and republican senator mike lee. let's bring in kevin corke with the white house. >> the list of individuals being interviewed of the director of the federal bureau of investigation is both weighty and expensive. individuals with a normal's init on saturday you heard a great deal about the ongoing interviews and there have been many of them. the vetting process obviously continues. we expect the president to make a determination by weeks end, just ahead of his first foreign trip. former representative mike rogers with michigan endorsed by a group of former and current fbi agents, he is a former special agent. another, bill, not only a former fbi agent, he's also been a counterespionage chief at the cia as well. president trump has been delivering his saturday address before university encouraging students there to shake up conventional wisdom and embrace being outside the mainstream. >> president trump: embraced that label. being an outsider is fine. embrace the label, because if the outsiders who change the world an

and republican senator mike lee, a member of the judiciary committee. first, kevin corke at the white house with the latest. >> reporter: chris, the list of individuals being interviewed for the position of director of the federal bureau of investigation is both weighty and expansive, with in many cases individuals with enormous institutional and critical mission experience as well. on saturday you heard a great deal about the ongoing interviews, and there have been many of them, the vetting process obviously continues. we expect the president to make a determination by week's end just ahead of his first foreign trip. one name drawing a great deal of interest, that of former representative mike rogers of michigan, endorsed by a group of former and current fbi agents. he is a former special agent. another, bill evanina who's been a counter-espionage chief at the cia as well. president trump spent saturday delivering his first commencement address before tens of thousands at liberty university encouraging students to shake up conventional wisdom and embra

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. >> reporter: mike lee said he disagrees with the idea that the attorney general should detach himself from the search because sessions will work closely with the new fbi director on a variety of cases beyond russia. lee's opinion has weighed along with senator graham because both men sit on the judiciary committee that will oversee the confirmation hearings, bret. bret: let's get analysis from ron hosko, former assistant director of the fbi and works with the legal defense fund. thanks for being here. >> sure, good evening. bret: i want to play two sound bites, first, the senate minority leader asked a question whether they are going to move forward with an fbi replacement? >> senator mark warner, he's the top democrat on the intelligence committee, he wants the democratic party to refuse to vote on the nomination of new fbi director until a special prosecutor is appointed. do you support that move? >> yeah, i think there are a lot of democrats who feel that way. we'll have to discuss it as a caucus, but i would support that move because who the fbi director is related to who the spec

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but the tax credit idea, marco rubio, mike lee. these are people who have, are looking at these efforts as reality, potential reality. >> i did notice it looked like the ivanka care proposal kind of morphed a little bit into something that was, you know, maybe not quite so favorable to those at the top by extending a childcare dependent tax credit, but that's not refundable, so it lacks some of the saliency that we're talking about today. i think we should move to the audience for some questions. is that okay? >> sure. >> okay. >> it's also, i'm waiting to see what the details are on the ivanka trump program, but it only now applies to mothers and not to -- so, i mean, there's some work that has the get done. >> true. that yeah. >> my name's melissa, center for american progress. thank you so much for your leadership and your work on these issues. my question is sort of about building the political and public will. you've noted in your remarks that, you know, 70% of the middle class finish. [inaudible] we've seen this sort of deep

i've got a lot of them down there, and they basically said, look, mike lee is a nice guy, but that's terribly naive suggestion, first as i mentioned before because he has no law enforcement experience, but more than that, you can't make any deals with democrats these days, no matter what you do, you're not going to calm them down. they want victory. they want trump out. that's their goal, to which you say what? >> so one, i think he would be a fantastic pick for a number of reasons. one he was a federal prosecutor, he was the guy who prosecuted timothy mcveigh and the unabomber, he's been in the department. he gets that component to it. i think he could rally some of those democratic vote as well because the fbi director is a position we should be able to cross the aisle for. david: we should, but boyd, what we've seen the past couple of days is a perfect example how it can't be done these days? >> well, i think this is one of those that could transcend it. have you some of those on the left that are going to scream, hey, you're firing the guy we publicly prayed that you would fire,

mike lee (r) utah if, in fact, there are such recordings, i think those recordings will be subpoenaed and i think they will probably have to turn them over for his part, president trump, declined to answer questions about those referenced tapes at a golf course sunday, nats up: natsot (yesterday) reporter: mr. president, are you recording any of your meetings in the white house, sir? there are still weighty questions remaining about the motivation for the firing of james comey--and what it means to the ongoing investigation into russian influence. members of congress hoping to hear from comey himself, who visited the theater and posed for a picture with the cast over the weekend. tag: we may still hear from the man at the center of the storm, abc news has learned comey is willing to speak publicly, lana zak, abcnews, washington another trump campaign official. new york's attorney general is investigating the real estate dealings of former trump campaign manager paul manafort. "bloomberg news" news reports a separate investigation is also underway by the manhattan district attorney. ma

marco rubio, mike lee and there is a history of bipartisan support for these kind of credits. the child tax credit would introduce in the republican contract with america in 1994. and first became law under a democratic president bill clinton. and a gop congress in 1997. if you look at the history of is is the earned income tax credit, did it have support from democrats and republicans? and now there are many conversations taking place about taxes, surely, surely there can be and should be room for our youngest and most vulnerable children and families to be included. last week the trump administration rolled out an outline of their tax proposals. and while it is not fully flushed out, it is clear -- okay. that his proposal will not help families with the most need. the biggest challenge that faces our country is that people are in jobs that just don't pay enough money. families do not make enough money to live on. all of our policies should share the goal of reducing the burden on working families. and investing in the future. again, the policies have bipartisan interest and

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i have great respect for mike lee and i doubt that he's just shooting from the hip.harles: mike lee, pivotal in getting elk had-- health care through and maybe not horse trading, but they're incredibly important, particularly mike lee with the conservatives in the senate. >> louis freeh, one of the predecessors was a federal judge when appointed to run the fbi so there's precedent for leaving that rather lovely cushy life appointment. charles: one more for you, judge. wells fargo may have 3.5 million unauthorized customer accounts, far more than estimated. what do you say about that? >> the lawyers for wells far go he claim that this 3.5 million dollar number was generated by a series of hypotheticals produced by plaintiffs' lawyers and they dispute it. let's say it's true. it obviously makes the case a lot worse than we thought it was. charles: 1.5 million, 3.5 million accounts, the bottom line, if they're taking customer information and opening up fake accounts, as a way to generate business or-- >> it's an act of fraud on a monumental scale. the numbers are not th

senator mike lee will join us to talk about that and more. was out here smoking instead of being there for my son's winning shot. that was it for me. that's why i'm quitting with nicorette. only nicorette mini has a patented fast dissolving formula. it starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. every great why needs a great how. >> jenna: a fox news alert. new developments in the russia probe as the investigation reaches the president's inner circle including his personal attorney michael cohen and son-in-law jared kushner. this as mike flynn agrees to hand over some documents after he originally refused. catherine herridge joins us now. catherine? >> reporter: a source close to mike flynn says he will now provide records under subpoena to the senate intelligence committee adding the committee recently narrowed its request and flynn is able to accommodate the committee. there are all subpoenas for flynn's business records which do not have the same protection z a personals documents. flynn wants to cooperate with congress and is grateful the com

if you do that to get them on board, do you then risk mike lee and rand paul? if you lose them, that's two right there. if you add in ted cruz, then you are at three. then you don't have the votes. that's the kind of delicate balancing act they are looking at here. then, whatever they do, if they can possibly get to a majority they have got to turn around, merge it with the house, and then convince those same folks in the house to go along with the new version. all sorts of problems and challees here nicolle. >> i'm most intrigued by the 2018 group. you have already seen dean heller on planned parenthood take a not very republican party line. he said he is not so much behind defunding planned parenthood. do you view those two as the softest part as far as the appetite for doing something dramatic and drastic? in terms of repealing obamacare? >> heller is on an island on the republican side. he is the only republican senator running for re-election in 2018 in a state that hillary clinton carried in 2016. he's the only one in a blue state. she won that state, nev

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mike lee is serious. what do you think? >> incumbent upon the president to appoint somebody all americans will have faith in. >> like merrick garland? >> mike is an attorney, so he would have a better assessment of garland's merit, as you will, as an fbi director. i have not investigated that independently. everyone would see as an independent voice, then i will certainly agree with that concept. >> one of our colleagues here at msnbc nicole wallace said congress is not great at mul multi-tasking. your committee hearing on health care was postponed because chuck schumer wanted all democrats on the floor to take a stand against the comey firing. clearly, what has happened with james comey has gummed up the works with other progress the senate could be making. where are you when it comes to moving forward with health care? do you feel stalled? sd >> this is an issue the american people will demand be delivered. events are in the saddle. connecticut, speaking of richard blumenthal's home state just announced increases on top o

. >> reporter: so you saw two republicans there, lindsey graham of texas, mike lee of utah, lindsey graham is one thing off and marching to the beat of his own drummer. he's not in lock-step with the party line on many occasions, but when you have a conservative like mike lee from utah demanding the release of the tapes, or at least suggesting that if they exist, they should be turned over, that's a bad sign for this white house. chris? >> let me go on to what the ranking senate mike warner said, he thinks it's going to be very tough to get democratic support for a new fbi director. are wet ts early stage gettg any sense that democrats are unid on the front? >> the democrats are united. the one thing against democrats not in their favor is the math here in the senate. 52 republicans, 48 democrats. they don't have a majority to do that. so like other big ticket items or high profile items or controversial items, we'll see these time and time again, whether it be health care or the republicans looking into the russian meddling or work in tandem with what is already going on in the senate int

we just talked to utah republican senator mike lee staff, they say this tweet is not a joke.mp should nominate merrick garland to replace james comey. what do you think of that? >> i think garland would be an outstanding choice. and i don't think he was interested at the time, but who kn knows now. the fbi is the investigating side of the house. the problem is when you have the prosecuting side of the house led by rod rosenstein, a political appointee of the president and who once had a stellar reputation and by giving trump cover and just having an independent fbi director does not solve the problem. you still need an independent prosecutor, someone who is out of the regular doj chain of command and have confidence in and lead it fairly and without political interference. >> as we say, that doesn't negate the need to find someone who is acceptable to both sides. do you think, evan, that this merrick garland tweet is pretty straight forward? >> while he would probably pass the senate unanimously what mike lee is trying to do, open up that circuit court seat for a republican n

mike lee tweeting that president trump should nominate merrick garland to be the new fbi director. a bad idea, right? >> i don't think it is a great idea for trump. >> is it a good idea for merrick garland? >> god, no. i don't think the judge should take that job from donald trump right now under any circumstances. >> this is a troll on mike lee's part. because garland is on the d.c. court of appeals. the balance of the court of appeals is will he be ral. not conservative. were he to leave the court of appeals, he could tip the balance to the right. it is a little bit of a game. >> my sources -- >> a very smart guy. >> and making republican nominations. so my sources at the white house suggest that the search for an fbi director hadn't begun at the moment that comey was fired and they were casting, i won't say a wide net. mike rodgers is a name that came up today. what do you think about this process to replace the fbi at the moment when the investigation is heating up? >> the spotlight would be on them. it is a thankless job. you have all this pressure on you. it would look terrib

. >> from mike lee to susan collins?t conservative to most moderate, starting over and getting together and trying to figure out where they need to go to get the republican votes to get this off the senate floor. that's the way it should be done, by the way. you should start from there. >> come back to the house and then -- paul ryan will have a tough time making the house swallow the senate bill. >> it has to go to the senate. >> well, true. >> the senate republicans with even less -- a smaller margin are going to face exactly the same problem that paul ryan and the house republicans did, which is that that caucus ranges the gamut from mike lee and ted cruz to susan collins. you can only lose a few of those, even with a vice president pence to cast a tie breaking vote. that's a hard caucus of cats to herd there. >> at the end of the day, even by the 2018 election it is unclear if we will know the core answer, which is, is cost going to go down as republicans promised? probably the answer will be no, and the question is

giants of the senate and utah senator mike lee on lesser known figures in written out of history.senators franklin and lee will appear on our after words program in the couple of weeks. .. and brought down the house. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you, everybody.

this was a serious suggestion by lee at a meeting with mike pence and don mcgan. it was not just a tweet he put out. he went to the white house. he was there essentially -- neil: never happen, charlie. never happen. you could argue if you're donald trump this, might guy might carry a grudge, i don't think he will by the way the whole supreme court thing was handled, russian try to do an interim, right? >> that is the point. i don't think it will ever happen. neil: that is the point. >> here is the point, republicans are scared about this administration. neil: all right. >> no way that mike lee, a tea party guy goes out there and suggests merrick garland, a liberal democrat, obviously very qualified to be on the supreme court. neil: i would call him a moderate. >> qualified to be on the supreme court but this is crazy, isn't it? neil: i don't think that will ever happen. >> it is never going to happen! neil: you would have better shot at getting -- fbi is something i would never put you in charge. >> here is why i never would have a shot. the my family considered f

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some senators you might recognize, senator ted cruz, senator mike lee from utah, but of the 13 peoples group there are no women. so today in the briefing, it was canned of the press secretary would the white house sort of exert the power that they have to change that. take a listen to what was said. i think the more voices that we this done, the better. so to the senate i'm not going to tell leader mcconnell or the white house is not going to tell him how to conduct a panel, but at the same time i think that any voices that be construed as getting a more patient healthcare system put together would be welcomed. but dhas ' in the our call to make. senate leader mitchell mcconnell said no one is being expleuded based on gender. part of the reason might this may be even more controversial if you will than maybe another senate committee is i think for sure that conversation that people are having based on preexisting conditions, there are situations and circumstances, if you will, that women have been identified as having preexisting conditions. it used to be a preexist condition to have

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you have people like mike lee, people like ted cruz. when they negotiate in the house, they are negotiating on behalf of the freedom caucus. there have been so many conversations before the bill even got to this point that the bill is a little further down the way that sometimes went bills leave the house for the senate. group, i can't speak for them but they campaigned on repealing replacing obamacare. why notme have argued have democrats and republicans come together and take what is good about the affordable care act and improve on that and take away what is bad. rather than repealing the whole thing and starting over. guest: at the end of the day there's two ways forward on health care. you can either make changes to improve access to health care, which was obamacare, or make changes to reduce costs. that should be the republican version. when you reduce costs, that i you increase access to if he just increase access to the health care system, the system is already broken. it's going bankrupt. providing services necessarily and i wo

werner: would you declined comment on your colleague mike lee's suggestion of merrick garland? senator grassley: i thought we ought to follow the biden rule and let people have a voice in the final analysis. i think garland is an outstanding individual. i know his reputation as a judge. i do not know anything else about his reputation but there is not anything about garland himself that i could say no to. steve scully: you first came to the house in 1975 immediately after watergate. seven terms in the senate. where would you put the political divide in this town between the two parties based on your tenure in congress? sen. grassley: i get this question asked a little differently town meetings. it goes something like this. why can't you guys in washington, d.c. get along with each other? meaning republican and democrat. i say it is worse than it has ever been but it is not as bad -- i know you are a journalist so you know this, but it is not as bad as my constituency. you folks in journalism like controversy and controversy gets attention. if grassley is fighting with the senat

. >> would chew declined comment on mike lee's suggestion of merrick garland for that? >> we did not have a hearing on the because of that we ought to follow the biden role and have a voice. in the final analysis, i think arland is an outstanding individual. know his reputation as a judge. i do know anything about his reputation, so i would have to think about it, but there is not anything about garland himself that i can say no to. >> would you be concerned if the nominee was someone who may have to recuse themselves from the russian investigation because they were advising trump on the campaign or somehow otherwise involved in the transition? i think the president and the people close to the president don't want to emphasize that anymore. they are going to get somebody entirely away from that as far as i can tell. this name has been suggested, that name has been suggested, my usual response is to wait until .e get a list of names i would be happy to weigh in on a shortlist, but i am not in the business of suggesting somebody that is independent and will do the job, an

then you have on the flip side the mike lees and rand paul and ted cruz who say we promised the american people a full repeal of obamacare. >> this is not that. >> this is not even close to a full repeal. so you're going to have the same dynamics at play in the senate where i think you have less of a political imperative to move fast. so the speaker of the house thought the president of the united states demanded they do this in the house now because he wanted a trophy. here's the question, is it a participation trophy or do they get the final trophy? >> that's obviously the big question. i would argue not to be too cynical about it that they're trying to push this through because once they get the budget score, once they get the cbo analysis which says how many millions of people will be unsher unshu uninsured under this, we saw the last was 24 million over a number of years, and we have to see whether this actually adds to the deficit or doesn't. because if it adds to the deficit, they have a problem bringing it up in the senate. because it's under a budget bill and it has to be defici

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i think this idea that has been surfaced by senator mike lee on the far right of naming possibly the.e... his name is escaping me, but the supreme court pick of the obama administration is interesting. that a p pa re ntly administration is interesting. that apparently has some support from mitch mcconnell the republican leader. a lot of good people, including women like fran townsend. what matter is will they be impartial? that requires a careful confirmation hearing by the senate. thank you. the republicans blocked thejudge didn't thank you. the republicans blocked the judge didn't they when he was the judge didn't they when he was the pick for president obama for the supreme court. you have been speaking to white house people over the weekend, do you think they understand where this went wrong last week? yes, i was surprised at how candid they are about how this has been a rough week for them and how they handled it badly. at one point the white house official i was talking to said there is a review of the staff and the president will look at who is performing and who is not. that s

i think he should pick someone of independence, no ties to politics, someone like ray kelly, mike lee suggested merrick garland, the judge nominated by the democra democrats, some of the like that would be ideal. my prediction he will pick john cornyn, the texas senator who has been a loyal defender of president trump through the whole investigation. >> doug just bit on the merrick harland bait because as republicans we would absolutely support that. the president wants someone who can pass 100 - 0. the people who are being mentioned are all very qualified and capable. i agree with doug that john cornyn would be a fantastic pick. he has the respect of the senate on both sides of the aisle and he understands law-enforcement as well as how to work with capitol hill and others. laura: thank you so much for being here. always interesting. it will be a very big week. we want to remind you to turn in later for judge jeanine's conversation with trump where he addresses his remarks about ending live white house press briefings. >> when we have those press conferences, i actually said we shoul

meanwhile our charlie gasparino are reporting that utah senator mike lee made former pitch that the administrationoint judge merrick garland to replace jim comey. nicole: democrats continue to push per a special prrtor to investigation allegations between trump campaign but the acting director of the fbi says there's no need for independent prosecutor. >> it is my opinion and belief that the fbi will continue to pursue this investigation vigorously and completely. >> do you need somebody to take this away from you and somebody else to do it? >> no, sir. nicole: joining us now former u.s. army intelligence officer andrew peek, good morning. >> good morning. nicole: will democrats get a special prosecutor? >> they won't unless they take back congress and start to subpoena enough documents to make life unpleasant for the trump administration. i mean, no, a special prosecutor would take what is a legitimate investigation and blow it up into a political circus. what saves law enforcement agencies is a whole al gsmia of procedures, precedents, organizations like the justice department and the fbi have o

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utah senator, mike lee says they can still get plenty done. >> on tax reform and the repeal obamacarewe can accomplish both of these things. we use a procedure called budget reconciliation. on both of those, we can get past the closure on filibuster. in this instance, there's no need for us to change the senate rules. the rules already allow for us to do what we need to do. >> president trump tweet about health care this morning. hope they were public and senators, good people all, can quickly get together and pass a new repeal and replace health care bill and save money. sean spicer was asked yesterday about potentially spending more to make sure what's next is great. >> there is a lot of savings that are coming out of the repeal and replace effort right now. we're at $119 billion that we saved it to the president's efforts. health care has been summing up the president has been very clear on to make sure that the american people get the care and the accessibility that they need. >> key players in the senate are trying to find the right formula to pass a senate republican health care

if senator mike lee was inpay f?ll, in the first place we have to remember that every time we transfer a big responsibility over to the federal government, something that the federal government's not uniquely positioned or authorized to do as the exclusive provider of a particular service, bad things tend to happen. so i tend to shy away from anything that would transfer that responsibility to the federal government. with obamacare we've seen things get worse, not better. we've seen health care get more expensive, not less. and this failure that you're describing is just the most recent in a long string of failures over the last few years since this law was passed in 2010. stuart: at the end of the day, can you avoid the taxpayer and the government having a role in health care providing? >> at this point the taxpayer and the government does have a role. my point is to as, first and foremost, which government? why is it when we've got as much diversity geographically, politically, philosophically in every other way, a

and ted cruz and mike lee. one vote on the senate side. >> they'll write a somewhat different bill. what it will look like i'm not quite sure. they will then go to conference with with the house and that's the real moment. and they've got to come out of conference. it is pretty simple. what are the five or six or seven things the american people most want? can we find a way to deliver those. one is pre-existing conditions. people want to be sure that their loved ones aren't going to be cut off. so they have to get to a solution that says yes, here is how we solve it. >> bill: do we think that you needed that $8 billion that upton debated this week at the white house? did we not think the system was already protecting those? what doctor would take a baby out of the hospital and say i'm not going to care and treat you? >> it does happen. you get treated but a bill from the hospital for a million dollars. people are saying the number one concern people have, health is like anything else, health is all about indivi

chris: have you gotten any buy-in from ted cruz, rand paul and mike lee? what is the chance that the senate won't pass anything? senator cassidy: i can't speak for those senators you listed. between mike and susan and i there are five republicans who support it. chris: that's 6. you need 44 more. >> of all the the plans out there we have the most support. i say to my friend dick durbin, if we had democrats involved, that if we had 25 democrats and 4 republicans it wouldn't be a republic -- and 40 republicans, it would be an american plan. chris: quickly, senator durbin, any democratic buy-in? senator durbin: as long as we take repeal off the table there are a lot of democrats who want to bring a chair to the table. let's sit down with bill cass dane susan collins. i don't agree with many phases of their startup plan, but that should be our national goal. chris: the trump budget was released this week. here are some of the key increases in spending. for the military increase by 10.1%. border security by 6.8%. but epa has 31.4%. and n.i.h., the national insti

i think he should pick someone of independence, no ties to politics, someone like ray kelly, mike lee of utah suggested merrick garland, the judge nominated by the democra democrats, some of the like that would be ideal. my prediction he will pick john cornyn, the texas senator who has been a loyal defender of president trump through the whole investigation. >> doug just bit on the merrick harland bait because as republicans we would absolutely support that. the president wants someone who can pass 100 - 0. the people who are being mentioned are all very qualified and capable. i agree with doug that john cornyn would be a fantastic pick. he has the respect of the senate on both sides of the aisle and he understands law-enforcement as well as how to work with capitol hill and others. laura: thank you so much for being here. always interesting. it will be a very big week. we want to remind you to turn in later for judge jeanine's conversation with trump where he addresses his remarks about ending live white house press briefings. >> when we have those press conferences, i actually said

caucus in the house of representatives, that will allow you to line up people like ted cruz and mike leein the senate who have expressed oppositiong this. that's a dubious argument because you have all these senators in the middle to rob portman's, the sizen collins who have constituents who rely on this and these revisions that were done today include a massive slashing of the expansion of medicaid so poor patients are going to be on the hook for more expenses and contrary to what congressman burjs said, people are going to pay more for premiums and 8 billion is a drop in the bucket on any program. the question is what kind of heat are these people going to face when they get in their home districts during this 11-day period? and when will this hit the senate floor and what kind of reception will it get from senate leadership? >> and that's why we ask you to stick around and give us a reality check. thank you so much. coming up after another break, donald trump says middle east peace may not be as complicated as everyone thought. we'll ask the top democrat what he thinks about that as w

. >> utah senator mike lee has thrown out an intriguing name to replace comey.'s pick for the supreme court judge merrick garland. >> i think merrick garland would be a particularly good option, given that he could have so much support from both side of the aisle. >> the nominee should be not a partisan politician. not part of either party. this demands a serious down the middle investigation. >> this is a fox news alert. north korea says the medium long range str