. >> [indiscernible] chuck schumer: ok, good afternoon, everyone. i'm proud to be joined -- thank you. and i am proud to be joined by heinrich.lobuchar and it is getting clearer and clearer senate republicans will not be able to pass their bill or a backup plan to repeal without replacement. we democrats believe that the time has finally come for our republican colleagues to take us up on our offer of working together to improve the health care system rather than sabotaging. evidently president trump is proposing a different path. ,e wants to throw up his hands rather than roll up his sleeves, to work with us and solve the problem. let's be very clear about what the president is proposing and where his path would lead. the president would not be letting obamacare collapse. he is actively, actively trying to undermine the health care system in this country using millions of americans as political on in a cynical -- .awns in a cynical game try to deny the insurance market their certainty they need to function, the president is playing a dangerous game

we have democratic senator, chuck schumer, house minority leader there. senate minority leader. talking before the actual vote. it's supposed to happen to proceed to a debate. some time about 215 eastern. they have not actually began the vote. here, let's listen to chuck schumer. >> and now, here we are after so much cloak and dagger legislating about to vote on proceeding to a debate on one of the most important issues of our time. one-sixth of the economy. tens of millions, health and life affected without knowing exactly what will be debated on. perhaps nothing could sum up the process that's gotten here, that it's gotten here quite as well as this. the best that the majority leader has been able to cook up is a debate plan to do whatever it takes to pass something, anything to get the bill to a house and senate conference on health care. my colleagues, plain and simple, it is a ruse. the likeliest result of a conference between the house and senate's full repeal of the affordable care act or something very close to it. it will certainly mean drastic cuts in medicaid, huge ta

they want rid of those taxes. >> harris: here it is, chuck schumer, somebody who never stops. he's blasting the latest g.o.p. attempt saying it will leave millions of americans high and dry. >> we just heard from the nonpartisan congressional budget office that under such a plan as reported in the press, 16 million americans would lose their health insurance and millions more would pay a 20%, 20% increase in their premiums, at least 20%. >> harris: mike emanuel joins us live from capitol hill. >> it comes back to the next 24 hours or so on health care reform. he's pushing at least 50 of his colleagues to join him. >> they deserve better than obamacare and its skyrocketing costs and his plummeting choices. they deserve better than the regulations, crushing mandates, and collapsing markets obamacare has given them. >> the challenge is to her public and senators didn't want to take up the reform. if they stay at no and a third republican joins them, that proposal is dead. there's another one being called skinny repeal. the congressional budget office estimates the bill would resu

the last time chuck schumer did this, the president came out and mocked his emotion. he hasn't done that so far. in all objectivity, good move. the question is, how does this play, what does this mean? >> i think it's unclear and a little too soon to say. i've been very surprisedality the democrats inability to move forward, figure out their own agenda and figure out a way to capitalize on what has been several republican stumbles. i agree that i think part of the problem that obamacare has problems. the law itself does have fixes. a lot of democrats acknowledge that. the momentum is on the democrats side going forward in terms of preserving it and possibly coming up with something that could look like a replacement. i think the biggest thing is you'll see all this shift back in terms of how the republican caucus interacts with the white house. that is where i think you're go into see democrats take their queues. i think they're basically holding their cards close to the vest right now because the assumption is, you're seeing a group of senate republicans who not only

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 open, the key on that second boat is on the skinny repeal amendment. not final passage but just to incorporate that into the bill. if a pastor, it is a part of the bill and that will be key to republicans. if they are having trouble, it could leave that vote open for a while, maybe 45 minutes or an hour, to twist arms. again, the vice president of the united states, who serves as the president of the senate, one of his jobs is to break ties in the senate. he will be there to possibly cast

some people say they are, here is chuck schumer. >> we are not celebrating. we are relieved, millions of people who would have been so drastically heard by the proposals put forward would at least retain their healthcare, be able to deal with preexisting conditions, deal with opioids that medicaid pay 4. we are relieved not for ourselves, for the american people. heather: moment later this was happening, selfys, senator warren, with senator warren. is this a good thing or bad thing for americans? >> failure of the passage of the skinny repeal is more symbolic than anything. do i think we should be taking selfys? absolutely not. hillary clinton is asking what happened. you have a lot of patients, physicians, hospital administrators, and the healthcare system. the obstructionism is out of control right now. we need to go back to the drawing board. we need to continue with the same and focus on lowering health care costs and eliciting the administrative burden, trying to increase quality of care. >> thank you, appreciate it. todd: 26 minutes after the hour. whil

i know you will get back to us if you have a chance to talk to chuck schumer. also joining us -- we still have ned price with us and ambassador mcfaul is with us, as well. joining us is bill crystal, founder and editor at "the weekly standard." so it was brief, succinct, as kristen welker said. he talked about, you know, working on everything from middle east peace to reinvigorating america. but he said i did not collude with the russians and i don't know of anyone who did. was he effective? >> i guess so, in the very short term. but what i've learned watching these things over the years is, you know, the facts matter, and we don't know the facts. we don't know what he said in private. we don't know what other information people have. so -- >> what do you make -- >> he got good legal advice, and in terms of writing his very carefully worded statement. he was very precise and restricting really what he said to himself. he asserted that no one else -- he didn't believe anyone else colluded. but if you look at his actual statement, it's striking how much it's abou

. >> joining us now is senate democratic leader chuck schumer of new york. senator, thank you so much for joining us. you're huddling with democrats in barryville, virginia, trying to rebrand yourself going forward. i know you haven't been following along what's going on in politics, jared kushner and the president's tweets, so i won't ask you about that. let me ask you what you did say, when you lose an election with someone who has 40% popularity, you look at america and say, what did we do wrong? what do you think democrats did wrong in 2016? >> it's not just 2016, it's 2014 as well. the blame goes all around. and the bottom line is people didn't know what we stood for. they knew we were against donald trump in 2016, for instance, but they didn't know. my wages are going down, i'm worried about my pension, my costs are going up. i'm worried my kids won't have a future. so we democrats today, pelosi and i, going to elizabeth warren and mark warner, announced our better deal. a better deal simply put, it's a better deal for working people. higher wages, low

i'm struggling to take chuck schumer seriously. the healthcare debate is mired in permanent differences that can't be reconciled because republicans failed to come up with a plan. kennedy: even the plan they came up with they couldn't agree on. >> they are moving backwards and losing support. kennedy: they had something they all agreed on in 2015 and they can't agree to vote on that again. why is that? is it because they didn't agree to being fired? >> because it's crazy politicized. it has nothing to do with healthcare at this point. it has to do with the votes and mid-term elections. as far as chuck schumer goes bipartisanship means the left and the crazy insane left. he will not accept anything that this president does. it could be golf. he could literally an obamacare exactly and give it to him and he would say we can't accept that. kennedy: he said the republican plan is rotten to the core. but at it core is obamacare. but this is far from an ideal system that would actually fiction healthcare and understand in this country. >

chuck schumer sounds lame. they need to have more passion. host: here is what super tone has to say on twitter. philip in michigan, what do you think that democratic party stands for decca -- stands for. hillary isir reason not in office, she didn't feel the burn. if she had grabbed bernie sanders and made them vice president, it would've been a landslide. hillary.ity voted for she should be president right now. when is someone going to go ahead and petition to get rid of the electoral college? i think the democratic party there was majority, the sleeping giant. we are here, we are ready to jump up and get something but it has to be for something that is right, not just for a bunch of rich people to make more money. the first caller in the segment said the thing that could unite democrats is being a resistance party. telling people that they will resist president trump. do you think that is the right message? caller: actually know i don't. i believe democrats are pretty much the silent majority. election and my sisters like, i am voting for t

liz: chuck schumer now acknowledging that democrats have a big brand ima image problem. trying to argue they lost the last election because the democrats did not tell the working voter who the democrats stand for. polls show that most believe that democrats stand for just opposing trump. >> we'll raise people's wages. and create better paying jobs. we'll cut down on their every day expenses they have to pay. and we'll give them the tools they need to compete in the 20th century. liz: no details on how the delegates pl -- democrats plan to do that. they reject big tax, big government spending big government regulation, in 2010 through 2016. even chuck schumer said, a few years ago, obama should not have focused on big want spending on the stimulus plan. he should have focused on jobs and growth. and government data showing 863 thousand jobs have been added since president trump took office, u.s. labor market rebounds in june. let's go to west virginia coal miner who confronted hillary clinton about trying to get rid of coal jobs during the last elect, bo copley is joining

i want to thank chuck schumer and the democrats in the senate for their unity. i want to thank senator mccain for establishing a higher level ofti

we heard from chuck schumer. soo chuck schumer is trying to make it so that democrats can be part of the process and sort of maybe set the table for whatever happens next. they don't want to look like they're sobrietying. they know that's bad politics. there may be some people who are running for offices down the line who will use this moment to raise money and things like that, but for senate democrats they feel like maybe this is an opportunity to capitalize and start trying to move some of their own ytsds through. of course, none of that that's going to happen unless they can get republican leadership on board. and so far today we've heard nothing suggesting that mitch mcconnell wants to work with democrats. >> all right. kelly, garrett, thanks very much for your analysis as we try and make sense of this first 12 hours after it has all happened. kelly o'donnell at the white house, garrett headache at the capitol. all right. that's the latest from the capitol, but last night's historic developments are sending

because chuck schumer doesn't want us to pass this. chuck schumer wants this to fail. so no republican should be deceived when chuck schumer... chuck schumer made the argument, he called it a hoax. look, i'll note that chuck schumer and obama know a lot about health care hoaxes. obamacare was sold to the american people on a whole series of lies, if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. so what we need to focus on is how do we actually deliver results for the people hurting under obamacare. >> but this is senator chuck grassley. he's not first run for him. he knows this issue, and he's a republican. so he's not... >> well, but we need to focus on the actual facts. how does the consumer freedom amendment operate? it operates as follows: it's designed to be a compromise that can bring together conservatives and moderates, that can unify the conference some what it says is, you the consumer, you the patient, should have the freedom to choose the insurance you want. it shouldn't be the government ding tainting what i

the news about chuck schumer was extraordinary. finally coming to terms with the results of the november 2016 presidential election. congress and your party, you should be getting nervous because democrats are getting a clue. they might get a message. >> jason: i'm not too worried about it. if republicans put up a victory, some sort of victory on the board, then i think all will be fine because it's a more conservative country and i do think there's a reason why donald trump won and he's demonstrating that right now. >> eboni: to take that sports analogy further, it looks like a low-scoring game across the board. the sad thing is i think the american people deserve more in terms of health care, economic message, tax reform that many people are waiting on. i agree. i think it's the g.o.p., i don't know how much they're going to get done with health care but maybe tax reform or infrastructure or something to give people relief. that would be great. as for the democrats, little bit late to the party. >> jason: that's why i'm disappoin

chuck schumer saying, quote, it is a full hardy trade to exchange lower yums and copayments, in addition, preexisting conditions will almost certainly be left without access to affordable and quality health care, making it even worst than the house bill on

senate minority leader chuck schumer said it's encouraging that senator mcconnell today acknowledged that the issues with the exchanges are fixable and open the door to bipartisan solutions to improve our health care system. as we've said time and time again, democrats are eager to work with republicans to

uninsured people by 2026 and driver premiums as senate minority leader chuck schumer issued a statement saying democrats in the senate were eager to pass real decisions to lower premiums, stabilize the market and improve coverage for

and then there's chuck schumer. take a look. >> it's clear that president trump's trying the bully his own attorney general out of office. how can anyone draw a different conclusion? if president trump had serious criticisms of his attorney general, why not talk to him in person? why air his grievances so publicly? he wants him out. neil: all right. schumer voted against sessions and was quite cutting in his review of the senator when he was up for the attorney general post. having said that, you can see that this has become an affair that when it comes to someone picked and plucked from the well of the united states senate, they kind of look after their own. so there could be a boomerang effect here. maybe not. we'll see. blake burman live at the white house with all of these cross-currents. hey, blake. >> reporter: neil, politics is a strange thing at times when you hear chuck schumer come to the defense of the republican and stated attorney general. on this day the focus is renewed once again as president trump i

i the sun chuck schumer democrat senate, that's insurers. they say.'s make no mistake, by refusing these payments, president trump is sabotaging our healthcare system. is actively trying to make it collapse, taking out his political loss on the american people. that's not being presidential, that's small, it's vindictive, and it will hurt millions of americans he has sworn to help. in pennsylvania, north carolina, insurers have filed two separate sets of possible rates for 2018. one of the payments are made, what if they are not. of the payments are not made, premiums would be 20% higher. let's repeat that. if payments are not made and present trump ulcer on his vindictive idea of not making payments, premiums would be 20% higher for the people of north carolina and pennsylvania. so, if president trump does not guarantee these payments permanently, americans will have to pay a bump tax on their premiums next year. let me say that again. the president trump does not w guarantee these payments, americans will be paying a bump tax of 20% higher premiums.

chuck schumer says that is a relief to him, and house minority leader nancy pelosi says now congress will finally pivoted to the work to update and improve the affordable care act and to a lower american

mercedes, i want to talk about chuck schumer's comment. calling for democrats to even take a shot at hillary clinton for blaming russia and comey. whether the failed campaign trail or not, this does seem like a bit of a distracting message coming from the dems. the focus should be on how they plan to fix their party. >> no question. i think for chuck schumer, what he saw with hillary clinton that months after the election, blaming -- she had a laundry list of about 25 items that whether it be russia, comey, the list went on and on. i think for chuck sumer saying, we cannot keep looking at the past, we have to look forward. the biggest challenge for chuck schumer is that not only has a been a very stale message. stale leadership. what you're starting to see in american politics is the shift away from wellwood be the party, and the party elite and more into the individual really. that happened in this past election. if there's any improvement, bernie sanders rise in popularity. when you saw donald trump rise in popularity on the other side.

chuck schumer says this bill is rotten to its core. he said it is so bad and so toxic, wouldn't you want to cast a little sunlight on this legislation so people can see what you see, and if not then you are an empty, hypocritical coward. i'm going to go for the latter. >> mitch mcconnell said last week, i was at the white house when he came out last week, chuck schumer and every bit as can a man this thing to death. you can have dozens and dozens of amendments. i think you are right. they should call the democrats out as well as the republicans. they need to say, democrats like chuck schumer said they want to fix obamacare, they don't want this built but they want to make it better. call him out. every time when i was covering president obama they tried to make the smallest change to obamacare, no, no, no. it was like pulling a piece of string in the suit was going to come undone. no changes, even reasonable changes. >> are they going to get this thing repealed? dana made another bold production just now that it was going to happen. >>

this is the senate minority leader chuck schumer speaking now about obamacare. let's listen. >> how many more months will this go on? how many more months, when we could be sitting down and a bipartisan way with my good friend from arizona has recommended, and work together in the committee process? this morning i saw lamar alexander, the head of the health committee in the gym, we see each other just about every morning in the gym. i was wearing my syracuse t-shirt and he was wearing his tennessee volunteers t-shirt. i said to lamar, "if this skinny bill goes down, as it should, we will, and i spoke to patty murray, we will sit down and work in a bipartisan way to improve obamacare." we know obamacare needs some work, we don't deny that. let's do it in a bipartisan way. instead of passing this hot potato back and forth and not getting anything done. >> jon: that's chuck schumer live on the floor of the senate expressing some of the democrats view on the republican efforts to repeal and replace obamacare. let's talk about what's going on with a.b. stoddard and v

we heard chuck schumer saying now we will, do you believe him? >> i do. the republicans are not working with democrats and releasing these bills in the dark of night. when it came to what took place this week these votes were coming to the senate without having any idea what was in the bill, no idea what was happening with skinny replace until 10:00 pm last night. democrats not willing to work with republicans, republicans are coming at the last minute with these bills, democrats are not having time to review or put forth amendments and make substantive changes. a more transparent process, democrats would be much more able to work together with republicans, republicans are not allowing that. >> do you think they were willing to work with republicans, if there was something to read and go through? >> let's talk about what really happened. first democrats sit on their hands, now raising their hands to help. the normal washington two step which is why a lot of americans are down on the way washington is operating these days but the fact remains the only way

if you listen to chuck schumer, before he even knew what the planet said, he did not see it. most of the people in this room never saw it. he was saying everyone is going to die, death. that is the only thing they were

chuck schumer want the fda to crack down. today, we're out here with some big news about type 2 diabetes. you have type 2 diabetes, right? yes. so let me ask you this... how does diabetes affect your heart? it doesn't, does it? actually, it does. type 2 diabetes can make you twice as likely to die from a cardiovascular event, like a heart attack or stroke. and with heart disease, your risk is even higher. you didn't know that. no. yeah. but, wait, there's good news for adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease. jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill with a lifesaving cardiovascular benefit. jardiance is proven to both significantly reduce the chance of dying from a cardiovascular event in adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease and lower your a1c. jardiance can cause serious side effects including dehydration. this may cause you to feel dizzy, faint, or lightheaded, or weak upon standing. ketoacidosis is a serious side effect that may be fatal. symptoms include nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, tiredness,

senator chuck schumer is coming around being a buzz kill. he wrote i can't think of a single parent who thinks it's a good idea for their child to be snorting fill atlanta up their noses. this suspect product has no clear health value. he's just trying to push his brand of strawberry energy flavored powder. the party panel is back. dave, every time i hear chuck schumer running around decrying the next product as the next fight and the next battle in the drug war, i think a lot of it is overhypes nonsense. everyone knows it's a lot easier to drink the ingredients from red bull. >> this ridiculous and everybody in congress seems like they are snorting some type of chocolate. but chuck schumer -- people get rich off this regulatory state stuff. there is a reason he's the favorite senator of wall street and k street. he wants to regulate everything. the stereotype libertarians. they are giving people who want to hyper regulate. it's disgusting. he talks like he cares so much about your kids. he's getting rich. kennedy: it's like bernie sanders w

chuck schumer and senate and nancy pelosi in the house released their new slogan. the slogan is, drum roll, please, a better deal, better skills, better jobs, better wages. i saw sonline. sound look a papa john's commercial. better ingredients, better pizza. what do you make of the slogan. better deal. belter jo better jobs, better wages. >> the democratic party fought for a better future for every boat, fighting during the social security debate in the 30s. the medicare medicaid debate of the 60s. during the debate on affordable care act under president obama. always fighting for a better future for everyone. not just a few at the top. that's what senator schumer and, nancy pelosi and all democrats are talking about. what we stand for. we are fighting for you. we want to make sure that health care is right for all not a privilege for a few. we want to make sure you have a good job that pays a middle-class wage. dignity of work is about being able to retire with dignity. about being able to work a 40 hour week and go and watch your kids, at the, at the, at the scho

i want to thank chuck schumer and the democrats in the senate for their unity. i want to thank senator mccain for establishing a higher level of participation as to how we should proceed and to the senators who courageously, senatormy cullsky and senator collins and senator mccain, thank you for hearing the voices of the families. to the families and outside groups who weighed in on -- in our offices, in town halls, on the phone, in the mall outside the capitol, thank you for making your voices heard in such an important way. right now, we go forward recognizing the value of the affordable care act which last night was once again protected and we take great pride in that. but we also know that there are updates and improvements we can make. so we call upon the speaker to establish a process, we can go right to the committee hand -- and have the discussion on how we keep america healthy. we call on the president to release the funds for the cost-save regular duckses that are essential to us having the law be effective. and that -- those two things are very, very

kennedy: chuck schumer said his side of the aisle won't be participating in healthcare talks because they are so frustrated with the way it's all gone down. >> democrats are not going to participate in this one-sided and broken process. once the majority leader shows his hand, reveals what his bill will actually be, democrats will use the opportunity to try to amended the bill. kennedy: fine, fine, chuck. it's funny. just last week, the dyers open, we want to help and we'll do whatever we can. the on problem is the best can't work together. a new column in the "new york times" once it out there is a pretty big gap between democrats who trust the current leadership of chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and those who want to give the old guard the heave-ho. will they ever get their act together or is this their better deal? i think there were rifts and there were fights that were exposed during the primary process on the democratic side. they are so used to everyone being in lock step behind them they think if they said no, everything is fine, there is nothing to see, people would stop loo

so it's -- i mean, it's interesting that chuck schumer linked those two things. right? health care and then talking about jeff sessions and the treatment of sessions and how the president essentially is trashing this person who had been very loyal to him. >> whether youy glee or disagree with jeff sessions, clever messaging. republicans for three of the last election cycle, obamacare, worked to advantage. democrats winning the political argument so far this cycle. arg gumt about jeff sessions linking the republican party saying the president is trying to drag you into a mess. don't let it happen. >> and, you know, anthony scaramucci, incoming communications director, kind of already started, there a lot. a pretty good way to tap into trump's brain and understand what he's thinking so far, and told a group of us outside the white house just earlier this morning that he expects the tension or the situation with general sessions and the president to be resolved soon. nobody knows what that means. but the president's feeling is the cabinet member should have his back, and t

you don't just show a line and by the way these same establishment people like chuck schumer who famously said oh for every you know worker in pennsylvania we lose will get to moderate republicans in ohio or something like that these are the people who are so disconnected then that are now writing new york times op ed pieces today about how we need a fairer deal for the working class go look at chuck schumer's donor sheet and tell me that the donors he takes from and the money that the schumer's the palosi is and all of them take from tell me that they care about you getting a fair deal so the democratic party they have their head in the sand they're not they're not willing to said this they're willing they would rather lose to a cause a fascist than allow a progressive to lead the country. yeah i want to talk a little about the consolidation of the media which you talk about in chapter of your book. something like ninety percent of everything on t.v. and radio is now owned by about five corporations a lot of that thanks to the telecommunications act of one thousand nine hundred six so ho

kennedy: chuck schumer said his side of the aisle won't be participating in healthcare talks because they are so frustrated with the way it's all gone down. >> democrats are not going to participate in this one-sided and broken process. once the majority leader shows his hand, reveals what his bill will actually be, democrats will use the opportunity to try to amended the bill. kennedy: fine, fine, chuck. it's funny. just last week, the dyers open, we want to help and we'll do whatever we can. the on problem is the best can't work together. a new column in the "new york times" once it out there is a pretty big gap between democrats who trust the current leadership of chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and those who want to give the old guard the heave-ho. will they ever get their act together or is this their better deal? i think there were rifts and there were fights that were exposed during the primary process on the democratic side. they are so used to everyone being in lock step behind them they think if they said no, everything is fine, there is nothing to see, people would stop loo

and that was among, chuck schumer was among those who alluded to that. and i want to make but very important point about what happened here tonight. this was a bill that senate republicans, almost all senate republicans never wanted to see become law. it was simply a vehicle to get to the next stage of the legislative process where members of the other house, the house of representatives would come together with members of the senate and come up with some sort of a compromise bill that both sides could pass. but john mccain in particular was so concerned that the house might just pick up the bill and pass it, and he did not want to see it become law, that he voted it down tonight. he essentially didn't trust speaker paul ryan to deliver on that promise to get the bill to the conference. the end result was that the bill did not pass. >> the failure of health care, i think a lot of people thought was coming, john mccain, dashed back risking his life to get to capitol hill. we go to our panel now. john, it did seem like after three days of debate, amongst t

chuck schumer showed his hand over the weekend. the senate minority leader, the top democrat on the hill said we didn't lose 2016 because of russia or collusion, we lost because of the message. nobody's talking about that. two days later, they're saying they're admitting is not russia, but it's still all about russia. they won't give up because a lot of republicans on the hill don't like donald trump. can lindsay graham just shut up and let the investigation go? the first thing he does, he's the first one in all the time. he tweeted against the set well >> harris: i have to jump in with the g.o.p. against president trump because we saw the establishment and the struggles early on in the campaign. >> eric: this is the swarm, i wrote about it in the book. i republicans calling me about why did you put me in the book? because you're just like them, you're part of the problem. can you imagine that we are in our fifth investigation of the russian collusion and we have not found one street of evidence and republicans are still playing ba

we have chuck schumer coming out right now to the mike. stand by. >> that's not why i called you here today. this is not an amtrak discussion, we'll have those. first, last night was an amazing moment and the credit goes to a lot of people but at the top of the list are the three who showed amazing courage to resist the pressure and do what's good for the country. john mccain at the top of the list. he and i have been friends for a very long time, ever since the gang of eight, which we put together. and i have not seen a senator who speaks truth to power as strongly as well and as frequently as john mccain. the very same courage he showed as a naval aviator in vietnam he showed last night. and has shown time and time again. he's just a wonderful man. i treasure his friendship and just the fact of knowing him. i've known a few great men in the senate i put ted kennedy in that category and danny inouye and john mccain in the category too. not to be forgotten of equal praise are susan collins and lisa murkowski. they were amazing. and women a

democratic senator chuck schumer called this a solemn moment....and a chance to start over.sen. chuck schumer/r-new york"we will do a better job for our country, a better job for this body, a better job for ourselves."the skinny repeal bill would have erased some parts of the affordable care act's mandates and temporarily repealed the medical device tax.on thursday night, the congressional budget office issued a report saying had the bill passed, 16 million more people would have lost medical covered by 2026.i'm john lorinc reporting. (darya) and about an hour after the senate voted against the repeal of the affordable care act president trump responded on twitter saying quote: "3 republicans and 48 democrats let the american people down. as i said from the beginning, let obamacare implode." (darya) and we first told you about the obamacare repeal failing through our mobile app. we sent a push alert at 10:45 last night. make sure you download the kron-four news app to always get the latest breaking news. it's free for iphone and devices. ( mark ) happening today... one of the tw

chuck schumer is crisscrossing the country deck going the issue of the opioid crisis. this bill allocates $55 billion over the next few years. that is 40 times what the obama administration was willing to commit to this crisis. it's five times what the federal government provides for breast cancer turning under the national cancer institute. it's $670 for every opioid addict in the country. yet chuck schumer is still saying, he said it yesterday again and again, oh, this senate bill abandons opioid addicts and their families. nonsense. lou: it's not a newsflash to millions of conservatives and independent watching this broadcast that chuck schumer is lying through his teeth about public policy. >> the lies are driving the process because too many members of the senate cower against these lies instead of correcting them. lou: there are spineless republicans against leaders who are vapid and inseason sheer. this bill mitch mcconnell produced is not a serious effort. >> it does repeal the employer mandate. and that's critical. lou: not the taxes. it doesn't resolve medica

chuck schumer put his day in "the new york times" op-ed, they lost because they failed to articulate an economic message that the middle class cared about. to underscore that point, he and nancy pelosi have their noses and ventured out into rural clark county virginia today, place they'd probably never been, but a place that voted for trump by almost 20 points in november. while there, they build a plan they call a better deal. it's the soft economic populism trump ran on in the fall, pretty successfully. lowering prescription drug prices, more attention to blue-collar jobs, and infrastructure plan for rural america. interestingly, there is the single word about global warming, transgender bathrooms, bombing moscow. it doesn't look very crazy, and it might work if democrats meant it. but do they? we can check that. we have the tape. here's what leading democrats have a talk about in public over the past 24 hours. >> the president is clearly worried that bob mueller is going to be looking into allegations that the russians may have laundered money to the trump organization. >> there's

anything republicans do, better than the bill with chuck schumer. for sure. i took mcconnell's comments to mean republicans can't just let obamacare collapse, which is a line they been saying for years and blamed democrats could republicans have been talking for six months now. they can't just lame democrat if premiums go up double digits next year or there's more problems. i think the sign to other republicans, let's get on board, we've been promising folks for seven years we will repeal this law. there is only 14 days left. >> you brought up senator cruz. what do you think is going to be front and center? the lawmakers coming together for two separate amendments for similar roles. also, will we be hearing from the cbo when it comes to those amendment another's this week? >> a lot to take into consideration. >> our goal for this week is to figure out the policies they get 50 votes together and has a proposal from ted cruz that you mention. other proposals come and talk about adding $45 billion in overt funding to get moderates on board. do i go after the mod