before. joining us now is congresswoman lauren underwood. she's a registered nurse. she's a newly elected member of congress. she's a democrat from illinois. she ran strongly on support for the affordable care act. congresswoman underwood, it's a real pleasure to have you with us here. thanks for making time for us tonight. >> thank you so much. >> you are one of the new members of congress who ran ex-bless italy on strengthening and saving obamacare. last year before you were sworn in there was this federal judge in texas who struck down the affordable care act. that ruling was appealed. now the justice department is agreeing with that texas judge. what's your reaction to this move by the trump administration and how serious do you think it is? >> i think that the trump administration just can't take a hint. you are absolutely correct, rachel, in that the american people clearly spoke in the november elections when they sent me and my colleagues here to protect our health...

first-term democratic congressman lauren underwood, who ran very strongly on the issue of health care, who flipped a district from red to blue and became a freshman member of congress. she's going to be joining us later on this hour to talk about that decision by the trump administration and what it means going forward, what's going to happen here in washington from here on out. >>> also today with a vote in the house that failed to override trump's first presidential veto, the trump administration also signalled that they plan to proceed with plans to take away money from the u.s. military to instead pay for president trump's wall between the u.s. and mexico. that said, the democratic chairman of the armed services committee in the house, congressman adam smith, today denied a request to take funds that congress had appropriated to the army for other purposes to instead spend those monies on a wall, which means in addition to all the states and other entities that are suing...