bill gates, warren buffett, and charlie monger. there is the closing bell on a rockin' day. [closing bell rings] >> thank you very much. quite a day on capitol hill. health care law repeal, replace passing through the house. crazy day for the markets. now we're moving higher after the president and republican leadership, you saw it on closing bell, celebrating the passing of their health care bill, ending off session lows, down about 12 points or so. really a reversal of fortune here david, as you can see. s&p 500 and nasdaq turning positive the last few moments. story of the day, oil tumbling nearly 5% to close at a new 2017 low, the lowest level since late november. hello, i'm cheryl casone in for melissa francis today. david: the market did drop initially today, a 5% drop in oil but it recovered quite nicely. still in the red but because arealy.

i'm david asman, glad you could join us. this is busy day on the beltway and wall and board. the big story of the day the house clearing a major hurdle on health care, seven years in the making. esident trump taking a victory lap at the wte house just moments ago. what is in the bill that just passed? how does it different from obamacare? and what will it look like when the senate gets ahold of it? what you need to know, for your business and for your wallet. meanwhile president trump marking national day of prayer with an executive order on religious freedom. tony perkins what this means for religious groups all over the country. what new health care means for religion. the president headed to new york in just moments, returning to his hometown. this is the first time he has done so since the inauguration. he will speak at the intrepid museum in honor of an historic battle. we'll full you about that coming up. cheryl: so much happened. taking a victory lap on health care.

president trump celebrating the house successfully passing the republican latest plan to repeal and replace obamacare. fox business's blake burman standing by at the white house with the latest. a lot of congratulations going on amongst house members today. blake, can you hear me? all right, blake burman can't hear us now, david. we certainly saw president trump and of course paul ryan, tom price, health and human services secretary all celebrating what we saw in the house. david: somebody else celebrating. congressman ralph abraham. he is also a medical doctor. he knows the health care situation very well. he joins us now. i assume you voted in favor of this, congressman? >> that is definite yes, sir. david: what was it, was there anything in particular about the latest bill that really turned the tide for you? >> i was a yes from the beginning because i know that obamacare has already been a sinking ship and was on the bottom of the ocean. i'm glad we did modifications

made it hopefully a better bill. in my opinion it was good to start with. i would have voted yes the first time around. david: since you are a physician and seen encrotchment of obamacare and preceding that, this must be a first step of misdemeanor you would like to see the getting the government out, right? >> exactly. i want the government out of my exam room where my patient and myself can make informed decisions the best way forward with the patient. here to fare with obamacare i had to call patient to see a spentist. i -- specialist. i had to call to prescribe a drug. i had to call to get a patient in the hospital. it has been ridiculous. i can't tell you how happy i am. more importantly how happy patients are going to be to get back to what i call patient centered health care. david: if i could put it in a nutshell, essentially the government has been forcing health care providers all over

the country to add to the paperwork, to add to the bureaucracy instead of adding to what care you can give to the patient? >> oh, that is a very accurate statement. in fact when i was in private practice myself i had to hire three extra people just to handle the paperwork. now, i ran a very small rural clinic northeast louisiana. you can only imagine what the larger clinics and hospitals had to do just to keep in compliance. so the burden, regulatory burden was horrific. david: congressman, i got to ask you about something i hear from doctors all the time. there was nothing, even doctors that favored obamacare, it really bothered me there was nothing in about malpractice lawsuits. there are so many frivolous lawsuits. cost of insurance is big part of my practice now, i almost can't afford to be independent. that was not dressed in obama care bill. will this be addressed in the

next? >> it will be addressed very shortly. we had to get the particular bill over the line which we did today but the next step or two or three will be tort reform on national level. luckily in louisiana we have a cap. all states don't. you're exactly right, it is a large part of the problem with health care in the nation is the malpractice issue. david: congressman abraham, congratulations, thank you for coming on. i appreciate you sharing the victory with us. cheryl. >> thank you very much. cheryl: david, markets recovering after initially sliding. clearing that first big hurdle passing through the house of representatives. joining me now, scott martin of kingsview asset management. fox news contributor, and veronica dagher of "the wall street journal." jonathan, market reaction, big news coming out yesterday, aetna pulling it out. they talked about it at the white house. 94 of 99 counties in iowa without coverage.

all the insurance companies have spoken and said they can't operate unobamacare anymore. it just doesn't work. scott, does this alleviate pressure insurers if this bill gets through the senate in some way, shape or form? >> you know, cheryl, it is interesting. i think actually adds more uncertainty to the health care space in general. you're right about the insurance companies pulling out. the aca has been a total disaster, to borrow a term from trump there but the reality going forward what kind of pressure is the administration going to put on some insurers in regards to covering the sick they don't want to cover? to me there is a lot of uncertaintwith respect to the space and medical devices as well, pharma also. we have completely annihilated our health care exposure as of couple months ago just because of this uncertainty. cheryl: hold on, we have earnings from cbs. reporting first quarter results. lori rothman on the floor of the new york stock exchange. what are the results,. >> top line beat. shares are not changed since the

close. cbs shares closed .6 of a percent higher. earnings pure share 1$4 versus estimate of 95 cents per share on 3.34 billion per revenue. that is better than $3.27 billion in revenue. quarterly ad revenue declined. an entertainment revenue for cbs also fell. here's the thing. if you compare the first quarter to it the first quarter of 2016, cbs had double-whammy of increased political ad spending and of course the super bowl. it looks like investors are shrugging that off, considering the bar is pretty high from the first quarter of 2016. now i'm seeing a nice bump up of shares in cbs in extended session. cheryl: political ad spending greater over all, thank you, lori. david: trump bump. cbs star stephen colbert is doubling down on vulgar joke he made regarding president trump. responding to growing backlash

about remarks he made about the president. the late night star said he is not story sorry. >> if you saw my monologue on monday because i was upset with donald trump insulting a friend of mind. at the end of that monologue i had a few choice insults for the president in return. i don't regret that. while i would do it again i would change a few words that were cruder than they needed to be. davi words that we're not going to mention here. here is howard kurtz, fox news media analyst and "mediabuzz" host. good to see you, howie. are folks at cbs worried about this? >> they should be. stephen colbert gotten a big surge in the ratings as he has gotten full anti-trump but this joke was so far beneath him a sex joke between trump and putin, i was surprised he didn't come out look, folks i'm sorry, that one went too far. instead as you said he doubled down. he decided that will be the signature of the cbs late show,

beating up on the president. david: i know people talk a lot about the how there is total independence but sometimes you can get a nudge from somebody, one of the suits at cbs, maybe nudging him to say something. do you think there has been any of that at all. >> maybe there was a little nudge, perhaps he should have used different words. cbs shoulding held accountable here. this was a pretaped show. some suit at cbs had to say it was okay to put this on. he didn't blurt it out. it was scripted. kind of thing even though we're living in a cruder culture these days, that we wouldn't have seen a few short years ago on network television. i give comedians a lot of leeway. i don't think they should be boycotted. if people don't like his brand of humor they can turn it off. this one went way too far and colbert should know that. david: what do you think would have happened if somebody said that about president obama? >> that is a very good question because i think the reaction in

the mainstream media to this incredibly crude joke, it was a joke but really bad and offensive joke has been relatively muted. if you flip the script and had been a joke about obama using that kind of language, there would have been uproar, demand to be fired. a few activists say that now. kind of underscores the fact even within the realm of comedy, most of the late night hosts are anti-trump. you can ratthem off, samantha bee, john oliver, seth meyers, and others can say almost anything about this president the media doesn't come down because a lot of people feel it is somehow acceptable to do it because it is donald trump. david: howie, i don't want to throw you a curveball, i want you to comment what happened with the health care bill and with we're likely to see in coverage of that. over cing weeks i imagine you see a lot of stories about young kids who lost their insurance, et cetera. i mean we've seen that kind of stuff before, have we not? >> you won't have to wait a

couple weeks. just a couple minutes. this was clear victory for president trump and house republicans. the press will point out maybe $8 billion is not enough to cover preexisting conditions in those states that might opt out of that requirement. you will see a lost handicapping saying this bill will have lot of trouble getting through the senate. if so how do they reconcile with the house? there will being grudging coverage that the republicans won the first round here, but this is long slog as always is as subject complicated as health care. david: howard kurtz, thank you very much. catch "mediabuzz" with howie every sunday 11:00 a.m. on fox news channel. we're pleased to watch that. cheryl: talking with him about health care, david. the revised health care bill just narrowly passed. yet the house is celebrating. what does this bill include, what does it mean for your health care in particular in your state? foxx business's gerri willis is digging into it, gerri.

there is so much and nuance into the bill if it makes it to the senate it is fascinating. reporter: its ha a long way to go. here are the are headlines from hr 1628, the american health care act of 2017. if you don't have headlight insurance from the government or an employer you will be able to buy policies in the individual market with a tax credit rather than a subsidy which is what obamacare offered. advanced credit will be advancable to hit payment deadlines. you will still get a benefit. benefit for those making maximum of 75,00for individuals and 150,000 for joint filers. instead of ung medicaid as delivery for vehicle for benefits, they frozen medicaid payments in 2019 and relying on state insurers to pick up the slack. states will decide what essential benefits must be covered, that is up in the air. people with preexisting

conditions who lost coverage the bill sets up risk pools set up by the government reimburse insurance companies for policyholders with high costs. the logic is by lowering insurers risk and expenses for sick benefits, that they will introduce lower premium plans for healthier people. if people feel fail to keep up payments in the market coverage there is a penalty. they will be assess ad flat 30% late enrollment surcharge. the bill repeals individual and employer mandates, and a 3.8% surtax on investment incomes but there is a but and there is a big one. 0.9% tax on high income earners stays in place until at least december 31st, 2022, cheryl. so i think you and i both know what that means. the possibility of losing that, not too high. cheryl: once it is in it will be in.

so senate and changed and you want to promise our viewers one thing but we have to stay tuned obviously, gerri. thank you very much. want to bring back in scott tin and veronica dagher. talk about this, veronica. in its general form the biggest argument came down to those with preexisting conditions, veronica, and what they did, they added 8 billion to pacify the freedom caucus. that was the macarthur amendment but $130 billion, those risk pools, for preexisting conditions. veronica, democrats are starting to come out on capitol hill, nancy pelosi says this will put them at disadvantage that will leave people stranded, can we really say that right now? >> it is really difficult to say anything right now, we don't have estimates, we don't know how much is going to cost and how many people are covered or not covered by this that 8billion dollars who knows if that will be enough. people who are seriously sick, often don't have a lot of money. so they do need a lot of help.

there could be some truth to the 8 billion not being enough. but still very early. like you said before, we don't know the final version of this, what is going to happen. cheryl: which is true. you get a sense what they want to do on republican side, scott. i hope you can hear me with the bells tolling behind you, one of the things they do, this is very interesting, instead of having everybody pay the same rate, the young, healthy, the old, sick, paying same rate which obama thought that is distribution, that is fair, ended up nearly bankrupting some of these insurance companies, millions of dollars in losses. what they want to do now, right now you can only charge elderly person three times the amount of a younger healthy person. that goes up to five times. that seems to me, a little bit in the weeds, seems a very good thing for the insurance companies. >> yeah, there is no doubt, cheryl, some of the numbers needed to be manipulated or played with to make it work. you're right, attempts in obamacare to be socialized

medicine and tell everybody it wasn't was the joke on everyone. the tough thing for me, i got to tell you, i'm just worried about this because what happened with the aca. the proclaims from the president hey, we'll cover more people, healthy and sick, provide more care and lower premiums and deductibles for everybody just seems tough. v tag is right. this number seems low when it comes to risk pools out there. that is lot more needs to be worked out. cheryl: but that is additional funding. the other piece important to bring up here, for the very sick, they're talking about specialized plans, risk pools, call it what you will but specialized plans so you don't leave out -- even somebody has got, veronica, really quick, i know we have to go, somebody has to let the coverage lapse for 60 days. they have to be in a state that take as waiver. for some reason they can't get federal help, they get federal help. to me that 8 billion, 130 would

be enough. we don't know. cbo hasn't given us a number. seems to me that covers a small group of individuals people are fighting about. >> it could. scott brings up a point about senior citizens, charging five times more or more than that, that could be a really difficult issue. cheryl: five times is the limit right now. >> if they get a waiver they can do more in certain states. if you charge them more, they vote. a lot of these folks facing midterm elections folks in the house. that would be interesting to see if that ends up in the final bill. >> leaving up to the states, guys is risky too. leaving it up to the states is risky too. cheryl: state rights. thank you, veronica and scott martin. david: to the very least this has been busy day in the house of representatives. you heard about a divisive health care vote. there was north significant vote followed.

congress nearly united on this one, coming up. melissa: republican health care bill passing house now. it is on to the senate affecting individuals and businesses alike. we'll look what it means for small businesses coming up. david: we are getting tons of reaction pouring in. many republicans are celebrating while democrats are warning this will cost republicans their jobs. >> you vote for this bill, you have walked the plank from moderate to radical, and you're walking the plank for what? a bill that will not be accepted by the united states senate. when i first started working with capital one, my dad called them up and asked for "the jennifer garner card" which is such a dad thing to do. after he gave his name the woman from capital one said "mr. garner, are you related to jennifer?" kind of joking with him. and my dad was so proud to tell her, "as a matter of fact, she is my middle daughter". so now dad has the venture card, he's earning his double miles, and he made a friend at the company.

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repeal obamacare. fox business's blake burman at the white house. blake? reporter: this is how you know such a relief for folks at white house. one of the last people president trump ended up thanking, the media. he joked about it of course. this was a big, big, exhale from the white house they came here in the past hour to put it as you put it celebrate, 217-213. that ended up passing the ahca, speaking with folks at the white house, they were comfortable where the numbers stood but they weren't willing to make a prediction as they learned from the lesson first go round. it was just 41 days ago, march 24th when the first bill, the first iteration of ahca was supposed to go to the house floor and was pulled. fast forward on this day, you had a very, very jovial president trump.

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sermons or targeting pastors. we will not allow people of faith to be targeted, bullied or silenced anymore. david: tt was president trump signing an executive order today aimed at increasing religious freedom by scaling back restrictions on churches that now they could be allowed to be politically active and still maintain their tax-exempt status. this coming on national day of prayer. tony perkins was at the white house. he is president of the family research council. good to see you, tone any. >> david, thank you. david: be specific if you can, has the irs specifically target the certain churches because of their political activity? >> they have, even back during the bush administration we saw this where we saw liberal oriented churches the irs went after them which we oppose, spoke out against. but then under the obama administration that was kind of on steroids, going after conservative churches and alliance defending freedom who we often work with, has sought

to try to find out exactly how many churches have been targeted. a lot of that was company under wraps. part of the biggest issue here, david, has been the intimidation of this hanging over the head of churches. that today with the president's executive order will be removed. now will sermons become more political now, do you think? >> you know, i don't think so. some may feel freer to talk about those things without threat. some have already been that bold going ansaying wt they should be saying according to the teachings of scripture, but it goes beyond that, in that this allows, like it was prior to 1954, it allows for churches and other non-profits to endorse candidates. so a pastor can freely from the pulpit endorsing a candidate. other religious non-profits can do that as well. does not allow for them to spend money. it only allows speech element on politics to be brought back in.

david: let me talk about another intersection between politics and religion, the health care act t has to go through the senate before being signed by the president. the hobby lobby group, sisters of the poor, there are a lot of individualorg -- individual organizations and businesses felt obamacare infringed on their religious right because it required them to fund some part of their employees health care which dealt with abortion et cetera, has that all been changed? will that all be changed now if this bill is passed? >> well that was actually a part of the executive order as well, the little sisters of the poor were there in the rose garden for signing of executive order which directs health and human services -- david: if this bill passes it not even an issue because businesses are no longer required to provide health care for their employees. >> it is not an issue under repeal of the obamacare. it is still in the courts, it is a threat. with this repeal of obamacare

and replacement of a faith-friendly version, that will no longer be an issue. correct. plus also in addition to that, eliminates about 86% of the funding for planned parenthood which was other victory fo nservatives today. david: tony perkins, good to see you, tony. appreciate night thanks, david. cheryl: making small business great again. how president trump's health care plan could postively impact small business owners. we'll ask hector barreto, former sba administrator, coming up next. it's great to finally meet you. your parents have been talking about you for years. they're all about me saving for a house, or starting a college fund for my son. actually, i want to know what you're thinking. knowing that the most important goals are yours. it's how edward jones makes sense of investing. whfight back fastts, with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. and neutralizes stomach acid at the source.

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cheryl: well the house is celebrating as the revised health care bill cleared a major hurdle what happens in the senate? both sides of the senate aisle don't seem to be sold. >> we'll try to make it better. i am for repealing obamacare. i'm not giving up. we're sort of at beginning of the senate process. we'll see what happens. cheryl: that was senator rand paul. senator chuck schumer slamming the bill saying this bill is going nowhere fast in the united states senate. senate republicans should refuse to follow their house colleagues over a cliff. let's bring in brad blakeman, former bush 43 senior staffer, doug schoen, former clinton pollster, fox news contributor. brad, what do you make in particular rand paul? if you don't have senate republicans 100% sold what does that mean for the possibility of

the bill in the senate? >> we start the negotiations tomorrow in the senate. we're in the 7th inning of the world series, one out, we have a man on second. the senate is at bat. if they hit a home run. all we have to do is move the senate to the third base so we score with reconciliation when house and senate bills come together this is far from over. the bill we have today will not look like the bill finally passed. we talk about tort reform and selling across state lines and other things that will make this even a better bill than it is today but there is no doubt the republicans must pass this legislation. cheryl: the dems are ready though, doug. nancy pelosi already came out and said they walked t pla didn't they? bernie sanders, let me tell you what he came out and said, what senators on democratic side say, it helps rich, cutting 24 medicaid, going off old cbo score, planned parenthood, older americans. they're ready with their talking points. they're ready to debate this.

>> look, cheryl, in 2010 and 2014, obamacare was one of the proximate causes of the democratic defeat in the, those two midterm elections. i think this is probably manna from heaven for the democratic party for the 2018, 11, election. those are devastating statistics, the number of people who will lose care, impact on medicaid, the increased costs to seniors. this is going to be really, really tough for republicans to support. i don't think it will pass the senate in anything close to the current form. cheryl: they need, well obviously there will be, we know, we expect there to be changes. this is washington after all. we were looking at no votes, one congressman from arizona, where premiums were going up 116 he votes no.

we reached out to him much. he hasn't responded. this was a lot of dissent between the freedom caucus and this was not pretty. this is the house. >> this is generational change. we're trying to undo damage done for eight years. democrats remind me of the arsonist who gets mad when the fire department shows up. we have to put down the fire. it would burn the house down. we have to get republicans, but in the senate we must get democrats. get people like heitkamp and manchin and tester. there are people gettable on the democratic side. i would like a bipartisan bill coming out of the senate. i think the american people will know at least there was bipartisan support for something that will affect this country for generations. cheryl: doug what do you think of what he just said? >> i think it is terrific and unlikely. i don't think we'll get bipartisanship but we should work for it because this is too important an issue for there to be narrow partisanship.

cheryl: at the end of the day about people's lives. >> correct. >> it affects everybody. brad, doug, thank you. david: good discussion. next step, stop the senate. president trump taking a victory lap after the house approved the gop health care bill to replace and repeal obamacare. take a listen. >> this is, make no mistake, this is a repeal and a replace of obamacare. make no mistake about it. this has really brought the republican party together. as much as we've come up with a really incredible health care plan, this has brought the republican party together. david: so how will all this affect small businesses? here is hector ba rote toe, former -- barreto, former admin store of the small business administration and hispanic business institute. hector, after obamacare was voted in, we saw all small business many employees moving

employers from full time to part time so they didn't have to pay insurance. thousands of businesses did that. will that change now? will we have full-time employees because of the end of the business mandate? >> i think they will, david. this was about less, less regulation, less taxes, less intrusion in their day-to-day operations. if you give small businesses the opportunity to make those decisions themselves, they will create those jobs, they will move them from part-time to full time. we see this as a step in the right direction, a positive step. a lot more work left to be done. i think this is going in the right direction. david: i was talking to zane tankel, he owns a lot of applebee's in new york. it was not just the mandate because he frankly could afford, he could afford pay a little more insurance but all the paperwork he had to do. it took so much more of his time. he had to create an entire division of workers including accountants just to deal with all the obamacare paperwork. >> no down about it.

since my time at sba, since early 2,000s, small businesses were already screaming how hard it was to provide health care to their employees. s that has only gotten worse over the last decade. anything we can do to take the boot off their neck, more freedom, more flexibility, more choices and start lowering the cost of health care that is a very, very positive thing for the engine of america. remember, david, they create 3/4 of net new jobs and they represent 52% of the economy. so this is very, very positive. david: that is where innovation comes from, small businesses. where most hard-working people can be found. let me switch to tax cuts if i can for a second. >> sure. david: we know the president's plan, we've seen the blueprints, the vague blueprints of it, it is for cutting small business taxes. a lot of small businesses pay taxes as part of individual income. some are paying over 30%. this would bring that down to 15%. what would that do to regenerate

business on small business side? >> like the president says, it would be huge. you know we were really looking towards this health care proposal to see if it includes the subchapter-s corporations. you're absolutely right, david, most small businesses apply as individuals, subchapter-ss. if you lower the rate to 15%, that will take about 50% of their taxes away. there is another old saying, it is not what you make but what you get to keep. if small business keeps more of hard-earned money, they invest that back into the business and we'll get this economy growing again. dad: there is lk about leveling the playing field. a lot of big companies, big corporations get these cutouts. they have got the lobbyists and attorneys in washington to get special deals. according to what the president's team says they will end a lot of those special deals with big business and level the playing field. will that help small business? >> it is very, very important. it has not been a level playing field for a long time.

you and i both know some of the largest corporations in the united states pay no taxes. david: right. >> very few small businesses pay no taxes. they don't get all the deductions. they don't have an army of lawyers and accountants helping them navigate this labyrinth of tax code. anything we do to simplify it, make he it easier for them to compete that is a good thing for the economy rand 28 million small businesses in america. david: hector, great to see you. let's hope they work on taxes now. we all need our taxes cut. thank you very much. cheryl? cheryl: we have breaking news out of washington, the senate following the house, approved the spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, that vote 79-18 in favor. the senate voting at same time the house was voting to pass health care. the government bill goes to the president to sign, david, shutdown averted. david: historic countdown. the french presidential race tightening up as voters hit the

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schedule a complimentary goal planning session today. cheryl: voters in france are just days away from what could be historic moment for their country's political system as they prepare to head to the polls sunday to elect a new president. ashley webster standing by in paris with latest on this contentious race between right-wing nationalist marine le pen and more liberal emanuel macron. things got heated last night as we saw, ashley. reporter: you could not be more right, cheryl. in fact downright dirty and youly many described it. the days are running out now. four days to the election. last day of campaigning for candidates tomorrow. today the lemond newspaper, the headline today, marine le pen, a strategy of lying. clearly lamond which is left-leaning does not like that.

thisne, job security europe, who was convincing? if you believe the polls, macron is still holding a 20-point lead. what is really interesting, david alluded to this going into the commercial break, there is a good number of people who don't like either candidate, as much as 20% they may abstain from voting. another 20% are undecided. mr. macron could have 20 point lead but things could change drastically when people go to the ballot box on sunday. as we know, we follow "brexit" and we followed donald trump, you never know until every vote is counted, but this has indeed been a very contentious battle between two candidates who could not be further apart, twice. cheryl: ashley webster live from paris. continuing coverage. ashley, thank you so. david: busy day for the house. it wasn't just health care. after they pass the health care

vote, they voted 419-1, targeting use of slave labor and required trump administration to report to congress 90 days, whether north korea should be reinstated to the government's state sponsor of terror list. that seems like a no-brainer. cheryl: exactly. making his way home. president trump about to leave the white house for the big apple. so why is the president coming back to new york for the first time since taking office? we'll tell it you coming up next. did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet that's over 6 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. say hello to internet speeds up to 250 mbps. and add phone and tv for only $34.90 more a month. call today. comcast business.

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david: president trump has a few words for susan rice. quoting. susan rice refusing to testify before a senate stub committee on allegations of unmasking trump transition official. not good. general mcinerney, it's clear

she unmasked these names, but we don't know if she leaked the names to the press. is that why she is afraid to testify? >> i think that's partially it. susan rice is the key to the politicization of the intelligence community and how all these names have been unmasked, and the increase in 2011 when the obama administration loosened up on the criteria for unmasking. and there were 30,000 searches on american citizens that was never intended by the fisa courts. david: let's focus on the trump administration stuff. it was those names that were unmasked. do you blievment s. intel agencies were used for political gain by members of the obama administration? >> absolutely.

i believe the russian collusion exception going on was pulled out by the democrats so we wouldn't look at what they had done to the politicization of the intelligence community. they have been thoroughly effective though nothing has shine on the russian collusion. this is the great deception. there is no question hillary clinton violated the espionage act. and perhaps the president by using that server. it's that simple. once you open that door, and i believe susan rice is the key to the start of opening that door, then everything will become very transparent how they used the intelligence community for political purposes. david: you have to open the door, but you have also got to get her to testify. should she be subpoenaed in the. >> she should be. david: thomas mcinerney, thank

you, general, good to have you here. reporter: tonight a lot is happening in new york city. david: the president is back in his hometown. lou dobbs will be covering it. "risk and reward" starts right now. >> tonight i'm calling on this congress to repeal and replace obamacare. >> you want your doctor? you will be able to keep your doctor, period. >> a lot of us have been waiting 7 years to cast this ve. are we going to meethis test? are going to be men and women of our word? we'll not falter, we'll replace, and today is the day that we are going to do this. >> you like your healthcare plan? you will be able to keep your healthcare plan, period.