bill hewitt and david packard were to walk around today, they'd be surprised. pleased, but surprised by what the work force looks like now, a reflection of society now, a perfect reflection of society to be sure, but h-p is working hard to make that a more perfect mirror. the person in charge of that very big task is leslie clayton brown, chief diversity officer at h-p, and connie of c-net as well, editor in chief there. normally this is where i'm beginning to ask you questions but i have a couple of things i want to point out. that is, and i said this last time we had a diversity officer on the show, it is my job to ask you really hard questions and they will be about diversity. i don't want you to misconstrue that somehow i am against diversity. i am conscious i am a white anglo-saxon male challenging you about diversity. that's why it could seem awkward. i am not making an audition tape for fox and friends. >> absolutely. >> let's get started. let me ask you a tough question as long as we're talking about race diversity. could i be a diversity officer? >> ab

editor at large at the weekly standard, bill kristol. hugh hewitt. host of saturday mornings on msnbc. maria teresa kumar, msnbc contributor. if we don't have a plan, we don't know what they're going to vote on and they don't have a plan that has enough votes, what are they doing? >> well, i think they're going to get to the bare minimum that they can agree 50 votes on, that will include repeal of the individual mandate. probably the back signing of the device tax, and whether -- that seemed to bring back lisa murkowski to the fold of 51. >> but then the conservatives because of the cost. >> i don't know that you will. getting rid of the individual mandate, that will bring in 51. i defer to other people. i believe something will come out of the senate. only alarm bell, john mccain on the floor saying he needed that what doug dues ee, respected across republican circles, what does doug ducey want for john mccain's vote. we have to weight and see. >> the president is banking on the fact that the american people are sick of obamacare, said as much today

hewitt, bbc news, washington. the other top stories. governments and by that organisations have pledged more than $2 billion to make contraception more widely available. donors in london including the billation. milestone is not a finish—line. we have a lot of work ahead of us. our advocacy is needed now more than ever. this is a difficult political climate for family planning, and ever. this is a difficult political climate forfamily planning, and i am deeply troubled, as i am sure you are, by donald trump budget cuts. empowering women is more thanjust rhetoric for the president? prove it? a day after iraq declared mosul clear of islamic state, the human observatory for human rights claims the leader of islamic state is dead, al—baghdadi. however, this is not verified. there has been a lot of media interest in the whereabouts and status of al—baghdadi. despite all of the helpful reports to us and resources , all of the helpful reports to us and resources, i am unable to confirm or deny where he is and whether he is alive or dead. let me say for the record, my hope is the latter. the person accused of killing three partners and accused of killing a fourth has gone to court. she is japan

hewitt, bbc news, washington. our other top story: governments and private organisations have pledged more than $2 billion to make contraception more widely available. donors at a conference in london included the bill let me be really clear. a milestone is not a finish—line. we have a lot of work ahead of us. 0ur advocacy is needed now more than ever in this community. this is a difficult political climate for family planning, and i am deeply troubled, as i am sure you are, by the trump administration's proposed budget cuts. if empowering women is more than just rhetoric for the president, he'll prove it by funding family planning. also making news: a day after iraq declared it had driven islamic state from its stronghold of mosul, the syrian 0bservatory for human rights has claimed the is leader, abu bakral—baghdadi, is dead. the 0bservatory says it has obtained the information from is commanders, but the us—led coalition says it can't verify al—baghdadi's death. there's been a lot of media interest in the whereabouts and status of isis leader abu bakr al—baghdadi. despite all of the helpful reports to us from every source imagineable, i am unable to confirm or deny where he is and whether he is a

bill and fellow republican ben sasse of nebraska. let's bring in kelsey and molly and hugh, host of msnbc's hugh hewitt show. you suggest senator sasse could be influencing the president aes thinki -- president's thinking on this. >> i think what's important to note here is that sasse himself said that he had been speaking to the president, that there was this idea that, you know, he wanted to revive his original request that it just be repealed. so, sasse and rand paul both have always said that they didn't want to do repeal and replace at the same time. they said that you could do one and then move on to doing the other. it was the president himself who dismissed this in the first place so the fact that it's coming up again at the time when sasse has been taking credit for speaking with the president gives us some indication that he may have had some influence here. >> molly, is there a sense that there's momentum building on the hill for splitting this up with repeal and replace? >> well, it's interesting because you know, the first go round, when the house was dealing with all the intraparty fighting, ma

hewitt. monday through friday you hear me on salem radio network, saturday morning here on msnbc. later this morning, what does sean spicer's departure from the white house mean? is the gop health care bill really dead? my take on president trump's first six months. my first guest today is, gasp, an elected democrat, not just any democrat, but house of representatives's tim ryan, representing the heart of the country's historic western reserve. the steel valley, those of us from #theland. ryan is a graduate of this famed institution, john f. kennedy high school, which is also my high school. ryan played quarterback a few years after graduating from kennedy. i did not. ryan, you may recall, challenged nancy pelosi to be the house minority leader earlier this year. thank goodness he lost and house liberals returned her to her job. i think ryan would be well along in collecting democrats to their blue collar union roots and may be sitting on special election wins right now, not an unbroken record of losses since president trump took office. president trump knows this area of the country and this demographic was crucial to his victory in 2016 and his base of support even today which is why,

hewitt. monday through friday you hear me on salem radio network, saturday morning here on msnbc. later this morning, what does sean spicer's departure from the white house mean? is the gop health care bill really dead? my take on president trump's first six months. my first guest today is, gasp, an elected democrat, not just any democrat, but house of representatives's tim ryan, representing the heart of the country's historic western reserve. the steel valley, those of us from

republicans particularly to hugh hewitt's note earlier, you have murkowski and shelley moore capito, a constituency of women who don't some of the things of what this bill will do to planned parenthood and others. how do you get on the moderates onside? >> for seven years it was very easy for republicans to say look, we don't like affordable care act. when you come to finding the replacements there are more differences than we previously anticipated. the answer for mitch mcconnell, at least as it comes to this week, is let's just short debate on something. the argument he's making is we cannot have this argument about substance unless get to the argument first on a bill. presumably that's either the house passed bill or the most recent iteration of the senate bill. but mitch mcconnell's point is let's not get this bollixed up before we have the substantive discussion. >> lonnie, you worked for mitt romney who supported a universal coverage system. >> yeah. well, look, i personally think that coverage is an important goal. i think it's an important met rick but that's the kind of debate we need on the senate floor. we need a debate about what the right k

hewitt, host of the salem radio network, eliana >>> we are back here with our panelists. welcome all. i want to start by watching the dramatic moment on thursday night when senator john mccain's bill watching perhaps if you are on the right side, it is like watching the seahawks throwing the interception in the super bowl. you see john mccain coming up and getting the attention of the clerk and you hear the gasp when you see thumbs down and look at mitch mcconnell and cassidy and rubio, they are all just stunt in there. >> you did not need word to know what happened there hugh hewitt. >> it was so unexpected. look, three republicans voted for the status quo. senator collins and mccocaine and murkowski. this was a decision to stand pat. people's medical situation do not wait for the regular order of the senate. i think unless they decide that they got to get the conference and take the best to fix this, they have not serious. >> this goes baack before trump. >> a bill does not become a law by pass whatever you can and write it. >> no, that's not regular order. >> that's not how it should happen. senator mccain is right. we should be surprised, senator mccain says he was not going t