." senator mccain later issued a statement saying while the amendment would have appealed some of mr. and deliver affordable, quality health care to our citizens. the speaker's statement that the house would be willing to go to conference does not ease my concern that this shell of a bill could be taken up and passed at any time. i've stated we should not make the mistakes of the past that have led to obamacare's collapse. weep must do the hard work our citizens expect and deserve. casey hun -- it was an incredibly dramatic night, mika. nd senator mccain, he and mike pence settling on the floor. and ultimately mccain when he walked out told reporters he did it because he thought it was the right thing to do. he had been talking with chuck schumer as well as throughout the neat and was really the surprise linchpin. he came back a few days ago after the president said, we, he's a crusty voice in washington but refeed his vote and mccain gave him that vote to start this debate and then he took a lot and last night he followed through. there was a very vang scenario where republicans cam

could be the final or ultimate day of senate voting on healthcare. >> and actually mr. speaker would you like to talk to andrea about -- >> how are you. >> sorry, i tried. >> that was a great try. right there the middle of of it all. >> the speaker as you know does not typically stop to chat although that was very kind of him i think four he was obviously willing to say hello. look, had is definitely a distraction and the speaker typically doesn't comment on -- he'll say i don't comment on the tweets, he tries very much to dis distance himself from all of this. i actually think it's noteworthy that he took this opportunity to stand up for reince priebus. >> i think that's been a little bit of -- it's a little bit of a departure from some of the approaches he's taken in other ways, for example, evened to kind of steering clear of saying anything about the senate healthcare bill and what the house might be willing to do. they, of course, are trying to get that done and you know what? reince priebus has been a critical part of this. and there has been some reporting and conversations ab

with the white house. i want to see what it is they actually produce. >> mr. speaker, senator graham earlier today said he was looking at legislation that would create some roadblocks to firing special counsel, some sort of review process. do you think the house needs to act preemptively -- >> i haven't given thought to this. the think it's in the president's interest that he continues to do his job. >> paul ryan finishing up speaking at the podium. there's a lot for us to cover, including new developments surrounding president trump's surprise announcement banning transgender service members. paul ryan noted it there for a moment. reuters reporting the u.s. joint chiefs of staff told military leaders today, quote, there will be no modifications to the current policy until the president's direction has been received by the secretary of defense and the secretary has issued implementation guidance -- translation, tweets don't count. trump announced the plan via twitter forces thousands of american troops to question their status in the military. eric fanning, the first openingly gay ar

mnuchin, mr. cohen, the speaker, senator mcconnell, senator hatch and chairman brady. >> no conversations with chairman brady. >> of the ways and means committee. >> you got to bring democrats into this to try to get past this kind of gridlock. people voted to disrupt the system and drain the swamp. those who voted, you know, for donald trump, clearly. and they are the base is still sticking with them. 50% of trump voters staying with them. he's got those approvals and even higher approval in the swing districts that really went big for him. >> yeah, i mean, look, trump's core voters are going to stay with him until the bitter end, whatever that is. he won the election because a bunch of voters expected him to deliver results. he was going to be the art of the deal president, going to make deals and get things done. when he won primaries, he said, i'll work with democrats, get things done. instead, we're seeing no work and no deals. the spectacle yesterday, so out of touch with what was going on capitol hill, that he was playing in a fire truck, as a signature legislative pl

. >> mr. speaker, would you accept a meeting with a representative -- >> i'm not going to go into hypotheticals. >> would you accept a meeting with somebody who said i have information from a foreign adversary that will help you beat your campaign opponent? >> look, i'm not going to go into hypotheticals only because i think it's important that we get to the bottom of all of this. as you all know, i supported bob mueller being appointed special counsel, and i think we need to let him and his team and our investigators here do their jobs and follow these leads wherever they mellet and follow wherever they may go and follow the facts. >> meanwhile, the president gave a pair of what has become increasingly rare interviews. top of mind was russia and accusations of collusion in the 2016 election, and he turned heads in an interview with christian broadcaster paul robertson on cbn when he said putin would have been happier had hilry clinton won. >> he wants what's good for russia, and i want what's good for the united states. if hillary had won, our military would be decimated. that's

these committees do their jobs so that we can get to the bottom of all of this. casey. >> mr. speaker, would you accept a meeting with a representative -- >> i'm not going to go into hypotheticals. >> would you accept a meeting with somebody who said i information from a foreign adversary who would help you beat your campaign opponent. >> i'm not going to go into hypotheticals only because i think it's important that we get to the bottom of all of this. as you all know, i supported bob mueller being appointed special counsel. and i think we need to let him and his team and our investigators here do their jobs and follow these leads wherever they may go and follow the facts. >> robert, given p your intelligence background, what would you say to somebody who received an invitation like this, a politician? >> i'd say immediately call the fbi. what bothers me probably most about junior's responses that there was no instinct that there was something wrong about this. you don't need to be an authority on federal election law to have an instinct that, wait, there's something wrong with my meeting a