the health care that's been in place is a bad deal for the american public. that's why a lot of people aren't using it. okay. it was a giant tax hike to the american economy, and premiums have been going up a ton. so we're looking at making the system more competitive so people can actually afford it. >> sir, we heard from your counterpart at homeland security that airports all around the world have to step up aviation security because there's this threat. this is the product of a months-long discussion with agency process that resulted in yesterday's decision. i'm wondering if you, sir, are convinced that the potential security risks -- are you satisfied that the security risk outweighs any potential economic risk if for example certain airlines are cut off or certain airports are cut off if they don't comply? >> let me just say, i can think of nobody better than general kelly to protect our country in this position. again, i've had the opportunity to discuss these issues with him at the national security council. i'm not going to comment specifically, but le

and no longer having to answer questions to the american public. really gives these administration officials an opportunity not to have to have their faces on camera while they're questioned about things like why the president would float the notion of tapes that don't exist in the first place, or really any questions about russia which we've seen this administration dodge over and over again. of course, it is a blow to transparency. it's a blow to those viewers out there who fund this white house, who fund these people's salaries with their own taxpayer dollars for these folks not even to answer questions on camera. >> especially on an important day like today. the president's announcement now on twitter that there are no tapes or recordings of any of his conversations with the fired fbi director, james comey. also the senate -- the senate republican leadership has finally released their version of health care reform, repealing and replacing the affordable care act, obamacare. you would think that an important day like this they would want live cov

they make corporate ceo bonuses tax deductible. >> all of those costs are passed on to the american public. the industry should be determined by the demand of the american public. when the government subsidizes with with regulation, it costs a lot more. it's very unpopular. >> but four special elections just took place, and the affordable care act was a big part of it, swing sdrings -- >> john ossoff -- >> i have to get to the governor, i enjoyed this conversation, i hope you both come back. thank you to both of you on this friday. barack obama broke his silence to react to the senate health care republican plan. he released a statement, less than 1,000 words, but it read simply put, if there's a chance you might get sick, get old, or start a family had this bill will do you harm. i'm joined now by steve bashir. we have not had you on our air yet, have you read it? i assume you have and what impact do you this it will have on voters like those in the bluegrass state. >> they ought to be ashamed of themselves for promising one thing and doing another. they are simply lying to the american p

what is unusual is his failure to be transparent with the american public. led to disclose the fact he met with the russian ambassadors on two different occasions. >> tucker: keep the american public out of this because they are not here in the stewed. -- studio. what are you suggesting? are you saying he betrayed the interest of the american people? >> that's a far stretch. he failed to be completely transparent. our attorney general needs to be transparent. he said one of the most significant things in our nation is transparency. that's not what he is giving up. >> tucker: he said i was not acting as a trump surge ghat. -- surrogate. i met twice with the russian ambassador. democrats suggest there was something weird going on. there wasn't. are you saying that he was in cahoots with putin? why should we care about this? >> great, no big deal. then why didn't you tell the american people the first time about those meetings. you can't say i forgot i had any meetings. >> tucker: they were on his schedule at that time. there were obama political appointees in t

that's what the american public wants, and that's what we need to sustain this economy. lou: to put it in -- you have got to be thrilled to look at what has happened with the markets since the election, looking at double-digit gains for the major indexes, a set of markets, equities, and debt markets that are stable and the envy of the world while europe clucking about a meaningless, what they call an environment agreement of the paris accord, which is really a disastrous economic pact of some sort that the previous administration wanted to sustain. right now, the united states is the envy of the world, is it not? >> it is and as you said, the paris agreement was an agreement to transfer jobs abroad. without changing the environment. as you said, if everybody had possibly met their requirements, which we would question anyway, but if they did, it was two-tenths of one degree. and obviously, that's not acceptable. so china continuing to increase to 2030 while we have restrictions our jobs, it's just not fair. lou: it was something that we became accustom to in the previous

what is unusual is his failure to be transparent with the american public. d to disclose the fact he met with the russian ambassadors on two different occasions. >> tucker: keep the american public out of this because they are not here in the stewed. -- studio. what are you suggesting? are you saying he betrayed the interest of the american people? >> that's a far stretch. he failed to be completely transparent. our attorney general needs to be transparent. he said one of the most significant things in our nation is transparency. that's not what he is giving up. >> tucker: he said i was not acting as a trump surge ghat. -- surrogate. i met twice with the russian ambassador. democrats suggest there was something weird going on. there wasn't. are you saying that he was in cahoots with putin? why should we care about this? >> great, no big deal. then why didn't you tell the american people the first time about those meetings. you can't say i forgot i had any meetings. >> tucker: they were on his schedule at that time. there were obama political appointees in the

they should be focused on what's good for the american public which is creating jobs and as what we are focused on. >> do you think you need to have a revenue piece in the tax reform. people are saying yes we want to see lower taxes but i can't vote for something that takes away the deduction of me writing up my home or my state income tax. there were all of these disagreements when it comes to the deduction. do you need to have some area within the tax reform bill to raise revenue whether it be eliminated those deductions or keeping the border adjustment tax alive? >> the revenue will really be paid for through growth. that's more focused on. as it relates to deductions. everybody has their own special interest deduction. we are committed to maintaining charitable deductions. everything else is on the table. the mortgage deduction and the charity deduction. those are only the two that you say must stay. everything else must just be on the table to be cut. let me ask you about the section stories. with a new round of sanctions against russia. the military activities. you had been workin

every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american public what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical victuals people. when a company in the environmental business ends up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every week and you know what they're working. thank god thank. you guys. i start off today's show talking about our lord and savior amazon. she's been busy. amazon is buying the mecca of organic stores. today announcing it is rolling out something called amazon wardrobe so joining the box party it may feel like the online retailer is pretty much taking over your life your t.v. streaming your shopping your reading and even your home have no fear folks it's only taking over your life in your home. amazon has.

and we're going to get this passed for a plan that is good for the american public. so we're working closely with the house and the senate and we're going to get a bill that passes great for this economy, great for americans, putting people back to work. >> revenue neutral? >> how is it possible for reducing the funding source for health care to lead to lower premiums and expanded coverage? >> again, i'm here primarily to talk about sanctions and tax reform but i will comment again on health care, although it is not my primary area. the health care that has been in place is a bad deal for the american public, okay? that is why a lot of people aren't using it, okay? it was a giant tax hike to the american economy and premiums have been going up a ton. we're looking making the system more competitive so people can actually a afford it. >> we heard from the counterpart at homeland security that airports all offer the world have to step up aviation security because there is this threat. this is the product of a months long discussion within the inneragency process that re

and we're gonna get this passed for a plan that's good for the american public. we are working closely with the house and the senate and we're going to get a bill that passes, that will be great for americans putting people back to work. >> how is it possible, noneding source of the healthcare to lead to lower premiums and expanded coverage? >> again, i'm here primarily to talk about sanctions and tax reform, but i will comment on healthcare although it's not my primary area. the healthcare that's been in place is a bad deal for the american public. okay? that's why a lot of people aren't using it. it was a giant tax hike to the american economy and premiums have been going up a ton. so we're looking at making the system more competitive so people can actually afford it. >> we first heard counter part said airports all over the world have to step up aviation security because there's this threat. this is the product of a months long discussion, an interagency process that resulted in sanctions. i'm wondering if you, sir, are convinced that the national security ris

the health care that has been in place is a bad deal for the american public, ok? that is why a lot of people are not using it. it was a giant tax hike to the american economy, and premiums have been going up a ton. we are looking at making the system more competitive so people can actually afford it. >> we have heard from your counterparts that airports all over the world have stepped up aviation security because there is this threat, the product of a month-long discussion that resulted in yesterday's band. thisou, sir, convinced of potential security risk act or are you satisfied that the security risk outweighs any risk?ial economic >> let me just to say i can think of nobody better than general kelly to protect our country in this position. again, i have had the opportunity to discuss these issues with him, the national security council. i will not comment specifically, but let me make it clear, the safety of the american public is our utmost concern, and we will never, ever put economic issues, ok? where we will risk the lives of the american public. reform, ar

program that wasn't working in the first place doesn't make sense. >> medicaid covered 1% of the american public, 40%, even on percentage terms it is not sustainable. >> i believe 70 million people right now, a sheer impossibility. the same thing that happens through the history of government. when they start something it never ends and start growing and keeps growing, the biggest bull market in history is in our government and its programs, the problem is so much inefficiency and ineffectiveness, if you try to do anything about it. >> are republicans going to change it? just grows government more slowly but it is still growing. >> still growing and getting back to medicaid expansion, president obama offered the federal government to pay 100% for the first few years, sucked and a lot of people, now you have states where donald trump won, not just ohio but colorado, pennsylvania. took the bait and people don't want to give it up. social security reform, older americans, not even about them. this is a political landmine. >> rick scott spoke recently, really interesting, somebody who understands of

every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american public what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical chills people when a company in the environmental business ends up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every we can you know what they're working. there earlier today president obama said of them not. responsible points new people and parents always told. us always seen examples of things you need to hear something else tina in the usa or she will see if you're planning symptoms to some . as in that's the end user so it's. always all the garbage in real. on mary. came i really wanted to teach women of every brains. gender how to be beautiful and not only on the outside but on the inside because that's where it all starts i always felt female but i've experienced the male life and i do understand how people reacted to someone. and that's the difference that i i i you know things change when you transition.

over a month later when the administration had still made no public statement informing americans about the republicans were doing, senator feinstein and i took the extraordinary step of issuing our own public state carefully vetted by the intelligence community senior levels of the kremlin. it would be yet another month before the u.s. government would publicly declare russia behind the interference in our election when they issued your october 7th statement. it wouldn't be until well after the election that the administration would take steps the actions when it imposed sanctions over the hack. i hope secretary johnson, that you will be able to share with us and the american people a sense of the debate that was ongoing in the executive branch as evidence of the russian involvement and hacked e-mails piled up through the late summer and early fall. what led to such a long delay in making attribution and why would the most significant step of imposing costs on russia for its interference come only after the election and what are the lessons learned? at its heart it relies on the trust

the safety of the american public is our utmost concern. and we will never, ever put economic issues, okay, where we would risk the lives of the american public. >> mr. secretary, on tax reform, are you going to be revenue neutral? and if the cbo and jct say you don't get the growth or the revenue, what are you going to do? >> okay, again, let me just first say there will be complete transparency when we come out with the plan. we are in the process of listening sessions. we've literally met with hundreds and hundreds of ceos, think tanks, various different groups. i was over at the house twice today talking at people at the house of representatives in groups. we've been at the senate. we're listening. and as we develop this plan, we've said we're going to have a responsible plan that is paid for, and we do believe in dynamic scoring and we're going to take that into account. >> mr. secretary, the gdp for the first quarter came out today slightly better than economists anticipated but during the campaign, the president repeatedly promised to

the safety of the american public is our utmost concern. we will never, ever put economic issues where we risk the lives of the american public. >> on tax reform, how are you going to be neutral and is the cbo say that you don't get the growth or revenue what are you going to do? >> let me just for say there'll be complete transparency when we come out with the plan. were in the process of listening sessions. we met with hundreds of ceos, think tanks, various groups and i was over at the house twice today talking to people at the house of representatives. we have been at the senate, we are listening. as we develop the penalty and we will have a responsible plant that is paid for. we believe in dynamic scoring it will take that into account. >> the gdp for the first quarter came out today during the campaign the president repeatedly promised growth rates between three and 4%. first, how much of that 1.4% is attributable to the action of this demonstration or inaction? secondly, when are we going to see three to 4% growth rate the president pr

the american public understood this. the administration understood this as well. we need to beef up cyber security, and quite honestly, unify and harmonize regulations from the federal government. we held a hearing last week about cyber security and the harmful effect of overregulation on the ability of different companies to protect the cyber assets. this is something we need to take seriously and will hold a hearing in my committee on this subject in the near future. >> do you think president trump takes this russian threat seriously? because he doesn't talk about it. rarely, if ever. >> we certainly all need to take this threat from russia's interference in not only our election, or elections around the world. regimes and nations around the world we have to take that seriously. >> why is he so silent? >> you'll have to ask the president on that, but i'm not silent about it. i'm taking it seriously i. know you are. senator ron johnson, thanks for joining us. >> have great day. >>> and up next, the white house briefing. how do you, the american people, how the ad

and whatever final bill is produced should be available to the american public and to members of the senate, certainly for enough time to come to grips with it. and we're going to insist, the american people are going to insist that it be done in a transparent, fair, and open way. is five or six days enough time for the american people and members of the senate to come to grips with a bill that affects one-sixth of the economy and the lives of every american in this country? i don't think so. neither do the american people, and neither do a whole bunch of republican senators. senator cassidy. would i have preferred a more open process? the answer is yes. senator collins. i don't think it gives enough time to thoroughly analyze the bill, but we'll see when it comes out. there is member after member, rand paul, lindsey graham, jerry moran, marco rubio, bob corker, who repeatedly have said this process, in their words and now in mine, is unfair, is truncated, is rushed. for my dear friend, the majority leader, to say we're going to have an open amendment process is turning truth upside d

to see so well but you know donald trump is not in the white house to give thirty percent of the american public quote unquote what they want to see he is in there to be to president of the united states to provide leadership and what the reason why this is such a serious thing is precisely because right now for example we're having this debate about health care. and going about and as we're talking about this and one of the reasons by the way that we're talking about this is that donald trump has proven himself incapable of talking about health care in a way this coherent to even the left or the right i mean he made these promises on the campaign trail but now that we have legislation in the senate the scoring through the senate right now he can even speak or humanly to it senators who are walking out of a meeting with the president scratching their heads well believe me i used to work up there a lot of them walk out every day scratching their head to wonder what's going on because they're never really told things things get done at the last minute behind closed doors we remember famously sayin

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but, again, the american public has not taken notice to the level necessary to understand how to stop this. but i think people are going to start taking more notice now. liz: retired lieutenant colonel tony shafer. we love having you go on the show. please come back soon. >> thank you. liz: let's switch gears to one of the biggest corporate stories of the year. the melt down of uber. cofounder and ceo got into an argument with one of his drivers back in february. there have been sexual harassment scandals at the company. the ceo resigning today as the head of the ride-hailing service. he helped found that company in 2009. again, sexual harassment cases and frat house culture. you're looking at sex rules e-mails to staffers about how to deal with sexual relations in the workplace. all of this causing an investor result. activist investors call for his removal, and he left. now the reports suggest that the locker room in uber, well-known women's rights advocate and chief operating officer cheryl sandburg. she could be the company's first replacement choice according to new reports comin

that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every week and you know what they're working. now for the. republicans. are. my problem with let's. talk about. solutions to some specifics to. put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to be precise this is what the three of them will be good. i'm interested in the water. well that didn't take long even republicans are now coming to the realization that the senate republican health care bill is terrible let's roll. would be for good drama or philip stuckey political reporter for the daily caller and alex lawson executive director of social security works and thank you both for being here with us tonight so let's get this thing rolling this afternoon nevada senator dean heller became the fifth republican senator to say he does not support the senate health care bill. this bill the bill that's currently in front of the state senate. not the answer it says without the answer.

and donald trump need to boost support for this plan among the general american public, but thatis thet right now. they are talking about right now. they are talking about donald trump‘s tweets. most people see this as a big distraction and counter—productive to their efforts. every time this happens it highlights the compromises some republicans are having to make between a man they are not convinced by and the fact they have an awful lot of power for their party at the moment. and that is why republicans by and large stood by donald trump during the campaign even when he picked fights with people that they considered not appropriate. they understood having a republican in the white house is the most important thing. more republican voters supported donald trump in this election than voted for mitt romney in 2012. by and large it was a judgment on the part of conservative voters that they do not always agree with his personality, but they need a republican in there to sign the bill is an support their agenda and that is worth it for them and they are living with the consequences of th

that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every week and you know what they're working. congress scrambles to rewrite the g.o.p.'s so-called health care bill donald trump dominated headlines today with a typical the graphic and trumpy and tweet storm this time directed at morning joe's make a persian ski into tweets trump opined that her poor were rated morning joes speaks badly of me i don't watch any more than you how come low i.q. crazy make along was psycho joe came to morrow three nights in a row around new year's eve and insisted on joining me she was bleeding badly from a facelift i said no in the face of nationally pressuring issues domestic and abroad and then just downright humiliating to our entire country that our commander in chief is picking vulgar fights with morning talk show hosts from are at war on this let's turn things over to tonight's politics. when they felt that i had politics panel or shall be an attorney and member of the national advisory council of project twenty one

and the need to rebut the idea that this was being presented to the public deliberately to influence the outcome. >> yes, yes and yes. which is why we did tell the american public everybody we were in a position to tell them on that date. you will note from my statement that we attributed the hacking directly to the russian government. we were not then in a position to attribute the scanning and probing to the russian government. we did say it was coming from a russian-based platform at that point. at that point, we told the public everything we believed we could dell them. i'm glad we did. the priority of informing the american people public -- >> mr. secretary, you mentioned that the statement you issued didn't get much attention because of the timing of "access hollywood." when it didn't get attention, why didn't the administration go further? why didn't the president speak about this? it was left to yourself and director clapper to issue a written statement without any further elaboration. there were no steps taken, for example, to impose sanctions on russia. why weren't those additional steps taken when they first noticed this? >> well, you shouldn'

but this is what the american public is saying. >> what have they said about that? we haven't talked about it at that length. i have just shared with them what i have heard out there, that the american people want to see this cloud removed. it is not fair. we're a year in from this investigation. why don't we have a conclusion? no one can say there is evidence. if there is no evidence, why are we continuing to investigate it? >> well, i hear you with the people that you have spoken to. but let me show you the latest polls because that is a wider slot of americans. just last week, 73% of americans do support the independent commission investigating the links between team trump and russia. 60% of americans, if you add these next two numbers together believe that the president did something illegal or unethical. so americans do not feel that we should -- >> you need this to be concluded. you had director comey last week say the president was never under investigation, that he has never been under investigation. director clapper has said no evidence of collusion. there

and whatever final bill is produced, should be available to the american public and to members of the senate certainly for enough time to come to grips with it. and we're going to insist and the american people are going to insist that it be done in a transparent, fair and open way. is 5 or 6 days enough time for the american people and members of the senate to come to grips with a bill that affects one sixth of the economy and lives of every american in this country? i don't think so. neither do the american people and neither do a whole bunch of republican senators. senator cassidy, would i have a preferred a more open process? the answer is yes. senator collins, i don't think it gives enough time to thoroughly analyze the bill but we'll see when it comes out. there's member after member, rand paul, lindsey graham, jerry more ran, marco rubio, bob corker, who repeatedly have said this process in their words and now in mine, is unfair, is trunk ated and rushed. for my dear friend the majority leader to say we're going to have an open amendment process is turning truth upside down. i

unfortunately i don't believe what this overwhelming percentage of the american public believes. aks down about 50/50 everything i've read in the american public. there are people who believe in it, people who don't. it generally breaks down along political lines that conservatives think that the old agw climate change thing is a huge multinational scam. and democrats all believe it. >> it's 50/50 only among conservatives. most republicans support it. most of the country support it. overwhelmingly democrats 86%. 71% of republicans support t it's only a 50/50 percent when you look at conservative republicans. that's the 50/50. >> you're talking about the climate accord. i haven't seen your data. everything i've seen, if americans really overwhelmingly supported combating co2 and combating global warming, president trump wouldn't have won the election. >> i don't think he won the election on this. this was not the main reason he won. you can attribute all kinds of reasons to wins or losses but the weakness of hillary clinton's campaign had something to do with it. >> that's a turn w

process and to create the opportunity to reflect on the american health care act that the debate would happen and would come about that the american public would see go through the debate this very constitutionalou convention of this country so those records of deliberations that is right there in the open. a that is so secretive so people working in secret on the bill they will force through congress with no markups or debate or public accountability so there will be a lot of voice is too late i came from a children's hospital this afternoon those that suffered car accidents how we're relying on medicaidhat's a that is one of the most terrifying scenes that the bill the president even called me and. so i understand the substance of the bill that has many people afraid when you look at the health version it values are common ideals with hundreds of thousands of dollars to the wealthy to the degree we have not seen in our lifetime that violates those values in the objective way the to criticize the process.23 mil we go the details of that bill 23 million americans by a hundred billion dollarsne-six won six of our economy into crisis that

name on it right next to the white house, which is a perfect place for us to communicate to the american publicat's going on in his administration >> long time leader of public citizen one of the groups in charge of this protest here tonight, we'll swing around and show you, they probably got about a couple hundred people out here tonight. i will tell you they've got company. service. dc police out here. and there are a couple of pro trump groups we've heard, not organized, kind of cat calling as they went by for the most part, this has been orderly, peaceful. there's not been any conflict of any sort. but we will tell you that the perfect opportunity for the trump protesters they got him in this building tonight, having this fund raiser with the rnc they expect to raise several hundred million out of this, is this no small ticket event tonight, sarah and shawn. they expect to make a lot of money here and put a big dent in their bill heading into 2020. >> i guess they're kicking it off very early, fitz thank you. the lady made a point about saying how close it was to the white house. i mean, it

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and whatever final bill is produced should be available to the american public and to members of the senate, certainly for enough time to come to grips with it. and we're going to insist, the american people are going to insist that it be done in a transparent, fair, and open way. is five or six days enough time for the american people and members of the senate to come to grips with a bill that affects one-sixth of the economy and the lives of every american in this country? i don't think so. neither do the american people, and neither do a whole bunch of republican senators. senator cassidy. would i have preferred a more open process? the answer is yes. senator collins. i don't think it gives enough time to thoroughly analyze the bill, but we'll see when it comes out. there is member after member, rand paul, lindsey graham, jerry moran, marco rubio, bob corker, who repeatedly have said this process, in their words and now in mine, is unfair, is truncated, is rushed. for my dear friend, the majority leader, to say we're going to have an open amendment process is turning truth upside d

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so we're demanding that the republicans show us the bill, that the american public can see -- the american people can see the bill, and they can understand what's in it because the consequences for their families' health is so dramatic. so as a result i ask unanimous consent, mr. president, that the calendar 120, h.r. 1628, the american health care act be referred jointly to the committee on finance and the committee on health, education, labor, and pensions with instructions to report the bill with changes to eliminate provisions that, one, increase health insurance costs, two, reduce coverage, three, make health care less affordable for those with preexisting conditions, and four, reduce tax liabilities for corporations and individuals with incomes over $1 million. i ask unanimous consent, mr. president, that that motion be put in order. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. mcconnell: i object. the presiding officer: the objection is heard. the senator from new jersey. mr. booker: thank you very much. i'm recognizing that my more senior senator is here from delaware. i would li

what ever final bill is produced, should be available to the american public and to members of the senate, certainly for enough time to come to grips with it. we are going to insist that the american people are going to insist, that it be done in a transparent, fair, and open way. is five-six days enough time to for the american people? to come to grips with the bill that affects 16 of the americas country? i don't think so. neither do the american people and neither do a whole bunch of republican senators. senator cassidy, what i have preferred a more open process? the answer is yes. senator collins, i don't think it gets enough time to thoroughly analyze the bill but will see when it comes out. there's member after member, iran paul, lindsey graham, jerry moran marco rubio, bob corker repeatedly have said this process in their words, and now in mine is unfair, truncated, ie rushed and to my dear friend majority leader said will have an open amendment process is turning truth upside down. i would ask our leaderan rhetorically, i know the answer, can we allow at least one hour on each ame

at that point we told the public everything we believed we could tell them, and i'm glad we did. so the priority of informing the americanh is why we did. >> >> bill: so a warning came o, and they made it public and a thought hard about it. he did not get the public attention it was looking for, because that was the evening that the access hollywood tapes came out. so that testimony is critical right now. we do >> shannon: we will be discussing the house elections yesterday. >> bill: also paul ryan, saying he is confident that the health care bill will pass. also fox freedom caucus member joining us live next. when did you see the sign? when i needed to create a better visitor experience. improve our workflow. attract new customers. that's when fastsigns recommended fleet graphics. yeah! now business is rolling in. get started at fastsigns.com. yeah! now business ykeep you sidelined.ng that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. the future isn't silver suits anit's right now.s, think about i

over a month later when the administration had still made no public statement informing americans about what the russians were doing, senator feinstein and i took the extraordinary step of issuing our own public statement, carefully vetted by the intelligence community attributing the hack to russia and senior levels of the kremlin. it would be yet another month before the government would declare the russians behind the election when you issued your october 7 statement and it wouldn't be until well after the election that -- when it closed assets used by the russians used to hack the election in america. what led to such a long delay in making attribution and why would the most significant step of imposing costs on russia for its interference come only after the election and what other lessons learned? at its heart our democracy relies on the trust of the american people in its institutions. the events of last year and of the future are a star warning that we must guard our democracy and we have our work cut out for us but the world is counting on us to be up for the challenge. i thank

one-fifth of the american economy, jacks up rates on everybody, takes insurance potentially from millions to the senate floor without more than a day or two of viewing by the american publicwe're trying to shame the republicans to open up the process. we're also trying to wake the american people up to what's happening. there was a lot of coverage on the russian investigation and the shooting here in washington. and republicans are used that news as cover to move a bill to the senate floor that is deeply unpopular. we do want to wake the constituents of our republican colleagues up so they can start flooding their offices with calls to tell them to stop it, don't do something that's going to be this damaging. >> if somehow today republicans came to you and said okay, you win, we're going to work with you, we're going to find some consensus to fix obamacare, what's the first thing you do? >> i think it's there. so we want the trump administration to stop sabotaging the affordable health care act. that's what trump is doing right now. he's refusing to pay insurers. he won't advertise for it. he's not enforcing the individual mandates. we immediaknead some legislatio >> you