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Both Congress and the White House are figuratively exploding today, with unprecedented public intra-party food fights among Republicans that now seem to be breaking out in virtually all directions -- inside the U.S. Senate as they try to pass a repeal to the Affordable Care Act, inside the White House as officials face down bi-partisan outrage over Trump's surprise military transgender ban, and the possibility that he may fire his Attorney General and appoint a replacement without Senate confirmation during the upcoming recess. Then there's the food fight between Executive Branch agencies like the Interior Department and members of the Senate, with the agency's Secretary threatening U.S. Senators on behalf of the President for not voting as the White House wishes on health care reform. We cover all of that -- including quite a bit of backstory from over the past 24 hours to explain a lot of the above -- on today's show. Then we're joined by former Acting Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Don Marron, now a Senior Fellow with the Urban Institute, to discuss the recent attacks on the office responsible for scoring legislation like health care reform. Such scores by the CBO help to let both Congress and the American public know how much such schemes will cost, in both dollars and Americans losing access to health care. Marron, who also served as Chief Economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers under George W. Bush, says the attempt by the Congressional Freedom Caucus to gut the CBO and have their work replaced by outside private research institutions is 'a terrible idea'. He explains why, and what the CBO actually does for Congress and the American people. Finally, as today's show closes, the U.S. Senate adopts a new sanctions package against Russia, Iran and North Korea, which now heads to the White House for the President's signature...or veto. And Kris Kobach, the GOP 'voter fraud' fraudster heading up Trump's so-called 'Election Integrity Commission' has court sanctions upheld against him, and receives another smack-down from another federal judge for having 'demonstrat[ed] a pattern' of 'deceptive conduct' and 'patently misleading representations' in the ACLU's lawsuit against his proof-of-citizenship voter registration restrictions as Kansas Sec. of State...