harry truman's goal was to rule russia, was to rule russia. in addition to that, the accused truman and democrats in particular of wanting to turn west germany back to the nazis. wanting to turn west germany back to the nazis. the marshall plan was a sham. a policy, as davis puts it, to re-enslave the colonial peoples around the world, the black and yellow peoples around the world as he wrote in this piece. it was to reenslave the world. if you studied this period, the only people making that argument anywhere in the world were stalin and molotov. and cpusa. quotes davis, "the big industrialists who financed hitler have been handed back their factories and old-school ties with wall street are almost as strong as they ever were. america's policy of denaziification is a sham. what kind of west germany is america helping back to its feet? it is the germany of the master race theory. the fascists we sought to exterminate in world war ii as the greatest threat to mankind are now our partners. what do you say we kiss and make up?" as i was reading th

his name was harry truman. when united states entered the war in 1917, the army was not prepared to fight in an international war. one of the things they were lacking, besides the number of men, was also artillery. world war i was a war of artillery. 60% of the battlefield deaths were caused by artillery, the projectiles that were fired over the battlefield. when the americans went over to france, they primarily used french artillery pieces. one of the major ones was the french 75 millimeter gun. it was advanced for its time and had an incredible recall system. -- recoil system. fired, it didas not have to be constantly readjusted. the americans used for guns and a battery -- four guns and a battery. fromf the batteries was independence, missouri, and his name was harry s truman. harry truman went on to become the president of the united states. what he learned during world war i helped him throughout the rest of his career. one of the interesting things 75, in french, of american soldiers during world war i, t

harry truman acted him of running blackmail investigations. he said everybody in washington is afraid of you. comey is becoming something like that. we saw it in the election. didn't realize it at the time, but it's obvious that the fbi was investigating both candidates, hillary clinton and donald trump. >> neil: you think donald trump is afraid of him? >> well, i don't know. it remains to be seen. he's trump's problem now. if we continue to let comey be above reproach -- we saw when the president came out with his tweets that he thought barack obama had wiretapped him at

as she tells it, harry truman's creation of the central intelligence agency originated simply with a quest for a convenient delivery of information. >> on his desk every morning, there were stacks and stacks of military cables, which was the best effort at the time to give him information about what was going on in the world. but he found them very frustrating. so what he asked an aide to do which seemed very simple at the time was just to form a small group in the white house that would digest those cables and give him a few type-written pages every morning telling him what was the important intelligence. and so he borrowed 15 employees from elsewhere in the government and he called that the central intelligence group. >> reporter: less than two years later, this group, which had evolved into what is now called the central intelligence agency, had been granted the right to keep its spending secret and operate with little oversight. >> as harry truman said later, it was never supposed to be a cloak and dagger operation. they were just supposed to gather intelligence. so they were gat

from harry truman to lyndon johnson. from bill and hillary clinton to one of the deans who has been fighting this so long, john dingell. [applause] to senator ted kennedy. [applause] ted's widow vicki is here. [applause] it's fitting that teddy's widow vicki is here and his niece caroline. his son patrick, whose vote helped make this reform a reality. i remember seeing ted walk through that door in a summit in this room a year ago, one of his last public appearances. i it was hard for him to make it. but he was confident that we would do the right thing. our presence here today is remarkable and improbable. all the punditry, all the lobbying, all the game-playing that passes for governing in washington, it's been easy at times to doubt our ability to do such a big thing. such a complicated thing. to wonder if there are limits to what we as a people can still achieve. it's easy to succumb to the sense of cynicism about what's possible in this country. but today we are affirming that essential truth. a truth every generati

that what harry truman said. and howard global editorial. gentleman, let's talk about this. when you look at sports page has a certain clarity. watching the final coming up at some point this weekend. i always see who wins. that's it. that's how we do it. who won today? >> i don't think anyone won today. >> it was a draw. >> not a draw. >> a lot of people lost. >> would trump have won if he won, but not a completely victory. if he won he would have won. this was a loss for them. no doubt about it. i don't think there was anybody gaining. i don't think the people of the united states gained because inning aca in is trouble. also the republicans didn't win because they weren't able to put together a bill. they had a vehicle that wouldn't support the weight of the bill. >> were you there during the time they passed, 60 times the republican-led house, 60 times to kill obamacare and couldn't do it today when it mattered? it seems like hypocrisy to me. >> actually i wasn't there when that was done, because at the time i got there i was late in 2015, they had put a reconciliation b

the famous harry truman order nationalizing the steel mills during the korean war that was overturned. by a famous supreme court case. nationalize the steel mills, he told the secretary of commerce and he did. , cancel visas. and so, they were canceled until the courts weighed in. statutory interpretation is another important mechanism that is utilized to some sort of executive directive basically telling agencies how they are supposed to interpret the law. after all, laws can be vague. discretion can be contested and the president's preferences can be asserted by executive orders. a version of that is where discretion where the president says we do not have enough resources to prosecute everyone in this category of crime or to deport everyone, in this category of possible deporte, but we are going to prioritize these folks. you see that difference between president obama's guidance and in 2014 trying to expand the scope of the people who would be sort of low on that list and president trump's order that broadens what the administration considers criminal action, and therefore, justif

the president should probably remember what harry truman said, the buck stops with him, i don't knowthey did with that sign. there's plenty of blame to go around. the republicans never looked for support from anyone. if they were going to make a list of members of congress that did support that bill, there were probably 200 names on it. you know that nobody was whipping for that bill anymore. >> tom: liz, trump shares blame. he's going to get all the blame for it, but i see, he wasn't that into it. he's not that into health care. he didn't sell it. he didn't go around, they said he was trying, he didn't seem to be passionate about health care. i feel like this isn't his thing, is it? >> i think he left it up to paul ryan, because he thought that that's the way it worked. apparently you have to do a little more. i feel like, not trump, but some of the members of congress, g.o.p. forgot what the word compromise means. really forgot what it means to simply say that you compromise when neither side is particularly satisfied but you're okay with it. the freedom caucus was not moving on it

this is the lowest since harry truman in 1945. >>> new marching orders for the marines. the marines issued a new social media policy after former and current female marines reported their pictures were posted on social media without their consent. the new policy will lay out the professional and legal consequences for the conduct. all marines will be required to sign a statement saying they've read and understand the new guidelines. >>> uber president jeff jones is resigning less than a year after taking the job. he's leaving after a number of controversy at the company, including multiple sexual harassment allegations and then there was this video you remember when he was arguing with one of his drivers. >>> 6:07. we're about minutes away from spring being ushered in as we give you a live look at center city and the the comcast tower lit up, swell liberty one and two. it's going to be hopefully a nice day. already 35 degrees. let's check in with bill henley. >> a little more than an hour away from sunrise this morning. if you're heading out, it's time sthe temperatures

harry truman once said that once a government is committed to the principle of silencing opposition,t has only one way to go, down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. we're not there yet. but it is the case that this administration seems to think we in the journalism profession are part of the opposition. its attitudes and sentiments, both those expressed explicitly and conveyed implicitly, are more openly disdainful and hostile toward what we do than any administration has been, or expressed, in my lifetime or my professional lifetime in general. as we have seen in just over 50 days, there has been a wanton disregard for the truth, lying about things small and large, things that are trivial and things that are profound. this creates an enormous challenge for our business and for our profession. i think it is an individual challenge and an institutional challenge. i was asked a few days ago at that event -- whatever happened to dispassionate and objective journalists?

it goes all the way back to harry truman. there's richard nixon. president clinton bowling.nt obama all bowling in suits and ties. the really take-away here, they need to design a presidential bowling shirt, you know, with a spare force one on it, a team logo. [ laughter and applause ] oh, thank you. thank you. trump has made it known that he doesn't want the new health care bill called trumpcare, the president is a humble man, he doesn't like to put his name on things. and paul ryan, the speaker of the house said this, the reason obamacare doesn't work, is because it makes healthy people pay for the care of sick people. isn't that how all insurance works? my car is fun, iine, i'm not pa for the people who got in an accident. it's like saying the lottery doesn't work because only one person hits the jackpot. anyway, last night, the president and first lady had dinner with ted cruz and his wife heidi, which that must have been -- after all the lyin' ted and -- you know how the government could make some money, put it on pay-per-view. i would gladly pay a hundred dollars to wa

harry truman famously said, if you want a friend in washington get a dog, but you two found each other. [ laughter ] >> his dog ran away. >> some people leading up to this town hall asked me how did they become so close and more importantly, what is it about this friendship between the two of you? >> well, i think it's common interest, common ideals, common goals for our country. we mention my war experience. this guy for 23 years spent every time on active duty in afghanistan or iraq. >> is that how you got to know each other? >> we really got to know each other when there was the impeachment, and lindsey was one of the stars of the impreachment. >> if there is such a thing. >> he was presenting the case for the house of representatives that they should decide guilty or not, and he was reciting a passage where there were numerous phone calls made from the white house at 2:00 a.m. to try to get ahold of monica lewinsky because the word was out that maybe she was going to go public the next way, and congressman graham with the most solemn occasion said where i come from, any man calling

that's not something you would have said about harry truman or franklin roosevelt or dwight eisenhower. if we saw a little bit of a pivot tonight in terms of the inauguration immigration, my guess is this would not last for a very long time, if i could vote for it, it would be nice to see a pivot in terms of him having a little more respect for history and maybe someone on his staff, who can tell him a little bit about things in history that have an echo of what he's trying to do. >> hi, michael, it's rachel. >> hi, rachel. >> the president announcing this -- something he's talked about, this office of immigrant crime. promoting the idea that immigrants are vicious, murdering, violent criminals. is there anything like that in american history? obviously people are making references and that's not pretty comparisons. have we done anything like this before? >> nothing that i can think of immediately. the other thing, rachel, is that he put some of the victims, people who were said to have suffered from these crimes in the visitors gallery and i was thinking how far we have come from afte

siberia, almost a month after the soviet's test, finally, the president of the united states, harry truman put out a statement letting the world know that somebody else other than the united states had nuclear capability. it was a written statement that he put out. "we have evidence that within recent weeks an atomic explosion occurred in the ussr." that statement was issued on september 23rd, 1949. and as you might imagine, everybody freaked out. >> president truman's dramatic announcement that russia has created an atomic explosion has reporters heading where they will address the united nations. >> does russia have the atomic bomb? >> the russian foreign minister maintains his silence. >> does russia have the atomic bomb? well, would you reply to me? russian foreign minister maintained his silence in that interaction and in his speech that day, honestly, because actions speak louder than words and you know what, the soviets freaking had the bomb. it was not just the u.s. with the monopoly anymore. every interaction with the soviets that we would have from that moment forward would be ma

harry truman acted him of running blackmail investigations.said everybody in washington is afraid of you. comey is becoming something like that. we saw it in the election. didn't realize it at the time, but it's obvious that the fbi was investigating both candidates, hillary clinton and donald trump. >> neil: you think donald trump is afraid of him? >> well, i don't know. it remains to be seen. he's trump's problem now. if we continue to let comey be above reproach -- we saw when the president came out with his tweets that he thought barack obama had wiretapped him at trump tower, within the next day, there were all these media reports that comey was furious, he was demanding the justice department issue a statement rebuking the president. no such statement was ever made. we know how comey felt because of the leaks. i mean, so here we have -- >> neil: we know what the agency did in response. nothing. >> we have the fbi director effectively letting the media know that he's rebuking the president of the united states. no other official in the go

but as that 1950 memo to president harry truman made clear, russia's goals haven't changed. russia's goals are to oppose us, our vision, our values and our democracy. we must make it clear that america's vision of a freer, safer and more democratic world haven't changed either. i want to thank senator cardin for organizing this discussion and thank senator menendez for everything he's done to support these important efforts and thank senator graham for hosting yesterday's important hearing. i look forward to working with all of my colleagues to continue this important fight. thank you, mr. president w that i yield the floor. mr. menendez: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey. mr. menendez: mr. president, i rise to join my colleagues in this important conversation on the senate floor and to once again demand answers to the many questions raised about russia's interference in our elections. now, not so longing a i came -- not so long ago i came to speak about an adversarial act, an attempt to undermine democracy, an effort that we now know from our

every american president since harry truman has supported euro european unity.arently is not. i think the germans will take that away from the press conference. >> i don't think that you can say every president going back to truman -- we didn't have the european union in its current form. isn't there a difference between, quote, supporting europe and then supporting the european union or european monetary union in the form in which it exists today? they are different things. >> i disagree. harry truman supported the steel and coal community, eisenhower, the treaty of rome. every president the common market. european unity means peace in europe between france and germany. the germans and europeans are afraid, especially the steve bannon faction wants the european union to disintegrate and fail. thus their support for brexit and private comments that are critical of the eu. first american president since truman to be so negative about the project of building european unity. that's a problem. >> why do you think mr. bannon and perhaps the president want the eu to f

good decisions, harry truman had to make -- dwarfed with what our path politicians today are dealingly, tonight. the factor "tip of the day." snow armageddon, heading towards the northeast. those that live in the rocky mountain region laugh at a foot of snow. you mock it because that can happen in may. but tomorrow here in new york city, up and down the east coast could be more than a foot of snow. panic is on. people are buying entire counters. 18 flash drives. canned soup that will last for 80 years. you get the idea. the weather forecasters are hysterical, many of them breaking down. already many schools are closed. people have been seen weeping. so here is the "tip of the day." overreaction is never a good thing. if it snows tomorrow, good. build a snowman. have some fun. it has nothing to do with global warming and if you have mittens, you will be fine. that is it for us tonight. please check out the fox factor web site, different from billoreilly.com. we would like you to spout out about "the factor" from anywhere in the world. i will be here tomorrow. if it snows 18 feet, i wi

look, when harry truman sat at that deck, he said the bucks stops here. i didn't see a president who said the buck stops there. i was struck about two things about that performance. number one is, donald trump looked relieved. he did not look angry. i think that's a tell he's saying maybe this is the best thing that would happen. the other extraordinary thing and i think you pointed this out, that after seven years of railing and campaigning against obamacare and saying what a disaster it would be, how quickly the republicans and president trump just folded on this. it's like, okay, never mind. this is a republican house that voted more than 60 times to repeal obamacare. they couldn't bring themselves to vote once on trumpcare. and they're basically saying never mind. we're going to move on, which is extraordinary. do you wonder whether or not he did have his heart in this despite what he told the voters over and over again that he did not have passion for this he clearly did not have knowledge of this. and his admission to bob costa hey, who knew that po

for the past four or five administrations, going all the way back to eisenhower or earlier, to harry truman north koreans, obviously, rely on china for trade. for whatever meager income they have. as the congressman pointed out, they also rely on former soviet engineers, nuclear engineers, iran and other hostile powers, work in tandem. the pakistanis and others. i think the president may not understand how interconnected these different policies are, when you accused china on the one hand of all the things he is accused china of, then, appropriately, he will have to work with them on issues like this. you cannot go it alone. >> congressman, what advice would you give to president trump? ballistic missile test going off or both of these nations repeatedly since he took office. >> the trump administration understands the threat very, very clearly. that is why they have engaged with south korea, why one of the first visitors to washington and after the president won's election, he invited the leader of japan. he recognizes that this has to be a regional solution to box and north korea and chin

. >> bill crystal, i guess we have the motto for the trump administration, harry truman had the buckps here. president trump has talk to fox. >> the buck stops at fox, right. talk to that talented legal mind. in a way it's so ridiculous, one doesn't take it seriously. think about what is being alleged. the preceding of the united states, president obama, went around normal channels, cia, justice department, fbi, somehow got british intelligence to tap, to bug the republican presidential candidate in the u.s. think how many levels of illegality and conspiracy we're talking about here if this were true. it would dwarf watergate even, going around all these procedures that are in place. that's why the british are so appalled. look at their statements, they're very unusual. they just can't believe the president has let the white house spokesman say this from the podium and he sort of half backs it up by making a joke about angela merkel. so it is really appalling i've got to say and has really implications for our foreign policy. we have a very close intelligence relationship with britai

harry truman famously said if you want a friend in washington, get a dog. but you two found each other. >> his dog ran away. >> so many people leading up to this town hall asked me how did they become so close and more importantly what is it about this friendship between the two of you? >> i think it's common interests, common ideals, common goals for our country. we mentioned my war experience. this guy for 23 years spent every time on active duty in afghanistan or zblooirk hiraq. >> is that how you got to know each other? >> really there was impeachment and lindsey was the star. presenting the case that the senate should decide guilty or not guilty. and he was reciting a passage where there were numerous phone calls made from the white house at 2:00 a.m. to try to get a hold of monica lewinski because the word was out maybe going public the next day. and congressman graham with the most solid occasion said where i come from, any man calling a woman at 2:00 a.m. was up to no good. i knew right then lindsey graham was a man i wanted to spend time with. he's

harry truman had supported the taft-hartley bill before ultimately vetoing it. it was passed over a veto by both democrats and republicans. labor hadn't succeeded in electing very many of its own people to office. it had rather poor representation compared to its numbers and its ability to influence elections. it hadn't translated to into having actual working people in office that they could count on to support them and their rights. of course the whole global system is kind of up in the air with the coming of the cold war. ii theout of world war u.s. and the soviet union had been allies. they had to figure out how to carve up the world and what their relationship would be with one another. for a few years after the war it was not yet clear we were headed to the kind of cold war you get from popular culture and elsewhere. there were other visions on the table. there's all these little feeders in which the conflict plays out. the u.s. helps to support the rebuilding of greece and turkey. that is something debated fiercely on all sides of the political spectrum.

harry truman's, the buck stops here. this happened on president obama's watch -- >> you've heard those "new york times" articles. i would suggest you go back and read donald trump's tweets because what he alleged is not what you are saying. what he alleged -- what judge napolitano is saying is that this is an -- we're not parsing words. we're reading literal tweets from the president of the united states. and judge napolitano is doing the exact same thing and his sourcing says that the president of the united states, president obama, was running an off the books intel operation using british intelligence and there's no evidence of that. >> correct. and fox news has backed away from the story as you heard with magg maggie, the "new york times" is not backing away. [ talking over each other ] >> i'm sorry, but i have to defend both the reporting that my colleagues have done, which is -- you are misrepresenting. >> who do they work for? >> who? >> the people in your stories, your sources -- >> we would not talk about who ou

seven presidents who tried to provide universal coverage for americans going all the way back to harry truman. you can go back to fdr. president obama was the first one to get it through. >> not universal coverage. >> universal coverage but it's been a much bigger coverage than we have ever seen before. and much higher percentage of people have been covered. but, you know, there were flaws in the obamacare bill and one of the tragedies, john, was it passed with no republican votes. and so the republicans have made a political football ever since and jump on all the flaws that are there and now they have their own plan which is not going to get any democratic votes. the country needs a bipartisan solution to this. it's going to be expensive. but if we really want, is it moral to cut taxes for the rich so that a lot of other people lose their health care? is that really where we are as a country? is that really what the republicans want to do? i think there are a lot of republicans in the senate who will not want to go down that path. >> we're hearing that now. how do you argue it's okay that 2

harry truman, congress, reagan, congress, most all of them, congress. [laughter] he seems to take a special liking to the media and have a hard time defending them. s this a new tactic? corey corey: what people don't understand is that the media only cares about themselves. they do not want to talk about the things he has accomplished in the campaign promises he laid out and are for filling. ishe laid out and fulfilling. the media resource center did a survey after the election -- 97% of the respondents said we did not allow the media's biased impact our votes. that is amazing because it was that the worldgo got their news from three people. abc, cbs, nbc. the same three anchors delivered the news. the difference now is everyone is so quick to make the news for cliques or subscriptions or whatever it may be. that is what drives them, not good journalism. >> you mentioned polling. the thing that fascinates most of us in the business of politics is how the polling was off. most of us would've predicted that hillary clinton was going to win this by a lands

. >> welcome to the harry truman bowling alley. come on in. >> chris: i can't wait.sh. >> we are in the basement of the executive eisenhower office building, and here is one of the pins that was signed by president nixon himself. >> chris: jennifer, the deputy director of the public office of liaison was our guide to the bowling alley. >> truman was the first president to bring bowling to the white house. very formal. >> chris: i cover the white house for six years, i never knew this facility existed. >> it's a wonderful facility, we're really happy to have you here. let's go bold. >> chris: but before bowling, jennifer told us about the alley's rich history. >> he was the most avid bowler of all bowlers, nixon. it said he took four hours at a time. >> chris: who can both for oracle hours straight? >> i don't know, because i can't. >> chris: there's even video of nixon, his high score is 229. >> chris: here is lady bird herself. >> they had their own bowling bags. >> and also see that they are visiting. >> chris: his staff uses the alley often to make its pitch to me

that's what harry truman said. i'm joined by the former chief of staff to paul ryan, and the director for "the huffington post." i these if you look at the sportings page, it has a certain clarity, coming up to the final eight at some point this weekend. i always see who wins, that's how we do it. who won today? >> i don't think anybody won today. >> it was a draw? >> not a draw. i think a lot of people lost. >> would trump have won if he won? >> not a complete victory, but if he won, he would have won. this is a loss for them no doubt about it. but i don't think there was anybody gaining, i don't think the people of the united states gained because i think aca is in trouble, there's some real problems. also the republicans didn't win because they weren't able to put together a bill. they had a vehicle that wouldn't support the weight of the bill. >> were you there during the time they passed, 60 times the republican-led house, 60 times to kill obamacare and couldn't do it today when it mattered? it seems like hypo

fdr, true foror eisenhower, true for kennedy, and i think to others in extent, also true for harry truman that scholars debate about whether these president, what were their true attitudes, how, did they do enough, did they take strong moral stances, did they expend enough political capital? these are some of the debates that are not settled. kennedy.to here, perhaps, maybe the most fraught in terms of the historical perceptions of kennedy's legacy on civil rights. in 1961, kennedy issues an whichive order 10925 gives federal agencies authority to sanction federal contractors who violate bans on discriminatory hriring. this gives things, again more teeth, but once again, as we know, we are going to revisit these questions up bans on extsemination in the n administration. in 19 six at two, kennedy issues another watershed civil rights executive order 11063 -- in 1962, which bans discrimination and federal housing. here we have another moment of interplay between the relatively ofrow anscope presidential unilateral action and the broad implications and meaning that can underlie some of thos

has gone out and basically thrown -- said the buck stops somewhere over there, not with me, like harry truman said, is very disturbing. the president of the united states is also accidentally admitting that if anybody puts something in front of him, he's going to believe it. so if i tell him i'm the creator of "sesame street" and he's now going to believe it. as a republican, i'm very concerned by that. we have in one day, as jonathan mentioned, upset our closest ally, and one of the closest allies we'll need, especially in the fight on isis, as well as to deal with the refugee crisis that's going on in syria. i don't understand how today was a productive day. and throwing somebody else under the bus and not taking personal responsibility and saying i'm sorry, i messed up, that's not presidential. and that's not something we need in a leader. >> david, there are larger politics on that. evan brings up "sesame street." this is like when they were always telling big burden snuffle lup does was around the corner, eventually big period didn't believe it. there's a credibility analogy but i don't

has gone out and basically thrown -- said the buck stops somewhere over there, not with me, like harry truman said, is very disturbing. the president of the united states is also accidentally admitting that if anybody puts something in front of him, he's going to believe it. so if i tell him i'm the creator of "sesame street" and he's now going to believe it. as a republican, i'm very concerned by that. we have in one day, as jonathan mentioned, upset our closest ally, and one of the closest allies we'll need, especially in the fight on isis, as well as to deal with the refugee crisis that's going on in syria. i don't understand how today was a productive day. and throwing somebody else under the bus and not taking personal responsibility and saying i'm sorry, i messed up, that's not presidential. and that's not something we need in a leader. >> david, there are larger politics on that. evan brings up "sesame street." this is like when they were always telling big burden snuffle lup does was around the corner, eventually big period didn't believe it. there's a credibility analogy but i don't

harry truman, the president, supported the taft-hartley bill before ultimately vetoing it. the bill was passed over a veto by both democrats and republicans. as nelson lichtenstein points out in his essay here, if labour hadn't succeed best labor had not succeeded in electing many of its people and to office, and poor representation compared to its numbers and weight and ability to influence elections. it had not translated yet into having actually union members or working people in office that they could count on to support them and their rights. of course the whole global system is somewhat up in the air with the coming of the cold war at this moment. i will not get deep into the foreign policy piece, but coming out of world war ii, the u.s. and soviet union had been allies . they had to figure out how to carve up the world and what their relationship would be. for a few years after the war, it was not clear we were headed for the kind of cold war you will get from popular culture and elsewhere, for a mutually assured destruction and antagonism. there were other visions o

chase b, harry truman. choice c, donald trump.nusual and very disturbing situation. >> that will be a question on the cnn quiz show i'm sure in 20 or 30 years. and i wonder, when you mention the other presidents, if that's why every picture of president obama he looks like this. he's like -- he's all healthy and tan and lean. he's like whoo, that's over. look, david rohde, what is the point of a congressional investigation if it's not -- if you're not going to listen to it it's not going to matter much. why put the american people through this? >> i don't know. he has a pattern of making these self-destructive statements. a quick story we had today. the president said he didn't have any business ties in russia. we looked at investments in his buildings in florida. we found investments by 63 members of the russian elite for nearly $100 million. and we tried to find out how much money the trump organization made from that, and they wouldn't tell us that number. this could be innocent, but it's $100 million of investment from some of

that is similar to ours, it's a country that has enjoyed a special relationship since 1948 when harry truman recognized israel after the historic vote in the united nations. so following extensive consideration of mr. friedman's record and taking into account his statements during his nomination hearing, i have concluded that his past record would make it very difficult for him to serve as that unifying force. for that reason i am unable to support his nomination as america's top diplomat in israel. i appreciate mr. friedman's efforts before the committee to express regret for his substantial record of divisive irks inflammatory and offensive statements. unfortunately i believe that the body of mr. friedman's published work, not to mention his public statements will compromise his effectiveness in representing the united states and all americans to the government of israel and all israelis. taken together, mr. friedman's statements and affiliations make it clear that he does not believe the two-state solution is necessary for just and lasting peace. i'm concerned that mr. friedman's history

not only bill clinton's plan, it was to the right of richard nixon's plan, way to the right of harry truman's plan. so if you want to expand health insurance coverage, it's really hard to do it in a way that's a lot more conservative than obamacare. and republicans did a very effective job politically of blasting obamacare, but now that they're actually running government, they realize getting rid of obamacare and also keeping their other promises, which is not throwing people off of healthcare and not causing prices to go up, is actually enormously difficult, and they still may do it and decide they're willing to accept throwing people off of healthcare, but they're struggling now. >> you mentioned the term imaginicle promises of trump. what is specifically magical by your reckoning? >> he's had several lines where he basically said this version of we're going to cover everyone, the coverage is going to be better and cheaper. and, you know, people -- economists like to say there is no such thing as a free lunch, right? that you can't both cover everybody and have everything be cheaper. or if

look, when harry truman sat at that deck, he said the bucks stops here. i didn't see a president who said the buck stops there. i was struck about two things about that performance. number one is, donald trump looked relieved. he did not look angry. i think that's a tell he's saying maybe this is the best thing that would happen. the other extraordinary thing and i think you pointed this out, that after seven years of railing and campaigning against obamacare and saying what a disaster it would be, how quickly the republicans and president trump just folded on this. it's like, okay, never mind. this is a republican house that voted more than 60 times to repeal obamacare. they couldn't bring themselves to vote once on trumpcare. and they're basically saying never mind. we're going to move on, which is extraordinary. do you wonder whether or not he did have his heart in this despite what he told the voters over and over again that he did not have passion for this he clearly did not have knowledge of this. and his admission to bob costa hey, who knew that po

historically since health care goes back to harry truman, and certainly when hillary clinton came tongton, she went to the hill and thought she could get it done. i'm sure there are many lessons to be learned from previous presidents and perhaps previous first ladies. has the president ever thought of reaching out to hillary and find out how she maneuvered and some of the best practices with some of the pitfalls she's come to? >> i think you know, he's met with dr. zeke emmanuel and others. he's reached out to several people throughout this process to gauge their policy ideas and strategy ideas. the president noted on friday afternoon that we learned a lot on several fronts about strategically how to handle this as well as some of the members that we thought we would have with us, and we're reexamining that on a variety of bases. >> we got some guidance from the white house earlier about a meeting on the white house grounds. i wanted to ask you a slightly different question, which is does the white house know now whatever happened? do we have issues with the idea that perhaps someone