you know what, senator sasse? i really don't care what you like.p, and if you don't love him, i suggest you stay on your side of the missouri river. >> the point being -- since winning, since winning, the president and his organization have put their people, have their people in the states in the right places. >> well, and, look, the voters in iowa are directing jeff kaufman there. jeff kaufman is looking at the -- polling. guess what, rank and file iowa conservative activists like trump and jeff kaufman got a guarantee early-on caucuses. guess what? donald trump is guarantee them nation's -- >> gambling in the casinos. >> absolutely. fine with trump and not violating party orthodoxy, he's really not at this point, i just don't think it's going to be a factor. look, steve bannon somehow got his way and donald trump came out for a tax increase on the top bracket, fastenetting. then talking about violating party orthodox in a way trump has not yet. >> a pat buchanan, read my lips no now taxes. a fun one like that. see an uber driver in iowa looks fam

you just heard senator ben sasse.couraging republicans to repeal obamacare now and then come up with a replacement. if republicans go down this path, will democrats be willing to work with him on the replacement? >> well, the answer is that i have a lot of respect for senator sasse, but that idea is an absord idea. as you pointed out, this congressional budget office indicated if you simply repeal the affordable care act, obamacare, you will throw 32 million americans off of health insurance, 10% of the population of the united states. if you throw, jake, 32 million people off of health insurance, what doctors who have stuied this issue say that tenoffs thousands of people every single year will die. what we've got to do and what a vast majority of marns wants us to do is to say what are the problems, how with we work together to solve them? the affordable care act, under the affordable care act the deductibles are too high. co-payments are too high. we paid the highest prices for prescription drugs of any country. on

senator sasse does this trouble you at all? >> sure.distinction to draw between bad coverage or crappy stories and trying to weapon size distrust. the first amendment is the beating heart of the american experiment and you don't get to separate the freedoms there are in there there are five freedoms, religion, speech, assembly and protest. you don't have religious without assembly, you don't have speech without press. we all need to celebrate all five of those freedoms, that's because how this country work. we debate about big and important things and we come together around the first amendment which is an affirmation of independence. we think government is just our shared tool to secure those rights that we have by nature. we need to affirm those rights, we need to do that civic stuff to teach the next generation what america is about. >> you talk about weaponizing distrust, you're talking about sewing seeds of mistrust on anyone who provides coverage. >> the reality is journalism is really going to change a lot more in the digital are

. >> election infrastructure, senator sasse raised this a bit. when you look at what happened and what my happen going forward, one of the jobs of the fbi is to cooperate with the board of elections and assist with cyber attacks. and i hope you will help us prepare going into this next election. >> i think the integrity of our elections are very much who we are. it's what makes us a free and independent country. and the fbi has a huge role in that. >> in a broader fashion, russia has vast criminal networks that it uses to sew instability. at the end of last year, we heard about this in baltics, ukraine and georgia. and a lot of times they're using shell companies, as are other entities, half of all homes in the u.s. worth $5 million being used by shell companies. do you think the fbi should use it's existing authority in requiring more transparency in luxury real estate transactions. i think you said at the beginning that you're more likely to find a terrorist not with his finger on a bomb, but with his hands on a check. >> senator, i'm not famil

ben sass is a republican senator and he became a vocal component of the campaign and even now of theion. he and i don't see eye to eye idealogically but at the same time, i think it's so important for us to have conversations with opposing views, i think that's one thing learned this past cycle is that obviously there's a disconnect in our communities. you know, and we need to reach out to neighbors with opposing viewpoints, i was honored that he accepted the invitation. >> ben sass from nebraska, not very long ago as you take a sip. even though you're on the left side of things when you look at sass politics, are there other things that he stands for that may be you see common ground with? >> well, you know, i've said this before. for any elected official. we all believe that we want to make this country a better place. but we all have different trajectories to get there. and i think it's our job, you know, as americans and as human beings to figure out how we can get there together. we may have our viewpoints rejected but all we can do is try >> what you guys did was most important

he isn't alone, he has two allies, kentucky senator rand paul and senator benefit sass.oth support that idea. here's what sass who seemed to inspire the president's tweet told reporters in nebraska. >> i want repeal and i want replace, if we requecan do it together. if we fail at that, we should separate the two. we made a promise and should keep our promises. >> according to ayios, that got less than a positive reception. they said it was fought going to happen. the other said the chances for it happening was zero. i am joined by ben white, a reporter with politico and sean sullivan a political reporter with the washington post. let me start with you. tell me if your sources are telling us anything different than we quoted. it's probably a non-starter, just repeal it now, then we get the next few months, if that's a non-starter, do we know why donald trump is introducing this idea right now? >> well, it really is a non-starter, beyond rand palm, beyond ben sass, there is no appetite among republican senators to do this. if you listen to what mitch mcconnell said earlier

. >> i think what's important to note here is that sasse himself said that he had been speaking to the president, that there was this idea that, you know, he wanted to revive his original request that it just be repealed. so, sasse and rand paul both have always said that they didn't want to do repeal and replace at the same time. they said that you could do one and then move on to doing the other. it was the president himself who dismissed this in the first place so the fact that it's coming up again at the time when sasse has been taking credit for speaking with the president gives us some indication that he may have had some influence here. >> molly, is there a sense that there's momentum building on the hill for splitting this up with repeal and replace? >> well, it's interesting because you know, the first go round, when the house was dealing with all the intraparty fighting, many members of the house freedom caucus at the time were basically pushing the repeal effort. they said, listen, why can't we just repeal the whole thing. that's what we've passed in the past that last year

and then the sass. >> oh,. >> sass. >> butterfly, roll the knees. >> this is the butterfly press backy. so those are the five moves. >> yes. >> i'm still turning. >> so, the key here is any of those movements, in any place, shape or form, so you can go to the smony, then to the butterfly, back to the wave, right. >> yep. >> so, let's put it to some tunes see how it goes, put it in the orders. >> okay. >> can we get some tuneage? >> ready, five, six, seven, eight. bounce. >> smony. >> hip roll. >> sass. hip roll. >> and sass. >> oh. >> yeah. >> all right, not bad. so then you can kind of keep mixing it up? >> yes. >> that was sole he had. i feel like i can go to a begged, ben, we won't have a teacher here, so try just the dads. >> perfect. >> are you nervous? >> , no excite. >> i'm nervous because without them, i don't know how we'll here, you're 18 years old, still loose, you're in the club. >> oh! >> oh, my gosh. >> squad goals. squad goals. side. >> hey, miss end is he's offers adult classes. so if you're interested in doing what i did there, getting better you can do it right here,

trump's new-found approach was an idea drafted by senator ben sasse of nebraska .. in a letter to the president last week.sen. ben sasse / - r-nebraska: "if we can do a combined repeal and replace over the next week that's great. if we can't though, there's no reason to walk away. we should do a repeal with a delay."not everyone is onboard with that -- despite the senate's struggle to gain the necessary gop support for the legislation..mcconnell responded to the new idea by saying the senate will continue to pursue a joint repeal and replace of the affordable care act and "stick with that path."the 'repeal now, replace later' notion isn't just an internal party dispute.senator bernie sanders says that strategy could harm millions of americans by leaving them without coverage. sen. bernie sanders / -i- vermont: "i have a lot of respect for sen. sass but that idea is an absurd idea. butt sot the cbo indicated that if you simply repeal the affordable care act, you will throw 30million americans off health insurance."facing certain opposition from democrats, if the gop

i want to list ton senator ben sass. because he's quietly been talking to the white house about just repealing obamacare. as kaitlyn just mentioned. let's listen to sass in his own words here. >> if we don't get this resolved by monday of the next week, july 10th, if there isn't a combine repeal and replace plan, i'm writing a letter to the president urging us to call us on to separate them. let's do as much repeal as we can and have the president ask us to cancel the august work bill and stay here and work on it separate. >> eugene, this is what's interesting when he says it will be a one-year transition, a holding period, errol, does that not give republicans one year to change everything up, essentially? >> well, that's certainly what the senator is arguing and hopefully, he thinks the president is buying into that because we saw the support that the president put forward to the idea on twitter on friday. however, there are other republican lawmakers including representative kissinger from illinois who is concerned th

election infrastructure, senator sasse raised this a bit, you look at what happened in this last election, what may happen going forward, one of the jobs of the fbi is to coordinate with the election assistance commission, to follow up on cyberattacks. and tell me you'll make this a priority moving forward and help us to prepare as we go into this next election. >> senator, i think the integrity of our elections has to be a very, very top priority, it is at the core of who we are as a country. and any threat, whether from a nation state, or a nonstate actor, needs to be taken very, very seriously and the fbi has a huge role in that. >> in a broader fashion, russian has vast criminal networks that the kremlin uses to sow instability. we heard about this, ukraine and georgia. and a lot of times they're using shell companies as are other entities, homes in the u.s. worth $5 million using shell company companies. would you require more transparency in luxury real estate transactions, we're trying to figure out where the money is going and how you follow money. i think it was you that said at

host: niels lesniewski, what you were just reporting was senator sass sending the letter, sass is now saying glad you agree mr. president. if no agreement, two steps, real -- repeal first and spend all this full-time on replace. he is referring to know august break in washington. here we goski: again. the republican from a georgia had an op-ed where he was making a similar case, although not specific to health care, about not enough of the agenda being done to leave for the august recess. there is generally no appetite for sticking around washington in august on the vast majority of senators. in fact, you could argue that if the deadline of the august recess is taken off the table because people will still be around, that things might actually go slower because the only thing that drives congress and maybe articulately the senate to act is the incentive of recess a lot of the time. so we will see where that goes. the other thing i think is interesting to point out here is that if you have this full repeal now replace later, the other conflict is with what president trump saying the se

just before trump posted this tweet, nebraska senator ben sass said on sunday that he's been troubled by the president's recent attacks on the news media. >> there's an important distinction to draw between bad stories or crappy coverage and the right that citizens have to argue and complain about that, and trying to weaponize distrust. the first amendment is the beating heart of the american amendment, and you can't separate that in there. >> kate collins is traveling with the president. >> reporter: democratic members of congress have wasted no time attacking the president after he tweeted a video of himself tackling a man with a cnn logo imposed on his head. house minority leader snowplows, "violence and violent imagery to bully the press must be rejected. this july 4th, celebrate freedom of the press, guardians to our democracy." congressman frank pallone echoed her sentiment saying, "donald trump with a threat to the press, we must speak out." the president ramped things up starting with a personal insult to a television host on thursday and escalating it with a video on sunday.

trump's new-found approach was an idea drafted by senator ben sasse of nebraska ..n a letter to the president last week.sen. ben sasse / - r-nebraska: "if we can do a combined repeal and replace over the next week that's great. if we can't though, there's no reason to walk away. we should do a repeal with a delay."not everyone is onboard with that -- despite the senate's struggle to gain the necessary gop support for the legislation..mcconnell responded to the new idea by saying the senate will continue to pursue a joint repeal and replace of the affordable care act and "stick with that path."the 'repeal now, replace later' notion isn't just an internal party dispute.senator bernie sanders says that strategy could harm millions of americans by leaving them without coverage. sen. bernie sanders / -i- vermont: "i have a lot of respect for sen. sass but that idea is an absurd idea. butt sot the cbo indicated that if you simply repeal the affordable care act, you will throw 30million americans off health insurance."facing certain opposition from democrats, if the gop he

that's the key quote from ben sasse. the view in many corners of the media world is that's exactly what the president is doing, or at least trying to do. encourage and fire up his fans, his most loyal supporters, to have even less trust of the media. in other words, as sasse said, weaponizing distrust. we will see if in the coming week the president continues his anti-media campaign. of course he has 33 million followers on twitter. and of course his videos, his tweets, they all get covered by the press that he says is fake. brian stelter, cnn, new york. >> and brian, thank you for the analysis. let's now bring in kate andrews in london. she is the u.s. political columnist for city a.m. it's good to have you with us this hour here on "newsroom." >> hi. >> the statement that cnn put out pretty much says it all about this latest tweet, describes it as juvenile and describes it as encouraging violence against the press. some may laugh it off as cartoonish. it's clearly theater of the absurd. but your thoughts about the cumu

i don't want to see anyone thrown off coverage. >> i have a lot of respect for senator sass but that idea is an absurd idea. >>> among the president's plans this week, a trip to germany for the g-20 summit where he'll have a face to face meeting with russian leader vladimir putin. >> >> several states have failed to pass budgets, causing a ripple effect. this is something we dealt with in california a few years ago. 46 states passed budgets. nine states failed. >> here we are. at an impasse. government is closed over transparency and accountability fight. i'm at a loss. >> reporter: so far the shutdown in new jersey has mainly been felt at parks and beaches. but yesterday christie and his family actually used one of the beaches. >>> lieutenant governor gavin knew some is slamming the nra recruitment video. >> make them scream. smash windows, burn cars, shut down interstates and airports. bully and terrorize the law- abiding until the only option left is for the police to do their jobs. >> he took to facebook writing come after politicians, come after policy makers, come after me. but

trump's new-found approach was an idea drafted by senator ben sasse of nebraska ..letter to the president last week.sen. ben sasse / - r-nebraska: "if we can do a combined repeal and replace over the next week that's great. if we can't though, there's no reason to walk away. we should do a repeal with a delay."not everyone is onboard with that -- despite the senate's struggle to gain the necessary gop support for the legislation..mcconnell responded to the new idea by saying the senate will continue to pursue a joint repeal and replace of the affordable care act and "stick with that path."the 'repeal now, replace later' notion isn't just an internal party dispute.senator bernie sanders says that strategy could harm millions of americans by leaving them without coverage. sen. bernie sanders / -i- vermont: "i have a lot of respect for sen. sass but that idea is an absurd idea. butt sot the cbo indicated that if you simply repeal the affordable care act, you will throw 30million americans off health insurance."facing certain opposition from democrats, if the gop health

>> i mean, what ben sasse just said in that segment is, is very important, a very important point. this is the fourth of july weekend and we have people who are overseas risking their life in defense of our country. many who have risked life and limb in the past to protect all of our rights, including our first amendment right. so, you know, from that standpoint, we need to protect freedom of the press. there is a responsibility on the part of everyone including the president of the united states, who -- who aren't part of the press, to be able to protect those -- that right and all other rights. >> do you believe the president is an add vvocate of the preservation of the freedom of press? >> i don't really know what to make of that particular question. >> that took a long time to answer that. why can't -- why would you not say what your opinion is about whether you believe this president is advocating the freedom of press, the latest example, the video that was revealed via twitter today. >> yeah. i don't know how this morning's tweet can be used to back up an advocacy of freedom

ben sasse is a that was fun walking educating my kids on the road. so i like twitter but there's something wrong with my habits and my affections i think i might have found something in the last two or 20 minutes on twitter.when a longer-term set of sensibilities inhabited not tainted to that formation for our teenagers red. >> let me paint an additional narrative indicate your response to this. millennial's tonight and you're obviously very concerned with how young people are facing in shaping the future of the democracy. young people today have, especially minors have high service participation rates in the country. working more jobs than ever before. we are increasingly independent-minded as we talked about earlier. and the political transformation and change, historically has been coming from the young people. whether it is doctor king who was millennial adrian hill of the montgomery bus boycott or delivered i have a dream. the founding fathers were all millennial aged, deficit was 33, when he read the declaration of independence for james madiso

senator ben sass of nebraska tweeted this. "this obviously should not happen, and obviously it will not happen. why the president of the united states would tweet it is inexplicably bizarre." marco rubio tweeted that vladimir putin will never be a reliable constructive partner. partnering with putin on a cyber security unit is akin to partnering with assad on a chemical weapons unit." senator john mccain of arizona weighing in as well. take a listen. >> the president, again, tweeting this morning said "putin and i discussed forming an inpenetratable cyber security unit so that election hacking and many other negative things will be guarded." >> i am sure that vladimir putin could be of enormous assistance in that effort since he is doing the hacking. >> now, as the republican critics were weighing in, united states treasury secretary steve manuchin stepped forward to defend the necessity of a cyber security unit with russia. >> i think this is a very step forward. what we want to make sure is that we coordinate with russia, th

republican senator ben sass among those saying he'd support a complete repeal of the law even when an agreement ought to be replaced. >> let's be clear. don't want to see anybody thrown off the coverage they have now. i would want to delay so we can get back to work. >> i have a lot of respect for senator sass but that idea is an insane idea. >> they believe the odds are still high the senate would be able to pass health care legislation when it returns to d.c. next week. now, among the president's plans this week, a trip to germany for the g-20 summit where among other things he'll have his first face-to-face meeting since taking office with russian leader vladimir putin. >> thanks so much, hena. >>> there were calls across the country for the impeachment of president trump. demonstrators in los angeles say they believe mr. trump violated the constitution and obstructed justice. in chicago demonstrators accused the president of colluding with the russians during the election, and in milwaukee dozens said they are tired of the administration and called for change. >>> a man suspected

trump's new-found approach was an idea drafted by senat ben sasse to the president in a letter drafted last week. >> if we can do a combined repeal and replace over the next week, that's great. if we can't, there's no reason to walk away. we should do repeal with a delay. >> reporter: not everyone isn board with that, despite t senate's struggle to gain the necessary gop support for the leslation. mcconnell responded to the new idea by saying the senate will continue to pursue a joint repeal and replace of the affordable care act and ick with that plan. the repeal now, replace later notion isn't jus an internal party dispute. senator bernie sanders says that strategy could harm milli of americans byeaving them without coverage. >> i have a lot of respect for nator sasse but ithat idea is an absurd idea. the congressional office indicate that if you simply repeal the affordable care act, obamacare, you will throw -- you will throw 32 million americans off health care. >> reporter: facing certain opposition from democrats, if the g health care bill is to pass, senate republicans will ed

we should do repeal with a delay. >> senator sass's idea is an absurd idea. this congressional budget office indicated that if you simply repeal the affordable care act, obamacare, you will throw 32 million americans off of health insurance. >> the white house is hoping an immediate repeal and replace bill would pass. if it doesn't, the president supports an immediate repeal with a replacement plan passed at a later date. >>> breaking news now, an amtrak train derailed today in washington state. no one was seriously hurt when four cars on the popular cascades line went off the track about two hours ago. there were 250 people on board. some suffering cuts and bruises. this is in a town of silicon southwest of tacoma. the tracks were along the weighter of the a marina, but none of the cars tumbled into the water. continuance clear at this point what caused the derailment. excuse me. a suspect in the crash that killed two young children and injured a three-month old baby and their mom in concord friday is now in custody. he is accused of two counts of vehicular

senator ben sass had gone on tv and suggested this plan.e president essentially gave it his blessing on twitter. this is a big difference compared to what he said in january. the reason they have been doing this dancing in is because the president said, we are going to repeal and replace immediately. there wouldn't be a two-daybreak in between those. the reason they have been doing that, it was his suggestion. when it is looking like they are not going to garner enough support, he is deciding maybe they should just repeal and replace later on. sarah huckabee sanders maintained the president has not changed his thinking. listen to what he said during an off-camera gaggle. >> the president hasn't changed his thinking. he has campaigned on, talked about since he was elected, repealing and replacing obamacare. we are still fully committed to pushing through with the senate. we are looking at every possible option of repealing and replacing obamacare. >> this is very different. we have seen the president be very inconsistent on health care. in m

trump's new-found approach was an idea drafted by senator ben sasse to the president in a letter drafted last week. >> if we can do a combined repeal and replace over the next week, that's great. if we can't, there's no reason to walk away. we should do repeal with a delay. >> reporter: not everyone is on board with that, despite the senate's struggle to gain the necessary gop support for the legislation. mcconnell responded to the new idea by saying the senate will continue to pursue a joint repeal and replace of the affordable care act and stick with that plan. the repeal now, replace later notion isn't just an internal party dispute. senator bernie sanders says that strategy could harm millios of americans by leaving them without coverage. >> i have a lot of respect for senator sasse but is that idea is an absurd idea. the congressional office indicated that if you simply repeal the affordable care act, obamacare, you will throw -- you will throw 32 million americans off health care. >> reporter: facing certain opposition from democrats, if the gop health care bill is to pass, senate

ben sass said the note about institutionalizing distrust, it's something we have to watch for on the eve of july. >> how did you see this posttwe posttweet? did you see it as a threat? >>. >> again, we're going too far down in psychological terms. i think it's strange, weird or different. i don't know of any former president that would be retweeting something along these lines. again, i was in executive office for eight years of my life. you cannot respond to every detractor out there, because if you do, you will, again, at minimum, give people reason not to focus on the legislative agenda that you want to move forward. >> and to that point, the white house said it wants the media to focus on its agenda. it wants the media to just be talking in very clear, kind of straightforward just the facts, ma'am away about what they're doing, and yet the president then overshadows the message with the tweets. how much of a problem is that for republicans in congress? >> it's big, because last week it was supposed to be infrastructure week, but it certainly was not what we were going to be talki

sass. mr. sass, aye. >> the gentlemen's voice we hear is coming from the second desk of three. leaning forward and looking over his vote tally sheet. the senate clerks are meticulous and consistently excellent, especially in their announcements and reading of the roll. is sitting next to senator murcowski. very top of your screen. he is sitting in the seat she was sitting in and. >> there is two gop no votes. graham voted yes. >> he was one of the three senators who expressed concern to paul ryan earlier. this doesn't proceed to be an actual bill. others were satisfied by the injury. john mccain was not. i'm being told this is live picture. don't have tell you what side they are on. senator corker from tennessee walking around. senator rubio in the aisle talking to senator corn in of texas. >> sheldon white house talking to the clerk. i happen to be looking at sanders when the mccain vote came in, visibly reacted. >> he was really the only vote that got a reaction in the room. that was the one as garrett pointed out, absolutely everybody not just in that claim ber, but in the c

gop senator ben sass first ju adjusted the option in in a letter to the president friday. and he spoke to jake tapper this morning. >> republicans ran on repeal and replace. the president ran on repeal and replace. we've been working on that for about in our months, if leader mcconnell can get across the finish line i'd like to see that happen. it needs to be a good replace. if we can do a combined repeal and replace over the next week, that's great. if we can't, there's no reason to walk away. we should do a repeal with a delay. i would want to delay so we could get straight to work, and i think the president should call on the senate to cancel our august state work period. i think we should get to work at around the clock hearings on the repeal and replace plan. >> dan malloy joins me now from hartfo hartford. if republicans can't agree on a replacement plan now what's going to change in august? >> nothing's going to change. i mean, the plan they have will take insurance away from 23 million people. 13 of them will be medicaid covered. they're breaking promise after prom

sass. mr. sass, aye. >> the gentlemen's voice we hear is coming from the second desk of three. leaning forward and looking over his vote tally sheet. the senate clerks are meticulous and consistently excellent, especially in their announcements and reading of the roll. is sitting next to senator murcowski. very top of your screen. he is sitting in the seat she was sitting in and. >> there is two gop no votes. graham voted yes. >> he was one of the three senators who expressed concern to paul ryan earlier. this doesn't proceed to be an actual bill. others were satisfied by the injury. john mccain was not. i'm being told this is live picture. don't have tell you what side they are on. senator corker from tennessee walking around. senator rubio in the aisle talking to senator cornin of texas. >> sheldon white house talking to the clerk. i happen to be looking at sanders when the mccain vote came in, visibly reacted. >> he was really the only vote that got a reaction in the room. that was the one as garrett pointed out, absolutely everybody not just in that claim ber, but in the co

you may be just a finishing her questions about that time and then you'll go vote and senator sass is already over there, he'll come back and hopefully will be able -- i'll be back before that happens or somebody else will take over. democrats should plan -- okay. >> thank you mr. chairman. >> senator tillis, go ahead. >> thank you. your dad is doing a great job. actually, i appreciate the way the committee is going. and total, you and i had an opportunity to spend 30 minutes together yesterday and you answer a lot of my questions. i won't repeat them here, you answer them satisfactorily. one thing that i think is important to emphasize, i have a law enforcement advisory committee. i meet with people in the state on a frequent basis. one of the things i want to amplify that senator kobe char said was the importance of working with the local, state and local law enforcement agencies to really get the best leverage and the resources to support these investigations. one of the things that i think is important, i'm kind of curious to see your own view of it is a what's foundational to mak

nebraska senator ben sasse is sounding the alarm, saying it majority leader mitch mcconnell cannot reach a deal on health care by july 10th, it's time for another option. he sent a letter to president trump today. in it, he expressed concern that republicans will fail to pass make any meaningful bill or will past something that propped up obamacare writing, "we can and must do better than either of these, both because the american people deserve better, and because we promise better." >> what i am recommending that we give comfort to the american people by repealing the maximum amount of obamacare we can but add a one-year delay before that would be effective so that there is an action forcing events so we get to work. >> g.o.p. leadership continues to see if it can get its original plan across the finish line. >> there will be various proposals, pieces submitted to the cbo to get their feedback, know what the impacts are going to be both with respect to coverages and costs and that sort of thing. >> democrats continue taking aim at the g.o.p.'s effort to scrap obamacare, suggesting it c

what does ben sasse say? but that's the legislative process.rocess, ultimately. i'm optimistic that they'll get something passed, that we'll get something through. the fact that it's tough doesn't alleviate the responsibility. there are a lot of american families who are really hurting right now. >> if this bill ends up not getting the votes in the senate, the republican bill, you're okay with sitting down and doing this in a bipartisan way? >> i think it should be anyway. democrats have been screaming for several years now. senator mark warner up for re-election is talking about the aca has problems. we have to fix it. they know it's messed up. they know it predates the november election, that there are big fundamental problems with the aca. come to the table. i think it's important that they do. >> jen psaki, do you think it's realistic? even you admitted that obamacare does need help. but do you think that the democratic base, which is so riled up right now, and is not really thrilled with the notion of democrats talking to republicans, do y

president trump latching on to proposal from nebraska senator ben sasse, if you can't find a solution, repeal it straight up, but don't let it take effect for a year and then get a real deal done. >> we should do repeal with a delay. let's be clear, i don't want to see anybody thrown off the coverage they have now. i would want a delay so that we could get straight to work and then i think the president should call on the senate to cancel our august work period. i'm not talking about repeal only. republicans need to stop pretending that everything worked well in american care before '09 and '10. >>> at the white house nbc's garre garrett haake is with us. you have new information regarding the two versions of the bill. while the rest of us have been waiting for a deal to be made that didn't happen on friday, so that a new bill could be scored something has happened. the cbo has got two new versions of the bill. tell us about this. >> hey, ali, that's what i'm hearing from the senate aide. this is parent of mcconnell's efforts of trying to find some form of calculus to get to 50 votes.

it's like ben sasse is stuck in the twilight zone. the gop has had seven years to come up with any alternative and the idea that somehow over the course of one month stuck in one room they're going to come up with something -- >> get back together and get in that one room. >> right. i don't think they'll go throw with repeal first because it will kick 32 million people off and create chaos. some of the biggest -- it's been republican governors like john kasich, brian sandoval in nevada, like rick snyder in michigan and they're saying this is cruel, this will kick people off the health care rolls, people who will die if they don't have health care. i think those are the voices the republicans should listen to because those are the people who are implementing health care at the ground level. >> one other aspect is if you do go through with this repeal and in a year from now, what are we doing in a year from now? going into the midterm. you think we'll get any legislative things passed? we wouldn't be able to pass legislation saying amer

ben sass, this isn't normal. susan collins begging, this has to stop. lisa murkowski begging, this has to stop. does his behavior bother you? >> what i'm concentrated on is the job he's given me, and that is to make sure we fulfill the mission of the department of health and human services and that is the health of the american people. there is a whole array of activities we're undertaking. one of them is this piece of legislation in the senate right now, but my job is consumed with making sure we fulfill the mission of the department. >> i'm asking as a father, if your son tweeted to a woman like that, what would you say to him? >> chuck, this is really remarkable. we have incredible challenges across this nation, incredible challenges around the world. the challenge i've been given is to address the health care issues, and your program, a program with the incredible history of "meet the press," and that's what you want to talk about? the american people want to talk about -- >> mr. secretary, with all due respect, you're blaming me for what the presid

. >> senator sass. >> thank you mr. wiray, and to your family and willingness to serve again. this institution has about a 12% approval rating over the last four decades, we've gone from a net average of 50% public support for most of the institutions to about 30. if you're confirmed, you'll have an important responsibility to help rebuild public trust in the bureau. i want to ask you a series of questions about that. but to begin with, why do you think the fbi director has a 10-year term? >> i think the fbi director has a 10-year term because there is a judgments made that the role of the fbi and the role of the fbi director needs to be one that is independent of partisan politics, in other words, ten-year term specifically contemplates there could and almost eneinevitably would chan in presidency during the tenure and the theory is rightly, that the fbi has both a criminal law enforcement and intelligence role that transcends political policy positions and needs to be kept apart and above from that and to endure through changes in administration. >> so what kinds of conditio

senator ben sasse republican u.s. senator from nebraska thank you so much for joining me. i'm excited to discuss your book it's called "the american vanishing adult" and what i find striking about it as i was reading it i think the idea for this probably originated long before you even became usni. very nonpolitical and it's about how we are raising our kids. maybe you can tell us more about how you decided to write this book. >> guest: first of all thank you for having me. the book is 100% not about politics and it's about a whole bunch of upstream issues in our culture. more important than american politics and you are right by background i'm a business turnaround guy but i'm by training an american historian could i spent five years as a college president. eight years ago i led a turnaround at a college and i cared about this institution. it was in financial trouble. my grandpa went to the college and came back from world war ii and worked at this college. i grew up on this campus because my family. it was in trouble. i wasn't going there for anything connected to stude

host: you were talking about the same idea that senator ben sass of nebraska -- repeal the replace later? is that what you are talking about? caller: yes, but i have a way that he could be fixed. washington could fix the problem and it would be i just legislative activity. it could be passing two or three laws in congress. one that insurance companies would have to cover pre-existing conditions, and pass another law that children can stay on the health care plans until they are 26. and open up the markets across state lines or you can buy from any insurance company in any state so there would be healthy competition. i believe rates would go drastically down. just for appeal the aca, pass three laws, which washington is hesitant to do because of the lobbyist for the insurance companies. they never pass laws against the insurance companies for fear they will harm their profit margin, but i don't see that happening at all. host: we appreciate your call. we want to remind folks are coming up this evening on newsmakers we will learn more because we will have richard pollock. he mentioned some

. >> now senator sasse i wish i more time to talk to but i promise my kids i'll make sure they get the manual labor on a cattle ranch. we will make that happen for the book is called the vanishing american adults. senator ben sasse thank you for joining me today. >> a real project thank you for what you are doing. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> next on "after words" utah senator mike lee recalls the early forgotten american figures that fought against a large federal government in his book "written out of history: the forgotten founders who fought big government" he is interviewed by former acting solicitor general neal katyal. >> senator, you have written this incredible book written out of history. tell us a little bit about why wrote this. >> i generation the one that they had brotherly musical comments came out i was pleased with how popular it became. i was not entirely surprised. when i first two broadway i was thinking this might do well. in particular the american people have a ce

. >> also, new today, republican senator ben sass is standing by his proposal to repeal obamacare nowut a plan later. >> we should do repeal with a delay. lets be clear. i don't want to see anyone thrown off the coverage that they have now. i would want them delayed. republicans need to stop pretending that everything is working care. >> and democrats need to stop thinking that obamacare is working. >> sir, can i hear you. >> it is great to have you with me. >> yes, i can hear you. >> lets start off with the house version of what the gop wanted to do with the aca is one thing. the president heard of what was wrong in the senate side which he referred to as mean. we have the cbo scoring out about this. i just want to get your impression of what do you think is going so wrong that the gop cannot get their act together on something they campaign on and why are they stalling and cannot get it right. >> they promised to repeal the affordable care act and it is work. millions of people did not have coverage, there are things that we can do to make it work and address the issues. they make p

i'm a lilt bit more confused now because ben sasse and rand paul, i can't tell what they'd vote for.ed for things earlier that now they're saying they're not for. there are times -- i'm getting the sense some of these members are kind of scared of this bill. >> now whatever they do, will become the loll of the land and they'll own health care. the health care debate is dominated the first five months of the trump administration. it's kept other thing ozzen the back burner. listen today the president last night where one of his grievances is he doesn't think he gets enough credit for what he's accomplished. >> they're agenda is not your agenda. you've been saying i will never stop fighting for you. i am delivering on trade, on the economy, on the supreme court, on the second amendment, on our military, for our veterans, and on our borders. >> the question is if you look at traditional grade, obamacare repeal and replace, that's still a work in progress. we don't know if they're going to get to the finish line. tougher trade deals, we're awaiting announcements on that. there has been p

there you see senator sasse presiding.health care dominates the conversation but there were some other stories making headlines. tough sanctions on big foreign powers. the vote in the senate 98-2. passing a bill that includes sanctions on russia, iran, north korea north korea. house vote on this was overwhelming as well. the bill heads to the president's desk where it's expected he will sign it. military officials say they are not moving forward with the president's call for a transgender ban tweeting that he will no longer allow transgender people to serve. chairman of the joint chiefs said no changes made until the order has been received through proper channels. basically the defense secretary. jeff sessions spends the day in el salvador. ms-13 is a priority for the president. slated to make a major law enforcement and immigration policy speech in long island friday. tucker carlson was on the trip, as you saw earlier. things are at a fever pitch here because everyone is counting heads. senators working to keep the healt

i'm a huge fan of ben sass.ant to get out there before saying that position is reckless, because it seems to be based on a fantasy that somehow if you dismantle the existing status quo, there will be an outbreak of bipartisan cooperation to enable you to come up with 60 votes to come up with a replacement. i don't see any scenario where that will happen. also, this notion that congress will be able to come up with a -- with this legislation in one week that will control and determine the future of 1/6th of the economy. this is the kind of thing that conservatives have argued for half a century, that you should not trust people in the nation's capitol to do. but they have apparently forgotten those lessons. >> and sarah, one week in getting it done. what's the appetite for more time on the hill, what it's a month or three weeks, to get to a solution? >> well, the white house has expressed its desire to see this get done before the august recess, even though there are some republicans clamoring for that to be trun

senator sass will gavel in the community after we recess for the nominee to take a break. that will be around 12:40, 12:45. so you know that even though the vote takes a long time, we'll continue here. and then senator tillis, you're up next. i'm going to step out for my usual 12:00 telephone news conference with iowa press back in iowa. so i'll be back in ten minutes. >> mr. chairman, could i ask a clarification? what time are we breaking? >> 12:30 but you'll be asking questions at that time. so you will be the one that will recess the committee before the vote. >> when do we vote? >> 12:30. >> but you may be just finishing your questions about that time. >> okay. >> and then you'll go vote and then senator sass is already over there. he'll come back and then hopefully we'll be able to -- i'll be back before that happens -- before he gets done or somebody else will take over. so democrats should plan on -- >> we are. >> okay. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator tillis, go ahead. >> thank you. tripp and caroline, your dad is doing a great job. and actually, i appreciate