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Conservatives continued to debate the implications of Donald Trump Jr.s meeting with a Russian lawyer during the campaign as new details about other attendees emerged on Friday. On Fox News, Shepard Smith and Chris Wallace met those revelations with incredulity.

On The Fox News Specialists, however, Eric Bolling insisted that the ties of one of the revealed attendees, Rinat Akhmetshin, to the firm behind the anti-Trump dossier compiled by Christopher Steele suggest that the Russians might have been colluding with Hillary Clinton to get information on Donald Trump.

At the Resurgent, Erick Erickson wrote that the Trump Jr. meeting had taken on the appearance of a setup:

Erickson explained that the slow revelation of details about the meeting, which presumably would have been useful to Clinton before the election if it was a setup, may have been intended to cover the Democrats tracks. If you had helped stage the meeting and didnt want it to look like a set up, wouldnt you let the reporters run their natural course instead of throwing it all at them? he asked. But I certainly think we need to ask if the Russians were playing both sides and no one wants to ask that, if only because many of those in the position to ask it favored the losing side.

Conservatives dug more deeply into the Senates latest version of their health care bill on Friday. National Review published an editorial calling the bill a step in the right direction:

National Review editor Rich Lowry lauded Ted Cruzs work on the bill in a separate post. If this bill goes down, Republicans arent going to come back at it with a more free-market approachin fact the opposite, he wrote. This is why its been so important that Cruz has stayed at the table, worked at persuading his colleagues, and moved a flawed bill to the right. His approach is a stark contrast to that of Rand Paul, who is simply opposed to anything proposed by leadership and anything short of his vision of purity.

At the Federalist, John Daniel Davidson praised the Cruz amendment, which allows the sale of non-Obamacare compliant insurance plans. This would almost certainly be an improvement over Obamacare because it would allow room for an actual insurance market, for Americans who are actually insurable, he wrote. For those who arent, there would be the exchanges, which would function like high-risk pools. One of the great follies of Obamacare is that it didnt allow insurance to function as insurance anymore. If you force insurance companies to cover things that have already happened, thats not insurance; its a junky, yet expensive, version of health care as a public utility.

On Fox Business, conservative commentator and Trump supporter Harlan Hill said that Republicans not on the same team as Trump should fear the consequences of not fulfilling promises to repeal and replace Obamacare.

If they can not muster the support to pass a repeal and replacement of Obamacare that theyve been promising their constituents for years now, then were going to fire them, he said. Its that clear and it has to be done this year. No excuses. No more recesses.

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