as her position untenable?” was not the person to deliver that. as her position untenable?rtant for the country to recognise that the labour party was still meals behind the conservative party in the election. if the book got together with all the other parties in parliament they could still not form a majority in parliament. it is important then that theresa may continues and especially in the week of the most important discussions coming up for our country, the brexit negotiations. the simple fact is that people voted to take back control. the idea of what people brexit it is is not so important. people will look at her position, she is going to be in that position in the very short term?” she is going to be in that position in the very short term? i think we will have to wait and see how things pan out. what the european union negotiators that it recognises that the country backed the idea of brexit. it is important that the political establishment deliver on what people voted for last year. that has not gone away. it is very simple, it is taking back control by a democr

many people seem to think our position is untenable. you we re think our position is untenable.ean union brexit negotiators rethink of theresa may if she is going to attempt to open the negotiations. the be held back not by the prospect for not winning the election but the argument i made was that european leaders will notice what is happening. the me think that theresa may is going to be replaced soon and will not want to commit to any big negotiations with until her position is resolved or a successor is appointed. germany have got elections in the autumn. there is a window for germany to choose a new chancellor and only then will negotiations began really properly. if theresa may opens the brexit negotiations, issue putting great britain in their weaker position? yes. she is not particularly good negotiator. the conservative party going ina negotiator. the conservative party going in a much more ukip direction as unsettled a lot of people in the party. she is not a good negotiator. she does not seem to want to find it what the other person that the table once. she is too focu

politically untenable, and morally untenable just to allow something so big, such an effect on our economyash and burn? >> eastern the president himself acknowledged that's not -- trying to get, pushing this legislation through and wants to see this passed. he thinks he can blame the democrats if indeed this goes down, but this is -- he has enough republican votes in the senate to pass this on a party line vote if needed. i don't think party line are necessarily the greatest for country but he has to look at his own party before he starts blaming democrats. >> obamacare, remember, several years ago passed without any republican support. along party lines. >> a mistake, too, you can make the case. >> 8:30 a.m. tweeted democrats have become nothing but on struction. s no policies or ideas. all they do delay and complain. they own obamacare. everyone stand by. a lot more important developments happening right now. president trump demands an apology on the russia investigation at levels, levels a new accusation again former president obama. the latest on that and more when we come back. the fu

does that make our position untenable? absolutely.eople to vote for it and they did not give it to her. first it was the first time a more detailed plan on brexit was put to the people. the idea that she could pay some of the plan without a mandate from the people are simply not possible. yet again, we see the party driven apart over europe. what will happen though, given the dup position? it is very hard to see how things will pan out. but it is very clear that theresa may does not have a free hand. whatever plan she puts forward , a free hand. whatever plan she puts forward, she will be hostage to backbenchers with her own party and to the dup. it is avidly factional party. if the unite against her and get together, they will thought that then. it will be very difficult for then. it will be very difficult for the conservative prime minister to try and get controversial european issues through the house of commons on the tiny majority. we remember, how difficult it was forjohn major to do the same. what was the case for theresa may a

i agree with our position is now untenable. i think she called an election unnecessarily, she put party before country in this election, saw her party as 20 points ahead of us in the polls, even higher at one point in time, purely for party advantage, and people thought that is inappropriate for a prime minister. >> and finally, sir, in terms of if mr. corbyn were to try to find a government, minority or whatever it would be, what would the style of negotiation be with brexit, where would you stand on things to access to single market? >> we need to change the tone of these negotiations. in my former life, i had an office in brussels, i was a negotiator with other european countries as well, the tone that we want to change it to is one where you have mutual respect and mutual interest. we have a mutual interest, access to -- access to the european market as well. that's the key element for us, protection of our economy, our jobs. i think there is enough room to maneuver around the whole range of other issues that will enable us

it was untenable. i felt bad for him being in that position in the first place. and it does and did at the time make me wonder why he agreed to be in that position in the first place. it is unprecedented to have the fbi director in a position at all. the fbi director, rather than the attorney general will be making decisions about whether to prosecute, and then holding a press conference to announce the decision not to prosecute, that is highly unusual. in fact, i'm not sure if there is any precedent for it anywhere. it is the attorney general's job and the java be up -- the job of thedepartment of justice, u.s. attorney, assistant u.s. attorney somewhere to make those decisions. never the f ei. i can take -- fbi. i continue to wonder why on earth did director comey agreed to take that position? everything about that is strange to me, and i hope we have more opportunities to asking questions about that. host: deborah and iowa, a democrat. good morning. lot of i agree with a what your senator there from utah is saying about how things are peculiar. didlt like he d

health care that they pay as individuals has risen so much under the bill from president obama it is untenable. let me make three points. affordability is a problem in the united states. we spent 27% more than the next highest country, luxembourg. issue.is a big the second thing is health care costs have stabilized under the affordable care act. people aren't feeling that because health care costs continue to rise. the third point is this bill by republicans has literally nothing to do with controlling health care costs. not a single word about controlling health care costs. they are not addressing the affordability problem they're talking about. i agree we have an affordability problem. the best thing we can do any exchanges is get certainty. one reason premiums are going up a lot is there is uncertainty about how we will treat that market. katty: i thought it was france that had the most expensive after america, it is luxembourg. i think a lot of our viewers around the world look at america's health care system and can't figure out why america finds this so difficult. a lot of european healt

you made promises to lower costs and made promises to cover everyone and it's untenable in the republicanwhy this is a challenge, but the democrats they say, listen, don't repeal obamacare. we know it's not perfect. let's repair it if you will. we'll work with you on repairing it. but i have to tell you, the republicans and the senate and the house are just hell bent on repealing it and it's untenable because you have midterms in 2018. you're going have to sell to your constituents in your home districts that you actually cut medicaid and raised the cost on the elderly and that it's not going to cover everyone. oh, but we got rid of the individual mandate. we'll see if in the midterms that sells. the democrats are hoping and belting on the fact it won't -- betting on the fact it won't sell, because they're going to be reminding their constituents what the republicans did if they pass this. rep it has to go to conference. even if they pass it in the senate. >> it's kind of interesting because when you look at the poll numbers and approval, obamacare's approval ratings are going up and the

prisons and to use that as both a deterrent and a way to commandeer our local law enforcement is untenable. >> the house is expected to pass the bill and have enough votes to pass the senate. adrianna: after days of cooler temperatures the summer heat is back. and there are possible storms too. we'll have the weekend adrianna: so you are the same, have family coming in. doug: yes, they will enjoy hot weather. plenty of heat and humidity. 90 today and much more humid tomorrow and then 92. as we get into the weekend it looks like our chances of thunderstorms will be up on saturday and isolated storms on sunday and another chance on tuesday. hot and humid all the way through. adrianna: like you said, it is summertime. hot child in the city. make sure to watch abc7 news at 4:00. you all have a great day. >> to win on this show, you need three things: brains, guts, and an industrial-strength antiperspirant. ready? let's play "who wants to be a millionaire." [dramatic music] ♪ hey, everybody. welcome to the show. you guys ready to play "millionaire" today? [cheers and applause] all right, here w

. >>> is it politically untenable to hire a special counsel at this stage >> charlie, i don't know thewer to that question. you know, we know from reporting of last week, that president was eager to do so and was apparently talked out of it. but i think you have to say on the basis of what he has tweeted, he still has in his mind some way to try to end this investigation or get rid of bob mueller. you know, it would be, it would be a volcanic political event if he were to do it and obviously one with great and grave legal implications but i don't know, i don't know that i could say that he's out of the question. >>> you have a man now, a special counsel who has subpoena power and the power of the fbi and investigating all working with him. >> yes, i mean, you now have -- we have a full fledged investigation that thousand includes the conduct of the president of the united states. in a sense, we, you know, we need to step back and recognize the gravity of that situation. again, without, without determining what the conclusion is going to be. this puts the president in a terribly, terrib

position a difficult and it was untenable for him to whenon as justice minister he could be facing theseds of investigations against his own party. host: all this is likely to complicate president emmanuel acron's government reshuffle today. reporter: it was supposed to be a technical reshuffle with no big changes. the government assured everyone at the beginning of the week, but for ministers have now step down this week. three of them from modem and two of them women. the government would like to replace those women with other women ministers because they want to keep the promise of being gender equal. we've just heard that the udi right-wing party and some of members of the other right-wing party have formed their own group an in parliament, calling them the constructive and are ready to work with the president. electric the government reshuffle could see a manual macro -- emmanuel macron reaching out to the right wing and france. reaching out means dividing the right-wing opposition in france. it is likely we will see more of that and we will find out later on today more about what w

rights activist marine tondelier says anyone opposing the immigrant-free platform found life here untenableeryone knows that immigrants are not welcome here? marine tondelier: yes, if you want to come to france and you're an immigrant, you don't go to a national front city. scott: an irony considering the town's origin. marine tondelier: it has no sense here to say this because people, we were calling people from abroad to make the coal mines work. scott: so in a town built on immigrants. marine tondelier: yes. and by immigrants. scott: and by immigrants in the coal mines here. you're saying it's difficult then to suddenly say, "we don't need them, we don't want them." they are not welcome. marine tondelier: yes. scott: while the national front lost the national election, they're hardly giving up. and just as henin-beaumont survived roman and norman invasions over the centuries, change happens. christopher szczurek: maybe in 10 years, we won't be still seen as devil, you know? scott: seen as the devil? christopher szczurek: that's it. sharyl: the theory is without immigrants competing her j

however, i would say that i think that we're -- if we're in an untenable situation, it's not becausethere and i think it's because, in a sense, the previous administration, as they did with a lot of things, and for good reason, i'm not, you know -- it's way above my pay grade and i don't understand how washington works, but they tend to view everything, including national security issues, through a very political prism and you could see that in that article, when they said, you know, after trump won, we all stood around and looked at each other and thought, well, maybe we mishandled it. well, no kidding we mishandled it because they were looking at it from a point of view that clinton was bound to win so they didn't feel sense of urgency. >> that was the time in august when hillary clinton was so high in the polls, they assumed they'd be handing over the cabinet to familiar faces and therefore it would be pan issan that they would pass off to friends. >> yes. >> i would argue that the -- >> go ahead, lindsey. >> the administration that we have now is completely looking at this fluthr

on wednesday, a senior eu official said the scale of migration across the mediterranean is untenableto have attempted the journey in the past few days. the leader of france's far—right national front party, marine le pen, has been put under formal investigation over an alleged european parliament funding scandal. prosecutors suspect that the party took money officially earmarked for staff at the european parliament and diverted it for party work in france. football stars and celebrities have been arriving in the argentine city of rosario for the wedding of its most famous son, the barcelona player, lionel messi. he is marrying his childhood sweetheart, antonela roccuzzo, with whom he has two children. hong kong's newly appointed chief executive carrie lam is set to be sworn in shortly, as china's president xijinping continues his tour of the territory, marking 20 years since its handover. hong kong police have released all 26 activists who were detained for staging a protest in advance of the visit and more protests are expected today. let's go to our correspondent, juliana liu, who

on wednesday, a senior eu official said the scale of migration across the mediterranean is untenableed the journey in the past few days. the leader of the far—right in france, marine le pen, has been placed underformal investigation over an alleged european parliament funding scandal. ms le pen has denied any wrongdoing, and calls the case "politically motivated". we will bring you the latest sports news including, the wimbledon draw has been made but will andy murray be fit to defend his title? china's president xijinping has been enjoying another day of celebrations in hong kong, to mark 20 years since the territory returned from british control. the chinese president said unification was the start of the new era for hong kong. the world's first clone has been made of the world's first mammal. russian and american aircraft have docked in orbit for the first time in 20 years. challenger powered past the light has had almost 50 yachts. shattering the record that stood for 3h years. no hiding the sheer elation of richard branson and his crew. you are watching bbc world news today. our

our position is untenable, and i think she knows that.a may manages to hold on here, there will be huge questions of the polity she will be able to get through. even with dup support, the majority will be tiny and she will likely have to ditch contentious parts of her manifesto. and with brexit negotiations starting in just over a week, her challenge is to get her party and parliament behind her approach. the fact is that if the tory party doesn't lance the boil of brexit, you are opening the doors for corbyn‘s premiership. he wants thatjob now and says he is ready to govern. he will amend the queen's speech, putting forward what he says is an alternative vision for the country. we have a minority government relying on the dup to get legislation through the house of commons when they have no agreement on key issues. it seems to be chaotic. we are quite ready and able to put forward a serious programme which obviously has massive support in this country. she thought she would win more support, now it is her looking to others to stand besid

they are brilliant streetfighter is untenable political leaders, because what you need at the heart ofy—haired people who'd been round the block, to say don't do that, you'll make mistakes, we've been here before. it is tightly controlled. what we've seen with the in manifesto preparation, is it landed on the doorstep and the mps didn't even know what was going in it. mr timothy accepted responsibility for his role in the result, but with austerity and brexit, he said britain was a divided country. he said the prime minister is the one political leader who understands this division and has been working to address it. there have been plenty of calls to make sure that the circle around was wider and more inclusive, to prevent anyone believing that the two principal advisers had undue influence. and some of the discussions today would suggest that perhaps that sense of inclusion wasn't as great as it should've been. today's resignations been breathing space, but beyond that, mrs may is not beyond danger. she might hold the keys to number ten, but she is deprived of a commons majority and

prime minister to resign many see to reason may's position is untenable following her party's election upset and her reaction to wednesday's tower block fire fifty eight people and i presume dead in the wake of that tragedy and sit as this report . we're right outside downing street where if you can see hundreds of people have gathered to protest against a recently government this was originally intended to be a protest pressing issues following the election lots of people have been saying they're unhappy with the snap election that's recent made calls on the following coalition that was formed with the king and this was the original reason but since the tragedy with the grand cell tower where as we know force thirty people confirmed dead more expected to be announced and really hundreds left homeless following what's on the rubble there already people are saying this is becoming the final straw with the unhappiness following the decisions that this government has been making because a lot of them who have been gathered here today are saying that what happened with grunfeld was some of

prime minister to quit many see her position as untenable following not only her party's election upset but ten days ago but also her reaction to wednesday's graham tower block disaster in which at least thirty people have died the protesters say conservative government policies are ultimately to blame for that tragedy and i said it's an added impetus to the protest against a reason maze we can government which is taking place right now and why told it's as close as they can get to downing street. honest to say a chuckle is that what's happening where you are. the love colinet indignation is really freaking me out here here if you can just take a look at all of this area outside ten downing street talks with people who have come out here to see to protest against any government and really the final straw after this of course the police failed election where she called the snap election to get the results mentioned would the final straw became this enormous tragedy with the friends. are there any people here. think other. people might find out who they want so they're saying that every m

ceremony, the ceremonial high point of the year, the queen's birthday parade, it would have been untenable them to have gone ahead without in some way reflecting the particular, unusual and tragic circumstances. the queen, is nonpolitical head of state, her role is to embody and to give expression to the feelings of the nation at moments like this. she went to g re nfell tower moments like this. she went to grenfell tower yesterday, she was undoubtedly very struck by what she saw and heard. this morning at 6am this statement was issued from buckingham palace, unprecedented on the queen's official birthday, for a statement such as this to be issued, talking, as you mentioned, of the sombre national mood after a succession of terrible tragedies. then the insertion of the minute's silence into the programme was very much done at the last minute. we asked buckingham palace at 9am and up asked buckingham palace at 9am and up to 10am whether there would be a minute's silence, as one might suppose appropriate in these circumstances. we were told then there were no plans to any change in there wer

s prime minister to resign many say her position as untenable not only following the party's election upset but also her reaction to wednesday's grenfell tower fire in which at least thirty people are known to have died they say conservative government's austerity policies are ultimately to blame for the tragedy now there have been hundreds of protesters there for the past couple of hours we'll catch up with our reporter there in a few minutes we'll talk first though to metairie a burger means from chateau u.k. independent user website welcome to r.t. international a lot of people in london that we've seen but also in people nationwide grief stricken and very angry about what's happened to grenfell tower but also about the way the government's handling the situation what are they doing wrong. i mean it is a long string of i think misfortune on on and mistakes on tourism a spa even something as simple as for example talking to some of the grief stricken residents. at the tower you know she she she didn't say was the didn't engage in the queen. when she did not actually did then you saw

regarded such a -- eventually regarded such a stance in the absence of real american support adds untenable and rightly so. in the end on june 5th, israel did go it alone, all alone. and prevailed all alone. in a remarkable military campaign fought on three fronts. it was a spectacular victory by every measure and there have been many descriptions of it. let me offer one written by the well-known historian of world war i, barbara tuckman. who visited israel both before and shortly after the war. quote, a people considered for centuries nonfighters, carried out in june against long odds the most nearly perfect military operation in modern history. surrounded on three sides, facing vast superiority in numbers and a mount of armament, fighting alone against enemy supported and equipped by a major power, and having lost the advantage of surprise, they accomplished the rarest of military feats. attainment of exact objectives in this case the shattering of the forces and the securing of defensible lines within a given time and with absence of blunder. not quite what the absence of blunder but tha

and we are awaiting word from president donald trump who will begin speaking shortly, his first untenableks about the shooting. what event and also the house speaker at 12:00 -- vonnie: and also the house speaker at 12:00 p.m.\ the democrats would have been practicing in another area, is that game going to go ahead tomorrow? unclear. is i know it will eventually happen. i spoke to republicans and democrats who want it to go-ahead. they think it will send the right message. votes have been postponed in both houses. this game was a rare moment of nonpartisan a political politics, an opportunity for lawmakers to interact to raise money for tradition -- charity, a tradition in congress. it enough, ass couple of miles outside of washington, d.c. in a public area. a lot of folks bike ride and play soccer on the weekend. it is his suburban kind of field, is directly impacted so many people in the family members as well, not just lawmakers but congressional are earlymen who 20's, 30's who came to work in democracy. one would imagine steve scalise will be out of action when it comes to working for

and while president donald john trump makes untenable pledge after pledge, i watched every word of his speech last night in iowa, and all i heard was platitudes. i didn't hear anything about substance. it seemed like a road test for some new ideas. he makes these untenable pledges, including a very humble promise to be, and i quote him, the greatest jobs producer that god ever created, unquote. the record is clear the democratic party is, has been, job ll be the party of creation and is ready to work with my republican colleagues to continue significant job creation in this country. so i'll ask my friends across the aisle, let us continue the trend of the past few years and work together to produce bipartisan measures that will benefit the american people. i urge a no vote on the rule and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida closes. the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. cole: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. speaker, waints to begin by addressing a couple of the points that my friend made. there will be

every airline ticket, and will some airports completely jack up the price to $100, making flying untenableor lower and middle income earners. >> that's a good point and a good question to raise. the cap is $4.50. the airport can only charge you $4.50 for you to use the airport. you can't run an airport on the revenues, there is a federal tax on the plane ticket as well that comes to washington, d.c., half of it gets lost here and the airports have to beg for that money back so they can do projects they know they need to do. now, in order to raise their cap in the bill that i've sponsored, they have to forego the grant money, and you'll see more competition among airports and airlines. right now the airports are captive of the airlines. kennedy: of course they're, it's completely overregulated and the free market doesn't have a chance. transportation secretary elaine chao has spoken about privatizing more airports. why not take it a step further and not only allow increase of the fee but allow airports to operate privately because the once around new york, they suck. >> well, you know, the

, even if the conservatives come in with a majority of 10, the prime minister's position will be untenableve to have a new leader. and i still think we will go to the polls within the year. jon: the clock is ticking. guy: we mentioned negotiations in the next few days. how will that work? phillip: it can't work, can it? nowe are in a situation with government to begin negotiations, how can we begin negotiions? the first thing we have to do is have longer time limits on article 50, which you cannot do. if we are in a situation where we are not in a position to begin brexit, or brexit talks, that is pressure for another general election. that is where we are headed. londont's bring our bureau chief. many questions surrounding this. let's start with a difficult one. is theresa may going to be able to sustain her position as the leader of the conservative party if this poll is in any way accurate? accurate, itl is is unlikely she would think her position is tenable. she called this election when she did not need to. she ran an extremely personal campaign, tight with the people advising her. th

the prime minister and a number of conservative mps are saying that her position is untenable.fer sta ble party is now the only party that can offer stable governments we are offering ourselves as a minority government to start brexit negotiations and starts to transform and rebuild our society. so what caused such a dramatic turnaround? looking back, the week of labour's ma nifesto looking back, the week of labour's manifesto launch played a crucial part, leaked in advance and containing domestic policies that connected. i was clearly wrong in feeling thatjeremy would not be able to do this well and i think he has proved me wrong and what people wrong. i take my hat off to him. the question of national leadership still hungover mr corbyn but here, again, there was a swing in opinion after theresa may's u—turn on the dementia tax. a change frightened by what people saw as passion and straight talking at a series of corbyn led rallies and during the final tv debate which mrs may declined tojoin. final tv debate which mrs may declined to join. people voted for hope. young people

he felt it was an untenable position. comey knew about those meetings, and he alluded to some information he had today during the open session that he wasn't at liberty to talk about in the open session, which we can probably assume he talked about in the closed section. if comey knew about it and knew he was going to recuse himself, people are asking tonight, did comey have something to do with it? that's eight question people are talking about. did the president think it was okay to talk to comey in private because of what happened in their first meeting? on january 6, comey was part of a 4-person contingent who went to trump tower to brief the president on his intelligence briefing. that group included james clapper, john brennan, mike rogers from the nsa. at the end of the meeting, comey said, mr. president, i need to talk to you in private. the other folks were ushered out of the room and they spoke privately. did the president who was a neophyte to politics and protocol think it was okay because comey set the preced

pretty untenable. the american people have spoken on this many times. they know that obamacare is failing, we have to do a better job communicating about what our alternative is and i should point out that if we do get legislation done, which i hope we will, it's not going to be complete in a sense that this is going to be an ongoing process. where using procedures here in the senate because the democrats won't work with us that narrow our options, but it's an important first step to stabilize these collapsing markets, to make some reforms so that premiums can come down and he put medicaid on a sustainable path. >> jon: senator rand paul said he spoke to the president about splitting the bill into it. one bill he suggests passing first including medicaid fix. the second might have this bending portion. what do you think about that? >> i'm not sure that the vote count actually works. i'm not sure that the repeal portions are themselves would allow us to get to the 50 votes we need and truly, there wouldn't be a single democrat voting for it. i'm glad tha

pretty untenable. >> jon: let's talk about it with paige winfield cunningham, sarah west what it is ourhite house correspondent from the "washington examiner," thank you both for being here. sarah, mitch mcconnell has put off the votes and he wants to get a plan in place by tomorrow that will send members home over the fourth of july recess, is that actually doable? is he just buying time? >> there are a lot of republicans who are doubtful that leadership can submit a new bill to the cbo by tomorrow, there are just too many objections that need to be reconciled between the moderate republicans who think the bill does too much to got obamacare regulations and the conservative republicans who think the bill doesn't go far enough in dismantling the regulatory framework of obamacare. there has to be some sort of middle path between those kinds of objections on the republican side to the obamacare repeal plan in the house, that sort of middle path was found eventually by house speaker paul ryan in the white house, but remember that that took more than a month, not the kind of timeline the se

trump knows although he would like to that it would be so politically untenable for him to do such a thing. he is advised by everyone in the inner circle and beyond not to do it. he has been sounding out dozens of people on the matter. what you are likely to see going forward is more of these tweets. more of an effort to gin up the base in the way they cast the investigation from the white house as a witch hunt. this is extremely helpful. the white house is quite pleased the way the base has been responding to the president's charge that this is just a bunch of nonsense that is led by people who they describe as conflicted. people who have ties to hillary clinton and who have given money to democrats. without saying anything about the legitimacy of the claims, they are powerful when it comes to donald trump's core supporters. donald trump has trafficked in grievance and notion he is being persecuted by a system that is rigged against him. right now, his supporters respond to that. >> the system rigged against him was the narrative on the campaign trail. let's ask about the event that

because the status quo where we are right now is untenable. isn't sustainable. doesn't work for patients. doesn't work for families. doesn't work for docs or employees or employers or state or federal government from financial standpoint. we have to move in a better direction. that is the challenge. reporter: lauren, only deadline if they only care about health care, is september 30th. in fact they care about a number of other things. tax reform, all of that. when i speak to people on the hill when would really somebody happen to health care, if something would happen, talking about the end of july. it slows down the whole agenda if that is true but they're talking about something end of july. there was a already that certain senators sent to mitch mcconnell today, the senate leader asking him to essentially do away with the august recess so they can get down to business. but as i said before, get up at 12:00, start to work at 1:00. hour for lunch. and then they are done. lauren: in the letter five imperatives to get done, health care, tags reform, you name it.

they -- they have been pushed by the national party into an untenable position. where they are compelled to oppose something that they're constituents get benefits from. it's not surprising the project is failing and this is how we get to the more productive conversation coronell yaerns to here. >> it's a perverse way to get around to it but you can see the point. this means the system is working because something bad is not being able to come out of that building behind you. >> that is absolutely right. and david, actually. are in accord on this surprisingly. but this is where we need partisanship aside. the politics is so broken, right. and i know brian, you don't want to get into this -- the weeds on this. but gerry man deering. it is hurting the democracy where you you have to play kate a base of voters and you have all the incumbent in safe republican or democratic districts and the poorlization becomes so increased it is hard more a democrat to reach across the aisle. i would argue even harder for a republican to reach across. because in the end this is --

he was being fired because he was fired and they went along with it, their positions are really untenabledoj. it would be the biggest scandal in the department's history. so what i think you see rosenstein doing is sending this public signal that will probably see him do at the hearing on wednesday and come up and say, look, i know you have questions whether i knew about this whether comey briefed me on his concerns whether i saw his memos. but because of this ongoing investigation, i'm just not able to answer. and that would be a dodge that really i think gets around congress's legitimate right to know his role in this story. >> i guess that is because obviously he was the author of this memo. does it matter if when he wrote up this memo, and he'd only been in office for a short time as acting as deputy toench, did he need to have known the firing was because of russiagate? are both of those two things scandalous? >> one is much worse than the other obviously. if he knew it was over russia, then that is much worse. that is a major scandal because it shows the deputy attorney general help

and in this climate, it seems pretty untenable to drop 22 million people from coverage. >> right, theblem for the republicans right now is that we are going to own the health care system regardless of what happens in the next week. if we don't pass anything it's our fault. if we pass something it's our fault. if anybody loses their health insurance. but that was the democrats' problem as well. you talk about premiums going up, the premiums went up over obamacare. obamacare is not a big success, it cost them elections as you well know. it cost mid term elections, cost potentially the presidential election. 2010 and 2014 and 2016. it's a big win for republicans and now the onus is on to deliver. that's the choice between the -- >> let me get you in. obamacare was never as popular as it became when republicans started messing with it. >> right. that's because obamacare was there to be a substantive policy. it had a coherent plan. there was a goal. >> was it sustainable? >> yes, absolutely. if we don't have the republicans sabotaging obamacare right now it would be in the peril overstated

it was the fact that it was sort of his misleading congress had built up to the point it was untenableeave the investigation. if he misled them again, there's a lot of political -- >> drutrust me. once there's a special counsel investigation, often the conduct during, what people say, when everyone has to lawyer up, this gets very, very complicated. everybody sit tight. up next you won't find republican senators on television calling james comey a liar. you might find them suggesting maybe the president deserves a little slack here because he's so new to government. if you have medicare parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what? you could apply for a medicare supplement insurance plan whenever you want. no enrollment window. no waiting to apply. that means now may be a great time to shop for an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. medicare doesn't cover everything. and like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, these help cover some of what medicare doesn't pay. so don't wait. call now to request your free decisi

their own colleagues can't know what's in the bill because they know it's politically untenable to supportine the kind of heart it's got is not the kind of heart american people need. >> noelle, you heard what jess said, no women are a part of this republican roundtable putting together this bill. i can't believe i'm asking this, don't you think a woman's voice would be important here? >> of course it's important. of course it is. and i am not agreeing with, you know, select senators on the republican party pushing through a bill in secrecy. i am totally against it. and you've even heard from people with the likes of rand paul and other senators saying that this is not the way to do it. so i don't think that overwhelmingly republicans are saying rah-rah, this is awesome, we have no minority representation, we have no women, we have no anything that's good in getting this together. but if you look at this as a greater good, this really is not a republican or a democrat issue. this is health care. this is something that we should naturally want to come together and get it done. we should put

administration will make an assertion of executive privilege, carol was discussing, i think that would be an untenablee fight but that doesn't rule it out as happening. second, of course it is going to be what does comey say if this testimony proceeds, how does he characterize the pressure that was put on him? there is some room for ambiguity here that he can clear up or not clear up. and third, how much does he decline to say because mull search investigating these things and he doesn't want to step on these, the special counsel investigation. i think you are going to see probably a division of opinion among republicans, and the question is going to be how many of them defense for this administration and are taking the president's line that this is -- that this entire investigation is essentially a kind of hoax, that his opponents have cooked up and how many of them are going to be entering it with an open mind, asking these questions, not necessarily prejudging that 43 has done something wrong, but not necessarily just in his corner at the same time. >> dickerson: carol i want in the last 45 second

that being said, i am horrified, as a woman who lives in texas, this is untenable.r legislature that just adjourned really did nothing to address it. >> well, you make that point, just adjourned, in fact the texas state legislature does not reconvene until 2019. that's extraordinary, it's so far off, the ability to fix things. what can be done to protect women in the meantime? >> it comes down the local level. this is where your nonprofits step in, this is where your city councils step in. there will be a special session this summer for the state, but not dealing with women's health issues. it really comes down to women themselves, their providers, and the community. because the state that meets every two years said, we're done. i think they extended a work committee in terms of researching the issues, but we can research a lot, and there's already been a study committee. what we need is actions, alex. >> okay. victoria di francesco, thank you for joining us. >>> destined for war. a new book claims the u.s. and china are on a path towards a military superpower showd