republicans, meanwhile, they will put off a vote on their health care bill until senator john mccain is well enough to return to washington after surgery for a blood clot. the bill may not advance without him and even with mccain's vote, there may not be enough republican support to push it through. they're asking that they use the delays to hold hearings on the bill which was crafted in secret. >>> a new poll shows only 36% of americans approve of president trump's performance. the president says it's not bad, but it's the lowest approval rating at the six-month mark of any american president in 70 years. i'll talk with senator chris murphy in the foreign relations committee, and our correspondent and guests, they're standing by with full coverage of today's top stories. >>> a beleaguered white house came up with a "made in america" promotion week today, but many of the trump products are not made in america. the president already very busy for defending family members. >> the president is defending his daughter, ivanka trump, for some of the clothes not made in the usa. quite a distra

mccain who says he will not vote yes. the proposal i want to go now to cnn political director to get your reaction. how significant is this? >> it's the ball game. it's huge. you know the math in the senate. they have 52 republican votes. they can in the afford to lose more than two republicans if they were going to have a shot at passing this. we know susan collins has been indicating she is not for this bill. and lisa has not decided where she is yet. john mccain shifted this into this bill is not going to pass. that's how significant this vote is. we should really pause here far moment. not only is it hugely significant in the latest attempt not getting through but think back now to where john mccain is in his career and this moment in time when he came back after his cancer diagnosis to the united states senate on the last time that the senate was trying to pass a republican repeal and replace bill. he gave a floor speech. it is -- if you listen to that floor speech it should not surprise many people despite the fact that lindsay gram is as supportive of this bill. in that speech

mccain preparing to fire another shot across the bow of the white house. the former republican presidential nominee and vietnam war p.o.w. is battling brain cancer. he didn't mince words. he launched what many are seeing a repuk to the president as well as the political party he leads. >> to fear the world we organized, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half baked nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems. [ cheers and applause ] this is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that americans consigned to the ash heap of history. >> jeff zeleny is joining us from greenville, south carolina. mccain's comments certainly a deliberate strike thought out, if not at the president himself at least many of the policies he and his advisors have been advocating for. >> reporter: anderson, i think it was certainly at the policies and people who have surrounded this preside

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it. >>> plus, remember when candidate trump said john mccain was not a war hero? the p.o.w. war hero turned senator seems to remember how the president avoided the draft. >> we drafted the lowest income level of america and the highest income level found a doctor that would say they had a bone spur. that is wrong. that is wrong. >>> and as the president preps for a big visit to capitol hill, the senate's top republican, mindful of the obamacare debacle, asked for clear and consistent white house guidance on tax cuts. >> i'm not certain yet what the president is looking for here, but i'll be happy to bring a bill to the floor if i know president trump would sign it. >> president trump refusing today to budge on account of his call with myeshia johnson, the widow of la david johnson, the soldier of four that was killed three weeks ago. the president essentially called the grieving widow a liar after she shared her story on abc about the call she received from the president after the death of her husband. >> he couldn't remember my husband's name. the only way he remembered my husband's

trump, at a rally in alabama friday night. calling out kim jong-un, john mccain, and his critics with insults. we'll have highlights and analysis ahead. >>> news of other devastation in puerto rico. 70,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes with a dam in the northwestern part of the country expected to give way. these stories are ahead. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, i'm natalie allen. >> i'm george howell. 5:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. "newsroom" starts right now. >>> u.s. president donald trump had harsh words for a respected fellow republican friday after john mccain said he would not support the party's latest effort to repeal and replace obamacare. >> mccain's opposition puts the bill now in jeopardy. keeping in mind this is not the first time that he's bucked the white house. mccain cast a deciding no vote in july on the so-called skinny repeal of barack obama's health care law. cnn's kaitlin collins has this report. >> reporter: we saw the president take several swipes at senator

across the political world for senator john mccain diagnosed with brain cancer. we have reporters this morning in washington, virginia and nevada on all of these top stories. our thoughts and prayers are with senator john mccain this morning. you will be hard pressed to find anyone who sacrificed more for their country. >> toughest goi out there. >> welcome to "early start." >> this is thursday, july 20th, 4:00 a.m. in the east. let's begin with the president. president trump lashing out at a trio of top current and former officials with connections to the russia investigations. in an interview with "the new york times" the president says he would have pick ed someone else to be attorney general if he knew jeff sessions would accuse himself on russia-related matters. the president attacking james comey saying he tried to leverage a a das ya of compromising material in order to keep his job. >> robert mueller saying it would be what he called a violation for mueller to start looking into trump family finances. the president said, quote, look, this is about russia. jeff zeleny begin

news about whether john mccain will return to the senate tomorrow. right now, he's in arizona recovering from surgery for brain cancer. >>> also ahead, the latest on jared kushner's statement today and why a member of the house intel committee says he expects kushner will have to come for multiple days of interviews. your big idea... will people know it means they'll get the lowest price guaranteed on our rooms by booking direct on choicehotels.com? hey! badda book. badda boom! mr. badda book. badda boom! book now at choicehotels.com when you switch to progressive. as easy as saving $600 winds stirring. too treacherous for a selfie. [ camera shutter clicks ] sure, i've taken discounts to new heights with safe driver and paperless billing. but the prize at the top is worth every last breath. here we go. [ grunts ] got 'em. ahh. wait a minute. whole wheat waffles? [ crying ] why! what are all these different topped & loaded meals? it's an american favorite on top of an american favorite, alice. it's like rodeos on top of rollercoasters. get your favorites on top of your favorite

to replace obamacare develops a pre-existing condition. a serious case of john mccain. good evening. john berman here in for anderson. the bill had already come down with an attack or two or three of jimmy kimmel. he's been harming on it all week. powerful organizations have weighed in against the bill. the american medical association and aarp just to name a couple. republican senator susan collins is leaning no. lisa murkowski has yet to commit. which makes senator mccain anosement today leaving the bill just one no vote away from defeat so numerically important and perhaps politically. there's been no reaction from the white house. but trump speaks any minute at this rally in alabama and let's just say he has never been one to hold back at his rallies. we're keeping a close eye on this. as we watch that, want to bring in cnn's fill mattingly at the capital. >> this is one of those scenarios where all you had to do is listen to what the senator has been saying. we've been trying to read in to wra perhaps he can go. relationship with lindsey graham, great friends. but every time i'

stalled healthcare bill. senator mccain walking out on to the floor against his doctor's orders just 11 days after brain surgery casting a crucial vote on healthcare and bringing a message for his colleagues on washington. >> i hope we can again rely on humidity on our need to cooperate on odepend dance on each other and learn how to serve the people who elected us. >> that's a true american hero captured or not. a real american hero. i want to bring in david and laura coats. good evening to both of you. david you first, another extraordinary day in politics. whose more allies right now attorney general or jeff sessions? >> if you look at the statements to support that jeff sessions had been receiving from the former colleague in the senate, none of them are not supporting donald trump but you can probably count on the same people in both their supporters. what i find interesting is that you have senators like tom tillerson in north carolina, or mitch mcconnell, the majority leader in the united states senate, not only saying what a lot of people are saying, jeff sessions is a man of in

john mccain. >> mr. peters? mr. portman. >> so that was john mccain that you saw on your screen there just voting "no," putting his finger down. senator mccain just returned to the senate this week after having brain surgery. so before we get to our panel, let's go to ryan nobles. ryan has been covering this all evening for us. he's on capitol hill. what a dramatic turn of events tonight. >> no question about that, don. and we should point out that we had no idea the way this vote was going to go throughout the entire night, and in fact, we tried to run john mccain down several times throughout the day, to see how he was going to vote. he was coy at each and every turn, including when he made his final walk to the chamber, before casting that ballot that ultimately led to this bill being turned down. it wasn't just john mccain. there were two other republicans that voted this down. lisa murkowski from alaska, and susan collins of maine. it took three republican senators to vote it down, and that's exactly what happened here tonight. so the big question, don, is, what do republicans do

cnn town hall featuring senate republicans john mccain and lindsey graham. we begin tonight with breaking news. bipartisan agreement on one thing donald trump did not mention last night in his big speech to congress the extent of contact between the trump campaign and moscow. just moments ago we learned that the top republican and democrat on the housing intelligence committee have agreed on the parameters of their investigation. so the house intelligence committee just announced details regarding the investigation into any potential collusion between russia and the trump campaign. what are they going to do. >> reporter: they did. they are basically agreeing on the fact that there will be an investigation. this is significant for this reason. you know, for so many weeks they've been talking about was there anything that was nefarious here. we don't know the answer to that question, but tonight the committee is saying that they will look into several questions and we're just getting this from the committee tonight, but a couple questions i want to talk about is what's russia's cyb

. >> words of hope and encouragement for john mccain. the senator diagnosed with brain cancer. we have reporters this morning in washington, moscow, virginia and nevada on all our top stories. good morning and welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. that's fair to say we all here at cnn are wishing john mccain and his family the very best. toughest guy out it there. >> several nailed it when they said cancer has never met a more worthy opponent. he's sacrificed everything for his country. ooii'm dave brigs. we start with the president. lashing out at top and former officials all with connections to the russia investigation. in a staggering interview with the "new york times," the president says he would have picked someone else to be attorney general if he knew jeff sessions would recuse himself on russia related matters. the president also attacking former director james comey telling the times he thinks comey tried to leverage a dossier of compromising material to keep his job. >> president trump also took aim at robert mueller saying it would be what he called a violation fo

while arizona senator john mccain recovers from a blood cot. susan collins of maine and rand paul of kentucky say they won't support moving forward with the bill for very different reasons. that means, even if every other senate republican is on board, the bill, without john mccain is going nowhere. there are several big questions here, both political and more importantly, medical at the moment. will the extra time help mitch mcconnell convince the unconvinced? joining me now to start off, cnn's correspondent, phil mattingly is here. where do things stand? >> reporter: fluid. there's no question, very fluid. all the aides said there is concern for senator mccain. when it comes to the health care bill, there's a recognition with john mccain, they aren't there yet. they don't have the 50 votes to move forward. there's a lot of work to do. i was talking to a senior gop aide. he said every day we don't get another no vote, it's a small victory. it's a low bar for success, but underscores the challenge they have behind the scenes. the dynamics, you know them well. we talked about them for

come down to how john mccain volts? plus sean spicer's redemption tour. hitting a bump in the road as a former press secretary sets off a firestorm saying he never knowingly lied from the white house podium. really? really? really? let's get to serious business. cnn's nick peyton walsh is for us in puerto rico this morning. hurricane maria has taken a terrible toll in puerto rico. there is catastrophic flooding after 30 inches of rain fell in 24 hours and the entire island is without power. what is the situation like now on the ground? >> reporter: well, i should tell you that we just heard that president trump has spoken to his counterparts, the governor of puerto rico. we're not clear what was said but we do know earlier on today he described what has occurred here as an absolute oh blirt rags, as rhetoric cal that is it's fair in terms of describing the sheer of volume of damage seen here in the capital of san juan and across this territory of the united states. as this report will show. 30 hours on and this is what maria's embrace of puerto rico has left. thfrs not a world buil

as senator mccain recovers from surgery. at debate is as great as every p fresh evidence. ed the president's attention is on the russia investigations. extra personal. the president discertified most politician wos have going to the meeting like the one don junior attended to get information on an opponent. that's politics. with us this day to share reporting and insights, julie herb feldt davis of the "new york times." npr steve inkky, jackie collins of the "los angeles times" and cnn's manu raju. the tweet i referenced references the june 2016 meeting organized by donald trump jr. and attended by son-in-law and adviser jared kushner and the trump campaign chairman paul manafort. among those across the table at trump tower, a kremlin-linked hoyer and russian-american lobbyist. a former intelligence operator for the russians. this set up an donald trump was told they wanted to share damaging information about hillary clinton. there are many, many, many layers to this including the president's mounting frustration, and this rather basic question -- should we believe anything team

at some point i fight back and it won't be pretty. >> senator mccain says he's faced far greater challenges than that. >> really, the president fights back sometimes. that's really news worthy. d it's not even fighting back, it's attacking people. i do think that this is not something that's going to be intimidating. he's at a point where i don't think he is going to have any problem standing up to the president. >> mccain was sharp in the critique. does this go beyond a political argument, mary catherine? >> you're right that mccain doesn't care and, frankly, once someone calls you an unsatisfactory pow, you can say whatever you want after that. there's a part of the speech where he talked about it being unpatriotic to scribe to this half-baked nationalism. there's a whole part of this country including democrats that crossed over to vote for trump who are on board with that because of the intervention of the past. there's a political dynamic he shouldn't be aware of. he's an "n" arizona running again anyway, but this is a dynamic that he is ignoring. >> rec sit comment, war her

health care bill. and there are new concerns john mccain's absence could be longer than first thought. mitch mcconnell announcing he will postpone a vote because senator mccain is recovering in arizona after having a blood clot removed above his left eye. mccain's absence could jeopardize efforts to repeal and replace obamacare with two republican senators now rand paul and susan collins already declaring their opposition. mcconnell needs all other 50 to pass this measure. >> doctors describe the surgery as minimally invasive, but dr. sanjay gupta notes that mccain does have a history of invasive melanoma in and around the area. mccain's doctors are waiting for pathology tests to see if more treatment is needed. the health bill facing big political challenges as well. more on that in a moment. >>> and new poll numbers that might rattle any other president but drawing a shrug from the current white house on occupant. president trump reaching a new low in approval ratings just 36% in the latest "washington post" abc news bomu ews poll. that is down six points from his 100 day mark in ap

replace obamacare, faces a new setback. the senate delayed the vote as senator john mccain recovering from blood clot surgery. let's begin with cnn's joe johns live at the white house. good morning, joe. >> good morning, john. president trump is back in washington, d.c. frankly hoping to turn the page after a week of revelations regarding donald trump jr.'s meeting with the russian lawyer. it does appear that the swirl of contingency is continuing to affect the president's approval ratings. >> congratulations, mr. president. >> reporter: after nearly six months in office, president donald trump facing the lowest approval rating in recent history, just 36% approve of the president's performance in a new abc news/"washington post" pole. the president attempting to spin these results, claiming almost 40% is not bad and asserting that the poll was inaccurate during the election. the poll also showing that 63% of americans think the meeting between trump junior, paul manafort and jared kushner and a russian lawyer to get dirt on hillary clinton was inappropriate. >> most people would have

few weeks or months having a tit for tat going on between trump and mccain. and i give mccain already the bronze star for that fight, because i think he will defeat trump if it gets to being who's right about the democratic ideals are all about. >> and john mccain will be a formidable ally, no doubt, in that debate. douglas brinkley, tim notali, thank you so much to both of you. it's the top of the hour. i'm breanna kieler in for brooke baldwin. cnn is learning two bipartisan senators, one democrat, one republican, say they have reached a deal in principle on health care. now this time patty murray, a democrat, and senator lamar alexander, a republican, are reaching across the aisle. and their goal is to stabilize obamacare rather than, as the president has requested, just let it implode. during a news conference a short time ago, president trump said he endorses this deal in the short-term. listen. >> apparently, lamar alexander said he made a deal with patty murray to stabilize obamacare. has the white house been involved in those negotiations? and will you support that deal? >> yes

condition, and serious case of john mccain. john berman here in for anderson cooper. and lindsey graham and trump's best friend in washington had come after an attack by jimmy kimmel, and he has been at it all week, and also, the american medical association, and the aarp to name a few, and senator lisa murkowski is leaning no, and so the announcement of senator mccain means that he cannot support the bill, and leaving it one no vote away from defeat and so perhaps politically influential. no reaction from the white house on the mccain bombshell, but he is about to speak at this rally in alabama, and he has never been one to hold back on the rally, and so we will keep a close eye on this when he taks s the stage. so as we watch, that i want to bring in cnn's phil mattinglyt at the capital. what more are you learning absenator mccain's decision today? john, interestingly enough all you had the do is to lis own what the senator was saying, and where the senator could go and the great friends with lindsey graham, and the idea to repeal obamacare, but every time i have spoken to senator mcc

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down obamacare repeal in a fatal blow delivered by republican senator john mccain. so much drama, you could hear a gasp as he gave the bill a big thumbs down. >> mr. peters? >> you see democratic leader, chuck schumer after the mccain vote. majority leader, mitch mcconnell standing with his arms folded. schumer choked up about mccain's return despite the diagnosis. >> turn the page 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 have been here a while remember. maybe this can be a moment where we start doing that. >> the majority leader, mitch mcconnell says it's time to move on. >> as i said, we look forward to our colleagues on the other side suggesting what they have in mind. now, mr. president, it's time to move on. >> let's get to cnn's phil mattingly on capitol hill. a dramatic ending to the years long fight over obamacare. >> reporter: at large points, it wasn't expected. republican leaders thought they were going to get there. house republican l

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. senator john mccain walking out onto the senate floor against doctor's orders just 11 days after brain surgery casting his crucial vote on health care and bringing a message for his colleagues in washington. >> i hope we can again rely on humility on our need to cooperate, on our dependence on each other to, learn how to trust each other again and by so doing better serve the people who elected us. >> that's a true american hero. captured or not. a real american hero. now i want to bring in political director david chalian and legal analyst laura coats. david, you first. another extraordinary day in politics. who is more allies right now, president trump or attorney general jeff sessions? >> if you look at the statements of support that sessions has been receiving from former colleagues in the senate, none of them are not supporting is donald trump. he can probably -- they can probably count on the same people as both their supporters. what i find interesting is you have senators like thom tillis of north carolina or mitch mcconnell, the majority leader in the united states senat

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. [ applause ] >> and i can tell you, we hope john mccain gets better very soon because we miss him. he's a crusty voice in washington, plus we need his vote. and he'll be back. and he will be back sooner than somebody else would be back. he'll be back soon. but we need that vote and we need a number of votes because we do have to repeal obamacare, and we will end up replacing it with something that is going to be outstanding, far, far better than failing obamacare where premiums have gone up in some cases, over 200% this year where every single element of it is bad, and the insurance companies, by the way, are fleeing, so people have some states you have no insurance companies, and we have some governors here and we have senators here and we have congressmen here and women, and i will tell you, it's a very, very hard time they're having with the obamacare situation. so we're going to get that done, and i think we're going to surprise a lot of people. but they're pushing very hard. the republican senators are great people but they have a lot of different states. some states need this, some

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senate's health care vote is on hold amid senator john mccain's health scare and his recovery from surgery. how is he doing? sanj sanjay gupta will have the medical perspective. let's get to the politics. suzanne malveaux joins us on capitol hill. another delay for mitch mcconnell on this one whachlt are you hearing? >> reporter: this is the latest in a series of stops and starts regarding the health care bill and senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell wanted to build momentum here, a sense of urgency. that has come to a screeching halt. members of congress back in session this afternoon and despite that, however, this is a real difficult moment for them. we are talking about over the weekend, the announcement from senator mccain's office that he had surgery to remove a clot that would push back the timetable perhaps a week or more. mitch mcconnell knows he doesn't necessarily have the votes and can't afford to lose a single vote, so, delaying this process. this comes before we had some outright no's from republicans. i spoke with two of them last week, senator rand paul, the cons

me, john mccain's most important act this week was not casting the deciding vote on repealing obamacare. it was his plea for nonpartisan compromise. and i'll explain. >>> and turns out there are good-paying jobs for blue collar workers in the rust belt. but there's a problem. i'll talk to one employer who says four out of every ten job applicants failed drug test. >>> and president trump pledged to let obamacare implode. how do you run that in that climate i'll consider a ceo. and just how hazardous is playing professional football. in a new study, 111 brains of deceased nfl players analyzed. and 110 of them had brain damage. but first, after a stormy six-month tenure, president trump has pushed out his white house chief of staff reince priebus, replaying him with homeland security secretary-general john kelly. priebus tried but failed to impose order on an often chaotic infighting west wing. his ouster coming a day after a feud erupted were the new communications director, anthony scaramucci, who wvowed publicly to oust priebus. general kelly will take over the west wing on m

success. john mccain not seeing it that way. >> donald trump wrote this morning, "senator mccain should not be talking about the success or failure of a mission to the media, only emboldens the enemy. look at the mess our country is in, bogged down all over the place. our hero ryan died on a mission, not on a failure. time for the u.s. to get smart and start winning again." we just got a statement moments ago from senator mccain. that is our breaking news. let's get right to manu raju on capitol hill. man n manu, what are you learning? >> reporter: john mccain said last week that you cannot call the raid in yemen a success, it resulted in loss of life, that started the chain of events that you guys just cited. i talked to him earlier today, he said he'll refer to his statement from his press secretary, his press secretary putting out a cautious statement, not trying to escalate this fight with the president the united states, saying that senator mccain will continue to execute his oversight duties as chairman of the senate armed services committee and support the brave men and women ser

have put this week's expected vote on hold once again. this, because of senator john mccain recovering from surgery for a blood clot. the senator's recovery time is not the only uncertainty right now hanging over the gop's signature goal. our dr. sanjay gupta will have all the medical perspective in a moment. let's begin, though, with the politics of it. m.j. lee is here to explain. no cbo score coming today, really important for this. now the vote is on hold. why? >> well, it's because john mccain is not going to be here this week. >> he wasn't a definite yes. that's the thing. >> he was not a definite yes on the final bill. it's important to keep in mind he was a definite yes on the motion to proceed. myself and other reports on the hill were asking him are you going to vote yes to move this bill forward? he said yes even though he thought the bill wasn't perfect. he has concerns about the medicaid cuts in the bill. and wonders what that will do to the people in arizona but was clear he wants to move forward on this bill. the fact that this bill has been delayed because mc

the general dunford presser, john mccain, very critical of the lack of information he's been getting, had threatened even to issue subpoenas if he wasn't satisfied with the information flow, was asked about the presser. here's what he said. >> what is still your biggest question you have after -- >> the whole operation. come on. questions about it, why four men died. that should be the -- that's the question most americans want to know. >> not satisfied from the senate, mark. >> and he's right, you know, senator john mccain is correct in saying that he's not satisfied and that the american public should be more focused on why did this mission fail and more importantly, why did we have four service members die in the line of duty? this is what you call a textbook case of how not to handle a crisis. not to wait 19 days to go out and to hold a news conference, to basically deliver no answers. now, i don't hold anything against general dunford for not having answers because it's the fog of war, i'm guessing as eric said. there are still a lot more questions to be answered. had they handl

mccain calls it something very different. >> to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe. to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half baked spurruous nationalism -- >> to let you know, we are awaiting the arrival of the greek prime minister to the white house. we will take you there when it happens. the president and his public promise to work hand in hand with mitch mcconnell. what better way to prove it than conservative talk radio. when plame is being assigned for the woes in washington. how you might ask and be unified that the president has their back when he makes clear he accepts no blame or responsibility if they fail. >> now we are there and i think rand will be there. let's see what happens. we have the votes coming up. budget is phase one and the vote is phase two. if the republicans don't do it, it would be disgraceful to them. >> going to keep hitting on that. them. not all of us, but them. >> what a difference a day makes. this portrait of happy partners. we are tota

thumbs down after dooming the last republican health care bill, senator mccain reveals that he's ready to vote no again as the gnaw es gop attempt to repeal obamacare about to go down in flames. >>> gangster versus mad man. president trump hurls a new insult on north korea leader battle with kim jong-un rare statement questioning mr. trump's authority and sanity. >>> nuclear threat as tensions sword that it may test one of the powerful bombs on the planet. is it bluster or deadly serious warning? >>> and call ing a hoax. mr. trump is sharing doubts about russian ads on social media aimed on influencing election. as facebook turns over key evidence to investigate ors. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm jim acosta. you are in "the situation room." >>> breaking news tonight senator john mccain says he's ready to do decisive vote. he says he can't support it without democrats. and estimate of the bills impact. one or no vote will kill the bill. and susan is expected to join. but tonight the white house says president trump is not ready to give up. earlier he tweeted thatny gop that voted

, is a vote after a health scare for senator john mccain. >>> and a brand new poll shows the president's approval dropping to record lows. the record is defending the number even as the russia investigation hampers his agenda. in 70 years, no one at this stage has had such a low, low 36% approval. welcome to "early start." >> it's monday, july 17th. it's 4:00 on a.m. in the east and we start on the health care. it was a health care for a senator trying to pass a new health care bill. there are new concerns that john mccain's absence could be longer than first thought. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell announcing he will postpone a vote because senator mccain is recovering this arizona after having a blood clot removed above his left eye. mccain's absence could jeopardize efforts to repeal and replace obama care with rand paul and susan collins already declaring their opposition, mcconnell needs every other gop vote all 50 to pass this measure. >> doctors describe the surgery of mccain as minimally invasive, but dr. gupta says he does have a history of invasive melanoma i

serving in the vietnam war. mccain's blistering words, coming up. >>> what jimmy carter thinks he could do face to face with kim jong-un. lots of news going on this hour, but let's start with the president of the united states. now, openly challenging the word of a widow whose husband died in service of the country. sergeant la david johnson was killed in niger more than two weeks ago. he was laid to rest over the weekend. today in hin her first intervie his widow myeshia johnson says she still has questions about her husband's death, including this. >> every time i asked to see my husband, they wouldn't let me. >> what did they tell you? >> they told me he was in a severe wrap, like i wouldn't be able to see him. i need to see him so i know that is my husband. i don't know nothing. they won't show me a finger, a hand. i know my husband's body from head to toe, and they won't let me see anything. i don't know what's in that box. it could be empty, for all i know. but i need to see my husband. >> she also gave her account of the condolence call from president trump. >> what he said

time fighting this awful health care bill. >> having john mccain come back for this vote is a huge, huge break for mitch mcconnell. >> president trump and his aides have been discussing possibly removing jeff sessions. >> we could use some more loyalty, i will tell you that. >> what's really disturbing here is that he's really torturing him. >> president trump's trying to interfere with the independence of the attorney general. that's absolutely wrong and should not be tolerated. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day." it is tuesday, july 25th, 6:00 here in new york. here's our starting line -- up first, a crucial vote today in the senate to begin debating a repeal. obamacare. senator john mccain, who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer, will head back to washington to cast what could be a deciding vote. >>> next, president trump's public feud with jeff sessions intensifies. the "washington post" reports that the president and his advisers are discussing the poss

beyond brushing with act®. >>> another dramatic "no" from john mccain and a last-ditch republican effort to replace obamacare is on the verge of collapse. >> they finally get a president who will sign the legislation and they don't have the guts to vote for him. >> plus, a big week on the world stage and a war of insults with north korea's jim jong-un. >> rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. >> and now, a war of words over athletes' protests during the national anthem. >> get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field right now. out. he's fired. >> "inside politics," the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, now. >>> welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. president trump is mad at just about everyone, it seems. at senator john mccain, whose opposition likely dooms a last-ditch effort to replace obamacare. >> john mccain was not on the list, so that was a totally unexpected thing. terrible. honestly, terrible. >> mad at kim jong-un, who called the president a

. before that, though, a devastating diagnosis. senator john mccain is battling brain cancer. the iconic warrior, both in politics and on the battlefield, facing one of his toughest battles yet. but those close to him say that he will not surrender. his daughter, megan writes, he is the toughest person i know, the cruelest enemy could not break him. the aggressions of political life could not bend him. cancer may afflict him in many ways, but it will not make him surrender. nothing ever has. >> god knows how this ends, not me. but i do know this. this disease has never had a more worthy opponent. >> we are covering all of the latest developments on this busy morning. let's begin, though, with an update on senator mccain's diagnosis. our dr. sanjay gupta, also a practicing neurosurgeon, is here with this cnn exclusive report. and sanjay, you spoke with mccain's permission, to his doctors. what have we learned? >> reporter: well, we got a lot more details, poppy, about what happened on friday, when he went in for that routine visit. how he -- how he subsequently got diagnosed with t

means for the middleclass is still being debated. senator john mccain is back home recovering from chemo. sources say he is okay but exhausted. what is the situation in atlanta, martin? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. the world's busiest airport going through a massive reboot this morning as you point out. the lights are on. that handled around midnight last night. but the problems are far from over. take a look. it doesn't really look that bad. but the reason is most people have already had the bad news. they know a lot of flights are delayed or canceled so they have stayed away. these are the ones that are hopeful their early flight will go. so far we have not heard of a single flight taking off. tsa is in place. some of the stores are open and operating. and there are people behind the computer terminals. a lot of patience being had by a lot of people here who have spent the night on the main terminal and all the other concourses. it's been a tough go. the power went off around 1:00 yesterday. it was off for 11 hours. more than 1,100 flights were canceled. there are 400 fligh

detail what was holding these up in the first place. >> senator john mccain took a sw swipe, this time mentioning the my room. >> he was speaking in a vietnam war documentary and he was talking about the difference between higher income individuals and lower income, we seemed at that point in the vietnam war to draft from the lower income tier of america. if you were in this hire level, if you were better off in stature, you could go to any doctor and they would write you a letter for something, for instance, a bone spur that might allow you to avoid the draft. a bone spur happens to be what president trump before he was president used to avoid the draft. he had a number of draft defr s defrmts. john mccain, not one hesitant to criticize the president, but he said he was trying to make a broader point that the burdens of war are not necessarily shared evenly across american society, and certainly that's true now. >> sara murray, appreciate it. joining me is kirsten powers, scott jengs, the president responding to mrs. johnson today, for instance, all of this really goes back to --

. what's interesting, you bring up a good point, when senator john mccain is opposed to obamacare. he will be the person who will most likely save obamacare. as you heard, and in that passionate speech, he said -- i'm saying this to everyone, and dana included, we must return to order. we have to stop the partisanship. we're deadlocked. nothing is happening here. the only we accomplished as a body, is neil gorsuch. and this is -- >> yeah. i think you're exactly right. and look, for all of the drama and the well-wishes and the somber and emotional tone and moment that went along with john mccain returning to the senate, for the health care vote and the speech he gave that you were quoting from, there was disappointment in some circles. certainly not conservative circles. but in circles, i would say, maybe more independent and some democrats who truly like john mccain, disappointment that he didn't go as far with his maverickyness as he could have because he voted for the motion to proceed. so, the question now is whether he is going to take that maverick label and wear it proudly, from

, sad news that senator john mccain has brain cancer. our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta reports. he joins us now. sanjay, explain what you've learned. >> just over the last couple of hours, i've had a chance to hear exactly what transpired over the last several days. we heard that senator mccain went in the hospital on friday, had surgery, but are getting the details of what happened. take a listen. senator john mccain is recovering well after an operation last friday to remove a malignant brain tumor. known as glioblastoma. with senator mccain's permission, i spoke exclusively to two of his mayo clinic doctors about the details of his care. mccain had come in for a scheduled annual physical friday morning with no complaints except intermittent double vision and fatigue, which he attributed to an intense international travel schedule over the last several months. his doctors ordered a cat scan. to check for anything from a stroke. upon review, doctors called mccain, who left the hospital, and asked him to immediately return for an mri. the scans revealed a five cen

background here, senator mccain said the white house shouldn't be calling this yemen raid a success because one navy s.e.a.l. died. sean spicer hitting back yesterday saying you shouldn't be saying that, et cetera. now the president is saying this, and i think we can pull the tweets up for you. senator mccain should not be talking about the successes and failure of a mission to the media, only emboldens the enemy. he's been losing so long, he doesn't know how to win. look at the mess our country is in, bogged down. our hero ryan died a hero. he's talking about the navy s.e.a.l. killed in the attack. also for context here, you'll remember, david, this is the president as a candidate who said john mccain, he liked winners not people who are prisoners of war. >> first off, let's just say, the fact that chief petty officer owen died in combat is obviously not a failure, he died serving his country. that being said, senator mccain as a 30-year sitting senator, chair of the armed services committee, certainly has the platform and the purview, and a combat veteran has the purview to weigh

not know about senator john mccain? >> that you can say on tv? >> say anything. >> what you see is what you get. there's not a private side of john mccain that is much different. he's cantankerous and can be a complete jerk to his closest friends and hug you dearly next. here's what started all this. john asked me to support him for president. you know why i did? he asked. no one ever asked me before. so over that, between then and now been all over the world with him and worst -- if he reads in the paper 5,000 people slaughtered, says we have to go there. why? but john to me has a quality really special. fight for his friends. i had six clients from mildly disturbed to completely crazy. john came down and stood by me because i worked with people on the other side to solve immigration problem. i'm a good conservative i think but don't mind working with the other side. john was going to be up for election and i wasn't most popular person on talk radio. he stood with me and followed me around everywhere i went. when i ran for president, most of you missed it, john was with me. bottom

for seven years and the republicans have been saying repeal and replace. then you have john mccain voting no for whatever reason. by the way, arizona is one of the biggest beneficiaries. it's also great for maine, it's also great for alaska. >> it is if you didn't know this already. deadline week for republicans hoping to keep their obamacare repeal promise. the words you hear from the president say he is counting the no votes. john mccain is a no. susan collins is most likely a no. and lisa murkowski says she has many concerns. conservatives are leaning no's, so there is a big scramble to rewrite that bill with the deadline ahead. some call them routine changes, others sweeteners, and they think they can flat out buy votes for some over others. >> the changes that were made in this bill, and nothing gets the pulse pounding looking over 146 pages of legislative text at 10:00 p.m. on a sunday night, but the changes are subtle. take lisa murkowski, for example. a as you noted, still undecided about this bill. the state of alaska would get a significant bump-up for medicaid, up to 25%

. ed president trying to satisfy all sides. now senatorer john mccain says those promoting half baked national views are unpatriotic. see you tomorrow. >> my relationship with this gentlemen is outstanding. we've cut your oxygen off, mitch. it's a season of war against a gop establishment. >> i can understand fully how steve bannon feels. >> donald trump is playing mitch mcconnell and steve bannon against each other perfectly. >> to abandon our duty to the stake of some half baked spurious nationalism is unpatriotic. >> if you look at other presidents, most of them didn't make calls. >> why does he make stuff up all the time? >> most people said we've done an outstanding job but puerto rico is tough. >> our president doesn't have the commitment to the puerto rican people. >> this is "new day" with chris kpoem mow and alison camerota. >> this is new day, tuesday, october 17. former republican nominee, senator john mccain taking a clear shot at president trump without ever saying his name. mccain warns the u.s. against turning towards quote half baked spurious nationalism, and calls ame

john mccain voted no. he has made his career out of being a maverick. >> this is a moment that he understands is going to help cement that. >> got to have republicans and democrats sit down together and come up with a bill that gets a majority in both houses. >> we really do have to work together. this has been one of the least productive legislative periods in the history of the united states of america. >> a lot of finger-pointing. everybody is going to blame somebody else. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> we begin with breaking news. stunning defeat and high drama in the senate. senator john mccain casting the decisive no vote that ended the republican promise and seven years of effort to repeal obamacare. the maverick senator giving the measure a thumbs down, as you are about to see on your screen, and it just was the most dramatic reaction and moment there on the floor. >> literally did say no and give a thumbs down, john mccain. president trump blasting those three republican senators and democrats for letting americans down. the president once a