i've got david chalian and maeve reston kicking off the discussion here. david chalian, listen, we can't begin to understand or explain why the president over and over is publicly belittling his attorney general, this loyal soldier and first senator to sign on for team trump. but what are we -- what more reporting do we have on how jeff sessions is feeling and his next moves? >> well, we can explain a little bit of why the president is doing this, because the president has explained it. it is all due to being upset that jeff sessions has recused himself from the russia investigation. i mean, that's what's -- that is what's so astonishing about what's going on. not just that the president is letting a cabinet member sort of twist in the wind like this for a week going on. it's that he stated initially in that "new york times" interview and since that he's so disappointed that sessions removed himself from the russia investigation. so, that -- >> but should he be surprise bid that? >> well, i don't understand why he should be except he may not have looked de

so maeve, are there options here? >> certainly. and certainly the democrats would like to fix certain things about obamacare. you heard chuck schumer talking about that this morning. but what is the incentive for them to work with president trump at this point? i mean, what they would like to do is regain control of the house in 2018. i just -- it's very hard to see a scenario where the democrats would come in and come to trump's rescue on the health care bill. at the same time, david is right. you know, there's a lot of time. they could come up with a really thoughtful policy solution, but this puts so much pressure on them to do that, and also, to come through on tax reform and tax cuts, because that's going to be incredibly important to voters next year. >> that's a whole other -- that's a whole other conversation that we're going to be having in some time. thank you both so much. thank you. >>> we do have more been because we're now hearing that the special counsel, robert mueller, is giving the okay for donald trump jr. and pa

she's on capitol hill and maeve joining us. this version of what's different from the senate's first try. >> reporter: let me just walk through some of the big headlines from this bill that was unveiled a couple of hours ago. the one thing i would mention off the top of the list is the cruz amendment. this is the amendment that we have been talking about all week, an amendment that the conservative senate republicans wanted that would essentially allow insurance companies to offer a cheaper and skimpier plan that would not be regulated under obamacare. now, what does this mean? this means that now, senator ted cruz is behind the bill. he told us earlier that he would vote on the motion to proceed and on the final bill as well. we're still waiting to hear whether someone like mike lee is going to get behind the bill. his aide tells me he is still undecided. others additions that were made to this bill, $45 billion in extra funding that would go toward opioid treatment. this is something that was very important to members like ro