president trump targets obamacare, including the money that helps low income americans get coverage. >> one by one it's going to come down and we're going to have great health care in our country. plus, a big threat but stopping short of ripping up iran nuclear deal. >> our participation can be canceled by me as president at any time. >> and what chaos? the chief of staff on leaks, frustrations and presidential tweets. >> that was not sent into -- in to control him.

>> "inside politics," the biggest stories source the by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics," i'm john king. to our viewers around the world, thank you. frustrated his party unable to repeal and replace obamacare, prrlt uses executive power to dismantle key parts of the law. they caused turmoil in the insurance markets and some say a giant shift in politics. >> which the gop will try to blame the affordable care act but they have brazenly, cruelly acted to sabotage the law and the health care it provides. it's a matter of life and death. >> plus, the president angers key european ally by throatening to rip up the iran nuclear deal if congress can't come up with more sanctions or restrictions. >> we'll see what they come back with. they may come back with something that's very

satisfactory to me. if they don't within a very short period of time, i'll terminate the deal. >> and just what does it tell us when the white house chief of staff feels compelled to hold a rare public briefing to refute the latest stories, republican in-fighting and west wing chaos? >> i'm not quitting today. i don't believe, and i just talked to the president, i don't believe i'm being fired today. and i am not so frustrated in this job that i'm thinking of leaving. unless things change, i'm not quitting, i'm not getting fired and i don't think he'll fire anyone tomorrow. >> busy hour ahead with us to share the reporting and insights, cnn's aeb philly, michael bender, and aliana. when the trump administration

served notice it would no longer pay billions in subsidies to insurance companies. >> that money is going to insurance companies to lift up their stock price. that's not what i'm about. take a look at who those insurance companies support. i guarantee you one thing, it's not donald trump. >> the subsidies help individuals who buy their insurance through the obamacare exchanges and who earn less than $30,000 a year or family of four earning less than $61,000 a year. the law still generally protects them but insurers are likely to raise premiums to make up the lost money. those affected would be eligible for bigger health care tax subsidies. 18 states are already suing and the marketplace impact will take time to sort out. many republicans think the political impact is clear and immediate. >> president trump is the president. he's a republican. and we control the congress. so, we own the system now. so, we are going to have to

figure out a way to stabilize this situation. you know, barack obama is no longer in the equation, so this is on us. >> this is on us. charlie dent, moderate republican, who's leaving congress, often a creditic of president trump. let's get into it. if you don't like something, you blame -- if you don't like the parking at the hospital, you blame obamacare, if you don't like the traffic would it to the hospital, you blame obamacare. are those days over? if you have a problem with american health care system, do you blame trump and sflenz. >> i'm not sure yet. i think a lot of republicans believe what charlie dent said, come 2018, just a few months away, they'll have to answer for the problems in the marketplace. the problems next year are going to actually be pretty severe in addition to the pre-existing issues with the affordable care act. the effect of all this uncertainty is going to be felt

by consumers. some of it is wishful thinking. the president doesn't want to be blamed for anything initiated under his predecessor but continues to exist through his tenure. that's not true. just because he says it doesn't make it true. i think some who are his core base voters, they'll listen to him when he says, it's not my fault, it's obama's fault. at the end of the day, is he president. republicans running in competitive districts are going to have to answer for this. i'm not sure exactly how much, though, because i really do think you have this dynamic where these trump voters will listen to the president when he says, it's not our fault. >> if you look at "the new york times," carolyn says 52% they think premiums will go up. anthony in virginia says 34% increase. pennsylvania, a 36% increase in premium. associated press analyses says a lot who will be affected will trump voters. i spoke at the value voters conference and conceded he's

having to do this by executive order because he and his party failed. their mission was repeal and replace. big, sweeping legislation, takes obamacare off the books, comes in with an alternative plan. here's how the president explains, i couldn't do that so we're do it this way. >> we're working very hard. hopefully congress will come through. you saw what we did yesterday with respect to health care. it's step by step by step. we're taking a little different route than we had hoped because getting congress, they forgot what their mrejs were. so, we're going a little different route. but you know what, in the end it's going to be just as effective. maybe it will even be better. >> maybe it will even be better, he says. that's a promise he might regret making. >> i think congress clearly -- republicans in congress wanted to press pause on the health care debate and table it. then the president stepped in and tried to do what congress couldn't do and do something to

dismantle obamacare. the sure of the law, and we have point this out, you either have to prop it up, take actions to prop it up or take actions to dismantle it. the question is, analysts are not wrong when they say the actions a president are taking are destabilizing the health care markets. the question is, do republicans in congress move to step in and take action on it, which the president wanted them to do or do they just let this stand. does health care come back on the table or do they stick with taxes? >> health care comes back oot table when they have tax cuts to deal with. we'll get to congress, proving they can do more than one thing at a time. to that point, dan balls calls is cattle prodding. he is disruptive. he's doing what he can to dismantle pieces of the law. the president thinks in the end this might not only get republicans to act but bring grand compromise with the democrats. >> if the democrats were smart,

what they do is come and negotiate something where people could really get the kind of health care they deserve. what would be nice if the democratic leaders could come over to the white house, will negotiate some deal that's good for everyone. that's what i'd like. but they're always a bloc vote against everything. they're like obstructionists. if they came over, maybe we could make a deal. the democrats should come to me, i would even go to them, because i'm only interested in one thing. getting great health care. >> is that even a remote possibility? >> i mean, he's addition he's ignoring the fact that republicans control congress. if there's a bipartisan deal that's cut on health care, such an intractable issue like health care among some members to see a significant amount of republicans supporting that bipartisan deal, particularly in the house, that's going to be

enormously difficult. because what democrats want in any sort of bipartisan deal is to essentially strengthen obamacare. that is not what republicans want. particularly republicans in the house. there is a bipartisan effort happening right now between lamar alexander and pattie murray that is probably the one avenue to actually get something through on a bipartisan basis. it was a narrow deal that they're looking at, dealing with these -- >> might get through the senate but can you get it through the house? >> i'm not convinced can you get that through the senate. a lot of republicans are skeptical in this the senate. i don't think there's a chance of getting this through in the house. what the president did by executive action is very risky because it could create disparity within the market, affect people, particularly lower income people, far more than people who are not low income. and as a result, congress could be left with dealing with something they have not been able to resolve for years.

>> you have to admire the on the michl fr optimism from the president. is it real? it's intellectually inconsistent to say in 2018 we're coming back to replace and repeal, this graham/cassidy, but, come on in, democrats, let's cut a deal. is it a shell game? is it fake? >> i do think they have a little time here. a lot of these insurance companies that are depending on these payments are saying right now that they more or less priced this into their -- into the market. there's only a few months left in their calendar year. it's unlikely anyone will -- there's going to be big, massive disruptions and a lot of companies -- several states have already started improving increases based on the uncertainty that trump has been projecting for most of this year. my colleague, anna matthews reported rates have already gone up as much as 25% in virginia, mississippi, and kentucky. so, whether or not it's real, i

think the president will get points for talking about bipartisanship here. he will get points for using the cattle prod. i think from both sides of the aisle, that plays well. but at some point here, you know, voters are going to start feeling this on their pocketbook and ask the question -- the exact question you are. >> as the year winds down and those bills wind down, open enrollment period. obamacare created a lot of disruption in the marketplace. we'll see what happens next. up next, inside the iran nuclear deal. putting pressure on congress and making key u.s. allies in europe angry. first, "saturday night live's" verse of the man in the west wing and the so-called war on christmas. >> i need to you check the cups, okay. do they say happy holidays or do they say merry christmas? >> sir, it's october. they wouldn't have christmas themed cups yet. >> they would if they respect the cups. they would say merry christmas

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it was a terrible agreement. it shouldn't have been signed. it shouldn't have been negotiated the way it was negotiated. >> the iran deal, which may be the single worst deal i have ever seen drawn by anybody. >> frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the united states. >> on friday the president finally acted on his displeasure. here was his choice. decertify, terminate. twice the president certified, this time he said no way. he could have terminated but he decided to decertify. that kicks this to congress which now has 60 days. the president wants congress to look at nuclear deal. he wants the united states now through the congress to consider

more sanctions or restrictions. he doesn't like or want stronger language about uranium. outside the deal, not put in it in purpose because they couldn't make agreement on the obama administration. and about iran's alleged -- not alleged, terror connections around the world with hamas, hezbollah and others. the president says, congress, send me legislations that toughens the approach to iran. if couldn't doesn't do that, the president says he then has power to walk away. critics say iran is likely in compliance with the deal. the president says this is not deal true. >> by his own terms the iran deal was supposed to contribute to regional, international piece and security. yet while the united states adheres to our commitment under the deal, the iranian regime continues to feel conflict,

terror and turmoil throughout the middle east and beyond. importantly, iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal. >> is it possible congress can handle this cleanly? cleanly? and send him something? or are we going to have in 60 days the president with another decision about whether to certify, as his secretary of state has recommended, as his secretary of state has recommended and walk away? >> its going to be difficult to get anything through congress. is it possible? anything is possible. you need at least eight democrats on board, that's if you get all republicans in the senate conference aligned. you have an effort between senator bob corker, senator tom cotton to come to a consensus. they probably do represent a good sizeable chunk of the senate republican conference but then you do have people like

senator rand paul who's not in that camp so you may lose votes on that part of the republican conference. then what happens on the democratic side -- we're not even talking about the house and they have their own internal issues, getting that through will be very difficult. it will require a lot of presidential leadership. the president will have to give cover to his own party. it's going to be hard, john. then what does the president do if congress fails to stay in the deal or not? >> fail or succeed, just the fact they're doing this. iranians say you can't unilateral -- this was an international agreement. you can't decide to change terms to it. it's european allies agreeing with that point. joint statement, we encourage the u.s. administration and congress to consider the implications to the security of the united states and allies before taking any steps that might undermine the jcpoa, such as reimposing sanctions on iran lifted under the agreement. that's what the president is asking for. the president wants more power

to sanction iran. this part is a debate since the beginning, iran support of hezbollah, hamas, other terror groups, iran destabilization in syria, iraq and elsewhere. obama saying we can't get an agreement on that, we'll set that over here and sanction the nuclear program. >> they can do some sanctions at the nonnuclear program, funding of terrorist activity and other things. i think the issue right now with trump and congress is that i think congress can use this as an opportunity to really step in and manage trump on the iran deal essentially. i think that's how this compromise decision was struck up. he didn't decertify the jcpoa like he wanted to on friday. he said, hey, congress, you can improve upon it. if you improve upon it sufficiently to my liking, they won't pull out.

i think they might be able to do that. if they don't, then they have much bigger problems. i think it gives them an opportunity to step in and resolve that problem and give trump a little bit of a bone on an issue he promised on the campaign trail and he has truly -- its important to say, he has not ended the iran deal. he didn't break it up. he promised to do that and that's because no one in the executive branch right now who believes that iran is actually defying the iran deal and not meeting their obligation. >> it is a bit of a punt. he promised to rip it up. chuck schumer saying this is the potu schs m.o. you had fabulous reporting on this in the sense we know secretary mattis had to answer a question on capitol hill. secretary tillerson said stay in the deal. i don't like iran. i have issues with iran but

their living within the support of the deal. nikki haley said, president, if you're going to do this, let me help you. >> the president made it very clear in july he did not want to recertify this and secretary mattis and tillerson told him, look, you have not made a public case for dessert fiction. that's very important if you want to decertify. it was after that ambassador nikki haley came and said, i'll make the public case if you want to decertify. what's interesting is so many of the president's aides and advisers are trying to check his impulses and keep him under control. this is an adviser in haley that said, let me channel your impulse and help do what you want to try to do, lay the groundwork. i see shaping up in congress, the question to me is does this become another health care fiasco where majority of republicans have campaigned on undoing the deal, all the presidential candidates said,

we'll tear it up, i think jeb bush may have been the lone exception. i think the question is, for republican voters, will congress follow through. what happens if they don't? >> a key player happens to be bob corker, who has been channelling his impulses, to borrow a term, and having a very public fight with the president, calling the white house an adult day care, saying he's worried the president is leading the country into world war iii. here's what bob corker quoted in "the washington post" who the president has undermined by tweeting others, you cannot publicly cast rate your own secretary of state without giving yourself the binary choice. the tweets, yes, very irresponsible, but the castration of tillerson i'm most exercised about. on the issue of the iran deal, maybe the two can do business, even though they're at odds with each other. senator corker not quieting down.

still airing his grievances with the president saying, you don't know how to do your job. >> on one hand, trump wants to beat members of congress over the head but on the other hand wants them to take on the iran deal, the affordable care act, immigration with daca and i think he have some interest in tax reform. to say nothing of their actual -- the responsibilities they have to do to fund the government through addition past the end of the year. it's hard to see where he gets any deals made but on the other hand he will continue to get points. it's easier to disrupt, easier to break things but now we'll see how he's able to actually build support. >> john, all that, and there are fewer than 30 legislative days left in the congressional calendar this year. >> it's an excellent point to make. in washington that's how they dictate their lives. 38 days left.

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john yell is a calm, quiet man in washington's least calm, quiet place, the white house. he went very public this past week for a reason. not only were several media reports suggesting more turmoil and tension at the highest levels there were also calls from allies saying the president seemed especially.

>> although i read it all the time pretty consistently, i'm not quitting today. i don't believe -- i just talked to the president, i don't think i'm being fired today. i'm not so frustrated in this job i'm not leaving. >> not to worry is the message kelly hoped to send right there. but there is turmoil in the white house and across the republican party. calm is not on the horizon. the president meets with mitch mcconnell monday on efforts to pass tax cuts and health care hang in the balance. a time for republicans to stick together, right? >> there's a time and season for everything. right now it's a season of war against a gop establishment. >> that's bright part's steve bannon, the president's wing man and no fan of leader mcconnell. >> like before the ides of march, right? the only question is, and this

is just the analogy, metaphor, they're just looking to see who is your brutus to julius caesar. yeah, the donor are not happy. they all left you. we cut your oxygen off, mitch. >> to eliana. >> just a metaphor. >> he wanted to make clear, this is just a metaphor but he means it. he's stirring up this primary challenges, disaffection with primary groups but he's stirring it up with leader mcconnell at a time we were just talking about, the president just dumped obamacare decisions on their lap again. trying to deal with tax reform, a budget, immigration. mcconnell has 52-48, he didn't repeal and replace obamacare. it's his responsibility. but what does this do to the town at a time the republicans addition don't they need to show they've done something this year? >> in many ways the power of banen and breitbart is

overstated. it's not nothing. i do think bannon and breitbart have given aen infrastructure to something that's aporphus and formless before that. and steve bannon can go around the country and say to proceed specktive candidates, not only is there a media outlet that will give you attention and fuel your campaign, but he's also got money in the form of mega donors, that does compel people to launch campaigns and that can be a problem for the republican establishment in 2018. >> in a lot of ways, bannon is influential, has the mega phone and now has the potentially the funding as well to help these candidates. unlike in alabama when there was an open seat, running against incumbents in the senate republican primaries is much more challenging because they -- those republican incumbents themselves are better funded, typically better organized, they will have money from the outside.

certainly there's some big donors not giving as much money to the committee because they're frustrated at the failure of congress so far, but they still have significant money. that being said, though, because of these efforts, there is going to have to be more attention paid to the primaries they wanted to ignore and less attention, presumably, fewer resources spent in the states that democrats hold, particularly the five red states, where democratic senators are incumbents. republicans want to win those seats. the question is, what ultimate impact this may have on republican chances of holding majority of democrats' chances of winning majority. >> it is proof that donald trump is president of the united states. he rode this disruption, he rode this dissatisfaction. it's not over. now the question is whether right now the president seems isolated, voters don't blame him. will they eventually? we don't know. listen to steve bannon's language, he's not saying, act faster on legislation. he's saying, this is war. >> this is not my war.

this is our war. y'all didn't start it. the establishment started it. but i will tell you one thing, you all are going to finish it. they fear you because they understand you've had a belly full of it and you're taking your country back. >> now, the proof, as eliana points out will be in the spring into the fall? do they knock off any republican incumbents? do they prove they can put results where their talk of war is? the president will sit down with majority leader tomorrow. we know they have an interesting relationship to begin with. at a time when the president's wing man is out there, you're part of a reporting team that says the president has actually spoken to steve bannon of late. i've been saying, the president could stop this if he wanted to. he would just have to publicly say, steef bannon, stop. he hasn't done that.

>> no. bannon they're using trump's language of, we didn't start it, you started it, we'll finish it. this is what trump identifies with. and he's getting encouragement from the president. he's getting encouragement for this type of talk because the president hears, support trump. that's what he hears out of this. what i don't think they're talking about is that the vast majority of senators that bannon is talking about taking on are reliable votes for trump. we talk about the dysfunction of congress and the senate can't get anything done. that's because -- of the map, it's so tight that a few opposition votes make every -- you know, sort of magnifies that -- those disagreements. bannon is not talking about taking out a few no votes. he's talking about going after everyone. >> every incumbent. i wish i could be at the

mcconnell meeting tomorrow, fly on the wall, serve the coffee, whatever just to watch that one play out. as this plays out at the same time we started by showing john kelly in the briefing room. he doesn't like to do media. he came into the briefing room to try to say, listen, people, yeah, sure, there's frustration and turmoil, suggesting reporters need better sources, it's not as blown up, but he talks about the president's tweets and since john kelly came on board, they have not stopped. john kelly says, not my job. >> i was not sent in to -- brought in to control him. you should not measure my effectiveness as chief of staff by what you think i should be doing. >> don't tell me addition don't define my job for me. thank you very much. >> i thought that was telling. a lot of the stories he was responding to were not just about the chaos more broadly but the chaos within the president's

mind, the anger, the frustration, the restlessness of the president himself. that's one thing john kelly did not refute. he did not go out there and say, you know, the president is really happy, he's focused, things are going really well with him. he's satisfied. in fact, he said the opposite. what he was talking about was, hey, i'm not responsible for that. i can't control that. it is what it is. that's not what i'm expending my energy on. i think that says a lot about what's really going on here. it may very well be true. he can't control the president but that's the dynamic that people like bob corker are talking about. people like trump's friend, who -- tom barrack, who are coming out and saying, mr. president, have you to rein it in. that's what -- you know, that's what people are talking about. >> we are a week short of nine months in the white house. anybody at this table who things the president is about to rein it in? have we learned nothing? have we learned nothing in nine months? up next on that same subject, a

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how much to spend. we cannot keep people marks the military and first responders who have been amazing under the most difficult circumstances in puerto rico forever. the president himself has cleaned that up after saying, we'll be there with you. the fema spokesperson had to rush out. it's true, when you're fema, as general kelly said, the second you get there, you're trying get out. meaning, accomplish your mission and leave. but it's the president's tone more than anything. why? >> tweets have oftentimes been the story of this administration -- >> it's what he says. people say, don't focus on the tweets but it's the inner most what he thinks. >> it's actually what he said publicly. i mean, his tone even some of the comments he made in puerto rico itself, almost dismissing the impact suggesting it's not as bad as katrina, saying, oh,

the death count isn't really that bad compared to katrina. his tone has been -- >> it's a good standard by which to measure. >> exactly. >> is it just that he was criticized by the san juan mayor? when he's criticized, he has to push back? >> not only by the mayor. i think the idea that he might not get an a-plus for the puerto rico recovery is galling to him. he doesn't like that at all. the problem with the way he's talked about puerto rico is it's all about him. it's all about whether he gets the accolades. everyone says he did a really good job and his people do a really good job. and i think maybe the problem is that he had two hurricanes before that that did go relatively smoothly. where he was praised. he had republican governors who were right there alongside him. he had strong, local and state partners. this time he doesn't have that. it doesn't seem anyone has been able to get through to him that at moments like this, you have to actually -- the message has to be, we're focused.

we're not going to say it's done until it's done. there are no pats on the back until people are up on their feet again. he hasn't gotten that message. frankly, he's fixated on the criticism and it's getting really deep under his skin. >> you can say, i know its not perfect but we're going to keep at it. people give you the grace but you mentioned the governor of puerto rico has been largely supportive of the president saying, the president take its my calls. he's been largely supportive. after the tweets saying, we might not be here forever. he felt come telled to tweet out, our fellow citizens are receiving the help they would need. essentially saying, if you liv on the main land thinking where you don't live where your brothers and fellow americans live, that was amazing. >> he's responding to the criticism also. what we see from this administration, he wants to find quick wins. everything needs to be in the moment and being able to chalk up a victory as soon as possible. and these things, to say nothing

of congress, disaster recovery is a year's long process. talk to the people in florida who went through this. katrina, i think fema was there for five years. and this is a point that, you know, as the white house is trying to clean this up doesn't make. yes, john kelly says the goal is to be out of here as soon as we can. this is not the kind of situation where you're going to have this kind of turn-around. frankly, i think the president had a point early on that disaster recovery in puerto rico is hard it's harder to get these resources to an island to more than florida or texas. he had a case to make where there were real challenges to deal with. instead, devolves into these twitter fights which just raise questions about his motivation. >> that he's not getting any. quinnipiac poll, 55% says he's

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we'll ask our great reporters to help you get ahead of the political news. abby fill snipz. >> source close to the white house tell me the president's decision to end these health care subsidies to these insurers came down to a desire to get republicans and democrats back to the table on health care. they want to revisit this hopefully at the after tax reform. they're coming under a lot of pressure. insurers, consumer groups, even the u.s. chamber of commerce offered a letter to congress, urging the president to sign a bill. it's not clear whether he would do that. he doesn't want to stabilize a

bill but he won't say what he wants in exchange. that's the key question. if he agrees to sign such a bill, he might be giving up that leverage. he might be giving up what he needs in order to get republicans and democrats to the table. it's not clear the white house is all that interested in funding the subsidies and some of these other stabilization methods or if what they really want is to force everybody to do something before the insurance marketplace goes off the a cliff. >> i'm not sure anyone can show me a day on the calendar after tax reform. >> more on steve bannon and trump relationship. "the washington post" reported on friday, i understand the president and former chief strategist have been in contact at least three times in the past week. if this trend continues, we'll see some fallout. these two guys feed off each other's combustible energy and that will leave john kelly to pick up the pieces.

>> you're making the case steef bannon has more influence outside the white house than inside the white house. >> there's a small contingent that want to see nancy pelosi gone as democratic leader. that got a boost earlier this month with linda sanchez, who said it's time for her and her top lieutenants to go. but late last week she got a bit of a boost. the congressional black caucus cedric richmond told me he supports seeing pelosi stay as leader. he thinks they can get back to majority with her as leader. he said, quote, the good outweighs the bad with her in terms of her liability and they should talk about positive things she has done when republicans try to demonize her by talking about the pesa apass the affordable care act. richmond attended a meeting with some anti-pelosi detractors within the caucus earlier this year. and it was unclear where he stood. but he's concerned about a distraction within the party if

there are increasing calls for her to go. however, john winning and losing could change everything if they do not get back to majority next year, calls for her to go will grow even louder. >> it's not just the republicans who have these internal family yishgsz shall we say. eliana? >> piggybacking on michael's comments on steve bannon and the president and their communication, we saw steve bannon give remarks as the values voter summit earlier this week. the most interesting of those remarks, i thought, were his comments that the white house was planning to designate the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization and they were planning to move the american embassy in israel to tel aviv and jerusalem. these are things white house aides say the president has no intention of doing and i think we're going to increasingly see steve bannon not only backing anti-establishment candidates, that's predictable but pushing his own agenda from outside the white house. that's a policy agenda, not merely a political agenda and that puts him at odds with the

white house and it will be interesting to see how that dynamic plays out between him and the president and if they start butting heads. >> not the wingman, that's what he calls himself. i'll close with this. forget strange bed fellows. politics made strange golf buddies. rand paul once said a speck of dirt was more qualifying than president trump. president trump turned senator paul a brat. they have another tee time. today lindsey graham, for the second time this week. the president, among other things, called senator graham a nut job. both senators are known to enjoy media attention and both tell aides and friends that by spending time with the president, they think they can influence him because they don't believe he has firmly held policy views. like time, golf apparently heals all wounds. that's it for "inside politics." thanks for sharing your sunday morning. we'll here at noon eastern.

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