lost health care. it's not complicated. as joe manchin said they might not remember who gave you the health care but they'll certainly remember who took it away. >> 20 house republicans who voted against the gop health care bill. congressman leonard lance of new jersey. congressman, why didn't you step in line and vote for the bill? you could have gone to the white house, had your picture taken with the president and gone to the oval office. >> mika, i always try to vote my conscience and vote what is in the best interest of the district i'm honored to serve. certainly i wanted to see a cbo score before voting on this legislation. >> did you have a chance to read it? >> i have read a summary of it. i didn't read all 1,800 pages or whatever the number is. certainly important to me, mika, is a cbo score, because that informs us here in congress as to the particulars of any piece of legislation. >> congressman, it's willie geist, fellow new jersey guy. as you talk to the people in your district, what inside this bill would be most concerning to them? and to you, specifically? is it medi

it might be enough for them to actually vote for it. >> look at someone like joe manchin. >> of west virginia. >> yes, where trump won by double digits, who has supported donald trump on some initiatives so far. >> as you know, there are 52 republicans in the senate, 48 democrats. if three of those republicans, whether lisa marcowski, susan collins, one more, if they join the democrats and the democrats are opposed, the republicans are in trouble. >> right. so there's no room for error on this for republicans, wolf. the onus now falls to mitch mcconnell. is he going to be in the spotlight now. all of the talk has been about paul ryan and donald trump and their working relationship. now mitch mcconnell, who is a very shrewd political operator, is the one that has to thread this needle. he has his work laid out for him. >> we are getting new information on how democrats are pushing back right now. we will take a quick break. that and much more right after this. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis like me, and you're talking to your rheumatologist about a medication... .

virginia colleague, senator joe manchin, as well as representative mckinley, jenkins and moony to get this coal miner fix in the bill. i particularly want to thank our majority leader mitch mcconnell for his leadership on behalf of the miners in west virginia and his home state of kentucky. i would like to thank my fellow republican senator from the state of ohio, rob portman. most importantly, i would like to thank the miners from across coal country who came to washington to advocate for their health care benefits. i met hundreds west virginia miners over the last several years. last september miners came to the -- by the thousands to the west front of the capitol and stood for hours in excruciatingly hot conditions. they put a face on the issue. they are the reason this we have a suctionful result today. many of these miners have shared their stories with me through e-mails and visits. i want to share a few of their thoughts. brenda, a coal miner's widow, wrote that the health care coverage presented a life and death situation. she said i have medical problems that require prescrip

permanent extension of minor's health benefit thanks to the hard work of joe manchin and others. funding to shore up puerto rico to help finned its debt. and louisiana and north carolina to recover from natural disasters and it has a very good increase for nasa which i will talk about at the end of my remarks before my colleague from florida speaks about the hard and successful work he has done on the nasa budget. of course, the bill doesn't include all of the things we wanted. it doesn't include all of the things that our republican colleagues p wanted. that is the nature of compromise, but at the end of the day this is an agreement that reflects our basic principles and is something both democrats and republicans should support. the bill shows how bipartisanship in congress should work. both parties negotiating in good faith in order to find consensus. it passed in the house with an overwhelming bipartisan majority of 309 votes. i expect it will receive the senate's approval later today. more broadly, i hope this deal provides a blueprint for future budget negotiations between

than my great friend, the senior senator from west virginia, joe manchin. the truth is without joe's tireless work and leadership, i'm not sure the miners in west virginia or virginia or pennsylvania or other states that were affected would be able to look to this piece of legislation and know that their health care benefits are going to be maintained. now, this didn't come easily. if nothing else, this shows again the power of persistence. joe first race -- raised this ie in july 2015 when he introduced the miners protection act. since then, he's brought it up, and i would ask any colleagues to contradict me if it's not the case, he's brought it up in every public meeting, private meeting. whenever there's been more than two or three senators engaged in any topic, joe would come bursting in saying we've got to take care of miners. well, there's a lot of times here in this chamber those kind of efforts are not recognized or rewarded. i just wanted to be one of the first for say on behalf of all the miners in extra v.a. -- in virginia, more importantly to the 22,000 miners who otherwi

care was passed, you don't think joe manchin and bernie sanders both thought that was the best possible plan you could come up with to reform health care. they didn't. but they did understand this was the plan they had. they came together as a team. they both voted for it. republicans need to come together. we need to get a bill passed. we need to unify so we can govern. brian: what about speaker pelosi? >> i'm sorry. brian: or it will be speaker pelosi. >> or it will be speaker pelosi, exactly. ainsley: or chuck schumer. they brought lawmakers together from the both sides, talking about the budget bill, that deliver as budget that funds rebuilding of the united states military, makes historic invests in border security. he goes on and on about the good things that happened in the bill. if you listen to the democrats, this is bad thing for the republicans, we got everything we wanted. we're the winners here and they're the losers. >> when you go into a deal as a business person, let's say there are four things you're negotiating for, point, a, b, c and d you really want points

thinkers, joe manchins in the middle, tim ryans in the middle with have their day and their say. that is my hope. people stop saying i will do anything to get elected including agreeing with bernie sanders and tom perez. do what allows them to sleep well at night, be a democrat, be reasonable, be republican, be reasonable. stuart: we hear you. brian kilmeade. thanks very much for being with us, brian. >> thankç you, stuart. stuart: check the big board. kind of a no-go market. we're up 12 points. been that way for most of the trading session so far. >>> jimmy kimmel getting very personal and emotional last night making the case for covering preexisting conditions. you're going to see it in a moment. liz: last hour we spoke with former reagan economist art laffer news that president trump may be considering a new gas tax. here is what he had to say. roll tape. >> you know, i have written a lot on this, stuart. i am all for a gas tax if we reduce other taxes by equal or more amounts. a gas tax is one of the least damaging taxes. all taxes are bad. some are worse than others. the gas tax is o

. we have good candidates like joe manchin and sherrod brown and joe donely elm people who slow up in towns not just around election time most importantly when it's not election time. steve: why don't the big shots show up in the small towns. >> well, you know, we are moving on from a different strategy. i think that we had in the last few months. steve: pardon me, congressman. what was the previous strategy by the way because it didn't work. >> it clearly didn't work. but, you know, that was more we are going to focus on our base. we are going to drive up our turnout. and we are going to spend less time with quote, unquote, persuasion. and that was the strategy of the last campaign. but i remember being on a bus tour in ohio in rural ohio with president obama where he was hitting these small towns. it does work. you have to show up and let people know you care about them. steve: i'm kind of curious. who is the leader of the democratic party right now? >> well, i mean, clearly our house and senate leadership are the leaders technically of the party. that's yet to be determined. i t

. coal miners, that was the joe manchin deal. part of getting bob leite heiser confirmed as the u.s. trade rep. the defense hawks got a lot. planned parenthood got a lot. national endowments for health god had an increase. these are not the issues that donald trump won on. i think they better be examining these priorities. i know you have to cut deals, i get that. but you got to get some of your big things in there. you have to be willing to shut down the government. not essential services, but some of the government to do this. you have to do it. i can't be so scared, unilaterally disarmed right off the bat, which is what the republicans always seem to do. they are petrified of shutting down the government. >> bret: the administration, chuck says, they were able to get into this year because it had been punctured, kicked the can down the role. they are focused on 2018. the bottom line, you look at the epa funding, it has increased, not decreased to where the budget blueprint was. >> i actually scoured the bill looking for something that reflected donald trump's priorities. other th

want to just praise over and -- can't get enough praise, the senator from west virginia, joe manchin, who was relentless, even after disappointment after disappointment, at holding the senate's feet to the fire and making sure this was done, and many miners can rest easy tonight, these people who have worked so hard for their lives and had so much disappointment because of joe manchin's work and what we put in the bill. there is also funding to shore up puerto rico's medicaid program, and $2 billion to help states like california, west virginia, louisiana, north carolina recover from recent natural disasters. the bill also includes a significant increase in n.i.h. funding which deals with cancer research and the cancer moonshot that both president obama and vice president biden pushed for continues onward. a restoration of year-round pell grants which will benefit about a million students, colleges often are the ladder up for a lot of students and this will help them stay on that ladder. and it includes significant increase funding for infrastructure as well as funding to combat the scour

permanently extend health benefits for minors. that was a top priority for joe manchin from west virginia and brown from ohio. and the republican leadership of the appropriations committee wrapup of this deal, they note workers relief for mine -- it would have expired on may 5. and now it is permanently extended. the united mine workers of america. the main union for workers. they earned a permanent health congress strikes that deal to avoid the shutdown. tweet fromere overnight before midnight. i want to get your thoughts this morning as we get the details on this $1.1 trillion deal. government, it would avert the shutdown at least until the end of september. virginia is in maryland. good morning. caller: good morning, how are you? host: i'm doing well. caller: my thoughts on the wall, they did not find it and there are newer technologies out there that are already paid for. president ofthe mexico showed, is just a waste of money. they can come over that. so i'm glad they did not fund it . host: did you vote for trump? caller: no, i did not. host: what did you think of the debat