," alisyn is off. clarissa ward is joining me. thank you for the time this week. >> thank you for having me this week. >> washington united, somewhat, in its condemnation of president trump. why? the obvious, his latest degrading twitter attack on another female television host. the white house defending the president's tweets saying