eliza collins, who reports on congress for usa today. thank you for your time. guest: thank you for having me. host: another story from the washington times focuses on attorney general jeff sessions, saying he is expected to provide amended written testimony to respond to questions about his contacts with the russian move unlikely to satisfy democrats in the senate. fiesta committee chairman to hold a follow-up hearing so they can question mr. sessions about his failure to disclose the andings with the ambassador his decision to recuse himself from any investigations weighted to the potential campaign. the sensors wrote that they believe that they do not believe submission to correct the record is sufficient. we have been asking you to give your level of trust and political institutions. this is gordon, who says institutions are like my dog, only as good as they have to be. we need a free and unencumbered press. we have the structure, we just need people of integrity. we do, mostly. ted, joining us from washington student -- washington state, republican. caller:

health plan will lead to a backlash with voters and suggested that republicans ba joining me now is eliza collins, politics reporter for "usa today," and jonathan allen, author and journalist who is currently working on a book about the 2016 election. eliza, let me go to you on this health care plan and the politics of it. some are saying it's going to, according to the cbo report, they're projecting 14 million people next year, 24 to 26 million over a period of time losing their health care. many of them are in donald trump's base, and certainly with a lot of the republicans members of the house, some in the senate facing election next year, that politically, this could be really, really bad for them. >> i think the point you said about being in the same base is crucial, because the trump voter is an in general lower class -- or not in general, but the lower class, middle class voted for trump, and they're the people who benefited the most from -- >> lower income class. >> lower in income. >> not that they don't have any class. >> yes, they're very classy, but they're the people that benefited t

eliza collins, who reports on congress for usa today. thank you for your time.uest: thank you for having me. host: another story from the washington times focuses on attorney general jeff sessions, saying he is expected to provide amended written testimony to respond to questions about his contacts with the russian move unlikely to satisfy democrats in the senate. fiesta committee chairman to hold a follow-up hearing so they can question mr. sessions about his failure to disclose the andings with the ambassador his decision to recuse himself from any investigations weighted to the potential campaign. the sensors wrote that they believe that they do not believe submission to correct the record is sufficient. we have been asking you to give your level of trust and political institutions. this is gordon, who says institutions are like my dog, only as good as they have to be. we need a free and unencumbered press. we have the structure, we just need people of integrity. we do, mostly. ted, joining us from washington student -- washington state, republican. caller: g

we have eliza collins, congressional reporter for usa today.start with you on the breaking news we got in this hour, an intrude r on the white house grounds, caught. no danger evidently according to what the secret service is telling us. the concern is here we have another intruder, another situation at the white house, the first one for this administration. what have you been hearing? this is your beat, you've been on the grounds many times. again, coming on the south side of the white house. >> yeah, i think one of the questions really is just how strict do we want to make security around the white house? one of the nice things about the white house to many people is that the public can get pretty close to it and that is, i thinker perceived that it is the people's house. do you, for example, expand the fence from where it is now further out as was done previously in the 1990s? those are the kind of questions i think that have to be balanced but security by its nature is always a balance. there's a freedom and there's the need for security re

. >> joining us to discuss eliza collins, tim carney, commentary editor for washington examiner. okay. thanks for joining us this hour. i do want to share something else we're just getting into nbc news and msnbc and that's representative ted poe, republican from texas here, a member of the freedom caucus, we're just getting word that he is resigning from that caucus itself. he had planned to vote for the health care bill. he was unhappy with what had happened overtime course of the day leading up to friday. i'll read a part of what he said for the of you. again, ted poe leaving the freedom caucus against aca. quote, i have resigned from the house freedom caucus in order to deliver on the conservative agenda we have promised american people for eight years. we must come together to find solution toss move this country forward. saying no is easy. leading is hard. but that is what we were elected to do. leaving this caucus, the freedom caucus, will allow me to be a more effective member of congress and advocate for the people of texas. it is time to lead. okay. el eliza, your thoug

one of the reporters who broke the sessions story, ellen nokashima of "the washington post" and eliza collins. i want to start immediately with ellen who broke this story, front page piece, a huge scoop. walk us through this. sessions was saying his meeting with the russian ambassador was as his official capacity as a senator on the armed services committee drawing this distinction as a surrogate or somebody who campaigned for the president on the campaign trail. talk about how this came up. >> jeff sessions during his confirmation hearing in january said he had never had any communications with russian officials. as it turns out last year at the height of the concerns of the investigation of the russian hacks and influence in the presidential campaign, then senator session himself a one-on-one meeting with the russian ambassador in his office on capitol hill it was one of, to be fair, about two dozen meetings he'd had with various diplomats, ambassadors, over the course of the year. but in this case, he did not disclose the fact that he had met with the ambassador when he was testifying unde