also with me erin mcpike, chief white house correspondent for "independent journal."o have you with me. let's start with you, the senate health care working group is even less diverse, 13 men, no women involved. do you think that's going to change with this type of scrutiny? >> it's hard to say whether or not it's going to change, but i think the republican party understands that this is now an age where they are under a microscope. they are changing, obviously, health care that's touching so many people's lives, including 50% of the population, which is women, and also they have capable women senators to do that. there are leaders in the senate who are capable of making those decisions and i think some of the women who are, i guess, not being put on that committee have been talking about whether or not planned parenthood should be funded. of course, they are still pro choice, pro rights, but the idea is they are cutting out some really brilliant minds in their own party and that makes their party look bad. >> we know, erin, that trump and the history books will ackno

jared kushner setting up this back channel covert communication with russia, but joining me now, erin mcpikeiles stanitch, white house columnist at "the hill." erin, if "the post" report is true, explain the game changer this really means for the trump white house. >> well, it's a big deal because it involves jared kushner. of course, jared kushner is one of the most influential advisers to president trump. that's where i think the problem is. now, the white house officials have been right that they have to do some sort of russia policy and they can set up back channel communications, but the fact that it was jared kushner that had done it after we learned of some of these other communications that happened during the campaign, that's a big problem. what they need to do is get in front of it and actually produce jared kushner to explain what it is he was doing. >> well, and he is the least heard from member of the senior staff within the white house. nile, i know you've been writing about this and other challenges for president trump that confront him back home after he's back from his forei

howie: joining us, gayle trotter, erin mcpike, and mo eileithee. e the media portraying the house vote as a moderate victory or a modest step? erin: i think the media is reporting it as a huge victory. it was a big deal when they couldn't bring it to the floor in march to vote on it then. why is it they brought together the factions and passed it. >> it's got a long way to go before it becomes law. and the senators are saying they are going to rewrite this entirely. howie: when the house didn't vote, there were a lot of the oh by the waries and lawrence mcconnell said his presidency effectively ended. gayle: i would say the media are not representing this as a victory. the same media that harangued president trump and the republicans for getting this passed in march won't even call it a partial victory. erin: the hill, "the washington post," cnn, i saw it called a huge victory. and it's just a step. gayle: the articles i have say the white house and president trump claim it's a victory. erin: it shows paul ryan can do his job. it is being cast as a

and erin mcpike. even many of the president's critics and liberal commentators giving him high marks on this first foreign trip. do you think there is reluctance on the part of the media to criticize the president when he's abroad representing us? mollie: he talked about principled realism. he critiques the lectures of the obama administration and the unnecessary invasion of the obama and bush administration. i think a lot of the appeal trump had with voters is because of his difference in foreign policy. the media laid that out very well. he addressed the muslim world and they didn't quite give that same level of attention. >> not so high marks on covering this up. media expectations were low from a rookie president on the world stage. >> for the most part the coverage was pretty positive, particularly on the riyadh speech. what you don't see is a lot of sort of getting down to the nitty-gritty about not lecturing saudi arabia on a lot of human rights. but lecturing nato allies on not paying their fa

and erin mcpike, white house correspondent for ijr. catherine, you first. >> if you insist.unham is making headlines. she's firing back at "us weekly" for using a picture of her d on the cover of their magazine without her permission andee associating it with the headlint "20 slim do are using." she did not want to be associated with this headline, so she posted on instagram. she posted the image and a veryo lengthy caption saying that she has her own reasons for diet and weight loss and that she is associating her own with anxieto disorder and mocking the magazine, basically attributing it also to politics and planned parenthood cuts, and she's just -- >> tucker: planned parenthood cuts caused her to lose weight? is that a recognized weight loss technique? >> apparently, according to lena dunham. she's blaming politics. >> tucker: hasn't helped me at all.g >> scaring you into losing weight. >> tucker: can you beat that? >> mtv movie awards last night gave a gender-neutral actingke award not for the first time, for the third time. they did it again in 2006 and 2007. last nig