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FBI Director nominee Christopher Wray listens while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate
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FBI Nominee Rejects Trump Claim on Russia Probe
Trump Says He’ll be ‘Angry’ if Senate Health Care Bill Flops
By ALAN FRAM islation to a closed-door meeting oppose the motion and moder- said it was time for action by con-
Associated Press of GOP senators. The new legisla- ate Republican Susan Collins of gressional Republicans who cast
WASHINGTON (AP) — President tion would keep most of the initial Maine seemed all but sure to do scores of votes “that didn’t mean
Donald Trump said Wednesday Medicaid cuts and makes other the same — leaving McConnell anything” to repeal the 2010 law
he will be “very angry” if the Sen- changes aimed at nailing down with zero margin for error to sus- while Obama was still president.
ate fails to pass a revamped Re- support, but internal GOP disputes tain his party’s goal of toppling “Well, I don’t even want to talk
publican health care bill and said lingered that were threatening to President Barack Obama’s health about it because I think it would
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sink it. With all Democrats set to care law. Several other GOP sen- be very bad,” he said when net-
must “pull it off,” intensifying pres- vote no, McConnell was moving ators were holdouts as well, leav- work founder Pat Robertson asked
sure on party leaders laboring toward a do-or-die roll call next ing McConnell and his lieutenants what would happen if the effort
to win over unhappy GOP sena- week on beginning debate, a just days to win them over or face fails. “I will be very angry about
tors and preserve the teetering motion that will require backing a major defeat. In a White House it and a lot of people will be very
measure. Trump’s remarks came from 50 of the 52 GOP senators. interview conducted Wednesday upset.”
a day before McConnell, R-Ky., Conservative Sen. Rand Paul, for the Christian Broadcasting Continued on Page 4
planned to release his revised leg- R-Ky., said Wednesday he would Network’s “The 700 Club,” Trump