began to circulate amongst morsi supporters that the president was being detained inside the republican guard compound so a group of them headed there and organized a protest outside. little did they know that in cc's egypt no one would be allowed to protest a massacre took place at the gates of the republican guard compound those inside however were unaware. of what. the general us at the time was that keeping morsi walked away or and that he was incommunicado we didn't even know where morsi was there was a concern about what would happen what they planned to do and even if we knew exactly where he was that he wasn't fact in a military detention center. the view of the united states was that it was not helpful. that's a lot of goma. good idea oh they do limit it's a good. thought when the hand of others about to. do that or . on a navy lot of the last two were there any one. said in the far east will. also not at first know. it started to become clearer that despite the massive size of the drew thirtieth protests they did not represent all egyptians there were millions of other egyptians who

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simply wouldn't more or less levy any any customs duties on any goods there traveling between the republican guard and norton aren't and that's nonsense you can't have two regulation regimes without somebody policing as it's just simply an attempt to foist the blame on the european union are indeed on drugs and for erecting a border where the border is essential there's two sides to every border and u.k. is becoming something of a rogue regime and it's been difficult to actually regulators and but elect our son and yesterday's on its you talked to you took the earlier there are about the divisions within. northern ireland the unionists in northern ireland are concerned that this backstop essentially treating the whole island of ireland as as kind of a separate country that's a big no no for them isn't it because that's not that's not what they're that what they want to them that that is a path to a united ireland isn't it isn't that a legitimate concern. well two things there one when you say the union is a problem we were talking primarily here about the do you see who got about a third of the vo

today my father and other hostages while condemning their arbitrary detention by the uranian republican guard. knowing they are not forgotten. we ask americans to take all available legal and diplomatic measures to reunite us with our father. we ask this government to do the same for all the families of other hostages. thank you again, representatives of the american people for this opportunity and continuous support, thank you. >> thank you. thank you to all of our witnesses. let me begin by asking, on the july 2018 appointment of robert, certain special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, pledged that o'brien would maintain a collaborative dialogue with families and current hostages, regarding diplomatic recovery efforts for their loved ones. i just would ask each of you in your view, are special envoy o'brien and his staff fulfilling that pledge, and in what areas could there be improvement from your very important perspectives ms. levinson? >> robert o'brien and his team are extremely helpful in our case. they are available whenever we need them to be. their team coordinates any meeti

that's in egypt no one would be allowed to protest a massacre took place at the gates of the republican guard compound those inside however were unaware. of. what. the general us at the time was that keeping morsi walked away or and that he was incommunicado we didn't even know where morsi was there was a concern about what would happen what they planned to do and even if we knew exactly where he was that he wasn't fact in a military detention center. the view of the united states was that it was not helpful. that's a lot of goma. good idea what they do in the moon is a good. thought when the hand of others about to. do that. is on a navy lots of lots of them are there any who. said in the far east will. also not at first know. it started to become clearer that despite the massive size of the drew thirtieth protests they did not represent all egyptians there were millions of other egyptians who rejected the actions of the military and were insisting on morsi is returned. so the army had to take him as far away from his supporters as possible and quickly. the message comes about. what i though

border on the island of ireland would mean they would have to be irish border guards on the republic of them on the republican on the side of the british border guards on the north not inside and they'd both be a targets for distant republicans who would shoot at them or in another sort of sense attack them and as bizarre as that sounds after so many years of the peace process it would be so destabilizing for all islands and one of the absolutely major considerations for the european union is protecting the public of ireland because it's one of their members even if the u.k. leaves and i do think that it lends to the argument that even though tusk is saying it's either they still or something else they might have to consider a longer extension if only to protect our interests in brussels thank you very much indeed. one of the most dramatic trials over genocide committed during the balkan war in the one nine hundred ninety s. has ended the former bosnian serb political leader radovan carriage which were not spend the rest of his life in jail after being recent inst by a un court in the hague. was appealing aga

at >> martha: republicans were caught off guard by what he said, not in the loop about his plan to take on health care again. >> i don't know how it went down in the white house, i will tell you this president, it's a promise he made a promise he's going to keep it i think he's fighting for the american people, this fight is a fight he promised to give. he said he wanted to do this and it's about getting the best health care for the american people. if he says the republican party is going to be about getting great health care -- >> martha: when you look at the polls, i know you pull all these individual items with people rather than large demographic groups -- how are you going to make health care work for your candidate? >> health care is important that has to be broken down to a lot of different things. when you say do you want the government bureaucrats to run your health care? we are on the right side of this issue significantly, they don't want to stand in lines. look at what happened to the va, it was when president trump brought back in private health care and made a choice it s

the thing that you guard against , and the republican party go farther right. forestalling a challenge knowing that you will not be facing any serious opponent in a general election. voteens concerned about a that someone has taken in congress or legislature did not have the ability to bring about change. it cheapens our votes. you mentioned the citizens commission. fort the gold standard redistricting reform? versus an commission algorithm. is there some other thing that might create fairness? mr. schwarzenegger: i'm sure there are many ways. in californiaucky and very fortunate. it just shows the great job that they have done in writing this initiative. it is so complex. it is kind of will improve. there was independent auditing 60, 20the pick independence and they gave it to the legislative leaders and the majority and minority leaders. this is how it went through the process. they had to pick the rest of the six. now, we have five democrats, five republicans and five independence. it has been so well done. for someone who wants the redistricting model as cl

guard lieutenant and members of the media, the president refused to condemn that coast guard lieutenant. republicans refused to condemn that coast guard lieutenant. now we have 50 muslims slaughtered while worshipping in new zealand. the president again refusing to call white nationalism by its name and tweeted out that we needed to be fearful because he had people on the military and bi bikers for trump who if he wanted to get very ugly, very fast. that's tearing a page straight out of mussolini's play book saying i'm going to use the military and i'm going to use gangs to go around and beat up people who are my enemies. >> a couple reactions. one, it's not just what a president says and does, joe, it's also what a president doesn't say and doesn't do. you can focus on the tweets but also on the things that he hasn't spoken about. it's a reminder that the president is not just a commander in chief, not just the head of government and the chief policy maker, bunch he's also t -- but he's also the head of state and supposed to represent the country, the society, the nation in the largest sense of the

targets quite carefully, and i think it is just a sense that we need to be on our guard and it is almost as if irish republicanen off the radar. yes, and many have been warning that we have taken oui’ have been warning that we have taken our eye off the ball and there is a lot of trouble bubbling away that we in london or in you know the mainland are not paying attention to. on the other hand we don't know whether this is. obviously lots of papers are saying that there is an ira connection, dissident connections, we don't know that. we have some dublin stamps. i mean i'm sure we know —— they no more than we know behind—the—scenes but we don't know behind—the—scenes but we don't know whether this is an actual terrorist attack. i mean, obviously oi'i terrorist attack. i mean, obviously on paper it is. or whether it is meant to increase publicity around this, brexit, and as you're saying the good friday agreement, there are other things going on as well, there's a lot of consternation in northern ireland at the moment because we are about to find out whether the paratroopers from the bloody sunday are going to be

it pains me to watch my republican colleagues systematically dismantling guard rail after guard rail in the judicial nomination process all for the sake of stuffing the court with their ideologs. the nomination process in the senate is breaking down before our eyes. our ability to fill full our responsibility of advice and consent is at risk of the that is a shameful chapter in the senate. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. lankford: mr. president. the presiding officer: i recognize the senator from oklahoma. mr. lankford: mr. president, number 22 trillion shouldn't matter to us. $22 trillion, that's our current debt number in the united states. not to be confused we have debt and we have deficits. deficits, sometimes those numbers get thrown together, but deficit is the overspending in one year. debt is the collection of all of those deficits. our current debt, $22 trillion as a nation. to give you perspective on $22 trillion. if you take $2 -- 22 trillion miles, total distance, you would fly from earth to pluto and back 3,081 times. from earth to pluto and back 3,081 times to ge

base by being more inclusive, but rather continuing to support and oldote the policies of the guard republicanst look like a bunch of white men. i would like to learn more about, from your guest, what is the young conservative movement doing to become more inclusive? how are you measuring that? guest: we welcome everyone. throughout our history, even going back to the civil rights era, when hotels would not let one of our black american board members stay, we protested and say you are either going to integrate this hotel or you are going to lose our business. so we have had a proud track in young inclusion americans for freedom. that is something we want to epitomize for the conservative movement. you touch on an important point. the rising tide lifts all boats, and that's what we want to do in a free market and free enterprise economy. and certainly i don't want to minimize some of the evils that have occurred in american history, and the impacts on the economic situation. solution tok the that is more government involvement. the solution to that is working together and helping each other pros

were successful pounding health care in the midterms that was substantive issue which republicans were caught off-guardthey lost 40 seats in the house. i wonder get back to the basics, focus on that, not talking about the supreme court, get rid of electoral college. that would be a long-term issue both parties could address, if you find it archaic. they're not doing that. >> right exmaybe that will change as election season heats up. what do you think? >> they think the democrat that voted for donald trump to come out in 2020. that means issues they're talking around kitchen table. the house races were very successful for democrats in 2018. not in the senate. when you have to run for president you run statewide like the senate races. you need a message that translates to broader population. democrats are really struggling to find that health care is good example. fixing the aca is different than implementing "medicare for all." you see a lot of divisions for democratic primary candidates what is right health care policy moving forward. neil: kristen, real fast, do you think the party nominate as modera

i like that 12 republicans are with it on this. congress should guard its powers jealously and they should make laws and stuff. and i know it's very old school, but i appreciate that. he will veto it. i don't think they have what it takes to overcome that. so i like seeing a little gumption here. tom tillis, by the way, ripping that band-aid off and trying to put it back on. >> let's talk about that. tom tillis, up for re-election, two weeks ago, didn't just say he was going to vote. >> wrote a piece. >> wrote an op-ed in the washington post, conservatives who cried foul about president obama use iing executive powers. there is no intellectual honesty in now turning around and arguing that there's an imaginary asterisk attached to executive overreach. that it's acceptable for my party but not thy party. as a u.s. senator, i cannot justify providing the executive with more ways to bypass congress. as a conservative i cannot endorse a precedent that i know future left-wing presidents will exploit to advance radical policies and then, never mind. >> someon

the concern among republicans who were caught off guard by this move is they don't have anything to replace in place to take care of those who see their insurance go away. what are you hearing about that? would you think? >> is trying to make it on a promise conservatives have been making for a number of electoral cycles. the administration has been make in different mandates or provisions, changing provisions in health care for people to build up by insurance plans over state lines were to pool -- >> they don't like that across state lines thing. i don't know why it would be very cost effective. how far would this go? a third rail for republicans to address. it could boomerang. that is how democrats like to say they picked up 40 seats in the house with this issue. what do you think the fallout will be? >> of conservatives put forward ideas they been talking about for quite a while i don't think it's going to hurt them. look what democrats ran on in 2018. they do have ideas on how to improve the health care system to become medicaid for all. they need to pony up at this point. the administr

republican congressman adam kinzinger of illinois. he's a lieutenant colonel in the air national guardence from his active duty deployment to the southern border last month in a meeting at the white house with president trump. joe? >> hey, congressman, great to see you. >> what's up? >> we'll get to the border in one minute but want to talk about an issue that you and i have been concerned about for some time and that is syria. it looks like the president has listened to people like you, listened to concerns about leaving syria to the russians, the iranians and assad and isis, and it looks like we're going to keep a presence there. what can you tell us about that? >> yeah, i think that's a good thing. we have to give the president credit for i guess seeing the light on this. and the reyality is our presenc will do two things looking to guard against the resurrection of isis. there will be an isis ii or an al qaeda iii. so when you look at that what do we do now? having 400 troops on the ground will be great for intelligence gathering to be able to see first signs of the resurrection of

are more worried about a primary than a general election and the thing you guard against is a primary and therefore, the republican party to the right and democratic party, you go to the left knowing that you are not going to be facing any serious opponent in a general election. and citizens who are concerned about a vote that somebody has taken in congress or in a state legislature, don't have the ability to bring about change. and it cheapens our votes. allison: governor schwarzenegger, you mentioned the california citizens commission and at that moment, is it the gold standard for redistricting reform? why go with a citizens algorithm? ersus an mr. schwarzenegger: i tell you we were very lucky in california and very fortunate and i think it shows to you the great job that common cause has done, because the way they selected complex. ,, it was so but kind of bullet-proof. people signed up for it and became part of the commission and then there was an independent auditing panel and ad to be 60, 20 from the democrats, 20 from the republicans and 20 from the independents and the majority and minority leaders take t

guard. i had such a fascination with this idea of finding the answers to questions that nobody else could find. >> might dad is actually a never republican who has voted democrat. >> join the discussion. >> today former texas lawmaker beto o'rourke kicks off his bid in texas. and on the free c-span radio app. on tuesday the house debated overriding president trump's regime of a resolution that would end his emergency declaration on the southern border. to 481,l vote was 248 short of the two thirds majority required to override the veto. 14 republicans voted with democrats on the measure. here is the floor debate. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. defazio: madam speaker, today we will vote to override the president's veto of congress' bipartisan action to terminate his so-called national emergency declaration. the bottom line is that this emergency declaration is nothing more than an end run around a majority, bipartisan majority,

i think a lot of conservatives have been waiting for a politician on the republican side to come guardside but there is a lot of state money going to state schools, tax money, could that be another area for governor to step up and get involved in this issue? maybe if you get it from the federal side and the state side, maybe that might make the difference for free speech on campus. >> yeah, absolutely. you know, berkeley just last semester, they gave a couple thousand dollars to the migrant caravan. sometimes it seems like they care more about illegal immigrants than they do their own students that would dare to voice a dissenting opinion. >> how dare they voice a dissenting. in your experience does this follow into the classroom? you were out on the sidewalks. how about in the classroom. >> well, i haven't had the pleasure of having, you know, berkeley professors. but i have heard some stories about, you know, basically just indoctrination open in the classroom, no hiding of their political beliefs or anything like that. >> well they're all democrats. what's to be expected there. appr

guard against is a primary. therefore, if you are in the republican party, you go to the right. if you are in the democratic party, you go to the left to forestall a primary challenge. so citizens are concerned about somebody has taken in congress or in the state legislature don't have the ability to bring about change, and it cheapens our votes. host: governor schwarzenegger, you mentioned the california citizens commission and at that moment, is it the gold standard for redistricting reform? why go with a citizens commission versus an algorithm? the are talking about technology being so good, or some other thing that might create fairness. surechwarzenegger: i am that there are many things that would work. very tell you, we were lucky in california, and i think it shows you the great job but common cause has done, because the way they selected this group, it was so complex. but kind of bullet-proof. first, it was people that signed up to become part of the commission, then there was an independent auditing panel that picked 60, 20 from the democrats come attorney from the repu

i'm waiting for the day that the republicans wake up to the fact that you can't keep confirming the roosters to guardhe hen houses. so rather than draining the swamp, they are part and parcel of helping all these people who are just jumping into the water saying come on in, the water is fine. i am waiting for the republicans to wake up to their responsibility and to recognize that we cannot keep doing this. but you know, so far, that hasn't happened. but as i said, meantime, anderson, sometimes their ethic violations come so close to the bone that they actually have to resign on their own volition before they get indicted. >> yeah, senator hirono, i appreciate your time tonight. thank you. >> sure. >>> coming up, the latest on the jussie smollett saga. now president trump is having his say. that's some great paint. ♪ that's some great paint. ♪ that's some great paint. behr ultra, a top-rated interior and exterior paint. paint, prime, protect - all in one. now that's some great paint! find it exclusively at the home depot. with expedia, i saved when i added a hotel to our flight. so even when she grow

republicans crossed party lines to side with senate democrats. israel's military says it has launched air strikes on a number of targets in the guard gaza strip that in response to a rocket attack on television palestinian media reporting a hamas naval base near the town of qana munis was targeted there's been no immediate reports of casualties. people in the brazilian city of south power have held a ceremony for the victims of a school shooting two former pupils carried out that attack on wednesday such incidences have been relatively rare in brazil last major shooting at a school was in two thousand and eleven. a russian american team of three astronauts has successfully docked at the international space station back in october two of them have their journey into space cut short when a technical problem on their soyuz rocket led to the flight being aborted two minutes after launch yest also be conducting various experiments during their stay aboard. vesa gaiters say a piece of wreckage from the crash if european airlines plane shows a link to the lion airplane that came down last year a fragment from the tail stabilizer may reveal that the jet's

i'm waiting for the day that the republicans wake up to the fact that you can't keep confirming the roosters to guardhouses. so rather than draining the swamp, they are part and parcel of helping all these people who just jumping into the water saying come on in, the water's fine. i am waiting for the republicans to wake up to their responsibility and to recognize that we cannot keep doing this. but you know, so far that hasn't happened. but as i said, meantime, anderson, sometimes there their ethic violations come so close to the bone that they actually have to resign on their own vol learn before they get indicted. >> senator, i appreciate your time tonight. thank you. >> sure. >> coming up, the latest on the jussie smollett saga. now president trump is having his say. [music playing] (vo) this is the averys. this is the averys trying the hottest new bistro. wait...and the hottest taqueria? and the hottest...what are those? oh, pierogis? and this is the averys wondering if eating out is eating into saving for their first home. this is jc... (team member) welcome to wells fargo, how may i help? (vo)

a lot of us were caught off guard right away when trump jumped up to 25% in the republican primaries and then finished second very close second in iowa and won in new hampshire. and it was -- sometimes it was a weird mix. you see rural parts of the company who were all for huckabee or santorum and now they were being split into two electorates, either donald trump or it does cruz. and the cruz places either -- or -- the cruz places were places where there was really strong church communities. the rubio places were places with highly educated people with lots of university ofs with a higher incomes. it wasn't just lower income, though, it was at their churches had shut down. it was not a factory shutting down, it was a community sort of crumbling around them. that's what i base "alienated america" on is that the suffering of the working class is about the collapse of community institutions. >> you put a couple of specific examples in terms of the social fabric of these communities. you write in western pennsylvania, you may recall the die ver gent local economies, pittsburgh is doing

republicans are the real party of health care. i think one of his motives is to try to put democrats kind of on the defensive to catch them off guardt one of the political problems he may face on this is that at least in the november election, health care was a real problem for president trump and the republican party and in those midterm congressional seats that so many republicans lost, democrats were able, when they stuck to the health care message rather than the russia message or the russia message able more effectively to have an affirmative message of this is what democrats can do for you that helped them in many races. >> for the republicans that were squeeze bethis, it is the concern that the president will often double down on something rather than retrieve on something and the instinct is to double down and their instinct is not to go there. one of the problems is the legislation that we saw last year or the year before from republicans in terms of reforming kind of the obamacare stuff involved a lot of bring it to the local level and give people more choice. a lot of those plans when you dug a little bit deeper were che

the overreach of executive power as many republicans and most democrats saw it seeing a president taking away from congress the right which congress jealousy guardsto control expenditure president trump affectively circumventing the rights of congress in the views of many to get that money for his border wall all right thank you very much mike hanna with that update from washington thank you mike. well still ahead for you on the program toxic chemicals down to into a river in southern malaysia have caused thousands of villages to seek treatment. and school children and students are around a while they'll walk out of school demanding action on climate change. a three year investigation into the pro-gun lobby. and say three billion dollars of what they should. reveal secrets and connections some don't want exposed. others are going to work. if there are all. al-jazeera investigations how to sell a massacre coming soon three rifles and so many guns sometimes even. for more than a decade has been considered a threat to national security in russia putin said we'll give you the twelve indicted military intelligence officers indicted by a special counse

guard. president trump wants some of that money to build a border wall as the white house is quietly asking republican senator to the support his emergency declaration in next week's crucial vote. what's your reaction to all of this? >> my reaction is wait has always been. the president was granted these powers. this is flexible money and he can direct it to where he thinks it should be direct. it was always a crisis until president trump talked about it. now the crisis for the democrats is the 2020 election and they fear the president will get re-elected. so everything they are able to do to stop this president and stop him from fulfilling campaign promises. they will try to do anything they can, including changing the whole subject about who it is, how it was, who has always been concerned about illegals entering into our country. >> congressman. secretary nielsen said quote, no national person would design the system like we have it today. she is testifying children over the age of 10 are getting pregnancy tests. >> i actually met some friend of mine from back in my district. they brought back some

this, not you, is a lot of this old against young guard, there's a lot of this being perpetrated by those that want to really appeal to the republicanor even the right wing side to really try and cause a split in the minds of people that really is not as divided as it is. because i can't remember in my lifetime, and i've been involved in this all my life, when it wasn't debating differences. it had nothing to do with who was a veteran, who was new. there have always been different approaches in the democratic party. and for that matter, the republican party. donald trump ran in one attacking every one of his opponents. there is nothing new about interparty debates. >> exactly. actually, i think it's just the opposite, that it's very healthy that we're having these kinds of debates. i don't know about your community, but mine doesn't just have veteran lawmakers or people who are established democrats. i ran on a grass roots agenda, got people involved, expanded the electorate and all of these people are excited to have their voices and their concerns enter into the conversation. i don't think anybody here did a bait and switch. many

guarding vehicles in movement. and somebody got in my vehicle, they didn't care whether i was a republican or drat cat.hey didn't care if i was going home to a boyfriend or girlfriend. they wanted to know if i was doing my job well and keep them safe. we learned to trust each other with our lives. even though our lives back home were so different. i think we need to get back to that. it shouldn't require going to war to get that, but one reason i'm a big believer in expanding service is we need more common experience that's divvied up into ideological ecochambers. we need more experiences to bring us together even when we have nothing in common except the fact that we're american. >> i want to bring in alecia she's a marine corps veteran. she lives in the san antonio area. >> mayor pete, as a veteran, you understand the hardships service members encounter upon leaving active duty and the strain it can place on families when leaving. if elected, what initiatives do you plan on creating that will ensure that our nation's most selfless men b and women will be able to effectively leave service and transiti

republican congressman adam kinzinger sits on the house foreign affairs committee. also recently deployed to the southern border with his air national guard units. congressman kinsinger is also meeting with the president in just about an hour from now. congressman, fix for joining me and thanks for your service down at the border and elsewhere. i know you were active. when you have the customs and border patrol commissioner say that the system is beyond capacity, without the political talking points, what did you witness when you were at the border? >> exactly that. border patrol is not being authorized in some areas. the ability to do over time. if they have an eight hour shift, imagine -- they are in operation, it sometimes takes a couple hours to get to where a group is because the terrain is so bad. they get out there, not to mention terrain and weather issues, they get to the group and the group all runs in different directions. so now they have to chase them as best they can and they only end up rounding up a fraction of them. by the way, once you get toward your eight hour shift, it's time to go home and got to get either new peopl

republicans, the great party of health care. >> reporter: this came after month oz of heated debate by trump's advisors. but sources say it still caught key law makers off guard>> last year i wrote to attorney general jeff sessions and protested not to bend parts of the law that provides protections to consumers with preexisting conditions. now they're going way beyond that and seeking to invalidate the entire law. this is contrary to the tradition of the justice department. which generally defends laws. >> one key -- >> cnn has learned health and human services bill barr oppose the mover. he worried the administration did not have a plan to replace obamacare and he backed wlauiers who oppose the legal case being made by the state against obamacare. but nick mule veiny hoping to put the issue back on the agenda for congressional republicans. are chances any greater than zero that this congress could come together on a replacement? >> i doubt it. but what is the republican party for? >> what is the republican party alternative? >> a block grant to take the money out of washington. >> reporter: all this as the debate raises why special counsel robert mueller di

guard. served in afghanistan. a fascination with the idea of finding answers to questions no one else could find. >> i have been a physician for my professional life. >> my dad is a lifelong republican who never voted democrat, but voted for me. >> block to washington journal 7:00 eastern/ join the discussion. ♪ [applause and cheering] >> great to see you. this will be painless. i would like to start, by the way, we recognized -- who owns this, but i don't know if you know this, and i did not know what's until tonight. i'm embarrassed, we did it last year, as well. he picked up the tab for everything. not that he made it available, he is a great supporter. he is a fine man. i just want to personally thank him in front of all of the folks that are here. cameron, thank you for the introduction. i got a chance to talk to cameron's mom earlier today. she done good. [laughter] >> folks, connie, elaine, we are fortunate to have them both back again to help us shine a light on us. i want to thank adriana and vlad. they are both here and you have heard about them, for the courage that they both demonstrated. they represent the best of what i envisioned when i created the it's on us program.

republicans, the party of great health care. >> the administration's decision came after months of heated debate. sources say it still caught key lawmakers and some white house officials off guard. >> last year i wrote to attorney general jeff sessions and protested the department not defending the parts of the law that provide protections to consumers with preexisting conditions. now it is going way beyond that and seeking to the entire law. this contrary to the tradition of the justice department which generally defends laws. >> one key area. >> cnn learned that health and human services azar and attorney general bill barr oppose the move. he boar worried they did not ha plan to replace obamacare and barr backed lawyers that opposed the legal case being made by the states against obamacare. trump's chief of staff argued for overturning the entire law hoping to put it back on the agenda. >> are chances any greater than zero that this congress could come together on ilts replacement? >> i doubt it. what is the republican party for? >> what is the republican party alternative? >> they take the plun omoney ou washington. >> why robert mueller decided on taking a position on wheth

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republican policies but to donald trump above all else. joining me now, joy reid host of "a.m. joy" and jason johnson, politics editor at "the root." gates is of guardright? everyone is trending in the direction of matt gates in the house. >> absolutely matt gates is basically michael cohen without the salary or with -- the irony is they didn't get the irony. i've been doing what y'all have been doing. they have been doing it matt gates is the new michael cohen. >> i find that bizarre. the president seems like in someways, absurd and ridiculous, seems like a deeply not psychology but broken person in certain ways like in a deep way, and this certain kinds of person, the michael cohens of the world and matt gates' of the world that, i will do anything for you. >> look, it's devin nunes. there is tons of them. >> there is tons of then. >> they are willing to be that guy, the guy that would steal candy from the store they worked at to give to the popular kids because maybe then i'll be invited to the party. what michael cohen said the whole time is the party isn't that good and you may end up in jail at the end but gates doesn't care and he's denied he

the top democrat and republicans in the house and senate handle the most sensitive secrets of the nation. and their readings are heavily guarded. >>> the justice department has not indicated that it will not disclose publicly damaging information about the individuals who are not indicted. pelosi another democrats say that information is needed as part of their instruction investigation into obstruction and abuse allegations by president donald trump. >>> a uc berkeley professor who is an expert on the power of the executive branch and at 8:45 am and look at them and a charge of the russia probe. we will talk to a uc hastings law school professor who was a friend of special counsel robert mueller. >>> vermont senator and presidential candidate bernie sanders will be in san francisco later today. senator sanders scheduled to hold a rally at great meadow park on fort mason later this afternoon. yesterday he made a campaign stop in los angeles where he advocated for medicare for all higher minimum wage and less power for billionaires. >> although they have the wealth and the power, at the end of the day, they are the 1%. we are t

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republican congressman who voted in favor of the president's declaration. he was deployed to the border, we should note, as a member of the air national guard, congressman adaminzinger of illinois joins us. congressman, lieutenant colonel, thanks for taking the time. >> you bet. yeah. >> so you said that being deployed down at the border solidified, really, your support for an emergency declaration. we were following your tweets from there, you tell the story of the border patrol rescuing a woman lost in the mountain. you talk about the tracking of coyotes, these people who prey on immigrants coming in. you talk about a big capture of meth. i wonder, though, would a wall help solve any of the promise you were talking about down there? >> yeah, i think it would, jim. and here's why. so this was my fourth deployment to the border. three prior were under president obama. so to all the, you know, governors that are pulling the guard away from the border, the guard has nothing to do with the national emergency. that's been goinging ing oing about a decade. the guard is the technology on the border. but what i saw when i was there, and this is my first time doico

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guard, it was something he volunteered. i mean, if you read the language to the letter, you can make that argument. this does give, as we've seen with rudy giuliani's comments today, republicans a way to attack his credibility further which they didn't seem to even need a reason last week in the open hearing, and this just gives them further reason to continue to attack his credibility. >> turning to paul manafort, whose sentencing comes today in the first case, in the virginia case, frank, you've been following all of this. he's facing a pretty heavy hit depending on which way judge ellis goes. >> it seems an academic question, he'll be spending, if not the rest of his life, the bulk of the rest of his life in the slammer. >> unless he's partedoned. >> unless he's pardoned. prison gives a sense of finality to the paul manafort story. if you look at what robert mueller's team has been pressing in court in some of these unsealed transcripts, it's clear that their interest in paul manafort extends beyond bank fraud, tax fraud, failing to register under the foreign agents registration act, that there are these questions about his relationship to his long time aide and translator

republicans, the party of great health care. >> reporter: the administration's decision came after months of heated debate among trump's advisers. sources say, it still caught key lawmakers and some white house officials off guard. >> last year, i wrote to attorney general jeff sessions and protested the department not defending the parts of the law that provide protections to consumers with pre-existing conditions. now the administration is going way beyond that and seeking to invalidate the entire law. this is contrary to the tradition of the justice department which generally defends laws. >> reporter: cnn learned that alex azar and attorney general bill barr oppose the move. aczar worried the administration did not have a plan to replace obamacare. they hope to put the issue on the agenda for congressional republicans. >> are chances greater than zero that this congress could come together on a replacement? >> i doubt it. what is the republican party for? don't you think -- >> what's the republican party alternative? >> take the money out of washington. >> reporter: all this as the debate rages about why special counsel robert mueller decided against taking a position on whether trump obstructed justice. fo

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