and to the senators who courageously, senatormy cullsky and senator collins and senator mccain,

carr: yes, senator. senator udall: thank you. senator thune: thank you, senator udall. what i will do, i am going to intend to stay through entire at least first round for everybody but senator wicker does have to go. i am going to recognize him next and then we'll continue to move down the list that we have here. so senator wicker. senator wicker: thank you, mr. chairman. chairman pai, accelerating broadband development in rural areas is a priority for many members on both side of the dais. i worked with you to make sure data collection methods regarding mobile broadband question is standardized. it's necessary to make sure that funds to use broadband deployment are targeted to truly underserved and unserved communities. in rural america and in my state of mississippi. would you agree that standardizing data collection is important to target funds accurately to deploy the broadband in underserved and unserved areas, and will you commit to ensuring that the baseline coverage data collected from carriers for the mobility fund phase 2 challenge process be standardized? an

my friend, the senator from delaware, senator coons, put it best. he said, they said, yeah, we'll sell you a car. it'll be cheaper, but it'll have no butcher and no steering -- but it'll have no bumper, no steering wheel. it won't serve its purpose. the insurer can say, no hospitalization. no payment for drugs. what good are they? it is a talking point. it doesn't help people. it hurts them. the cruz amendment would also make insurance unaffordable for americans who need it most, creating what even the very conservative american action forum say would be a death spiral in the marketplace. and again my friend shall the senior senator from iowa, said the cruz are amendment would, quote, annihilate the preexisting condition requirement, unquote. that's not church schumer. that's not -- that's not chuck schumer. that's not bill nelson. that is chuck grassley, one of the most senior republican senators from the great state of iowa who says that. i.t. not fake. it's real what he said. can't wash it away. and the cruz amendment winds back the clock in a am

i was just on a trip with several of my colleagues, senator warren, senator perdue, senator graham, senator whitehouse, and among other places that we spent the fourth of july as i have for many years in kabul and outside of kabul with men and women of the military with a number of events that we do for them with the fourth of july, a town hall meeting with a large number of men and women who are in uniform. senator graham, as happens once a decade, asked an astute question. he asked, how many in the room were there for more than the first time in afghanistan? majority raised their hands. he said, how many have been here more than twice? majority raised their hands. he said, how many have been here three times? a significant number raised their hands. in other words, to me, it was something that was a graphic demonstration of the incredible burden that our active-duty military has been bearing over the last 15 or 16 years. they are brave, proud, the best navy we have had in a long, long time, but they are not fully equipped, and they are not fully trained, and they are not given the authori

the senator from wyoming has the floor. a senator: mr. president, i wonder if the senator from wyoming would yield for a question about -- the presiding officer: does senator yield? the senator from wyoming does not yield. the senator from wyoming has the floor. mr. enzi: the health and human services administration official knew the co-ops were at risk even before they received their first loan in 2014. senator rob portman, chairman of the senate permanent subcommittee on investigations said the h.h.s. knew of serious problems concerning the failed co-ops, their enrollment strategies, their pricing and the financial management before the department ever approved their initial loans. dr. mandy, cohen director testified before a subcommittee that 8 of the remaining 11 co-ops were in serious financial difficult and receiving enhanced oversight and creskt corrective action. he did not explain what action consisted of nor could she indicate the enrollment figures on the possibility of financial services on the co-ops being monitored. also fou

our live coverage resumes when the senate gavel senate 9:30 eastern time. for more on what's happening the senate would talk to capitol hill reporter. kelsey still as congressional reporter with the "washington post". when it comes to health care debate in the senate tell us about senator mcconnell. how did he have to lobby for the final votes? >> guest: as i understand it he was out talking to senators well into the day-to-day leading directly to the vote. he was perfectly worried about a group of moderate senators from states that accepted medicaid expansion under the ace a. he was speaking directly with them about how they could extend the amount of money that medicaid would -- and we ended up agreeing to a vote on an amendment that would give $100 million for flexible spending to medicaid however it's important to realize this amendment is added to another portion of another bill that probably isn't going to succeed. and all it comes down to being a symbolic vote but one that was important to many of the senators who needed to say they took a step and d

senator schumer: i think there are a bunch. the things i mentioned at the beginning had bipartisan support. even leader mcconnell said a few weeks ago if this fails we'll work with chuck shumer and the democrats and the first -- chuck shumer and the democrats and the first thing we want to do is try whether in the budget negotiations or elsewhere, we want to have -- the insurance industry, hardly our allies, said one way to keep premiums down is to have cost sharing permanent. that will have bipartisan support. even talked to paul ryan this morning about working together on these kinds of things and there's a thirst to do it and i just hope, as i said, the magic moment of john mccain last night has lasting effect and makes us work together in a better way and both sides are to blame for the past. reporter: senator, democrats have made opposing president trump a big part of what you're about right now. are you ready to say the democratic voters, we will work with republicans and get something signed by this president? senator sc

senator klobuchar. amy klobuchar: thank you very much, senator schumer. and thank you so much for the work you have done. this is our moment. we have been waiting for this moment for months and months, in fact for years, because all we have ever heard since we started talking about changes, repeal, repeal, repeal. the last few months we are on two versions of the house bill, two versions of the senate bill, and every single time it seems to get worse. we are at a position where only 17% of the american eagle approved the last republican version of the bill. we hear about repeal again. if they want to have a vote on that, fine, but we know where this is going to end up, and it will be where we should have begun, and that is working, democrats and republicans, on positive changes to the american people to the affordable care act. we never said it was a perfect bill. the day it passed, i said it was .he beginning and not an end that is why i am a strong supporter of senator kaine's work and center carvers work -- senator carver's work. we are asking people t

a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. tester: thank you, mr. president. you know, it's been an amazing process. i've been here a little over ten years and i've never seen anything like this. we voted for cloture a few days ago to move to debate. nothing. and now we've got a bill here today that, as the senator -- as senator murphy has already pointed our, will rip health care away from millions of people, increase premiums by 20% a year. and basically solve none of the problems that are out there that need to be solved. -- that effect americans every day, especially rural americans. and i must thank the senator from washington, senator murray, for the motion to take this back to committee. this is where we should have started. we should have started in the committee process, like our forefathers had designed this place how to work the greatest deliberative body in the world. but it didn't. every bill that's been drafted bay select few in a back room with no input from anybody, especially people from rural america. so it i

a picture from senator grassley. concernsnts voice about the senate proposal. this in the cincinnati inquirer. medicaid victory after vigorous debate. gop lawmakers don't challenge governor kasich's retail of a halt. keeping medicaid intact for 500,000 low income ohioans and giving the governor another victory over his own party. post" andngton "the new york times" featuring jerry moran of kansas. senator moran is usually a reliable supporter of his party's leadership, but he spent more than an hour poking holes in the gop health care bill. as constituents peppered health careout the bill that he said he would oppose. as such exchanges suggested, gop leaders do not appear to be getting the response they wanted during congress' recess. none of the 9 republicans opposing the bill have expressed a change of heart. mcconnellority leader scrambling to assemble a revised version that can attract more support can only afford to lose 2 republicans and still pass. on thursday, mcconnell said if the gop fails they will have to work with democrats. what do you make of thi

as senate purdue mentioned we've got healthcare, budgets, we only have 31 scheduled days in the senate between now and the end of our fiscal year. september 30 to get a budget passed. this past year we were seven months into the fiscal year before we finally passed the budget. i don't see any reason why we need to be leaving this town in august. we should be here doing the people's business. if you were going to school, you were getting failing grades in your spring semester, you'd better stay in school for summer and go to summer school, not taking recess. >> who is up next? >> i think most americans don't really care politically up here who's winning or losing or whose liberal or conservative, or whose left or right or whose up or down or poll numbers. they care about results. and when you look at the issues confronting us, healthcare which we are not likely to vote on until next week atthe earliest , jobs and growth, which i think can only be achieved through tax reform. we've done everything we can do on the monitor side we've got to address the anemic growth of america on the fisc

senate is about to go in at 10:30, senators will go to advance nomination. >> will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. eternal god, we bless your holy name. lead us safely to the refuge of your choosing, for you desire to give us a future and a hope. today, give our senators the power to do your will, as they realize more fully that they are your servants. may they seek your best for our nation, repeatedly soliciting your guidance and following your leading. lord, inspire them to not merely to give a hand out, but a hand up so that people can maximize their possibilities for the glory of your name. give our lawmakers the perseverance and faith to remain true to duty, striving always to please you. we pray in your sacred name. amen. the president pro tempore: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is re

senator klobuchar? >> thank you very much, senator schumer, and thank you so much for the work -- cheryl: we want to break out quick, want to recap what we heard from senator schumer. the time has come, basically. he's offering once again to work with the republican leaders to come up with something that will fix. there's one thing we can see between the democrats and republicans, they both agree the exchanges are failing, but do you let those fail with nothing to back up the american people that still require health care? wanted to get to senator schumer's comments, is bipartisanship possible in all of this? want to bring back in the possible. patrice with me as well as david nelson, ashley is still with me, neil is with me, also want to bring in gregg jarrett from the fox news channel to talk about the legalities of all this. welcome to you. first to you on all this, another olive branch from schumer. >> right. cheryl: on the surface, anyway. >> well, he says the door is open, yeah. it's open, but for

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senator cruz: it is early to say. we are six months into the administration, but the president has declared a strong commitment to the va performance unless the secretary. i am encouraged by that. that commitment to reform is an important starting point. we need to demand real results, and i will say the president's budget. he proposed increasing the budget for the va about $6 billion a year and putting an additional $3 billion into the choice program. the choice program as it exists now is narrow, but i viewed the existing choice program a little bit like the camel's nose under the tent, where i am glad to get it started and it want to keep getting that camel thrown under the tent until veterans have full and robust choice. i'm encouraged -- i have been a big supporter of making what is supposed to be a private program permanent and expanding it. i think it is a strong sign that the president's initial budget proposed a budget increase for choice, introducing competition and expanding it. >> absolutely. some things i

and rather than let those funds, expire, i join senator mccain, senator isakson, senator testere and others in a choice extension bill to remove that august 7 deadline and sunset the program until the funds expired, which as i said was believed to be in january of 2018. the presidenthe president signel on april 19, but less than six weeks later we learned from the va that the va had made an unfortunate miscalculation and as a result of poor budgeting nt and finance, the dollars for the choice program were not going to last until january, but are soo- to expire just within the next few days. demand for the choice program was up 30 or 40%, and it's cleat by the increase in demand that veterans needed choice, that they like choice, that it is working for them. and we now know what to the veterans to make certain that that choice program continues and that the funds are available to accomplish that goal. with the choice, the funds that they had anticipated that would last until january now will run out sometime in august we think in the next couple of weeks. those depleted funds will mea

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we support senator cruz and senator lee's efforts, efforts that transpired in the house and we think it's perfectly appropriate to his amendment and so we hope it's part of the process in bringing everybody together. greg: tax reform. the president has said many, many times that you need to do health care first, treasury secretary steve mnuchin said, no, we can probably do tax reform without doing obamacare reform. which is it and what's the timetable for this? >> john, we look to do both this year. that's the bottom line. we plan to get health care completed this summer and tax reform in the fall and completed before the end of the year. greg: do you need to do tax reform first? >> we need to do both, john. we need tax reform in the country because we need to get the economy growing again. it has suffered to far even since recession in 2008-2009. greg: one of the big issues is whether you do tax reform that's deficit neutral or whether it's more important to do tax cuts first, so which part of that is more important, deficit neutral or getting the tax cuts. >> what's most important

, being senator -- we mentioned senator heller before. also now senator shelley moore capito of west virginia who was a no is saying yes to this procedural vote and also rob portman, senator from ohio, he was a no and now he's yes on this. let me bring in a couple more voices as we await the results. julie rovner, and we wanted to talk to you because you've been covering health care since 1986 in congress and you have never seen anything like this. >> no, this is an amazing vote. this is basically 51, presumably, republican senators proceeding to debate on a bill they don't know what the bill is. this is a bill that could, in theory, affect a sixth of the u.s. economy. there doesn't seem to be any consensus for any pieces that have so far been offered. i think the hope of the smoenat majority leader is they get on this bill and put it on the fly as they go. >> i was looking at the face of the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, and he is -- what's he, a masterful tactician is what he's been referred to. he's used to getting these vot

because the margins are so tight in the senate with only 52 republican senators. they had to have at least 50 to push this bill forward and right now that's just not happening. >> all right, ryan, thank you. we begin there. placing politics in the ramifications of all this aside for just a hot minute, what happens if obamacare really is allowed to fail? let's bring in cnn money senior writer tammy luby, who covers all things health care and the economy here for us, so that's the question. if it were to fail, what would that look like? who's affected? >> sure. well, first of all, it's not going to be, it's going to fail or not fail. it's going to fail in certain places. we already have 38 counties around this country that, for 2018, the people there have no insurance options on the exchanges. it's about 25,000 people. you know, it's possible that an insurer will come in and cover them. that's what's been happening so far, but right now, we have 38 places where it's failed, but in many places it's doing well and will continue to do well and a lot of insurers have sa

the senate won't ever become law. but the house and the senate will make changes to it later and that this thing that they they're voting on won't be real. we don't know what it's going to come down to in the end. speaker paul ryan released a statement tonight saying he's open to making the changes after the vote if it passes the senate tonight. senator mccain says no, he wants a commitment to that. the statement from paul ryan isn't sufficient for that. republican senators are supposed to start the process of tacking on their own, tacking on a slew of amendments to the bill. control room, are they starting? they're gearing up to start tacking on a gazillion amendments to this frankenstein bill. you see what time it is now, and the fact that they're all milling around there. this thing is expected to go on all night, literally all night until tomorrow morning. one photographer today caught this foldup bed, this cot trucked into the capitol earlier today, in case any senator needs to take a nap between votes. before th

bailout for louisiana senator cassidy. in all, additional 70 billion dollars was aimed at persuading gop holdouts. all that money anything into the ether? no, it not, held back now. it was not wasted. maybe this was the right outcome. joining me to discuss current state of a disfunctional republican party. ed rollins, good to have you here, 70 billion they did not have to spend of. >> that will be spent, don't worry about it. i think two thins that disturb me. our side cannot count votes, having spent 50 years in my life in politics, you have to know where your votes are. you don't bring people over last night if you don't think you got the votes, if someone tells you maybe, that is a no as far as i am concerned. there are still 8 they don't know where they are, my sense is, if you want to -- there will not be 50 votes. lou: to be clear, neither mcconnell norryan should be in their jobs. and if republican party, you know president today was speaking for the republican party, we don't hear him speak for republican party nea

>> yes, senator. >> mr. carr? >> yes, senator. >> mr. chairman, i'd like to take this opportunity to note that senator hassan and i have requested a hearing in this committee on the current state of the u.s. media land scape. we've not had a hearing on that topic in over eight years, and i think it's a very timely one, and i hope you could reconsider that. i, one quick question here, and this should be quick because i think it's a yes or no. recently, there's been a spike in violence and intimidation against individual journalists. a republican congressman famously body slammed ben jacobs, a reporter for "the guardian," after being asked about his position on the house health care bill one day before his special election. a west virginia appropriator was arrested while -- reporter was arrested while asking hhs secretary price about the health care bill as well. trump white house staff reportedly have threatened to keep files of dirt on white house reporters. finish fcc security also man handled cq reporter john donnelly and pipped him ag

anna: senator ted cruz has proposed in a to the senate bill that would deal with obamacare regulations, one being pre-existing conditions. what are your thoughts on that? rick: we have concerns about that approach. fully understand that proposal would do, and of course we had not seen any paper on a yet, but it would further bifurcate the insurance markets and essentially say you will have noncompliant plans -- aca plans and compliant plans. we are concerned the sick folks who went up in the compliant plans, the younger and potentially healthier folks will end up in the noncompliant plans. the noncompliant plans will presumably be cheaper because they won't be compliant with the essential benefits. they will be covering the essential benefit requirements you have in the compliants. you will have a lot of the high risk folks in the compliant plans and the premiums will go up for them. we don't think that is a good solution. i know that is something people have been discussing. greta: what does it need for hospitals? rick: for hospitals you have a lot of people with what we tend to call

welcome, senator strange. he comes here because senator sessions went on to become attorney general. he has seen the senate for three months, four months maybe? five months now. i'm sure he has his impressions of this body and they may be different from what he thought about it before he was elected. but i can tell him for sure that this is a much different senate than the one patty murray was elected to, much different than the one i was elected to. even my friend, mike enzi from wyoming. even the one that he saw. i see my colleague senator schatz from hawaii here. how long have you been here now? four and a half years. he's a newbie. he has not seen the senate i was describing. can you believe there was a time in the senate when there was an important measure and members would come to the floor -- i'm not making this up -- and actually hand it to the clerk and say i'd like to make an amendment on this bill. we would handle it and sometimes we voted it and sometimes you won and sometimes you vote. that actual

senators ahead. we already know they don't have the support for a bill. another amendment would come up. $100 billion would be add nd that for regulations for concerned senators. the ted cruz bill would be add nd as well. what you're seeing, jake, is here's why people voted yes, but we don't know where this is going to end up and that's a pretty precarious position for any senator to be in. >> after the vote, senator mccain gave a speech on the floor, not giving any other information except for court justice. >> he said the body simply doesn't apply. >> critics on both sides denounce us for timidity, for our failure to triumph. i hope we can rely on hue millty, our need to trust each other, learn how to trust each other again, and by doing so, serve the people who elected us. stop listening to the bombastic loud mouths on the radio, television and the internet. to hell with them! [ applause ] >> and to jake, a broad critique directed at the chamber on the whole, but also a very specific criticism in

>> i will not. >> of the senate will be in order, the senator declines to yield. the senator from wyoming has the floor. >> bret: after all the time, we miss the part where he said he would knock it off the floor. this does continue on the senate floor as we are waiting for these boats. we have a sense of the time frame. senior capitol hill producer joins me again. what is the tick-tock? >> we are going to have two votes coming up here closer to 12:30. >> bret: why is that? >> you had people on the floor, mostly democrats. chuck schumer could speak, and they objected. if you object to a request in the senate, they have a little conversation off to the side and worked it out. chuck schumer was making the point, we just got this build two hours ago and we ought to be able to talk about it for a little bit longer. probably starting the first of on this series at 12:30. >> bret: this is the motion to proceed. >> but the key vote will start after that. it usually takes about 20 minutes or so. we are probably looking at 1245 or 12:50 p.m. a.m. they could leave that vote

senate floor. that is what regular order is. and what i just described usually takes about nine months. least on a complex health care legislation like this. that is what senators mean when they say regular order. when john mccain said last week it was time to return to regular order on health care legislation, that seemed to me would he vote against the bill that mitch mcconnell was dictate together senate from the top down. last week senator mccain said congress must now return to regular order holds hearings receive input from members about parties and heed reblg mcommends of our nation's governors so we can have produce a bill that finally provides americans with aks to quality and aforable health care. what he said to mccain might be premature. >> i want to thank senator john mccain. very brave man. he made a tough trip to get here and vote. so we want to thanks senator mccain and all of the republicans. >> senator mccain voting to proceed to the debate today does not mean that he will vote fo

she has peed in the senator's office. the senator claims he still adores her. the runner-up is sherlock who is more than thrilled to take pictures in the senate finance committee room for his owner is the chief oversight council. this year's winner, he's a 2-year-old american eskimo, belongs to the communications director for house commerce. thanks for the fact and thanks for inviting us into your home. wednesday we will have the latest from the white house, capitol hill, and the amendment process. always a lot to talk about. that's it for this >> america must also be united because when america is united america is totally unstoppable. >> wednesday, july 26th, donald trump taking his message directly to the people celebrating a razor thin vote to repeal obamacare as john mccain makes a dramatic return to capitol hill. the brand-new setback that broke overnight coming up. >> the democratic staffer caught trying to flee the country, charge of he is now facing and the secret that may have been stolen. >> the must see moment a fishing boat captain puts his life on

senate to hop on. quote he looks at the 40,000 people and he probably says, what do i have to lose, mr. trump said? so it's not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement. anita for good reason this president has been called transactional. >> right i mean you should tell jeff sessions that. am i'm sure when he did and came out and endorsed him and it was the first endorsement in the senate it felt like he was going out on a leap. he was taking a leap there. it did feel like a big deal at the time. >> phil we have all seen the elaborate setups on youtube of a game of knock the dominosed over. they do up the stairs down the bablding into the parking lot it's fascinating to watch it's not unlike what might happen if the president actually fires the attorney general, what might happen inside the justice department, what might happen with mr. mueller. you're opening up to mix my metaphors a huge can of worms there. >> you certainly are. and part of the problem here that president trump is in is he doesn

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he comes here because senator sessions went on to become attorney general.ns he is saying the senate for three months maybe, and i'm sure he has impressions of this body and they may be different than what he thought about before heo was elected. i can tell him for sure that this is a much different senatee than the one patty murray was elected to, much different than the one i was elected to head mike enzi, much different than the one he saw. they see my colleague senator schatz and wyden. how long have you been here brian? four and a half years. he's a newbie and he has not seen the senate that i'm describing. in the senate where we would bring important measures on many different issues and membersak would come to the floor i'm not making this up and actually handed them to the clerk and sad like to offer an amendment to this bill and that we would debated in both and sometimes you want and sometimes you losto in the moved onto the next next amendment. that actually happened on the senate floor and for people new to the senate they don't believe it but it did over and over and ove

on the senate side i would estimate there are about 8-10 republican senators who have deep concerns. but how this would translate out i'm not certain. and i never underestimate leader mcconnell's skills. >> the white house has been heavily involved in this effort as well. and it will give them more time to lean on republicans to come in and support it. arthel: joining us is congresswoman marcia blackburn. of course we want to start and say we wish senator mccain a full recovery. a very strong man and we want him to heal well. let's start here with you, how do you think this delay affects the senate's healthcare bill? >> i believe it gives the senate the opportunity to work a little bit more on the bill. they will get their cbo estimate tomorrow. and that will give them a few days to do some fine-tuning. once senator mccain is back to full health and returns to d.c., they will be able to call their vote. i know they are looking forward to it. we want to begin the process and arthel, it's important to realize it's a process it's going to take us a couple years to get everything off the

senator shelby told us moments ago that senator sessions deserves better than this. thank you very much for bringing us that live response from lindsey graham who has called jeff sessions someone he never doubted his integrity or sense of fair play. you are looking now at the senate judiciary committee hearing getting under way. the chairman, chuck grassley. let's listen. >> to enforce this law and monitor potential unregistered foreign agents. it's no surprise then that only 400 foreign agents are currently registered. does anyone here seriously think that only 400 people in the whole united states take foreign money for pr and lobbying work? the inspector general said the fbi investigators and the justice department officials can't even agree on what makes a good case for enforcement of this law. it is no surprise that the inspector general found that there is no comprehensive department enforcement strategy on the law. between 1966 and 2017, the justice department brought only seven criminal fairer cases. listen to this. it has been 26 years since the justice depa

senator graham and i have been prosecutors. as has senator clobeshar. congressional investigations in the legislative branch, to proceeds in parallel without harm to either. we are pleased to have experts in this area to help shed the light of their study and experience. one particular issue is the still undisclosed tax returns of donald trump. and the separate means for criminal investigations and congressional investigations to gain access to such materials. there are different rules and procedures for the executive and legislative branches. but the bottom line is this, while it would be wrong for senate investigations to peer over the shoulders of executive investigations and look into the contents of their files, there is nothing wrong with both investigations looking at the same evidence, acquired separately and consistent with law. one last point before we turn to the witnesses, the assertion and legislative hearings of executive privilege. attorney general sessions refused to answer senators' questions based on what we called long-standing depart

going to the senate, i want the senators to pay attention why it is happening and we don't give federal funds to cities that are getting money from doj and dos. i would like the senator to meet the family and listen to the president about the point. >> lou: congratulations on moving both of those bims in the house -- bills in the house. and the travel ban going into affect in less than an hour. and a terrific win for president trump and the country. >> it is. thank you. >> lou: we'll be right back. a lot more to cover tonight. stay with us. the house approves two bills to help make america safe again after the president applies pressure. >>in am calling on all of us to put safety of the american families first. >> lou: we'll discuss the crack counsel with ed rolins. and a bill victory for president trump's travel ban that takes africa this evening. stay with us. the white house warns syria it will pay a heavy price if they carry out a chemical attack on his own people. >> my hope is that the president's warning will get syria and russia to take a second look. >> lou: we'll discuss reper

how is senator john mccain? >> well, his family is saying tonight that they are weighing their options to deal with what is a very aggressive form of brain cancer. this is something that they are dealing with because a few days ago we learned that john mccain had a blood clot and there was a mass they were checking on. it was cancer. they are weighing whether to move forward with chemotherapy or radiation. tonight there are leaders in both parties who are saying this is an american hero, that they want to rally around as he deals with this fight. former president barack obama said john mccain is an american hero and one of the bravest fighters i have ever known. cancer doesn't know what it is up against. give it hell." that from barack obama. hillary clinton said john mccain is as tough as they come am thinking of john and cindy and their children and whole family. we should note that meghan mccain is not just part of the mccain family but also part of the fox news family. she put out an emotional statement. i w

she has peed in the senator's office. the senator claims he still adores her. the runner-up is sherlock who is more than thrilled to take pictures in the senate finance committee room for his owner is the chief oversight council. this year's winner, he's a 2-year-old american eskimo, belongs to the communications director for house commerce. thanks for the fact and thanks for inviting us into your home. wednesday we will have the latest from the white house, capitol hill, and the amendment process. always a lot to talk about. that's it for this "special report" ." ♪ >> hello, i am kimberly guilfoyle with juan williams, jesse watters, dana perino, and ed henry. it's 9:00 in new york city and this is "the five." >> this is a fox news alert. president trump pumped up supporters at his make america great again rally in ohio. on the heels of a crucial victory on capitol hill. the senate voted to debate to repeal and replace obamacare. it was close. 51-50 with vice president pence casting the tiebreaker.

the senate will take another stab at health care. moments ago at the white house, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell set the stage confirming another vote next week on a motion to proceed to the bill to repeal and/or replace obamacare. he wasn't clear on exactly what it would look like. this comes more than an hour after the president pulled a u-turn at the white house once republican senators had taken their seats at the lunch table. president pitched the positive of obamacare pushing members to keep favorite parts

he said he did nothing wrong, but tonight senate members of the senate intelligence committee are telling me that they have more questions and some are threatening to call back jared kushner for a second round of questioning. >> all of my actions were proper. let me be very clear. i did not collude with russia nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. >> reporter: jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior advisor, tried today to put to rest mounting questions about his interactions with russian officials that are now a key part of investigations into russia meddling in the elections. kushner spent more than two hours behind closed doors with staff of the senate intelligence committee and released an 111-page statement providing new insight into four meetings with russians last year. >> the record and documents i have voluntarily provided will show that all of my actions were proper and occurred in the normal course of events of a very unique campaign. >> reporter: kushner revealed his role in a june 2016 meeting at trump tower with russians at the invitation of h

senator jeff sessions was the first senator to endorse the candidacy of donald trump. senator jeff sessions was the only republican senator who endorsed the candidacy of donald trump before donald trump won the republican presidential nomination. and this week, senator jeff sessions has become the new trump enemy, the new hillary, the new obama, the new lyin' ted, the new little marco. we now have the beleaguered attorney general jeff sessions according to donald trump. and so for republican senators, donald trump has finally crossed the line that he crossed with a majority of americans during the presidential campaign. >> jeff sessions is an honorable man. he did what i believe any ethical attorney general would do under the circumstances. >> jeff has been very loyal to the president, and i think he deserves loyalty back. >> he is one of the most honest people you would ever know. he is a man of very high integrity. jeff sessions has my confidence. >> i think that his independence has been proven by his willingness to recuse himself. >> kenneth starr, the special pros

reid. >> i have never heard senators gasp and applaud with so much surprise when a senator cast a vote. you could hear how surprised the democrats were when john mccain voted with them to kill the trump/mcconnell health care bill in the senate. but there was no surprise on the republican side, none. they all knew that this vote was coming. everyone had every right to believe that this vote was coming after john mccain's speech in the senate on tuesday, which seemed to indicate that he was opposed to any version of a health care bill that was not produced through what he called regular order of the senate, in other words, through committee hearings and bipartisan input in committees, and on the floor of the senate. democrats interrupted that mccain speech on tuesday on the senate floor with applause. republicans did not because they knew what that speech meant. it meant mccain would vote no on what majority leader mcconnell was trying to do. but then he confused most observers outside of the senate. he voted yes on the motion to proceed to the debate. so john mccain was then immediately

or what senator schumer and senate democrats apparently believe is a better course. no reforms, no changes. just bailout insurance companies by throwing billions of dollars at them without any reform. we're not interested in that. we think we got a better plan. we invite our democratic colleagues to join us. under the budget process they have an opportunity to offer amendments to the plan. there's no restriction. so we would invite them to participate in the process to come up with a better product than the failure of obamacare, much less bailing out insurance companies by throwing billions of dollars at them trying to prop up a failed experiment. >> the news on health care doesn't get any better for people in this country. there are going to be two million fewer people this year with insurance than had it last year, so the number of uninsured goes up, the costs continues to go up, probably a correlation of there and the highest number of people in this country in a gallup poll now cite health care being their number one concern, highest number since 2007 and in fact

the senator from tennessee and the senator from washington. the senator from utah. the senator from oregon. they have worked well together in the past. they can work well together in the future. there is suggestions that we are interested in that come from members on the other side of the aisle. senator from maine and senator from louisiana. let's turn the page and work together to improve our health care system. let's turn the page in another way. all of us were so inspired. by the speech and the life of the senator from arizona. he asked us to go back to regular order. to bring back the senate that some of us who were here have been here a while remember. maybe this can be a moment where we start doing that. both sides will have to give. the blame hardly falls on one side or the other. but if we can take this moment, a solemn moment, and start working this body the way it had always worked until the last decade or so with both sides to blame for the deterioration, we will do a better job for our country, better job for this body, a better job for ourselves. and fi

senate. after numerous delays, false starts, false predictions, and two pole votes, it should be crystal clear to everyone on the other side of the aisle that the core of the bill is unworkable. it is time to move on. it's time to start over. rather than repeating the same failed partisan process yet again, republicans should work with democrats on a bill that lowers premiums, provides long-term stability to the market, and improves our healthcare system. i heard the republican leader say democrats decided early on they did not want to engage seriously on healthcare.he in the same speech, the a republican leader also indicated that the first thing d the republican majority did this congress was to pass reconciliation so they could pass healthcare on a partyline vote. fifty needed, no democrats needed. early on the majority leader told democrats we don't need you. we don't want you. respectfully, i take issue with the idea that democrats didn't want to engage on healthcare. the majority of the

glawe: absolutely, senator. senator mccaskill: thank you. i want to talk a little bit about whistleblowers and retaliation, mr. pekoske. i think that's part of the problem that you're going to have to confront. let me go at it this way. there was information sent to most in the t.s.a.'s office of security capabilities and they were told recently that any and all documents related to an o.i.g. or g.a.o. request must be cleared by t.s.a. leadership before they can be sent to investigators. now, i want to give credit to the acting administrator because the acting administrator, once he realized this had gone out, immediately corrected that and sent out guidance that concurred with the i.g.'s recommendation that, you know, they should not in fact do that and it was an all hands email to employees. so someone at t.s.a. thought it was appropriate to tell employees that any information given to the i.g. or g.a.o. had to be cleared. then once the acting person realized this, they corrected it. but i want to get to that person who issued that guidanc

president, first i want to thank senator cork,i thank to thank senator crapo and senator brown, senator schumer and mcconnell l for their help in getting us to this moment. this is an important moment for our country. and i'm very proud of what we were able to accomplish. a senator: order, mr. president. the presiding officer: members will come to order. mr. cardin: the legislation we are about to vote on will give the united states the strongest possible hand to stand up against the aggression of russia. russia attacked us and our democratic institutions. russia invaded the sovereignty of other countries, including ukraine and georgia. russia has participated in war crimes in syria. and this legislation will give the united states the strongest possible hand in taking action against russia, mandatory sanctions are included in this legislation in regards to the energy sector, the financial sector, intelligence and defense sector. not only with primary sanctions but with secondary sanctions. this legislation provides for a democracy fund working with europe to protect ourselves against r