mo brooks put this in more simple terms. this is mo brooks on cnn explaining what that means. >> they will allow insurance companies to require people who have higher health care costs to tribute more to the insurance pool that helps offset all these costs there by reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives, are healthy, they have done the things to keep their bodies healthy. right now those are the people who have done things the right way that are seeing their costs skyrocketing. >> every law chooses winners and losers. what a law is. republicans are saying the winners should be in mo brooks words people who live good lives and healthy and unhealthy with pre-existing conditions should pay more. they are admitting sick people should pay more. >> and they brought it on themselves. tell that to cancer survivors, young cancer survivors. it brought insight into the mind-set of the bill. i want to describe a couple of things. in the beginning you said it's going take $880 billion from medicaid to give a big tax cut to

. >> michael, we're talking about this ideological, mo brooks, who we've had on the show, i think he's honest about sort of his world view, he gave an interview, he made the articulation to me was the only sort of defensible ideological case about this, which is basically, the sick should pay more for insurance. i want both of you to take a listen and react to it. here is mo brooks. >> my understanding is it will allow insurance companies to require people to contribute more to the insurance pool and that helps offset all of these costs, there by reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives they're healthy, you know, they're doing the things to keep their bodies healthy and right now those are the people who have done thing it is right way that are seeing their cost skyrocketing. in fairness, a lot of these people with pre-existing conditions, they have those conditions through no fault of their own and i think our society to those circumstances needs to help. >> well, that last sentence his intention comes before it. you know, do you think it's sailable message to the public,

>> jenna: alabama congressman mo brooks is now in the race to fill the u.s.formerly held by attorney general jeff sessions and will be facing off against our earlier guest, luther strange. we're getting our fill of alabama today. we appreciate that congressman. what's next in this investigation as you see it? >> welsh at this point in time, we hand everything over to now investigator mueller, former fbi director, and we let him do what fbi agents do. they examine witnesses. they try to determine what the true facts are. at some point in time those true facts will be presented certainly per happens to a grand jury, if there's enough jury to justify takes to it the grand jury. if not i hope the fbi director will give the american people a report. there are three different issues here. one was the russian involvement in the election. two, was there any collusion between the trump campaign and russia? three, was the president of the united states, now president donald trump, involved in that collusion? in my judgment, i think the democrats have overshot. i don't

let's bring in mo brooks, a member of the freedom caucus. so much for joining us. >> my pleasure, jake. >> the president said he would meet with kim jong-un under the right circumstances. do what you do i? will there ever be the right circumstances? >> there's an old saying you want to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. it's always a good things to improve relationships with your allies and to create relationships with your foes and in this case i don't see any harm trying to improve america's relationship with a dictator in north korea. we may strongly disagree with a lot of things that he does to his people but nonetheless if it's going to help preserve peace over the long haul both in south korea and the korean peninsula generally and with respect to the united states it's worth a shot. >> i can certainly understand the argument that there's this big nuclear threat and anything the president can do to de-escalate tensions and maybe even eliminate that nuclear threat would be a good thing, but a lot of human rights activists

expect with both the house and the senate are back in session this week, republican congressman mo brooks of alabama. thanks so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. congressman, does anything concern you about with a we just learned this week? >> well, there are a number of disconcerting things. i'll share with you my overall reaction. in my judgment, mr. comey did not act properly as director of the fbi back in july or in october. and in my judgment, he probably was the most important factor in the outcome of the election, more so than whatever russia may or may not have done. so i was mildly surprised that barack obama did not terminate mr. comey during the six months after the july events in which barack obama was still in the white house. >> so do you defend president trump's firing of comey and what went into that decision? >> well, i know jeff sessions fairly well. i've known him for about a quarter of a century, and i think jeff sessions is a good man. i think the recommendation that he made to the president was appropriate. were there additional

mo brooks put this in more simple terms.his is mo brooks on cnn explaininghat that means. >> they will allow insurance companies to require people who have higher health care costs to tribute more to the insurance pool that helps offset all these costs there by reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives, are healthy, they have done the things to keep their bodies healthy. right now those are the people who have done things the right way that are seeing their costs skyrocketing b skyrocketing. >> every law chooses winners and losers. what a law is. republicans are saying the winners should be in mo brooks words people who live good lives and healthy and unhealthy with pre-existing conditions should pay more. they are admitting sick people should pay more. >> and they brought it on themselves. tell that to cancer survivors, young cancer survivors. it brought insight into the mind-set of the bill. i want to describe a couple of things. in the beginning you said it's going take $880 billion from medicaid to give a big

i love him. ( laughter ) but yesterday, alabama representative mo brooks explained that trumpcare is just making insurance fairer. >> my understanding is that it will allow insurance companies to require people who have higher health care costs to contribute more to the insurance pool that helps offset all these costs, thereby reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives. they're healthy. you know, they have done the things to keep their bodies healthy. and right now those are the people who have done things the right way that are seeing their costs skyrocketing. >> stephen: so he's saying good people are healthy and bad people get sick. well, that's why brooks is going to put this on his tombstone-- "i had it coming." you're not alive. you must have done something. what did you do? what did you do? something. and trump's not just trying to undo obamacare. he's also trying to undo obamalunch, because his administration is rolling back michelle obama's push for healthier school lunches. >> audience: boo! >> stephen: you could tell this was going to happen when they replaced h

so it's painful when i see elected leaders such as congressman mo brooks who are trying to take away health care say that we got sick because we didn't take care of ourselves or people -- as if people got what they deserved. no one deserves to get sick and health care is a basic right. [applause] i speak out about the importance of health insurance not to point out how sick i am, but to point out how sick i'm not. we are faced once again with the possibility of republicans in congress playing games with our health care and we are not laughing. this bill will have disastrous effects for people just like me who are faced with a pre-existing condition, allowing states and insurance companies the option to extend us the right to health care. should this bill pass, my premiums will skyrocket, causing my insurance to be unaffordable and my plan could easily become restrictive, preventing me from getting the care and medications that i need to maintain my current health. today, i stand before you a healthy, active, 32-year-old woman with her life ahead of her. i am somebody's daughter, sist

. >> i talked to republican congressman mo brooks earlier, here's what he said to me when i asked whether he thinks a special prosecutor should be appointed to the russian investigation. >> if we're not comfortable with the fbi director, if for some reason there's evidence that comes forth that suggests that the fbi agents are not doing their due diligence, with respect to the investigation of russia, then we can start addressing the special prosecutor. >> he wants to see who the president appoints first to the fbi director position. is there anyone, sarah, who the president can appoint that the public would trust to lead the investigation into the trump campaign in russia? >> well, the president has -- not the president, but republicans around the president have floated different ideas that could unite democrats and republicans in theory in maybe a different set of circumstances, marick garland is one, the nominee by president obama, even by some conservatives like senator like lee, you have andrew mccabe, who's the acting fbi director right now who has a long history at the bureau, who'

. >> representative mo brooks said this bill is a reward to people who take care of their bodies ande not obese and they take responsibility over health care and there is a relationship between having insurance and knowing the information about those things that can cause you to take better care of yourself. >> absolutely. while it's a good thing to take great care of yourself, even with the best care, you will get sick and need the medical care. what the republicans are doing is saying we are going take the best estimate and throw them out of it. that's going to include people who have been taking good care of themselves. probably about 24,000 extra deaths each year. we ought to be going the other direction towards a single payer national health insurance system that could not cost us 24,000 deaths. we are also following news about the house energy and commerce committee over the distribution of opioid killers, pain killers in west virginia. these companies requesting information about hydrocodone and oxy codon't sales. the companies were sued in federal court by two counties. accus

. >> matt bayh, look at what republican congressman mo brooks had to say about the health care vote.alking about a class of people, for whatever reason, either they lack the resources or want to game the system, they've decided not to have insurance. then they get sick and want other people to pay for it. >> so let's talk about this. he also already said the whole problem with people with preexisting conditions, people are sick because they didn't live healthy lives, it's their own fault if they're sick. >> the idea of people having insurance so other people don't have to pay for it is not a new idea, it's the guiding principle behind the obama health care program. we've had three straight presidents where the president has lost either one chamber during their first term, or both, and have lost both chambers during the course of their presidency. we've never had that before in our presidency. so we have a volatile midterm climate every time. that's one problem. and we have never seen a party try to roll back a major social program on this scale. we don't know what that looks like fro

alabama congressman mo brooks and virginia congressman dave brat. thanks to both of you for being here. congressman bratt, i'll start with you first. where is this going? you heard a very optimistic president trump there in the rose garden earlier today pushing, pushing this healthcare replacement plan. >> i think we've been within a handful of votes over the last couple days. i think they're working out one by one. preexisting conditions is the one area there's little uncertainty. we have three layers of protection for that case, and so i think leadership's doing a good job educating everyone. we're gonna come out with a yes probably by thur day. >> sandra: i want to go to congressman billy long of missouri, who he is a no at this point. here's why he says he's a no. listen. i'm going to read what he said. i have all stated one of the good things about obamacare is people with preexisting could be covered. this congressman brooks? >> preexisting conditions is a tricky issue. the way we sought to resolve it is to defer that issue to the states to de

joining me now, republican congressman mo brooks of alabama. congressman, are you okay with all this? >> well, i'm a little bit puzzled as to why in the six months that barack obama had this, he did not fire comey going back to july 5th. and i understand why it might have taken three months because the federal government is really slow. but i do support president trump's decision. perhaps it should have been made earlier under president trump, just as it should have been made earlier under president obama. so now the next step is where do we go from here? >> so you think that the reason for the firing was the way that james comey specifically handled hillary clinton's e-mail investigation as reflected in the memo by rod rosenstein? you think that's actually the reason? >> i'm not able to read the minds of attorney general jeff sessions or president donald trump or the others that may have been involved in this decision-making process. i'm in a position where i accept at face value that was written in the explanation was to why comey needed to b

. >> before we go to who it covers, i want to share sound from alabama republican mo brooks. >> it willow insurance companies to require people who have higher health care costs to contribute more to the insurance pool to help offset the costs thereby reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives, they're healthy. they've done the things to keep their bodies healthy. and right now those are the people who have done things the right way that are seeing their costs sky-rocketing. >> it's a slippery slope. he did qualify it and say there are some people who end up with situations of no fault of their own. but to say those who have led a good life, is that not a slippery slope? >> he phrased it poorly. what jimmy kimmel said, we can all agree that sick people deserve coverage. we can't. it's not something that if you' you're fiscally conservative you have to say some people cost us so much money that it's costing us so much money. you can't get benefits without cost. if you want to cover everybody we'll have enormous costs. we used to have high-risk pools in the states. it cost a lo

normally, they don't admit that openly, but on monday alabama congressman mo brooks, a hard-line conservativein a moment of honesty, that he has no problem with people with pre-existing conditions paying more for their health insurance. >> my understanding is that it will allow insurance companies to require people who have higher health care costs to contribute more to the insurance pool that helps offset all these costs, thereby reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives, they're healthy, you know, they've done the things to keep their bodies healthy. and right now, those are the people who have done things the right way that are seeing their costs skyrocketing. >> seth: people who lead good lives? so what does that mean? people who are sick lead bad lives? if that were really how it worked, donald trump would have died three years before he was born. [ laughter and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] so that's -- that's why the gop health care message is so muddled. in reality, they just don't believe the government should make sure people get health care. but they can't come out

mo brooks joins the race for the u.s. senate seat vacated by attorney general jeff sessions. brooks joins an already crowded republik and field which features luther strange appointed by ex-governor robert bentley, strange has the support of the senate leadership fund. interstate 85 near the heart of atlanta saw all lanes reopened over the weekend. it had been shut down since march 31 of fire melted the overpass. this is a live look at los angeles. the big story there, one of the biggest airline terminal relocations in history has begun. by the time the project is completed, 15 airlines will have been relocated. officials are urging passengers to come early and check the lax website for accurate informatio information. that is tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." more news after the break. stay tuned the show's about to start! how do i look? like a bald penguin. [ laughing ] show me the billboard music awards. show me top artist. show me the top hot 100 artist. they give awards for being hot and 100 years old? we'll take 2! [ laughing ] xfinity x1 gi

mo brooks saw that and the rest of us are going why, why didn't we stop this before?reat idea. we have got to stop it. clayton: they keep getting renewed. >> exactly. clayton: how do they keep getting renewed. i understand in 2002, 2003 this move to the department of homeland security after september 11th. now the attorney general gets to sign off on this. how do these individuals keep getting renewed over and over and over again? who is looking at this? >> well, the obama administration had muslim brothers advising them. we know from the muslim brotherhood they bragged about people being in homeland security and in each department. and, in fact, they were. and so their advice was keep renewing these people. so that's exactly what the obama administration did. they took a good program started under george h.w. bush for humanitarian purposes, and they turned it in to a program that could be a way to hurt our country. and so it has to stop. we have got to force these countries to take them back, no matter what. and it should not -- it ought to be a temporary program, if

brooks has been in tis position before. coached the oklahoma city thunder to the nba finals in 2012.mo >> i:00 and read tork' go.nk goodness i fell back to boston. they haven't won on the road all season, including the

some campaign news out of alabama where congressman mo brooks has announced he is running for senate and the seat and the seat that was previously held by senator jeff sessions. congressman brooks gave an interview to yellow hammer news based in alabama saying i offer one thing no one else offers, honest and proven conservative leadership. ♪ >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable-television companies and is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. last week, former first lady lady michelle obama talked about the importance of healthy school lunches and they should not be a partisan issue. she made the remarks after the trump administration announced plans to reduce rules that reduce sodium in school lunches. the event was hosted by the partnership for a healthier america.