discuss the latest developments on russia with republican senator john thune and democratic senator ben cardin. plus, the presidents legislative goals are stalled as repeal and replace creates a logjam in congress. we will ask our sunday panel if senate republicans can bring their health care bill back from the dead. all right now on "fox news sunday" ." and hello again from fox news in washington. president trump has hit the six month mark with his push to repeal and replace obamacare stalled in the senate and investigations were expanding o possible links with the russians. wondering whether the president has decided to shake up his staff. joining me now is the new white house communications director anthony scaramucci. welcome to "fox news sunday." >> anthony: it's great to be here, thank you, good morning. >> chris: let's talk about how you see your new job. here's what you had to say on friday. >> i think there has been at times a disconnect between where you see the president and how much we love the president and the way some of perhaps some of you see the president. >> chris: how do yo

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that man, ben cardin of maryland, joins us now. senator, thank you so much for being with us. all the talk over the last few days is with this new notion we heard from ben sass, we heard it from the president, on twitter, saying that maybe what should happen here is that the republicans should vote to repeal first and then replace a year or so down the line. what do you make of that? >> that would be terribly irresponsible, at least such uncertainty in the insurance marketplace that it will cause chaos and cause a lot of people to lose affordable coverage. look, we want to improve the affordable care act, not repeal it, improve it. deal with the cost issues of the cost of premiums or the cost of health care. i hope democrats and republicans can work together in a way that we can provide more coverage to people and better quality coverage at a more affordable cost. >> do you hope they can work together? one criticism we're getting from republicans now is, look, democrats won't even talk to us, they won't help us craft something. >> just not true. democrats have talked with repub

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to buy time because they don't have a proposal by throwing ought these stray amendments, i think ben cardinretty well, the house bill that's on the flyer right now say cashing cuss, it's dead, everybody knows it account get the votes. we don't want to vai mendments to a carcass, we want to know what the plan and is then we'll talk amendments. let them put their plan on the table and then we'll start to have amendment votes. but just little show amendment votes to buy time while they try in their eighth year of saying they're going to come up with an obamacare replacement, what they ought do now is put their plan on the table. >> i want to also ask you, you've got a son in the service. what do you think about the president's decision to make this what seems to be an off the cuff decision kout consulting the generals on twitter about transgender service members? >> andrea, it was inappropriate for so many reasons. first, fif you are qualified to serve and you meet tough qualifications you should be able to serve. i was really proud that general dunnford put out a statement saying that we're n

amy: so that is maryland democratic senator ben cardin, the bill's primary sponsor. ryan grim, talk about the significance of what he said. >> after that, i said, so it sounds like you don't actually support criminal penalties associated with supporting a boycott, and he said, no, of course i don't. it is something to that effect. now the a so you letter has been made public and senators have had a chance to review it, i presume a number of them are going to dial back their support for it. in cardin is the author of the legislation and the way it is written, if you read the bill itself, the penalties are not mentioned. you have to reference an underlying statute it amends and once you get to die, then you see the $1 million fine and the 20-year prison sentence, which the aclu says because you brought that underlying statute into place, that criminal statute could be brought in by a judge or prosecutor. can you talk about, as they are not exactly sure what this bill is, why so many have supported it? i want to turn to chuck schumer at the american jewish -- at the aip

reporter kim delaney and broader story on his as was largely false and even misled lawmakers including ben cardin with the core claim by delaney on that magnitsky was the fall guy for the brodeur's own crimes this in the sky has been lobbying for abolition of magnitsky act on behalf of individual clients and also had one. against brodeur in court in an unrelated case is hardly surprised about that and the flip the story of this was the story that i brought to donald trump jr i wanted him to know that browder a person who gave up his u.s. citizenship is trying to manipulate people in congress and now we even know their names the media have disclosed them he was making all those connections even though he hadn't lived in the country for twenty years was not paying any taxes not doing anything he was full in fact his only mission was to go after his opponents while gaining some political capital it was nothing but retaliation from this man who did this in order to distract everyone with this fake story i did to clarify the situation behind this mass hysteria but only through lawyers or testifying in

are negotiation that is come about , some though don't believe him, including, maryland senator ben cardin a democrat, came over and talked to us earlier, and he thinks that the house, could pass this bill, the president's december being >> it is a nation, so many republicans criticized the process, criticized the senate bill and yet they vote for it. they don't think it will be law. guess what it might become law and that would be tragic for millions of americans. we're talking about peoples lives, this is serious business, we've got to get this right. >> really, anybody's guess, we know for sure, that this is going to be a process that lasts, hours, longer in, to the night but of course we will continue to follow this. tomorrow, caitlyn here is with the time and what this means for your weekend. not good news for the weekend i'm afraid. outdoor plans are going to have to be re arranged because the soaking \rain\reign\ is on the way. it will arrive late tomorrow and the rain doesn't fully clear out of here until the weekend over. a flash flood watch has been issued and will take effect du

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. >> eric: that is chris van holland and senator ben cardin reacting to the revelations to the donaldunior emails that show he was promised information from the russian government from the crown prosecutor of russia, for information that would "incriminate hillary clinton." they say there was no such information offered at that meeting. he refers to the sanctions bill, passed 98-2 in the senate. >> if you recall, after the former administration pulled out forces in 2011 out of iraq, just two or three years later in the summer of 2014, isis declared the new base out of mosul. we have routed them from the place where they created the new caliphate. it is a huge success. >> julie: that was the deputy assistant to the president on the liberation of mosul. this comes as the tentative partial cease-fire president trump brokered with russia, jordan is still holding in southwest syria. as secretary of estate tillerson is visiting key nations in an attempt to resolve the diplomatic crisis over qatar. of course, plenty of threats around the world remain. thank you so much for talking to us. thi

michael mckee set down with senator ben cardin of maryland on the foreign relations committee and askedut that. the committee hearings, democrats and republicans are working together. we understand the affordable care act made a lot of progress but how can we make it better? republicans have a responsibility and a desire -- to come together. reaction tois the this question at what has the white house said about this dinner time meeting the president had with vladimir putin. >> they are disputing the sensationalism. frankly, some of this is pretty interesting. it went five days without anybody breaking this news when every leader of the g20 was supposedly aghast at what they saw at the dinner. we have been trying behind the scenes to stand up to the notion that foreign leaders were disturbed by what they saw and we were not able to do that. the white house is disputing it was that long and that consequential and they are refusing to even characterize it as a meeting. it remains to be seen what happened in that room. david: what happens next when i comes to other parts of the legislative

senator ben cardin of maryland.enator, i want to start with the meeting of donald trump jr., paul manafort and jared kushner. donald trump jr. said, no inconsistency in statements. the meeting about russian parents, that was something you opposed, the act that violated human rights. >> the meeting with this lawyer, at the time they met in june just when the nomination of mr. trump was being locked up, is extremely concerning. it's clear that this meeting was an attempt to deal with the sanctions that were imposed by the united states against russia under the mcnitsky law. the man that mr. trump met with was the lawyer that tried to discredit mcnitsky, putting in lies and how he was arrested, tortured and killed by the russians. >> let's talk about that lawyer for a second, natalia skya. she said she did not represent the kremlin in any capacity. she did spend a lot of time lobbying against the mcnitsky and smearing mcnitsky himself. do you have any question she has ties to the kremlin? >> oh, no question she was wor

let's discuss the way forward with democratic senator ben cardin of maryland. good to have you. thanks for being on the show. >> chris, it's good to be with you. last night was a pretty dramatic moment. we were able to stop this train going in the wrong direction. now it's time for us to work together to improve the affordable care act. >> i test democrats on a regular business, why aren't you trying to get in there. i understand you don't have the numbers and don't believe in repealing the aca so why would anybody vote for that. okay. but now you know where he we are and you did have mitch mcconnell do something in this environment that's unusual. which is to say let's look to the other side. john mccann exhorting all. the so what are the opportunity the to do that, to create better health care for americans, because as we know, the aca is far from perfect. >> well, neither party can do this on its own. we need everybody working together. so i'm encouraging the senator alexander, the chairman of the health committee. we have proposals. republicans have proposals that could brin

earlier in evening i spoke to maryland exactic senator ben cardin on the top democrat on senate foreignses. i started the interview by asking him what members of the senate want to hear from donald trump jr. and jared kushner. >> i must tell you we're extremely troubled by the fact that they took this meeting with an agent from the russian government to get information to use in a campaign. at least that's what they thought the meeting was about. the first reaction should have been to notify the fiv. we want to know why they took the meeting and why they did not report it to law enforcement. >> let me ask it as a more basic question. have you been able to figure out -- do you have an opinion what is it generally about russia? why does our president want putting to come to the white house after his -- his break into our election process? was our president compromised before he walked into that meeting with putin. >> it's difficult to understand why he would want to give mr. putin a photo oh och petition oval office. mr. uten directed attacks against this country and the free election sys

. >>> let's get more reaction from senator ben cardin. thanks for joining us. >> jim is going to be with you. >> it sounds like donald trump jr. is going to have to testify before the senate. is that what you want to see, as well? >> absolutely. i think the american people need to have an explanation. what he did is extremely troubling. when some foreign government person tells you they have information that they want to give you in regards to the u.s. election first thing that should go through your mind i better call the fbi. this looks like problems. instead donald trump jr. accepted an appointment and met with the person. that is wrong. i think it is right to have a public hearing on this splmpt dw you heard the president in paris say this is standard politics. anybody would take that meeting. what do you make of that? >> this is not standard politics. i can tell you if you are approached by someone from another country trying to interfere in your elections you know that is not permitted and you notify law enforcement. this is not sta

and ben cardin and i, my democratic counterpart, did a colloquy on the senate floor to resolve this issued to treasury about this issue. i think they could fix it with colloquy. but mccarthy's staff has been over to see us about it. as you know, it is about betting on grids out in the ocean. >> right. >> and the united states and u.s. company could bid on a grid out there and win and right beside it could be a russian entity. a lot of time government says hey we want you all to form a consortium so we have one pipeline that's bringing that oil back, and that is an issue. it's a legitimate issue. and the house can either solve it through legislative text change, which i've talked to hoyer about it. he's in agreement with that. >> okay. >> or they could do it through colloquy. it is a legitimate issue. >> but you are willing to fix that. it sounds like it will be fixable. >> absolutely. >> okay. >> absolutely. and senator cardin on the democratic side in the senate is too. >> all right. thank you, mr. chairman. appreciate it. >>> still ahead, mcconnell cuts the senate's summer vacation shor

and ben cardin and i, my democratic counterpart, did a colloquy on the senate floor to resolve this issue talked to treasury about this issue. i think they could fix it with colloquy. but mccarthy's staff has been over to see us about it. as you know, it is about betting on grids out in the ocean. >> right. >> and the united states and u.s. company could bid on a grid out there and win and right beside it could be a russian entity. a lot of time government says hey we want you all to form a consortium so we have one pipeline that's bringing that oil back, and that is an issue. it's a legitimate issue. and the house can either solve it through legislative text change, which i've talked to hoyer about it. he's in agreement with that. >> okay. >> or they could do it through colloquy. it is a legitimate issue. >> but you are willing to fix that. it sounds like it will be fixable. >> absolutely. >> okay. >> absolutely. and senator cardin on the democratic side in the senate is too. >> all right. thank you, mr. chairman. appreciate it. >>> still ahead, mcconnell cuts the senate's summer vacatio

but i also want to talk about whether it's a good idea to support democrats like ben cardin who are sayinghis is a political pearl harbor and we should respond. whether it's a good idea to expand nato into little countries like montenegro. whether it's a good idea to be funding jihadist proxies in syria to hurt russia. thomas freedman called for supporting territorial isis in syria to hurt russia and iran. that's where this narrative is leading. it seems to be from a purely progressive antiwar, anti-imperial position, a disastrous narrative that will have long-term consequences for the left.an >> tucker: my son will be required to give his life to defend the territorial integrity of montenegro. maybe it's a good idea, maybe we should debate it, but we are not.e thanks for coming on, that was super interesting. >> tucker: trump administration now approaching its six month mark. congress trying to hammer out a placement of obamacare. what is in the current version of the bill? we will sit down with the hhs secretary tom price in just a second. also refugee resettlement programs have inundate

happening today in frederick maryland, senator ben cardin will discuss the future of the affordable careare reform. then he'll join a round table discussion about stimulating business growth and to update leaders on key issues at the federal level. later he'll join frederick county officials for a listenig session on their priorities. >> the number of tourists ordered out of north carolina's outer banks gru over the weekend. some 70,000 visitors were forced to evacuate ocracoke and hatteras as they remained without power. a construction crew accidentally cut three underground transmission cables. power screws to dig down to be find them and then supplies them back together. so far repairs are under way for one of the cables. could be two weeks before full power is restored. >> rides at the ohio state fare back opened after a deadly accident last week. all rides were shut down wednesday after the fire ball broke apart killing tyler jarrell and injuring several others. dismissed amid a investigation into a city officer planting evidence. a total of 123 cases are now under review after body

legislation that talks about or the criminal at in the regime on the senate side was an initiative of ben cardin cosponsored by marco rubio. so this is an area think about washington today, this is an area where you have people who -- on capitol hill who have gotten smart about this issue, they got engaged in the issue and that work across party lines without, you know, without a second thought because precisely because they know it's a crisis, they know it's something that we're confronting. so this is a great opportunity from the trump administration. >> i think so. >> to jump on this and to take yes for an answer. >> any dissenting views? i would doubt it? so it's interesting, let's just get through, does -- this is an interesting question. i don't know if anyone would be prepared to speak to it. but what role do international banks fla policing elicit finance and is there some redesign that's needed on bank regulations that needs to be addressed if we're going to actually get at these issues? that's an interesting question. i am not a banking expert. does anybody have views on this? >> i thi

>> ben cardin, the senator from maryland, he is of the mind that generally this is a good idea, but thet there are some hospitals that wouldn't be able to stay open that do important humanitarian work in east jerusalem and the west bank that if this taylor force act passed, those hospitals may have to close down and they are saving lives. target the funding >> do you think they will be able to target the funding to basically the families and if the palestinian authority wants to do this, they have to come up with their own dough? >> well, that's part of the ongoing debate. and there are a couple of republicans including the chairman of the foreign relations committee, bob corker who wants to target it a little bit, who believes that the money can be targeted. there's also some joint security efforts between the united states and the palestinian authority that they don't want to compromise by just chopping off all the funding. the other big holdup is in the current draft of the legislation, there is no waiver, so that the president could decide to give the money to the palestinians anywa

coming up, senator ben cardin. he weighs in on the meeting between u.s.loomberg daybreak." i am alix steel. the theme throughout all the big banks reporting is what happened to fix trading. a large part of the trading cap from commodities. goldman sachs highlighting that and morgan stanley on the call saying that less volatility and banighter trading tweet the results. from a us now is robert management company with $16 billion in energy assets. is this here to stay? robert: good question. we think that oil is set for a second-half comeback. we think oil is range found that 50-60 dollars long-term and in the second half of the year, oil gets back to $50 a barrel. that will be a result of declining u.s. inventories as was global inventories falling in the second half of the year. alix: sitting on the desk and seeing the swings that we have seen. at $45,are back down but is the actual volatility as extreme as it feels? robert: in energy+++ to rumor there are multiple ways to make money and energy sector. you can buy some of the volatile oil and gas stocks,

everything -- and ben cardin a democrat pushed from the senate to crack down on 44 oligarchs and their money overseas that vladimir putin brutally wanted, desperately wanted repealed. hillary clinton and vladimir putin were on the same side. but if this was linked to a $500,000 speech how would that look to hillary clinton's candidacy? >> well, it would look tough. you have to wonder how many other donations were made by russian connection entities we don't know about. you may recall the clinton foundation had to fix its 990s to expose or highlight contributions that it had promise to do so publicize but it hadn't publicized. i can't overemphasize, difficult to state the nature of the conflict of hillary clinton, her husband getting a half a million dollars directly from the russians while she was secretary of state. we were astonished when we saw that the state department, we got the document, approved this ethics process that allowed this speech and the money, evidently, to take -- money transfer to take place. so why would the clinton state department allow hillary clinton's husband