dropped as espn has done more political content. so it's unclear whether the political content is the reason espn is struggling now, but it does seem like it has turned off more republicans than democrats. that's going to do it for us this hour. mtp daily starts right now. if it's wednesday, republican health care reform gets a new lifeline. >> tonight, new momentum. another change in the health care bill wins over two more republicans. >> as a preexisting condition under trump care, they're going to be fine? >> yes. >> not everyone agrees to that. but does the republican bill finally have enough votes to pass the house? plus, grilled on the hill. >> it makes me mildly nauseous to think we might have had some impact on the election, but honestly, it wouldn't change the decision. >> fbi director james comey

defends the timing of the clinton e-mail revelations. >> it was in fact a big october surprise. >> we'll talk with the top democrat on the judiciary committee, dianne feinstein and the kremlin connection. how is it shaping up after a briefing at langley? mark warner, the committee's top democrat, joins me. this is mtp daily and it starts right now. good hump day evening. welcome to mtp daily. folks, the power of the president's words have seemingly gone from shock and awe the to hum and hawe. he's said a lot, b but accomplished little. it seems with every new promise, washington seems to be in the mode of shrugging. president slammed the integrity of james comey.

just before comey testified on on capitol hill amid a probe into the president's campaign. mr. trump tweeted fbi director comey was the best thing that ever happened to hillary clinton in that gave her a free pass. also suggested that the fbi was investigatie ining phony russia story. that's a pretty blatant example of meddle iing in an investigat or trying to. remember, plenty of republicans got outraged over much less. lo loretta lynch stepped aside after a fire storm over a conversation with bill clinton on a tarmac. the very least, you'd expect the president's comment to be a focus of today's hearing with the fbi director. right? wrong. because no one seemed to carement it never came up. also today, the president seemed to boast about his negotiating ability when he said this about peace in the middle east. >> let's see if we can find a solution. it's a something that i think is frankly maybe not as difficult as people have thought over the

years, but we need two willing parties. >> he's talking about solving a problem that has e leaded every president in the modern era, never mind any eeror of the previous eras. erday, the president turned a speech honoring the air force academy into a political deal. >> how's health care coming, folks? all right? this week, a republican team had its own vktry and we didn't do any touting like the democrats did by the way. the democrats didn't tell you that. they forgot. in their notes, they forgot to tell you that. this is what winning looks like. >> again, no one seemed to care that he broke that norm of using not just a football team but a military academy's football team as a backdrop for what turned into a political event and no one seems to be caring about what he tweets anymore. then there's the health care

bill which has been a perfect storm of threats and promises. the latest promise it will be every bit as good on preexisting conditions as obamacare. today, two major hold outs got on board after the president said he would provide $8 billion to reduce the cost for some with preexisting conditions. so, will there finally be a vote? that, we don't know yet. in 104 days, this president has made countless threats and promises from shutting down the government to overhauling health care. it's been a lot of talk, but still, waiting for action. i'm joined now by republican congressman michael burgess from texas who did meet with the president today about the bill. he's been somebody we've been in our column as a lean yes. are we correct? p do we still call you a lean yes, but tho final stigs on health care? >> wel, the bill passed through our committee almost a month ago. a $20 mark up. every republican on the

committee did vote for the bill as it left the committee. there had been some changes over the ensuing several weeks, but i think it looks as if things are indeed coming together and i'm not someone who counts votes. i don't do the whip's job, but it's looking more positive today than perhaps it was a few days ago. >> so, what you're saying the let me ask about you. if this current version of this bill with these amendments were in committee now, would you vote yes on it? >> yes, i would. i am anxious for the house to conclude its work on the health care bill. i am anxious because we have good colleagues over in the is that the and i want them to have their chance to work on this bill and actually be able to answer your questions as they do their work. >> you're looking forward to the senate having to do?

>> they are frequently telling us how much smarter and how wrong the house gets things, so yes, the world's greatest dlib rative body needs their opportunity to make this a better bill. >> my favorite part about covering washington. there are times republicans and democrats get along in the house better than the house and the senate some at times get along with each other. let me ask you this though. if you guys are going to get a vote this week, you've got to file the bill. is this helalth care bill. are you guys going to get this rule on the ground? is it going to get a cbo score? bev got a lot of work to do to get it on the floor, don't we? >> there is a bill on the floor. the debate was postponed so from a strurk eventual standpoint, the debate could be restarted. that the point where the speaker put the, hit the pause button. likelihood, it will require amendments coming to the rules committee. right now, that meeting has not been noticed, but i told some

reporters earlier today than the prudent member of the rules committee will maintain a flexible schedule for the next day or so and i am maintaining a flexible schedule as a prudent member of the rules committee. >> we talk today a lot of house members who think they're going home tomorrow. i take it you don't think you're going home tomorrow? >> i would not make that prediction. it's important the work gets done. that's my goal. and if the work gets completed by tomorrow, then great for us. my opinion and i am just speaking for myself and not for my committee or the conference, but it is pretty hard to talk about going home and taking the rest of the day off if you haven't done your work. that's where my feeling is right now. >> is it no your sense this bill

isn't going vote this week. >> my feeling right now is there is a good chance for us all to come together and get a good product out there. again, i'm just very anxious to see the senate get the work on this project. >> let me ask you about one detail. that has to do with the extra 8 billion. that are supposed to be there to help those that could see their premiums skyrocket because of preexisting conditions. are you confident this is going to work? >> well, taking a step back, the bill as it left the committee, this was not an issue. now, some other members felt that there needed to be more flexibility provided to the states. so the ability for the state to ask for and receive a waiver was included in the discussion.

if you are going to do that for someone in the individual market who did not maintain continuous coverage, there is a risk. so, the $8 billion that mr. long asked to be added to the bill today would provide premium support to those individuals who might be caught in that situation. vast majority of people, vast majority of people are in large group market in the employer market, where this is not an issue at all. for someone who is in the individual market, who does not maintain continuous coverage, there would be a risk and this was designed to mitigate that risk. the population of people is is small. but certainly sympathetic and we need to take care of it. >> i have to say, you seem awfully frustrated by this process because you made a note just now, that herbalsy, the work you did in committee before there was a mcarthur amendment and before there was let's call it now the upton amendment, i don't think it has name yet, but

let's call it that, you had a compromise bill. you seem awfully frustrated. is that fair sf. >> look, i'm going what i'm supposed to be doing. i'm a member of the house. i'm on the committee that's in charge of policy. and we are supposed to be working through the problems. look, there isn't anyone on my side who believes that status quo or the not doing anything is any kind of an option because of the difficulties that were already present in the system deliveredly the affordable care act. things have to change, now, it has been difficult to get to this point, i won't deny that, but tat the same time, this is important work and really, this is the work i need to be doing right now. >> all right, michael burgess, republican from texas. appreciate you coming on. very candid with your news. thank you, sir. tonight's panel -- that was fun.

i have to admit. matth matthew, he can't, wow, he cannot wait. he's not alone. there are a lot of house members that can't wait to dump this hot potato on to the senate. is that any way to rally the troops to pass a bill? >> it may be. to the message from the speaker and people like congressman burgess, this is it. this is the chance to final ly get the legislation off our backs. we made compromise with the right. with the center and that might be enough to finally push it over the edge. >> it does seem like he was of the mind set if you don't do it this week, then what are we doing? >> and i think that's absolutely right. they wanted actually, i think they want to see mitch mcconnell go back and forth with his with his own members, that said, if the american medical association came out with a statement before we went on air basically saying

even the minor tweaks are still going to leave million of people without coverage. so, i think that the republicans even though the members throw it back to the senate, they're going to have a really good conversation with their constituencies when they they had head back during recess. >> that's the thing, i think you got to wonder, how many house republicans are going to see that these senate guys, they're going b to be more sensitive to what the ama says. >> that may not bother some house republicans, but it is going to bother some senate republicans. >> the calculation of every member is a lilt l different and for the white house, they're trying to find something, the word you hear from the white house is a fig leaf. to give them cover and say we did what we promised for six years we were going to do, but it plays different in everybody's district and there are members, mike coffman is a house member in colorado. sounds like at this point, they need every single vote they can find and he's saying i might vote yes, i might vote no. he's in a really tough spot because he's one of the few

republicans facing a ton of pressure from constituents at town halls. >> it would be a disaster for the congressional republicans if they go home to another recess without passing a repeal and replacement of o obamacare considering that what they passed just now before we went on air, was this trillion dollar continuing resolution. which was basically the democratic bill. democratic votes that passed through the house. you hear rush limbaugh this week saying why are we electing republican government if it's nancy pelosi and chuck schumer running capitol hill. so, this is why this vote is so important. president trump needs some victory. and that might be enough. but i'm not counting it until it happens. >> there is going to be an equal, there's going to be a handful of house members who think what if the senate never votes on this. this happened to house democrats in 2009 on cap and trade. they did the vote. with the explicit promise that

the senate would and harry reid never brought that up. >> well and from what i understand, what is happening behind closed doors is that basically, they are trading in everything. and they're doing regular politicking, but with people's future and health care. i don't want to underestimate when jimmy kimmel, the fact his video has gone viral, it's because it has so many team. people get the fact the number one reason americans were going bankrupt was because they were having to pay for their health care. now, they don't have to, so to go back and revisit that, that's very real. >> people still have to pay. the people in the individual market -- >> protections on many of your assets. >> there are plenty of people unhappy with the current system. you see insurers pulling out of individual markets. in iowa today, threatening to do so in virginia in the future. the system is collapsing, so either way, people are going to be hurt. if the question is, do we have some momentum to improve the

system along the lines of the republicans have been talk iing about now for six years. if they can't do that,s it's everything who thinks that washington isn't working will be confirmed in their opinion. >> at what point, i mean, can we now say they have technically pulled the plug on repeal? >> yeah, this doesn't really look like repeal. >> looks like their version of a repair. >> it's that fig leaf. this gives us political cover to say, yeah, we took care of that. and i think one of the thipgs that the president is trying to do in these private c conversations, he's telling them, oh, yeah, mitch mcconnell is giving me assurances. i just think the house members have a hard time. they've been in washington a lot longer than donald trump. and for all the reasons you laid out at the top of the show, about his words not meaning as much. >> i don't think the president's the persuader here. >> challenges that the institutions and government are working despite the president

not understanding how it maneuvers, but his weet tweeting with highly influential with his base. >> we're going to pause the conversation here. have a little chatter about russia coming up next. the russian investigation that the president has called a witch hunt at times. >> so, what kind of threat do you believe russia presents to our democratic process? given what you know about russia's behavior of late. >> certainly, my view, the greatest threat of any nation on earth. >> so, there you go. top democrats on both the senate intel and judiciary committees will be coming up, so don't miss it. we'll be right back. to be a nightmare! does nobody like the future? c'mon, the future. he obviously doesn't know intel is helping power autonomous cars and the 5g network they connect to. with this, won't happen in the future. thanks, jim. there's some napkins in the glovebox. okay, but why would i need a napkin? you could have just told me a bump was coming.

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hint. >> did you learn anything new? >> we always learn something new. >> did it help you maybe make up your mind about who would you interview? >> this was a very educational stop. >> the democratic counter part mike warner agreed they learned some new things and said we would be hearing more from them very soon vefl few is right now, as far as we're concerned. senator, welcome back, sir. >> how are you? >> all right, so obviously we heard senator burr say he learned something new. you concurred. can you at leaf give a description of what made it an important educational stop for you? >> well, this was the first time that a lot of members of the committee had actually been briefed on what is literally thousands of pages of raw intelligence that we've received from all the various intelligence community. some of this was information had

just come in to the review area within the last week. that one, for example, from the nsa. and i think there were some folks that were pretty surprised at some of the information they heard. it continues to drive home the point to me that we have to follow the intel wherever it leads. this will be as important as anything i've ever taken on in public life. and i think that is what i feel good about. that members of the committee on both sides of the aisle realize how important this is. we've had 33 interviews. mostly people from the intelligence community. we've got to go through and interview some of the associates of the bigger names that have been named. and we will see the bigger names. i want to do this as fast as we can. but i also realize, if we don't do it in a methodical way, we may not see the truthful. >> so explain why you went to langley. was this the cia providing you a

briefing? or was this you going to langley because your investigators wanted to show you materials and i know sometimes there is an unofficial wall or a fire wall between senate computers that happen to be at langley? >> we have unprecedented access to information. the truth is usually the intelligence community receives intelligence products that kind of written up analysis done. we're seeing the raw intelligence. never before in the history of the cia has this information been released even to the so-called gang of eight. so the requirements we met, and i pressed the whole intelligence community very hard. we can take a look at this information, the members, we have to physically look at it?

even to the points they stay there. to have the staff brief us for the members out to look line by line. i had physically do it there. >> are you going to have to do this with nca as well? >> it is there already. so we have a series of, there's a lot of parts of the intelligence commute who are contributing to this report and contributing to this information. so at least we have it all in one place. >> the president tweeted about fbi director james comey yesterday. we put up the full tweet. fbi director comey was the best thing that happened to hillary clinton. perhaps trump just ran a great campaign. the attorney general had to semi recuse herself when bill clinton

her and met at a arm tthe tarma phoenix. >> first, you're right. she had to recuse herself. in the trump administration, we've already seen that national security adviser had to resign because he didn't tell truth about his contacts with the russians. i saw the clip earlier of fbi director comey staying russians are the single biggest threat to our democratic process. and even before you get to the question of what time of collaboration or conversation took place between the trump campaign and the russians, if you just look at what we already know, the russians hacked into both sides. released information. but also, and this is the part that people have realized. managed to have 1,000 internet trolls, are this network fake

identities, this is important. they could overwhelm the search engines from google and facebook and twitter. so if you were in certain parts of the country near the election, you didn't get chuck todd or the "wall street journal." you got stories saying that hillary clinton is stealing from the state department. she is really sick. this is done because russia is anti-american. if we don't realize how important this is, they will try it again in 2018 and 2020. >> let me and you this. tuesday government has still not publicly released the evidence that ties russia to this interference. i know you're investigating whether it was russian ties to the campaign. but everybody in the u.s. government short of the oval office has confirmed that russia did this. but no evidence has been released. what do you say to skeptics who say, show us the evidence. >> what i would say is two things. one, when you have virtual unanimous opinion, at leaf from all the senators, democrats and

republicans, that rush was behind this. when you have the whole intelligence community saying with high confidence that it was russians. those of us looking at i. the ways we obtained this intelligence and had the high level, that if we had to reveal, it could literally put people's lives at jeopardy. i think the fact they are virtually unanimous and russia was behind us. that we have to do something abt it. >> almost and trust, institutions is so bad that people aren't going to take even a unanimous word of 100 u.s. senators right now. >> i would say look what happened in the netherlands where the dutch counted with hands because they didn't trust

russia. a network ahead of the german services has been hacked. their german parliament. the truth though is, i have a responsibility to get information out but i've also got a responsibility to protect the men and women who work in the intelligence community and i won't put their lives in jeopardy when we have the kind of high level of confidence that the russians have done this. and i found no skeptics, other than the white house, that don't accept that the russians intervened. >> you were quoted, paraphrased saying that you put the odds at 2-1 against president trump completing his term. what did you mean by that? >> well, it was in a social setting and we were talking about the unusual name of this president. and my comment, frankly had nothing 22nd the russian investigation. hit more 22nd the potential business entanglements of a president who still owns large

enterprise. two weeks ago he said health care is really hard. a psident who said just this week, he didn't realize how hard the job of being president is. >> so you think he will walk away? >> well, the one thing that i'm absolutely certain of is that i've got no ability at all to predict what president trump will do, whether in foreign policy or domestic policy. it seems to change every day. >> well, that's a big club that you're in trying to figure out president trump. senator mark warner. >> at leaf it is a will bipartisan club. the publics don't know either. >> thank you very much. still ahead, james comey told congress that it makes him nauseous that his actions may have had an impact on the election. ♪

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welcome back. russia, wikileaks, hillary clinton. it was all on the agenda today as the senate judiciary committee talked to james comey. director comey called russia, quote, the greatest threat of any nation on earth. period. then he warned the government is still involved in american politics. and repeatedly and forcefully defend his decision to notify xong the bureau discovered extra e-mails they thought could be relevant into the investigation on hillary clinton. >> if i were not to speak about that, it would be a disastrous, catastrophic concealment. it was incredibly painful choice

but not all that hard. between very bad and catastrophic. i had to tell xong we were taking these additional steps. i prayed to find a third door. i couldn't find it so i spoke. the design was to act creditably, independently and honestly so the american people know the system is not rigged in any way. >> two days before the election, they said it did not change the decision to not file charges. and the e-mails weren't new. just new on that computer. joining me, diane feinstein. thank you for coming up. >> thanks. >> let me start straightforward. did director comey convince you that he made the right decision? >> no. as a matter of fact it went strongly the other way. i went back to the office. i read the policy of the fbi with regard to announcing things shortly before an election. this was 11 days before. he didn't get a search warrant

to see what was in the weiner computer but i guess he made an assumption that they were all new e-mails. in fact, none of them were new e-mails. there were 3,000. 12 were classified and they were duplicates of everything that he had before. so he announces he is reopening the hearing. there is new information which implies that there's new evidence. well, there really wasn't. and guess what happened. guess what happened. there is no recourse. the election took place. secretary clinton lost. and i just can't believe what happened. and for some reason, he felt terribly torn that he couldn't hold this information for 11 days.

he couldn't go and get a warrant. a search warrant. find out what was in that computer. and there was nothing that was new. >> what do you make of his straw man argument? and i've heard this, a frumt people close to him. that if he withholds it, she wins the election. it comes out that they had, that they got a tip on this. they were searching an extra computer. there was classified information shared on weiner. all of a sudden you would have all sorts of capitol hill hay wire, at least on the republican side, and all sorts of hearings, hamstringing the new president. >> what do you do? >> what do you say to that argument? >> well, that argument in my view is baloney. if you have a doubt, and there was reason to have many doubts, you would get a search warrant. and would you say let's see what we have before we go out and

indict. and if they looked at what they had, they would have to say, well, there's nothing new. we looked at all of this before. ergo there is no case. and then two days before the election, he came back and essentially said that. but it was too late then. and i -- it is very hard for me to believe that he felt so sanctimonius about coming forward. this was an historic election. this was the first woman. she was very qualified, eight years a united states senator, first lady, secretary of state, did a good job, prepared herself, went out. she won the popular vote by 3 million votes. she lost the electoral vote narrowly and everybody that

knows her and i think her pollsters among them, believe this played a role. >> do you have confidence in director comey staying at the fbi? should he? >> well, i have confidence in him as a director. i think he is straightforward. i just don't understand why there must have been some pressures on him that i don't know about. because the reasonable thing -- >> what could they be? i know the concern about the new york field office and leaks. >> i don't know that. >> it was rumors. we've all heard that. it came up today. do you get any sense that was a pressure the point? >> well, clearly there was a pressure point. because he said he was very torn by it. and he decided he had to go ahead with it. and he used some, quite unusual words to describe it.

but the result, if it was new information, that would have been one thing. but there was no new information. >> if he had done, if he had been as public as he did but also said, by the way, the fbi is also opened an investigation into russian interference and possible ties to the trump campaign, in that same presser the next day, would that have mitigated this damage in your mind? >> well, i certainly would have thought that he was being fair about it. because his argument is based on that this was of exceptional interest and the congress had to know about it. well, guess what. russia's penetration of our computer systems in an election are of exceptional interest. and i don't understand how he decides one is of exceptional interest and the other doesn't matter enough. >> very quickly, in a judiciary

sub committee, senator lindsey graham has asked the former national security adviser susan rice to testify. she's said no to that request. in part because wasn't a bynum letter. the ranking member did not sign on to the letter to invite susan rice to testify. would you sign on to that letter if asked to testify in front of the judiciary committee? >> well, i think she ought to consider it. she has gone public. i saw her on fareed's show sunday. i saw her today. i've never heard that it has to be a bynum letter. this is a new criteria. she is certainly within her rights of saying, i'm now retired. i won't do it. had because she went forward, i

would home she would consider doing it. >> thanks for coming on. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back the lid. stay with us. their experience is coveted. their leadership is instinctive. they're experts in things you haven't heard of - researchers of technologies that one day, you will. some call them the best of the best. some call them veterans. we call them our team.

i was thinking around 70. to and before that?re? you mean after that? no, i'm talking before that.

do you have things you want to do before you retire? i'd really like to run with the bulls. wow. hope you're fast. i am. get a portfolio that works for you now and as your needs change with investment management services. time for the lid. let me bring back the panel. matthew, maria, eli. i have to start with diane feinstein here a little bit. that was a -- she's clearly frustrated with director comey, but not enough to say he's not qualified to run the fbi. but, wow, is she upset. >> sanctimonious. you can see why there are frustrations. he treated the clinton investigation differently than the investigation into russian meddling in the election that could have impacted the trump campaign in a negative way. you hear the director talking about we were very mindful of politics. we try to make every decision separate in this vacuum that's a political, not influenced by politics. he was so hypersensitive in the election.

both can't be true. he was thinking about politics. he was thinking about it today when he was folksy. he was trying to rehabilitate his own image. >> it's sort of like -- it should be a good warning to anybody that's in one of these jobs. the minute you open the door a little bit, you're never going to be able to close it again and that's what happened. he opened it in july and he's been trying to -- he's tied himself in knots. >> and he wants it both ways. he want sa say i was a fair ar bitter, realizing he wasn't. playing upon what everybody else was reading, the same poll. >> he was within a silo, but not within the big picture. >> history is not going to remember him like that, and that's his challenge. he's basically trying to justify himself as, yes, i am fair. but the reason that feinstein doesn't want him to step down is we don't know, the democrats don't know who the next person would be that would be -- basically facing trump. and that is actually -- >> that's a good point. kind of like devil you don't. >> someone is going to write a

manual how to survive in washington it's jim comey. he has annoyed so many people over the course of his career, whether it's president george w. bush, whether it's president trump, whether it's senator diane feinstein, secretary of state clinton. >> president obama. >> president obama. yet somehow when you ask the question, do you still retain confidence in him, absolutely. i'd love to know how he does it. >> let me move to what we learned from mark warner. it's interesting he didn't back away from this idea that trump won't finish his term. it's sort of -- which you have to say obviously it was not something he wanted to be quoted but they didn't back away from it. >> i think a lot of people, if you have private conversations with people around town, even in the administration, there is uncertainty every day with the administration. at the 100 day mark, people say what will it be like 1,000 days. will they get to 1,000 days? it's topsy-turvy.

>> coupled with this, we're already discounting his words, that's not a good place to be if you're a president. you're losing your influence. there are people talking like, i don't know if he's finishing his term. i've heard that talk, too. it seems to be that harms the president's ability of influence. >> the institution, he's starting to give power to a lot of republicans that in the beginning said whatever you say, mr. president. now they're saying, you know what, we're going to basically play our own ball. at the end of the day one of the challenges trump is going to have to face is when he really wants a piece of policy, he's not going to have the legitimacy that he needs. and that's going to be interesting when it comes to the midterm elections. >> we're at day 105. he's not in an influential place. >> washington still doesn't understand trump. >> does trump understand washington? >> no. so, we've reached this level of point of dysfunction. the spending bill headed toward his desk where, if you're a trump voter, you have to be

disappointed in it. and then you look, where is the rest of the agenda? health care on the edge, and tax reform going nowhere. >> well, what a great place to be, 105 days in into a presidency. eli, maria, matthew. thank you all. after the break, correcting an error on the baseball diamond. stay tuned. okay, let's go. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. that's amazing! hey dad, come meet the new guy. the new guy? what new guy? i hired some help. he really knows his wine. this is the new guy? hello, my name is watson. you know wine, huh? i know that you should check vineyard block 12. block 12? my analysis of satellite imagery shows it

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well, in case you missed it, boston baseball fans said their version of i'm sorry to baltimo

baltimore orials fielder. last night he got a standing ovation from fans in fenway park. >> number 10, adam jones. [cheering and applauding] >> well, the red sox, major league baseball all did apologize to adam jones and admonished the fans for hurling in insults. 70 years after jackie robinson broke the barrier, black players are still getting jeerd not for their play but sometimes for the color of their skin. moving forward hopefully all fans will treat all baseball players like baseball players. let's hope when fans see or hear this don't just turn the other way. maybe say something to that jerk and say, get out of here, you don't represent all of us. anyway that's all for tonight. i'll be back tomorrow with more

mtp daily. for the record with greta starts right now. greta, what a busy day. i ran out of time so, i know you will, too. good luck. >> indeed, thank you, chuck. now we have breaking news. breaking news, susan rice refusing to testify. that just breaking, president obama's national security advisor just moments ago sending a letter to say she will not appear before a panel in the senate judiciary committee. rice says it is because the invitation came from the republicans only and didn't include the democrats. quote, given the nature of the request, rice has declined the invitation. that and much more in this letter. after today's dramatic testimony in front of the judiciary committee. did he stupidly treat presidential candidates clinton and trump differently? in other words, did he pick sides in the 2016 election? today the director arguing to a not completely convinced senate judiciary committee that he