abby phillip is with us, patrick healey and matt lewis.ight, so spicer is saying, truly, that because there were quotes used, patrick healey, that does not mean that we should take it literally. he had a long exchange with peter alexander of nbc about what we should take literally or not. let's just show a tweet sans quote, for a moment, because the president did not use oquotatio marks in this one. "how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. this is nixon watergate, bad or sick guy." all right, so spicer's explanation doesn't hold up there. >> no, i don't see any air quotes in that tweet. i mean, he -- you know, president trump has been using twitter for years to communicate. he thinks to communicate quite effectively and directly to voters and americans. he was not, as near as we can tell, suggesting this was an iffy proposition. he had a clear accusation to make about wiretapping. he had a clear hit to make in calling president obama a bad or sick guy. what he didn't have was any kind of e

jason johnson, abby phillip, david gregory. tive what is the issue with flynn. it's not so much where he was and what he was doing. it's about disclosure right? >> yeah and it's about a pattern of not entirely being forth coming about his activities both during the campaign and the transition. there's a lot of questions about whether he communicated about these things to the campaign. we learned a couple of days agatha he did tell the campaign that he was lobbying for example on behalf of the turkish government during the campaign and despite the sort of plausible deniability from the white house on this michael flynn has been one of the few trump aids to have the most unexplained connections to either russian officials, russian companies and so on and so forth and the white house is having a little bit of a hard time explaining why that didn't become more of a part of a vetting process and the more senior national security positions in our government. he had access to a lot of classified information throughout that process. it'

panel now to talk about this, david drucker, senior correspondent for the washington examiner, and abby phillipssuppose there's a within why this is under lock and key, tell us why? >> partly because it's not done yet and partly because all of these little successive leaks are proving to be big problems for republican leadership and for the white house. they want to basically get the frame work together, finish it and then have people talk about it and pick it apart. but rand paul does not like that idea and does not like that version of legislating, he's concerned that republicans are creating perhaps a tax credit that he is opposed so, similar to obamacare, just so subsidize insurance for some is -- >> you're not getting rid of the crux of obamacare. >> guess what i don't think they're going to get rid of the crux of obamacare, other than the mandate. they're going to keep based on preexisting conditions, and keep kids allowed op their parents' insurance until 26 years old. part of it is a really good stunt on rand paul's part. but when they're ready they're going to have to make it a couple o

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let's bring in analyst david gregory and reporter abby phillip and julia icahn. the president of the united states weighing in on someone involved in the investigation. seeking immunity. i'm not sure i have seen anything like that. >> there is a lot we have not seen like predonald trump who ss to take this is as a joke and proceeded by members of the white house staff who had no business leaking the information. it raises question of who is in control. the white house chief of staff or national security adviser ors white house counsel. who has control or whether there is open season to investigate the leaking that was going on which is trouble some and the president is so upset about. the fact that the president keeps considering this a joke, although he has fired two people close to him. senior advisers as a result of this, seems hard to reconcile. >> juliette, how do you see this? >> i think the way david put it is exactly right. the more the white house views this as a joke, i think it under mines any narrative to defend them selves. you look at the activity l

. >> with us, abby phillips, ron brownstein and mary katherine. it is day 69 of the presidency. the republican president frustrated by an embarrassment in the obamacare defeat. the freedom caucus will hurt the entire republican agenda if they don't get on the team and fast the president tweeted this morning. we must fight them and dems in 2018. the president's remarkable threat geagainst republicans -- speaking to cbs this morning paul ryan warned bickering republicans a president look for a win might wander way to the left. >> what i worry about is that if we don't do this, then he'll just go work with democrats to try and change obamacare. that's hardly a conservative thing. >> the president of the united states saying he's going to work with democrats on this. >> i know. i don't want that. i don't want government running health care. >> a lot of fun if you like politics. number one i think by tweeting this this morning the president doesn't want us to talk about russia. we will. we have an hour. we will get to that. number two, how much of this is a game? the president workin

. >>> joining me now to discuss, abby phillips of the "washington post" and of the "new york times," alex burns is here as well. alex, what is a republican governor like asa hutchinson to do? many people in his state have taken advantage of this medicaid expansion under obamacare. they know that's a huge problem if the cost of that gets dumped on the states. what do they do? >> yeah, someone like asa hutchinson is in one of the toughest positions out there because, you know, what the republican congress is proposing is not just to yank away health insurance from everyone on medicaid immediately. but to sort of gradually and then abruptly reduce the amount of money states get in order to service that population. and so he's describing it as a cost shift. it's also a shift of political pain away from the republican congress so they don't have to wait to see they're all off their health care now and putting the burd own someone luke asa hutchinson to say over a period of time we're going to give you less and less. that's a politically clever thing for congress to do. for republican gove

let's discuss with abby phillips, cnn political analyst and "washington post" reporter and kathy ownveich, political columnist for the "des moines register." great to have you back. steve king, often on the show, likes to mix it up and be provocative, but this was a real head scratcher. he paused when i asked him whether or not, whether if you're a christian american, muslim american, jewish american, whatever american that we're all the same. he paused and he seemed to want to make a point about how everybody kind of contributes in their own way and certain people don't teach the right things and certain communities and i just didn't get it. how does that play back home? >> well, you know, steve king is well-known to iowans. and he is well known for saying outrageous things. and he regularly wins re-election with 60% of the vote. he said something similar about this whole western civilization and protecting western civilization last year during the republican national convention. made national news for it. and it does not affect him during his re-election campaigns. the governor of

. >> abby phillip, even if nunes stays as the chair of the committee, even if they resume these committeeshey likely will, and hear from all of these individuals they've called in, at what point do they lose complete credibility in their findings among the american people after all of this, what truly has become a circus? >> well, it just really depends on who you ask. i mean, i think all of this happening right now is probably not penetrating particularly far right now. it's very complicated. it's a little bit confusing, and i wouldn't blame anybody from being confused because it seems like every day the story is changing from devin nunes, from the white house, et cetera. so, if they are able to come up with a conclusion, if there is integrity in the process, i think that is likely to be respected, but if there continues to be this confusion and what seems like interference from the people who are being investigated, that is going to undermine this entire process. and beyond that, i mean, the white house is not really enamored with this investigation to begin with, but they also have a lo

phillip thank you. >> >> (clapping.) >> good evening my name is abby two daughters currently in attention grattan elementary school the community members throughout the district are coming to us in challenging wakes from violence against the teachers we have a lot to deal with and appreciate the board working hard, however, the situation at the grattan is not one the issues you've heard loud and clear the community wants the teacher back a teacher to be honored and i do not like in the district but instead dragged through the mud and treated unfairly you can put this our hands are not tied the district has put countless tools to be used in situations like this i beg you to work with our school community it together to use the tools to figure out a way for phillip to come back let's support the restorative practices that have been been go forward let's acknowledge the relationships are - let's gave me in collaborative problem solving instead of saying you're hands are tied or we'll do better you how about the modeling behaviors and do better a child will not be expelled from school with no justifiable cause

phillip thank you. >> >> (clapping.) >> good evening my name is abby two daughters currently in attention grattan elementary school the community members throughout the district are coming to us in challenging wakes from violence against the teachers we have a lot to deal with and appreciate the board working hard, however, the situation at the grattan is not one the issues you've heard loud and clear the community wants the teacher back a teacher to be honored and i do not like in the district but instead dragged through the mud and treated unfairly you can put this our hands are not tied the district has put countless tools to be used in situations like this i beg you to work with our school community it together to use the tools to figure out a way for phillip to come back let's support the restorative practices that have been been go forward let's acknowledge the relationships are - let's gave me in collaborative problem solving instead of saying you're hands are tied or we'll do better you how about the modeling behaviors and do better a child will not be expelled from school with no justifiable cause

phillip thank you. >> >> (clapping.) >> good evening my name is abby two daughters currently in attention grattan elementary school the community members throughout the district are coming to us in challenging wakes from violence against the teachers we have a lot to deal with and appreciate the board working hard, however, the situation at the grattan is not one the issues you've heard loud and clear the community wants the teacher back a teacher to be honored and i do not like in the district but instead dragged through the mud and treated unfairly you can put this our hands are not tied the district has put countless tools to be used in situations like this i beg you to work with our school community it together to use the tools to figure out a way for phillip to come back let's support the restorative practices that have been been go forward let's acknowledge the relationships are - let's gave me in collaborative problem solving instead of saying you're hands are tied or we'll do better you how about the modeling behaviors and do better a child will not be expelled from school with no justifiable cause