take a listen. >> we had senator ben sasse from nebraska. he crosses the missouri river and in that sanctimonious tone talks about what he doesn't like about donald trump, what he doesn't like about donald trump. you know what senator, sasse, i really don't care what you like. we love donald trump. and if you don't love him, i suggest you stay on your side of the missouri river. >> so senator, you're not taking that advice. in fact you're going to be crossing the missouri on friday. is there any chance you'll be challenging president trump for the are reppen nomination in 20/20? >> first of all, let's be clear why i'm going to be in iowa this weekend. i don't want to admit it but nebraska loss to iowa in a football game, and i lost a bet. so i have to drive uber on friday. but i don't know who that guy is in your segment. but i believe fourth of july weekend we ought to have every kid in america getting together and saying we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that among these are life, liberty and

just before trump posted this tweet, nebraska senator ben sass said on sunday that he's been troubled by the president's recent attacks on the news media. >> there's an important distinction to draw between bad stories or crappy coverage and the right that citizens have to argue and complain about that, and trying to weaponize distrust. the first amendment is the beating heart of the american amendment, and you can't separate that in there. >> kate collins is traveling with the president. >> reporter: democratic members of congress have wasted no time attacking the president after he tweeted a video of himself tackling a man with a cnn logo imposed on his head. house minority leader snowplows, "violence and violent imagery to bully the press must be rejected. this july 4th, celebrate freedom of the press, guardians to our democracy." congressman frank pallone echoed her sentiment saying, "donald trump with a threat to the press, we must speak out." the president ramped things up starting with a personal insult to a television host on thursday and escalating it with a video on sunday.

>> i mean, what ben sasse just said in that segment is, is very important, a very important point. this is the fourth of july weekend and we have people who are overseas risking their life in defense of our country. many who have risked life and limb in the past to protect all of our rights, including our first amendment right. so, you know, from that standpoint, we need to protect freedom of the press. there is a responsibility on the part of everyone including the president of the united states, who -- who aren't part of the press, to be able to protect those -- that right and all other rights. >> do you believe the president is an add vvocate of the preservation of the freedom of press? >> i don't really know what to make of that particular question. >> that took a long time to answer that. why can't -- why would you not say what your opinion is about whether you believe this president is advocating the freedom of press, the latest example, the video that was revealed via twitter today. >> yeah. i don't know how this morning's tweet can be used to back up an advocacy of freedom

reach out to neighbors with opposing viewpoints, i was honored that he accepted the invitation. >> ben sasst very long ago as you take a sip. even though you're on the left side of things when you look at sass politics, are there other things that he stands for that may be you see common ground with? >> well, you know, i've said this before. for any elected official. we all believe that we want to make this country a better place. but we all have different trajectories to get there. and i think it's our job, you know, as americans and as human beings to figure out how we can get there together. we may have our viewpoints rejected but all we can do is try >> what you guys did was most important thing, talked listened and what better way to do it than over beer >> come on over. we'll continue our beer summit now in the kitchen here at fox 5. >> we have port city over here. hello there. >> hi there. >> tell everybody who you are >> i'm chris from port city brewing company. >> you brought a couple things. tell us what you brought >> i brought in optimal whit. integral, ipa, overripe tropical fr

senator ben sass had gone on tv and suggested this plan.e president essentially gave it his blessing on twitter. this is a big difference compared to what he said in january. the reason they have been doing this dancing in is because the president said, we are going to repeal and replace immediately. there wouldn't be a two-daybreak in between those. the reason they have been doing that, it was his suggestion. when it is looking like they are not going to garner enough support, he is deciding maybe they should just repeal and replace later on. sarah huckabee sanders maintained the president has not changed his thinking. listen to what he said during an off-camera gaggle. >> the president hasn't changed his thinking. he has campaigned on, talked about since he was elected, repealing and replacing obamacare. we are still fully committed to pushing through with the senate. we are looking at every possible option of repealing and replacing obamacare. >> this is very different. we have seen the president be very inconsistent on health care. in m

gop senator ben sass first ju adjusted the option in in a letter to the president friday. and he spoke to jake tapper this morning. >> republicans ran on repeal and replace. the president ran on repeal and replace. we've been working on that for about in our months, if leader mcconnell can get across the finish line i'd like to see that happen. it needs to be a good replace. if we can do a combined repeal and replace over the next week, that's great. if we can't, there's no reason to walk away. we should do a repeal with a delay. i would want to delay so we could get straight to work, and i think the president should call on the senate to cancel our august state work period. i think we should get to work at around the clock hearings on the repeal and replace plan. >> dan malloy joins me now from hartfo hartford. if republicans can't agree on a replacement plan now what's going to change in august? >> nothing's going to change. i mean, the plan they have will take insurance away from 23 million people. 13 of them will be medicaid covered. they're breaking promise after prom

that's the key quote from ben sasse. the view in many corners of the media world is that's exactly what the president is doing, or at least trying to do. encourage and fire up his fans, his most loyal supporters, to have even less trust of the media. in other words, as sasse said, weaponizing distrust. we will see if in the coming week the president continues his anti-media campaign. of course he has 33 million followers on twitter. and of course his videos, his tweets, they all get covered by the press that he says is fake. brian stelter, cnn, new york. >> and brian, thank you for the analysis. let's now bring in kate andrews in london. she is the u.s. political columnist for city a.m. it's good to have you with us this hour here on "newsroom." >> hi. >> the statement that cnn put out pretty much says it all about this latest tweet, describes it as juvenile and describes it as encouraging violence against the press. some may laugh it off as cartoonish. it's clearly theater of the absurd. but your thoughts about the cumu

trump's new-found approach was an idea drafted by senator ben sasse of nebraska .. in a letter to the president last week.sen. ben sasse / - r-nebraska: "if we can do a combined repeal and replace over the next week that's great. if we can't though, there's no reason to walk away. we should do a repeal with a delay."not everyone is onboard with that -- despite the senate's struggle to gain the necessary gop support for the legislation..mcconnell responded to the new idea by saying the senate will continue to pursue a joint repeal and replace of the affordable care act and "stick with that path."the 'repeal now, replace later' notion isn't just an internal party dispute.senator bernie sanders says that strategy could harm millions of americans by leaving them without coverage. sen. bernie sanders / -i- vermont: "i have a lot of respect for sen. sass but that idea is an absurd idea. butt sot the cbo indicated that if you simply repeal the affordable care act, you will throw 30million americans off health insurance."facing certain opposition from democrats, if the gop

ben sasse is a that was fun walking educating my kids on the road. so i like twitter but there's something wrong with my habits and my affections i think i might have found something in the last two or 20 minutes on twitter.when a longer-term set of sensibilities inhabited not tainted to that formation for our teenagers red. >> let me paint an additional narrative indicate your response to this. millennial's tonight and you're obviously very concerned with how young people are facing in shaping the future of the democracy. young people today have, especially minors have high service participation rates in the country. working more jobs than ever before. we are increasingly independent-minded as we talked about earlier. and the political transformation and change, historically has been coming from the young people. whether it is doctor king who was millennial adrian hill of the montgomery bus boycott or delivered i have a dream. the founding fathers were all millennial aged, deficit was 33, when he read the declaration of independence for james madiso

what does ben sasse say? but that's the legislative process.senate's process, ultimately. i'm optimistic that they'll get something passed, that we'll get something through. the fact that it's tough doesn't alleviate the responsibility. there are a lot of american families who are really hurting right now. >> if this bill ends up not getting the votes in the senate, the republican bill, you're okay with sitting down and doing this in a bipartisan way? >> i think it should be anyway. democrats have been screaming for several years now. senator mark warner up for re-election is talking about the aca has problems. we have to fix it. i haven't seen any plans from that side. i think it's important. they know it's messed up. they know it predates the november election, that there are big fundamental problems with the aca. come to the table. i think it's important that they do. >> jen psaki, do you think it's realistic? even you know and have admitted that obamacare does need help. >> uh-huh. >> but do you think that the democratic base, which is so r

president trump latching on to proposal from nebraska senator ben sasse, if you can't find a solution, repeal it straight up, but don't let it take effect for a year and then get a real deal done. >> we should do repeal with a delay. let's be clear, i don't want to see anybody thrown off the coverage they have now. i would want a delay so that we could get straight to work and then i think the president should call on the senate to cancel our august work period. i'm not talking about repeal only. republicans need to stop pretending that everything worked well in american care before '09 and '10. >>> at the white house nbc's garre garrett haake is with us. you have new information regarding the two versions of the bill. while the rest of us have been waiting for a deal to be made that didn't happen on friday, so that a new bill could be scored something has happened. the cbo has got two new versions of the bill. tell us about this. >> hey, ali, that's what i'm hearing from the senate aide. this is parent of mcconnell's efforts of trying to find some form of calculus to get to 50 votes.

ben sass, this isn't normal. susan collins begging, this has to stop. lisa murkowski begging, this has to stop. does his behavior bother you? >> what i'm concentrated on is the job he's given me, and that is to make sure we fulfill the mission of the department of health and human services and that is the health of the american people. there is a whole array of activities we're undertaking. one of them is this piece of legislation in the senate right now, but my job is consumed with making sure we fulfill the mission of the department. >> i'm asking as a father, if your son tweeted to a woman like that, what would you say to him? >> chuck, this is really remarkable. we have incredible challenges across this nation, incredible challenges around the world. the challenge i've been given is to address the health care issues, and your program, a program with the incredible history of "meet the press," and that's what you want to talk about? the american people want to talk about -- >> mr. secretary, with all due respect, you're blaming me for what the presid

trump's new-found approach was an idea drafted by senator ben sasse of nebraska ..n a letter to the president last week.sen. ben sasse / - r-nebraska: "if we can do a combined repeal and replace over the next week that's great. if we can't though, there's no reason to walk away. we should do a repeal with a delay."not everyone is onboard with that -- despite the senate's struggle to gain the necessary gop support for the legislation..mcconnell responded to the new idea by saying the senate will continue to pursue a joint repeal and replace of the affordable care act and "stick with that path."the 'repeal now, replace later' notion isn't just an internal party dispute.senator bernie sanders says that strategy could harm millions of americans by leaving them without coverage. sen. bernie sanders / -i- vermont: "i have a lot of respect for sen. sass but that idea is an absurd idea. butt sot the cbo indicated that if you simply repeal the affordable care act, you will throw 30million americans off health insurance."facing certain opposition from democrats, if the gop he

trump's new-found approach was an idea drafted by senator ben sasse of nebraska ..letter to the president last week.sen. ben sasse / - r-nebraska: "if we can do a combined repeal and replace over the next week that's great. if we can't though, there's no reason to walk away. we should do a repeal with a delay."not everyone is onboard with that -- despite the senate's struggle to gain the necessary gop support for the legislation..mcconnell responded to the new idea by saying the senate will continue to pursue a joint repeal and replace of the affordable care act and "stick with that path."the 'repeal now, replace later' notion isn't just an internal party dispute.senator bernie sanders says that strategy could harm millions of americans by leaving them without coverage. sen. bernie sanders / -i- vermont: "i have a lot of respect for sen. sass but that idea is an absurd idea. butt sot the cbo indicated that if you simply repeal the affordable care act, you will throw 30million americans off health insurance."facing certain opposition from democrats, if the gop health

. >>> ben sass among those saying he'd support a complete repeal of the affordable care act. >> we should do repeal with a delay. i don't want to see anyone thrown off coverage. >> i have a lot of respect for senator sass but that idea is an absurd idea. >>> among the president's plans this week, a trip to germany for the g-20 summit where he'll have a face to face meeting with russian leader vladimir putin. >> >> several states have failed to pass budgets, causing a ripple effect. this is something we dealt with in california a few years ago. 46 states passed budgets. nine states failed. >> here we are. at an impasse. government is closed over transparency and accountability fight. i'm at a loss. >> reporter: so far the shutdown in new jersey has mainly been felt at parks and beaches. but yesterday christie and his family actually used one of the beaches. >>> lieutenant governor gavin knew some is slamming the nra recruitment video. >> make them scream. smash windows, burn cars, shut down interstates and airports. bully and terrorize the law- abiding until the only option left is for the

host: you were talking about the same idea that senator ben sass of nebraska -- repeal the replace later? is that what you are talking about? caller: yes, but i have a way that he could be fixed. washington could fix the problem and it would be i just legislative activity. it could be passing two or three laws in congress. one that insurance companies would have to cover pre-existing conditions, and pass another law that children can stay on the health care plans until they are 26. and open up the markets across state lines or you can buy from any insurance company in any state so there would be healthy competition. i believe rates would go drastically down. just for appeal the aca, pass three laws, which washington is hesitant to do because of the lobbyist for the insurance companies. they never pass laws against the insurance companies for fear they will harm their profit margin, but i don't see that happening at all. host: we appreciate your call. we want to remind folks are coming up this evening on newsmakers we will learn more because we will have richard pollock. he mentioned some

i'm a lilt bit more confused now because ben sasse and rand paul, i can't tell what they'd vote for.ed for things earlier that now they're saying they're not for. there are times -- i'm getting the sense some of these members are kind of scared of this bill. >> now whatever they do, will become the loll of the land and they'll own health care. the health care debate is dominated the first five months of the trump administration. it's kept other thing ozzen the back burner. listen today the president last night where one of his grievances is he doesn't think he gets enough credit for what he's accomplished. >> they're agenda is not your agenda. you've been saying i will never stop fighting for you. i am delivering on trade, on the economy, on the supreme court, on the second amendment, on our military, for our veterans, and on our borders. >> the question is if you look at traditional grade, obamacare repeal and replace, that's still a work in progress. we don't know if they're going to get to the finish line. tougher trade deals, we're awaiting announcements on that. there has been p

i want to list ton senator ben sass. because he's quietly been talking to the white house about just repealing obamacare. as kaitlyn just mentioned. let's listen to sass in his own words here. >> if we don't get this resolved by monday of the next week, july 10th, if there isn't a combine repeal and replace plan, i'm writing a letter to the president urging us to call us on to separate them. let's do as much repeal as we can and have the president ask us to cancel the august work bill and stay here and work on it separate. >> eugene, this is what's interesting when he says it will be a one-year transition, a holding period, errol, does that not give republicans one year to change everything up, essentially? >> well, that's certainly what the senator is arguing and hopefully, he thinks the president is buying into that because we saw the support that the president put forward to the idea on twitter on friday. however, there are other republican lawmakers including representative kissinger from illinois who is concerned tha

listen to the chairman commenting on the great senator from nebraska. >> we had senator ben sasse froms the missouri river and in that sanctimonious tone talks about what he doesn't like about donald trump, what he doesn't like about donald trump. you know what, senator sasse? i really don't care what you like. we love donald trump, and if you don't love him, i suggest you stay on your side of the missouri river. >> the point being -- since winning, since winning, the president and his organization have put their people, have their people in the states in the right places. >> well, and, look, the voters in iowa are directing jeff kaufman there. jeff kaufman is looking at the -- polling. guess what, rank and file iowa conservative activists like trump and jeff kaufman got a guarantee early-on caucuses. guess what? donald trump is guarantee them nation's -- >> gambling in the casinos. >> absolutely. fine with trump and not violating party orthodoxy, he's really not at this point, i just don't think it's going to be a factor. look, steve bannon somehow got his way and donald trump came ou

i'm a huge fan of ben sass.ant to get out there before saying that position is reckless, because it seems to be based on a fantasy that somehow if you dismantle the existing status quo, there will be an outbreak of bipartisan cooperation to enable you to come up with 60 votes to come up with a replacement. i don't see any scenario where that will happen. also, this notion that congress will be able to come up with a -- with this legislation in one week that will control and determine the future of 1/6th of the economy. this is the kind of thing that conservatives have argued for half a century, that you should not trust people in the nation's capitol to do. but they have apparently forgotten those lessons. >> and sarah, one week in getting it done. what's the appetite for more time on the hill, what it's a month or three weeks, to get to a solution? >> well, the white house has expressed its desire to see this get done before the august recess, even though there are some republicans clamoring for that to be trun

yesterday he was watching fox and friends and ben sasse was on and talking about maybe we should repealthen replace it. a few minutes later the president tweeted about that idea. it created a lot of news care coverage. republicans are saying we're not going to do that. but that idea was spurred by cable news. behind the scenes, ben sasse's aids have been talking to the white house about it an then they arranged the interview on fox in order to get it up there in front of the president, to create a platform for it. so it doesn't have to be a bad thing. could be a good thing. might help him keep in touch. on the other hand, he's not a businessman anymore. he is the president and he told us on the campaign trail he was going to be working so hard. he was working so hard. and his television habits seem to contradict that. >> yeah. it's interesting he says modern day presidential. jim acosta also pointed out it is also modern day presidential to have a cameras on during press briefings. >> during briefings, right. >> and is there any indication they might actually let us film these briefings

nebraska senator ben sasse is sounding the alarm, saying it majority leader mitch mcconnell cannot reach a deal on health care by july 10th, it's time for another option. he sent a letter to president trump today. in it, he expressed concern that republicans will fail to pass make any meaningful bill or will past something that propped up obamacare writing, "we can and must do better than either of these, both because the american people deserve better, and because we promise better." >> what i am recommending that we give comfort to the american people by repealing the maximum amount of obamacare we can but add a one-year delay before that would be effective so that there is an action forcing events so we get to work. >> g.o.p. leadership continues to see if it can get its original plan across the finish line. >> there will be various proposals, pieces submitted to the cbo to get their feedback, know what the impacts are going to be both with respect to coverages and costs and that sort of thing. >> democrats continue taking aim at the g.o.p.'s effort to scrap obamacare, suggesting it c

nebraska senator ben sasse: >> if you're thinking of making a recess appointment to push out the attorneyeral, forget about it. the presidency isn't a bull, and this country isn't a china shop. >> you know, i go to washington, and i see all these politicians. >> reporter: the president has also drawn criticism for his speech to the boy scouts earlier this week, creating an uproar by the political nature of his talk. written apology, "to those in our scouting family who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into the jamboree." at the white house, in-fighting escalated. last night, newly appointed communications director anthony scaramucci implicated reince preibus, the chief of staff, as the source of leaked classified information about his finances, though it now appears that information is publicly available. but in an interview with "the new yorker" published late today, scaramucci said, "reince is an expliative, paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoic." scaramucci also went after white house chief strategist steve bannon with language more fit for the outhouse than the w

. >> over the weekend senator ben sass was advocating for repeal. >> if we can do a combined repeal andeplace over the next week that's great. if we can't there's no reason to walk away we should do a repeal with a delay. i don't want to see anybody thrown off their coverage. the president should call on the senate to cancel our state work period. >> let's talk about that. >> let's cancel it. i don't have any plans. i look forward to working every day in august. it's holt here. >> he's talking about cancelling the august state period which means cancelling the august recess. >> exactly. >> i'm sure there's a lot of senators who don't want to do that. is there support for an extended session in august and do you think a repeal vote would get support from senators? >> reporter: first i don't think the repeal only will get support from people because essentially what it would do even though ben sass says it would be a delay period there's not such a thing with a delay period. look at the budget control act and sequestration. that was supposed to be a time period by which members of the hou

ben sass has been speaking out. he also had this tweet. random quote as we're loading four-wheelers. hey, uncle ben, did you know the president used to be a professional wrestler? if that's the take away, david, is that trump winning or losing here? >> i think trump thinking he's winning. he looks at this different than a typical politician. one day when we look back and play a word game and said what one word defines trump's presidency, we can look back on this weekend and say i'm president and you're not. i think this is about driving his personal brand and the fact that he's never functioned as the fact that he's no longer leader of the trump organization, but he's representing the united states. i think for him, the only issue becomes if there's ever any electoral consequence, because he is something that understands politics and understands winning and losing. and one of the reasons he's able to do this right now, kate, is because there is no blowback from republican voters. a lot of focus has been on republican lawmakers and why isn'

nebraska senator ben sass. >> if you're thinking of making a recess appointment to push out the attorney general, forget about it. the presidency isn't a bull and this country isn't a china shop. >> i go to washington and i see all these politicians. >> reporter: the president has drawn criticism for his speech to the boy scouts earlier this week creating an uproar by the political nature of his talk. the organization issued a written apology to those in our scouting family who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into the jamboree. major garrett, cbs news, the white house. >>> ahead on cbs "this morning" we'll ask cbs news contributor bob schieffer on his take. >>> president trump does have a bill on his desk to consider signing a new package of sanctions against russia. yesterday the senate in a rare shove bipartisan support overwhelmingly passed the measure. three days ago it easily was passed by the house aimed at punishing moscow for interfering in the 2016 election. it bars the president from easing penalties against russia unless congress agrees. >>> the natio

it's like ben sasse is stuck in the twilight zone. the gop has had seven years to come up with any alternative and the idea that somehow over the course of one month stuck in one room they're going to come up with something -- >> get back together and get in that one room. >> right. i don't think they'll go throw with repeal first because it will kick 32 million people off and create chaos. some of the biggest -- it's been republican governors like john kasich, brian sandoval in nevada, like rick snyder in michigan and they're saying this is cruel, this will kick people off the health care rolls, people who will die if they don't have health care. i think those are the voices the republicans should listen to because those are the people who are implementing health care at the ground level. >> one other aspect is if you do go through with this repeal and in a year from now, what are we doing in a year from now? going into the midterm. you think we'll get any legislative things passed? we wouldn't be able to pass legislation saying amer

. >> ben sass said one thing the president seems to be doing here is weaponize distrust. what is happening here is something at a deeper level. the president says this is part of the new media strategy, sort of the modern reality here. let me read you, he says, my use of social media is not presidential, it is modern day presidential. make america great again. jeff mason, you know, one of the things that people learned about, if the media doesn't like what the president is doing here, stop covering him the same way. you're the president of the white house correspondents association, if the white house won't hold on camera briefings, stop going, if the president is going to do this, stop covering it. what is the right way to handle it? >> well, i guess from the perspective of the white house correspondents association, we're going to continue to push for what journalists need. and journalists need the ability to do their jobs and that includes being able to ask questions of the press secretary, of his deputy, and of other senior officials and of the president himself. so t

senator ben sass of nebraska tweeted this. "this obviously should not happen, and obviously it will not happen. why the president of the united states would tweet it is inexplicably bizarre." marco rubio tweeted that vladimir putin will never be a reliable constructive partner. partnering with putin on a cyber security unit is akin to partnering with assad on a chemical weapons unit." senator john mccain of arizona weighing in as well. take a listen. >> the president, again, tweeting this morning said "putin and i discussed forming an inpenetratable cyber security unit so that election hacking and many other negative things will be guarded." >> i am sure that vladimir putin could be of enormous assistance in that effort since he is doing the hacking. >> now, as the republican critics were weighing in, united states treasury secretary steve manuchin stepped forward to defend the necessity of a cyber security unit with russia. >> i think this is a very step forward. what we want to make sure is that we coordinate with russia, th

republican senator ben sass among those saying he'd support a complete repeal of the law even when an agreement ought to be replaced. >> let's be clear. don't want to see anybody thrown off the coverage they have now. i would want to delay so we can get back to work. >> i have a lot of respect for senator sass but that idea is an insane idea. >> they believe the odds are still high the senate would be able to pass health care legislation when it returns to d.c. next week. now, among the president's plans this week, a trip to germany for the g-20 summit where among other things he'll have his first face-to-face meeting since taking office with russian leader vladimir putin. >> thanks so much, hena. >>> there were calls across the country for the impeachment of president trump. demonstrators in los angeles say they believe mr. trump violated the constitution and obstructed justice. in chicago demonstrators accused the president of colluding with the russians during the election, and in milwaukee dozens said they are tired of the administration and called for change. >>> a man suspected

trump's new-found approach was an idea drafted by senat ben sasse to the president in a letter drafted last week. >> if we can do a combined repeal and replace over the next week, that's great. if we can't, there's no reason to walk away. we should do repeal with a delay. >> reporter: not everyone isn board with that, despite t senate's struggle to gain the necessary gop support for the leslation. mcconnell responded to the new idea by saying the senate will continue to pursue a joint repeal and replace of the affordable care act and ick with that plan. the repeal now, replace later notion isn't jus an internal party dispute. senator bernie sanders says that strategy could harm milli of americans byeaving them without coverage. >> i have a lot of respect for nator sasse but ithat idea is an absurd idea. the congressional office indicate that if you simply repeal the affordable care act, obamacare, you will throw -- you will throw 32 million americans off health care. >> reporter: facing certain opposition from democrats, if the g health care bill is to pass, senate republicans will ed

senator ben sass of neb has suggested that gop senators consider repealing obamacare now and replacing it later. >> we can do a combined repeal and replace over the next week that's great. if we can't, though, then there is no reason to walk away. we should do repeal with a delay. >> senator sass's idea is an absurd idea. this congressional budget office indicated that if you simply repeal the affordable care act, obamacare, you will throw 32 million americans off of health insurance. >> the white house is hoping an immediate repeal and replace bill would pass. if it doesn't, the president supports an immediate repeal with a replacement plan passed at a later date. >>> breaking news now, an amtrak train derailed today in washington state. no one was seriously hurt when four cars on the popular cascades line went off the track about two hours ago. there were 250 people on board. some suffering cuts and bruises. this is in a town of silicon southwest of tacoma. the tracks were along the weighter of the a marina, but none of the cars tumbled into the water. continuance clear at this point

we heard from ben sasse, obviously will not happen. it is inexplicably bizarre he says. from marco rubio, partnering with putin on a cyber security unit is akin to partnering with assad on a chemical weapons unit. and more from other republicans. >> it's not the dumbest idea but it's pretty close. he is literally the only person i know of who has any doubt that russia attacked our election in 2016. >> i am sure that putin could be of enormous assistance in that effort since he's doing the hacking. >> reporter: now, we're getting more reaction from the president as well. he tweeted after hearing some of that feedback that the fact he and putin talked about a cyber security unit doesn't mean it can actually happen. it can't. lot of discussion about that idea here in washington today. >> tracie potts, thank you. >>> breaking overnight. a new york state trooper was killed in the line of duty in new york. officials say the trooper was responding to a call of shots fired during a domestic dispute when he was fatally shot. the suspect, a 32-year-old active duty army infantryman

la idea del presidente surge luego de que el senador republicano ben sasse enviara una carta a la casaue apoyara un proceso de dos pasos. (nat unbundle repeal and replace) eliminar primero y remplazar despus. s/ steven cruz, iniciativa libre "de la manera que se est discutiendo la eliminacin del obamacare tendran un aÑo donde sera el periodo para reemplazarla. as que si hay mrito para poder sacar la ley de lleno". esto sucede tras semanas de negociaciones en el senado a puerta cerrada y oposicin de polticos de ambos partidos a la propuesta de reemplazo que est sobre la mesa. los legisladores que trabajaron en la propuesta consideran hacerle cambios en para aprobar la medida. s/randy serrano los polticos podran retomar el tema en julio cuando regresen del receso. lo que no se sabe es que contendr el plan que hasta ahora ha provocado tanta contencin entre ambos partidos take topvo / cesar --muchas mujeres al este y al norte de la baha podran perder su acceso a servicios de salud... ---''planned parenthood'' esta cerrando tres clnicas situadas en ''richmond'', ''pittsburg'' y ''vacaville'

trump's new-found approach was an idea drafted by senator ben sasse to the president in a letter drafted last week. >> if we can do a combined repeal and replace over the next week, that's great. if we can't, there's no reason to walk away. we should do repeal with a delay. >> reporter: not everyone is on board with that, despite the senate's struggle to gain the necessary gop support for the legislation. mcconnell responded to the new idea by saying the senate will continue to pursue a joint repeal and replace of the affordable care act and stick with that plan. the repeal now, replace later notion isn't just an internal party dispute. senator bernie sanders says that strategy could harm millios of americans by leaving them without coverage. >> i have a lot of respect for senator sasse but is that idea is an absurd idea. the congressional office indicated that if you simply repeal the affordable care act, obamacare, you will throw -- you will throw 32 million americans off health care. >> reporter: facing certain opposition from democrats, if the gop health care bill is to pass, senate

ben sasse: "there's an important distinction to draw between bad stories or crappy coverage and the rightcitizens have to argue about that and complain about that and trying to weaponinize distrust." ( james ) that was suzanne malveaux (mal-vo) reporting this morning. later this week... president trump will head to the g-20 summit in germany where he will meet with russian president vladimir putin. ( darya ) coming up.... nearly a dozen cats are abandoned in the bay area. we'll show you how you can help them get a forever home. plus... more warnings about toxic algae in the bay area. the new places people are being told to stay out of the water.( anny ) i have your holiday forecast after the break. ♪ [brother] any last words? [boy] karma, danny... ...karma! [vo] progress is seizing the moment. your summer moment awaits you, now that the summer of audi sales event is here. audi will cover your first month's lease payment on select models during the summer of audi sales event. ( james ) breaking news.. a deadly hit and run at wb i-80 at san pablo dam road. welcome back. lets get a check of

senator ben sasse republican u.s. senator from nebraska thank you so much for joining me. i'm excited to discuss your book it's called "the american vanishing adult" and what i find striking about it as i was reading it i think the idea for this probably originated long before you even became usni. very nonpolitical and it's about how we are raising our kids. maybe you can tell us more about how you decided to write this book. >> guest: first of all thank you for having me. the book is 100% not about politics and it's about a whole bunch of upstream issues in our culture. more important than american politics and you are right by background i'm a business turnaround guy but i'm by training an american historian could i spent five years as a college president. eight years ago i led a turnaround at a college and i cared about this institution. it was in financial trouble. my grandpa went to the college and came back from world war ii and worked at this college. i grew up on this campus because my family. it was in trouble. i wasn't going there for anything connected to stude

nebraska senator ben sasse: >> if you're thinking of making a recess appointment to push out the attorney general, forget about it. the presidency isn't a bull, and this country isn't a china shop. >> you know, i go to washington, and i see all these politicians. >> reporter: but the president has also drawn criticism for his speech to the boy scouts earlier this week, creating an uproar by the political name of his talk. today, the organization issued a written apology, "to those in our scouty family who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into the jamboree." at the white house, in-fighting escalated. last night, nuclear appointed communications director anthony scaramucci implicated reince preibus, the chief of staff, as the source of leaked classified information about his finances, though it now appears that information is publicly available. but in an interview "the new yorker" published late today, scaramucci said, "reince is an expliative, paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoic." scaramucci also went after steve bannon with language more fit for the outhouse than

one of them, senator ben sass says he is a republican, never been a super big trump supporter, but he said it should be americans deciding american elections. so they will still be a cloud, still an issue, and now it sounds like there will be a public or some form of hearing from these people close to president trump in the not too distance future. if chuck grassley gets his way. someone asked will you have to subpoena them, and he said i'm going to get them, it won't come to that. >> kelly o'donnell in that white house press briefing room. the president tweeted this morning, let me read it to you my son donald did a good job last night. he was open, transparent, are and innocent. this is the greatest witch hunt in political history, sad. kelly, christopher ray said he does not believe this is a witch hunt. >> that really undercuts one of the president's frequent criticisms. so the selection of the president to be the next fbi director, certainly has taken away that as one of the tools that the president can use with impunity, if you will. because ray says that mueller, who is a perso

nebraska senator ben sasse was the first to pitch the idea and the iowa senator were on "face the nationthey should do what i suggested which is to push full repeal and bark on an it rahhive step-by-step process to decide what should come next. this is probably what we should be doing now if we can't save this effort. >> senate majority mitch mcconnell will stick with the bill and roll back-on-carry a od replace it. >> good morning. >> the president said on repeal and replace would have to happen at the same time. now this idea has been revived, the replacement later on. what are the implications? >> well, look. i think it's a potential way out of the mess right now in the sense that everybody in the caucus senate can certainly agree to repeal obamacare. the problem is repeal and replace involves the second step. that involves making concessions to democrats. that probably involves spending money on more health care. so the repeal part sounds very attractive. i one doerr how many pushing it now are going to be that enamored of the idea when it comes to negotiating. >> but, gerry, doesn't

nebraska senator bee ben sasse t a letter to president trump. he expressed his concern republicans will fail to pass any meaningful bill or will pass up something that props up obamacare. he wrote, we can and must do better than either of these. >> what i'm recommending is we give comfort to the american people by repealing the maximum amount of obamacare that we can but add a one-year delay before that would be effective so we get to work. reporter: the gop leadership. >> there will be various proposals, pieces submitted to the cbo to get their feedback and what the impacts will be with respect to coverages and costs. they are suggesting it cannot be fixed. >> the idea is so backward and out of step with what america want and what actually work, it can never succeed, no matter how it's tweaked. reporter: calendar pressure is building. 10 republican senators signed a leader calling on leader mcconnell to cancel the august recess. they write, our current senate calendar shows only 33 potential working days remaining before the even of the fiscal