>> i think it's a meeting that most people in politics probably would have taken. >> and after a long good-bye, the president returns home to a stalled senate and unfulfilled health care campaign promise. >> i am sitting in the oval office with a pen in hand waiting for our senators to give it to me. >> "inside politics" shall the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, now. welcome to "inside politics." filling in for john king, i'm malika henderson. the russian revelations keep coming from the white house. involving donald trump jr. other members of team trump and a russian lawyer. trump junior releases a statement, claim thath meeting was about russian adoption. a few days later, historic changes with the release of

trump junior's e-mails with publicist ron goldstone who set up the meeting. the president's son took the meeting after being told that the lawyer had kremlin ties and would offer up dirt on hillary clinton. the same day the e-mails come out this, from donald trump jr. >> as far as you know, as far as this incident is concerned, this is all of it? >> this is everything. this is everything. >> but it wasn't everything. cnn has now learned there were more people in that meeting than previously reported. perhaps at least eight. we now know the meeting included donald trump jr., jared kushner and campaign chairman paul manafort. also in the room, the russian lawyer and publicist ron goldstone. on friday a russian-american lobbyist revealed he was also president. and possibly two others were there as well, a translator and representative of a russian family that asked goldstone to reach out to the trump campaign.

president trump has called the idea of collusion between his team and russia a hoax and a witch hunt but on thursday he took a somewhat different approach while defending his son. >> i have a son who is a great young man. he is a fine person. took a meeting with a lawyer from russia. it lasted for a very short period and nothing came of the meeting. and i think it's a meeting that most people in politics probably would have taken. >> the president is awake this morning and tweeting about fake news again. but this isn't a fake poll. the latest washington post/abc new ne news poll shows 36% among all americans. with us to share their reporting and insights, "the washington post," margaret tolov of

bloomberg and cnn's manu raju. thank you for being with us this morning. jeff, i'm going to start with you. in some ways the word bombshell may have been overused in terms of this russia story. in this instance, bombshell might be an appropriate word to use when you think about the meeting, the contents of the meeting and the shifting stories about the substance of the meeting and who was in there. >> i think it probably is appropriate. so many incremental developments in this entire russia story. i think let's take stock of the last week. this, indeed, is a different moment, a different set of information we've learned. we've learned for the first time if you go a week ago to what we were discussing, we didn't have the contents of the e-mails. really what you think about that's come up in the last week is extraordinary. someone from the trump campaign accepted a meeting with someone from the russian government and someone who is representing them. someone we still do not know if

there was actually any information that was exchanged. but it shows the willingness to open the door to do that. and it shows the fact that no one thought there was anything wrong in doing that and it also shows that it's taken this trump inner circle. this is what frustrates everyone so much. it's taken them day after day after day to explain this there have been four different versions of events and now we're still finding out at least eight people in the room, that's not what the president's son told fox earlier this week when he was on. senator chuck grassley, republican of iowa, wants to talk to the president's oldest son. this week marks a turning point in this. and it's only -- we're only june 9th, 2016, in the campaign. we do not know if they had other meetings, what other e-mails are out there. it'st showed they were willing to listen, unusual, despite what

the president says it was standard practice, it is not standard practice. >> two weeks ago, our colleague at cnn, efb evan burress reached out to the white house. then there was a $50 million payout from the trump campaign to trump's attorney. did he learn at that point? we don't know the full story about what the president knew and when he knew it, to coin a phrase. but there are -- when i interviewed adam schiff on friday, top democrat in the house committee, he did not know who was in the meeting. he did not know whether or not this russian-american lobbyist had ties to russian intelligence. these are key questions that will be continued to probe, that investigators are going to continue to look at.

even as the white house wants to downplay it and say there's nothing there, there's a lot more focus on this going forward. >> "the washington post" out with a poll. 63% of registered voters think this meeting don junior had was inappropriate. 27% think it was appropriate and there's a partisan breakout. 85% of democrats think it was inappropriate and 15% of gop think it was appropriate. calling him a kid, calling him a good boy, stretching the definition of who is considered a boy. donald trump jr. is 39 years old. what do you make of the white house's messaging of this, particularly from the president? >> it's been a tremendous challenge for the white house to figure out how to message this. it's still hard to tell whether it's because they knew a lot more than they were letting on to or because they didn't know

everything they needed to know and are now trying to play catch up. there are legal complications with the white house trying to figure out what don junior knew, since he doesn't actually work for the administration. but there are two elements that happened in the past week that demonstrates why this is a turning point. one, the revelation of how much of the re-election funds are now being used or sequestered away for legal fees and the second is the white house's decision to bring on ty cobb inside the counsel shop. you now have attorneys who do ethics issues, national security issues and a specialized attorney in the counsel's office for russia so the general counsel doesn't have to juggle everything else plus this. what this shows me is that they are prepared now to dig in for a much longer fight and duration of issues related to this than they initially thought they

might need to. >> one of the lawyers, jay sekulov, who will be on air. >> private attorney. >> private attorney. he was on our air. here is what he had to say in terms of the framing of what he thinks went on here. >> what law was violated by that meeting? your experts have said it, too, nothing. at the end of the day, that's what this is about. >> i mean, okay. so when you're talking about coordination and collusion, it has to be to do something. the open question is to do what? but if it was about adoption, it might have been to talk about sanctions. technically that would be a violation of the logan act. nobody enforces t that's actually a thing. was it collusion to get the dirt on hillary clinton in the way it seems to be presented in the e-mails? that's potentially a thing. if that is the case you're talking about violating federal

election law which says you can't take anything of value, a financial donation but could be argued by a good lawyer that dirt on a candidate on your opposing candidate is something of value from a foreign entity or source. all these open questions, still, we cannot say at this point absolutely nothing went wrong. there's not a case we brought up in front of a court. that's what people were investigating. what was the goal of this meeting? clearly it shows some sort of intent to work together. >> and one of the things that's complicating, i think, the messaging, is the fact that this is family, right? >> right. >> you have "the new yorker" taking note of that with this magazine cover. and, of course, it shows don junior there, as well as jared kushner and a republican, bill flores out of texas. here is what he had to say about the family ties around this -- in this white house. >> i would say i would think it

would be in the president's best interest if he removed all his children from the white house. not only donald trump but ivanka and jared kuhner. get them out of the way so we could have, from a professional standpoint staff at the white house. >> he is not subject to the same security implications and regulations. but the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, is at the center of most of this. and that is the potential issue here. and i heard more republicans this week and supporters of this president, people who want him to succeed, who are more alarmed now than they were a week ago. for the last year we've been hearing there was no russia meeting. it's all being made up. now it's not being made up. he released the meetings. but the son-in-law, jared

kushner, still operating with an interim security clearance, senior adviser to the white house, you have to wonder if he's questioning his decision to come into the administration now. he is in the thick of it. and that is where the concern lie. >> undercut him in so many -- >> so important to everything. >> yeah. >> this cloud continues to hangover him. this is one reason why they created the anti-nepitism statutes. they did not want someone who is compromised who is a relative, sometimes harder for a president to fire someone you're related to. but, of course, the trump white house said that does not apply within the white house. but this makes it harder to remove someone who is family. >> and you have democrats, particularly nancy pelosi, saying that jared kushner shouldn't have a security clearance. i imagine you'll start to hear that more from democrats and possibly some republicans as well. up next, one step forward, two steps back. senate management leader puts out his new health care plan, then puts off a key vote.

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republican leader mitch mcconnell abruptly put off a key vote after learning senator john mccain will spend a week in arizona recovering from surgery to remove a blood clot. after seven years of promises, leader mcconnell can't afford to lose even one vote as he tries to wrangle the 50 votes needed to repeal and replace the affordable care act. here is what's in this new version of the gop bill. $45 billion for opioid addiction, $70 billion to stabilize insurance markets, similar cuts to medicaid. this version keeps some taxes on wealthy americans as well. the white house says it's all in on getting this bill to the finish line and on friday a white house team spent the afternoon with senate leadership and president obama -- president trump and vice president pence worked the phones this weekend, pushing reluctant republicans for a yes vote. pence also took his sales pitch

on the road, addressing the nation's governors. >> the senate health care bill gives states the freedom to redesign your health insurance markets and, most significantly under this legislation, states across the country will have an unprecedented level of flexibility to reform medicaid and bring better coverage, better care and better outcomes to the most vulnerable in your states. >> so, what are we going to see this week on the hill? obviously it's different from what we expected because of what happened with john mccain. so, what are we looking for? >> a lot of hand wringing. delay of this vote is problematic for the republicans. this is not going to get easier. it's going to get harder. there are already a number of members who represent states who rely on medicaid coverage, senators who represent ohio, west virginia, rob portman, who are concerned about this bill, have not said how they would vote. people like dean heller of nevada, the most vulnerable

republican in the senate could kill this bill, too. there are lisa murkowski, a moderate, also uncertain what she would do. a number of votes were hanging out there. opposition always built over health care legislation. it's almost certainly going to build now. one key reason why, because included in this plan, tha mitch mcconnell released last week say proposal by senator ted cruz that essentially would allow insurers provide health coverage outside of rules in obamacare, ensuring -- obviously provide coverage even not covering pre-existing conditions. that cruz proposal was not going to be scored by the congressional budget office in time for this vote on tuesday. >> and now will be? >> now presumably could be scored, get a cost estimate by the time this vote does come forward and it could be a very negative proposal in terms of the headlines by saying, you know, this many more people will lose coverage. this will affect people

presumably in a more negative way if that's what the cbo says, that could be harder for senators to vote for at the end of the day. >> in terms of where the public stands now, how they feel registered voters, at least, about obamacare versus the gop proposal, according to "the was post," 26% like the gop proposal, 4% neithsomething els. these governors who, from what we're hearing out of this national governors association meeting were balking at a lot of the presentation and a lot of the messaging out of this white house. >> there's been a handful of republican governors that have come out early on, actually. i believe kasich in ohio, sandoval in nevada and baker in massachusetts came out over a month ago saying we don't like this because of the medicaid cuts, one of the things that the change in the bill has not

fixed. other republican governors have not been as vocal or ahead of the game on this but are also uneasy about this. it's why you have people like lindsey graham come iing up wit this last-minute proposal last week to say we want to defer to the states. why? because he wants to up the pressure on, you know, republicans through the republican governors who might like the idea of having more control and -- excuse me, up the pressure on democrats who represent states and give republicans who represent those states an easier out to do this. that doesn't seem like it's going anywhere right now. the situation you've got is one where, yes, people have to worry about the national party heading into a national election season but also clearly what plays well at home. he has a very popular republican governor in carson city who has said i do not like this and who has been taking somewhat liberal positions, i suppose, for a republican on these sorts of matters. is he going to buck that? also in washington, d.c., in order to pick up some of these

people, as manu said, there's no incentive for somebody to change their mind after a week of more pressure coming from home. mcconnell and the leadership team would have to totally change tact. if they want to pick up people who will be under even more pressure to stick to their no, they have to completely rethink this strategy. i don't see how they can do that in just a week. >> question as to what role trump play, margaret, here is what he had to say in terms of his expectations in what he sees his role as. >> i am sitting in the oval office with a pen in hand, waiting for our senators to give it to me. >> what will happen if they don't? >> well, i don't even want to talk about it. i think it would be very bad. i will be very angry about it. and a lot of people will be very upset. >> right. >> we have no idea what -- >> he has been making phone calls. >> absolutely. >> they certainly have. i spoke with white house official yesterday. this is shortly before sort of

the full recovery span of john mccain's situation was out. they still were expressing confidence that there could be a vote to pass this but acknowledging that it would be a razor thin. best case scenario is razor thin. this poll out today, the abc news/washington post poll is really revelatory. it shows almost a 2-1 preference for obamacare over the republican plan. that's just not a good place to be if you're trying to pass this legislation. throwing in the opioid coverage is a tip of the hat to a lot of trump country, a lot of these sort of -- >> mid western states. ohio. >> where this is a problem. there's not 20-plus million people with opioid addictions. there are people at risk of losing coverage under this. that's really a problem. >> what's interesting about

this, the approval rating for this republican health care plan should be basically the same as what trump's approval rating is. it shouldn't be lower than that. this shows that the president has not sold this bill. he is doing one interview there with pat robertson in the white house. he barely talked about health care. what happened to all those rallies, all the things he was going to do? >> and from obama when he was selling it. you covered obama. >> right. it was a longer process during the obama years. they brought people in from the outside. they got the hospitals and doctors to support t i think with this president it's been fascinating to watch how he is not all in on this. the vice president is, without a doubt. basically this is his only job right now, his top job. the president simply has not used his bully pulpit. he has not been traveling out there and sort of reminding voters that this plan is okay. he doesn't know the details necessarily. even not knowing the details i've been struck by how he has

not sold this plan. >> by design, though. if you're mitch mcconnell, do you want him out there or want him tweeting? what do you want from this president? >> that's a good question. he is a liability in some areas and asset in providing cover. he could provide cover for republicans in their districts, in the house side more so than the senate, where trump is a little bit different. but the republican party has not had a messaging, pro active message to putt push this bill. not just the white house but outside groups. where are they? >> one of the things they're trying to say is pay no attention to the cbo score we'll get probably on monday. we'll see how that changes the conversation. even members amid the president's own party shows how russia is overshadowing the agenda. what they're saying about those collusion allegations. michael, can we get this data to...?

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welcome back. thursday marks the president's first six months in office. now, among his campaign promises, repealing and replacing the affordable care act, building a wall that mexico would end up paying for and big, historic tax reform and tax cuts. but the russia revelations keep coming, making it difficult for the white house to set the agenda and make good on trump's promises. on saturday president trump acknowledged the russia drag, in a way, tweeting that the stock market hit another all-time high yesterday, despite the russia hoax story and also jobs numbers are starting to look very good. white house counselor kellyanne conway claims the collus oichlt. n talking point is plain old tired. to make her case she actually turned to props. >> i just want to review, in case you run out of time. this is how i see it so far. this is to help all the people at home.

what's the conclusion? collusion? no. we don't have that yet. i see illusion and delusion conclusion? collusion, no. sesame's grover's word of the day there. >> she's talking about sesame street and grover and collusion and delusion. she said no, we don't have collusion yet, which seems to be not the right message. >> that was weird. >> yeah. the threshold for why the past week was so important was not that it proved something specific that happened. it's that it opened up a revelation that had been off the table for months now consistently the president and all the top aides have said there's nothing here nochlt one met with anyone. nobody knows any of these

people. this is all just made up. this proves that that wasn't right. and so there's a whole lot that isn't known now, including what the u.s. intelligence agencies knew about any of this and when they knew t we still don't know that. who else was involved, what were these discussions. but the entire republican majority in congress has been asked to stand by their president and support him through very difficult times and have made the calculation that it behooves them to do this. number one because there was no evidence to the contrary, just a lot of smoke and no fire and, number two, because of the strategic belief that the president's fortunes and their fortunes rise and fall together. this has shaken that very fundamentally in terms of what they can believe and what they want to attach their names to. the white house needs to be able to keep the confidence of a key number of important republican lawmakers in the house and senate.

fundamentally, revelation this is week, because they were a surprise foundationally shook them. >> 60% show that russia tried to influence the election and 40% show that the trump campaign aided russia to influence the election. among the gop there's something of a difference. the belief is that 33% believe russia tried to influence the election. not a small amount for the gop. >> that's right. and, of course, the intelligence community has said that russia did, in fact, try to meddle in the election. the question is whether or not any trump associates did work in coordinating any way. getting back to margaret's point, i think it's an important one. a number of republicans on the hill for months have dismissed the calls or suggestion that there was collusion, saying there's no evidence. this don junior meeting doesn't

mean they're rushing to say there's collusion. a number of them are saying we need to investigate and look into it. they're being a little less definitive on the conclusion. senator richard burr, earlier this summer i asked him about collusion. do you see any evidence there? he said at this point, i haven't seen a lot of it publicly. i asked him about the don junior meeting. he said we need to investigate this further and we are at the very beginning of our investigation. >> that's significant for kellyanne conway and advisers to say there's no collusion, republicans on capitol hill said we need to investigate this to see if there is. this drip, drip, drip situation for all these weeks. we're at the six-month point. the best time to get anything done on any administration is out of the gate on tax reform, infrastructure and health care. they do not have any significant accomplishments. the sense that there's not been a full sense of all these

meetings. a lot of republicans wish they would come together f there are other meetings, get them all out there this summer right now. it just hasn't happened. >> this is what we heard from john mccain as well as trey gowdy last week. >> i think it's very difficult when you have this overwhelming barrage of new information that unfolds every few days. >> the amnesia of people that are in the trump orbit. someone close to the president needs to get everyone connected with that campaign in a room and say from the time you saw dr. zhivago till the moment you drank vodka with a guy named boris, you list every single one of those. and we're going to turn them over to the special counsel. because this drip, drip, drip sundaymining the credibility of this administration. >> and this criticism has been expressed privately, as we all know, among republicans, but

spilling out into the public here with trey gowdy. >> he is important. he was named to take over the investigation from devon nunes but also has the gavel on the house oversight and had been holding back. he will change his mind about that, in terms of looking at this stuff. the poll reflected something that is unfortunate. we're talking about the russia probe taking things away from health care and other agenda issues. what about the issue of russia and election meddling in general? 33% of republicans to say they believe russia tried to meddle. not successfully but tried to is a willful ignoring of what russia does all over the world. they do not have military power we do. they do not have the economic power we do. they have the ability to do menling, in former soev yut

union states now pushing into the united states. this is a very big concern for the upcoming elections. and, yeah, one other thing on kellyanne conway is going to screen shot that picture of her. >> and change it. >> i'm sure it's already happened. >> bringing b a red sharpie to out collusion. otherwise everybody is going to use it. >> if there were meddling or hacking concerns only part of it would be a public campaign. most of what they were doing would be classified, never discussed with putin in a meeting. it's important to remember that. it doesn't mean they're doing nothing. the second is that this move to beef up the legal team on both the outside and inside with the naming of ty co about b to part of the white house team is obviously the white house's effort to get their head around

this and begin managing it. it probably should have happened several weeks ago. >> and you've got republicans, some republicans, for instance, talking about democrats and saying essentially they're getting way ahead of their skis in terms of talking about this. >> you have to separate out the political. a probe going forward on the russia piece. on the political piece, if you find a statute that's been violated, then you've got it. mark warner seeing smoke everywhere he goes like he's in a cheech and chong movie. we've dwot gotten a little historical. we should just get grounded. >> that's a great line. that just shows you even as some republicans want to look at this further there are still a number who say there's still nothing there and democrats may be going too far in pushing this line. >> the idea of cheech and chong.

next from frenemies to besties, president trump and macron shake on it for a long, long, long, long time. how france's leader wooed trump on the world stage.

their handshakes have become the gifts that keep on giving. president trump and his french counterpart, manuel macron, epic. 29 seconds that included hand patting, back slapping, close talking. even macron's wife got mixed up in this display. before that gif-able good-bye there was the swanky dinner. eiffel tower and pageantry of bastille day. jeff, you were there. what was this all about? what were the deliverables out

of this, other than that amazing handshake? >> tough duty of covering president trump and bastille day. it was an extraordinary moment. i think flattery was the word of the day. a lot of world leaders have gotten the sense that the way to get to president trump is by flattering him and giving him this big welcome. that's exactly what happened in paris. the president was on the ground for 30 hours. he spent at least six of it one on one with macron. this was a -- he has never spent more time with any other world leader. yes, they have differences on climate, trade, immigration. on military and other things, you know, there are many alliances there. you got the sense that the young french president, a different generation, age of his sons, actually, wanted to give the american president a history lesson of isolationism, watching the military might. >> was trump getting played or duped by macron in coming over

for bastille day for 30 hours or so? >> if trump wanted to do this in a sense it's a way to mend fences. i'm not sure that's what he wanted to do. he may not have been able to resist the invitation, so much gold and pomp and circumstance and parades. embedded in your message, i believe in the alliance in our western allies, that that alliance is more important than the differences. >> macron is the easiest person for trump to do that with in europe, though. they're not that different. >> new to the world stage. >> very different approaches to the world but everybody else in europe misses obama a lot. trump knows that. he really hates that. he hates it when people don't like him and miss the guy who used to be there. macron doesn't have that baggage. he's also knnew. and he wants to establish himself as the new phenom to speak for europe. right now that's angela merkel.

being the person to be able to bring trump back into the fold -- >> the trump whisperer is a valuable position. >> that could be everything. >> with theresa may sidelined. >> to that point, too. overlooked in that press conference was trump seemed to suggest -- leave the door open at re-entering the paris accord. >> we'll go to that sound now. here is trump on the paris climate accords. >> something could happen with respect to the paris accord. we'll see what happens. but we will talk about that over the coming period of time. and if it happens, that will be wonderful. and if it doesn't, that will be okay, too. but we'll see what happens. >> i mean, i'm skeptical this is actually going to happen. >> it seems trump just kind of playing nice. >> that's right. which i guess you have to do on the world stage. no question about it, he infuriated a lot of these european countries by walking

away from this climate agreement. he wanted to strike, clearly, a more moderate tone there. >> interesting to see trump enjoy the symbolism and the pageantry that he doesn't necessarily get here. he certainly gets it abroad and enjoys it. >> your takeaway, if your angela merkel or macron, from that clip in paris, keep pushing for what you want, maybe he will come along. maybe he won't. >> and likes to travel more than he first let on. >> that's true. he seems to enjoy that. our reporters share from their notebooks next, including a heads up about an upcoming presidential visit to an aircraft carrier. e thing. more than one flavor, or texture, or color. a good clean salad is so much more than green. and with panera catering, more for your event. panera. food as it should be.

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and helps prevent cavities. go beyond brushing with act®. let's close by asking our reporters to share a little something from their notebooks and help keep you ahead of the curve on big political news next week. >> we know it's summertime. a lot of us are drinking things out of aluminum. maybe beer, maybe soda, maybe other things. but all this may be coming home this weekend, political side of the equation here. there's a huge steel fight going on inside the white house. commerce department is set this week potentially to issue a report on exactly the national security implications for importing steel. but the president and the trump administration is having quite a fight inside the west wing on what they should do to limit the amount of steel coming in. a lot of companies, manufacturers are sounding the alarm here, see saiing this could increase the price of everything from the loum, as i said, those cans of soda and

beer, other things, aluminum in sunscreen and other things this is something that hasn't gotten a ton of attention in washington with so much else going on. watch for that steel decision this week, very controversial. it will affect your bottom line. >> big campaign promise. >> it was. >> from donald trump. >> i have no fun beer lead-in. but the congressional committee is looking into the russia probe, starting to kick into much higher gear. the two main ones, intelligence and senator judiciary want to interview people in that room for the don junior meeting. manafort could show up very soon. if he speaks publicly, will he start to turn the narrative? will anybody start to turn the narrative? now there's almost a race on for cooperation and for who is going to speak first. you talk to people on these committees and say manafort is cooperating. they expect kushner to be cooperating but don junior is an open question. as pressure grows on these

principal principals or in this meeting. mueller has the most important investigation going on f these interviews end up becoming public testimony or part of the news record that could change the way the country sees things and thus the way congress sees everything. >> what's to be learned from all of this. ma rt margaret? >> late in the week look for the president to star in the official commissioning of the uss gerald ford in norfolk, his second visit to the newest debut next generation aircraft carrier. sort of in classic trump he has both praised this project effusively and the great american military members who will serve on it but also criticized it for cost overruns. he will make it cheaper. classically attacked the technology. i'm a little out of my depth here. the four generation is going to be using electromagnetic

catapults and trump earlier in an interview with "time" told them to go back to steam because this is -- so there's a combination of it's great technological advancement but maybe we should do it the old way, which is cheaper. number one the magazine nivenif this project. it's an opportunity to talk about defense, the military and the national posture on foreign policy, vis-a-vis our allies and challenging threats. could be an interesting performance. >> we'll look for that. manu? >> house intelligence committee announced last week abruptly it was canceling this testimony for roger stone that was scheduled for july 24th. this is the second trump associate whose testimony has been canceled. j.b. gordon before. speaks to the slow nature of

this investigation on the house side. senate side republican leading that investigation, mike connelly, said he's growing increasingly frustrated by the slow pace of this investigation. adam schiff told me it's global in scope and could take a while to get through everything there. this comes as this panel is still facing a lot of partisan strife internally about the witnesses they're interviewing. it was supposed to sort of go away with devon nunes stepped away from the investigation. partisan disagreements about the investigation still remain. >> in some ways, no surprise about that. that's it for "inside politics." thanks for sharing your sunday morning. john king will be back in the anchor chair tomorrow at noon eastern. up next "state of the union with jake tapper." it's fine. because i get a safe driving bonus check every six

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