reported that meeting was an hour long. the white house has not confirm it had length or content of the meeting but has confirmed it took place. thank you for watching. i'm ally velshi, "hardball" starts now. >> from russia with dirt, let's play "hardball." good evening i'm kris matthews. last week all we knew about that june 9th meeting last summer was three members of the trump campaign met with a russian lawyer then on friday we learned about two more participants, a former soviet intelligence officer. and today the intermediary who set up those meetings was also in the room. now, we've learned there was an eighth participants. "the washington post" reporting

today that the eighth participant in the room was ike kaveladze, a u.s. citizen from russia who attended on behalf of trump's business partners. all of this came after donald trump jr. said he disclosed everything about that meeting last summer. a meeting he agreed upon with the promise of dirt on hillary clinton. >> i'm more than happy to cooperate with everyone. >> so as far as you know this is all of it? >> this is everything. >> according to to the post a lawyer from the aguilara family also received a the first public indication that mueller's team is investigating the meeting. finestine also said that he's given the judiciary committee the okay to have paul manafort and donald trump jr. testify in a public session.

the senate committee is also interested in getting those two to testify tonight. meanwhile nbc is reporting that president trump had a second undisclosed meeting with the vladimir putin at the g20 summit. ian bremer broke the news. >> was a lot of people not in it, lasted over two hours, don't have a clear reed readout on what was said from either side. then on top of that you have an hour that evening that no one's heard of. >> we heard of it now. a white house official told nbc news there was a dinner for world leaders and spouses and towards the end vladimir putin spoke to president trump after the dinner. it was confirmed tonight that the putin trump meeting lasted an hour, trump was alone and putin was attended by only his

official interpret or. >> what's going on? we're joined by phil rucker. phil, let me get this straight, first of all we hear about a meeting up in new york last year during the trump campaign where there was four people there, eight people there, and now we're hearing another hour-long meeting between trump and putin. this is rolling disclosure. and the only reason we know about it is because we have a vigilant press. >> the new disclosure about the meeting with trump and putin is remarkable and credit to my colleague who tracked down the details and to set the scene, it was a long dinner table and it was the presidents and prime minister and their spouses. trump was sa seated next to the japanese prime minister. he had a translator for japanese. and at some point he got up and went to sit with vladimir putin.

putin was with a russian tlans lay tort. they talked for about an hour, and the only reason the white house knew about it was the account president trump gave them. we're not sure what was discussed in that conversation, it went on for an hour. and the other leaders in the room was befuddled. it was describe as a very animated conversation. >> how do we know it's not about the trouble we've been covering a year, conversations about sanctions, forgiving the russians for interfering with our election. her's a guy sitting next to trump for an hour who screwed with our electoral process. now we find something going between these two gentlemen and we don't know anything about it. how did the press miss this at the end in g20 land. how did they miss the fact these guys had an hour together,

chatting away and nobody knew about it until tonight. >> this was not something that we would have had any ability to know about, unless the white house officials were forthcoming in telling us this meeting happened. this was a dinner closed to reporters. there was no way for the cameras to observe who was interacting with whom. the discussion with putin we don't know the details in that meeting. i suspect in the days to come we're going to learn more from administration officials, or at least i hope we will. >> why do you think the other leaders who watched it, these are smart sophisticated world leaders, why do you think they never told their people about this hour-long meeting between the two world nuclear powers. >> i don't know. ian bremer heard about it by two people in the room and who were really befuddled by the whole thing. so this was a friendly conversation. i think the big picture is it

speaks to how much trump is eager to make friends with putin. trump praised him on the campaign trail has imagined what he's like as a leader and here they meet the first time face-to-face and have this friendly animated discussion. >> what do we make about this meeting that was about three americans, donald trump jr. and jared kushner seems to be everywhere and paul manafort. they're meeting with this russian liaison perhaps with the kremlin and now we find there's four other people in the room. how come that room keeps growing after donald trump jr. swore he gave us an account. >> that's a good question. i wish don junior wishes he disclosed everything he knew about the meeting at the time and not having this drip, drip, drip. but the identity of the eighth person there. he's a complicated and

interesting figure. he was born in georgia then the sovi sovi soviet republic and then moved to the united states. >> does anybody believe they're talking about adopting kids from russia? all these meetings? eight people there to talk about that? i don't think so. not in the middle of the campaign. >> they said that was the topic of the meeting. we don't know what came up. the transcript of what was said in that meeting -- certainly other issues may have come up but at this point we have to take them at their words -- >> i don't take them at their words. i take them they were worried about sanctions. >> mueller is going to get to the bottom of it. >> how are we going to find out what the dirt on hillary was supposed to be when they lured them into the room? >> i don't know. one question i had was was there any sort of document the russian lawyer may have brought to that meeting. that's something we have to try

to get to the bottom of. we don't know the details of what exactly she had in mind when she said she had incriminating information on hillary clinton. >> great to have you on. thanks for coming on so quickly. i'm joined by adam schiff, he's ranking democratic on the house intelligence committee. what do you make of these new developments? these stories keep growing and we can never count on the official line ever about what happened. >> that's true. if you look at the chronology, the first significant russia meeting is in the office with lavrov, the foreign minister and kislyak, and we hear allegations come out of the meeting that the president said something he shouldn't, may have disclosed confidential or classified information. the next meeting between the two leaders. the president slims down anybody who can be present to himself, the secretary of state.

and the u.s. translator. and then you have a further meeting, which is slimmed down even further where we have no idea what was discussed. it's certainly very possible that that third meeting where you don't have the secretary of state or even the russia foreign minister present. the president may have betr betrayed -- i don't mean in terms of the country but betrayed his true interest what his amean blt might be to giving back russian properties. we know it was a long meeting and private where only putin had someone there to confirm what was discussed. deeply troubling. not in our national interest in any way, shape or form. very much in putin's interest and yet another disturbing development and secret meeting. >> how do you put this together with jared kushner's wanting to

have a special line of his own to putin? i mean, it seems like they want to avoid who? you guys in congress overseeing it? the state department professionals? who's he hiding from in the meetings. most presidents tell you about the meetings with the major summit power in the worldcom back and say here's what we talked about. not this guy. >> certainly not. this is their idea of transparency. they tell us their version of what took place in the meeting, the one we knew about until today. and, of course, we're getting conflicting accounts. i found it disturbing that the president would admit to asking putin whether putin ordered interference in our election. you don't go into the discussion ask him what you already know. that sends a message to putin, i don't trust my intelligence agencies. i will trust your word over my intelligence community. and here we have more and more

revelations coming out about his son's meeting with the russians, the translator, the lobbyist and now a representative of thing on lark. an oligarch who wanted his own person in the meeting. this was no way this was about adoptions pl this oligarch wanted his person there because he wanted credit to delivering the dirt to donald trump. this is part of establishing a debt owed to the oligarch. and then the oligarch gets to claim credit with putin. so very much consistent with russian trade craft. and also the trump's, not being forth coming and leaving us guessing as to how they're conducting the national security policy of the united states. >> according to to a yahoo news, jared kushner's filing in

january he e left out any meeting with any foreign government official. but yet when it looked like he was going to get caught in may, he reported over 100 meetings with officials. however he still failed to report that meeting of june of last summer where eight people were there. it wasn't until his second revision, in june, when he finally reported the june 9th meeting, 12 months later, which was arranged on the kremlin promise of dirt on hillary clinton. on calls to revoke his security clearance the president said he has full confidence in him. >> is the president considering allowing him to stay or leave? his security clearance. >> i don't know of any changes that would be made. the president has confidence in jared. i'm not aware of changes at all.

>> how can the house committee keep any type of oversight on this crowd? it seems they're going to do it all on their own with family members getting keys to information and keeping congress out of it? in other words kushner and donald trump jr. and ivanka know they're not sharing anything with the government. >> they need to review the forms filled out by jared kushner, michael flynn to find out whether they were candid, concealing things indeed the intelligence agencies that hold jared kushner's clearance they need to do an investigation of this. i can tell you, chris, if you or i had a security clearance and we had undisclosed meetings of the nature alleged here, where we were suggesting we establish a secret back channel to russian

facilities, there's no reason we would keep our clearance. the only reason jared may is he is the president's son-in-law. and the intelligence agency may lack the will to confront the white house and say, mr. president, your son-in-law does not meet the criteria for having this clearance it should be revoked. that's what should happen if these allegations are correct, he took these meetings, had these discussions. there's no way she should maintain the clearance. >> as i said last night if the daughter of the former first lady and former president if she were setting up some telephone relationship with vladimir putin what the right wing would be saying now. i want to show you something congressman something you said last march when asked if there was concrete evidence of collusion. >> you admit all you have is a circumstantial case? >> actually, no, chuck. i can tell you that the case is

more than that. and i can't go into the particulars, but there is more than receivcircumstantial evide now. >> now, he said basically this administration has demonstrated collusion, what's your thinking? this meeting they set up to share dirty information if they have any on secretary clinton. >> i think this is evidence of not only an intent to include but also suggestions in those e-mails that there is an ongoing relationship of collusion. this is part of the russian government's effort to help your father's campaign. that's suggests this wasn't a one-off. there was something that prec e preceded this and i think you can think there's something that followed on from this. in fact, when you look at the e-mails don junior says we would love this and gives a suggestion to the russians about timing, late summer. and late summer is when they

began dumping these stolen e-mails. so as i mentioned even back then there is evidence. the question is is there sufficient evidence. we need to corroborate what we can but we need to look into what predated and post dated this meeting. >> i just heard that antarctica just gave up a 120 mile iceberg. we're only seeing 10% of this now. what knowledge should we have about the russia relationship with the trumps? >> i think it's very difficult to say. we have a lot of investigating still ahead of us. we're still trying to get documents before we bring in certain witnesses. we're doing our best to coordinate with the other bodies that are also conducting an investigation. so there's a long way to go in this and, of course, a lot of what we see from time to time just adds new witnesses to be interviewed, new layers that have been, frankly, peeled back.

it's hard to know. but you do have to ask yourself over and over and over again with this administration, if what they were doing is innocent as they claim, why all the deception? why the continue wall false statements of the meetings? and what the subject matter was. to make one other point about the meeting, you have a russian lawyer trying to repeal magnitsky act, something putin hates. you have a lobbyist dealing with russian hackers who hacked derogatory information to achieve a litigation. and u6 another person in this kaveladze, who opened bank accounts that the auditor general thought might have been used for money laundering.

one thing we have to investigate is the compromise the russians have not necessarily the se lay shous stuff but maybe money laurnding. >> i think they're behaving over here like they do over there with oligarchs giving misinformation. it smells like russia at their worst. thank you, congressman adam schiff. keep up the good work for the country. i'm proud of the media because we wouldn't know anything about this story. coming up president trump said repealing and replacing obamacare would be easy. but his own party can't get the votes to pass the replacement plan, they don't have the votes to rerepeal it either. plus trump blames the democrats for the death of trump care. what what should the democrats be doing now to save obamacare

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for months on the campaign trail donald trump boasted about how easy repealing obamacare would be. let's watch him. >> we're going to be submitting, as soon as our secretary is approved, almost simultaneously, shortly thereafter, a plan. it'll be repeal and replace. it will be essentially simultaneously. it will be various segments, you understand, but will most likely be on the same day or the same week, but probably the same day, could be the same hour. >> he's going to come to see me and go mr. president, the people in wisconsin are tired of winning so much. you're winning the health care. >> you're going to have such great health care at a tiny fraction of the cost and it's going to be so easy. >> easier said, at least for

trump, than done. it is now clear that the republicans who have total control of both houses of congress and the white house are incapable of delivering on their seven-year promise to kill obamacare. last night the plan collapsed when jerry mow ran and mike lee joined susan collins and rand pa paul to kill the bill. both mo ran and lee tweeted it at about this same time here's what president trump said. >> i'm disappointed. for seven years i've been hearing repeal and replace from congress, i've been hearing it loud and strong and when we finally get a chance to repeal and replace, they don't take advantage of it. so that's disappointing. i would say i'm disappointed in what took place. >> three moderate republicans came out against mitch mcconnell's plan for a straight

obamacare repeal. which is expected to be voted on early next week. all this for a party with total control of the congress and presidency. voting for obamacare was easy because it didn't count but now they're in power voting to take away health care for millions of americans is impossible. because people care. >> congressman burr ges, thanks for coming on. >> thank you. >> give me your philosophy about health care and the government. do you support bernie sanders idea that health care is a right and the government has to deliver on it? and if not, what is your philosophy about the roll of the federal government in health care? >> from the perspective of a physician, it's a responsibility that each of us has to each other, our families. the state control of health care

actually makes so much more sense from my perspective because i have to tell you when i go across the street to the hubert hum free building it's so big it's so difficult for anyone to get anything done. for people to interface with that. >> were we better off before obamacare was established? were we better off. >> i don't think there's any questions that we were. the issue for me on the affordable care act -- >> i'm trying to get to the legislation. why don't we go back to that? if you believe we're better off without obamacare, why doesn't your party go back to repeal? why not just do that? >> you know that was passed in the house and the senate, december of 2015. the senate, the president at the time vetoed the legislation. when i talked to people back

home in texas in the month of december. when i talked to my counter parts, i suggested this is what you need to look to because this is likely what's going to happen as soon as the new congress is sworn in. >> why not do it? you said you were going to do it? you voted 50-some times. >> as you know there were conservative members, the chairman of the freedom caucus said you have to repeal and replace, the president said you had to repeal and replace. our committee worked diligently on getting that bill delivered. we did deliver it in april, finally got passed on the floor of the house in may. i don't know why it took so long for the senate to take it up. >> it's dead. >> but they didn't so now we are where we are. i don't think i agree with you. i think it's important that mitch mcconnell bring it up for a vote. i think the senator needs to see

which senators are okay with keeping obamacare and which senators wish to reveal obamaca repeal obamacare. >> if you have a vote and you get a count less than 50 for straight repeal, what will that do to the senators who have to run for re-election who are republicans who voted for straight repeal, do you think they'll be okay? >> i think that's going to be difficult for them and that has to be part of the calculation. and maybe when that day dawns, maybe they will consider an alternate strategy. chris, this is too important to do in a press release. this has to be on the floor of the senate, put your card in -- i guess they don't do that. but they have to be recorded yes or no. people need to know where you are. >> do you believe health care is a right. >> i told you. it's a responsibility. >> no. is it a right like life or is it a right like the right to bear

arms or a right in the bill of rights? do you have a right to health care provided by the federal government? >> tough right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. >> not health? >> i'm a physician. someone has a right, that means you take my skills and the fruits of my labor. that is what you're telling me. >> i'm just asking. i'm not telling you anything. i want to know where you stand. >> i told you where i stand. it is a responsibility that people have to have the provision for taking care of their health and their family's health. >> thank you so much u.s. congressman burrges. >> i'm joined by the senator from washington state. your view about this, i just asked the congressman, i had a sense the republicans are afraid of a straight up and down vote on repeal. >> well, you know, it may be

that the house overcalculated. paul ryan put on the table not only just repealing the expansion of medicaid that was part of the affordable care act, he went further. he tried to cut medicaid. so you have a lot of senators who represent entire states, not just a congressional district, they talked to their governors and those governors in republican states were like, no, this is a bad idea. >> let me ask you, now that the area is clear, i do think the fight is over. you're in the senate chamber. if it's over, if the republican attempt, they weren't able to win this battle, if that's the case what's the political responsibility of the democratic members in the senate and house to fix obamacare? do you take the initiatives or wait for the republicans to do it? >> the issue has got to be a constant discussion between all our colleagues. now, there are moments i think

just as the house bill came back that just because of today that this isn't over. so i know there'll be a push, a discussion that mcconnell may have a vote anyway. look we have to keep fighting because we're not going to kick people off of health care as a way to keep costs down. the notion that's the way to go is the wrong idea and i think is the fault of the plan. now, let's talk about the individual market. let's talk about what are the challenges there and try to move forward. >> let me show you something from frank roosevelt back in 1936. i think it's where the democrats are right now. it's a good piece of film here. we don't have that yet. i wish i could show it because he's saying the republicans come along and say we can do anything the democrats can do and it won't cost you anything. here it is. it's great. it's fdr.

>> let me warn you and let me warn the nation against the smooth evasion that says, of course, we believe these things, but we do not like the way the present administration is doing them. just turn them over to us. we will do all of them. we will do more of them. we will do them better and most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything. >> i mean, senator he's being sarcastic but i think we hear the resonance of that today. the republicans saying we'll give you health care it's not going to cost anything, no taxes, nothing, a big fat free bee and now they've been caught

not able to deliver. >> my mom who's an fdr democrat would be proud of that clip and would agree with you. i think that's what made her a democrat. somebody said, look, you're not giving access to either a job or to make the economy work and here's what we have to do. and she appreciated that. and i think now what we have to do is say, there are things working in the affordable care act. the expansion of medicaid has driven downward pressures on the private insurance market price. okay. so that's worked. we changed the delivery system and made some improvements so patients are put at the front of the system and try to control costs that way. so let's talk about what's working and then let's discuss what's not. but the notion that you're going to get to the what's not by cutting off millions of americans off medicaid. i think there's a lot of senators who just thought that was the wrong approach. >> thank you so much.

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many good things we didn't get one vote and their plan has failed. >> welcome back to "hardball" that was president trump blaming the democrats for his inability to get the republicans to vote for repeal and replacing obamacare. trump also told reporters today that he wouldn't take any personal responsibility for the state of health care now. he was willing to let obamacare fail on its own. in other words everybody gets hurt, it's fine with him. let's watch. >> i'm not going to own it. i can tell you the republicans are not going to own it. we'll let obamacare sfwal then the democrats come to us and they say how do we fix it or how do we come up with a new plan. >> i'm joined by bob kay see and virginia democratic governor. didn't the president sound like the rich kid there, it's my ball. i'm not going to help. my question to you is as a member of senate and a democrat what's the response now that

republicans have blown it in order to save obamacare? what's your responsibility. >> chris, first of all i don't think it's over yet because they still have a vote. we have to make sure this repeal and delay as they're calling it is really a repeal and walk away from responsibility. i can't believe we heard the president of the united states say that again, he's not only rooting for failure for the exchanges to go in the wrong direction, but he's actually creating failure by creating uncertainty. we had presidents that said the buck stops here. harry truman said that. >> sure. >> he should accept responsibility for leading the country. instead of trying to decimate medicaid and give away the store with a gross tax cut to the super rich. he should be advocating we keep costs down, keep health care affordable but not leading us in the wrong direction with this outrageous bill. i hope we're getting to the

point where both sides can sit down and talk about the real problems in our sister. not under mining the exchanges by sabotage, which is what he's engaged in. >> i want to ask you, 18, who's going to be blamed? how does this work with the trump voter? you know the trump voter, 46% of the country last year, how are they going to blame? where are they going to put the blame on the failure to fix the health care system we have. >> donald trump is at 36% in virginia. we have never had a president this low in virginia. this is the republicans failure. they ran on it, said they would get it done. the president's clips you showed earlier said he would get it done. they have failed. i find it repugnant what the

president said today that millions of americans can lose their insurance and he's a spoiled kid and picks up his marbles and walks away. he ought to stand up and be a statesman, pull together. this is how negotiations were done. back with ronald reagan, george bush, parties came together for the good of the country. donald trump has abdicated his responsibility as president of the united states. he is now hurting americans and he is going to pay the price politically. >> senator you talk now if you want to to the trump voter, there are probably some watching. we know pennsylvania did vote for trump, a lot of reasonable states wisconsin, ohio, florida, north carolina. michigan even they all voted for trump. so what do you think their reaction should be of the failure of trump to deliver on the simplicity he said of repeal and replace? >> chris, i know this.

a lot of the places that the president carried in the last election. a lot of the counties, small towns and rural areas, they were told by the president over and over again i will not touch medicaid or social security and now he's supporting bills that would decimate medicaid. where was he in the debate when you had participants with children with disabilities, not just poor families but middle class families who have income. where was he? i think there are a lot of people in pennsylvania who want him to work on and want all of us to work on, lowering costs and making health care more affordable but not decimating medicaid while you're giving away the store to the super rich. no one i know of in pennsylvania

likes that approach. >> governor, how do you bring the voice back to the voter -- not everybody is a hard core trump. about 30% hard core, but there's another 10%, you have 36, it's a any goegs shl. how do you win the case now when it comes to policy, health care that your party is a better bet than trump. >> virginia today, 66% of virginia ns think the state is headed in the right direction. why? we get results. we work together. you can go to my rural parts of virginia today, places that have seen their unemployment rate drop by nearly half in the last three years. we've created a record amount of jobs, investment. i worked with my republican

legislature. we worked on k-12 education, economic development, transportation. voters want politicians to stop bickering, they want results. i consider myself a socially progress i've, fiscally conservative democrat. and we've delivered here in virginia. people are happy today because everybody has a job, you have a record investment in education, a billion dollars in k-12. our roads are working. that's what the democratic party stands for. and health care is a right. so what would be interesting in virginia we did not expand now obamacare is here to stay and we have to stop forfeiting $6.6 million a day. we need to come to the table and provide health care for every virginian so i can have quality health care. >> i want to thank you both. up next important voices on the right call for trump to come

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call 811. keep yourself safe. welcome back to "hardball" president trump is getting serious criticism now from some key voices on the right. on the need to come clean, finally. he hasn't done it at all, on his dealings with russia. in an op-ed today titled trumps and the truth, the best defense is radical transparency. don't you guys get it? special counsel robert mueller and the house and senate intelligence committees are investigating the russian story. everything that is potentially damaging to the trumps will come out one way or another. everything denouncing leaks as fake news won't wash as a counter strategy beyond the president's base as mr. trump's latest 36% approval rating shows. let's bring in our round table.

how powerful sit when the wall street journal editorial page blasts the administration for not being clean about its russian dealings and today it comes out there's eight people at the meeting not four and the president snuck in another hour meeting with putin he didn't tell anybody about. let's go to michael on that. >> it's about time. the writing on the wall with respect to transparency has been there for some time. the redirection, all of that was not playing well at all. it's not just here in washington, chris, where a lot of people go that's just d.c. or that's the political class they're upset about this. those poll numbers reflect this story does translate downstream. it's not just about the trump voter. there are a lot more people out

there beside the trump voter. these members of congress, house and senate are going back in the disstricts and they don't want to stand there asking and answering questions about russia and trump. they want to talk about an agenda. it's about time the conservative media catches up to where a lot of americans are. there's a real fear amongst republicans who i talk to on the hill they're worried about their re-elections and they're not afraid to run against him. they ai'm going to run against the president because that's how i'm going to get re-elected. there's a fine line between running against and. you have people pulting motions on the floor to bring forward more investigations and to impeach him. when that starts to happen if he cannot protect himself he doesn't have republicans united behind him that's when his

presidency looks imperilled. >> while it may not matter to the trump base or hard core voter who it does matter to is people on the hill or lawmakers. you saw that with the health care bill imploding last night. the problem is a lot of these guys no longer respect or fear the president. so even if the bill was going to fall apart it was striking the way it did fall apart with the two senators coming out in this sort of joint arranged statement saying no and not even giving the white house a heads up. and when you see the conservative media start to turn, that becomes a real problem in terms of legislating. we'll be right back. feeling good in slim fit? that's cool. looking fabulous in my little black dress? that's cool. getting the body you want without surgery, needles, or downtime? that's coolsculpting. coolsculpting is the only fda-cleared non-invasive

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trump watch, tuesday, july 18, 2017. how many russians does it take to deliver the dirt on hillary clinton? the first answer from team trump was one natalia veselnitskaya. the second answer which dripped out on friday was two, she needed help delivering the dirt. she had two translators in the

room then today ike calf kaveladze was also in the room where hillary clinton was supposed to be served up in a ball. all this after we heard from donald trump jr. that he told us everything about the meeting. the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. this is everything he said. this is everything. right. thanks for being with us. this is "hardball." all in with chris hayes starts now. >> i'm ari melber in for chris hayes. we have breaking news on russia tonight and a report on the speck tack lair failure of the president's health care. bernie sanders will be here on that. our breaking story there was another putin meeting. and the president attended it all by himself. the white house did not expose it when it occurred. and the meeting looks even more odd because the