host: betsy mccaughey. guest: i believe he has his facts wrong and thank him for calling and glad he's paying attention to the political process but don't think it's a fair representation of the republican party or the current candidate. host: you of course have a background in health policy, what are your thoughts on the status of the health care law and what mr. trump has said about replacing it? guest: obamacare is currently collapsing. if you've seen the current headlines. it's in a death spiral. many of the major insurers say they're probably headed for the exits in 2016 and no longer will be offering the obamacare plans on the exchanges around the country. and as you can see, even in the current year, the premiums are scheduled to go up as much as 20% or more in many states including my state or the state where i was lieutenant governor. new york state. and why is it collapsing? well, it was a poor design encumbered with tremendous regulations that prevented people from buying the kind of insurance th

host: betsy mccaughey.uest: i believe he has his facts wrong and thank him for calling and glad he's paying attention to the political process but don't think it's a fair representation of the republican party or the current candidate. host: you of course have a background in health policy, what are your thoughts on the status of the health care law and what mr. trump has said about replacing it? guest: obamacare is currently collapsing. if you've seen the current headlines. it's in a death spiral. many of the major insurers say they're probably headed for the exits in 2016 and no longer will be offering the obamacare plans on the exchanges around the country. and as you can see, even in the current year, the premiums are scheduled to go up as much as 20% or more in many states including my state or the state where i was lieutenant governor. new york state. and why is it collapsing? well, it was a poor design encumbered with tremendous regulations that prevented people from buying the kind of insurance they

betsy mccaughey joins us now, a trump supporter.to ask you, watching donald trump deliver this speech, this man is on fire. he's powerful and he's using a teleprompter as does everybody. i use a teleprompter, but he is succinct. he is clear, and you know his agenda. what are your thoughts? >> these are his thoughts and his words. >> yeah. >> and we have 80 days and three presidential debates before the election. in politics, it's an eternity. when you hear so many of the pundits say she's up in the polls or he's been criticized in the past, this campaign is just starting, and the message is economics. >> can i ask you real quick, when he came out, it was a powerful statement, this is a quote. a victory for the people whose voices have not been heard for many years. i mean part of what he's saying is counter to the republican orthodoxy. for instance, the infrastructure spending. lot of the spending is on infrastructure. >> his message on trade, the message has been the party of free trade. frankly, too many people have been whacked w

host: numbers on the bottom of your screen for betsy mccaughey, former lieutenant governor of new york and supporter of donald trump and you can delete work in "the new york post," where she is a columnist. and she has written a book obamacare."ing --the "washington post has the "washington post" has this headline. "donald trump named his economic team -

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back with me, symone sanders, kevin madden, john phillips, betsy mccaughey.pernick said he sat down during the national anthem to draw attention between discrimination and black communities. here it is. >> i mean, i've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of a house in college and because we were the only black people in that neighborhood, the cops got called and all of us had guns drawn on us. i mean, came in the house without knocking, guns drawn on one of my teammates and roommates. so i have experienced it. people close to me have experienced this. this isn't something that's a one-off case here, a one-off case there. this has become habitual. it's become a habit. so it's something that needs to be addressed. >> symone, i understand that you're angry that people are even questioning his patriotism. >> yes. you know what, ryan lochte is an international em barsment and nobody questioned his patriotism. protest is part of the american fabric. our country was founded via protest, and he has that -- colin has the absolute right to protest and if

kevin madden is here, john phill phillips, betsy mccaughey, symone sanders.adden, we're using 2016 standards is what i think he's saying, for 2008 e-mail and server and the way it was operated back then. did you understand what he was saying? do you agree? >> well, no, i don't agree. he has a certain level of expertise on the technology, but the e-mail controversy is pretty clear on why it's damaging to hillary clinton. look, first, we had an i.g. report from the state department make two very clear facts. or make two facts clear to the american public. the first was that using an outside e-mail system was against the state department's procedu procedures. hillary clinton violated that. the second was that national security was put at risk because she used that. that was very clear. the fbi director when doing a review of the case said that hillary clinton acted with extreme carelessness. all of those are demonstrably true statements from the folks who were tasked with looking at the e-mails. so i think mark cuban definitely has a -- definitely has an experti

back with me, betsy mccaughey, also kayleigh mcenany, bakari sellers and ana navarro.talking about african-americans and husbaispa tonight. listen. >> it's a disaster way african-americans are live in many cases. and in many cases, the way hispanics are living. and i say it with such a deep-felt feeling, what do you have to lose? i will straighten it out. i'll bring jobs back. we'll bring spirit back. we'll get rid of the crime. you'll be able to walk down the street without getting shot. right now, you walk down the street, you get shot. look at the statistics. we'll straighten it out. >> so what's your reaction, refrain to african-american voters now is what the hell do you have to lose? bakari? >> i have a lot to lose voting for donald trump. it gets more and more insulting, more and more condescending. it shows the reason you have to have diversity in your workplace, diversity in your business, diversity on your campaigns because i believe if he had some african-americans around him, they may be able to get to donald trump and tell him that's not how you talk to pe

this morning former new york lieutenant governor betsy mccaughey talks about donald trumps strategy. eric morath looks at the rising cost of childcare in the u.s. and karim mezran talks about libya. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: for those who would like to occupy the oval office, a new poll has hillary clinton leading donald trump by eight percentage points. this also blends in some third candidates. the green and libertarian, so they combined to be 12% of the potential vote in the "washington post" poll. this leads to our question -- are you considering a third-party candidate? who is it, why, what are you not seeing in the other folks?