we'll be back with steve king of kingston university.ing up on bloomberg's daybreak, a conversation with the mississippi defender on the rate hike decision. look for the 9:00 a.m. in new york and 1:00 p.m. on london. ♪ tom: a supreme view of washington, d.c. and really with all that's going on, the supreme court front and center today. mr. gorsuch will head to capitol hill. joining us is francine lacqua. in washington, the federal editor in government and economics and social justice as well. our font of wisdom on the supreme court, help me here with this moment. will this be the final conservative tilt as mr. gorsuch is made a justice of the supreme court? guest: all signs point to that, tom. his strategy going up on the hill is to just not make any mistakes. don't say anything that might create a firestorm that could create an environment where the democrats who are promising to be very kept school of his candidacy do things that prevent himself sitting on the supreme court. but he's going to be there it looks like. tom: in the modern

that is you in this next block, do you want to respond to what he said, there, jack kingston?i think that the health care bill is something that is going to take a lot of debating because it is one seventh of the economy. and i think -- i just want to say that past couple of days that is where all the energy is going right now. they're letting the intel committees take care of the russian stuff but they're moving on with the people's agenda, which i think is the right thing for them to do. >> i understand where you're coming from, gentleman, i think it's important when you have a republican house, senate, and white house, if it was the same thing democrats on the other side, part of that is holding people accountable. the media is part of that. so we need to do that as the media. james comey going over to capitol hill to brief investigators would have access to highly classified information. what is comey's role in these briefings? >> i don't really know, one thing is he has been getting a lot of criticism from members of congress who are not happy about the fact he has not co

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congressman kingston, you heard sean spicer saying repeatedly today, i refer you to the speaker, to the speaker, question for paul ryan. is the white house setting ryan up to take the fall? >> no, i don't think so. i think what he's doing is saying there's some work in progress and i don't want to get ahead of the speaker. steve knows, and we remember well as republicans watching the democrats pass obamacare, this is part of the process. it's growing pains. you'll have people on the right, the left the in between saying this isn't good for me, my politics or my state. but i think frankly that the white house and the house and the senate are going to get this done but in the meantime, you have to go through this period, but i do believe they'll get there. i think they're unified as well. >> so congressman israel, what do you say? >> well, you know, jack is right. this is a process. people think that passing legislation is like making sausage. in this case it's like molding jell-o. they have to shape it for moderate republicans in the house. they have to shape it for freedom caucus conser

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i want to bring in now dana bash, mark preston, and jack kingston, and matt lewis. i mean seriously this is huge. dan, i've got to get to you because we're hearing this may fall -- some are wondering if this was the president's strategy all along was to have someone else take the fall for him. >> well, i think what you're referring to is reporting that i have tonight from senior administration officials that there is concern on pennsylvania avenue with the way the speak has handled the process. specifically i'm told by a source that the concern is the speaker didn't bring conservatives who are balking or have been balking the problem that led them to not have the votes and unclear if they're going to have them tomorrow, that the speaker didn't bring them in early enough and not before the president got involved. and that kind of came to a head tonight when the house freedom caucus, this is the conservative group we've been talking about, of course, the house republican leadership and senior members of the white house team met in the speaker's office to try to go ove

and the fact is, congressman kingston, i don't want you to be superhero.ant andre bauer to be a superhero and adopt babies. i want you to have the courage to stand up and fight racism and hate and xenophobia. >> as reprehensible as steve king is, you at least got to give it to him, to bakari's point, he hasn't changed his principles, he has not changed his values, he has been a bigot and a racist and a xenophobe all of his public service life. him doubling down on his comments, at least you can say about the guy he knows where he stands. you cannot say that about every single republican leader out there, who has not denounced him, walked back those comments. that is going to haunt the republican party in the long run. >> sometimes you have to call it for what it is. and you cannot defend everything because someone happens to be a republican or someone happens to be a democrat or happens to be your president. if they say something stupid, bigoted, racist, call it for what it is. you don't have to defend it every time, and do back flips to make an excuse for

congressman kingston, i'm looking at you. >> well, it was a good tweet. do i find myself agreeing with ryion on some of these points. let me say this, you know, seeing somebody's tax returns is like seeing somebody naked. it might satisfy your curiosity but it really doesn't change your life. and i think that the democrats -- >> what? wait, wait, wait, wait. >> you guys know i'm right. you find the tax returns, you get real interested but the next day you got to go to work, you got to pay your mortgage, get good health care. it really -- the tax returns is an obsession of the democrat party. >> why won't he put the rest out there and put it to rest then? >> he's made his statement about that. had to do with the audit. i don't know what the status of the audit was. >> we've just spoken about this show and that it's the truth, even though the president says he doesn't watch, he watches. he realizes we speak the truth, we're not against him. we're just reporting the truth. don't give me the line about being under audit. the ones reported tonight aren't under

matthew rojanski, juliette cayenne, congressman kingston, steve hall.hael flynn, fired for lying to the vice president about his connection with the russian ambassador. now we learn he was working as a foreign agent for turkey, paid more than $500,000 while working for the trump campaign, and just filed paperwork to make that official two days ago. seems like that would have been important information for the american people to know. >> i think it would have been. but remember, he was fired not because of his connection with russia, but because he lied about his conversation with russia. not because he lied about his connection with russia. and that was the conversation in which he said he did not bring up sanctions, later it was shown that he did. and by the way, that was probably illegal to have him as a private citizen at that time, he was collateral damage you might say. and that was illegally leaked. but nonetheless, he did mislead the vice president about it, that's why he was fired. but you know, i do think that scrutiny in terms of who have you

. >> kirst up powers and jack kingston in the george w.sh administration and analyst karl bernstein. maggie, you heart what carter page said. what do you make of it? >>. >> it was a long interview and my take away is he tried very hard not to answer pointed questions. you asked repeatedly and did a nice job of trying to nail him down on specifics about his meetings or meeting or how many there were. he wouldn't go there. he declined to say a yes or no question to whether he believes or acknowledges that russia meddles in other country's elections, but he was pointed about what the u.s. does and this is a campaign against him by the democrats and the clinton campaign. i don't know what he thinks he is accomplishing by doing the interviews if he didn't have more to say. his story changed as recently as two weeks ago and now still declining to put it all out on the table. this is generally the school of thought. i don't see how it helps him or the president trump white house. there may be no there there, why not have the white house come forw

since congressman kingston describing house dicy it is, how do they today in these waning hours reign in the house freedom caucus which seems to be mutually exclusive from what the moderates want? >> here is what will happen if the past is any indication of what will happen today. they need 215 votes. your whip count is accurate. it reflects what i've heard. there are about 30 house r who say they're going to vote against it or leaning know. they can only force to lose 22. the real margin is eight. eight republicans will be the difference between this bill passing or not. jack kingston knows the conventional was domt is if you go to the floor out your necessary votes but you're within single digits, you should be able to pass it. what's going to happen, we're going to be on a roller coaster all day long. this vote will probably be held at about 5:00, maybe a little earlier, a 15-min et vote. house democrats will put their no votes up very quickly. house republicans who want this bill passed will put their votes up very quickly. you'll get to about 180, 190 votes within the first ten m

that congressman was jack kingston. is the president's suggestion here the responsible thing to do?> i think it's only responsible if he means the threat of it. if he means the reality of it, then you're going to have millions of people who will be without health ca witho withouthealthcare and not a good thing for america. >> are the words empty then? if he just means the threat and doesn't intend to go through with it? >> i don't think he intends to go through with it. bernie sanders on cnn last night said the premiums and the deductibles are too high. every democrat and republican will admit that. premiums are going up and premiums are too high and the deductibles for some families are as high as 10% of their household income. so, if the president is saying, you know, it's not sustainable, it will collapse. so, let's all get together and do something. i think then that's a positive statement. >> one more thing, jack. you know, the president throughout the campaign and since he's been in office has described the "washington post" as phony and dishonest and everybody knows that he s

do you want to respond to what he said, jack kingston?nk the health care bill is something that's going to take a lot of debating, it is one seventh of the economy. that's where, in my impression visiting the hill the past couple of days, where their attention is right now. they're moving on with the people's agenda which is the right thing for them to be doing. >> i understand where you gentlemen are coming from, i think it's important, when you have a republican house, republican senate, republican white house, the democrats on the other side, part of that is speaking truth to power and holding people accountable. the media is a part of that. we need to do that as the media. james comey going over to capitol hill to brief legislators who have access to highly classified information. what is comey's goal in these briefings? >> i don't really know, but he's been getting a lot of criticism from members of congress who are very unhappy with the fact that he hasn't been communicating very much with them. this is probably to a large extent hi

and jack kingston joins us. jen psaki, former white house communications director for president obama. congressman kingston, is this bad news for the trump administration? >> i don't think it's bad news. i think it's actually helpful. if he wants to come forward, i think people will want to hear what this big story is that he has. but i do think there is a lot of questions. as i read the immunity agreements with the five clinton employees that were involved with the e-mail scandal, there were different types of immunity, for example, for heather samuelson and sheryl mills, they got immunity from the fbi. but apparently not from congress. i'm not a lawyer. i don't know how it looks. but i think it might be a while of going back and forth before an immunity agreement is reached. but frankly, i think it would be good to have him step forward and say what is it that you know? it seems to be the center of it. and this might be where the whole thing -- well, not the whole thing, but where some of it starts and stops.

and jack kingston. keirsten, i'm not sure where to begin but that press conference today at the white house, the white house has gotten in deep on this and doesn't seem to be able to back out. >> they're in a situation because sean spicer has to defend donald trump because he doesn't want to back down from this. what struck me the most was when he rolled out the evidence basically, right. and so donald trump tweeted i just found out -- then went on a ram page about how he was wiretapped. when most of us hear that, we think i just found out, someone came in and briefed you. if i said i just found out something and then you found out i just found out by reading the newspaper, everybody knows that. what it was he found out is he was watching fox news so he found out something from sean hannity and from andrew napolitano, that's embarrassing for the white house. this isn't how we think of the president making an accusation based on something like that. >> kayleigh, having believed that, p tt could call the

jack kingston kindly stuck around. last word. >> if you're a trump person you believe that all this discussion about russia colluding with the trump campaign is partisan bull. >> doesn't mean it's true. maybe someone should tell him it's not. >> democrat but looking at same thing and saying that tweet was irresponsible and bad. i think this whole debate is reflection of -- >> republicans are saying it too. >> i hope in two weeks. >> do you think -- >> whoa, whoa. >> truth. do you think it was irresponsible for the president to put that tweet out? >> i think he should have said surveillance. >> come on jack. honest with me. >> responded in legalistic way. >> obama spokesperson. >> even if he said surveillance -- >> would have been wrong. >> comparing president obama to richard nixon and trying to pull off a watergate style -- >> heat of the campaign. >> is that not what the democrat party is doing right now when they say collusion -- >> no cleanup on 5th avenue on this one. i think this is just if the president could de

vunipola could now feature in the rest of england's six nations campaign after playing 72 minutes at kingston haye in london, tony bellew has revealed he broke during the bout. tony bellew has revealed he broke his hand during the bout. the much—hyped british heavyweight showdown at the 02 ended with both fighters injured and considering their futures in boxing. our correspondent andy swiss reports. for the man who was once in a rocky movie, it really was a hollywood ending. few had tipped tony bellew and soon it was the heavier david haye packing a punch. but then a twist, in the sixth round, haye stumbled, injuring his ankle. he could hardly move and bellew sensed his chance and haye was down. but not yet out.

david gergen, jack kingston and salena zito. i should have listened to david gergen. i said would get it passed, i was wrong. let you gloat on that david. mark, disastrous day for trump. worst week in this very short presidency. hugely embaergs. what happened? who gets the blame? >> can be spread out a little bit. paul ryan for trying to push this bill to the house floor when they clearly didn't have the votes. donald trump is to blame because as president he should be willing to invest all that he's got into something that he ran on. i put blame on the republican party as a whole to basically try to legislate by campaign promise, which was repeal and replace instead of saying go in and fix and make better. although it doesn't sound as good. i do think it is ridiculous for the president to go out there and say this is the democrats' fault. unless living in alternative universe and i might be, democrats had nothing to do with it. usually not that good strategically and very smart not to get involved in this at all. >> did any republicans vote for the affordable care ac

. >>> now, lets bring in our cnn's politic politic political correspondent, jack kingston.u concern of the bill not being passed on thursday, it is a big embarrassment. >> i believe that the president is doing everything he can to get the vote. for charlie dent and other people, they look at it different than many states that the governor decided not to expand medicaid. which group do you address and which drgroup gives you a net gn and vote? the committee members there did change their vote from a no to a yes. you know the president and all leadership is also faced with this. which direction do you go that's going to get you the best gain? >> let me ask you a quick answer, is it going to pass or not? >> it is going to pass. >> yes, it is going to pass and as congressman department says senate is going to have their direction. there will be more changes. >> you heard the congressman says it is time for president trump to come forward and say that the whole wiretapping thing is a mistake and did not happen, what do you think? >> i don't think he needs to do that. i think his

vunipola could new feature in the rest of england's six nations campaign after playing 72 minutes at kingstonk. after last night's emphatic victory over david haye in london, tony bellew has revealed he broke during the bout. tony bellew has revealed he broke his hand during the bout. the much—hyped british heavyweight showdown at the 02 ended with both fighters injured and considering their futures in boxing. our correspondent andy swiss reports. for the man who was once in a rocky movie, it really was a hollywood ending. few had tipped tony bellew and soon it was the heavier david haye packing a punch. but then a twist, in the sixth round, haye stumbled, injuring his ankle. he could hardly move and bellew sensed his chance and haye was down. but not yet out. somehow he hobbled on but at the 11th, his hopes went through the ropes. as the cameras snapped around him, haye tried to scramble back to his feet. his team decided enough was enough. bellew had done it and after a build—up full of threats and insults, the warmest of embraces. the fight had taken its toll. haye left for surgery on his

vunipola could now feature in the rest of england's six nations campaign after playing 72 minutes at kingstony over david haye in london, tony bellew has revealed he broke during the bout. the much—hyped british heavyweight showdown at the 02 ended with both fighters injured and considering their futures in boxing. our correspondent andy swiss reports. for the man who was once in a rocky movie, it really was a hollywood ending. few had tipped tony bellew and soon it was the heavier david haye packing a punch. but then a twist, in the sixth round, haye stumbled injuring his ankle. he could hardly move and bellew sensed his chance and haye was down. but not yet out. somehow he hobbled on but at the 11th, his hopes went through the ropes. as the cameras snapped around him, haye tried to scramble back to his feet. his team decided enough was enough. bellew had done it and after a build—up threatened by threats and insults, the warmest of embraces. the fight had taken its toll. haye left for surgery on had taken its toll. haye left for surgery on his achilles, when bellew revealed he'd broken his

let's talk about this with danny is a vallos and jack kingston and research associate for the new american foundation, david sterman. jack, i want to start with you. you're a former trump adviser. your reaction to this proposal? >> this shows how difficult immigration reform and immigration security is going to be, that people are willing to kidnap kids or at least use kids in order to become citizens or gain entry themselves. as we look at all aspects of immigration, we'll have to try to balance this stuff out. how do you protect kids, how do you protect the border and not separate families. it's difficult, but i think dhs is doing the right thing when they're considering all of the above. by that, i mean walls and better vetting and everything they're doing. the reason they're getting so much pushback is because it's difficult. there are also critics that regardless of what this administration is going to do, they're going to be very upset about it. i understand the politics of hiyperbole and how people would want to use it. i would hope people would say, you know what, there is a genuin

jack kingston. steve israel, matt lewis. i mean seriously. this is huge. dmai dana. get to you. hearing this may fall into paul ryan's lap now. not happy with the way he's handling this. some wondering if this was the president's strategy all along to have someone else take the fall for it. >> well i think what you're referring to is reporting that i have tonight from senior administration official that there is concern from that end of pennsylvania avenue with the way that the speaker has handled the process, specifically i'm told by a source that the concern is the speaker didn't bring conservatives who were balking and have been balking and causing the problem that led them to not have the votes and unclear whether they'll have them tomorrow, that the speaker didn't bring them in early enough before the president got involved. and that kind of came to a head tonight when the house freedom caucus, conservative group we've been talking about, house republican leadership and senior members of the white house team met in the speaker's office to try to go over this and figure out

. >> joining me to talk about this, political commentator jack kingston, and alice heineken, best selling author. so, jack, you first. is it your feeling the release of this cbo report will be in support of this gop plan? >> you know, it's hard to say, everybody criticizes cbo, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi have been on record criticizing it. a ceo in 2010 said that 24 million people would be covered by now under obamacare and that number is 10 milli$10 million. in 1964, it was predicted that medicare would -- >> given there's such a divide in the gop over this proposal, is it your feeling that those proponents of this plan really do need a supportive cbo report that says money will be saved, more people will be enticed to get on board with this plan? >> i think those who are opposed, some are going to come on board. i don't think many will be changed will be changed by the cbo report one way or the other. but i do know that this is one-third of the step, this is what you can do on rec reconciliati reconciliation, the next step is tom price going through the 1,400 powers that obamacare gave

jack kingston a senior adviser to the trump campaign, and cnn political contributor, maria cardona.dies and gentlemen about. >> vilders understands that culture and demographics are our destination. we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. then he doubled down on new day. >> you cannot rebuild your civilization with somebody else's babies, you have to keep your birth rate up, and teach your children your values, in doing so, you can grow your population, and you can strengthen your culture and your way of life. you go down the road a few generations or centuries with the intermarriage, i'd like to see an america that's just so homogenous we look the same. this western civilization is a superior civilization. >> does he understand that those comments are -- what do you think? >> i think steve king was racist a year ago, he's racist today and eel he'll be racist tomorrow. let's cut through the bs he spewed and reinforced today. that language is very, very dangerous. and the reason i say that, we have to be careful about normalizing this, and we have to stamp out

i want to bring in cnn political analyst, former congressman, jack kingston who was a senior advisor to the trump campaign and senior contributor zito. >> david, i'm going to let you gloat on that for moment, but i'm going to mark preston first. mark, the worse week in this president's, this very short presidency. what happened? who gets the blame here? >> i think the blame can be spread out a little bit. i think paul ryan gets the blame for trying to push this bill to house floor when they clearly didn't have the votes. i think donald trump is clearly to blame because as the president he should be willing to invest all that he has got into something that he ran on. i probably put blame on the republican party as a whole to basically legislate by campaign promise, which was repeal and replace instead of saying we're going to go in and fix and make better although it doesn't sound as good. and i do think it's ridiculous for the president to go out there and say this is the democrat's fault because unless i'm living in an alternative universe, and i very well might be, the democrats ha

jack kingston was making similar argument earlier. he offered up the information. kingston was saying he wasn't asked about this so fact he offered up doesn't matter. not true. he was under oath and i think it's plausible he was thinking one way when he got the question but why not correct it after the fact? and staffers in the meeting? and just like to know is this regular for him? did he meet with the ambassador in the preceding year? basic information. >> and also reported he used campaign funds to go to convention. does that undercut what he says? he's working -- >> pretty much everybody does that. all members of congress going to conventions use campaign money. but also underscores fact he was doing political work. not official capacity. >> we do know it's a mess. politics are messy. thank you. i appreciate it. >>> coming back, democrats calling for attorney general jeff sessions to resign. was his decision to recuse himself enough? card from capital one.ash with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on all of my purchasing. and that unlimited 2% cash back from sp

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actually be possible to do it within two years, given that we know michel barnier for example is very a kingstondeal —— very against negotiating. what makes you think it will actually be possible to do it within two years, given that we know michel barnier for example is very against negotiating a parallel trade deal at the same time as a brexit deal? well, first of all, obviously the treaty sets out that in looking when some of these countries are leaving the european union, the process which is article 50 sets out is for the withdrawal but also setting the framework for the future relationship actually should take the two years. and that is the timetable that we are working to, and that is the timetable that the european union is working too. yes, iam european union is working too. yes, i am optimistic that we can achieve a good and comprehensive free trade deal with the european union. why am i optimistic about that? it is not just about what is in the uk's interests, it is also about what is in the interests of the european union. i think what we see in the discussions on, that i hear that i

powers, senior political reporter nia-malika henderson, andre bauer, and former congressman jack kingstonfortunately jen psaki had to go. she had other obligations. we'll continue our conversation in just a bit, but, jim, bring us up to date. you were at that heated white house press briefing today trying to get answers as to why president trump refuses to back down from his unproven claims that he wiretapped the former president. you got into it with the white house press secretary. let's listen to this, and then we'll get you to talk about it. >> you are refusing to answer. the question you're refusing to answer is whether or not the president still -- >> no, i'm not. i just said it to jonathan. >> you have a senate and house intelligence committee, both leaders from both parties on both of those panels saying that they don't see any evidence of any wiretapping. so how can the president go on and continue to -- >> because you're mischaracterizing what chairman nunez said. he said, i think it's possible. he's following up on this. so to suggest that is actually -- and you're stating uneq

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matthew rojanski, juliette could i i don't know, steve hall, congressman kingston. flynn, fired for lying to the vice president about his connection with the russian ambassad ambassador. now we learn he was working as a foreign agent for turkey, paid more than $500,000 while working for the trump campaign, and just filed paperwork to make that official two days ago. seems like that would have been important information for the american people to know. >> i think it would have been. but remember, he was fired not because of his connection with russia, but because he lied about his conversation with russia. not because he lied about his connection with russia. and that was the conversation in which he said he did not bring up sanctions, later it was shown that he did. and by the way, that was probably illegal to have him as a private citizen at that time, he was collateral damage you might say. and that was illegally leaked. but nonetheless, he did mislead the vice president about it, that's why he was fired. but you know, i do think that scrutiny in terms of who have

former congressman jack kingston was a senior adviser to both the campaign and the transition team.nd he's now a cnn political commentator. good morning again, jack. >> good morning. >> vice president mike pence said yesterday that this is the first he's hearing of the general's lobbying work. are there options beyond, a, the vice president was woefully out of the loop here, and b, he's not telling the truth? >> no. i think it's very possible -- i mean, i know mike pence. i'm sure he did not know about it because he's a guy who speaks the truth. and the tightrope which he walks on, it would be too difficult not to tell the truth on something like this. now, the way i understand the flynn situation, he was hired by a businessman named hakim atepkin, if i'm pronouncing it correctly. he owned a dutch company called laveno. flynn's client was a businessman and not the government of turkey. the murkiness comes in because turkey benefited from the work flynn was doing for eltempkin. the faro law, federal registration act, is blurry that you can work for a foreign business and don't have t

i heard jack kingston kind of making a similar argument earli earlier. he offered up the information. >> right. >> and jack kingston was arguing he wasn't asked about this. so somehow the fact that he offered up this information doesn't matter. but that's not true. he was under oath. he said this. i think it's totally plausible that what he said was true, that he was thinking one way when he got the question. but then why not correct the record after the fact? what about the staffers that were in the meeting? i also would love to know basically is this is a regular thing for him? if so, did he meet with the ambassador in the preceding year? just some basic information. >> but then also, too, it has been reported that he used campaign funds to go to the convention. does that undercut what he said because then he's working -- >> pretty much everybody does that, though. all members of congress when they go to the conventions use campaign money. but i think it also underscores the fact that he was doing political work, not in his official capacity. >> one th

. >> jack kingston joins us.jen psaki from the white house director of communications for president obama. >> is this bad news for the trump administration? >> i don't think it's bad news. it's helpful if he wants to come forward and people will want to hear what this big story is he has. i think there are a lot of questions. as i read the immunity agreements with the five clinton employees involved with the e-mail scandals, there were different times with heather mills they got immunity from the fbi and apparently not from congress. i'm not a lawyer, i don't know how it looks, it might be a while going back and forth before an immunity agreement was rea reached. fra frankly, i think it would be good to have him say what is it you know? it seems to be the center of it and not the whole thing but where some starts and stops. it could be, i think, productive. >> jeff toobin, does it seem like it will be productive in that way? >> it certainly will help get to the bottom of the story, if he's telling the truth, beca

if they said have you met political analyst jack kingston, i can say yes. >> the crux of the question >> are people watching this? >> -- has anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign? what will you do? they never ask him -- >> i guess what -- >> this is the transcript. >> i guess you have to wonder then if that is the case, if the feeling is that the question asked and answered, then why did the attorney general recuse himself from any possible -- >> i think he's trying to get the issue off the table, did the right thing. the democrats can't get over it so they're trying to grab onto this russian thing. >> jonathan? >> i'm in keirsten's camp at least about the interview. there are a number of people like that in the trump campaign because it kind of came out of nowhere and had to gather advisers together. he was a hanger-on. i think he had no influence. what struck me from the interview when you were asking questions is he was trying to make himself important but every time you asked a question -- for example, you

gloria borger and ryan liz sa, john king, maggie haberman, jack kingston, james sake, jason miller andrian fallon. john king, an extraordinary day. >> it is and donald trump has defied every rule in politics so don't put anything in cement tonight. however, he failed at his first big test. to the point you played that sound and from his announcement speeches, i know the politicians, i can get a deal, if you can't get a deal, you're not very good. hi words. i'm the guy who does deals. he could not get his party to follow him on the first big test of the trump presidency. to maggie's point, he can second guess the sequencing but he came to washington, i'm uniquely qualified to do this, plus my friends, brought in inside washington guy, i'm the outsider, we're going to get this dope. what is the lasting effect, who knows. but the factions in the republican party he inherited is a pre-existing condition. they were there before. this idea that he didn't know, who knew health care was so complica complicated, who knew there were different parties within the republican party, anyone who did t

. >> at the 8:00 hour we had republican jack kingston who is an adviser to the trump campaign. tramp transitioned. let me bring in a democratic strategist. i want you, danielle, to respond to what we heard from former congressman kingston about the democrats as they try to stop this repeal and replacement. >> the democrats by the way aren't doing anything which is i think strange behavior, because obamacare is their baby and you wouldn't stand by and watch your babe be murdered or dismantled. >> so the aanalogy aside, should the democrats play some role in what's next for haeealth care i america? >> i think they should. they jumped up and down about republicans not -- medicaid in the way it was meant to under obamacare. they've talked about the fact that health care is important. i think they should play ball for the betterment of americans. they have some really concerns of course, particularly as it relates to the lack of the score as republicans move ahead very quickly. i think the one thing that looms large with this replacement is concern about access co contraception, mat

clue tonight that this had gotten too much even for the most loyal trump surrogates was when jack kingston, the former member of congress from georgia, said on cable tonight, quote, i don't think they're organized enough to orchestrate this. in effect calling artillery in on the trump white house to say, no, they don't do that good a job, that this could have been planned out, but that's the extent of the response so far tonight. >> this is just a really bizarre situation because you have the white house initially saying that this whole idea that congressman nunes would have gotten this information from the white house then rushed back to the white house to brief the president about the information doesn't pass the smell test and frankly it doesn't, but it seems that some pieces of that are now accurate. at least some of the sources nunes had came from the white house, and then he turned around and went right back to the president with it. the president, by the way, would have full access to this information. people i talked to in intelligence circles today said that it does seem like the

presidents, including reagan and clinton, nia-malika henderson, davidgerden, mark preston, jack kingston is here, amanda carpenter, and former democratic member of the south carolina house of representatives, bakari sellers. mo brooks is not moving. that's about the state of play for that member of the house freedom caucus. david, but he's deep in the details. pull us back for a second. what is at stake tonight, as they head into this meeting, for republicans and the president? >> well, one sixth of the american economy and the welfare of millions of americans, first and foremost, is at stake. you know, this is why it's so cli complicated. we're dealing with a massive piece of the american economy and trying to reorganize it. that's why so many presidents have failed at this. it is complicated, and hard to rally. but i think that donald trump's presidency to a significant degree rests upon pulling us out tonight. he -- pulling out before it's over to get a vote out of the house, at least. because, you know, he's supposed to be the -- have the art of the deal, right? that's his play and h

clue tonight that this had gotten too much even for the most loyal trump surrogates was when jack kingston, the former member of congress from georgia, said on cable

clue tonight that this had gotten too much even for the most loyal trump surrogates was when jack kingston, the former member of congress from georgia, said on cable tonight, quote, i don't think they're organized enough to orchestrate this. in effect calling artillery in on the trump white house to say, no, they don't do that good a job, that this could have been planned out, but that's the extent of the response so far tonight. >> this is just a really bizarre situation because you have the white house initially saying that this whole idea that congressman nunes would have gotten this information from the white house then rushed back to the white house to brief the president about the information doesn't pass the smell test and

this is kingston. lori you're kind of a rock star in my house. a little bit about your new book called "raising a hero.". >> it's a story about a little boy and he's raising a puppy to become a service dog and the puppy goes to live with a family for a year and a half and then he goes to college and he learns things like picking up toys and bringing them to somebody. turning on lights. turn off. taking off socks. >> i know it was from your prior work. kingston. >> yeah. >> he's like i'm three and i don't care about morning tv. >> so it is true that if you give a mouse a cookie you got the inspiration while driving from oregon to san francisco. >> well i used to live in san francisco and a friend of mine lived in oregon. and i thought of a cheeto cheetah eating chee. etos. >> this has been my passion for a long time writing about service dogs. they're amazing to me and i finally met somebody. i got married yeah. >> no. i finally met somebody a young man who helped me with my website but it turned out he has a brother who has cerebral palsy and we

this report from kingston crown court.died, she had his body and over the years it seems no one in authority investigated with the child was. 11 yea rs investigated with the child was. 11 years old, the body of the little kaiser, was found hidden in a boy, kaiser, was found hidden in a box ina boy, kaiser, was found hidden in a box in a garden shed at the home of relatives of victoria. they say they did not know what happened. his leg was bandaged although it is not clear how he died she's always denied any involvement in his death. the postmortem determined that it was inconclusive and that's due to the passage of time, over ten years. ‘he ‘ he left park after he left northwick park hospital as a newborn the authorities had a minimal contact with the child and - there was a with the child and then there was a tragic family accident. one decade later victoria's two—year—old daughter became ill and died. an inquest found she had swallowed a tiny battery. it was then that police beggg investigating what had police began inve

david urban, and brian fallon and jack kingston. good teeng aevening to all of y.start with you. $150 million, $36 million in taxes. >> if this were leaking to hurt donald trump, i don't think this is the right form to release. for ordinary people going to say, guy says he's rich business dude, made $150 million, and paying taxes. it's weird. because trying to hurt donald trump, this is not devastating thing to release. >> brian, you wanted this information in the campaign. do you think it makes a difference now? nothing in there bad for the president. >> i agree. never predicted coming on the show and throwing cold water on a report about donald trump's tax returns, but i don't think we learned anything at all interesting tonight. two pages from one year. turns out paid $38 million woshlg of taxes. i think owes the public all the tax returns to get to the bottom of the financial holdings and connections to russia. this would be a mistake for democrats to be distracted by. i think pivot right back to talk about the health care repeal measure in the house and talk a

a former aide in the obama white house is a columnist for the post and jack kingston, an adviser to theampaign. i believe my coanchor this evening. welcome back. >> a promotion. >> welcome to the show. you wrote an op ed, the winning arguments democrats have against trump. it's all about exposing where the president is filling to deliver. explain that. >> look, i think there is a lot of noise about what the president is doing, but what he's not doing that is the most important political edge against him. he made a lot of promises about bread and butter issues and the campaign. he fixed health care immediately after taking office and everyone would have great health care at a fraction of the price and he would stop jobs from moving overseas and get trade deals renegotiated. they put anti-outsourcing through congress and an infrastructure through congress. my point is there is a lot of people who voted for trump who expected help on bread and butter issues and that's not what he is working on. democrats should hold him accountable for that. >> the things he has not delivered on and in you

. >> representative kingston, don't you think it's a bit hypocritical though? >> he's a tough guy.h world. >> one more. >> one more obama quote. say this as plainly as i can. combat mission in iraq will end by this time. absurd. that involved people's lives. i think serious lie in itself by our former commander in chief. >> and i'll take over. wasn't exactly barack obama but there was also a line about how a video started the benghazi attack. >> susan rice. >> we could go on. i think quantitatively and qualitatively donald trump's lies transcend that. i think bill clinton and barack obama helped change norms and that they led us to donald trump who i think is a bigger liar than even they were. they get some blame for this. >> donald trump lies and then covers up his lie with a lie. right? in the interview -- >> other thing he does too -- >> there is no proof or evidence. yeah but what i was talking about is blah blah blah. >> one of the targets. "new york times," reporter on tonight proud of a headline that said treason in the area. and then in the interview didn't have anything bu

and let's bring in jack kingston, and jack i want to get to the president in a moment but don't want time before we talk about house speaker, paul ryan. you were in the house, and when the grand bargain fell apart between then president obama and then speaker boehner, there's some factions, and you will remember these, who are not going to budge. is there a deal to be made with some of the members. are they willing to compromise at all? >> i think some of them aren't because vote purity has become such a proud thing, a trophy for members to have. you are always going to have five to ten people who are just not going to go along with the program. the unfortunate part is they are not governors or in the executive branch, and when you are in the legislator branch, you just don't have the identity that you can go out and be independent about it. i thought you were a vegetable soup. it was not like you were out there on your own. paul ryan has to bring people on and try to fit into the big goal of everybody, and it's very difficult. >> some of the republicans snatched the legs right out f

kiersten powers joins us and jack kingston.rogers, you know the house intelligence committee quite well as former chairman. what did you make of today's hearing? >> i thought it was a swing and a miss for a couple of problems. one, we never talked about why the russians engaged in any way, shape, or form in an operation to influence american election, it was a bad idea. the democrats took their track of laying out in the court of public opinion why they felt certain trump officials were guilty and trump was guilty, that wasn't the purpose of the hearing. and the republicans spent a lot of time talking about the leaks themselves. so i thought it was a real loss to the american public, where they could have been schooled or educated or at least exposed to information that they might not be familiar with about how aggressive the russians have been and are. >> there were some questions about sort of russian strategy, disinformation and things like that. >> clearly, if you look at the news cycle, that was not the news, that just was