let me bring in steny hoyer. it's always good to see you.e president said was that now -- not only did he blame the democrats, he said we should let obama care fail and then the democrats will be coming to us. >> first of all, it's absurd on its face to blame democrats. they control the house, the senate and the presidency. and they provided for a process whereby only republicans had to vote for their bill. and they can't get their own party to support it, it's just absurd to blame democrats. republicans are wholly responsible for the position we find ourselves in today. and then the president saying that he's going to allow obama care to fail, first of all, obama care, the affordable care act is not failing, it's succeeding. and millions and millions of people are being advantaged by that. >> i don't think you deny that your own constituents, people i talked to around the country are nervous about what's going to happen about health care, they have been hearing for months now something's going to happen, something's going to change. they do

steny hoyer had the filet knife out on the last segment a little bit.m, but they don't have any policy alternatives to increase productivity. so we've got some good policies to incentivize business and get this economy revved up and the market is already up on just the expectations of that announcement so hopefully we get that momentum going right now. >> do you think that the president got anywhere yesterday? i guess if he got anywhere, it would have to be -- i don't know if he's trying to get anywhere with the straight repeal we heard -- you know, we heard from -- anecdotally that there's not even 40 there so i guess he's back to repeal and replace, which is what he wanted to do in the first place. do you think that -- what does that have as far as chances go right now, 10% of being back on track? >> i think a little higher than that when the president puts on the full sales mode, he's pretty good, so he came over to the house and met with us individually and said, hey, what do we have to do to get this done i heard mike lee on some of the shows this

steny hoyer, and also the republican leader, kevin mccarthy, on this legislation and thank them. mr. hoyer: if the gentleman will yield? frankly, all four of u yourself, your leadership, mr. engel, the majority leader and i were primpled to work together in -- privileged to work together in a way, as i said at the beginning, was constructive and i think has resulted in a very good product. i thank the gentleman. mr. royce: thank you. mr. speaker, i'd like to yield to the ntleman from texas, mr. pete sessions, he's the chairman of the rules committee, for the purpose of a colloquy. mr. sessions: i want to thank the chairman for yielding. i rise to applaud him for the hard work and the responsible actions that the chairman has taken, not only to ensure this piece of legislation is prared but bettered and ready to go back to the senate. i think we have a forceful sanctions bill that is before the house today and one that targets not only iran and russia but also the north korean regime. as you know, the bill that was passed by the senate risks giving russian energy firms a competitiv

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in consultation with and with the agreement of the leaders of our armed forces. >> congressman steny hoyer, appreciate your time. thank you so much. >>> i want to bring in dana bash. dana, try to get to a lot of topics with congressman hoyer there. one of the things he said and i want to get your take on. in his 30 plus years he has been in washington, a few administrations, he's never seen this amount of disarray, infighting he has seen in the white house. what is reince priebus to do? >> where do we start? i think he could have said in my 30 years i have never seen disarray and fighting like the last 48 hours. the way you led your program, kate. talking about the idea that jeff sessions, his attorney general is so beleaguered because, as your friend john berman says, the president did the beleaguering. >> yeah. >> he's going after him, trolling him, attacking him in public. now you have a revolt against the president from jeff sessions' former colleagues in the senate saying clearly, cut it out. you know what? we are the people in charge of confirming. we are not going to do anything to

steny hoyer, and also the republican leader, kevin mccarthy, on this legislation and thank them. mr. hoyer: if the gentleman will yield? frankly, all four of us, yourself, your leadership, mr. engel, the majority leader and i were primpled to work together in -- privileged to work together in a way, as i said at the beginning, was constructive and i think has resulted in a very good product. i thank the gentleman. mr. royce: thank you. mr. speaker, i'd like to yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. pete sessions, he's the chairman of the rules committee, for the purpose of a colloquy. mr. sessions: i want to thank the chairman for yielding. i rise to applaud him for the hard work and the responsible actions that the chairman has taken, not only to ensure this piece of legislation is prepared but bettered and ready to go back to the senate. i think we have a forceful sanctions bill that is before the house today and one that targets not only iran and russia but also the north korean regime. as you know, the bill that was passed by the senate risks giving russian energy firms a comp

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. >> joining me, house minority whip and maryland democrat, steny hoyer.dent seems to appreciate the fact of how complex the idea of repeal and replacing obamacare is. having said that, how are you feeling? are you concerned at all as someone that's been very vocal in your support of obamacare and the need to stop some of these big changes that the republicans have been calling for, that they won't be able to get a bill through. how confident are you? >> well, i'm confident that if they get a bill through, that needle they're going to thread that the president refers to is not going to be a pretty one for them and a lot of americans are going to be very, very upset. the reason they've had so much trouble is the american public are not with them. the american public are substantially for the affordable care act now, which is a change from 8 months ago. they've looked at what the affordable care act gives them, what they would lose under the republican proposals, and they decided they want to stick with the affordable care act. 75% of them say look, fix the

house minority whip steny hoyer talked about that with my colleague chris jansing moments ago. >> sithe table with us, and come to the table. they don't have the votes, so what we need to do does come together in a bipartisan way to make sure that the americans have what the president told them he was going to get them. and the bills he supported have done nothing of the sort he said, he said he was going to have everybody have insurance. it was going to be cheaper and it was going to be higher quality. the cbo says none of the bills the president supported will do that. >> sorry to interrupt steny hoyer, we're going to mitch mcconnell who's taking questions from reporters. >> repealing obama care, the same vote we had in 2015, i'll remind everyone that in that proposal, there's a two-year delay. a two-year delay which would give us the opportunity to work out a complete replacement on a bipartisan basis, with our democratic friends. that's a vote i think we're very likely to have in the near future. >>. >> we got a sense of what the future might look like, we were unsuccessful in rep

as i did, the best thing to do would be for the house to pass my bill which by the way she and steny hoyer, our whip, are also co-sponsors of my bill. >> congressman, isn't there a time sensitivity issue here because of concerns that the trump administration could give back the seized two russian diplomatic compounds. if time really soft the elements, that there may be changes to the majinsky act rules or other sanctions, done you believe the current rules that would allow the senate to ring forth a motion of disapproval, that there are assurances that should the trump team want to lift sanctions there would be a move to disapprove? why is it so important for house democrats to be able to bring ares. lougs of disapproval? >> well, because we feel that something of this important is very important for everyone participate in it. there are lots of, you know, i don't want to start negotiating in the press but there are lots of corp. mieses if we're serious about it that can be had. if we're not serious about it, then we could, you know, in it mick it to death and you know, impugn our motives

steny hoyer, he actually guided the democratic caucus not to be too enthusiastically against kate's lawsiastically against this in the first place? what is controversial about a bill saying illegal immigrants convicted of a crime and coming back in will face a prison sentence. if this isn't unanimous and sent to president trump. it's basically the democrats saying they are okay with criminal dangerous illegal immigrants being in this country because if they do anything about them, then that could hurt the other illegal immigrants who haven't hurt anybody. it's outrageous. david: i happen to love el salvador, i have been there many times. but this immigrant in this country illegally who had been convicted of a crime who was award by the city of san francisco, $190,000. because he was arrested for breaking the law. apparently getting arrested for breaking the law if you are an illegal immigrant gets you $190,000. >> i'm here in a sanctuary city. philadelphia. and they are proud of it here. the point is democrats will vote against this. it doesn't matter what the rationale is. and mitch mc

i want to thank my friend, the distinguished minority whip, steny hoyer, for taking the lead on this measure and all our colleagues in the district of columbia delegations for supporting it in such a strong bipartisan and cross-potomac river fashion. i did want to take a moment to say a word about the metro system. wmata is not just the metro that serves the washington area. it is truly america's metro system. it's the second largest system in the nation, behind only new york city, it's 117 miles long, it has 91 stations and includes more than 12,000 employees. it's critical to the function og they have federal government because it moves more than 40% of the federal work force every day. to and from work. and also during the day for various missions that people go on during the normal work day. it is essential to national security. if we didn't have the metro system what is already one of the most traffic plagued and congested regions in the country would be absolutely paralyzed. it's also the mechanism that moves millions of americans who come from all over the united states. all o

steny hoyer will be joining us we will talk with him. david walker will be joining us.e have fresh gdp data at 8:230 you guys have not been talking a lot about the mooch. >> we haven't. it's a great point to bring up there's so much other stuff to talk about with earnings >> i know. >> i do think it was interesting that it actually did enter wall street research note overnight ubs, paul donovan wrote the combination of the infighting at the executive branch with this rhetoric on top of legislative failure could be interpreted negatively by the markets. he was pointing to currencies. >> she always nerds out on this. i love it. >> of course always a currency connection >> you spoke to the mooch earlier in the week. >> i did i talked to him on monday. >> was he polite did he use expletives? >> how much profanity? >> not too much. >> even for a calm conversation, there was a little, was there? >> i'm sure there was probably a little bit the most interesting part is how much he truly -- it's not a put on he loves the president it's -- his loyal -- he does have that sense of

i had met with a variety of en, steny hoyer, cory booker, and senator van hollen.ave done work in lobbying and sharing my story. the skinny repeal of the affordable care act would eliminate the employer mandate and would eliminate the individual mandate as well and medicacal tax a tax on medical devices as a means of getting the aca. this means 16 million people will lose their health insurance and severe cuts to medicaid may still be on the table in the senate. that is what i most fearful of, that 14% of medicaid recipients are people with disabilities. we will literally die as a result of this legislation. and caring for your fellow man does not mean eliminating access to health care. amy: stephanie woodward, you have been arrested now several times. is that right? protesting this bill. theyou talk about organizing that is going on with so many people using wheelchairs being arrested around the country, and particularly, your last arrest was at the hart office building? >> absolututely. on tuesdayest was when they were voting for a motion to proceed. i was arrest

on bipartisan commissions before, whether it was to fix voting machines across the nation with steny hoyerher it is to serve on an international -- >> listen, you're not going to get any argument from me on that. bipartisan would be excellent. it's my understanding only the state of arkansas has submitted this kind of information that has been requested and there are a number of states that have said we're not going there. >> well, look, information that we asked for in general is public information. we were asking that it be forwarded to the commission to expedite our work. we can get the information because it's publicly available. we wanted to expedite. but look, let me just tell you something. one of the things -- and we really have to work on this. these new contraptions, this new technology that captures voice commands and has a lot of information on individuals can be monetized and put their security, their identification, whether it's for voting or their financial situation at risk. we need to work cooperatively across jurisdictions to make sure that we protect the jurisdictional r

i want to bring in the house minority whip, congressman steny hoyer.et's start with health care if we can, congressman. obviously it's not just mitch mcconnell under pressure. he's putting pressure on his members. the white house, the president putting pressure on their members. what's your sense there on the ground? can mitch mcconnell hold on to his votes? >> i don't think so. one update that i've had that i think kasie said that portman said he was undecided, portman is being reported by the "national journal" as saying he's no on the motion to proceed and no on the bill as it stands. i'm not surprised at that. the changes that senator mcconnell has made still put at substantial risk millions of people in terms of their health care coverage. it doesn't -- it puts at risk pre-existing conditions being covered. it puts at risk a lifetime in annual limits maybe reinstated. as kasie pointed out, this cruz/lee al tern goi-o-i-n-g to lead to people who have any kind of an illness to only have very high cost alternatives available to them. >> so you're fee

. >> joining us now is the number two democrat in the house, house majority whip steny hoyer of the stateland. we have to start with the breaking news, pentagon confirming -- your reaction, sir? >> i think it makes more dramatic and more important that we act soon. we just passed a very substantial sanctions bill. i agree with jane harman, the previous guest you had, clearly it's much more difficult with north korea, but i think it's also going to be more compelling for china and russia and japan and south korea and the entire asian pacific region to join together to put as much possible pressure on north korea to reverse its path. if it doesn't, i think it's a very, very dangerous future that we look forward to. >> congressman, we're going to at least -- that's more by bart san than the issue we just came out of. earlier we talked to republican representative from oklahoma. let me play a little of what he said about the next steps there -- i'll just tell you what he said. he said now it's really up to democrats to come forward and say these are the places we can work together and fix it.

the legislation will head to the house floor sometime next week, this according to steny hoyer.et's bring in andrea mitchell. thank you for joining us from aspen, colorado. what do you think this means, this deal, and will the president sign off to more russia sanctions? >> reporter: i believe that this deal is a real breakthrough. it's the first time we've seen bipartisan compromise, both from the democrats and the republicans, but we know that the senators were also involved. so this is a house engineered compromise. what they did here was add north korean sanctions to the mix. they already had russia sanctions and iran. the hangup initially from the white house perspective was they didn't think it gave the president enough authority. so we're speculating here. this deal has just come through. we don't know that the president will sign on, but the leadership was involved, kevin mccarthy, on the republican house side and bob corker from the senate. so the republicans on capitol hill are now sending a very strong signal to the white house they want these sanctions, they want rus

the other thing i had pleasure of serving on steny hoyer, bob nay, hava commission that pushed machines out, dollars out for the machines. it was pretty, extensive study. when they looked at probably has not changed. what has changed the technology has rapidly changed. probably a need for us, there is a need for states to be competitive for new injection of cash to buy these machines or update technology. but i would think that, get ahold of that last hava study, get is to us. there is interesting reading. there is boring stuff in it but pretty interesting things we don't have to reinvent the wheel and we have a baseline where we start from. given i think, that this is a essentially an organization orientation meeting, i know this is a little shorter, i would suggest that we either, the third week or near end of august or the second week past labor day of september be the next, the next meeting. i don't care if it is in washington or alaska again but the reality is that i think that one of those weeks, last week in august, or second week in september would be good jumping off point give

. >> now i will turn to whip steny hoyer. >> thank you very much. i apologize for what is going on today but i do not think anything more important is going anything -- i do not think there is anything more important going on then what is happening in the senate to fix the affordable care act which i pretty strongly this morning, on tv, i have seen it is working. it,e would not destroy which is what you are saying and done, want to take you for testifying in our review is hearing some months ago. inherent inyou for front of commissioner, thank you for your work. you know, leader pelosi yesterday in our leadership in the pointed out mcconnell bill, two alternatives, ey said forth how to stabilize the market for the next two years as it was part of that phasing out. in, all of the things they mentioned they know full well what they are doing. they know full well how to stabilize the market. it is not working in some places. gary, as you pointed out, it was not working before the aca. we know how to fix that. it would be costly because the market when

steny hoyer, and also the republican leader, kevin mccarthy, on this legislation and thank them. mr. hoyer: if the gentleman will yield? frankly, all four of us, yourself, your leadership, mr. engel, the majority leader and i were primpled to work together in -- privileged to work together in a way, as i said at the beginning, was constructive and i think has resulted in a very good product. i thank the gentleman. mr. royce: thank you. mr. speaker, i'd like to yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. pete sessions, he's the chairman of the rules committee, for the purpose of a colloquy. mr. sessions: i want to thank the chairman for yielding. i rise to applaud him for the hard work and the responsible actions that the chairman has taken, not only to ensure this piece of legislation is prepared but bettered and ready to go back to the senate. i think we have a forceful sanctions bill that is before the house today and one that targets not only iran and russia but also the north korean regime. as you know, the bill that was passed by the senate risks giving russian energy firms a comp

i want to thank paul ryan and kevin mccarthy, steny hoyer and nancy pelosi, leadership on both sides of the aisle for making it possible to bring this bill to the floor. we introduced it last thursday, and we're voting on it tonight. and wonders of wonleders, the senate's probably going to vote on it tomorrow and there's a chance the president will sign it this week. we are showing the american people that we can work together for a noble cause, as has already been pointed out. officers bailey and griner both at risk to their own lives defended the members, staff and volunteers at that baseball practice, on june 14. i watched officer bailey run past me directly at the shooter, risking his life and two other alexandria police officers who had arrived on the scene assisted him. officer griner was wounded, but was giving covering fire and that's when they brought down the shooter. . they are heroes. they have sustained injuries. they deserve some assistance. the american people have nated probably $600,000 or $700,000 to provide some assistance, and this technical change in the existing