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you will hear john cornyn, number two in the senate, and he didn't seem overly optimistic that somehow all of this was still going to move forward. he was as optimistic as he felt comfortable being, but it didn't seem -- i didn't detect confidence this bill is on track to getting done. >> we have run out of time, but russia, russia, russia. you have the virginia senator, and president trump's personal lawyer coming up and the exclusive interview with john cornyn in just a few minutes. >> good show. don't miss it. russian, health care, a lot of stuff. >> thank you. you can see "meet the press" coming up at and from chuck, we switch it over to lauryn ricketts. >> much easier things to talk about. we have sunshine and low humidity. heat and humidity come back as we get into the workweek, and other than that, not looking too bad for this sunday. go out and have yourself a little fun day out there because it's just going to be that beautiful. you don't get this weather in july especially with the low humidity. we have another great day as i said, and heat and humidity return next week, and

senator john cornyn, a republican from texas, said donald trump junior should in fact testified before the committee. i also just interviewed house freedom caucus chairman mark meadows, a republican who says , he hopes the special prosecutor robert mueller will be able to get to the bottom of this. i apologize, special counsel robert mueller, will get to the bottom of this. he was echoed by senator marco rubio, saying the investigators do need to look into these new emails. emily: so what are the next steps, and how does this affect the special investigation? reporter: i can tell you that there will be poignant questions at the hearing tomorrow on this to christopher wray, particularly how he plans to take up the ongoing investigation into whether there was any kind of relationship with the russians and the trump campaign. we should note it was not just donald trump junior at this meeting. it was also jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and

chairman cornyn, ranking member durbin and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear today, to discuss the work in progress at the department of homeland security, to identify report and address overstays. some 50 million nonimmigrant visitors enter the united states each year, they enter for business, to study, to see family, or to vacation here. the su states welcomes these visitors while recognizing it's imperative they depart the country when their visas or periods of authorized admission expires. our ability to identify foreign nationals who oversay their visa is important for numerous reasons. chief we need to determine whether or not individuals pose a threat to national security, or to public safety. we need to protect the integrity of our immigration system by removing those who are present in violation of law. i've used my time to focus on the fiscal year 2016 entry/exit overstay report and steps we're taking to address the findings in the report. as you know, dhs released the fy 16 overstay report in may. it contains important data not

senator john cornyn of texas is the republican there.of the job it is to find republicans voting yes. senator cornyn, welcome back to the show, sir. >> thank you, chuck, great to be with you. >> lets start with the delay, one of the things that sort of raise a yellow flag in my eye was the fact that senator mcconnell did not commit that we are going to debate as soon as senator mccain is back. can you say with 100 percent conviction that you will begin the debate and get this bill on the floor when senator mccain returns to washington? >> yes, i believe as soon as we have a full contingent of senators that we'll have that vote. it is important that we do so. >> what does it say that you needed that one vote just simply to bring the bill to the floor, obviously, this bill is a tough bill for, i would say at least a dozen senators to vote for on your side of the isle. what does it say here that one missing republicans could upset the entire bill? >> well, healthcare is hard and we know that. we have no choice to try to come to the rescue m

. >> theirman cornyn, ranking member doshen and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to talk to you today to highlight the improvements hsi has implemented in overstay enforcement. ctcu focuses on identifying and prioritizing its enforcement efforts on overstays that remain in the country. they investigate over 3,000 potential overstay leads. these leads come from border protections arrival system and from other referrals on foreign nationals who may have over stayed or otherwise violated the terms of theirads mission to the u.s. the leads over seen under go an automated process. c ctcu's vetting process is designed to protect individuals exhibiting specific risk factors based on intelligence reporting, travel patterns, and the depth criminal analysis. they chair the advisory panel compromised of other experts from other agencies and members of the community who assist ctcu in the current threats information. it updates ctcu's targeting framework. in fiscal year '16 hsi reviewed approximately 1.2 million unvalidated overstay leaves. a change in sta

. >> so the delay here, allan, help or hurt when cornyn, he's seemed fairly optimistic today, senator the whip, he's seeming fairly optimistic, yeah, might not be so bad. >> the delay, it's definitely not a good thing. it has more time for the new cbo score to come out, which all that could do since you're going to have the number of people losing health care insurance blasted around, it's going to be talked about all day for the coming days after that comes out. you know, the people on the fence, the murkowskis, hellers, capitos. >> more alaska deals, though, to get the vote over the line? >> maybe. who knows? looks like susan collins is a definite no, rand paul, nothing can happen to get him to yes. not a single other person that you can lose. proof of that is the fact mccain can't be there this week, they are going to postpone it, which is an acknowledgment collins or paul aren't going to be voting to advance the bill forward. so they've got minimal space to work with. it's not necessarily a great thing to have to delay it for another week. >> sarah, senator cornyn was saying if he

do you agree with him or senator john cornyn who said we are having a hearing in october? guest: i'm in favor of having it later. the house is being much more productive than the senate. for some of us, we've been working on legislation for years . it's less about a grand scheme to find a way to bring down the debt. survive and postpone it coming debt crisis. it gets into geeky stuff. how do you sell bonds? what type of bond that would be typed to economic growth. a gdp related bond -- if we were to ever go into recession, the payments out are sympathetic with revenues. even down to sweeping appropriated but unauthorized accounts. we believe there's billions and billions of dollars up and down the federal government that was no authorization on how and these are just management tools. host: these are proposals you put forward, correct? guest: we are hoping that that becomes part of the debt ceiling discussion. require the treasury to issue gross domestic product length if the debt ceiling is reached. love the president to authorize certain government assets. are you saying

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cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i have 11 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. these have been approved by both the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. cornyn: i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. a senator: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, each michigander i talk to has their own unique hopes and dreams, but some aspects of the american dream are truly universitial. financial security, the opportunity for your children to grow and prosper and for a dignified retirement. mr. peters: we know there are almost limitless paths to achieved these shared goals. for my parents' generation, this often meant a fair day's pay for a day of hard work, a wage that grew steadily over time and perhaps a pensi

cornyn: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: mr. president, after weeks -- well, make that months -- make that years of discussions about the path forward to rescue the people from obamacare, we find ourselves at an important fork in the road. we have talked among ourselves about the necessity of keeping our promises to repeal and replace obamacare, but we're coming down to the reality that without democrats being willing to participate in the process and giving the strictures of the reconciliation process, that it's not going to be possible for us to do as much as we would like to do. but we continue to talk and my hope is that we will continue to make progress with some sort of consensus on how best to proceed. in the meantime, we do have a bill that 51 republicans voted for in 2015 to repeal obamacare and leave two years available for a transition on a bipartisan basis. but i have to tell you, mr. p

john cornyn will be with us in just a moment. to fbn's gerri willis with the latest. hey, gerri? >> hi

it's important we do so. >> that was senator john cornyn.putting the gop health care bill in question, senator susan collins and john -- have come occupy gebs the bill. they expressed their doubts just yesterday morning. meanwhile, many had expected the congressional budget office to release a score on the revised bill today, but that too has been delayed. it's unclear right now when that score will be released. >>> meanwhile, a new washington post, abc news poll shows half of all americans, they prefer the current health care law. about one quarter want the republican option being pushed now. 17% would prefer something else altogether. when it comes to priorities, 63% of americans say it's more important for the federal government to provide coverage for low income americans. 27% say the government should prioritize tax cuts. >> the president's legal team is insisting he knew little about the june 20 san francisco trump tower as more details continue to come to light. we now know that along with top trump campaign aides russian lawyer natal

with john cornyn the other night, we had a couple of things that we put down on paper. i will read them very fast. these are the things that are done. the democrats are always selling their plan, but they don't do that anymore. they don't talk about obama care anymore because they can't because it is failed. they know it. so they are selling their plan and we never sold our plan. so we wrote down these few things. repeals the individual mandate. how big is that? what people are paying -- where people are paying a to have insurance. repeals job killing employer mandate. how big is that? substantially lower premiums. and remember this. cross country lines, cross state lines. where it is almost impossible for insurance companies to compete in different states. we can't because of unfortunately the 60 votes. but it will come very soon. we are putting in a popular bill. and that will come and your premiums will be down 60% and 70%. people don't know that. nobody hears it. nobody talks about it. we will have to cross state lines. you will have insurance companies bidding -- y

mcconnell, blunt and cornyn. >> drama. high drama. i would say high noon. >> high midnight. >> high almost 1:00 a.m. it is high drama to see how this is going to go down. if this fails, this is the ultimate last ditch to keep this idea of repealing obamacare alive. if this fails, and we have to underscore john mccain, who on tuesday, came in with such drama, wanting to be a part of this debate, after he had brain surgery last week and got a horrible diagnosis, he could be -- he is likely to be the guy who decides whether or not this continues or not. just to bring it back on what will determine that, a big question has been whether or not the senators who do not like -- frankly hate, and are clotloath imagine the bill they have before them, the law of the land, the employer mandate, and other things without productions they believe will destabilize the insurance markets. to do this only as a process move to get it to conference. he, john mccain, will take the house speaker, paul ryan at his word. that paul ryan promises that they will

cornyn. ms. cortez masto. mr. cotton. mr. crapo. mr. cruz. mr. daines. mr. donnelly. >> no. >> ms.uckworth? >> no. >> mr. durbin? mr. enzi. mrs. ernst. mrs. feinstein. mrs. fisher? mr. blake? mr. franken? >> no. >> mr. gardner? >> i hear them. >> mrs. gillibrand. >> no. >> mr. graham? mr. grassley? ms. harris? >> no. >> ms. has semsem. >> mr. heinrich. >> no. >> mhide camp. >> mr. hirono. >> no. >> mr. hoven? mr. inhofe? mr. isackson. >> aye. >> mr. johnson? >> aye. >> mr. cain? >> no. >> mr. kennedy? mr. king? ms. klobuchar? >> no. >> mr. lankford? >> aye. >> mr. leahy? >> no. >> mr. lee? >> aye. >> mr. manchin? >> no. >> mr. markey? >> no. >> mr. mccain? mrs. mccaskill? >> no. >> mr. mcconnell? mr. menendez? >> no. >> mr. merkley? >> no. >> mr. moran? ms. murkowski? >> no. >> mr. murphy? >> no. >> mrs. murray? >> no. >> mr. nelson? >> no. >> mr. paul? >> aye. >> mr. purdue? >> no. -- sorry, yes. >> mr. peters? >> no. mr. portman? mr. reed? mr. reich? >> aye. >> mr. roberts? mr. rounds. >> aye. >> mr. rubio? mr. sanders? >> no. >> mr. sasse? mr. schatz? >> no. >> mr. schumer? >> n

senator john cornyn is the republican whip and he is the man to find 50 votes. sir. >> thanks, chuck, good to be with you. >> let me start with the delay. one of the things that sort of raised a yellow flag in my eye was the fact that senator mcconnell didn't seem to commit that we're going to begin debate as soon as senator mccain is back. can you say with 100% conviction that you're going to begin the debate and get this bill to the floor when senator mccain returns to washington? >> well, first of all, chuck, we all wish john mccain a speedy recovery, and we need him in more ways than one. but yes, i believe as soon as we have a full contingent of senators, that we'll have that vote. it's important we do so. >> you know, what does it say that you needed that one vote just simply to bring the bill to the floor? obviously this bill is a tough bill for i would say at least a dozen senators to vote for on your side of the aisle. what does it say that one missing republican could actually upset the entire apple cart? >> well, health care is hard. we know that. but

i'll talk to the man who counts the votes, republican senator john cornyn of texas. >>> and what do voters in trump country think of the president right now? the latest from a special new nbc news/"wall street journal" survey. joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news special correspondent tom brokaw, presidential historian, doris kearns goodwin. former head of the american conservative union al cardenas and danielle pletka of the american enterprise institute. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> good sunday morning. to those who remember watergate, the seminal moment may have been dean said he told president nixon there was a cancer on the presidency. this appears to be the week that the russia story has metastasized. the gap between the original story donald trump jr. told and what we have learned to be the truth grows by the day and with each new piece of evidence, the white house is forced to revise and extend its remarks. in one week we move from the white house and trump junior denying ever having met with russians through a series of concessions and evolving explana

senator cornyn: to try to do better, to stabilize the markets, to bring premiums down, to protect people with pre-existing conditions and then to put medicaid, the safety net program for the oor, on a sustainable fiscal path. or what senator schumer and senate democrats apparently believe is a better course. no reforms, no changes. just bailout insurance companies by throwing billions of dollars at them without any reform. we're not interested in that. we think we got a better plan. we invite our democratic colleagues to join us. under the budget process they have an opportunity to offer amendments to the plan. there's no restriction. so we would invite them to participate in the process to come up with a better product than the failure of obamacare, much less bailing out insurance companies by throwing billions of dollars at them trying to prop up a failed experiment. >> the news on health care doesn't get any better for people in this country. there are going to be two million fewer people this year with insurance than had it last year, so the number of uninsured goes up, the costs con

with john cornyn the other night, we had a couple of things we put down on paper.ill read them really fast but these are some of the things we have done. the democrats are always selling their plan but they don't do that anymore. they don't talk about obamacare because it has failed. they know it. they are selling their plan. we never sell our plan. if we are weak on anything, it's letting people know how good it is. we wrote down these few things. it repeals the individual mandate. how big is that? where people are paying not to have insurance. nobody talks about that. it repeals job killing employer mandates. how big is that? will substantially lower premiums. cross-country where cross state lines it so most impossible for insurance companies to compete in different states, we can't because of the 60 votes. it's going to come very soon and we are putting it in a popular bill and that will come. that will come in your premiums will be down 60 and 70%. nobodydon't know that, talks about that. your premiums are going to -- we will have to cross state lines and you'l

mitch mcconnell and john cornyn said a revised bill will be out next week. and they say it will likely be further to the right which will further alienate moderates who are looking to protect medicaid in their state. this afternoon senator mcconnell said he's delaying the august recess so they can get things done. is there any way to avoid another catastrophe? i don't see this thing passing, matt. i know there are people like mike lee. on this issue ted cruz is fighting the good fight to try to desocialize this bill. >> donald trump is supporting that right now. that's heading to a showdown. when the cruz-lee amendment gets up. mike lee told me there is no way he would vote for any bill that doesn't include the cruz-lee amendment. so if they decide in that bill to write those things it will be up to the moderates to see what they are going to do. but everything i have seen from susan collins on down, someone will look at donald trump and say you don't get to have your bill. kennedy: the cruz-lee bill doesn't tackle the medicaid expansion. you could give peop

senator john cornyn is the republican whip and he is the man to find 50 votes. the show, sir. >> thanks, chuck, good to be with you. >> let me start with the delay. one of the things that sort of raised a yellow flag in my eye was the fact that senator mcconnell didn't seem to commit that we're going to begin debate as soon as senator mccain is back. can you say with 100% conviction that you're going to begin the debate and get this bill to the floor when senator mccain returns to washington? >> well, first of all, is nties that flipped from president obama to donald trump. just 44% of these flip counties approve of the president. 51 kpkt disapprove. think mccomb in michigan, for instance. combine the two groups. 50% approve, 40% disapprove. in the places that helped get donald trump elected he's doing better overall but i can argue 56% is not a good number in those areas. >> well, you can argue that. there are three things you need to do. look, to push this stuff in a congress that's so close in terms of votes, you need high public opinion numbers. you need tho

senator john cornyn discussing the timeline in neil cavuto. >> perhaps early tuesday, wednesday we will have this type of bill, we will have a votorama, unlimited amendments and opportunity for people to offer other suggestions and improvement on the floor of the senate. it's important that we get this done and get it done soon. my next is my expectation. lauren: all right but several gop sources tell fox they are skeptical that senate will be ready to vote that soon. senator ted cruz is calling on lawmakers to work through agust recess. >> a bunch of us that has been urging leadership back in january. let's not take any recesses, let's work every day and let's work weekends until we get the job done. lauren: to highlight important it was it would be catastrophic for the republican party if they can't repeal obamacare, they have to do this morning. cheryl: he has 10 no's. ted cruz as well. another story we are following for you. newspaper publishers are seeking congressional in order to regain their share of advertising revenue. lauren: let's bring in tracee carrasco joining us now with

on the senate flor monday, majority whip john cornyn said to not hold a vote would mean a vote for the status quo. here is a look. >> thank you, madam president. i know we are happy to be back in washington d.c. i know many of us are trying to rescue people from the failureoffs the affordable care act otherwise known as obamacare. the failures of obamacare are well documented and while they don't apply to everyone in particular individuals and small businesses in the so-called individual market have seen a meltdown of the insurance exchanges, the presiding officer in her home state of iowa. you have had people pulling out and that is because the affordable care act was unfortunately a partisan exercise and a failed big government experiment. all you have to do is look at the promises at the time obamacare was being sold in 2009 and 2010. the president said if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. that proved to not be true. he said if you like your policy, you can keep your policy. perhaps the thing that stung the most was the fact the president said back in 2009 and 2010 that

cornyn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: i am advised we are not in a quorum call, is that correct? the presiding officer: that's correct. mr. cornyn: mr. president, yesterday, we took a giant step toward delivering on our promise to the american people to provide relief from the failures of the affordable care act, otherwise known as obamacare. over the last seven years, we have discussed what our solution would look like, and everybody who has been willing to participate in that conversation, sadly, not our democratic colleagues who simply refused to do so, but every member of our conference has engaged in discussions and had input on how best to accomplish the goal of providing people affordable coverage, increased access, market stability and better care. we can talk about all of the details, but basically what this boils down to is how do we provide people with access to quality, affordable health care. i know some of our friends across the aisle thought t

- i'm talking about you people, because you won't have health care. ( laughter ) and senator john cornyntexas had a cute analogy for the secret health care bill, saying, ( laughter ) is this how john cornyn thinks babies are made? "darlin', what do you say we pop a bottle of wine and enter a secret committee overseen by mitch mcconnell-- if you know what i mean." and this secret baby must be a real monster, because even republican senators are unaware of the health care details. so they're voting for something they've never seen. it's like "the dating game." "healthcare bill number 1: if you were a bird, would you cover pre-existing conditions?" "not on the first date." ♪ ♪ ( laughter ) ( applause ) you can't really blame them. this is a very delicate negotiation. if the bill is too harsh, they'll lose moderates like maine senator susan collins. but if the bill is too generous, they'll lose fiscal conservatives like ohio senator chuck reaper. ( laughter ) now, senate republicans met with the president to discuss the healthcare bill, and he told them he was glad they were working on it, b

so the skinny repeal which is going to be coming down the pike, john cornyn said we will see the text of the repeal within 24 hours, the skinny repeal would repeal the individual mandate and the employer mandate to buy insurance. that's not enough to consider senators portman or collins to jump on board. that's in danger. here's what senator john cornyn said moments ago. >> once we got on the bill, there is expedited process, 20 hours of debate and the famous vote-a-rama at the end where we vote until we get fatigues and worn out and quit. so we'll conclude one way or another either late thursday night or friday morning. >> reporter: there you heard it, vote-a-rama, voting on aufrl the amendments. the only one that matters is final vote, that's most likely a vote on skinny repeal, repeal of individual and employer mandates, not sufficient for senator portman or senator collins. back to you. melissa: breaking news, facebook is reporting second quarter results. let's go back to nicole petallides, she's got the numbers, nicole? >> reporter: all right, earnings per share and revenue beat

the white house and republican whip john cornyn were given a heads-up on the defections.mong lawmakers, mixed reaction to the news of the senate bill's collapse. >> john mccain in arizona, where he is recovering from surgery, calling for a new, more bipartisan approach. he wrote, "we must not repeat the original mistakes that led to obamacare's failure. congress must now return to regular order, hold hearings, receive input from members of both parties, and heed the recommendations of our nation's governors so that we can produce a bill that finally provides americans with access to quality and affordable health care." >> that while recovering from surgery! meantime, democrats scoffed at the president's claim that they would join in a repeal now, replace later effort. connecticut senator chris murphy tweeting, "please, please, please don't call this repeal, then replace. they have proven they can't come up with a replacement. this is repeal, full stop." >> in california, congressman adam schiff tweeted "to destroy a health care system that works is the height of irrespons

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cornyn: thank you, madam president. i know we're all glad to be back in washington, d.c. at work after a few days back home, and i know many of us are eager to continue our work to rescue the american people from the failures of the affordable care act, otherwise known as obamacare. the failures of obamacare are well dowcted and while they don't -- documented and while they don't necessarily apply to everyone, in particular individuals and small businesses in the so-called individual market have seen a meltdown of the insurance exchanges. the presiding officer in her home state of ie warks you've had insurance -- iowa, you've had insurance companies pulling out to the point people can't find an insurance carrier that will sell a policy that qualifies under the affordable care act. that is because the affordable care act was, unfortunately, a partisan exercise and a failed big government experiment that has failed. all you have to do is look at the promises that were made at the time that obamacare was being sold back in 2009 and 2010. but the president himself said that i

senate republicans, following the failed so-called skinny obama carry peel legislation as ashley cornyn reports many are asking what is next in the health care battle. >> reporter: president trump launched a tirade of tweets on saturday just one day after the senate derailed the g.o.p. 's seven year campaign to repeal and replace the affordable care act. trump called for senate to get rid of the 60 vote filibuster rule which requires 60 senators to agree in order to end debate and move forward to a vote on a piece of legislation, g.o.p.'s skinny repeal introduced by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell late thursday failed in an early morning vote by 49 -51. no votes came from all 48 democrats, and three republicans senators, susan collins of maine, lisa more cow ski of alaska and john mccain of arizona hoist under going cancer treatment. >> credit goes to lot of people but at top of the list are the three who shows amazing courage to resist pressure and do what is good for the country. >> reporter: house approved its house measure in may and many house republicans say it is time to r

john cornyn, the republican whip who sits on the committee, says he's willing to talk to don jr. but doesn't see the evidence yet that mark warner does. clearly a new focus of the investigation looking into possible areas of coordinations and discussions that may have occurred between trump officials and russian officials during the campaign season. >> and this could be very crucial in terms of that possible connection. thank you, manu. jeff zeleny is at the white house. jeff, the white house is trying to distance themselves, just as the president, that is, from this particular meeting with three of the people closest to him were all in attendance. they are just saying he just found out about it now even though, muof course, it happene in trump tower. >> reporter: they say the president just learned about this reading the news reports flying back from germany when that story first broke in "the new york times" on a saturday afternoon. the issue here, though, is the president has said repeatedly that he has no knowledge of any meetings with the russian officials. he said in a pres

. >> the number two senate republican john cornyn there talking about senator john mccain's surgery on friday to remove a blood clot from above his left eye. because of that, a vote that was planned for this week on the senate gop health care bill is being postponed as senator mccain, his support is crucial for the measure to win approval. it wasn't 100% approval he was on side for the bill. his surgery may be more serious than thought, which could delay his return from his home where he's recuperating. garrett, good to see you. what's the issue with john mccain? i think a lot of people may have missed the story from the beginning. tell us what happened and what the recovery time looks like. >> sure, ali. saturday john mccain's office put out a statement about this. they said he was having his regular annual physical and they found a blood clot behind his eye, 7 centimeters long, works out to about 2 inches. they had surgery to remove the blood clot, a minimally invasive procedure, but also a craniotomy, which means they would have to remove part of his skull to do it. john mccain was

cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: mr. president, this week we are about the business of keeping our promis promises. for seven years we have promised to help the millions of americans who've been let down, no the to mention deceived, by the promises of obamacare. and it's absolutely critical we fulfill our commitments. this is not just about moving past the failures of obamacare but also laying the groundwork for providing americans access to better care. we've said all along that we have four principles. one is to help stabilize the insurance markets so that people living in iowa, for example, would make sure they have a place they can actually buy health insurance. it's about getting premiums lower by eliminating the mandates and making it possible for people to choose alternatives that happen to suit their needs at a price they can afford. third, we said we're going to continue to do everything in our power to protect people with preexisting conditions so that they are not afraid about changing jobs and being excluded

tomorrow on "meet the press," chuck todd will talk with mark warner and john cornyn and president trump's attorney jay sekulow. it's all tomorrow at 10:30. >>> a deadly fire races through a high rise apartment in moon lulu. what investigators are revealing with the sprinklers in the building. that is next. >>> and ahead at 5:45, the worst nightmare for a bride to be, a local bridal shop closes without warning. >>> let's talk about today. our forecast looking much better than the last several days have, but it's not a perfect forecast. we start out this morning with a little more cloud coverage than we should see this afternoon. we'll have a mostly sunny forecast ahead. we're starting in the low to mid-70s. we jump up will to the upper 70s pretty quickly and then we're in the mid to upper 80s by this afternoon. forecast high temperatures in the upper 80s through philadelphia which means that we're close to average for this time of year and we may see just a spot shower this afternoon. in the suburbs, 83 by 2:00. about the same in the lehigh valley. mid to upper 80s for delaware, new jersey

cornyn and i do not want apa, i'm sorry, a.c.a. repealed. underpinnings of the a.c.a. ignificant things to help all mericans, understand their health insurance, understand what healthcare is available to improved the ng situation. i'm tired of the seven-year history. started in 2014, as far as the private market is concerned. grateful to the kaiser family foundation and other sites. kaiser family foundation is kff.org, you can trace what is going on and analyze it and at the county ht level within your state. becausegrateful to them an educated voter is an important voter. thank you. looking for your tweets this morning as we have this conversation. sheperedson, the g.o.p. does not have a healthcare bill for the l and tax cuts rich, the rest of us, nothing. place rural ction hospitals in jeopardy and if closed, nearby air force base close, as well. kevin in daytona beach, florida, is your message to the senate before the vote today? called before ve and told them, to fix from care, take it away congress. but what i really called about the medicare, if you took my on so

tonight mcconnell's number two, senator john cornyn of texas says the newest version of the bill would keep the tax hike in place to keep premiums and deductibles in check. still no change in the plan to roll back medicaid expansion. >>> a new book of photos from michelle obama's time in the white house shouldn't have problems with sales. it will have 150 shots of color photos of the former first lady. it will be called "chasing light." it will come out before photos of president obama. >>> bottlenecks in your own neighborhood. your street clogged with people parking who don't live there. the news 4 i-team working for you to find out what you can do >>> and got a few >>> parking. it's becoming more and more difficult to find even near your own home. a news 4 i-team investigation shows a spike in people parking their cars in neighborhoods where they don't live. >> as scott mcfarland shows us, it has officers in our region hunting parking predators. ♪ >> reporter: you pay a fortune for your home. and every inch of the yard. so it's frustrating when your front curb, for hours at a time. d

. >> host: one other quick question because i think senator cornyn may refer to this debate earlier.he was talking about texas experience with medicaid doctors and finding after the expansion a lot fewer i guess si would say doctors were taking medicaid patients because they weren't being reimbursed. are you finding that in new york as well? >> caller: i do know that many doctors here in new york do not accept medicaid patients because medicaid is a very complicated system with reimbursements and it costs a lot of money and terms of office staff and resources to get there. i do know that without these practices that accept medicaid being there are so few of them they are getting essential medical care to people who most need it so they are very valuable resource to the community. post do appreciate your input input. let's go to next to st. paul, minnesota and this is jan on our democrat line. hello there. >> caller: hello. first of all i want to say how much i appreciate c-span. i always tune into it he could they think you are pretty fair as you analyze the news but like your previo

kasie, there's a tweet we're following from senator cornyn about john mccain? >> yeah.rnyn has said they're trying to convince john mccain's doctors let him come back and take a vote tomorrow on this critical motion to start debate on the health care bill. we know that the president has said, we need his vote. nobody has ruled out completely the possibility that mccain might come up here. i mean, you have known him well over the years. those close to him have said, young, the last thing he wants to do is sit around in arizona. he wants to be, you know, doing what he can do with everything he has here and they do really need him. so you know, i think hopefully we'll some more formal word from his office tonight. i think there's possibly a question about, you know, whether or not he would be the deciding vote. that would be a different scenario. you know, if republican leads are hearing behind the scenes that murkowski and capito are potentially willing to say yes, then you're talking about a different conversation. >> you were laughing through that. you know john mccain.

gentlemen, thank all of you for being here and senator cornyn had to stop out for a 4:00 commitment soi will be closing out the hearing and i appreciate your participation today. we will keep the record open for a period of one week. if there is any follow-up questions on behalf of the members. i thank you all for your service and particular thanks to folks on the front lines doing their jobs. we appreciate it. this meeting is adjourned. gnawed you gnawed. [inaudible conversations]. >> with the help of our comcast partners this weekend the c-span cities tour takes booktv and american history tv to concord, massachusetts, where the first shots of the american revolution were fired. and then less than a century later, a writer's revolution takes place as the town becomes home to ralph waldo emerson, henry david thoreau and luisa may alcott. saturday, noon eastern on booktv, we'll take you inside of orchard house, where luisa may alcott lived and wrote the

cornyn, i sendohn a postcard every monday, they call.answer the urgess says health care is not a right. i make $736 a month, less than $10,000 a year. i will not have a health savings to remember people th -- can't buy and can't take family.their they care about me. how ed and blue, that is they make money off of it, fighting and quit blaming media worrying about russia will be taken care of by mueller. health care, s on we all see it and are hurting. that is what i want to tell you, time.you for the host: thank you, deb, thank you for sharing your situation with our audience. south bend, indiana, you are on the lieb now. democrats only, your view of the healthcare situation this far and the failure on the part of the g.o.p.? caller: yeah, i love your show. affordable care act should be termed wall street care. positions for national health and we wish expose c-span would cover numbers of the top five u.s. health nsurers by the statements that sore. title of the bill is medicare single payer john you want to get involved, call your congressman. senators told them to support single paye

now with jon cornyn, the other night, we put some of these things on paper and the democrats are always selling their plan, but they don't do that anymore. they don't talk about obamacare anymore because they can't, because it's failed. they know it. so they're selling their plan and we never sell our plan. if we're weak on anything, it's on letting people know how good it was so we wrote down these few things. repeals the individual mandate, how big is that? where people are paying not to have insurance. nobody talks about that. repeals, job-killing employer mandate. how big is that? we'll substantially lower premiums and remember this, cross-country lines, cross-state lines where you have -- where it's almost impossible for insurance companies to compete in different states, we can't because of, unfortunately, the 60 votes, but it's going to come very soon and we're putting it in a popular bill and that will come and your premiums will be down 60% and 70%. people don't know that. nobody hears it and nobody talkses about it, but your premiums are going to. we'll have to cross state lin

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cornyn: i'd ask at that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the question is on the amendment. mr. cornyn: i'd ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: on this vote the yeas are 45, the nays are 55. the amendment is not agreed to. the presiding officer: the question is on the donnelly motion. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to change their vote? if not, the yeas are 48, the nays are 52. the motion is not agreed to. the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: mr. president, i have a motion to commit at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: mr. casey moves to commit the bill to the committee on finance with instructions to report the same back to the senate within three days with changes within the jurisdiction of suc

that president trump wanted to consult with veteran senators like lamar alexander, roy blunt, john cornyn, people who were no stranger to tough legislative battles, he thought he could map out a strategy and then move forward and get this bill over the finish line. it is a miscalculation on the part of the white house. and obviously a big defeat and setback for this president who has campaigned on a promise to repeal and replace obamacare. that's why you're seeing the white house really push this new strategy, andrea, to repeal and then replace later. because the president feels as though he's got to fulfill that campaign promise. remember, he doesn't have any major legislative victories yet. this was the first victory he was looking for. and without getting health care reform, without getting rid of those obamacare taxes, it makes broad tax reform very difficult. and it complicates the rest of his domestic agenda, frankly. so that is why you're seeing this plan b go into effect. but as you and casey have been talking about, it is very politically perilous. there is no guarantee they're g