good evening friends we start tonight with action on obamacare but the trumpet ministration frustrated with congress's lack of action the president signed an executive order today chipping away at obamacare the signature legislation of the last administration the order directs agencies to develop rules to expand cheaper less comprehensive insurance across state lines the president believes the move will help small businesses first we aim to allow more small businesses to form associations to buy affordable and competitive health insurance this would open up additional options for employers to purchase the health plans their workers want i'm also directing secretary accustomed to consider ways to expand these associations and these health care plans all across state lines

earlier today i spoke with north dakota congressman kevin kramer about the impact of the president's executive order here's what i think it does for it's going to be it's going to be interesting to see how insurance companies respond to it what i think is that there's an opportunity for states. to be that place that provides the best product. for the country so it will be competitive again but the real winner here are the small businesses the groups that don't get big employer coverage to be able to group themselves together we pass the bill in the house that does exactly what the president's executive order does not allows is to allow soci actions so it might be small market broadcasters it might be restaurant owners who can't come up with the type of a benefit for their employees that a big company can have but now they can go out of state get well what they can associate across state lines so what i think remains an open question is if you associate across state law. winds are can you then buy the insurance and in one

state that applies to your whole association across state lines i don't know the answer to that but employers do that now so how is this going to be a game changer this is what the republicans are only for along well i think the game changer piece of it is that it treats it treats people in the individual market and the smaller employers provides an opportunity for their employees to get the same kind of coverage that people who work for large corporate corporations who provide a very generous package are able to provide that makes that makes their workplace competitive it also creates a more of a competitive market among the independent or the individual markets and i spaces the individual market is what's being destroyed by obamacare or you can visit this is going to bring down rates yeah i think i don't know why wouldn't i certainly don't know why it would raise rates it provides more coverage more opportunity for coverage to more people it creates a competitive market that should bring down rates but there's no reason that it

should hurt anything the fact that it's not been allowed to this point is sort of i think yuri's to me why didn't the president sign this right away while this is down october he's been in office since january because the president like so many people in america foolishly believe that the united states senate was going to do what they promised to do and now he knows that the united states senate can't be relied upon and so he's taken matters into his own hands i think it's unfortunate that the senate hasn't taken up the house bill but until the senate changes its processes and in eliminates that sixty vote threshold this is the way it's going to be for a long time for more on health care we're joined tonight by the c.e.o. of the new hampshire health care association branded william sr waves nice to have you on tonight in your words what happened today what does this mean. well i think it's a preposterous idea at best and disastrous that worse congressman kramer doesn't understand the fact that health plans don't actually provide health care so if you allow health plans to come in across state lines they still have to build

a network of providers and say north dakota where he hails from they're not allowed to just simply come in and not have doctors or hospitals in their network some of that has already been allowed under the affordable care act insurers just simply haven't been interested so the protections are being stripped away with this that there would be the guidelines of mandated coverage that it's the beginning of junk insurance all over again i guess is the question well i'm afraid that it is i think there is some value to the idea of associations purchasing health care that's been done in states like washington but the idea that you're not going to have state regulation apparently even federal regulation and they are going to allow individuals apparently on affiliated individuals to purchase insurance through association health plans is just going to lead to ruining of the insurance marketplace for everybody it's it's not going to be to the benefit of small

businesses and it's going to hurt the individual market or hurt the individual market from the sense of quality is that a fair statement. i think in the sense of quality but also add in the sense that you have to spread risk around the market in order to make it stable the present is also proposed to allow sort of the junky short term insurance to be sold and that would be subject to mandates you need for people to enter into long term insurance a grievance in order to smooth out risk and keep premiums down for everybody sort of fly by night plans or having associations that don't have the capital necessary to insure against the risk that they're carrying that's that's a recipe for disaster well that's the next point i want to bring a stable secure or a liability i mean that sounds like you're going to be paying for almost nothing and you're sure the rates will be cheaper but what kind of insurance to really have

does that overstated that no i don't think it is and i'm worried about solvent see issues as a former insurance regulator you want to see an insurance company have sufficient reserves in order to pay for a few months of claims without any revenue a lot of these schemes have in the past not possessed that type of collateral and i'm afraid that we're going to be returning to the bad old days or something even worse i mean arguably this doesn't just go against the affordable care act it goes against a risk and its application to multiple employer plans that goes back to the nixon days so this really is a play into the hands of the big insurance companies what do you think why i think that some of the insurance companies could certainly affiliate with some of the associations but it sure is generally have been opposed to this idea add it just doesn't make any sense it's not a business that they're going to want to get into ok. always a pleasure brendan williams thanks for your time thank you. the rumor mill here in

washington about feuds between one another and elected officials and job security has been swirling for days chief of staff general john kelly held an unscheduled press briefing today to clear the air and set the record straight he's not leaving and he's not getting fired the president has been furious at the mainstream media's coverage surrounding the administration and we found out today he's not the only one. reasonable guy that when i read in the morning read the table to read but watch t.v. in the morning it's just it is astounding to me how much is misreport misreported oh i will give you the benefit of the dough that you are operating off of contacts leaks whatever you call them. but i would just offer to have the vice say. you know maybe develop some better sources. president trump is expected to announce the decertification of the iran nuclear deal with the next twenty four hours the

move is pushing america's european allies into closer relations with russia and china manila jim has been following the story today and she brings us the details that sounds pretty ominous for america go ahead there's a couple of things here not only is the president expected to walk back president obama's signature foreign policy achievement but he's also expected to impose sanctions on iran's revolutionary guard by using a loophole in an existing executive order that will designate the group a terrorist organization and in addition trump is expected to ask congress to amend or completely remove legislation language from the deal that requires the president to certify iranian compliance every ninety days much of the right though is likely to agree president trump has found some unlikely support from the left as well i opposed the deal i voted against. the deal mr sullivan i say this with respect and

gratitude for your hard work to bring you round to the negotiating table but i felt the sunset provisions left too short a time before you ron could become a legitimate nuclear power and many were expecting the president to make the announcement earlier today but instead he sent out his chief of staff general john kelly to field reporter questions during the white house daily press briefing. clearly the president has he's deep in thought to say the least about way ahead in iran and once again. he's not the only one that thinks that maybe the deal that was struck under the previous administration is a deal in the long term even in the medium and long term protect america now this in spite of european allies germany france and great britain all urging the president to keep the accord intact and to simply fix what he sees as flaws in the deal france though is willing to tackle some issues with the so-called sunset

clauses that will allow iran to begin ramping up its enrichment capabilities after ten years of the agreement as well as ending some arms embargoes but german foreign minister said mark gabriele has spoken out to press saying this quote will also have to tell the americans that their behavior on the iran issue will drive us europeans into a common position with russia and china against the usa well those are some ominous words coming from german leaders germany already has close economic ties with russia so that's a false fear for many russia hawks here in washington from either party even america's own general dunford the head of the joint chiefs has warned against taking the u.s. out of this international agreement citing it might cause a ripple effect on national security so as despite warnings from all sides of this agreement it appears that president trump is going to do as president sees. that we're not going to make any friends on this deal that's for sure thanks minola the

united states will withdraw from unesco the state department says the un's cultural body has a strong anti israel bias prime minister benjamin netanyahu called the move a brave and moral decision yahoo has instructed israel's foreign ministry to prepare israel to withdraw from the organization as well are to use america on with the story tonight the state department has just released a statement announcing that the us is officially withdrawing from unesco the un's cultural body which the u.s. helped found back in one thousand forty five over the agency's alleged anti israel bias citing the need for fundamental reform washington said that the move will take effect on december thirty first according to the statement however washington will remain in the organization as a quote nonmember observer state in order to contribute u.s. news perspectives and expertise this all comes as unesco's voting to choose a new director the current director general of the us go irina bokova said she

received notification from secretary of state rex tillerson adding that she expressed a quote profound regret over the washington's move she said was a loss for multiculturalism and the un family we deeply regret that today i received a letter from the secretary of state the decision has been taken and it's just according to the constitution and the rules that they will form a leave you know speed then to put two thousand page team but two doesn't mean that we will stop partnering. i will appeal once again for partnerships on this i think very important to make this we chart a common value that we share with united states last year israel suspended cooperation with unesco after the agency adopted a controversial resolution which made no reference to jewish ties to a key holy say in jerusalem the resolution also criticized israel's activities and holy sites in jerusalem as well as the occupied west bank and more factor. for the

rest stop trying to scrap every. morning every. level i washington now owes over five hundred fifty million dollars in back payments it's worth mentioning however that president trump has criticised funding to the un institutions as a disproportionate contribution the us funds about a quarter of the u.s. regular budget and over a third of all u.n. peacekeeping efforts it will be interesting to find out whether or not this decision will provoke a domestic backlash like we've seen in the past after every decision made by the trouble administration although it's quite doubtful as there's almost always bipartisan agreement on this particular subject as i mentioned earlier the u.s. suspended its funding to the agency over the exact same reason under a democratic administration so this seems to be just an extension of the bipartisan policy in a broader context so it's unclear if this is all that but it's also quite difficult to predict what the organization without u.s. presence but this is hardly an unexpected move as director general of unesco stated

that the organization is becoming more and more politicized. the trump administration has shifted gears from repeal and replace obamacare to tax reform they want to done by the end of the year the president hopes to pass the reform for the end of the year but the senate could hold him up once again according to north dakota congressman kevin kramer i am aware of the. votes this week or not but it's you know we said we know we'll get this week so we're officially in the year i can sense that we're going to keep working until we get it and then get it done and i think there's a i think there's a fundamental here among all. they're on board and. ok so the hardest thing about this tax plan is getting it passed but for you and me it's going to be really really easy you see if you go to capitol hill and go to your representatives office this is what you're going to find the republicans and they go out. it's a postcard simple fair postcard tax filing and they think that ninety eight percent

of americans are going to be able to do their taxes off this postcard they've got the highlights this is how it is in fact it says what does our plan do well here it is they're going to make it really easy for you to understand they're going to lower the rates for individuals and families well that sounds really good double the standard deduction that's pretty good too it goes to twenty four thousand dollars for a family and eliminate special interest loopholes just what is that and also they're going to repeal the death tax i tell you what for decades the republicans have been trying to get this one passed and they have always hated the alternative minimum tax because for wealthy folks that just gets in the way and a lower tax rate for main street job creators that's almost like bush talk a jab. you know it's so generic and then of course lowers the corporate tax rate twenty percent baby and they're not moving off that the question tonight is of the

democrats going to give in and move the corporate rate down to twenty percent well here's the other part of the nine point plan unprecedented expensing of capital investments that means if you own a business and you invest in it who have they got some goodies for you it's good to expand business but they're going to double the effort and they're going to double the a benefit to the tax people who are paying the taxes of the businesses to get that done now the american model for competitiveness these last two are just so generic this is going to be an american model for competitiveness whatever that is and bring profits back home now let's look at this one for just a moment. think about this a tax plan is going to dictate to businesses to bring their profits back home know it's more republican theory and that's just tell them like it is they're trying to make this all simple for you

a simple fair postcard tax filing this is part of their sell job but in throughout all of this you will get a sound bite you won't get an interview you won't get an explanation on exactly how this is going to replenish the treasury which is just exploding with debt we go to our political panel to see being valerie urban senior adviser working families party and also with us tonight andrea kay conservative talk show host all right andrea let me ask you first do you really think we can do our taxes off a postcard is this going to work are americans going to buy this. well i think americans would love to do that i think it's maybe all these overpaid accountants out there there are the accounts that have to be hired to try to decipher thousands and thousands of pages you know of tax code every year americans were the last to be able to not have to hire an accountant and to be able to do it often off of a postcard and certainly americans would love to not have their pockets pick it picked picked anymore by the thieves in d.c.

who consider our income to be you know their personal bank accounts that they get to take advantage of look it is really simple ed it's real simple my money and my income is mine and and with twenty three unit debt you're right about that the issue is not that we've got enough revenue coming into the government the issue is the spending so the solution is not you continue to rob the american taxpayer as the individuals certainly the solution is not to continue to punish business with way too high of corporate taxes economics is really simple all right people have more of their money valerie on the surface what does it look like to you this looks like a rerun of what we saw with the repeal and replace of obamacare the republicans do not have a plan so they're putting the most simplistic thing together that they can put together that really has as its basis politics it has nothing to do with revising

the tax payer plan and i think as a taxpayer myself i know why i pay taxes i pay taxes to have a government that works for me and for my family and we've seen what happens when people stray away from what government is all about it's clear that the republicans under trump's leadership want to do everything in their power to destroy what americans have come to rely on as a sound government all right then we can move republicans pass it if it's so good and so simply they have the majority i'm sure it'll go fly right through the house but what about the senate. i'm not quite so sure about the house either you know they're scrambling to make changes already you know trump started out with a fifteen percent cut to the richest americans and now that's twenty i'm reading and hearing that's going up to twenty three maybe twenty four they're all over the map if it's a rerun we've seen the movie before andrea will it will pass the senate will the

republicans get there i don't know if that well i don't know if they will because unfortunately i think we've got too many in the republican party that think like democrats and think that the role of the government is to expand its power in it with this centralized government having control over our lives and overspending on programs that you know that are not part of what the role of the federal government is you know they have a very bad left and the left and let me let me finish the lesson the republican party have dragged us towards an entitlement society and that is killing us economically the first lesson is that the american people now want to enjoy the entry of the american people they want social security they want medicare and medicaid where is the march in washington to get rid of all of this stuff. the american the american people have wanted entitlement reform for a long time but the american people voted president trump in because they went to an outsider because they went to a businessman who they hoped and who promised on the campaign trail that he understood how to jumpstart that ok how well and how well is that working for us

right now it's not work well with it well he's well here that's where i blame the republican congress because there's absolutely no excuse why they have not fulfilled president trump's agenda which is lower taxation for the individuals lower for you but also bad on their definition what about the deficit you're not fifty well then well his strategy history does history does show us that it's real simple that when you lower that corporate rate when you give the individual and the businesses back their own money instead of giving it down to be flushed down the toilet by the d.c. government that they do very best it doesn't this that's what. creates general but we start we will talk more about this in the future no question about it andrea kay valerie ervin thank you so much for being with us tonight. twenty three major wildfires are now burning in northern california firefighters in california are calling the blaze is the worst in the state's history artie's of tosh's sweet says the latest details tonight. good despite all of the devastation we've already seen

fire officials predict that the worst is yet to come fire officials say that the national weather service has issued a red flag warning saying winds could pick up on friday saturday and sunday as you may know winds already got up to seventy miles per hour scattering the fires now burning at least one hundred seventy thousand acres that's all now climbs to twenty nine and hundreds are still missing now at least forty five hundred homes and businesses have been damaged or destroyed this includes fifteen wineries which is a huge part of napa livelihood so many people go there to be cation or get married and the p.g.a. golf tour was there just last week some one hundred thousand jobs are winery based as well as thirteen billion in their economy dramatic photos of wineries a burned to rubble was appropriate for not only the owners for the community as well. can be replaced people cannot the number of missing people continues to climb

and for jessica to miss not being able to find her mother is her worst nightmare every mother calls me three forty three told me her house is on fire. and shell i mean i'm telling her to run a good out get out this get out of the house and told her to go to the front go to the back so i can't i can't you know there's fire everywhere fire outside fire i can't get out of my house and she's here to smoke alarms going off and just coughing coughing and. i'm telling her i love her. she's going to die i can't get out of her house is going to die and then the phone call drops and i can't get her back on the phone. of the state's firefighter force or inmates and reportedly make two dollars a day malibu conservation camp number thirteen has roughly two hundred incarcerated women fighting fires you get to save people's houses and you get to help people and it's really gratifying and powering way. when you're driving by and people are

holding up signs saying thank you firefighters and they're crying to save their home all these women must have a record of good behavior officials estimate that this group of women in malibu has collectively worked three million hours in a year finding one hundred seventy seven fires and add while there are many firefighters working around the clock officials are saying that the fires are continuing to spread expression with this red flag warning in effect. thanks a touch of eighty four percent of puerto rico's residents are still without power only sixty four percent have drinking water and fifty three percent have cellular services meanwhile president from criticize the government of puerto rico on twitter the president said puerto rico was to blame for the island's financial crisis and fema would not remain on the island indefinitely. the new york times says accuse the russian anti-virus software company casper ski of spying for

moscow now an investigation by germany's cyber security agency says there is no evidence to back that up r.t.s. greenough an ocean has more tonight. remember plans to warn against the use of conspiracy products since we have no evidence of misconduct by the company this is in itself it seems that the story behind has more questions than answers it all started with the new york times reporting that the so-called russian hackers that the parent of the paper believes have connections with the russian government had been using kaspersky a lot of software to get information from the foreign intelligence and security agencies and kloden americas and as a national security agency the paper claims this information is coming from israel's officials who shared it with the n.s.a. the n.s.a. the south refused to give any comment say they swore violate policy leaving all these quite and clear well german is cyber security agency has been quick to claim

that no evidence had been found to back these media reports and we say reports because shortly after the new york times article was published a lot of media picked up the story with quite catchy headlines like russia turn kaspersky lab software into a tool for spying because personal ad has called these allegations groundless kaspersky has never held will help any government in the world would sign the espionage efforts private held russia based kaspersky lab has been repeatedly accused of being involved in certain spike t.v. in the last two years eight has been always denying all accusations and all allegations but we still hear and bought them just recently washington has found as far has gone as far as banning all federal departments and agencies from using kaspersky services and now we have germany on the side of kaspersky say no evidence

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