tweet that got a lot of notice, saying, hi, my name is michael phillips. i live at home because of a medicaid waiver. don't cut medicaid. don't take away my home. joining us now on "the last word" is mike phillips who is living with his spinal muscular atrophy and stands to lose medicaid benefits under the potential discussion bill. we're also joined by his mom, karen clay, who is his full-time caregiver. thank you both, karen and mike, for being here. starting with you, karen, how do you see this issue and why was it important for both of you to speak out? >> thank you. when my son was diagnosed over 30 years ago, the doctors told me he wouldn't see his first birthday. and yet here he is. over time, his needs have changed, and the amount of care that he's needed has increased. and that's what medicaid is all about. medicaid is called a lifeline. but for people like my son, medicaid is a life. through a medicaid waiver, we are enabled to keep mike at home and to care for him by a family who loves him and who knows his needs best. if you take away medicaid

at this time i'd like to throw it over to our interview, chicago tribune film critic michael phillips. [applaus [applause]. >> thank you, thanks for coming out today and it's my pleasure to talk with mark bowden about his new book hue 1968. for those of you who don't know his resume', he's a national correspondent for the atlantic, contributing editor "vanity fair," a writer, and author of many books on subjects all over the-- literally all over the world, from colombia and pablo escobar, an account to d-day, to the killing of usama bin laden, many subjects. probably best known for blackhawk down, an account of the 1993 raid in somalia that led to two-u.s. army blackhawk helicopters being down over downtown mogadishu and the grueling 15-hour result. and the new book, which is out this week from atlantic monthly press is a very different scope, i'd say, than blackhawk down. it's also being made into a mini series already. the thing hasn't been out three days, and the producer and director of what's going to be between eight and ten hours in the end, of this mini series is michael mann

specifically on the issue of what matters more, immigration policy or economic policy, you have had michael gove and phillip is the economy and business, does that mean that the people who would like to see immigration policy take priority are losing the argument? the government will have a balance thatis the government will have a balance that is in the best interests of the country and clearly we want to ensure that if business gets access to the labour it needs, there is a worry that people are coming to the united kingdom and using our public services who may not be contributing to our national wealth. that is the problem that the government will deal with and will deal with that in a reasonable weight over a period of time. thank you very much for joining us. he did a pretty good job of being a politician and not saying anything that would get him into trouble with either side but the truth is if you listen to members of the cabinet, there does seem to be a division merging, particularly on this balance between immigration and business. those who would like a softer brexit and those who would like busi

michael. and now let's move on to phillip cker of the "washington post". phillip, your story equally interesting about dan coats. i was trying to think of a way to describe him. he is kind of a tas i turn hoosier by today's standards, a very conventional republican, a rock ribbed republican. tends not to be the flashiest guy in washington. so these sources have their motives leaking to you tonight about pressure brought to bear on him from donald trump. >> one correction this is the story by adam who did a terrific job with the reporting. it's an interesting development here. this is the director of national intelligence asked by the president to do something, to stop the comby investigation in russia that's not typical behavior. that's not really appropriate. a lot of the experts would tell you. but dan coats i've interviewed him before. you're right he is a straight laced sort of traditional republican been in washington two different terms in the senate -- two tirch periods of his life? the senate. and this is an interesting move by the president. >> ph

phillip. >> reporter: michael, good morning. yeah, that frightening flight ending with more than a dozen passengers injured after their plane hit the edge of that storm. these are some of the 14 injured. passengers wearing neck braces, placed on stretchers, seated in wheelchairs and lifted into ambulances after their united airlines jet hit turbulence tuesday afternoon. >> it was like lot of turbulence. the plane started to move very violent. many people like they jumped to the ceiling of the plane. >> reporter: carlos pedron walked away with this gash in his head. >> many people were crying. >> they were its way from panama city, panama to houston, texas, passing cancun, mexico, on the edge of a tropical storm creating the turbulence that sent passengers bumping around the cabin. >> everybody was scared to death that the airplane was going to go down. >> reporter: first responders rushing to the gate when the plane finally landed. >> ems 92, we're getting an additional call to gate echo 14. >> we had initially about 14 people t

so let's get to our panel, michael, senior writer for the weekly standard, "washington post" reporter amber phillipstor at large for "time" his piece an in-depth look at the president'ses son-in-law, senior adviser jared kushner. fbi director or former fbi director james comey will be testifying in front of senate intel next week. what do you think is in it for him? >> yeah, well i spent the past day trying to get into his head, a guy who prides himself on being aggressively nonpartisan, doesn't get into the political battle of the day and here he is directly inserting himself in the biggest political battle of the moment. i think it's one of two things. he's either wants to clear his name, of course, trump fired him some republicans in congress agreed with that, and then we learned trump called comey a nut job, or he's got a bombshell about bombshell about president trump and the conversations those two had in private. it could be both of those things, but i just firmly believe he is going in front of congress for a specific reason next week. >> doesn't comey usually have a bombshell when he sits t

phillip. thanks to you, as well. >>> let's go over to ginger for the latest that life-threatening flash flooding moves inland. >> michaelthat is exactly the threat so inland meaning all the way to the midsouth which we'll get to. we can see the center of cindy clearly along the louisiana/texas state line. now the eastern bands will still drop flash flood potential but tornado watches in eastern louisiana, southern mississippi, alabama, even the far western part of the florida panhandle. here's the track. it should die out relatively quickly but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a lot of moisture with it. it squeezes against a cold front. that's why western tennessee, southeastern arkansas, all the way through western pennsylvania will see the remnants plus the cold front creating a potential for flash flooding. see the yelchins and green, up to 6 plus inches. robin, we'll track this and the extreme heat in just moments. >> all right, ginger, thank you. >>> also following a lot of major headlines out of washington. senate republicans are just hours away from revealing a draft of their health care bill. after facing scrut

phillip because he has the disadvantage of not being at the table. the question of whether or not donald trump attempted to obstruct the investigation into michael flynnewandowski who was the former campaign manager to donald trump attempted to des putin one aspect of jim comey's story that he never initiated contact with the president. it was the president who initiated contact with him. this is cory lewandowski describing that first january 6th meeting. i'm sorry, this is jim comey -- i'm sorry, do we have the cory lewandows lewandowski? i'm sorry, i have it back cords. cory lewandowski said it was comey who initiated the contact, he wanted to speak with the president. this is now jim comey rebutting that. >> a really significant fact to me, so why did he kick everybody out of the oval office? why would you kick the attorney general, president, chief of staff out to talk to me if it was about something else. so that to me, as an investigat investigator, is a very significant fact. >> i'm discombobulated. that was comey testifying about february 14th meeting when everyone was asked to leave the room. this is rebuttal to cory lewandowski saying who in