. it is friday, thank goodness, tgif. a report on russia's meddling in the election and hugh the obama administration handled it. >> the healthcare debate is still hot on the hill. democrats don't like it and neither do at least five gop senators, that's what we're talking about on 5at630. let's get to it. when president trump wants to get something done, it will get done and i think no one knows the senate better than senator mcconnell. with that combination, i think we're going to get this done, and hopefully by the august recess, really have obamacare repeal and replaced and be on the path to affordable and successful healthcare as the president promised >> while discussions will continue, let me be clear. the president and i are supportive of the senate bill. as the president reminded the nation yesterday, obamacare is dead. obamacare is collapsing and obamacare must

>> the white house is standing firm in its support of the healthcare plan today. we heard one more republican senator announce he cannot support the plan in its current form >> that makes five who are not on board. republican can say only afford to lose two votes in order to pass the legislation. >> we're working to break this down, dr. john dem brow ski are here. thank you for joining us. >> dr. dem broski, let me start with you, we know the aarpas come out against this >> right now it's too early to tell what is going to happen because we're not sure what the senate bill will be, there will be a conference committee. really don't know what we need to do in terms of the brass tax. at the end of the day, i'm an anesthesiologist i and i practice pain medicine. i seen that the system we currently have is coap

right now, deductibles and co pays are too excessive, patients aren't getting care. so that needs to be changed. so i think at the end of the day we need to see more of an understanding, but i think the main target here is to make sure that the patient remains the center focus, that the doctors and patient relationship does not break down and we continue that patient centered care >> that's what the gop claims it's been trying to do with its version. let me ask you this. obviously, we're mentioning five gop senator, doesn't look good for the gop and trying to get this passed. what is it going to take then to change in this bill in order for them to whip the votes? what is the big thing that is the sticking point? >> it's hard to answer the that question, because at least three senators who are most staunchly opposed to it have different rags analysis for why they won't like the legislation. rand paul doesn't like it because it creates these

people that buy health insurance, he says that's fundamentally a problem because it's republican obamacare like taxpayer going to private insurance companies. of he doesn't like that, mike lee of utah doesn't look the bill because it doesn't do anything, and what he wants is he wants to get rid of the community rating and the guaranteed issue regulations in obama that require insurers to provide affordable plans to people who are sick, and that is -- and doing that, gutting those protections is very unpopular with moderates and dean heller from nevada came out against the bill, he says he doesn't want to get rid of the medicaid expansion. >> do you think the white house is sending a mixed message? they called the house plan the president called the house plan mean and they're coming out to strongly support this. the two don't differ a whole lot

>> not really. they're very similar in fact. pthe bill, the senate bill is slightly more generous. but we won't really know until monday, one of he key differences is that the subsidies will be pegged to income as well as age and geographic locations. there's a broad kind of tweaking. it's nor generous in that respect but let from the respect that it cuts like curbs medicaid growth more than the house bill does. it has a stricter stingier formula for indexing inflation after 2025. what the president called for is a bill with heart i believe it might be tough to make a case that this bill is a little more generous. >> doctors dem brow ski. obviously, you've been paying attention to this. from what you're hearing t

in this gop senate bill, is there anything in there that you think will help people in the positions they're in now paying high deductibles >> the bottom line is we right now have a government run system collapsing. something has to be done in the meantime. part of the bill, if i'm not mistaken, kind of revising this thing called at independent physician advisory board, this uber group of buyer creatos will look at i want to say i want to say medical care a patient deserves or receives. here i'm a medicaid recipient and i'll going to have a, can i i cannot get a pain injection, hip replacement, this is not the kind of system we should have in the united states. >> the debate will continue because no doubt both side will be going back and forth and of course the five senators saying they couldn't sign off. alex bolton, dr. john dem browski. happy friday to you both. >> thank you both.

russian vladimir putin's direct involve in russia's efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election >> the "washington post" broke the story, questions barack obama's response to the intel that he received in august about russia's involvement about two months actually before the election itself. now, one of the journalist whose broke the story is with us. ellen knock she ma joins us. i must say, the report was stunning, excellent reporting. take us to august when the eyes only information was sent to the president an handful of people to see and explain what happened from there >> thank you. in early august, courier arrived at the white house and from the cia with an envelope that was eyes only for four officials only. president obama and three senior aids. and in that envelope was extraordinary intelligence that had been gathered from deep within the

it was highly classified. and it conveyed the specific instructions from vladimir putin himself to the intelligence services to disrupt the u.s. election, not only by undermining campaign of hillary clinton but also to help donald trump win the white house. >> talk about what they decided to do with this information it's getting some criticism from people who say they should have done more but sounds like the administration was really in a tough spot on this explain their thought process behind it >> yes, it was -- it was in a sense paralyzed by complicating desires, one to try to really insure that the election itself was not tampered with, that the vote count would not be altered, and at the same time, the white house determined that they did not want to come up publicly, and point the finger at russia fo

make them appear political in too partisan and appear to be backing hillary clinton overtly >> on top of this, wasn't this about the same time that the access hollywood came out and the big wikileaks dump >> you're fast forwarding to october 7th, when the obama administration in fact finally decided to publicly blame putin, excuse me, russia for hacking the election. it was october 7th, and that very same day, just hours after the statement came out from the obama administration, the podesta e-mails were dumb d by wikileaks and saw the same day that the access hollywood tape was released by the "washington post" >> what are you hearing from those that you talked with? you know, from what i was reading in your report is that some of the administration or looking back and feel as though i believe the quote was they

what is it they felt they should have done. >> some senior administration officials, in fact, kind of looked back in hindsight and feel that perhaps, their response in the end were not forceful enough, >> talking about the obama administration >> correct. >> the obama administration on december 29th, announced a package of economic sanctions on a handful of senior russian intelligence officials, and that they were. in the end, those were not the most aggressive of options. of response, they really didn't publish russia in a way that you could say would make them think twice about perhaps doing this again. >> the president obama did start the ball rolling by asking intelligence to install something called digital land mines, break that down. >> one of the things they did do and this was not announced public until december when they did announce the sanctions they said we'll also be taking steps

that will not be made public. and we revealed in today's story that one of those steps was a covert program that involved planting digital bombs of sort, computer code in systems, national security systems of the russians. that could -- some later date, in the event of an escalation be triggered by president trump >> what have we learned? it's up to their discretion now, what has your reporting shown you >> so far we've seen no indication that the trump administration is inclined to do anything to strengthen, for instance, the sanctions that exist. if they'd like to be as far away as possible from anything having to do with russia and the russian investigation. so it's -- it's unclear whether, in fact, we'd ever see these digital bombs, as you called them, ever be deployed. >> they're the

case somebody, you never know what the future may hold. and we'll definitely see. again, excellent reporting, from the "washington post" >> thanks for coming in. >> thank you. a new poll found americans are getting tired of the russia probe. they believe they're damaging to the country >> 64% of voters say the probe is hurting the country. 56% want congress to move on and 44% want the investigations to continue. the poll also found that voters want congress to tackle healthcare, terrorism and national security. >> top white house officials are reportedly trying to curb the tweets. we know that will be tough. it is one of his favorite ways of communicating directly with the american people but his aids are concerned about the controversy that happens once he sends out a tweet and the legal ramification that is we may see down the road. >> joining us coming out of the white house is gold of fox 5

contribute tore. thanks for coming in. will they be successful to tame the tweets coming out of trump's phone. >> it's pretty unlikely. ever since the campaign, we've seen story coming out where they will say there are attempts to try to control donald trump's tweeting and yet we still see him continue. there are reports when milania moved to the white house she would be the common force and help keep him from doing those early morning or late night tweets and we're still getting them. president has been clear that he loves this method of communication, he thinks he's his best spokesperson, as his own spokes people will say i sincerely doubt we'll see him stop >> what are you hearing about how they're doing this? they have some sort of a phone conversation or get together in the morning where they let him vent or do whatever and hope it doesn't lead to something popping out >> there's been reporting that the president has

early morning phone calls with members of the legal team or other counselors and that some of his staff see this as beneficial to get -- let him vent some of his feelings before the day really begins, before the morning news shows get started because that's when a lot of times what he's reacting to mean but again it's still not clear that it's necessarily helping in any situation, because just in this past week, we've seen quite a few examples of his twitter finger going on. >> do we think, i mean, is there any thought this will continue to get worse for him? will the legal ramifications be enough to get him to kind of, you know, hold off a bit? >> legal experts have said that his tweets, especially when it comes to issues such as travel ban, that's dangerous territory, they could all be used as evidence. i could see other legal cases where they would use those tweets, use his tweets as some form of evidence of eitr

intent or public pronouncements of something. it's -- it's clearly for him both beneficial because it's a way for him to speak to supporters. he enjoys doing so, but it has clear ramifications as well >> donald trump likes to be his own person, he doesn't necessarily want people telling >> that's fox 5 contribute tore. >> it's been crazy with heat and humidity, let's see how things are looking right now and for the weekend. gwen >> we got rain that really keep an eye on. cindy. no longer tropical however, it's lost the characteristics. but take a look. that could seriously impact us before it is totally out of here. we're looking at it retiring with a cold front moving its way through in the time period of tonight through tomorrow. right now, not much happening for us except we have clouds, but elsewhere diffe

lots of watches and warnings as a result of that system and we could see heavy rain fall in the overnight hours and also into the first part of your saturday before we get a break. sunday looks fabulous, we got sunshine, it will be dry, and it will be a little cooler relatively speaking. so your weekend forecast showing that we're going to shape to about 90 on saturday, 84 by sunday. but once again, i can't rule out heavy rainfall or thunderstorms as we get to the overnight hours. here's a look at your fox 5 accu-weather seven-day forecast. those temperatures start to dip a little bit, and plenty of sunshine once can we get from sunday till the end of the week. back to you. >> guess it will be up and down. beefing up congressional security. the changes being made following the shooting at the baseball practice. >> 5at630 will be right back after this.

. welcome back. in the wake of last week's shooting in alexandria, lawmakers are now taking action to protect members of congress. the house appropriations committee is giving the u.s. capitol police $422 million for fiscal year 20's 18 >> that's nearly $30 million increase over last year, capitol police will get more than $7 million to hire more officers and buy protective gear. >> unfortunately, as we were reminded by last week's senseless shooting. we also need to be deliberate about funding to insure the security of members of congress our staffs and our constituents who visit the capitol or our district offices. the scariest part is there used to be this impression by the public that we all had security everywhere we went. now, everyone knows that isn't the case. >> in addition to the funding for capitol police, the house sergeant at arms office will receive an additional $5 million. president trump today signed legislation

administration's push to improve veterans affairs >> the bipartisan legislation gives them the ability to fire employees for misconduct while protecting those who expose problems. it comes after scandals within the va were exposed a few years ago. >> veterans who were put on secret wait lists, given the wrong medication, given the bad treatments, and ignored in moments of crisis for them. many veterans died waiting for a simple doctor's appointment. what happened was a national disgrace >> the president calls the law one of the biggest reforms in the va's history. former president barack obama getting back on the campaign trail. but not for himself. he's going to be backing democratic ralph northam in the govern's race in virginia. state that democrats have lost

general elections in -- during some of the previous elections. >> president obama has not campaigned for congressional elections this year, ralph will fade he did gillespie, a long time republican party leader in november. >> wow. pretty popular still and he's still talking quite a bit. even though out of office >> it's interesting because he early on, the challenger tom perriello was in his ads, so it's interesting to see him coming in to back rather northam wil may signal how much the democrats want to make sure that they hold and keep that position in virginia. >> it's kind of a back and forth there. a new name in the race for govern in maryland >> he'll join us live in the studio when we come back. stick around.

. democrat james shay announced his candidacy yesterday >> he j

to talk more about it. thanks for coming in. so why it's getting more and more crowded this pool for the democrats, why did you decide to jump in yourself as well? >> well, before i answer that, let me just identify myself, a little more clearly. you said i was a baltimore attorney. which is true enough. but for 22 years, i've been the head of a lawmaker that has grown dc office to the point where we're 275 lawyers in dc. and we're one of the largest firms in dc in addition to being the largest firm in maryland. why did i decide to run for govern? i worked very har, never run for political office, work very hard to build my firm, which i've done as i've just described, employing thousands of people, and i've tried my best in doing civic duty. i've been chair of the board of

regions which is 30,000 employees, and as i finish doing that, i look at ■marylandand i'm really concerned. i think i have the managerial and leadership abilities to be governor and i think there's a lot to do >> you started only line, what's wrong with maryland and what's right with maryland >> there's a lot that's right. that's for sure. and there's plenty of opportunity. right now, let me just pick one area. transportation. the traffic congestion is horrible. it's horrible in the dc area, it's horrible in the baltimore parea. and as somebody who travels back and forth all the time, let me tell you it's horrible between the two cities. so you can't have a great metropolitan region without a great transportation system and we don't have one. we have some starting efforts. one of which is the purple line. and as governor i would shepherd that project. i would watch it every day. because transportatio

and we need this one. >> we're running out of time, but tell us then what is your next big thing that you would really like to tackle for the state? >> we need to make sure the metro works well because that's a big connector for all of us, but a connector between baltimore and washington high speed rail would really finish off a very good transportation system. >> i wish we had more time because i want to know why you think you're the better candidate than the current govern, larry hogan maybe we'll put that on facebook. >> great, love talk about that. thank you. >> we'll be right back.

. tiny village in india that wants to honor president trump by calling itself trump village >> it is a gesture backed by a

charity to raise awareness. some villagers will think it will help their village. you never know. >> thanks for joining us.

harvey: we were right, lonzo ball is going to the lakers and it looks like his family could become the next kardashians. >> lonzo! lonzo! >> they have a camera crew following them. they have a bunch of reality show deals coming. harvey: this is super scary. >> why? harvey: take you back to khloe and lamar going to dallas. it did not work out well there. >> he was on crack, dog. [laughter] >> scott disick and bella thorne are back together. >> she's embarrassing herself. harvey: i will be bella thorne's agent for a minute. bella, here's the deal. you're one of 1,000 actresses right now -- >> who has a show. she's doing well. she doesn't need scott disick. harvey: what's the show on? >> i forget. [laughter] harvey: ok.