. >> reporter: john kasich and john hick hickenlooper represent the states that expanded medicare. >> more than half of those affected in colorado could be in rural parts of the state. >> without medicaid, she cannot manage her diabetes. >> reporter: targeting voters in states that helped elect president trump. weijia jiang, cbs news, capitol hill. >> mike pence will be meeting with the reluctant republicans and host a couple of them for dinner tonight at his residence. i wanted to make a correction related to the healthcare newscast. i said it was olympia snow from maine who tweeted about not being able to support that senate version of the healthcare bill. she was a long time to it was susan collins, the senator how saw in the story who said i want to work. i would like to apologize for the error. >>> we have been hearing a lot about this healthcare and who this would hurt. let's take a look at who this would benefit. younger americans could pay less for healthcare coverage. the senate plan would lower premiums for lower americans by allowing insurers to charge older enroll lees mor

hicks special advisory to the chairman of public affairs. "washington bureau" chief of the "new york times." and member of the national press club. [applause] john donnelly. he is many things to us. john is the president of the military reporters editors association, chair of the national press club freedom team and one of the fighter for press freedom in the club. thank you for your service to the club, john. [applause] now the good part. as the tensions between the u.s. and russia seem to be serious all at the same time seem to be heating up over the shooting down of a syrian jet over the weekend. entered the chairman of joint chiefs of staff. general joseph f. dunford junior. who is the 19th person occupied this post. nation's highest ranking military officer and principle military officer to the president and secretary of defense and national security counsel. prior to becoming chairman october 1, 2015, general dunford served as 36th marine corps. he served as assistant commandant marine corps from 2010 town 2012. was commander security force and the united states forces afghanistan from february 2013 to august 2014. that will come in handy

john bellinger the third, state department legal advisor. he was legal advisor to the national security council from 2001 to 2005. he has been before us in the past. the second witness, kathleen ,, dr. hickserves as the department of defense during the obama administration. we thank you for being here. you can summarize your comments in five minutes. we look forward to questions. if you would just begin in the order you are introduced. >> thank you mr. chairman. i agree with your comments at the offset. it is a privilege to be back before this committee. i want to commend you for your efforts to reach a consensus on a new authorization against isis and applaud the valuable contributions from senator kaine and senator flake. you have been at this for some time. senator young as well, for your recent contributions. thank you. i served as the legal advisor for the national security council. i was in the white house situation room on 9/11. i was involved in the drafting aumf. 2001 and 2002 i engaged in almost daily discussions on legal issues relating to the use of military force including detention arising under both. 16 years after the enactment of the 2000 and, congress should umfal the ou

john bellinger, former state legal adviser, before that he was legal adviser from 2001 to 2005. he has been before us in the past. we thank you so much for being here. second witness is kathleen hicks director of international security program at csis, dr. hicks previously served during obama administration. we thank you also very much for being here. and as you know, can summarize your comments in about five minutes. we appreciate your expertise and if you began in the order that you were introduced, thank you, john. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member cardini agree with your comments and it's a privilege to be back before this distinguished committee. mr. chairman, i want to commend you for your efforts to reach consensus on a new authorization against isis and i applaud the very valuable contributions from senator kaine and senator young as well for your recent contribution, thank you. as you heard, i served legal adviser for the national security adviser and i was in the situation room on 9/11. for my sins i spent the next eight years in daily discussions on legal issues relating to military force including detention arising under both aumf's. 16 years after the enact me

is john bellinger iii state adviser from 2005-2009 and before that he was national security adviser from 2005 to 2009. we thank you very much for being here. second is the honorable dr. kathleen hick, director of the international security program at csis. she served for the department of defense during the obama administration and we thank you very much for being here, and as you know, you can summarize your comments to five minutes and look forward to our questions and i appreciate your expertise and begin in the order that you were introduceded. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member, i agree with your comments that it's a privilege for me to be back in this distinguished committee. >> i want to command you for your efforts to reach the authorization against isis and i applaud the contributions for senator mccain and senator flake and i know you've had this for quite some period of time and it was a privilege to meet with you, and senator young for your recent contribution. thank you. i served as national legal adviser in the bush administration. i was in the white house situation room on 9/11, and i was involved in the drafting of both the 2001 and 2002 aumf. fo