obamacare's individual mandate. [cheers and applause] government will no longer punish you if you cannot obamacare sky-high premiums. think of this, you pay a lot of money to the government in order not to have to buy health insurance. so you are paying money so you don't have a penalty. incredibly it was allowed. but you are paying money so you don't have to buy health care. that was a beauty. it's over. it's gone. it's done. [cheers and applause] and we actually thought we had the votes and one man very early in the morning went thumbs down. but we almost got rid of obamacare without him. and that was a sad day for the republican party and for the country when that final vote was cast. thumbs down. i remember it well. obamacare has been especially brutal for small businesses. you know that better than anybody. it caused premiums and deductibles to explode and health care options to plummet. as a result of obamacare many small businesses, small business employees, sole proprietors have no good or affordable options

i voted to repeal obamacare. every time there was an up-and-down vote i voted to repeal obamacare. but my opponent keeps throwing out there which is deceptive and dishonest is the funding bills. large spending bills when you have a democratic president and a democrat senate puts all things in there you can hold your nose or you shut down the government. so although there was funding for obamacare and planned parenthood, there was no way around it other than shutting down the government. the last funding bill that my opponent voted for even has funding for obamacare and planned parenthood. there's a big difference between voting for a funding bill and vong on whether you would real it or not. >> were there any aspects of obamacare that you like that you think they should keep? >> are there certain aspects? yes. ion't think we should keep obamacare. we should repeal it and start from scratch. one of the things as allowing children to stay on longer. having preexisting conditions. all of those make sense. the bottom line of what happened here is all we really did was increase medicaid

let's not muck up tax reform with obamacare. an handful of us begin making the case both publicly and privately that this made sense, that made sense for the 6.5 million people. people. here's how the individual mandate works. every year the irs finds 6.5 million americans because they can't afford health insurance. of those, roughly 80% earn earn $50,000 a year or less. roughly 40% earn $25,000 a year or a year or less. about an million are texans. so i want you to imagine for a second you are a single mom. you are working two jobs. you are struggling to make ends meet. you are trying to provide for your kids. you are not even making $25,000 a year doing that. and to add insult to injury to irs comes along and finds you because you can't afford to pay the premiums have skyrocketed under obamacare. these are the things that led bill clinton to describe obamacare as the crazies thing in the world. about the only time in my life i have agreed with him. by the way, his recent media to her is going well. [laughing] we might want to

i voted to repeal obamacare. every time it was an up-and-down vote, i voted repeal. -- obamacare. what my opponent keeps throwing out there which is deceptive and dishonest are the funding bills. when you have a democrat president and democratic senate, it puts things in there that you either hold your nose and vote for it or you shut down the government. although it was funding for obamacare and planned parenthood, there's no way around it other than shutting down the government. i believe the last funding bill that my opponent but it have funding for obamacare and planned parenthood. there is a difference between voting for a funding bill and voting up-and-down on whether you would repeal it or not. >> are there any aspects of obamacare you like? that you think they should keep? michael: are there certain aspects, yes. i don't think we should keep obamacare. i think we should start from scratch. it is allowing children to stay on longer, those that have pre-existing conditions. all of those makes sense. the bottom line is what happened here, all we did was increase medicaid and

we have to repeal every single word of obamacare. getting rid of the individual mandate was a big deal and an important first step. five, schoolr choice. an amendment that i introduced on the tax bill. it became the only amendment actually adopted on the senate floor. it took college 529 savings plan, very popular tax-advantaged plan that you can save for your kids or grandkids to go to college. it expanded them to cover a-12 education. school, private school, religious school. your choice up to $10,000 per child per year. there was some drama in this amendment. it came to a vote after midnight friday night. it was clear it was going to be close. had 52 republicans, early on to republicans voted no. the senate for staff called the vice president's office. he was not in the f the time. they said, it looks like we might have a time -- time. he began heading down to the capital. i'm standing there trying to convince one of the republicans to switch her vote. me andchin walks behind votes yes. [applause] there was an audible gasp in the

i voted seven times repeal obamacare. when the replacement plan came up for a vote, were too many things. onhave to hospital systems staten island. anyone who goes when emergency the weight that they have and how many people are in there and tell long it takes them, some people walk out. can you imagine what it would be like if we only had one hospital? i have learned a lot of things in this job, one is to listen to people in the field. when i asked the hospital administrators about the replacement plan, both toby was going to be devastating, that convinced me. >> what about the people who cannot afford assurance -- insurance? dan: we allow small businesses to pull together, somebody who has four employees, a cost them a fortune to buy a health insurance for them. that employee can pull with other employees, you have 5000 people, you can get a cheaper rate and never -- better coverage. to say that you agree here? you are here for a piecemeal approach to dismantling obamacare -- michael: i think we should outright repeal i

i'll show you there's a few charts this is going to be a crazy story this is i love this obamacare story because were victims of it you and i have lived over in europe for twenty years we were able to pay cash for much of our health care over at the american hospital in paris as if you know it's a private institution you can go there anybody could pay it in twenty years there i paid as much as two months of premiums here in premiums don't get you health care actually yourself to pay for your medical care on top of that but just we're going to show you charts to prove that obamacare is a disaster or democrats won't say that they won't run on that everybody knows however it's a disaster especially those on lucky few middle class who don't qualify for the free care so these are stay. that expanded medicaid in from two thousand and thirteen twenty fourteen twenty fifteen twenty six hundred twenty seventeen so you see that there are uninsured rate collapsed by half because people got free care they got medicaid which is you get free care you go to any doctor you get treated you going to merge

i'll show you there's a few charts this is going to be a crazy story this is i love this obamacare story because were victims of it you and i have lived over in europe for twenty years we were able to pay cash for much of our health care over at the american hospital in paris as if you know it's a private institution you can go there anybody could pay it in twenty years there i paid as much as two months of premiums here in premiums don't get you health care actually you still have to pay for your medical care on top of that but just we're going to show you charts to prove that obamacare is a disaster or democrats won't say that they won't run on that everybody knows however it's a disaster especially those on lucky few middle class who don't qualify for the free care so these are stay. that expanded medicaid in from two thousand and thirteen twenty fourteen twenty fifteen twenty six hundred twenty seventeen so you see that there are uninsured rate collapse by half because people got free care they got medicaid which is you get free care you go to any doctor you get treated you going to

obamacare was a disaster. we should not forget the lies and misstatements that were said by the previous administration. even when the president talked about if you like it you can keep it, if you like your doctor, you can keep it, amy adams are going to decline. remember when he told us the website was secure and would work? all of the false statements made about obamacare. things i wish the we were able to get done last year. repealed obamacare and replace it with a model that would bring down the cost of insurance and empower patients and health care. that's what we have to focus on. the justice department's decision is understating how bad obamacare legislation is for the american people. >> it's a component of guaranteeing coverage of pre-existing components -- conditions, it is widely popular. it has not become the law of the land to repeal the aca. are you comfortable with going after this component of the law? >> the kind of bill we ultimately supported in the house and sent to the senate is what i'm c

is because obamacare reduced the premiums but then raised deductibles as a bait and switch program. for example the average person with an obamacare plan has to pay 46% of his or her total drug costs compared to 20% for someone with an employer-sponsored health care plan. research has found plans on the obamacare prescriptions to avoid out-of-pocket costs, as a result experience more serious medical problems and higher costs over the long run. as a result of obamacare patients with one chronic condition who switched to a marketplace plan would increase out-of-pocket costs by 126% and access to catastrophic drugs and treatments for diseases like cancer are more expensive due to the narrow designs popularized by the obamacare exchange plan. the reality is the obamacare exchanges are putting our sickest patients at greater risk dealing with untenable prescription drug costs and lost access to life-saving treatments and cures. i now yield whatever time the gentleman may consume, mr. johnson. >> thank you for yielding time. i want to reemphasize a point you made. the average person with

obamacare is individual mandate. government will no longer punish you if you cannot afford obamacare sky-high premiums. think of this. you pay a lot of money to the government in order to not have to buy health insurance. think of that. you're paying money so that you don't -- that's a penalty. incredibly, it was allowed but you're paying money so that you don't have to buy health care. that was a beauty. it's over, it's gone, it's done. and we actually thought we had the votes and then one man very early in the morning when thumbs down so that was that the we almost got rid of obamacare without him. and that was a very sad day for the republican party. it is a very sad day for the country when i vote was cast, that final vote was cast. thumbs down. i remember it well. obamacare has been especially brutal for small businesses. you know that better than anybody. because premium and deductibles to explode in health care options to plummet. as a result of obamacare, many small businesses, small business employees, sole

the time now is 25 minutes after the top of the hour and obamacare on life support, it could cost you bucks to keep it alive, premiums set to spike by double digits so how can republicans get rid of it once and for all. our political panel on deck to debate it but first live look at capitol hill for you this morning, 4:25 on the east coast heather: today lawmakers on capitol hill to get back to work on immigration reform. house works to revamp the compromise bill tweeting, quote, we cannot allow all of these people to invade the country, when somebody comes the in we must immediately with no judges or court cases bring them back to where they came. our system is mockery to good immigration policy. most children come without parents, immigration policy laughed at all over the world is unfair to all of those people who have gone through the system legally and are waiting online for years, immigration must be based on merit, we need people who will help to make america great again. well, this comes as nearly 2,000 immigrant children are reunited with their parents all across the country.

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obamacare is now going up every time we see an increase. obamacare is on its last legs.bamacare was done until early in the morning. a man walked in, he said, thumbs down. those not good. was going to do that. he campaigned on repeal and replace. he campaigned for years, repeal and replace. nobody talked to him. to.dy needed it was a done deal. then, he walked in, thumbs down. we have essentially gutted it anyway and we now have really good stuff coming. if you see your numbers go up, it is the democrats fault. by the way, immigration, it is a democrats fault. i am telling you, if we gave up -- think theyf want, they would say, they do not want it. it is pure obstruction. resist is their word. -- word what our world is? ours is approved, get it done. -- their word is resist. they think that it will help them get into office. when it comes to having week borders and crying. and it comes to bed health care. they have affordable health care. that is what the story is. got rid of the individual mandate. obamacare, you are going to look at it, it is almost now, a thing of the

up.acare is going every time you see it increased that is obamacare. obamacare is on its last legs.t was done. repeal and replace obamacare, it was done until early in the morning a man walked in and he said thumbs down. .hat was not good and nobody knew he was going to do that. he campaigned on repeal and replace. years repeal for and replace. nobody talked to him. nobody needed to, it was a done deal. he walked in, thumbs down. gutted it anyway. if you see your numbers go up, for those that are remaining, it's the democrats fault. immigration, that's the democrats fault. we won't get one vote. if we gave them every single thing they want they will say we don't want it. it is. remember their word, resist. resistance their word. remember what our word is? lots of different words. ours is approved, get it done. their word is resist. to resist everything. they think that's going to help them get into office. i don't think so, especially when it comes to raising taxes, when it comes to having weak borders and crime. and i have horrible health care. we got rid of the individual mandate.

all the false statements made about obamacare, the thing is a disaster. this is one of the big things i wish we would have been able to get done last year, actually repeal obamacare and replace it with a model to bring down the cost of insurance and empower patients and health care is what we have to focus on. and the justice department's decision i think is understanding how bad obamacare legislation actually is for the american people. christina: carrying the component of pre-existing conditions is widely popular with the american public and the republican congress tried and it passed in the house but it has not become the law of the land to repeal the a.c.a. are you comfortable with just going after this component of the law? representative jordan: i'm comfortable with the bill we ultimately supported in the house and sent to the senate. senate. what i'm uncomfortable with is the fact six republican senators voted against the very legislation just two years ago they supported. they couldn't vote for it when it counted. i don't know how they can go back

president, is in the obamacare markets. so an association health plan lets these groups of individuals, or just individuals themselves, band together and negotiate as if they were one big business. you get much better deals. so maybe it's like all the lift drivers, uber drivers or independt truck drivers working in a state or across state lines working together. small businesses members of a city's chamber of commerce, we've seen that in las vegas where the chamber of commerce has been providing the opportunity for small businesses to come together, done it for over 30 years, but it was outlawed by the obamacare heah care law. once again these businesses can now join together to offer the same opportunities for coverage that the health care law reserved only for people who worked with big businesses. it's a way for people now, small businesses, their workers to escape the obamacare marketplace that has failed so many people across the country. you know, according to one estimate, americans who sign up for one of these assoc

obamacare is no going up. every time you see an increase it is obamacare. obamacare is on his last legs. it is almost finished. do not forget i had it finished, it was done! repeal and replace, obamacare, it was done until early in the morning. a man walked in and he said, thumbs down. that was not good. and nobody knew he was going to do that. he campaigned on repeal and replace. he campaigned, for years, repeal and replace! repeal and replace! nobody talked to him. nobody needed to, it was a done deal! then he walked in, thumbs down. it's all right because we've essentially gutted it anyway. and we now have really good stuff coming. [applause] just remember, if you see numbers going up it is democrats fall. and by the way, gratian? it is a democrats fault. i am telling you. if we gave up every single thing they want, they will say, we don't want it. it is pure obstruction. remember the word, resist. that is their word. remember what our word is? right? lots of different words. but ours is like, approve, get it done! get it done! their word is resist. they

obamacare's individual mandate. government will the longer punish you if you cannot afford obamacare's skyhigh premiums. think of this. you pay a lot of money to the government in order not to have to buy health insurance. so, you are paying money so that you don't have -- that's a penalty. .ncredibly, it was allowed you are paying money so that you don't have to buy health care. .hat was a beauty it's over, it's gone, it's done. and we actually thought we had the votes and then one man very early in the morning when comes down, so that was that, but we almost got rid of obamacare without him. and that was a very sad day for the republican party. that was a very sad day for the country, when that vote was cast, that final vote was cast. thumbs down. i remember it well. obamacare has been especially brutal for small businesses, you know? you know that better than anybody. it cause premiums and adduct doubles to explode and health care options to plummet. as a result of obamacare, many small business employees and sol

, they got so rich of obamacare. take a look at what's happening with premiums. so they're going to have to give a little bit of that money back, negotiate tough, please. every american who owns a small business plays a vital role in creating a safe and strong and prosperous america my administration will never forget that truth. every day you turn ideas into action you turn vision into creation. i know you well and you turn dreams into reality. that's what you do you don't even realize that. that's what you do you embody the spirit of independence and adventure that turns america from 13 columns into the most incredible republic of the history of human kinds. see, i don't say mankind anymore. do the women understand that i don't know, they want me to be politically orrect we stand on the shoulders of american patriots who built the great highways and railroads and dugout the panama canal and who won two world wars and put a man on the face of the moon. if you see what i did yesterdayesterday yesterday with nasa, rig

republicans are saying we have to get rid of obamacare. of the it is not is how to get it back the place because nobody thinks this congress can get things done. >> this is why security, feels how secure matter to the economy. the economy looks good on the paper. unemployment is down. there's still an insecurity mooj voters about how they're going pay for things. wages haven't increase third down way they thought they would. paying for things like health care, when you talk about how people are affected by these decisions, that's their bottom line. that's where it's personal. that's where the politics matter. >> i know we are a politics show and talk about politics. i love talking about politics. i love figuring out how things happen or don't happen or the odd on things but i think it's fornt remember in issues like this, there are lives at stake and it's not just a numbers game. you guys match today. >> i know. >> you always vae flair for matching. >> i'm a little left out. >> we match. we are both in blue. thank you very much. >>> ahead,

you know, before obamacare there were many people very happy. they had no problem.ut then you got thrown to the wind. alex acosta is here. this is so important. secretary of labor. [applause] alex in the department of labor are taking a major action that's been worked on for four months now and now it's ready to make it easier for small business is to band together to negotiate lower prices for health insurance and escape some of obama cares most burdensome mandate through association health plans. [applause] [cheers and applause] you are going to save massive amounts of money and have much better health care. it's going to cost you much less. it's going to be fantastic and it's very comprehensive. i will tell you a lot of people, big percentages of this country are going to be doing. while you're in a room together, form an association, good luck. the bigger the associations a better deal you're going to make. you're going to save a fortune and nobility give yourselves and your employees tremendous health care. i'm really honored by that. believe me. with this acti

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. >> how dismantling obamacare would affect everyone and maybe change the course of the midterms. and the house is finally ready to vote on immgration reform. can the bills really pass? rep. jayapal: it's time to stop using immigrants as political footballs. and to stop kicking immigrants around. >> or are they just a political stunt? plus, what you learned in school about the civil war is wrong. christy: this war is not as simple as people would like to make it. >> meet the woman with the job of challenging your views about the union and the confederacy. ♪ soledad: i'm soledad o'brien. welcome to "matter of fact." this week, gop leader paul ryan is planning to bring two competing immigration bills to a vote. he's hoping to defuse a brewing fight within his own party -- one faction wants an immigration cr ather faction of moderate republicans that want legal status for so-called dreamers, the undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children. we told you a few weeks ago that moderates in his party were planning a "queen of the hill" vote -- an obscure procedure that woul

his argument for economic redistribution an obamacare. i went to kenya and i found obama's actual brother living in a sort of third world slum in the muck of nairobi. i asked him, what has obama done for you and the guy says nothing. this guy has not lifted a finger to help me. this kind of thing in a movie when i'm talking to obama's actual brother transcends the debate about obamacare. showing the president of the united states to be a hypocrite and i think obama did not like that. he's a patty guy and he apos to go after me. caller: good morning. i want to ask a question that i want to make a comment. ofe you not found guilty campaign-finance violations? guest: i was. caller: ok. you think the mayor can people are stupid and idiotic. as a black woman you are -- i am offended that you would go after the first black president to demean and malign him and what you said about michelle obama, as a black woman, you are right. we are very upset. talking about narcissism, what about this narcissistic person in the white house now? that's not n

the flaws of obamacare, you may love obamacare, but even the people who made obamacare recognized theresome flaws -- >> he didn't repeal and replace, he's just destroyed. he's destroying obamacare and people are losing their health care, and people are losing, you know, their medicaid. >> not 100%, okay? so some of that is true on the fringe and that's what's got everybody so excited. not 100%. but if the president said on "60 minutes" that i want to make health care more affordable, and i want to make health care better, he can do that -- >> what if he doesn't do that? >> he can't because he's up against the special interests and he's up against the lobbyists. one thing you do is just increase the -- >> he's playing hangman here. there's nothing here. he's playing hangman. >> you increase your supply of doctors, you had a gi bill after the sikd world war which the american middle class benefited from. you needed a. >> you make a lot of interesting points, and what you're doing, quite fravngly, some of your colleagues strug get to do. we work. >> here's a problem that donald trump has,

that was the beautiful obamacare disaster.plause] president trump: -- where you paid a fortune for the privilege of not having to buy obamacare. you paid a lot of money for the privilege of not having to pay for bad healthcare. so we have done a real job and we just got association healthcare approved. so it will be incredible. you associate at companies and as people, you will get great' healthcare at a much lower price than you have been paying. we actually beat obamacare but one gentleman started to go like this late in the morning. but that's fine, we just about killed it anyway, it's a horror show, obamacare. we will be announcing another healthcare in the next two weeks done by secretary alex azar. he decided to come over here at a very substantial fay cut and run something -- pay cut, and run something it's like playing a violin by a very talented person. he'll be announcing another form of healthcare in two weeks. we have done things in terms of health that have been -- if you had a problem. you had a kind of a health

i don't think this election is going to be litigated over obamacare. be driven over impulses of are you satisfied with the direction of this country, or are you not? health care plays into that of course. but it's ultimately going to be about what do you want to do? do you want a change in november after this, or do you think -- >> you and i worked for large organizations that actually give you health care as part of your program, of your package. people that don't have it, it would seem to be very important. >> what's the republicans' plan to fix it? until both parties -- the problem is the parties aren't talking about issues right now, chris. they're talking about whether or not donald trump is the worst president in history or whether or not he's the greatest president in history. >> it's interesting. >> i was just going to say i covered health care for ten years and every two years everyone told me this is the health care election, this is the health care election, and the one time it was, it was about getting rid of health care and blocking people

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. ♪ ♪ planned parenthood and obamacare you voted against, you lost that centrist feeling, because you'ven right wing appealing ♪ >> no spoilers, but the voters will get to decide if that works. and now we've saved the most bizarre for last. this is a colorado democrat who decided to pepper spray himself on camera in this literally painful ad. >> this will stop anyone in their tracks. it's incredibly painful. for less than $1 per person in the u.s., we could have a secured canister of pepper spray in every classroom in america. >> we checked, and that candidate told us he stands by the ad. the idea was to show an alternative to guns in schools. but if your ad displays questionable judgment, the voters could grade you down. the comedy hosts desus and mere row. >> homies maced and waterboarded himself in order to get your vote? all right. >> damn, he took the obama poster and doubled it. didn't put a lot of work into this. >> we heard the line any press is good press which is true enough for people who just want press. it's not true in every midterm campaign. and now the voters in colorado

she didn't run just off obamacare, she ran to the left of obamacare, for medicare for all. ran on very strict gun control. she ran on ashing i.c.e. i mean she ran on every kind of blue sky progressive issue out there, and she beat what is crowley -- i believe he's the number, what, four or five person in the democratic leadership. someone who is tal about as a potential speaker of the house. this is going to send shock waves through the democratic party. >> interesting. alice, give us a road map here for republicans to fight off at going to be a blue wave. we've still got some time to go, but give us a road map. >> well, the red wave is certainly not panning out countywide the way that a lot of democrats was going to be -- or the blue wave is not panning out quite as well as the democrats thoughttist going to be because the republicans are doing well. here's the key. that race in nork had nothing to do with donald trump. it was all about the democratic party becoming more progressive and more women. big picture-wise, i think clearly mitt romney is shoe in utah. clearly he w

it and we did repeal and replace obamacare. unfortunately one senator decided to put the thumb down late in the morning and that was not a good thing when he put that thumb down. but we've made up for it and in many ways more than made up for it. but that was a sad day to me. but we repealed and replaced but now we have something that ultimately i think is going to be better and that's what we do. today we're seeing the results of the pro-american agenda, america first, make america great again. all those hats. greatest phrase ever used in politics, i suspect. right? that's the greatest, make america great again. so what are we using in two years, 2 1/2 years? can you believe 2 1/2 years? so soon. you know what the phrase is, right? huh? that's right. keep america great, of course, exclamation point, right? keep -- because we can't say in two years, so we were here for four years, we can't say make america great again. but when you look at what we're doing, it's very simple. it's called keep america great. we'll get you nice ha

repeal and obamacare. that case, congress started on january 3rd. on repeal andd replace so long. our administration didn't come in until end of january. by the time we came in, the effort to appeal and replace or tag as obamacare like by conservatives. we brought those conservative groups in the white house early on to make sure they were part of the process with us. was a much different process opposed to congress starting before we were involved and having fractured messaging on the same page. >> whether donald trump, barack obama or george w. bush when they're out campaigning for a piece of legislation, we've seen of them with donald trump. needle?move the >> i think they do. many members in congress are responsive to their constituents. needle? >> i >> when you go home at night, do you have a chance to kick back? thinking about the next day? >> i'm very blessed to have very threeing wife and wonderful kids. i'm able to spend time with them. communicationsd today it's 24-7. it's staying with you whether you're here physically orot. >> how did you meet your wife? washingtonere

in the most recent fox news poll they see obamacare favorably than those that don't.. the part of obamacare that protects people with pre-existing conditions is actually a pretty popular provision and it has been for quite a while. representative barry conley told the doj that their legal argument is reckless and he said quote, it could be political malpractice because you handed us an issue we will ride into the sunset. this is something we will see at this rate, come up in the midterms and among those democrats running for reelection. >>eric: allison, thanks so much.>>arthel: attorneys perform it from campaign chairman, paul manafort, pushing back against new obstruction charges from special counsel robert mueller. the attorneys saying the allegations are based on flimsy evidence. >>reporter: paul manafort's attorneys call these allegations dubious and claim they are part of a sinister plot by the special counsel to target man affords previous business partners. prosecutors charge paul manafort with tampering with witnesses claiming earlier this year, he contacted t

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obamacare is the wrong way to go and need to be repealed. >> representative kennedy? >> obamacare definitely needs to be repealed. i'm not interested in more government programs. my opeanut on some level has created more government programs and instilled in his state and instilled that. it was a state that wanted that but in the state of utah, i, along with many others, stood against obamacare and i stand by there. it's best delivered by third-party players working together. when it comes to preexisting conditions, i've had great patients with very minor medical issues that in the past had no access to insurance. it was shameful how it was. they need to be -- have access to insurance. when it comes to 26 year ofledse who have access to insurance, i'm in favor of that as well but i'm not investing in the taxpayers paying for that. i believe free market reforms are the best way for us to move forward on health care. >> next question from me and representative kennedy first. president trump since taking office has withdrawn from the transpacific partnership, is renegotia

we had a whole host of companies applying for waivers from obamacare's mandate. are we starting to see that now? tell you what we are seeing. these are the early stages of lobbyist heaven. major players are calling lobbyists, paying probably 30 grand a week, and saying you know what? help us, help us, get a waiver for the tariffs, paying too much. if he's got sunpower hitting $2 million per week, that's a problem. dow is down nearly 300 points right now. as we talk about waivers, we've got a major player in the high-tech world, jerry neil, the chairman of acoustis, makes components for the chip makers, anything relying on mobile technology. we'll ask him if he needs a waiver and if they could affect his business? do we have lobbyisting saying get us exemptions and doesn't that mean we're picking winners? and that's two times not a charm. okay, we're going to try and work on blake's microphone once again. in the meantime, get to our traders because of the trade spat between china and the u.s. sending shockwaves with the stock market. look at shanghai index in part

president trump has long said he wants to repeal and replace obamacare but he also repeatedly talked about how a replacement is to protect people with pre-existing conditions.here he is speaking to congress in february of 2017. we do not have the sound bite but in his address to congress he said that principles should guide congress as they try to create a better healthcare system for all americans. he says quote - first we should ensure that americans with pre-existing conditions have access to coverage and that we have a stable transition for americans currently enrolled in the healthcare exchanges. democrats are urging the administration to reverse course center sent a letter to the president writing quote - it is time to stop the sabotage. we are a country of laws and the law must be respected. also defended and enforced regardless of the person occupying the oval office. the decision not to defend an existing statute is rare. but it has happened before. the obama administration did not defend -- >> thank you. >> julie to talk about there is a lot. let's bring in our reporter at

yes, there's the sides but this is the end of obamacare. i hope you ask mick mulvaney this question. as i understood at the time, the president was trying to give a pep rally for the members themselves who needed bucking up and public support to keep going. don't think that was exactly the motivation for that. that the president wanted to take a victory lap. mr. anton: there was a strategic side to what he did there. mr. hayes: he is coming close to declaring premature victory on isis. my concern is he goes this summit, whatever comes out of it, we can be certain that the president is going to say this is a breakthrough, he has done something no other president ever has done. [speaking simultaneously] mr. anton: he is doing something the president has ever done if he talks to the leader of north korea. mr. hayes: is that a victory? mr. anton: i think his language on the north korean front has been sober and responsible so far. he has talked about willingness to walk away. he has said i think the meeting would be great if it were to happen b

is the still obamacare? what is it? repeal and all of that stuff that has happened, i don't know because you don't anything about it. what is the status of the wall in the tax cuts they said they gave us, what do normal people whatever- like for me, tax bricks i got, which is about $100, that is being caught up in gas now. other than that, i think you guys do super job. i really appreciate the time to talk. host: thank you, bob, for taking the time to call in. "the new york times" has from page story on the health care. after failing to repeal daca with a republican-controlled commerce, the trip administration is seizing on a different strategy for dismantling the law the one fraught with political risk. host: to have a new talking point. they lost no time testing it. that is part of "the new york times" piece responding to that caller and where they are with health care. illinois is calling from if's, --elroy is calling from memphis, tennessee. theer: i just want to say government took my limbs in my to speak on my own

time to do with the tax cuts, we've got the regulation of wish we could've repealed and replaced obamacare. that's a a problem we have to l with as a party. i think it's time to face the nondiscretionary overspending that we're doing as a nation because i hate to use a word that is so, use that almost loses meaning that this truly is unsustainable. >> host: line for democrats, rob is in tulsa, oklahoma. good morning. >> caller: good morning to you and good morning, andy puzder. i support anything you say right knee. i happen to be disabled, and i don't, i noticed everything under come everything over the years as i've gotten older, i'm 50, have got up and up and up.if that's just life, you know. i have a lot of friends that are low and middle class and they don't see the jobs that you're talking about. i friends that work at walmart that lost hours when they got a pay raise. so i don't understand why you sit and bash the democrats and you say trump just drain the swamp. all of hisam cabinet, most of hs cabinet and ceos are bigwigs, plus they are being investigated for spending endless mone