what it means to serve. call today to talk about your insurance needs. >> thank you so much for joining us. america's news headquarters starts now. >> a fox news alert, president trump now claiming that he did not record conversations with fbi director, jim scully. hello, everyone i am melissa. and the white house briefing by deputy press secretary is just wrapping up. the president tweeting about an hour ago that he made it no recording on his discussions with james comey in the weeks leading up to the controversial firing. after comey said the president leaned on him to drop the michael flynn investigation, we are live now at the white house. so what is the administration say now? >> well, melissa, this is the

time of the typical white house press briefing, where you can see reporters asking the white house press secretary questions, and while there just was reporters in the briefing room, asking questions, in a trend that is becoming increasingly disturbing to television journalist, more often than not, the white house is saying that we cannot bring in cameras, we cannot broadcast live, will only allow you to hear the audio of the briefing afterwards. that audio into minutes. sarah huckabee sanders was pressed repeatedly about the president streets earlier and said essentially this. >> i think the president's statement via twitter today is extremely clear, i don't have anything to add. >> and these were the tweets that came out about 12:56. answering the question if he secretly took meetings with then fbi director jim scully. with all of the recently

reported electronic defensive, i have no idea about the recordings of my conversations with james comey, but i did not make and do not have any such recordings. remember, it was the president himself who started the speculation with his may 12th tweets, right after he fired then fbi director jim comey. and you might remember, melissa, it was then that the former fbi director who said that he hopes that there are tapes. >> melissa: absolutely, leland, thank you for that. i want to go to the breaking news, rand paul from kentucky talking about that health care bill. >> therefore just trying to make the bill less like a reiteration of obamacare.

the choice could be this or obamacare, are you willing to let the country be under obamacare if that is the choice? >> i don't think there is anybody in america who is more against obamacare than myself, i have seen the ravages of it. i just didn't run on obamacare, i didn't run on replacing apps programs. i didn't run on allowing the spiral to continue, just to subsidize taxpayer money. look, we are $500 billion in debt right now, there is no money to keep subsidizing insurance, there is no money to extend medicare, we are actually cutting taxes. so you have to be honest with people, it has to be paid for, so we are not going to pay for it, and we are going to keep a lot of the stuff that is it obamacare. the purpose is not to defeat the bill but to make the bill bette better.

>> i think what will happen and the reason we are coming out now is now the discussion begins. but the people that are in favor of the current will know that there are not 50 votes for it, perhaps the discussion will begin to make me feel better. >> make the changes to make it that way you want? >> yeah. there is supposedly a draft form, at our meeting this morning everyone so that they were still up for changes. but i think you will only get changes if you show you have the power to you know, not vote for the current bill, and that is kind of where we are. >> is next week realistic for a vote? >> you know, it seems like a short time, i am in favor of reading the bills before hand. i will read it, legislation says that you should wait one day for every 20 pages, so that would be about six or seven working days just for this bill, and not only

do we need to read it, now i think we also need to negotiate over what is good and what is bad and what we can do to it better, so -- >> melissa: okay, so if you are listening, the senator rand paul, he said that now is when the discussion begins. we see this a lot with bills moving. someone on the same party comes out early and says here's what i'm going to need to begin the discussion. this is what we are hearing her here. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill now, so how are republican leaders selling this plan to others? obviously, rand paul is not buying it. >> that's right, melissa, he is one of the four senators to come out against this plan, that is significant because of course mitch mcconnell has 52 republicans, he can only lose due to passive bill, with the vice president serving as a tiebreaker, so this is breaking news and very critical, and one

would expect that they would get to the negotiating table to figure out what they can do to bring these conservatives on board. here is what they are saying about their plan. they are saying that it will give states flexibility, it will be a big improvement over obamacare, it will take steps to stabilize our insurance markets, not have a requirement to purchase insurance, the proven affordability of health insurance, would strengthen medicaid by giving states flexibility, so republican leaders say it is time to fix i it. >> obamacare isn't working by nearly any measure, it has failed and no amount of reality denying is going to change the facts that more americans are going to get hurt, unless we do something. >> the big headache for mitch mcconnell is for the republicans coming out this hour saying they are against the bill, they are dr. rand paul, ted cruz of texas, michael lee of utah, ron johnson of

wisconsin, but it sounds like they are open to negotiation. it will be interesting to see where things go from here. >> melissa: yeah, that is usually how these things go. meanwhile, i saw the protesters in the hallway, what is the response from democrats so far? >> well, democrats are essentially saying that this would got programs like medicaid, they are saying it would cause millions of people to lose their insurance, somewhat counter that's because the government would no longer be forcing people to buy insurance, but democrats say it would have a devastating impact. >> they are not trying to change it, they are just trying to cottage. we are always willing to look at different forms to make it more efficient and effective, and we have done much through the years. but this is not reform. basically, if you talk to some of these people, the most conservative comes a boat leave there should not be medicated all, this is a step to eradicate it. >> they are also complaining about the timing, saying that

republicans are seeking to rework could be a system in a hurry. melissa. >> melissa: thank you so much. we are here for fox news channe fox news channel, i had a couple of hours to go third, and i feel like i agree more with rand pau rand paul. we are talking about math. i mean, they are just reducing the increase in medicaid over time, slowing the growth in spending, not even stopping it. i don't know. >> that is classic a government talk, right? to say that something is being cut, when really you are trimming the rates of increase over several years. you know, rand paul mae gets a little bit of what he what he wants here. the big question is are they willing to go to the middle? because when you go to the fundamentals of what they want, i think the senators are appalled that the government is now in the health care business. they are saying we don't believe in that, we don't want to

federally run or organize this. we may be passed over that rubicon already. we may not be able to go back to that because then the question becomes for democrats ultimately, they would like to see many of them as a single-payer system, and then on the other side, you have if we are not going to back out of this, where are we satisfied with some sort of cause i arrangement that allows a lot more competition? rand paul has always wanted to push it back to the safe and give them state control, so i think there may be some ground that he may be satisfied within the others as well, but this is when it gets interesting. we haven't seen this legislation in many years, but there is nothing wrong with that. that is what we are seeing now. >> melissa: they are saying they don't want the federal government should be in charge, so what are our options? we are not going to get the government out of the business altogether. that ship has sailed. but there are so many things that should happen when they push it back to the states,

whether it is the long term innovations, for states to be able to do things, and power states to do different things with substance abuse and mental health crisis, accountability, they of course have those waivers, there is a lot of giving states power here, do you think that is enough to satisfy those for that we talked about? >> that will be a big question, and the political question for them is can you go back to your constituents and say i had an opportunity to fix this problem, it wasn't perfect, but it made it a little bit better in my mind, are they willing to go back to their elector and say i don't want to go along? this is a piece of a bigger puzzle, health care has to pass, they have to do something if republicans want to keep their majorities in congress. and they have to move on to tax return. they believe that these are they will starting to turn on this, there will be more down the

road. so politically, we talked to mitch mcconnell, i spoke with him several months ago about the beginning of this process, and i said what do you want in this bill? so i mean he wants something that can get past. it is unlikely to be perfect, but all these people ran on passing repeal and replacement of obamacare, which by the way, as you have well documented over the years so beautifully, it isn't going to survive give it's not fixed, which makes me wonder what chuck schumer is exactly getting at here. >> melissa: he is on another planet. beginning with obamacare, so i want to put this to the same test, they are trying to put these very expensive things in the same pool. so they outline how much they're going to spend and where they're going to put them, i have heard other people say there is not enough money, they are going to have to do something -- i don't know if we can know if the math is there.

that is calculus we just got into there. the math is a little scary. >> i don't know that i want to get into calculus, but you know, you point out, when you put the burden back on states, they are going to start talking. they will say we don't have the money to cover this, we have to go to the federal government. and you have to find out who is going to cover it, especially when you are wanting to cut all of these obamacare taxes. the democrats on the liberal side of the fence, they are going to say this is just to get rid of things like the investment cap, which will help the rich, the republican arguments is that it will help to fuel business, and small businesses have been burned by obamacare, so they want this monkey off of their back to. it is pretty tricky business. >> melissa: that is true. let me ask you about this press conference earlier. i will let you listen to a little bit of it. >> again, he answered the question, he gave a timeline and

a frame in which she would, and he did that. if you go back to the original tweets, did the president intend to threaten james comey with that sweet? >> not that i am aware of. >> led to the hiring of the special counsel, also led to the reports that he was being investigated for possible obstruction of justice. does the regret the trees? >> i don't think so. >> but he did say i did not make and do not have any such recordings. did he ever have recordings and conversations with james comey? >> again, not that i'm aware of. >> melissa: okay, forgive me for not setting that up very well, saying essentially that there are no tapes, what do you think of the way that she handled that? >> i think that what we are seeing is a sort of realignments of the way they are communicating, a much more disciplined method, as he saw

there, sarah huckabee sanders is becoming a sort of interpreter, she is interpreting those twits and saying i'm going to let this one stand on its own, and not getting into the kind of back-and-forth that we have seen. it puts her in a pretty difficult position, i mean the press is going to keep pushing, we need live press conferences, if they want to be more disciplined, that is their choice in terms of how they coach them, but they have to happen left, and they have to be documented with audio and in every possible way. >> melissa: but if they have to, let me play it back for you, he has done everything else differently in this presidency, their response is hey, who says we have to have these live press conferences? >> there's quite a bit of transparency between the truth and the leaks. but we don't have is the sort of open questioning theory, but i think what we are going to see

more he loves to tweets, i don't think that is ever going to stop. he wants to be able to jump over the who and get his message out there anyway he can. they're going to have to come to some sort of terms about how they do this, but you cannot by public pressure start cutting off that which allows people to ask questions of the president to end his communication team. see you and yeah, martha maccallum, thank you so much. we appreciate it, thank you. a fox news alert, senate republicans are unveiling of the flame to repeal and replace obamacare, g.o.p. lawmakers making the case for their bill. >> to begin with, the discussion draft of the senate health care bill makes no change in the law, protecting the pre-existing conditions, no change in medicare benefits, and it increases medicaid. at the rate of inflation.

>> melissa: so let's talk about the plans detailed with senator john, sir, thank you so much for joining us. >> hey, thank you for having me. >> melissa: first of all, let me ask you with those problems that we have heard from senator paul so far, saying that there is not enough of a refueling here, it is unclear how you pay for the things that are in there. and it is a lot of spending. what you think? >> this is a fundamental change in the obama health care law that has been in my opinion and certainly in wyoming, hurting people all across the country and continues to collapse, so there is an urgency to do something, we eliminate all of the mandates, the individual mandate, the employer mandates, the things that people have hated about obamacare, and we eliminate all of the taxes that president obama and the democrats put on the american people to pay for a system, which let's face after seven

years, has completely failed. >> melissa: senator, granting everything you just said, the problem is that all of those things save money and they cut funding, but you still have -- you are going to create these risk pools with money, you're going to continue to have the subsidies, the medicaid cuts are just slowing the growth -- spending, it is not actual cuts, so there is a lot of spending, and you are not forcing people to pan, so how are you going to pay for the health care you're disturbing? >> we are certainly going much more flexibility to the states to make some of those decisions. i was in the state senate in wyoming, and as a doctor who worked closely with medicaid, we always felt that if we had an opportunity to have the responsibility of making those choices with the same amount of money, we could do a much better job at home in wyoming for more people, for better care, than having to deal with these one-size-fits-all regulations that come out of washington.

so much of this is giving the responsibilities and the authorities back to the states, those are the people that need the flexibility and can make much better decisions than this one-size-fits-all that we see coming out of washington, d.c., mandated by the obama health care law. >> melissa: but do you anticipate seeing states coming back at you, screaming that they don't have enough money, but you put all of the responsibility on them, and that they don't have the funds to pay for it, what are we supposed to do? >> well, governors would always like more money for just about everything, i thought i when i was in the state legislator, we have a $20 trillion debt, i am focusing on actually getting people better care, so many people who have been put on medicaid, that is a failing system, we need to strengthen long-term, they believe that what we are proposing today that would not expand medicaid, i think what we are unveiling today does that. >> melissa: a lot of people say that the risk pool, and i am looking at the numbers right

here, the long-term state innovations $62 billion, that is one of the risk pools, as you spend that money, it is not going to be enough, like you said, one day to deal with that is to reassure some of the risk. have the republicans talked about that possibility? >> we talked about a lot, we think it is a system that works very well. basically, we are focused on a couple of things. one is lowering the insurance premium, because they have doubled over the last four years under obamacare. the other things that we need to stabilize the insurance market because as you know there are so many places around the country where people are dumb to one choice or two choices, we only have one in wyoming, and there are over 40 counties which have no choices, there is no excelling. just yesterday, one of the insurance companies pulled out of wisconsin and indiana, so this obamacare collapse is continuing everyday. >> melissa: without question. we are all familiar with the problem, trying to figure out

the solution. if you want to hang with us, for just one second, senator, we have big news on another story. ending speculation on twitter, saying that he did not record any of his conversations, as promised, we have more from washington on that one. catherine. >> thank you, writing in a tweed suit, the president confirming that he never reported their conversations, with all of the unmasking and illegal leaking, i have no idea whether there are tapes or recordings of my conversations with jim comey. but i did not make and do not have any such recordings. the white house has been promising an answer on the issue since fbi director jim comey was fired in may, and in a series of leaks alleging details, comey said of the president told him to let go of the conversation, michael flynn who resigned in mid-february. the pressure came to a head,

intensified after coley's public testimony june 8th. >> look, i have seen the tweet about tapes, lord, i hope there are tweets. i remember saying i agree he is a good guy as a way of saying this, again maybe other people would be stronger in that circumstance, but that is how i conducted myself. >> conducted his nine conversations, those memos are now being fought by congress. >> melissa: it was those tweets that led to the creation of the special counsel. >> that's right, he testified that the tweets drove his decision to release the contents of the government memos to a reporter to a third party. >> i woke up in the middle of the night on monday night because it didn't dawn on me originally but there might be corroboration for conversation, there might be a tape, and my judgments was i needed to get that inch into the public square, and so i asked a friend of mine to share the content of

the memo. i didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons, but i asked him to i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. click on that is pretty much exactly what happened. we know how special counsel robert muller, meeting with senior senators to ensure that they did not contradict comey, they say there is strong circumstantial evidence that he actually linked it to the media. >> melissa: for, as always. will go back now to the senator. senator , do you think that it begins to put the matter to rest, or are we going to keep talking about all of these leaks and this investigation and the special counsel? or do we go from here? >> welcome i certainly hope it does put this matter to rest. that is what the present because of, i believe him about that, i have no reason to know one way or the other, we know that the president was not under investigation with the

relationship to russia, we know that for sure did try to impact the elections this past year, and i will tell you there are 100 united states senators, i want to make sure that our country is safe and strong and secure and are continuing to look for answers. >> melissa: kellyanne conway reported earlier today saying that there is a russian concussion, which now she is pulling that phrase, i bet we will be hearing it all over the place. the democrats can't turn away from this, get to the business on the floor, does not threaten us health care negotiations >> it seems that they have been on this resistance movement to try to slow down just about anything we have been doing, whether it is confirming people to the present cabinets, other positions in government, they have been objecting, today they objected to as having committee meetings this afternoon, so committees haven't been able to meet, we have had that throughout the week because after the senate comes in after a certain amount of time, you

have to get consent from both sides, so six committees were canceled today because of this obstruction by the democrats, so it is not just health care, it is everything that we are trying to accomplish in terms of jobs, the economy, national security, getting the country moving, head, the democrats are trying to solve all. >> melissa: before i let you go, you are there, you have a bird's-eye view, where does this health care bill stand? how much change do you think there needs to be? you think it passes? what is your bet? >> well, i am working to that end, i think it does, we had an hour and a half discussion earlier today and then just another hour today that so many of the members talking about ways to improve it, scraping it, deal with the fact that obamacare has undermined the health insurance in this country to the point that so many people have no choices, it has become a monopoly, the cost of skyrocketed, and what we know is happening are the rates that we are here and for what insurance companies are going to have to charge next year are going up

astronomically, and here to washington descent, they are talking about over 50% increases, and it is because of the failure of obamacare. >> melissa: is the question. we will see you, senator, thank you for spending time with us, and thank you for your essay. >> thank you very much. >> melissa: so here is a lie look at the centers, trying to go about business, after unveiling the draft of a new health care bill. and dozens of people staging a dine in in front of the senator majority leader's office. we will take you there. plus we are awaiting a briefing on the fbi for the ninth attack on a police officer at a michigan airport, was this an act of terror? e playing. -what? -we gotta go. -where? -san francisco. -when? -friday. we gotta go. [ tires screech ] any airline. any hotel. any time.

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>> melissa: of the draft of the senate health care bill unveiled today, it has been highly anticipated, given the unpopularity of the house bill, the bill is different on some key points, but neither version is enjoying that strong of support in the house bill, tax credits were based on age, insurance company, could increase premiums based on pre-existing conditions, the bill and medicaid expansion by cutting funds in 2020, and as far as cuts to medicaid, states will receive block grants based on per capita spending, tax

credit based on age and income, insurance company of canned increase premiums based on pre-existing conditions, funding for medicaid expansion would fade out slowly, and they would grow more slowly than under the house version. let's sort that out for you. peter doocy can do it. people are really fired up about this. what kind of activity did you see there today? >> peter: outside of senator mitch mcconnell's office, most of those that were arrested were loudly screaming about medicaid, and most of them appeared it to be disabled, organized by the group adapt, this was a di- in, where protesters pretended to be dead, they were very carefully helped back into their wheelchairs, so they could be taken into

custody, we do not have a final tally about how many people were arrested, but it took them more than an hour to restore peace. it >> melissa: so what do we know about how they have been digesting the bill? they had to be protesting before they even read it, so what about lawmakers? >> peter: it has taken them a wild, melissa, we know that most republicans the left of this without having read it, and some of them were going to have to multitask today in order to get through it all, including senator jeff flake, we saw him on his way to a hearing today. >> we didn't get the copy, we have to read it now, so it has been sent to our office, so i've got to read it first. >> peter: and a democratic senator a few minutes later mention something that we have not heard much of today. what's fest virginia said that

they are ready to put pen to paper and help republicans. >> a lot of changes need to be made, i have got eight to ten democrats who would be happy to sit down and start tonight working on this. >> peter: he was clear, he does not know of eight to ten democrats ready to vote, but he does know eight to ten democrats who say that they would want to help make a better what was put forth today. melissa. >> melissa: all right, got a lot of cooks in the oven. thank you for that. house speaker paul ryan also talking about the senate strapped health care bill, listen. >> the system is collapsing, it is a real thing, anthem blue cross yesterday pulled out of wisconsin, that is one of the most flagship ensures we have had in our state for many, many years, so this is cemented in a tailspin, we made a promise that we would repeal and replace his flock, i am very happy that the senate has gone through the work of putting together bill that keep that promise.

>> melissa: all right, joining me now is a guy, fox news contributor, former bill clinton bowl server, thank you again for joining us, we saw those guys get out, saying we can't find this, they are sort of laying their markers down, though they are going to need something, not unexpected, for what you think? can they get there? >> i would be very surprised, melissa, if there is a successful vote on this bill by next week. i think that there is a long period of change that is going to have to take place because there are people in the center and on the right who are unhappy with elements of the bill, and the idea that you're going to fix all of those concerns get them all address or any span of one week? and then have a vote on something that senators are just now starting to read? to me, the timeline just doesn't make any sense. look, i think speaker ryan is completely correct that obamacare is falling apart, it is a failure of a law, but this

build of the senate has put forward so far, there is a big contradiction here in my mind, and this is what it is, it says that under the current bill, just like obamacare, insurers have to sell everyone, including with pre-existing conditions for the same rights as everyone else, while also repealing obamacare is individual mandate tax, there is no enforcing mechanism anywhere there. so i just don't understand how it is currently constituted the republican plan would reverse the fundamental flaw of obamacare, which is risk pools that are unsustainable. that to me is ultimately, should be important. >> melissa: looking third, this risk pool, they talk about the size and can they possibly -- it looks like the only way to do that is if they reinsure those risk pools. that is the map that gets you there, is that going to be too mathematical and too much alike -- i don't know -- it's

starting to sound like the financial crisis when you're doing things like this. >> well, i actually agree with guy benson. paul, johnson, i don't think that dean heller would vote for it, it is a walking disaster. it is bad for america, it is bad -- it's a terrible if you are a working american, if you have a father or a grandfather or grandmother in a nursing home, if you have -- >> melissa: why? actually, that's not true. the problem is -- >> this bill cuts health care, tax giveaways to those who need it, it is a slash and burn, it is on the path to getting rid of medicaid. >> guy, i am going to let you respond. >> no cuts to medicaid -- >> melissa: excuse me, that's not true. go ahead, guy. >> it is absolutely true.

>> here's the problem. some people on the left are going to say anything about the republicans propose is mean-spirited and blah, blah, blah, when in fact, one of the key architects of obamacare, he was on another network this morning and said actually, this is no longer an obamacare repeal bill, because it keeps so much of it in place and just sort of waters down. so i think my objections to the republican bill, a big one being how do you fix the risk pools and the adverse selection problems? the other one being i don't really believe that it is that different than obamacare, as it currently stands, but is a very different things and saying oh, my gosh, it is uprooting everything and hurting all these people. >> melissa: we are not going to solve this. can i ask you about one of the other big topics of the day? let me ask you about the pushback against nancy pelosi after the upset that we have seen. there are people saying that her time has gone by, that you would have to be insane to think that

the democrats succeed with her at the helm, what you think? >> i think that it is competition, there are democrats out there who feel that they would be a better leader than leader pelosi, then let them come forward, bring their ideas, and have an open vote for the head of the caucus, i don't think there's anything wrong with that, competition in the free market is the best way to advance policies, i think the democrats need an opportunity to express who should be the voice in the face of the party, going into the midterms, and i think she does too. >> melissa: here is what congresswoman kathleen had to say about that. >> i believe that she is not the leader of the future of the democratic party, it is that simple. do i think it is fair? do i think it is fair that the republican playbook over the last four election cycles has been attacking nancy pelosi? no, that's not fair, nor is it accurate, but guess what? it works. if they are winning, we have to address that reality.

>> have your fun, i love the arena. i thrive on competition, and i welcome a discussion, but i am honored by the support. >> melissa: she is getting a lot of blame, guys. does she deserve it? >> yes. so here's the thing, the previous sound bite that he played before where she said it is not fair to her, it is not accurate, but it works, that last part is correct, it does work because it is fair and it is accurate, i hope lucy rules forever and ever. >> melissa: yeah, i'll give you the last word, bernard. >> look, i think that the most amazing thing about this whole health care stories that we haven't touched on, which is that the president should be out there promoting his health care bill, but instead he is coming up with these insane rebuttals to his own lives, about 313, this is an example about it and missed administration that has no idea how to govern and someone who is a bit unhinged. >> melissa: all right, guys,

we will leave it there. thanks. a fox news letters, we are awaiting a briefing about the attack on a police officer at a michigan airport. the man stabbed a police officer in the neck in the flint, michigan, airport. lieutenant neville is in stable condition. michael mccall, the house security chairman weighs in on the suspect. >> he was probably doing this in retaliation for the killings in the middle east in his words, he traveled from canada to new york, then to michigan, attempted to purchase a firearm, was denied because he is a foreign national, instead bought a 12-inch knife and then attempted to kill a police officer. we have more on the investigation from flint, michigan. garrett. >> well, we learned that this attack it could have been much

worse. we learned that -- i want to show you where this all took place. fbi officials tell us that shortly before 9:00 a.m., he should appear at the airport. he was carrying two bags, he came up the escalator, he came over to this restaurant, where he spent about 20 minutes, and i want to show you -- here's the security area here, so this is before he would have reached any tsa agents or anything along those lines. after 20 minutes, he came over here to the bathroom, with his two duffel bags, and then moments later, he came out with a 12-inch hunting knife, lieutenant jeff neville was standing somewhere around this area, and that is when we are told that he yelled, the attacker yelled "allahu akbar" and he is a step of the officer in the neck. it is yet to be cleaned up. thankfully, all of this displayed right in front of the

airport's offices, officers were getting ready to have a meeting, so within seconds, three to four officers were here, helping lieutenant neville, but the first person to respond was in airport maintenance worker, who was standing here talking to lieutenant neville, when the attack occurred, into the airport officials are now crediting him with possibly saving neville's life. >> i believe he saved jeff's life. i believe you know, i am proud of all of our responders, especially proud of him because he jumped up there, and he did something that is courageous, i would like to say we would all do the same thing. >> anyway, we just spoke to the hospital a short time ago, we are told that officer neville is now in good condition, he is in good spirits, spending time with his family in the hospital, communicating with them as normal, very good news to hear. >> melissa: what more are we learning about the attacker? >> well, we learned that he had his initial court appearance last night, we learned from that that he is from canada, he has

been living there for the last ten years, he was a originally born in tunisia, he has a wife, three children, he has been working as a truck driver often on, we learned that he -- to believe that he was self radicalized, after he entered the u.s. last friday, at some point, he tried purchasing a gun and was denied, of course we'll go into a lot more details about this in the next hour at the fbi press conference. >> melissa: yes, that is going to be had about 30 eastern time. thank you. so house minority leader, taking her share of heaves, toxic feelings. we are going to talk about a democratic congressman next developed whether she should stay or go. >> all we do is win, win, win. we won last night. i can't believe it. they say what is going on. what is going on?

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>> much more head on the health care plan, senate republicans, which could be dead on arrival, because for republican senators say they are not yet ready to vote for it. we will break down exactly what changes the proposals and where it goes, that is the top of the r, shepard smith reporting. we will see you then. >> melissa: with republican sweeping every national electio election, how is this looking in georgia? many democrats are pointing the finger at their leader in the house, congresswoman nancy pelosi, saying it will be hard to win back control with her at the home. >> nancy pelosi is more toxic than donald trump? >> you know it? the honest answer is in some areas of the country, yes she is. that is the honest answer. i don't think that people in the beltway are realizing just how toxic the democratic party brand is in so many parts of the country. >> melissa: i am joined by

congressman from texas, he thank you for joining us. what are your thoughts on this? >> well, i think that as we look forward to the 2018 general election, democrats our goal is to regain major majority, and in that swing dusters, leader pelosi, she is a very loyal leader, she has worked very hard, but in the context of winning in 2018, and taking the majority, i think it is pretty clear that leader pelosi and is not to going to be our candidate in the swing districts that are so necessary for us to win in 2018. >> melissa: a little bit softer language in the news before that i use that i think we would have to be an idiot to win with pelosi at the top. it was not too strong? >> no, i thought it was being asked what our chances are, and i was honestly thinking that to

really believe that we can win the 2018 election and regain the majority, given every poll that you see, it shows that leader pelosi just dozens get the swing districts, so i was asked a question about our ability to win the 2018 election, and i answered as honestly as i could. >> melissa: yeah. absolutely. and former speaker newt gingrich, saying something similar, let me show you. >> i hope they keep nancy for ten more years, i want her there for at least another decade, we have always worked perfectly in georgia, we know exactly how to run against a nancy pelosi left party, we would love to have the question be a 2018 nancy pelosi versus paul ryan, and i hope that the democrats keep her right where she is, for a long, long time.

if you and your reaction to that? >> well, what i really think is the leader pelosi, looking forward to the 2018 election, she has to ask yourself this question: do i help democrats win, win districts, we need to win in 2018, and do i not? have an honest dialogue with herself, and i think the answer is obvious. >> melissa: and the answer is obviously that she should go? >> i think that if we are going to win, if we're going to regain the majority in 2018, we have to have new leadership. you and thank you for coming on. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> melissa: a powerful storm slamming into the gulf coast, leading to at least one death. and causing a serious flooding. the latest on tropical storm, cindy, next. destroy.

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>> melissa: a tropical storm cindy weakening into a tropical depression, but people living along the gulf coast are not out of the roads. potential flooding of the storm moves inward, it is already blamed for one death, debris hit a 10-year-old boy in alabama. >> melissa, just first tropical sort of the season, continues to grow, we have seen steady heavy rain throughout the morning, at least eight or 9 inches over the last 24 hours, and some places more than a foot of rain, and does that ring continues to roll in, we have seen the floodwaters rise, at or near the peaks,

about three or four or 4 feet of water where i am sending, and five or 6 feet behind me. some houses with their houses up on stilts, we have seen people sing their houses, often on foot, shoulder deep in water, carrying suitcases, and in some cases, their pets as well. >> nothing like getting your dog out. >> it was kind of tricky, trying to get two dogs and suitcases authored, chest deep in water, we got them out though. and they are safe. >> all around here, you see some cars stuck, and both as well, because they can make it all, the real fear was that people would get stuck in those houses i need be rescued, there has been a whole fleet of rescue both on high water vehicles ready, but so far, we haven't seen any emergency rescue here, these people know the water well, and so far they have been taking pretty good care of themselves. melissa. >> melissa: stay safe, and

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talking to reporters about healthcare. let's listen in. >> it's not all reflected in the current draft. we're at a different state. there has been a lot of public debate on obamacare for the last seven years. there will continue to be debate. we can get this done. we can get to yes, but the key to getting it done, to getting the yes is we need common sense reforms that lower the cost of premiums so that health insurance is more affordable for families that are struggling. >> senator cruz, people sometimes when we get to these big bills, they put themselves in play. does don't this provision or whatever. you can trade horses and maybe get those things. it's good optics. i fought for this. look what i got. is none of that going on here? are these things that you oppose or you think by saying no, they will say maybe we can help you on this issue or this issue and maybe get you to yes? >> i had been clear from day one that i want to get to yes. when i ran for senate, i campaigned on repealing

obamacare. it was the central promise of the campaign. in my time in the senate, nobody has fought harder against obamacare than i have. this matters. we have to do it but get it right. it's not enough to have obamacare repeal in the title. we have to have legislation to fix the underlying problem. under obamacare, the average premiums have risen over $5,000 of the year. it's the fault of the federal government, the fault of the failed policy that is obamacare. we need to fix that. so throughout the conversations with the working group, with the majority leader, with the president, the vice president, i've made very clear, i want to get to yes and the way to get to yes is fix the underlying problems. lower premiums and i will happily be part of it. we can get there. there's a lot of other senators that feel the same way as i do. >> why not resolving that in a