. >>> joining me now, jonathan allen, co-author of hrc, and jane timm. so here we're talking about the tweets that president trump is already up tweeting about. do you think there is something behind these tweets? jonathan. >> i have no idea. obviously president trump would have access to that information internally if it were true, if there were wiretaps being put on trump tower. at the same time, it would be odd to say something about it public publicly. there is no legal jeopardy probably for the president in doing it because he can declassify information whenever he wants. but it would be very odd to talk about government secrets like that if it were true. >> and these are pretty serious allegations. is this just possibly another way of diffusing what is actually going on with the russia investigations? jane, what do you think? sgle absolutely seems keen to push this on to obama, to blame it on other people. one of his tweets said ambassador that sessions met with had been to the white house 22 times. of course he had been at the white house dwigquite

insurance, and that is what we are going to do. [ applause ] >> back with us to break it down, jonathan allen and christina greer. jonathan, we ask hard questions around here. my question for you obviously is why are you against low priced health care? >> me? >> i'm for low priced health care. >> all right. >> you have got to be careful with the access issue there. the question of access. it doesn't actually mean people are getting health care. it just means they are allowed the buy it. what donald trump is not saying is how many people are going to lose health care versus how many will gain it. he is not promising the people who have health care right now obamacare or a private plan will be able to keep their health care. i think the real thing he is saying if he is going to broi town the cost it's probably because fewer people are going to be covered and they are going to have -- you know, they are going to have lesser quality health care. i think you have got to listen very carefully the way he says things. all that said, it's not clear at all that republicans have the votes to get any pla

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i will bring in christina director and author as well as jonathan allen head of community and content for "sidewire" staying up with us in d.c. christina your response to the immigration portion of the address. >> it was fascinated and exactly what we were expecting from him. there was talk he would soften his line on immigration but one thing about donald trump he's more interested in performing who passes legislation more about domination than about legislation so one thing to be clear about is that he is going to stick to a deportation policy that's pretty aggressive in part because it satisfies his voter who's really enjoy seeing him enact some kind of aggressive voice of domination. >> you mention voice this is brand new program for folks watching. this is proposed tonight, the president says he wants to track crime in a very different way. here's donald trump on this idea of creating this voice program. >> i have ordered the department of homeland security to create an office to serve american victims. the office is called voice. victims of immigration crime engagement. we are p

joining me now is a white house reporter for "the washington examiner" and jonathan allen, roll callolumnist and author of "shattered: the inside story of hillary clinton's defeat." great to have you both here. gabby, is there any upside to pulling this health care bill? >> well, i think they certainly avoided a major disaster on the floor of the house if this didn't pass and only secured less than 180 republican votes. i think the administration has an opportunity to regroup and focus on making accomplishments on tax reform. that seem to be the direction they're headed. certainly something just as if not more complicated than health care reform. so it will be interesting to see what happens there, especially after the riff that's kind of been exposed in the republican party through this whole health care debacle. i mean, there is significant discourse that occurred between republicans on the role that government should play in health care and that's going to have a pretty hefty impact going forward if they try to tackle health care again at the end of the year or in 2018 or down the

joining us now, jonathan allen, head of community and content for sidewire.us charlie sykes, co-host of wnyc's indivisible. charlie is also a msnbc contributor. so charlie, there is donald trump down there negotiating the bill with his audience, saying i know you've heard some things about it that are maybe a problem. this is not the way we've ever seen anyone get any legislation done. you don't do the negotiating publicly, and you don't admit to all these cracks in the wall. >> it was just a couple of weeks ago he realized nobody knew how complicated it was. nobody had any idea it was this complicated. >> he really did then just zoifrt. you could tell that was genuine discovery on his part. >> i don't think anyone is ever going to accuse donald trump of being a policy wonk or of know organize having much interest in the details of an incredibly complex piece of legislation. i did think it was interesting. you saw the trump world media started referring to this as ryancare as opposed to trumpcare. and when paul ryan came out to remind everybody, by the way, t

dthd jonathan allen tale there are some people -- we have stories on both sides of things that aren'torking, but more than 90% of the people in this country are happy and do talk about being better off. in my own state, we reduced those uninsured by 50%. we're going to suddenly cut that program off in 2020 and now we're talking about cutting it off two years earlier? that's not okay. who it will hurt will be seniors and children. in my state, half the children, half the children get their health care from the medicaid program. those kinds of things will never be okay with me. >> what about the outreach taking place right now? within the last 15 minutes we saw the vice president leaving for kentucky. the white house wanting to get out there and have the big sell on this. we know that kentucky's rand paul is not a fan of what's taking place. how much does this make a difference? >> here's what i think we have to do in the next ten days. we need to make sure people really understand what's in this bill and what the implications are and how it's going to impact them directly. the broad sp

joining me now, jonathan allen and daniel lippman. thanks for being here. daniel, president trump still seems defiant on the wiretap claims that his campaign was spied on. can we gauge where it stands with respect to the investigation now? >> i think it's been clearly shot down by republicans and even next monday you will see fbi director jim comey test h. te testify in congress aenld be under pressure by republicans and democrats to further refute it in a public forum. and so there is no evidence behind this and it's really embarrassing president trump if he just keeps talking about something that is clearly not true. >> jonathan, here is intel chair regarding the wiretap claims. >> we don't have any evidence that took place. i don't think there was an actual tap of trump tower. >> so jonathan, how can there be such different -- >> wire tan, those words were in quotes. wiretapping is pretty old fashioned stuff. but that covers surveillance and many other things. i think that you will find very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two wee

jonathan: tim allen is in hot water. the ann frank center for mutual respect is demanding an apology. last week allen compared living as a conservative in hollywood to the 1930's germany when the nazis were in power. his reps are is not res from the media organizations. >> president trump is not as wealthy as he used to be. "forbes" says his net worth stands at $3.5 billion. that is down $1 billion for a year ago. and 544th amongst the wealthiest. bill gates is number one with net worth of $86 billion. investor warren buffett is second at more than $75 billion. what do you do with that kind of money. jonathan: being on the list alone is fine. first or 50th, it punt matter. how about this? some of the wealthiest new yorkers are asking the state to raise taxes. 80 people said they could pay more. some include george soros, rockefeller and abigail disney. similar letter sent last year was largely ignored by the lawmakers. if they feel so paying more in taxes i don't think they will tying their hands. if you want to raise th

piece and i don't want to put too much into anybody's reporting but there was a piece from jonathan swan and mike allenat basically talked about administration with knives out at each other's throats and the constant infighting and they had their first basic summary execution. they fired a senior staff, deputy chief of staff it sounds like. and this goes on and on and all this tu tumult. and none of this gets trump where he needs. he needs behind him exexecuting on this stuff and not adding drama to an already dramatic president. >> martha: jessica, let's move on with you. what's your thought take a look back at the week. what's your grade? >> this has been a very, very rough week. apparently i'm a pretty harsh grader. obviously, right out of gate, what we have seen with this administration is a huge policy failure that came out of the gate wanting to talk about making good on a campaign promise which was repeal and replace. what we have learned is that they didn't have a plan that their own party could get on board with coming out of gate with a huge policy failure like that is not good for any presid

kpix5's allen martin tells us the suspect is a free man for now. >> 26-year-old jonathan tran of milpitas appeared in federal court today. secret service members apprehended chimney night as he approached the -- him friday night as he approached the south portico entrance to the white house. he carried two cans of mase and mace and -- mace and said he had an appointment with the president. >> secret service did a fantastic job. he was a troubled person, very sad actually. >> but an intruder making it that close to the residence wasn't supposed to happen again. in 2014 omar gonzalez armed with a knife jumped the fence, ran into the white house and eluded eight secret service members before he was tackled in the east room. a report later found a series of errors ranging from faulty radios and alarm to secret service fatigue and understaffing. that same year secret service dogs tackled another fence jumper. the latest incident comes a week after director joe clancy left the agency. he'd been brought out of retirement to stop the breaches. the fence is about 7 feet tall. the government plans

allen. he refuses to negotiate long-term. i'm at the point this is a distraction all year long. trade it. go from there. alison: thanks, scott. jonathan: next at 4:00, why work days for some alison: and hanging on for dear life. can you believe that? a little girl in ohio gets the nation's attention with this video. the two things you might not notice as the high winds blow her off her feet. jonathan: also ahead, a new biker attack. why police couldn't find any of the bikers. we'll explain this one alison: as you know, we have had problems in the d.c. area with packs of bikers. now a new attack caught on camera. this was in san francisco. you can see the pack tries to slow down a man in a car. he stops, gets out. and then he is attacked. >> that party got out of the vehicle to confront the motorcyclists. unfortunately the verbal altercation escalated to a physical fought. alison: all of the bikers were gone by the time police arrived. so no arrests were made in this case. the bikers did break the driver's leg. we are told he will be okay. jonathan: we can laugh because she is just fine. but probably one of the best videos we have seen

manero, jonathan charlton, ryan faith, molly fromme and chris wilder from the majority staff, thank you. also steve janiskowski, jeannie frans, stewart burns from my congressional staff. and allen lee and pamela whitney from the minority staff. it is because of their countless hours of hard work, mr. speaker, and their negotiation and finding common ground that we will now send this bill from the floor of this house of representatives to the resolute desk of the oval office to be signed into law. i want to thank all. with that, mr. speaker, i urge passage of this bill and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. all time has expired. the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass senate bill 442. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the chair, 2/3of being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the chair, 2/3 for what purpose does the gentlewoman from wyoming seek recognition? >> i send to the desk two privilege red ports from the committee on rules for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report th