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it's congressional budget office release the the latest numbers about an hours ago on the gop plan to repeal obamacare. he determine 32 million more people will be insured by 2026 and with no immediate replacement plan, the number of people without health coverage would increase by 17 million next year. president trump's last ditched effort to overhaul obamacare today. the meeting was overshadowed by new reports of his undisclosed meeting with vladimir putin >> among other things, that's what we're talking about tonight here on 5at630. check the side of your screen and of course you can tweet us what's on your
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#5at630 >> i've been here six months. i'm ready to act, i have pen in hand, believe me. i'm sitting in that office i have pen in hand. you never had that before. for seven years you had an easy route. we'll repeal, replace and he's never going to sign it, but i'm signing it. so it's a little bit different. but i'm ready to act. >> those were the president's remarks during a luncheon with 52 gop senators after watching the gop healthcare bill fail twice. the president made it clear he was frustrated with republicans and he wanted full replace and repeal on his desk >> it was interesting. it was sort of a change from what we heard yesterday. we've seen him kind of go back and forth to straight repeal, then we'll repeal and replace, now it's back to whatever. >> just let obamacare fail and it will be the democrats' fault >> i'll be
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the reaction from lawmakers, even from the gop with the release of the numbers from the cvo. the fact that 17 million more people would become insured if they just repeal obamacare right now with no plan to replace >> this came down quickly. sort of popped up. that number, it's an eye opener for surely we'll see what happens if we move forward with th that. hundreds of protesters stormed the dirkson building. >> tom fitzgerald with more on this, fitz? >> reporter: jim, shawn good evening, we were inside the senate office building today, this was a sustained effort by these protesters today to go from republican office to republican office to in a way, create this performance art of
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good part of this afternoon. what we would see is a group of, say, five or six demonstrators set up in front of one senator's office, the u.s. capitol police would then have to move in, would give them one warning, tell them to move on or they'd be arrested. a second warning, tell them to move on, on the third, they knew what was going to happen. u.s. capitol police were going to have to arrest them for conducting an illegal demonstration without a permit inside the senate office buildings this went on, we saw through the several office buildings, dirkson where a lot of that video you're looking at was shot. we should also tell you this was no accident. liberal are demonstrators know full well that the republicans have been in trouble politically on these efforts to repeal the plans, right now, they're in no mood to let this go, especially because of the fact that they know that when they do these kinds of things, the
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cameras will show up and put it on telephone. what is the ends to the mean here? we spoke to madia benjamin one of the leaders of one of the most out spoken protest group code pink. benjamin said despite the fact that the republicans themselves have been unable to pass the healthcare repeal, she believes these demonstrations and these scenes like we saw today, played out in the halls of the senate office building, she thinks is making a real difference in the troubles that the republicans have run into on this healthcare bill. >> is this going to make difference? aren't the republicans going to do what they want anyway >> i think it's making a huge difference, this has been happen happening now the second week in a row, the constituents are hearing this, people flown in from the districts. >> reporter: it's not only having a difference in these office buildings, it's led to changes in a lot of the plans of the senators. the recess was
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usually in recess, the senators would hold town halls. a lot of these republican senators are not holding those town halls right now because of the fact they're concerned that these protesters are showing up at these town halls and overrunning their chance to talk to their own constituents >> we appreciate it. as always and obviously, a lot more on this story coming up in the days and weeks and months ahead, no doubt about it. the meantime, president trump wasted no time, really taking the pulpit when it comes to republican lawmakers on healthcare >> the question is, was it too little, too late or did he do enough at that meeting today to score points with those lawmakers? with sent fox 5 ronica cleary out to get the pulse of the people and find out what you guys think, ronica. >> reporter: we're at station 4 in southwest. chatting with a couple people. too little too late? caitlin you and i were chatting before. do you think with the president weighing in today on the repeal and replace of obamacare is that too little, too late for the republicans to have a victory? >> frankly i think it's kind of
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and replace as some viable option, this is the 21 it's option, we've seen how humans without proper care will not survive and i think it's time for us to be sure that everyone has access to healthcare. it's not an option and i don't think aside from a fear of losing seats that really matters, it's about being irresponsible with humans, i wish frankly that news would stop talking about if a politician is saying the right thing or posting the right thing, especially a president who seems to flip-flop and listen to people, we're the ones who will be covered or not. >> reporter: thank you so much. that's what we're doing here, come on in, david. we're getting the pulse of the people. is the president weighing in today too little too late to have the republicans get a victory when it comes to repeal and replacing obamacare >> the too late, the ground work should have been a lot earlier. feels like a little bit late on getting there. >> reporter:
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time. thank you so much. we got some ladies, come on over here, what's your name? what do you think when it comes to repeal and replacing obamacare? the president weighed in today, republicans are saying they're still going to do it. is it too little too late? join us >> i do think that it is a little too little too late. i think the fact that they're having a whole lot of problems up to this point, points to the fact that there's something wrong with whatever it is that they're trying to implement. >> reporter: last 30 seconds, what do you think? >> i agree with her, i think it's too late and i think that the republicans going to put those two votes, those two say no, those two vote no. i hope they won't get to change >> we'll see what happens. there you have it, jim and shawn, the pulse of the people >> it's always fun to hear from such a
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what people have to think about this. >> we should talk to the people, not the politicians. >> now to the stories that still dominating headlines, president trump's second undisclosed discussion with vladimir putin >> the two chatted a second time during the g20 and now he's defending the conversation and once again slamming the media. let's bring in niles standage white house columnist. it was announced the senate judiciary committee. let's talk about this second meeting that the white house confirmed but then president trump said the media blew it way >> the white house is pushing back strongly against the media reports, suggesting this was a casual chat at a meeting where not only the leaders but their spouses and various other people were present. the problem here, jim, is an issue of trust. seems to me. because there's this whole cloud of suspicion
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administration and russia. things that might otherwise be seen as innocent where the president might be given benefit of the doubt >> isn't there also concern from people that he did this meeting with no other u.s. official present and the only other person besides vladimir putin was vladimir putin's trans literary. nobody knows what really was said except for the translator. >> that's exactly right, shawn. it's a major issue because of the lack of trust. but also an issue because typically at these meetings, an official record will be produced. it's then sent around to the other agencies and other senior people in government who need to know what our president may or may not have agreed to and whether they need to take action on that. so the absence of that kind of official record is a troublesome thing on a number of levels?
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there was so much attention paid when we saw james comey testify. do you expect to see that intense focus across dc on capitol hill when we have manafort and donald trump junior testify >> certainly, i'm assuming they are testifying in public, which i'm not absolutely clear on at this point. if they do so, that will be a huge event. james comey was probably one of a kind given his interactions with the president and the kind of account he had given of the private meetings, but certainly paul manafort and, of course, the president's eldest son be donald trump junior, those will be a hot ticket in town if those are public hearings >> if it is, everybody will be watching. niles, it's great to have you on the show. clearly the russia investigation continues to dog the trump white house, let's bring that andrew ricky. >> many options there >> niles we're glad you're sticking around, andrew is the vice president at levick
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his specialty is crisis management. would you say this is indeed a crisis for the trump administration and if so, how would you advise them to handle this >> i think definitly, you know, it's not necessarily so much a legal crisis on this second meeting. but it's definitely an issue of optics, whenever there's this long history of secrecy and, you know, suspicion, anything that does add to that certainly doesn't help. >> when we talk about transparency, donald trump junior tried to get ahead of the story, he was trans parent. the sent the e-mails out. tweeted out the four pages of e-mails, and granted, while there may be the perception within the white house, seems like, and it did opened it up to much mores interpretation. did they roll that out wrong way? should they have done that sooner? a different way other than twitter? >> look, the stories are going to come out in the "new york times" one way or another, the e-mails will come out. what donald trump junior did was hand the entire world a smoking gun with
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it. that's huge problem, as charles crowd hammer said it best, bunk he willed collusion is still collusion. the intent to collude is just another step in that growing image problem. >> speaking of that the story we've been talking about, the second undisclosed meeting with vladimir putin. how big of an issue is that and how should they have handled that one >> it's like i said it's not a huge legal issue, per se but it is a big perception issue. we don't know what was said. there's no official record. it's left up to the president and there's no one from the united states who was there. so you know, definitely doesn't help. >> we know the white house has said all along, this is fake news. yet, there are many people who believe the white house accounts on this regardless of what the media may report. so you know, that's -- that's something that works on both sides there, andrew >> it does. and there's definitely, you know, if you look at
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reddit, all these online for rumble of thunder, there's a huge base of people that will not be dissuaded but there's a lot of people who are and that base is shrinking by the day >> andrew, thanks so much for coming in. thank you. meantime. let's talk about the forecast. because it has been another one of those days where it's just whoa. >> speaking of hot, hey, sue palka >> i was just about to say are you aware you want to go there? i'll address that to you, shawn, look at these numbers, reagan, 96 today, dulles, 93. and bwi get you go up to 96. we're going to be even hotter tomorrow, this heat wave is going to build on itself each day until it peaks friday and saturday and we're not quite out of the woods until early next week, that's when we think this heat wave will be over. so fasten your seatbelts. the mercury will keep on rising, one thing we have not seen today are widespread thunderstorms, in fact, won
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around the area tonight and i don't think we'll see anymore as we go forward and probably not tomorrow either, but steak out your spot near the air conditioning. the upper 90's will be with us tomorrow, friday and saturday we're going to go 97, 98, 98. looks like very little relief overnight. because the lack of thunderstorms and the humidity is just so incredibly oppressive. that means it's going to feel like 100 degrees. for much of the day tomorrow. and as we get on into the weekend, we could have heat advisories issued on friday and saturday. we already know there will be an air qualify alert up for tomorrow, code orange, but the thunderstorm chances will start to increase too as we get on into the weekend. little better chance saturday and sunday because a frontal boundary will be lurking just to the north, that will provide a bit of focus and a little bit of some of the energy that is needed to get the storms going all of those could certainly produce very heavy rain as well. a little bit of relief but wow. those upper 90's, definitely going to take a toll for sure >> no rest for the weary at least for now. thank you, sue >> hop in the pool, stay i
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. white house calling upon the trump administration to #respect and i votes. >> what president and ceo of the hip hop caucus thanks for being here. for folks who don't know what the hip hop caucus is tell us that and also tell us about the rally you had today and the message you want to do send to the trump administration. >> amazing organization. people know. we started back in 2004. led off by from russell system mondays to jay-z and others, who really wanted to get young people involved in the political process who may not understand how it works
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cultural expression and political experience, over the past now 13 years, using hip hop, culture, discussing round the country, we're now in 30 cities around the country, we discuss climate change to voting. >> is it about participation in the process as a whole or in saying, you know, these issues are important to us. maybe you should side with people who support these particular issues >> well the hip hop caucus and community of young people is that it's not just young people who are people of color. it's black, white, brown, yellow, male, female, straight, gay, young people who want to be engaged using their culture. that's why it's so powerful and exciting. and so it is many issues, and they kind of chewed the issues, climate change, a myriad of things but what's more important
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that's why the voters are so important because it's about democracy. for us it's not about being nonpartisan but being >> you guys got together today specifically because of the commissions first meeting >> today was, you know, i will tell you honestly and i'm a former air force officer. it was a tough day. because many people who have gone like myself and others, who fought for democracy, swore to die, as it does and many others, it hard to hear commissions that look like the only reason they're being commissioned is to justify voter suppression and going throughout that ugly history of seeing on again poll tax and jim crow, to see that moving forward that is bad, today, there were over 30 groups who came together and said no, we can't have that >> while the administration says that's not what it's about, you
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they said there's about 3,000 people who voluntarily had themselves removed from the voter roles out of fear of some sort of suppression or retaliation for not wanting their information out there >> that's exactly it. sometimes if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. folks on this commission had been kind of pushing things, folks feel is least voter suppression >> they say it's bipartisan >> that's the thing. you can be bipartisan and that's a good thing. but there are those on this commission who have done things from voter id laws that look that can target young people and seniors, those who may not have the means, on the commission who are, when the voting right act was gutted. move. so there are those who on this commission, who have a track record i'll say, and i'm not here to throw them or even this commission
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bus, we do want to make the voting process better. but there are many things that we can do to make sure there are more people voting, not less. >> we're out of time. i want to ask you quick what's your website >> it's hip hop caucus.org and #respectmyvote. >> the only other thing trending today was national hot dog day >> thank you so much for coming in. review rented referred lennox. >> there's reports that one of trump's children is allegedly miserable at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. back after this.
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he'll be overly scrutinized. goes to work every day and is miserable. younger brother eric and done junior are not happy that the father is president >> the trump administration said they won't like the anonymous sources. the question is something like that pertinent -- where did it come from? is that pertinent information? because sometimes it's things like that that people look and say there's the media trying to tear down the trump family >> if that's the case, they may have a source but they're unnamed sources, many times the white house does enjoy to employ anonymous sources of their own. wife of democratic maryland elisha comes. may run for the governor of maryland. she heads up a public policy firm. we know prince george's county rushern baker is on the democratic side but others include john dell
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. win for afghanistan's all girl robotics team, they won the silver medal for courageous achievement. a can do attitude under difficult circumstances and they certainly went through it, their trip to washington almost didn't happen. the six girl team and their chaperones's visas were rejected twice, president trump got involved and they made it on the third try >> good for them >> congratulations to them and all the kids. we talked about this earlier and one of the guys that was in charge said it's not competition. and seeing what we can do her - >> collective brain power is always a good thing, that's the future right there. >> well, that is it? that is us. >> that's us
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announcer: today on "tmz" -- harvey: one of r. kelly's women, one who was allegedly held captive, was out in a park and says her dad is a hypocrite. >> you know the situation that had happened that night when i went with r. kelly. >> she's saying her dad encouraged her to live with r. kelly, the dad saying that r. kelly is keeping her without her consent. >> the police have gone to the home. she said everything's fine. >> we just need videos from all of the alleged captives on every major holiday. hey, we're celebrating thanksgiving today. hey, it's christmas with r. kelly. >> kylie jenner, she finally got her wax figure over at madam tussauds. how many photos will be just a dude behind it humping? >> all of them. >> you boys seriously will have sex with anything. >> ah, yes. [laughter] >> cookie johnson, we asked her
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