still, kara-murza maintains that he was poisoned. >> vladimir kara-murza: i have absolutely no doubt this was a deliberate poisoning, that it was intended to kill. because, as i mentioned already, the doctors told my wife that it's about a 5% chance of survival. and when it's that kind of percentage, it's not to scare. it's to kill. >> stahl: can you be sure that what happened to you was directed by mr. putin? >> vladimir kara-murza: well, of that we have no idea. i don't know the precise circumstances, i don't know the who or the how, but i do know the why. >> stahl: in recent years, quite a few of putin's enemies have perished by swallowing things they shouldn't have. in 2006, russian-spy-turned- kremlin-critic alexander litvinenko drank tea laced with polonium-210. two years earlier, the ukrainian politician viktor yushchenko had somehow ingested dioxin. he survived, but was disfigured. but what would the motive be in the case of the critic vladimir kara-murza? cambridge educated, he was for years a washington-based reporter for a russian tv station. so he was well-connected and h

>> well, i agree with kara, i mean, these things happen.'re endemic, especially in the technology culture, but also i would say among hedge funds and wall street where there's a lot of testosterone and people think they have to do things like this. it's a lack of maturity in many ways. that gets to the larger question you just asked which is company like uber, it needed that drive of a person like travis who could get this thing going and just push it into communities that were resistant. but like any great start-up, it probably needs, you know, also some more mature leadership. and i think that's why travis has been pushing to bring somebody in just the way google folks famously brought in eric schmidt for a while when they felt they needed it. >> kara, you said just before that uber cannot afford a story like this at this time. what does that mean? i mean, how do we measure that? is there any impact on the business or on investors on uber? it's so hard with such a big private company. >> well, there's a lot of stories running around about

boris nemtsov was not only kara-murza's close friend, kara-murza was in russia at the time promoting a documentary he made on his friend. on boris nemtsov, the man shot dead on the bridge. he was touring the country promoting this documentary going from lecture to lecture. you've been on book tours, you know what it's like when you go from location to location. he was in a very hectic period and sometime during that period his doctor says he was given some sort of poison. he doesn't know when, he doesn't know where but he was promoting this documentary on another activist, a friend of his who's the godfather to one of his children and then in the middle of the morning, 4:30, 5:00 a.m. he says, he suddenly feel this is incredible pain, he shoots up out of bed, he can't breathe and within 15, 20 minutes, he can't even stand and his organs start collapsing. so look at the pattern. his friend was shot dead. he was poisoned some time while he's promoting a documentary about his friend. other activists in his circle have end up killed or injured so in his claim that there's a pattern that

. >> kara-murza said he was poisoned in 2015. almost died, but recovered.s stricken again. investigators haven't proven that poison is the cause. his case is eerily similar it that of russian age gentle ex ander, he had been digging up information damaging to the kremlin. in a cold style operation in 2006 someone slipped the radio active substance, polonium, into his tea, which ultimately killed him. the british investigated. >> there were all sides represented. tons of evidence. on the basis of that evidence, british judge found that mr. putin is likely to have ordered this killing. >> vladimir kara-murza said he is especially concerned about new crack downs by the russian president. anti-corruption protesters in dozens of russian cities were rounded up sunday. among them, man whose ambitions to challenge putin in next year's presidential election are being stymied by his various arrests and dub yas charges. just last week putin critic and former russian lawmaker was gunned down in broad daylight in kiev and a lawyer for a russian whistleblower was badly i

russian activist vladimir kara-murza says he nearly died after the latest incident last month. he says what happened to him is an example of what the kremlin will do to silence critics. kara-murza says he wants help in fighting putin's government, but not in the form of political support. >> what we do ask for, the only thing, in fact, we ask for from our friends in the international community including the leaders of the democratic countries is that you're honest and open about what's happening in our country, that you recognize and call things for what they are and that you stay true to the values and principles of which your systems are based. >> kara-murza has now had two attempts on his life. the first was in 2015. last month's incident left him in a coma. doctors still don't know what was used to poison him. >>> the number of deaths involving pedestrians are soaring, and it appears cell phones are to blame. according to the governor's highway safety association, there were 6,000 pedestrian deaths last year. that, by the way, the highest in more than two decades. researche

drove off after the killings now being held without murder and burglary vladimir kara-murza says whatappen tmlin will do to silence critics. kara-murza says he wants help in fighting putin's olveitical support. >> wha thing, in fact, we our friends in the international community including the leaders of the countries is that you're honest and open about what's happening in our country, that you recognize and call things that youta attempts on his life, the first. according to the governor's highway association, tretrian d year. that by the way the highest in . researchers say the biggest factor is drivers and, of cours cell phones. >>> samsung is moving on after those disaro fires. it has unveiled its next flagship smartphone. it comes in two sizes. it has edge-to-edgeal recogniti is a virtual assistant and samsung says it gets more tests and inspections than previous ones to prevent battery problems like the note 7. ck a great grandmother lost in the wilderness for five days. turn r life and how she was saved. >>> plus, a man rescues cub. but he may have broken the law actually overn

in his first interview since emerging from a coma, vladimir kara-murza told nbc's richard engel whileporter: russian activist and outspoken putin critic vladimir kara-murza is lucky to be be alive still recovering after someone a month ago slipped him as what doctors describe as an unidentified tox ic substance, n other words, poison. >>ing a 5:00 no t . >> 5:00 in the morning, i woke up, my heart was beating fast. i felt suddenly really weak. i don't think there are words to describe this. you know, describe how you feel when you're trying to breathe and you cannot. and when you just slowly feel your whole body just giving up. one organ after another. you feel like, you know, you feel like the life is going out of you. >> reporter: he knew immediately what was happening because he says it's the second time in two years he's been poisoned. >> as for the reason, this is what i do have no doubt about, this is -- this is because of my involvement in the russian opposition. >> who do you think is responsible? >> i can only presume this is -- this was done by people with at least with conn

. >> she was 17 when she went missing, kara. >> kara loved her friends, loved being around people. always had a -- she had a smile. >> reporter: her parents say they noticed a personality change after she started dating kyler. they say he isolated her from friends and family. >> his idea was to separate her from us, so he could have the control, the manipulation over her. >> reporter: later her family said they started noticing bruises and she told them stories indicating physical and emotional abuse. >> she said he grabbed me by the throat, slammed up into the corner of the door and said, what are you gonna do now, [ bleep ], and she said, dad, i thought he was going to kill me. >> she filed for an order of appreciation, saying he had a knif in hand and said, i'm going to slit your throat. these are the last known images of her. on may 4, 2007, she left school and disappeared. >> he's never been charged with any crime related to her disappearance. i have every expectation that had there been enough evidence against him to have charged him in that young woman's appearance, they wou

kara asked him who these killers were? and why they were doing it?( translated ): they're a lot, but most of them are cops. because there is money involved. they are paid about $310 per person killed. in one night, you need to kill at least four, at least one drug lord and one pusher per night. >> reporter: this means a night of killings can earn these men more than the average filipino earns in a month. kara asked: so where's the money coming from? >> ( translated ): from our government. from duterte's office, from the municipal government, from the mayors. >> reporter: the president's spokesman rejects these accusations and says duterte didn't order these executions. he says these killings are likely just fellow drug gangs targeting each other. >> references have been made that the deaths could be attributed to internecine killings, meaning to say people among their own peers who are doing that. personally, the president has said that he does not condone this sort of killing. >> there will be no letup in this campaign. >> reporter: but critics have

. >> reporter: russian activist and outspoken putin critic, vladimir kara-murza is lucky to be alive. still recovering after someone about a month ago slipped him what his doctors describe as an unidentified toxic substance. in other words, poison. >> it was about 5:00 a.m. i woke up because my heart was racing. my heartbeat was just getting faster and faster. >> you woke up to this feeling. >> yeah. and then i started sweating really badly and feeling suddenly really weak. i don't think there are words to describe this. you know to describe how you feel when you're trying to breathe and you cannot. and when you just slowly feel your whole body just giving up, one organ after another. you feel like you feel like the life is going out of you. >> reporter: he knew immediately what was happening. because he says, it's the second time in two years he's been poisoned. >> as for the reason? this is what i really do have no doubt about. this is because of my involvement in the russian opposition. >> who do you think is responsible? >> i can only presume that this is, this was done by people

we'll talk to recode kara's swisher at south by southwest in boston. and pandora's ceo joins us.nd the deal of the day, intel buying mobileye, $15 billion. brian krzanich joins us first on cnbc later this morning. this is a mobile trading desk, so i can take my trading platform wherever i go. you know that thinkorswim seamlessly syncs across all your devices. the market's hot. sync your platform on any device with thinkorswim. only at td ameritrade. >>> the president this morning holds a listening session with people he calls victims of obamacare, as house republicans defend their health care plan ahead of the official omb report. there is this week, the debt ceiling showdown, trump's first budget. maya guinness is president of the committee for a responsible federal budget. always good to talk to you. good morning. >> nice to be with you. good morning. >> front page of "the washington post" -- historic cuts in trump budget. i wonder, this has to be something you're happy about. >> well, i'm happy the fact that they are scouring the budget looking for savings. and in fact, these

kara-murza went before a senate subcommittee.on in russia including rigged elections and attacks against journalists. he also talked about two attempts on his life that he blames on the putin regime. >> i experienced a sudden onset of symptoms consistent with poisoning that led to a multiple organ failure and left me in a coma and on life support. >> the most recent incident was just last month when he said he was poisoned and he was poisoned, as well, in 2015. doctors still haven't been able to identify the chemical used in the most recent case. he was given a 5% chance of survival. >>> the senate committee looking into the russian interference in the election is holding its first hearing today. the panel's top republican and democratic appeared side by side and vowed to conduct an impartial investigation. but in the house intelligence chair, devin nunes still facing calls to recuse himself after meeting with a source on white house grounds. that investigation remained stalled, but nunes is scheduled to meet with the ranking dem

the meeting had been billed as an attempt to calm relations between berlin and and kara, which hit a new low this week after the turkish president accused germany of nazi -- relations between berlin and ankara. see islamophobia extension it. very dangerousa trend. >> the german foreign minister strauch a more placating tone, saying the nato allies had no choice but to keep talking. >> despite the differences on both sides, there is no alternative to dialogue. that is the only way we can return step-by-step to a normal and friendly relationship between germany and turkey. >> these -- the inflammatory statements followed a decision by several to cancel rallies in support of an upcoming referendum in turkey on sharply increasing the president's powers. anger in germany at the reference to the darkest period in its history has further soured an already tense relationship with berlin expressing alarm at a sweeping crackdown in turkey since a failed coup last summer. dozens of journalists have been n tries tos erdoga silence critics of his rule. taiwan has called on north korea to stop its

. >> this is vladimir kara-murza. he survived two poichs attempts, according to doctors.ach time he was given a 5% chance of survival. he doesn't know exactly when this toxin was administered to him. he says he was in russia at the time. he thinks he knows why. he says it's because of his outspoken work against the kremlin. in particular, he's come to the united states. he's been trying to convince lawmakers in this country to keep sanctions, not on the -- not against the russian people but against specific individuals in russia who have been accused of corruption, accused of human rights abuses. we spoke to him. he had just gotten out of a coma. this was a medically-induced coma. he's now being treated in the united states where his family feels that he's safer. >> and what else did he -- >> who do you think was responsible? >> given the sophistication of the poison, and it seems to be very sophisticated because, first of all, we don't know what it is. second of all, when it methodically shuts down all of your organs, one after another within a space of a few hours, that

that started when the dutch government banned turkish ministers from addressing a pro kara rallyly --and compared protesters to nazi germany. we are hearing that several twitter handles have reportedly been taken over by a hacker group that says it backs the turkish government. mnesty international and unicef usa are those hacked. we are joined now by jasper to talk about this life. this is not about the first time we have seen this thing. guest: know, it's not. his site got had by turkish nationalist. he says that such a large they attacked into websites in japan, europe, north ofrica -- would be the work hundreds of not thousands of private individuals. they could be based in europe, turkey, anywhere. they do not think they were paid and thought they were doing it for their own purposes and that they were enjoying it. this is anis that attempt by ultra turkish nationalist to get back at holland. production view is getting a lot of attention. today we had the president of the european council telling the european parliament that rotterdam was destroyed by nazi germany in the second w

ladies and gentlemen, vladimir kara-murza. [applause] >> thank you. thank you so very much, and i want to think first of all the atlantic council for hosting and organizing this very important discussion and for the opportunity to participate in it. it. and i am especially honored and very, very humbled to be speaking after two such distinguished leaders on global democracy and human rights in the united states senate, from two different sides of the aisle, as it should be. and i want to take this opportunity to thank senator marco rubio and senator ben cardin for the work and for the commitment to the principles that are so often forgotten and overlooked in this age of realpolitik, but are so important to so many people. thank you. it seems that there should be little new to say about the state of human rights in russia. after 17 years of vladimir putin's rule. and yet there always is and there never is the shortage of news or discussions on the subject. it has not been that long, 17 years since the famous question was asked at the world economic for

kara-murza, do you still fear for your life? >> of course, i'm a human being, somebody tries to kill me twice in two years, that heavily makes you think. and i do try to take precautions as much as i can. for instance, my wife and children are outside of russia, for obvious reasons. but i want to go back once i'm physically able to. i do want to restart my work. because i think it's important and i think we have, frankly, a responsibility, before all of those people, before all of those young people who are coming out across the country to say no to this regime and who are choosing a democratic future for russia. and i think we have to continue our work for their sake, for our ac sake with and for our country's sake. it's very important that the outside world stops equating russia with just the putin regime. vladimir putin wants you to think that russia is just about him and his regime. but what the whole world saw last sunday was this other russia on display. the faces of a post-putin russia. and it's very important to listen a

kara-murza and will he meet with the russian society? >> i'm not aware. the state department is probably more appropriate for you to address that to. alexis? >> i'd like to get clarification on the answer that you gave to hunter and to major. i thought it was just yesterday that you said that when you were asked about chairman nunes, you had asked preliminary questions and had not gotten answers. so my answer is, you know the answer to that and you're saying you won't answer that question today or you don't know? >> what i'm saying is that a decision has been made to bring in all of the relevant individuals that are reviewing the situation and make them and veilable, that getting into source and process is not the proper way to conduct this review and we want the people conducting it to understand more fully the materials, not necessarily who came in at what time and what effort. >> so just to clarify again, you asked the questions, you will not give an answer as to -- you asked that -- let me finish. you said yesterday that you asked, you didn't get the

russian activist vladamir kara-murza called on the u.s. to be honest about what is happening in his country. panel, rush silences independent media and has no free or fair elections. he also said putin feels itre w elections. >> back to d.c., ivanka trump officially a federal employee, joins her husband jared with ah. the president eldest adaughter hired as unpaid government employee. her title assistant to the president. trump madefter ethics experts questioned her plans to serve in an informal ka pass tee. she released a statement saying she heard the concerns and is working in good faith to address the unprecedented nature of the role. before her father took office, trump appeared to have other plans. >> people think that you are going to be part of the administration, ivanka. >> i'm, no, going to be a daughter. >> she will be a daughter and working daughter in the white house. trump previously announceped she was getting a west wing office and security clearance. ivanka owns her brand but handed over daily management to the company's p

. >> reporter: to kara the killer whale, getting an ultrasound, she her pregnancy. and her vets say the 25-year-old born in captivity herself is showing all signs for a healthy delivery. >> when you look down here, you can see something pulsing. that's the heartbeat. probably the aorta. >> reporter: and this shows the outline of the calf's jaw line. >> you can see the teeth right there. >> reporter: that is really clear. and she's moving around. >> yeah. >> reporter: or he. but with that excitement here at seaworld, also a realization. not everyone likes the idea of animals in captivity. documentaries like black fish bringing the issue into the spotlight in th spotlight. >> in general, our society is perceiving them as not just animals, they are also individuals and people are more respectful for the nature. >> reporter: julie has spent almost two decades with orcas at seaworld, more than seven years with takara. >> you're >> incredibly excited, yes. >> and to those people who see this and say wow, this is really interesting, they also think it might be a little sad

and leave plenty of dance between you and the kara head of you back to you in the studio. >> all right. annie, thank you very much. we want to know what it's like where you are. are you one of five street that have not been nowed. tweet us use #winter revenge. share yourtist and videos too. >> more than a thousand are out power this winter storm. i told you more that 15,000 people and and they're trying to restore the power. >> fate is two hour north, the nor easter dropped more than a foot of snow in some places and blizzard like companies and ham son, new hampshire. the. >> developing overnight a family in norm pa. >> the fire started in the chimney and wept to the attic. the family was able to get out saferly and nobody was hurt. >>> 6:04. 22. chilly degrees out there. >> yes. >> let's go to the wind chill. that's about 9 at last look. >> yesterday there was a point i was trying to run errands and i could not get out of the car because of the wind. it was that strong. >> yes. >> and i was walking down the sidewalk and people were furnd around vound backs were to the winds and still

vladimir kara-murza was poisoned to death.t's a dangerous business, being an opponent of vladimir putin's. the man who plummeted from his apartment building on tuesday, he's the lawyer from the family who are still seeking justice for his death. he was due in court the very next day after he was thrown or fell out of that fourth floor window. he was due in court to represent the family. he was also due to testify in may in new york. in a russian money laundering case brought in federal court by preet bharara's office. right now he's in the hospital with serio injuries. joining us with bill browd, the author of "red notice." mr. browder, i know you have stayed up to a terrible hour of the night to be with us from britain, thanks for joining us. >> good to be here. >> let me just ask you the basics of if you know how mr. gorakov, how he is. a fourth floor window is not a good place to start. it's remarkable to me that he survived this fall. >> it's truly remarkable. so when we got the news that he fell down four stories, he's a

a turkished by american businessman with links in and kara. the white house says president trump did not know. invitedt trump has mahmoud abbas to washington. he stressed his attempts for a peace process between israelis and palestinians. ansays he is committed to establishment of a caliphate city and state alongside israel. prime minister narendra modi has secured his place as india's most influential leader in more than three decades after his party won a majority in hr pradesh.-- uttar tos victory allows the bjp push forward its reform agenda. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. tracy: back to our top story. president donald trump has fired bhararan attorney after he refused to leave. of how expected this was. we do have a jeff sessions asking 46 attorneys to resign. did people respect -- expect him to be one of them. >> they did not expect him to be one of the attorneys that had to resign. it was not expected that they would ask this many to resign at

his name is vladimir kara-murza. sergei magnitsky's lawyer is in intensive care with head injuries. he may yet survive whatever it was that saw him fling off a fourth floor window ledge yesterday in moscow head first. he may yet survive but he wasn't able to testify today. sergei magnitsky, though, he did not survive. he was dead at 37. they threw him in prison in 2008, they killed him in prison in 2009. and in 2006, 2007, 2008 and at least through 2009 paul manafort, donald trump's campaign chairman, that's when he was being paid $10 million a year to promote the interests of vladimir putin's government secretly in the united states without registering as a foreign agent, without declaring who he was working for, and without ever before now having to defend publicly his real intentions and his real pay masters while he was doing what otherwise appeared to be american political work. there's a lot going on. some of it is deadly, deadly, deadly serious. we have got charlie savage here tonight, one of the best national security and justice correspondents in the country. we have one of

. >> joining me now russian political abt visit vladimir kara-murza. sir, can you explain a bit what it does -- we keep seeing these stories about figures that are in some ways associated with opposition of vladimir putin meeting, quote, untimely deaths. there's the murder in broad daylight in ukraine. there's a lawyer who is tossed out of a window. you, yourself, were poisoned twice. what does that do psychologically to anyone that feels the desire to speak out against what's happening in russia? >> well, what they want it to do, what the putin regime wants this to do is of course intimidate people, to scare people into stopping the opposition activities, into submission, into fear. of course there has been an increasing number of people who have been either political opponents of the kremlin or whistle-blowers or investigative journalists or anti-corruption campaigners who have died one way or another. by the way, both inside russia and outside of russia. and of course just a little more than two years ago, the leader of the russian opposition, forme

. >>> marin county, 2,000 people concerned about the future of health kara tended a town hall in theity of san rafael. some held signs criticizing president trump and the efforts to repeal the affordable care act. the town hall was hosted by northern california congressman huffman. those who took part in the rally were already opposed to taking changes to the health care law even before the budget report came out. >> i hope it will convince some republicans that this is an unworkable plan. i think it is most important that we keep the best of the affordable care act that has provided access to 40 million americans. >> inside of the meeting, the public health director says the republican bill could cost the health care coverage of up to 50,000 people in the county. >>> three months ago a 24-page step by step activist play book called indivisible, a practical guide to resisting the trump agenda was put online and downloaded more than 2 million times. >> it is modeled after the success of the tea party and it organizes people it take political action. >> recently looked into indivisible

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put insurance companies in a position where they've increased their premiums and the cost of health kara cross the board has gone up. this bill does far too little about that. it does very little at all, that would bring premiums down. and that's the concern i have with it, is what this would do to the cost of health care. we have to bring that under control. this bill doesn't do that to a degree sufficient for me to vote for it. >> so, take us into the room when you met with the president. what was president trump's response when you told him you couldn't support this current bill? >> i want to be clear. this meeting i had yesterday was not with the president. this was with white house staff. >> so, what was their response? >> well, they tried to argue with me. i'll let them speak for themselves. they wanted me to vote for the bill. they kept talking about how the bill was going to pass. and my response ultimately to that is if they've got enough votes to pass it without mine, if they don't want my vote, if they don't need my vote, they are free to fush forward with it. if they want my

. >> and farhad, we asked kara swisher a few days ago what she thought was the most important metricwatch on snap. she said revenue. is there something else that you're looking at to sort of gauge it? i mean, we could watch the stock, but we know that's all over the place. >> this is not a metric so much as just watch what they create, watch the products they create. i think one of the interesting things about snap is that they're the most sort of imaginative, innovative consumer tech company out there right now. they're coming up with the ideas that everyone else is copying, and everyone else is copying them for a reason. it's because they're just doing crazy things, things people didn't expect would work online, and i think that's what's interesting about them. i think it's true that it's a problem for them that other companies that have bigger audiences are copying them, and apparently, kind of like stealing their thunder. what's interesting, i think, about snap, though, is that, like, it's just really hard to think of any other company that's coming up with sort of so many new an

. >> lastly, i read an article, an interview you did with ricoh's kara swisher with regard to apple andit needs to start making things here. same thing with nichke. you called it a social responsibility. it caught my attention that you singled out these two companies, with what's happening in washington and the president. >> you look at the most valuable company in the world is apple computer. and, you know, while they're a global company, in selling their products and services everywhere, they need to celebrate american craftsmanship. it's hard and it's expensive. they're a profitable company. all of us -- we're big investors in a company called shinola that is trying to bring manufacturing and the art of luxury manufacturing back to america. we opened our plant in detroit and are hiring veterans and people out of high school. and are training them. it's hard and it's expensive but it's the right thing to do. the american-buying public will gravitate to products made here in america. >> good to have you on. go caps and wizards. talk to you soon. >> thanks, guys. >> ted leonsis, the own

>> today vladimir kara-murza appeared at a senate hearing to urge the united states to do more to containr putin. he told the story of how the putin regime tried to kill him. >> in may of 2015, and just last month, both times in moscow, i experienced a sudden onset of symptoms consistent with poisoning that led to a multiple organ failure and left me in a coma and on life support. doctors estimated a chance to survive at about 5%. so i'm very fortunate and certainly very grateful to be sit hearing today. >> what signal would it send in your view if america decided to forgive and forget what russia, the putin regime tried to do in our election? >> mr. putin, you know his background. he is from the kgb. for those people, accommodation and compromise is not an invitation to reciprocate, but it's a sign of weakness, and it's a sign to be more aggressive. >> we decided to forgive and forget, that would be screaming weakness to putin? >> weakness, lack of any kind of will, i would think, and an invitation to carry on. >> coming up, a new threat by paul ryan to defund planned parenthood. cecile

hassan kara is the chief imam of sultanahmed, istanbul's blue mosque. >> ( translated ): because recipyip erdogan is a muslim, a man of character and brave, who speaks out fearlessly, the public have taken to him as a man of the people and view him as an idol and role model. >> reporter: what worries tens of millions of turks is that the vision of kemal ataturk, the father of the modern nation, is more seriously under threat than ever before. ataturk revolutionized turkey in the 1920s by realigning it away from the eastern world towards the west, and enshrining secularism in the constitution. ataturk's legacy was at the heart of this campaign meeting to fight against erdogan's education policy, whereby state schools are transformed into overtly religious institutions, and creationism is promoted over evolution. aysel celikel heads the society for the promotion of contemporary life. >> ( translated ): this situation is of course worrying us because the political powers have said they want to raise a religious generation. with all these prayer rooms and small mosques opening up at school

raise, their employers had to put their money into premium increases because of obamacare, health kara cross the spectrum is skyrocketing. americans don't get raise because of health insurance premiums and obamacare going through the roofer. if we can fix this, not only do we deal with that 24 million people you're talking about, but we give 70% of americans who are getting their job in the private sector a raise again because they don't have to go to premium -- this is a big deal, not just for the poor, but for everybody. >> it's a huge deal right now and the key words, if you can fix it. right now you would need a 216 vote majority in the house. there are a few vacancies. normally it's 218. but you need 216 right now to pass phase one, this legislation that you clearly support, although you'd like to see some changes. i spoke earlier in the day with a key member of the house of freedom caucus, congressman tom garrett of virginia. he said he couldn't support this bill in its current form. a lot of his colleagues say they can't support it. are you sure you have those 216 votes? because

. >> obamacare did not make health kara fordable for my family.hat my son infuses weekly had a $16 copay year round. now we're finding that we have to come up with $6,000 at the beginning of every year to pay for these idt infusions. and drug company assistance programs are overburdened because of obamacare. so, my question is how can anyone say that the law is working when it has made, you know, once affordable lifesaving medications so unaffordable? >> now, before you get too happy, stephen, that's a very good question. but listen, she's concerned about these deductibles and a lot of people are. as you answer her question, i also want you to explain to me, are you sure your plan is going to actually lower the deductibles? because that seems to be the main point. you demagogue, but i don't know what is going to bring down the deductible. >> some people want to buy higher deductible plans because the premium will come down. think about this. what is the purpose of insurance? insurance is to protect against the big events, like your house burning d

in russia you have this journalist whose name is vladimir kara-murza, who was poisoned, he believes,orders of vladimir putin. he says he still wants to get to work. in our country, the americans look at that as that's stuff that happens in russia, it could never happen here. i want you to listen to donald trump talking about putin and talking about killing journalists and what he thinks about that. >> i hate some of these people. but i would never kill them. i hate them. no, these people, honestly, i'll be honest, i'll be honest, i would never kill them. i would never do that. let's see. no, i wouldn't. >> he's obviously joking there. >> funny. >> and nobody is accusing donald trump of wanting to kill journalists. but the fact that when confronted with the idea that vladimir putin kills journalists, his instinct is to make light of it and say, well, i wouldn't do it either. what do you think of that? >> do i think that donald trump is going to have journalists killed? i mean, part of what has happened in russia over the last 17 years was that vladimir putin has established a state mo