. >> reporter: brian schatz tweeting, cbo claims this thing is a bleep sandwich. and the cuts to medicaid will help save $321 billion over the next ten years, and that gives senate mitch mcconnell more room to negotiate as he faces protest in the ranks. >> there's no way we should be voting on this next week. >> reporter: ron johnson is one of five republicans who say they'll vote no without changes. with 52 senate republicans, only three no votes would sink the bill and many are undecided. are you a yes on the vote or a no? have you decided yet? >> no, i've still, i've read it this weekend, and there's still focussing on it. >> reporter: the president on the phone this weekend with conservatives and moderates, a delicate balancing act. >> you move it this way and this group doesn't like it. you move it over here, it's a very narrow path. >> reporter: the clock is ticking. after today's score, tuesday and wednesday will see last-minute changes then votes on democratic amendments likely late into the night. if all goes to plan, final passage thursday or friday. but

i'm joined now by senator brian schatz, a democrat from hawaii. senator, let me ask you first, do you agree with the president's lawyer that the testimony submitted by james comey vindicates the president entirely? >> think it's preposterous. i think if you're arguing that that ttimony vindicates your client, your client may be in trouble. you're right, chris, in your lead-up. this confirms all of the reporting of the "washington post" and "the new york times" over the last several weeks and months, and i think on a common-sense level, this is becoming obvious. this is exactly what it looks like. you have a president who intervened with the director of national intelligence, with the head of the national security agency, and with the head of the fbi six to nine times to basically tell them to knock it off, to stop this investigation. so it's increasingly hard to argue that this isn't exactly what it looks like. >> i want to get your reaction to a few parts of this, and this is a particular one we've previously reported but now on the record from c

. >> democratic senator brian schatz tweeting it's confirmed this thing is a [ bleep ] sandwich. and mitch mcconnell has more room to negotiate even though he faces protests in the ranks. >> i would like to delay the thing. there's no way we should be voting on this next week. >> senator johnson is one of five republicans who say they'll vote no without changes. only three no votes would sink the bill. >> are you a yes on the health care bill vote or a no? have you decided? >> no, i read it this weekend. i'm still focusing on it. >> the president on the phone with conservatives and moderates, a delicate balancing act. >> you move it this way and this group doesn't like it. you move it a little bit over here -- you have a very narrow path. >> where does the health care battle go from here, edward? >> frances, the very first challenge will come up today. the mission motion to succeed is expected to come up. if nothing changes in the language, republicans say there are four senators who will vote no on that proceeding forward. those senators are senators susan collins, senator rand

the late night speeches are being organized by patty murray of washington state and brian schatz of hawaii. you can follow live coverage of those senate speeches tonight over on c-span2. russian president vladimir putin held his 15th annual question and answer session in moscow last week where he heard from russians across their country. his televised session lasted close to four hours. next we'll show you about 45 minutes of that. >> mr. putin, so many people are calling you from different parts of the world. you can actually study the map. right now, we have a phone call from kiev. ask your question, please? >> my name is dmitry, i live in ukraine. why did you abandon us? we are not all supporters of -- we go to celebrations of the victory day, but why are we all represented in the same light in the media? mr. putin: thank you for your stance, thank you for respecting our legacy. you just said that you took part in the internal regimen march in memory. we do not try to present everyone in the same fashion. but again, we are afraid to offer public support. we are afraid to harm you. we tr

the late night speeches are being organized by patty murray of washington state and brian schatz of hawaii. you can follow live coverage of those senate speeches tonight over on c-span2. russian president vladimir putin held his 15th annu

according to democratic senator brian schatz, c.b.o. confirms this thing is a "blank" sandwich. now, we do not know yet what word there was redacted, so let's just say it's a "schatz sandwich." i trust i'm mispronouncing his name correctly. the american medical association has spoken out against it, saying while doctors all swear an oath to "first, do no harm," this bill violates that standard on many levels. honestly, i think-- i'm not sure it's true. it might be a matter of punctuation. all they have to do is change it from "first, do no harm" to "first: do? no! harm!" ancient greek. testify originally in ancient greek. ( applause ) even nevada republican senator and man looking at the photographer's belt buckle-- ( laughter ) hello! dean heller damned the bill, saying, "if this bill passes, the second biggest lie is your premiums are going down." of course, the first biggest lie is, "we'll only put the bill halfway in." ( laughter ) don't know what that means. makes no sense. meanwhile, house speaker and cyborg learning to smile, paul ryan, defended the bill this morning on f

that includes cory booker, chris murphy and brian schatz. and recorded their trip posted it online.ere is a bit of that. we are voting on health care for the united states of america and we don't have a copy of the bill. thatdo you think about yucca -- what do you think about that? >> i don't know. >> may be murphy can tell us why this is absurd that we don't have a copy of the bill and what we are doing. >> everybody knew what was in it. president obama went to the house republican conference and got in an argument with paul ryan. but theyed argument went toe to toe on health care. we understand they have the majority and if they can fifth -- there are so afraid of the american people finding out what's in this bill that they are hiding from everyone including united states senators. i just want to say about the one -- one thing about the great vehicle at cbo. they are a nonpartisan referee that tells you what the likely impact of your bill is which is why you've got to get a cbo score before you even consider a bill. saying republicans only to pass rather than the usual 61 in the

were doing their best to draw attention to the health care debate cory booker of new jersey and brian schatzook to facebook. mur with tweeted they went to the cbo headquarters, quote, on outside chance they will share the secret gop health care bill with three nice guys. and chuck schumer seized upon the president's description of the house bill to apply to the senate. >> in my entire career in politics, i've never heard of a more radical or more reckless process. senator mcconnell basically confirmed to me last night, in a discussion on the floor, that he's planning to allow only ten hours of total debate time for democrats on a bill that would affect one-sixth of our economy. and the lives of millions of americans. i think president trump summed up his health care bill best with one word. mean. for once, on the topic of health care, my colleagues and i find ourselves agreeing with the president. this bill is mean. >> but the white house said senator mcconnell said democrats' complaints were actually about fate. >> look at what schumer said about moveon.org call. say nothing democrat is goi

the round of speeches is being organized by senators patty murray of washington state and brian schatz of hawaii. bernie sanders was or sunday show yesterday on cnn "statestate of the union." he was asked if senate democrats are currently weighing to shut down the chambers business because of the healthcare battle. >> i think that the democrats and the congress should do everything possible, to defeat that legislation. which is unspeakable. how do you throw 23 million people off health insurance and same piece of legislation gives tax breaks to the wealthiest folks in this country. that has got to be defeated. as you indicated, we have insane process. insane. you have legislation which deals with 1/6 of the american economy. that's the healthcare situation. there are republicans who haven't seen this legislation and certainly no member in the democratic caucus has. what kind of process is it that when you deal with an issue that impacts millions of people in this country, republicans don't have the guts to allow it to go to a committee where questions can be asked. this legislation is

that was chris murphy and colleagues cory booker and brian schatz moment ago with our kasie hunt at theoffice. they were trying to find the republican senate health care bill. let's get the inside scoop from jonathan capehart, msnbc contributor, and karen tumulty, "washington post" political correspondent. it is a stunt but there's a point to be made, jonathan? >> yes, because this is all being done in secret, behind closed doors. in the same manner republicans criticized democrats of doing back when the affordable care act was being negotiated. the rub here for democrats is i think you may have shown this earlier with chuck schumer asking mcconnell will there be time given for us to offer amendments and not getting an a confirmation that will happen. >> the republicans are supposed to be briefing everyone tomorrow, karen, a briefing for republican side. clearly the details are going to leak out. >> yeah. and i think at this point the calculation, and yes, it is hypocritical because hypocrisy is the seat made of power in washington. i think they have decided that having people criticize

today we have three senators, senator cory booker from new jersey, chris murphy from connecticut, brian schatz from hawaii, they got in a cab that dropped them off on the wrong corner so they had to walk around the block to come in here to meet with the congressional budget office director. why are they doing that? because they know that republicans have sent pieces of this bill to the cbo so when they do have that final product they're going to be able to get a score. the cbo essentially analyzes things and says this is how much this is going to cost. if they want them to be able to turn around quickly, they have to of course give them pieces of it in advance. three of them went in back here, went in, met with the director. here's what they said when they came out of the office. >> news flash, we didn't get the bill. but we didn't get the bill because the cbo has -- and understandab understandable, a confidentiality agreement with the people they're working with. >> the full bill? >> they would not confirm they are working on the bill. >> reporter: there you have it. not unexpected. it is not

fellow cochairs of the senate tourism caucus, senator amy klobuchar and senator heller and senator brian schatz led the senate in passage of a resolution recognizing the week of may 7 as the national travel and tourism week. there are really good statistics whether it's missouri or west virginia or the country at large on this topic. one out of every nine jobs in the united states depends on travel and tourism. it accounts for over 15 million jobs nationwide. international travel to the united states is our single largest export industry, the single largest thing where people bring money into our country is tourism to the united states. it generates a trade surplus of roughly $87 billion. and of that trade surplus with foreign travelers, foreign travelers stay longer. they spend more. and they like us better when they leave virtually 100% of the time than they did when they got here, even if they thought they were going to like us a lot, they wind up liking us more. if they question whether they were going to like us at all, they almost always wind up on the very positive side of that question.

and democratic senator brian schatz responded, that's not true. there are no nominees for the state department, for ambassadors, for the defense department. >>> president trump has an announcement today regarding air-traffic controllers and sent out several tweets this morning one criticizing the justice department over the travel ban. we'll bring you live coverage this afternoon of today's white house briefing. it's scheduled for 1:30 eastern with sarah huckabee sanders. congress returns from the ten day memorial day recess today. the senate meets at 3:00 p.m. eastern. with a vote scheduled for 5:30 p.m. the house returns tomorrow. the main bill this week, repeal of the dodd-frank law. the senate is live on c-span2. former fbi director james comey testifies thursday before the senate intelligence committee investigating russian activities during last year's election. the committee says director comey will testify in an open session which will be followed by a closed one. c-span3 will have live coverage of the open part of the hearing at 10 hearin