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i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. >> we'll talk to a house intel member who questions jared kushner tomorrow: plus, health care blame game. president trump passes the buck on his party's failed attempts at reform. >> the problem is we have zero help from the democrats. they're obstructionists. that's all they are. >> and get the message? >> too many americans don't know what we stand for. not after today. >> how the democrats are working to get their groove back more than eight months since their election day drubing. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. good evening. i'm chris jansing in washington in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily" and welcome to another manic monday as the white house battle is yet another flood of russia headlines. jared kushner breaks his

silence. the president slams attorney general jeff sessions. senate investigators say paul manafort and donald trump jr. will testify. it's just a matter of when. and confusion is growing over the white house's position on russia sanctions. we're going to cover it all, but we begin tonight by trying to make some sense of jared kushner's many denials today. after being interviewed privately by senate intelligence committee staffers on capitol hill, the president's son-in-law and senior advisor summed up his defense in public from the white house. >> let me be very clear, i did not collude with russia, nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. i had no improper contacts. i have not relied on russian funds for my businesses. and i have been fully transparent in providing all requested information. >> and the denials didn't stop

there. >> the record and documents i have voluntarily provided will show that all of my actions were proper and occurred in the normal course of events of a very unique campaign. >> according to his prepared testimony, kushner told senate investigators too wide that he was totally in the dark about that controversial meeting he attended, which included donald trump jr., paul manafort and a russian lawyer who was accompanied by a russian counterintelligence officer, a real estate agent and others. he insisted he didn't read the e-mail telling him it was part of a russian backed effort to hillary clinton. russia, clinton, private and confidential. he says he arrived late, left early and at no time did he hear anything from the campaign or have in i knowledge of any documents offered to them. he denied wanting to set up a, quote, secret back channel with russia's ambassador when they

met during the transition, but he did acknowledge that he asked about using russia's diplomatic facilities as a way to transmit sensitive information. in his prepared testimony he also denied covering up his meetings with russian officials by leading them off his security clearance form. kushner says that his staff filed the form prematurely due to a miscommunication, then quickly updated it. he also denied doing anything wrong when he met with a russia an billion yon air close to putin. he says they didn't talk about policy, sanctions, business, real estate or loans or any private business. throughout his written testimony kushner goes through great length to highlight both his lack of political experience and the chaotic nature of the election. he says it was not my initial intent to play a large role in my father-in-law's capable. my experience was in business, not politics. he fauks about receiving thousands of calls, letters and e-mails, and he calls parts of transition a scramble.

in the end kushner describes an operation that is at times over worked, under prepared, inexperienced, disorganized and sometimes easily penetrated by russian officials. given that, can we or the investigators put much stock in all these denials? i'm joined by nbc's hans nichols from the white house. hans, let's start with everything that we saw today, which is first of all you have this 11-page statement. it comes out 6 in the morning. then you have him go behind closed doors. he comes out, he gives less than a two 1/2 minute statement. what's the white house staying in reaction to all of this. >> we don't have hoefl ponce from the white house quite yet. sarah huckabee sanders will be gag ling here in a moment. i think when you look at the statements from kushner, the two book ends, what happened before the meeting hient closed doors and after are consistent. they're very specific, and they're saying that he did not, and he can only really vouch for himself that he did not collude.

but in the specific sort of argument, the legs of his argument, in a lot of watz he can't vouch for the overall kos mick statement the general statement that he was making that there was no collusion by the campaign. and you'll notice, if you listen to that statement very carefully, he says i cannot none that i know of, i do not know of any collusion. so he's still giving himself an out there if there was collusion by anyone in the overall trump campaign. he's just saying he wasn't aware of it. and part of his defense, chris, is that he wasn't really paying that close attention to this. he actually forgot the russian ambassador's name. he's almost kouchg himself as a sort of back chair player that wasn't really making a lot of these decisions. that seems to be the basis of his defense. >> and the nervousness that's being created on capitol hill as a result of this drip, drip, drip. there's new news it seems like every day, new attention focused every day on the russia investigation. when you see how all of this is playing out, it's hard not to draw a straight line to where

capitol hill is now with the russian sanctions bill. something the white house didn't want to happen, but what are they saying now? >> well, it looks like they're comfortable with the sanctions bill going forward. when you look at the bipartisan support that this has from on both the house and the senate side, it's difficult to see, given all the add months fear iks on this, how the president could retoe it especially after the signalling yesterday that they didn't have any problems with it. so the expectation seems to be that that bill will go forward and the president will be forced to sign it. >> thank you. i'm joined now by democrat congressman mike configurely of illinois which by the way is interviewing kushner tomorrow under oath behind closed doors. what's the number one thing you want to ask him tomorrow? >> well, just after that brief intro the number one thing i want to ask him is what did you talk about with the gentlemen from the feb bank, the russia sanctioned bank s. he has a long list of things they didn't talk about.

did they talk about smorts? it devise any sense of belief that he would have a discussion with somebody like that so close to putin and not talk about russia and the united states. >> so i assume you've read this 11-page statement that he sent and maybe even heard the it 2 1/2 instatement that kind of hit some of the top points. was there anything there that made you more or less concerned about what you want to find out about tomorrow? >> well, i look forward to the fact that he's actually going to be under oath. he kind of reminded me of my old criminal defense days. i will tell you this, though, in all those years naif take or attempts at naivete never seem to work. it's almost an oh pea taylor innocent type naive take defense. >> i was new to the campaign, i was getting 200 e-mails a day, things were moving very fast, that doesn't nie with you. >> he also suggests that he didn't read the entire e-mail.

he just happened to show up with mr. manafort, two of the most important people to mr. trump himself as anyone out there and they didn't know what this was about? they didn't notice the russians in the room? i mean, it doesn't seem to work for me. and i do think it's possible to be part of a conspiracy to collude and be naive in your attempts to do so. i mean, when you talk about -- >> what makes you think that there's proof of collusion here? and we all understand that collusion is not a statement in law. it usually would be something closer to conspiracy. but what is your case to prove that? because when you listen to the president he says there is zero evidence that has been found in the russia probe. >> yeah. i think you look at it this way. tls a pattern of a conspiracy that grows. you know, roger stone saying over a year ago that he had a relationship with wikileaks and that he knew julian as sang and that he knew mr. poe did he say at that was next in the barrel.

you start to piece these together and it is evidence of a pattern of conspiracy. look, this investigation is way closer to its beginning than its end. and we're not jumping to conclusions. but there is clearly enough evidence that there was a pattern of conspiracy, and we need to complete this investigation. tomorrow is one of the first of the main actors here testifying under oath. the white house narrative changes on an ongoing basis starting out with out right denials and then sort of, well, maybe this meeting took place and maybe that one, but it was innocent. let's see what they say under oath. >> there are a lot of things you just said and some things i have in my own notes. let's just go over them. so you've got probes on russian interference, possible collusion, leaks, comey's firing, possible obstruction, flynn, all of those things. how confident are you that you're set up to handle all that? >> well, i mean, it's a very good question. do we have the resources necessary? you know, that's tough.

i'd like to think that mr. mueller's investigation does. each of the three investigations has its merits. it has different strength. but this is a p complicated, layered, textured issue to investigate. the most important investigation of my lifetime. and i watched the watergate hearings while i was in high school. so we have a ways to go, but it's that important. the american public has a right to know what took place. >> when i talk to even with some democrats, certainly republicans, but even some democrats, they try to back away from those kind of statements, back away from treason, back away from impeachment, back away too from the watergate comparisons. what makes this bigger than that for you? >> well, look, i don't talk about impeachment, i don't talk about treason. i talk about the fact that there's evidence of conspiracy that we need to go forward on this investigation to find out. i'm not jumping to conclusions, and i don't want the american public to either. but if they had read what i had

read and they had heard what i had heard, they would want this investigation to go forward full throttle. it's that important. what makes this bigger in theory than watergate, the fact that there was a foreign adversary involved. perhaps no foreign adversary since the cold war that we've had bigger than russia. so i think that's why this is more important than russia. we've got to ask yourselves -- >> you mean more important than water. >> i'm sorry, more important than watergate. and the fact of the matter is what's at the gist of this was were the russians able to make this president vulnerable or anybody else in the administration vulnerable. were they compromised. that's just one of the reasons why this matters. i know everyone is looking for whether or not there was a criminal conspiracy involved, and that's important, but even before we get to that point there are other issues such as whether they were compromised that could be just as important and perhaps more so. >> congressman thank you so

much. >> thank you. >> i'm joined now by msnbc politicalableist andy card and who has delayed his little vacation to sit with me tonight. i thank you for that. you do when you read this 11-page statement sort of get this idea that this entire campaign, over worked, maybe under prepared, inexperienced. he and donald trump jr. both talked about that. even while they're saying at the same time, you know, people whop don't give us credit for running this great campaign are really doing a disservice to the voters. what do you take away from it. >> i thought his statement was pretty credible. and i know that he had lawyers helping him with his statement, so i actually suspect that it's very carefully crafted. and i read it and i said, you know, that's pretty credible. i thought that he was pretty honest. look it, he wasn't a political operative, political expertise. he didn't know the ins and outs of a campaign or even working in washington. we had no expectation he was

going to do it. >> this is someone who does multi-million dollar deals on a regular basis. >> i can think of -- >> so if that's who he is, does it worry you that these folks are running these meet z that people with ties to the kremlin are going into them and to the point of the congressman could there have been some things compromised. >> you're trying to read between the lines that were written in his statement. his statement was about his role. i think that it was probably quite accurate about his role and how he saw his role. he wasn't testifying on behalf of the campaign. he wasn't testifying on behalf of campaign workers. he wasn't testifying on behalf of even the white house. he was testifying about jared kushner's role in those meetings and his security clearance. so i actually thought that it was a thoughtful response, and it was responsive to the questions that were likely to be asked. i don't know what took place behind closed doors and i don't know what's going to happen tomorrow before the house intelligence committee and their

investigation, but i didn't think that his statement was a hair on fire invitation to say there's a big problem. in fact, i thought it kind of was reassuring that he was a busy man. he says he didn't read the whole memo that his brother-in-law -- >> even though the subject said -- >> well, look it, i've gotten -- you're probably drowning in e-mails every day. i don't read every e-mail -- >> if i'm going to a meeting, i usually look at what it's about. i will absolutely say i don't read every bit of every e-mail, but if i'm going somewhere, at least on the way in the door -- >> i had the privilege of work being for three presidents that were very different, george bush, george w. bush and ronald reagan. and i was privileged to see how they did their job. i felt that they invited people to speak truth to power.

they had the courage to speak truth to the real power which is the american people. and i liked that. so i'm not saying that i agree with what's happening in the trump white house or how they're doing their job, but i thought that statement by jared kushner, the one that was published in the newspapers bright and early this morning or online bright and early this morning, was actually a pretty credible statement. and it was going to be delivered under oath. so i suspect that it was very carefully considered by his lawyers and by him. >> is that a lesson for donald trump, because one of the other things that jared kushner said very specifically, not just in his statement, but in just the two minutes and 15 seconds was that he doesn't look for the spotlight. but in that 2 nints and 15 seconds where he appeared before the camera, he talked about this is not -- he is not somebody who is, you know, wanting always to be in the public eye. so he's not out there tweeting -- >> for himself. he was speaking for himself. >> he was not out there

tweeting. he clearly had a statement that was incredibly well laurd. you saw abby lowell who was standing right by him. could the president take some tips from him at least when we're talking about an investigation by congressional committee and robert mueller? >> yeah. yes. well, it was also very unusual to have an assistant to the president testify before a congressional committee. that's usually a no-no under separation of powers. so that was an unusual act even of itself to have an assistant to the president testify before congress. that doesn't happen very often. >> some people raised questions about him standing in west of the west wing with the seal of the white house on the podium. i couldn't find anybody today who had ever seen anything quite like that. that's usually -- you don't stand in front of the west wing unless you're doing government business. >> this was a personal -- this related to jared kushner. it wasn't official white house. it wasn't official government.

it was jared kushner appearing before a committee, looking into tampering by the russians, potential tampering by the russians in an election. it was not white house business. yeah, i don't think that it was entirely appropriate to use the white house forum as a place to have a press conference, but i don't think that that is an impeachable offense. >> i don't think we would raise that either. thank you for coming in. safe travels as you head to your next location. >> thank you. >> undisclosed location for vacation. thank you so much, andy card. appreciate it. >> thanks. >> we're going to have more on the latest russia headlines plaguing the trump administration with our panel. and will the president's latest comments help the republicans push forward on their latest health care plans? that's next. stay with us. across the country, we walk. carrying flowers that signify why we want to end alzheimer's disease. but what if, one day, there was a white flower for alzheimer's first survivor?

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remember repeal and replace, repeal and replace. they kept saying it over and over again. we have zero help from the democrats. they're obstructionists. that's all they are. that's all they're good at is obstruction. any senator who votes against starting debate is telling america that you are fine with the obamacare night mayor, which is what it is. >> remember, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell needs to get 50 votes to pass anything, a repeal bill, a repeal with a replacement or something else entirely. so far his members can't reach a consensus on any of those options. the president will speak again tonight in west virginia at an event for the boy scouts, but coincidentally, he'll be appearing in the home state of senator shelly moor cap toe, one of those republican members standing in his way on health care. we'll be back with more "mtp daily" in 60 second.

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welcome back. let me bring in tonight's panel. shane hairs is a senior writer for the wault journal and. is a national political reporter at bloomberg politics. okay. so let's talk about health care. the president's going to west virginia. all of the presidents, wants all of them, but many have gone for the boy scout jam bore e. but it just so happens that shelley moore capito is going to be on air force one. what do you think of that? >> so the president is bringing the bully pulpit to west virginia to try to pressure her to vote at least on a motion to proceed. clearly he wants senators to be able to at least take a shot at voting for the bill. doubtful they could get it across the line. >> is he bringing the bull pi pulpit in or is he going to bully somebody here? >> yeah. he gets 45-minute, uninterrupted shot at twisting shelley moore capito's arm. she's been pretty consistent all along in her reservations, and

it does not appear -- again, we don't know exactly what they're going to be starting to vote on. they don't know. but the best we can deduce was what mcconnell is going to put forward tomorrow would not sea the concerns she's expressed in the past. >> but she lives in a state, let's not kid ourselves, that not only voting overwhelmingly for donald trump, but i think it's number one in deaths from over dozens. so what do you do? >> and i believe it was president trump's strongest state in the 2016 general election. he won it by a larger margin than anybody sells. senator capito has been pretty consistent in having concerns about specific aspects of this bill. she's talked about medicaid coverage losses under it. it's very difficult to reconcile with any of the things that senate republican leaders are trying to do. whether she's ultimately get on the motion to proceed is one question she's technically still undecided on that. maybe something like he through to dean heller that he still wants to be a senator, right. >> yeah. you're not the person that wants to be sitting next to him or in

this case we understand she's going to be standing next to him tonight. it was really interesting livg to wisconsin radio today and paul ryan, he's a little bit frustrated by what's going on on the senate side. let's listen to it. . >> we passed our bill in may and we were hoping to that the senate would have it done by now. so obviously we're a little frustrated in the house s. you know that. the frustrating thing for house members is it's russia this, it's russia that. it's tweet this, tweet that. it's wall to wall coverage and countdown clocks of what i would call distracting issues and not the issues we're actually focused and working on. >> i mean, he says it's tweet this, tweet that and then puts the countdown clocks. i can't tell is he going after us in the media or is he going after the guy who is doing the tweeting? >> i think so. the tweets are pretty indicative of that. and isn't this the first time we've seen the president going out and putting muscle behind this. not engaged and trying to go out and push the repeal is replace option. not knowing what they're voting

on. the president doesn't necessarily know what's in the bill. >> what are they voting on? i feel like that's my job. literally people on the street will say to me what is this healthcare bill. somebody stopped by outside this building last week. >> and we're supposed to be able to get an answer to that when it's a bill this big when it's coming up for a vote in 24 hours. we don't know yet. senator mcconnell about an hour ago announced on the noor that they will be voting tomorrow. repeal only with a two year bridge or a day. they could be voting on some latest version of the bcra. >> they don't have the votes for any of these. >> exactly. they can only lose two. tlsh already two hard nose for both of them. who seems unlikely to believe able to make it tomorrow. so it's hard to see a path for any of these things. >> i was thinking to myself because i think i read a tweet. i don't know if it's true, but i know that there was a town hall eight years ago on health care that president obama did. somebody said in the first six he did like four town halls. i was trying to imagine.

i'm not being pa seeshs or anything. i was trying to imagine a toup hall where president trump goes up and people just get to ask him the specifics about the healthcare bill that he supports. >> it might look a little bit like today, right, where he just kind of was all over the place saying obamacare is bad, it's a disaster, these are victims of obamacare. and republicans are on the hook for doing something. the doing something part appeared to be the main thrust of today's message. but, you know, to your point, there's not a lot that republicans are actually likely to be able to do tomorrow. >> speaking of the president, why is he continuing to nothing his attorney general? i mean, we saw in "the new york times" interview which was not very pleasant he said maybe you should never have hired him in the first place since he decided to recuse himself. then today he calls sessions beleaguered, criticizing him for not investigating hillary

clinton, who is making him beleaguered. >> the sub text here almost is can't you take a hint, jeff. push him out. what i found extraordinary about that tweet is he said why isn't the attorney general investigating criminal acts by my political opponent. skpl directing his attorney general to go out and investigate her. that's extraordinary in and of itself. >> what does jeff sessions do? >> there was a little bit of a trial balloon floated on the report that the fact that the president is looking at rudy giuliani. there have been -- the only piece of caution i would put out there is there has been a lot of talk about many of his aides potentially having to leave at any moment since the beginning of his administration. it's unclear to me whether he's just venting and i can maing amply clear to attorney general sessions that he -- >> russia limbaugh today saying, come on president trump, this guy supported you. he came out there early and he was passionate. why are you throwing him under the bus? >> well, that is a logical

response. i don't know that it's that complicated. trump clearly feels agrooed that sessions recused himself and made the decision he did about the russia probe which there's a straight line in trump's mind, apparently, between that and bob mueller looking into, you know, everything over hell's half aircraft and he's blamed sessions for that. >> yeah. stay with us. we've got a lot more to talk about. but still ahead, democrats reveal their so-called better deal, but will their rebranding effort put them in a better position for 2018? keep it here. still have dry eye? ready for some relief? xiidra is the first and only eye drop approved for both the signs and symptoms of dry eye. one drop in each eye, twice a day. common side effects include eye irritation, discomfort or blurred vision when applied to the eye, and unusual taste sensation.

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welcome back. facing massive losses on the national and local levels the last couple of years, democrats are looking to gain ground in 2018. today they unveiled what they're calling their, quote, better deal agenda, a message blueprint for democrat candidates who are running for election next year. >> too many americans don't know what we stand for. not after today. we stand for three simple things. first, we're going to increase people's pay.

second, we're going to reduce their everyday expenses. and third, we're going to provide workers the tools they need for the 21st century economy. >> so if you look at the president's low approval numbers, you might conclude the national climate next year should be on their side. add to that the ongoing russia investigations and the lack of major policy achievements in the republican congress and white house. but the fact is democrats face a tough road in the senate. there are democrat encouple bents in ten states that president trump won in 2016, and there's only one republican up for re-election in a state that hillary clinton won. on the other hand, for democrats to retake the house, they need a net pickup of 24 seats. well t there are 23 districts with a republican that clinton won in 2016. so is this, quote, better deal that democrats are promising actually going to resonate and are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer the right faces for this

agenda or do new message need new messagers. senator, good to see you. thank you for coming on. >> nice to see you. thank you. >> i listen to this today and i'm trying to figure out for the average american as they listen to it, what is it about this new message that says this is something new, this is something different and maybe more to the point, this is being said by people i can count on, because i think a lot of those people who left the democratic party and didn't vote or voted for donald trump did it because they didn't think you guys came through for them? >> let me just back up a little bit, if i could. remember when bill clinton was elected as president he took over as president during a recession and eight years later more jobs had been kreetd and during those eight years history of the united states of america. fast-forward eight years after that. george w. bush stepped down as president, left us in the worse recession since the great depression. succeeded by obama eight years

later longest running domestic expansion in the history of this country, 16 million jobs created. i think sometimes we forget that and i think it's important to remember that. people in my job, governors, presidents, senators, we don't create jobs. what we help to do is help create a nurturing environment for job creation. a kind of modern fracture. broadband fully deployed. don't have a job, don't have the skills and all these jobs looking for people who have certain approximate skills. what we have to do is figure out how to tool or retool these millions of people who would like to do the jobs that are simply not being filled. so those are some of the things we want to do, need to do, access to capital, foreign markets. all of those things are important for job creation. >> and look i think that's a message that we heard in many ways from hillary clinton. we heard in many ways from actually from donald trump and each from bernie sanders. i think as you looked at the pictures and it got mopped,

frankly, a lot on social media which doesn't mean they're right but it did get mocked because you have 66-year-old chuck schumer, 77-year-old nancy pelosi, the faces of people who frankly didn't look tremendously diverse. is that the image that the democratic party wants to put out there, senator? >> well, they are our leaders and there are a lot of us behind those leaders who have been governors, who have been mayors and who have done a lot of work in creating that nurturing environment. again, i don't care if you're the speaker of the house or the leader in the senate, you don't really create that many jobs. the key is creating the nurturing environment. what are the tools and what are the things that we need to have, including work force skills, access to capital, access to foreign markets. that's how you create jobs. and whoever can present that kind of i think program and actually relate it to when we had eight great years with bill clinton, we've had eight years

with obama what did hear truman used to say -- >> we aren't going to be voting for bill clinton. >> that's okay. this is what we did when we really went on a roll, not 20, 30, 40 years ago. this is like ten years ago. and you have to have a program -- have to have a prescription that's relevant for the current time. the real problem here is we've got so many people who don't have the kills and we have all these jobs that are looking for people who need skills that they don't have. and whoever can come up with a way to retool people so they can better fit into the jobs of the 20 first century, they'll do them a favor and our country a favor. i think one thing we can all agree on is transportation infrastructure and deployment of broad bands. college greez but -- that would be smart. >> do you see -- >> what did wane grets ski used

to say? why do you take so many shots on goal. i missed every shot i never took. we roads, highways, bridges, rail, investments in all those things and airports as well -- >> let's talk about what's coming up before that. >> and goods and service move faster as well. go ahead. i'm sorry. >> you've got health care coming up tomorrow. so that's the immediate issue that if you're like most of the members of congress, both on the senate and the house side that i've talked to, they've been inundated with phone calls from people about what you guys are going to do about this. you have tsd that this is a perfect time, that the republicans and the democrats have got to work together. and i'm wonder erg, are there members of the republican party that you have spoken to about this? what are those discussions? where can you find some common ground. >> this is a good time to hit the pause button. this is a time for us to fix immediately what needs to be fixed immediately. the administration seems to be held benlt on did he stabilizing the exchanges which is actually a republican idea in 50 states.

>> and you've had that with republicans, mr. senator. >> oh, sure. we need to stabilize the exchange. three stifrm things we could do to actually do that. and the next thing we need to do is take up what i call regular order, regular order. john mccain calls it regular order. let's do hearings. heaven knows what they're going to bring to the floor tomorrow. we don't know. we've not had hearings on it. that's a crazy way to do business. this is one sixth of our nation's economy and we're going forward like with our blinders on. i can't believe we're doing this. >> i hear in your tone the frustration that i marry from a lot of folks on capitol hill in both parties. are you going to run for re-election? >> i'm running for re-election. >> you are. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. and you go back to the election, just before the election last year, hillary was going to be president democrats were going to be -- and i was ready to say okay let them do that. i don't think i've ever been as motivated and energized in my life in the senate.

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it with whatever they can get 50 votes on which could be repeal and replace or repeal and delay basically anything. the panel is back. one of our producers on capitol hill got these three comments just very recently from murkowski. i would like to know more as i'm sure all of you would, too. when they asked for republican ron johnson, i don't have a clue what we're going to be voting on. richard burr, i'm not knowing specifics on health care to proceed to vote. it doesn't concern me, as i said i'll vote for anything. >> just reach into a bag and pull it out and vote for it? no wonder the bill is so unpopular. we have no idea, lawmakers have no idea what they're going to be voting for tomorrow. >> you would think between health care, what's going on with the russia investigation, we could go on and on, all the things that have not happened, that the democrats would really see this opening, but what did you make of their little gathering today, ann, when they

stood there and they said, this is their slogan, by the way, a better deal, better skills, better jobs, better wages, doesn't exactly roll off the tongue because i had to read it, which a lot of people say sounds like papa john's better ingredients, better pizza. >> like an activist that showed up with pizza boxes with that printed on it, and still pelosi. democrats may have handed republicans something to make fun of them with. but you're right, it doesn't roll off the tongue. it's reminiscent, frankly, of the main pillars of the hillary clinton campaign, the economic pillars of hillary's campaign last year which, you know, she spent a year and a half talking about, and obviously were not enough and obviously didn't resonate with people in the way that trump's much simpler and more direct economic message did. >> some of this actually sounded like it came out of sanders' camp. where are the democrats on all

of this? >> they certainly are moving in that direction. you know, one of the people out there was elizabeth warren, from massachusetts. one of the big things that the document highlighted is antitrust issues. that is a centerpiece of elizabeth warren's philosophy, to review mergers before hand, to bust them after the fact if they're deemed as not good for consumers. >> i'm not sure if you're a voter in ohio, or pennsylvania, who didn't vote for hillary clinton, that that's going to win you over. is it? that seems to be what they're banking on. >> it's technocratic. but this is kind of where the democrats are boxed in. the president is fond of proposing simple solutions, like mexico. it's not that simple. the democrats are confronted with a choice. do we come up with simple slogans that win over voters or do we try to go in this direction that we can stick with. >> whether or not the slogan

catches on the bigger problem is for the republicans. tomorrow, we keep saying this is their last chance to do it, so maybe we should stop saying that. it sure does feel to me, ann, that they're going to have vote after vote after vote and eventually have to say uncle. is tomorrow it? >> i don't know. it doesn't totally feel like it's it. a version of that same question is, at what point is there a tipping point for republicans where they have done enough in mitch mcconnell and other's minds to be able to say, look, we did everything we possibly could to repeal and replace, or whatever slogan they want to apply to it. as an antidote to being primary. >> can they go back and say the democrats are the obstructionists? >> the president's been pushing that line but they can't get their own party in order for this. that's not going to wash at all. the democrats, the problem is they don't have a standard bearer for this new message

they're pushing. but no, i don't think that washes at all. >> what happens tomorrow? anybody want to venture a guess? >> on health care? it's very hard to see a path that can get them to 50 votes on anything. it's not guaranteed that i would give it a better shot than a particular bill. this is a rough road. as you mentioned, republican voters are not going to buy this. members are boxed in from both sides. you have to win a primary to get to the general election. this is unpopular with the gem electorate. >> thanks to all of you. after the break, a line from one of the president's recent tweets that needs a fact check. i'm going to be sitting in for chris tonight, while ten major stories break all at once, either in the hour before you're on the air or while you're there. i need somebody with six arms to

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president trump had an active sunday on twitter. but one tweet was not exactly square with the truth. the president wrote, it's very sad that republicans, even some that were carried over the line on my back, do very little to protect their president. if you look at the vote tallies, there is little evidence republican members of congress were carried to victory by the trump campaign. the gop won the national popular vote in the house by about 1.4 million ballots. president trump lost the national presidential popular vote by almost 3 million votes. pretty much the same story in the senate. republican candidates put up larger margins in states where president trump just squeaked by. the only state where president trump outpaced his party's nominee in relatively close senate races, indiana and

missouri. so, yes, while the trump base is powerful, there is no proof that republicans on the hill owe their jobs to the president's coattails. that's all for tonight. the premiere of the beat with ari starts right now. ari, we're totally psyched. good evening. >> thank you, chris, i appreciate that. good evening to you as well. jared kushner did not receive the spotlight but he faced investigators. why did he meet with so many russians? why the talk of back trails and hillary clinton today? curb ner revealed his answer. when things went wrong, he wasn't paying attention. jared kushner came out swinging not with a tweet like his father-in-law, the method so many white house aides deploy to reach the box. no, kushner made his case in a carefully crafted statement for congressional investigators. he lays out a simple story. he was overworked, out of the loop and