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joining me now is democratic senator ben cardin of maryland.hank you so much for being on with us. first of all, just your reaction to the delay. >> first, it's good to be with you. secondly, i think it does give more time for the american people to understand exactly what was in the republican bill. i do hope democrats and republicans can come together now and deal with the challenges that we have under the affordable care act. as has been pointed out, we want to get the premium costs down and there's ways we can do that in, increase subsidies for low income families, look at ways to have predictable fund sharing that has caused in my state the premium increase to be larger than they need to because they don't know if the payments will be made. >> we heart mitch mcconnell say the democrats are not interested in develop rating or working with the republicans. has there been reluctance on behalf of your party to work more closely with republicans on this issue? >> well, what we won't agree to, we're not going to agree to cuts in the medicaid pro

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cardin,us now is ben the senior member of the senate finance committee. , senatorto discuss cardin, theseng into effect at 8:00 p.m. this evening. should they be going into effect? senator cardin: no, they should not. i disagree with the way this is being implemented, particularly by the trumpions administration. they have already created confusion, and if you have a son to visit, ok, a wife, ok, a grandparent, no. what kind of evidence will be needed? the refugee program has been put on hold from these countries. i think that is a mistake and it will be counterproductive to keeping america safe, and certainly against our values. vonnie: nevertheless, the supreme court did, in fact, ruled that people without substantial to this -- ties to this country will not be allowed in. will this improve national security here? senator cardin: it know, i do not think it will. you are exactly right with -- no, i do not think it will. the regulations are tying it very tightly and requiring certain documentation, which could cause real confusion on those who want to come to america and have a reason to

i'll talk to democratic senator ben cardin. and our guests are standing by with full coverage of today's top stories. there's breaking news right now into the probe of russia's meddling. lawmakers will dig into proper financial ties and may acknowledge if the white house has done any meddling of its own for the investigation. what's the latest? >> tonight senate intelligence investigators are set to receive treasury department data, as you put it, to follow the money, to look for financial links that might exist between the president, his campaign and russia. this is at the same time as another senate committee, as it plans on its own to look into potential obstruction of justice at the highest level. tonight, cnn has learned that members of the senate intelligence committee have been promised access to banking records. the treasury department's financial crimes unit. >> unbelievable! >> reporter: the goal, to look for possible big money links between the trump campaign or trump himself and russian financiers. >> i have long fe

joining us now, ben cardin of maryland. senator, thank you for being with us. the score of the senate republican health care bill from the congressional budget. >> first, 21 million people losing their coverage. that's unacceptable. you'll be increasing dramatically the number of people who are and don't have the ability to pay for it. secondly rkts. there are going to be pom who. you're creating a system where a lot of patrolman going to be hurt. >> much of the coverage lost wasn't even included in this cbo report, the score, because some of the medicaid expansion phaseout occurred this year-year pieces of. what do you make of that? >> there are a lot of people who will lose their coverage but it's not in, quote, unquote, the scoring window so it doesn't come into effect on monday. >> john wants a vote this thursday. you're reaching up front. what's the. this is one-sixth of the economy. we need to know what we're doing. we need -- we should have a public hearing. we should allow the public to have an opportunity. my lines have lit up on people kag and some. t

and it turns out the claim was very very weak the whole thing amounted to two democrat senators ben cardin and elizabeth warren pushing for yet another probe they want another probe but that doesn't equal the senate intelligence committee and treasury department actually conducting a probe nor does that equal a connection between this find and the president's advise that these claims just aren't true they are nothing more than the democrats planting more stuff in the news to deal with it in my eyes trust presidency they are nothing but very very few and the reason i can say that confidently is because c.n.n. that is is that after the story was published and circulated and viewed by who knows how many people over the course of a day c.n.n. then retracted it and they put up an editor's note which says that the story did not meet the inn and that authorial standards and has been retracted they also noted that the link in the story were disabled and that they apologized to the advisor for publishing this piece of fate news about him so they admitted they had published the very feet news just l

senator brown and senator corker, and ben cardin, so i think that is a positive sign.le to build a bipartisan proposal that we think is very strong. kevin: what will it do? >> it is complicated, but it will codify existing sanctions in place and authorize, and in some cases require additional sanctions and other sectors. then it sets up a process of by which the president works with congress as sanctions are -- asd, and are sanctions a sanctions are proposed to be released. kevin: do you think this is an adequate response? crapo: this goes beyond that, it deals with the ukraine, cybersecurity, and other areas. i believe this is a strong reaction. it gives a strong tools to the president and involves the congress in this process at a higher level. kevin: is the white house on board with this? sen. crapo: i have not checked with them to see. kevin: and with the dodd frank bill, what is the timing when the senate committee will take up the dodd-frank regulations? we don't have a timeframe yet, but it is one of the top two priorities. we are calling it economic growth and

i spoke with ben cardin of maryland and he expresses hope for "common sense approach." >> we want tolicans to improve the affordable care act. what we hope is that we will not talk about repeal, what we will talk about his make it better. vonnie: joining us from to because, kansas is kathleen sebelius. thank you for joining. do you see any path forward for any kind of a compromise that also includes democrats and the seven or eight or perhaps more gop senators that do not like this senate bill? sec. sebelius: i think it is a great opportunity for the senate to come together and figure out exactly what they want to do. the house bill was more about tax cuts and dramatically changing the underlying medicaid program which has been in place for over 50 years. a lot of senators have said we don't want to do that. we don't want to take health care away from people and we really don't want to cut into the medicaid program where over 70 million americans -- 40% of our children, 10 million disabled adults and children, seniors in nursing homes, they rely on those services and every state in t

. >> senator ben cardin, democrat from maryland, thank you very. is it more likely this bill will pass after members go home for the july 4th weekend, after they go home for the weekend and they're home? i'll bring in two republican strategists. glen bulger. the firm is one of our partners on the msnbc poll and john boehner. i'm being pollyannish here in trying to bring both parties together. do republicans have to learn what the democrats learned, that a partisan bill is not going to have long routes in. >> after eight years of promising to repeal and replace obamacare, republicans owe it to their voters to try every means possible to get that done. senator mcconnell today bought himself a little more runway to try and get this thing off the ground. >> so let me go to what you have to do, glen, which is some of these people hire you to say, okay, i got to support this bill. i'm not crazy about it. how do you be an -- i mean, i pointed out i think the democrats set themselves up in 2010 because none of them wanted to defend it. it made it easier to

all, in terms of what fried and mol now ski were doing, they were going to allies on the hill, ben cardinccain, and there was legislation introduce on february 7 that would require congressional approval for the lifting of sanctions. that was introduced. but just remember what happened a week later, february 13th. mike flynn resigns. he resigns because of the blowup about his secret meetings with kislyak and misrepresenting the fact that he was talking about easing of sanctions. >> on this issue, right. >> on this very issue. so it became politically toxic. they couldn't move nearly as quickly as they wanted because of the firestorm that had developed about all this. but i should point out if you read the piece closely, i talk to a senior white house official today about this, making clear there is still an ongoing policy review about sanctions. >> right. >> these options are still on the table. >> all right. michael isikoff, thanks for your time tonight. appreciate it. >>> still to come, did vladimir putin just admit something president trump spent months deny something i'll explain ahea

senator ben cardin, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >>> joining me now josh ernst who served under president obama from 2014 to 2017. i was thinking about president obama's reaction to these sorts of things. often he would get criticism for being too calm. there was a sense in the midst of crisis, chaos, attacks, ebola i remember he was being too calm, he wasn't showing this sense of urgency. this president takes it seems to me a 180-degree different approach. what are the richks of that? >> well, chris, the risks are significant. there was a process that was in place when i worked in the white house to make sure that the president was getting good information from his top national security advisers when there's a terror incident somewhere around the world. the president's top terrorism adviser would come in and brief him on the details. we would make public the president had been briefed. figure out what we could convey to the american public and the world what exactly the united states government was doing to respond to this particular incident. oftentimes that would

we also have ben cardin and angus king.we'll give you takes on where your health care is going to wind up. >>> president trump's long-time confidant roger stone set to testify before a house panel in a closed-door hearing next month about russia's election interference. the news comes just one day after hillary clinton's former campaign chairman john podesta was grilled by the same committee. cnn's joe johns is live at the white house with more. what can you tell us? >> reporter: clarissa, the significance of this is that house investigators are digging down into one of the big mysteries of russian interference in the 2016 election. whether roger stone, a long-time ally and confidant of president trump was somehow forewarned that damaging information was about to come out about the hillary clinton campaign, including the e-mails of hillary clinton's campaign chairman, john podesta. roger stone, what he's saying is he's denying knowledge that this information was going to come out, even though he did have some online twitter

lindsey graham and senator ben cardin for more russian sanctions. cow and how they will be punished. you have a growing call, not just by people like senator graham and senator cardin. i spoke with mark meadows, who was also concerned about the russian meddling. kevin cirilli, thank you so much. a terrific brief. how well-timed is this? us, fromse joins "forbes" magazine. we have to rip up the script. unraveling in washington, when you have an nsa leaker? with the scope of the hacking, and all of the other soap opera as well. is it your process that things are unraveling? theon: first, thanks for blessing to serve your agenda. that is a quote from a cabinet meeting yesterday. tom: were you giving me the full vice president answer? gideon: that was the previous quote. "thank you for the opportunity to serve your agenda." of this stuff -- my initial reaction to it, all of the stuff you are saying, is inconceivable. longertrump era, we no know what that word means. the commentary of what constitutes crisis or something out of the ordinary out -- of thes

democratic senator ben cardin and republican senator lindsey graham hastily introduced bipartisan legislation to prevent the trump administration from unilaterally removing those sanctions. but the administration's momentum on removing sanctions suddenly stalled a few days later when the president was forced to fire national security adviser michael flynn. michael isikoff's reporting adds a possible dimension to an earlier breaking news report tonight from "the washington post" which revealed that the white house and a russian state-owned bank have very different explanations for why the bank's chief executive and jared kushner held a secret meeting during the presidential transition in september. the bank maintained this week that the session was held as part of a new business strategy and was conducted with kushner in his role as the head of his family's real estate business. the white house says that the meeting was unrelated to business and was one of many diplomatic encounters the soon to be presidential adviser was holding ahead of donald trump's inauguration. sergey gorkov is the head

sna senator ben cardin, thank you for sharing your views. joining me now, michael mcfall, an msnbc russian affairs contributor. always good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> i have you on to be the putin whisperer for us. so there are things putin says and there are things -- >> you don't want no talk about the maryland property? it is a very nice property. i've been there. i understand why ambassador kislyak wants it back. >> fair enough. fair enough. it feels like it has been used in the scene of the americans. but i digress here. putin was very careful in responding to the question. he said all you have is allegations and conclusions based on allegations. you don't have facts. but he didn't provide any facts to dispute the allegations. how should this be interpreted? >> you know, we should believe our own intelligence community. we don't need to believe putin for what he did to us. you can't see these things in the cyber world. our intelligence community came together to say this happened and he is being flippant, i think he is bein

here ears what senator ben cardin told me about those cuts to medicaid. >> i think it would be devastating because rural people are vulnerable. they don't have the population. they have a large number of medicaid population. they have medicare. it will be very bad. >> i've been talking to hospital administrators in rural counties over the past couple days. they point out that obamacare was the lifeline for many hospitals because they operate on very small profit margins or not profit at all and when the number of paying customers goes up, people with insurance, it's critical to their bottom line, that's what's happened under obamacare. they got more money, fewer people coming into e.r.s and not paying. >> you showed us alaska, maine and nevada. those senators are on the fence about this, if this medicaid money goes away in whar form a health bill can take place, what does it mean for hospitals? >> that was one of the thing the hospital administrators i talked to wanted to emphasize. they say there's a chance they could be forced to close and sometimes those hospitals are the number-one or

because there is reporting that you went to senator ben cardin to try to do something about it, to tryould impact the ability to do this. is that correct, and can you detail what you did for us? >> well, i have enormous respect for senator cardin. i did not meet with him after the change of administration, but it is true that i was in regular contact with congressional staff. and although i never have lobbied them, i did feel obligated to share what i knew. and officials in the executive branch regularly are asked and offer to work with the congress. and i take that seriously. we should be working with the congress. that doesn't mean that we don't -- that we share everything or that we agree. >> sure. >> but i think it was important on the issue of sanctions to work in both a bipartisan way, which i did during the administration, and to work across the branches of government, which i also did, yes. >> would it be a fair interpretation -- because at the time, you were under the employ of the state department, you were a u.s. government employee. >> quite right. >> would it be a fair int

ben cardin says the travel ban, which goes into effect at 8:00 ushering 10 time tonight, is a reflectandamerican values. the senator discussed it with bloomberg television. senator cardin: i'm joining with senator feinstein in a letter to the administration to ask them for more common sense methods. we hope the court will hear the case shortly and clarify this, making it clear that america will not impose a religious test as to who can come to the country. mark: senator cardin added he would like to work with republican lawmakers to improve the affordable care law to focus on making it better, not on repeal. toudge has been appointed lead an investigation into the london high-rise fire that killed at least 80 people. he will examine the start of the fire, its rapid development, and future prevention. >> the inquiry is going to be independent. it is essential we hear from anyone who has information who might have bearing on the task i have to report. residentseting with and local people, it's quite clear many of them will have evidence to give that will be of great value to the inquiry. m

legislation that talks about -- or the criminality of the regime on the senate side was initiated by ben cardin and co-sponsored by marco rubio. this is an area where people on capitol hill have gotten smart about this issue, have gotten engaged in this issue and went across party lines without second thought because precisely they know it's a crisis and they know it's something that we're confronting. this is a great opportunity for the trump administration. >> i think so. >> to jump on this or to take "yes" for an answer. >> any dissenting views? i would doubt it. so let's just get through -- this is an interesting question. i don't know if anyone would be prepared to speak to it. but what role do international banks play in illicit finance and does regulation need to be addressed? i'm not a banking expert. does anybody have views on this? >> clearly the u.s. banking system is one of the biggest laundering centers in the world and we don't do much of -- they're not too bothered about doing good diligence of customers and things like that. i think that's an enormous part and that coupled with

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president, i'm glad to be down here with ranking member senator ben cardin from maryland. i want to thank him and his staff for working until 10:20 last night to complete negotiations on a russia amendment. i want to thank senator crapo and his staff and senator brown and his staff for the work that they did on the sanctions component where over the last five months they've worked with our counterparts over the world to make sure that what we did in this piece of legislation was something that was workable. but truly i think a great effort by four different offices. i'm glad that cloture has been filed on that amendment. i understand we're going to vote on it tomorrow at 2:00. i'm going to be very brief because i know senator cardin, we're down here together, i know he wants to make some comments about this. but let me just give a brief summary if i could. the amendment enhances congress' role in determining sanctions policy on russia. it provides for the president to use a national security waiver or sanctions termination after giving congress 30 days to review the propos

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