>> bill we put forward, cassidy-collins achieved president trump's goals he set in campaign, they wereo make sure people had coverage, care for those with preexisting conditions without mandate and lower premiums. if the house bill does not accomplish that i will push this one. maria: when will have you a score on house bill. why do you think perhaps house bill does not athie achieve tho. >> looking at first itration. let's say min 9 million people t insurance, it says premium rose 20% in first year relative to obamacare. so 20% on top of that. so, it did not achieve president trump's pledge. his contract if you will with the voter. i am based on that previous score, we have to wait for next one. maria: are you expecting the kind of fight we saw in house similar situation with senate? >> i don't know. as lonas president contrac with united states which is those 4 things, and i added something to it called jimmy kimmel -- you can lower premiums with a lousy policy. which when someone gets sick they realize it gives them $50,000 worth of coverage, but they now have liver failure, or hear

bill? senator cassidy: the senate will have its own bill. know you are going to say there are problems with repeal and replace, but obamacare has its own problems. you heard senator cassidy mention some of them. blue cross and blue shield announced it lost $100 million through 2016. that means in 25 county in western missouri they may have no insurer at all. doesn't something have to be done? senator durbin: it should be. first we ought to have an administration that support our healthcare system. the trump administration has found ways to cut off support. lack of advertising to bring new people on board so we have larger insurance pools and lower premiums. we have to have an effort made to sustain the current system while we repair it. we shouldn't be sabotaging it. chris: when blue cross-blue shield of kansas city says they lost $100 million prince 2016, you can't blame that on trump, he wasn't president. senator durbin: the system isn't perfect, it isn't. i voted for it. it needs to be repaired. i think bill cass dane susan collins are wi

bill cassidy. and our power player of the week flying high for the blue angels. >> it sweet will put all that together and get that synergy. >> all right all right now on "fox news sunday." >> chris: and hello again on this memorial day weekend from fox news in washington. president trump is back at the white house arriving late last night after a largely successful nine day trip to the middle east and europe, but he returns to a scandal about links between the kremlin and some of his current and former advisors, and to a domestic agenda that stalled in congress. we will get to all of that this hour, but we begin with terror, that suicide bombing at a concert in manchester, england, that killed 22, just the first of four savage attacks this week around the world. joining us now, the man in charge of keeping america safe, general john kelly, mr. secretary, welcome to "fox news sunday." before we get to terror, let me ask you about the hot story in washington now. these revelations about jared kushne

one senator, bill cassidy from louisiana who's a republican came up with a barometer for the health careill that i happen to like a lot. >> could you support a bill that allows insurance companies to cap their payouts to customers? >> as you present that, i ask does it pass the jimmy kimmel test with a child born with congenital heart disease be able to get everything she or he would need in that first year of life? i want it to pass the jimmy kimmel test. >> jimmy: i do too. i think that's a good thing. [ applause ] anyway, bill cassidy is a united states senator for louisiana. he's a doctor. he's a gastroenterologist. he's married to a retired doctor. his wife laura was a surgeon. and he co-founded the greater baton rouge community clinic, which provides free dental care or health care to the working uninsured. obviously this is someone who cares about people's health. and we asked him to join us tonight. and he's with us. thank you for taking time for us, senator cassidy. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you, jimmy. >> jimmy: also thank you for naming a test after me. i always figured

to that point, april, bill cassidy, collins, they are working to crack that bill.'m wondering if there is pearl in that because bill cassidy has become this national figure with his jimmy kimmel test and if those 13 senators don't come up with something that meets that standard, this bill could be in jeopardy. >> there is a concern about the look of that group that's crafting the senate bill. but here is the real issue. when this bill does come out, this newly crafted bill, you will have cassidy and collins and others who will chime in and people will listen to it. they are still chiming in. as these things leak out, what they want to put in, how they want to take it out, you will have people giving input and they will be listening clearly. we're seeing right now how people in the streets are reacting to this house bill and they are actually listening. so this is -- this is not just a crafting but it is a listening session as well because people are rising up. they want to make sure again, like we said last week, insurance is assurance and i talked to some doctors

again, the cassidy collins bill accomplishes that and we also lower premiums. you want to see what happens to premiums. i would like to know that before i vote on something. >> i want to be precise. you're a physician. irrespective of if let's say the house passes something this week. it will go to the senate. will you insist that anything that emerges goes back to the house to a joint house senate conference committee as they say? will you insist that there are iron clad guarantees that individuals with pre-existing conditions will have access to health care coverage? >> i will insist that the president's pledges be met and the president pledged that he would take care of those with pre-existing conditions lowering premiums continuing coverage. that is my goal. now, some folks may have different opinions of how to accomplish that. and i am open to different opinions. but the president pledged that on the campaign trail. that's how he got elected. i think it's a good starting point and a good ending point. >> one final question before i let you go, senator. do

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one senator, bill cassidy -- >> plus, we get an update on how little billy is doing now. >>> and caught on camera, a wild scene for a couple of mountain bikers. things get crazy and a little too close for comfort with that bear. >> it wasn't one of those cute, little bears. that was a big bear. >> they are no longer fans of the chicago cubs this morning, i can tell you. >> we'll get more on that story a little bit. >>> we start this tuesday morning with new details on what led national security adviser michael flynn losing his job. >> yeah, the former acting attorney general, sally yates, testified that she urgently warned the white house that flynn could be blackmailed by the russians. >> but the president reacted quickly on twitter saying, the russia/trump collusion story is a total hoax. when will this taxpayer funded charade end? abc's janai norman has more details from washington. good morning, janai. >> reporter: kendis and diane, good morning. this is the first time we heard a detailed account from sally yates about her warning to the white house that michael flynn had been compr

also last night the comedian spoke with republican senator bill cassidy who tweeted last week there should a "kimmel test" for any healthcare bill passed. senator cassidy also noted the jimmy kimmel test, would also noted the jimmy kimmel test, would be in place to ensure that any healthcare plan would adequately cover pre-existing conditions "but in a fiscally conservative way that lowers cost." new this morning we are learning that another trump is headed to dc... sam sweeney at the live desk with this. autria, this time it is president trumps daughter tiffany. eric trump accounced that his sister will attend gerogetown law school this year. the same school eric attended. tiffany trump is the presidents daugther from his second marriage. she graduated from penn in the fall, the same school the president attended. so far this morning, no word yet on if tiffany will live at the white house. the capitals have clawed their way back forcing a winner take all game back forcing a winner take all game 7 against the pittsburgh penguins. we want to know -- who are you picking for game 7. it's the

cruise, grandpa, and right now everyone is discussing the trio to watch if you also had those like bill cassidy, lisa murkowski, the medicaid expansion states like rob portman, cory gardner, all these people that have a lot of varying interests. you also have this working group that they've put together, mitch mcconnell, john cornyn and then a bunch of kind of a cross section of the caucus from the medicaid expansion you have conservatives in there and think on that group is the moderate which gives some indication of how this bill is headed. >> host: they are having those discussions. how do you think the uproar about james comey might impact the healthcare timeline. it's just starting but it looks like the firing isn't going away anytime soon with the new fbi director that has to be appointed and democrats don't want a special prosecutor. people have to see if it slows down in the senate and how clogged up things get. >> host: kaitlyn with axios is with us, in turn at the "los angeles times" with us now in her role and will be the next 20 minutes or so. the line for independent. >> caller: wh

bill cassidy. >> this is bloomberg businessweek. ♪ >> welcome back to bloomberg businessweek.liver renick. >> and i'm carol massar. you can also catch us on the radio at series channel 119, and in new york and in 200 in boston, 90 one fm in washington, d.c., a m naik 60 in the bay area. >> and in london and asia on the bloomberg radio plus at the >> president trump's budget isn't expected to get passed congress. >> but that could be what it white house wants. peter coy explains. >> we got a first look at what the budget looks like. give us the rundown on how both sides of the aisle are reacting and what the hope is to accomplish what trumps are. >> the budget of course is very ambitious. the concept is that trump inks he can wipe out the entire federal budget deficit and produce a surplus like 2027. at the same time that he raises spending on the military and border control and protects the retirement portion of social security and medicare. >> provide some scope on that. how big of a challenge is that when you talk about wiping out the budget? >> it's a huge challenge because

bill. we have no idea what comes out of the senate. >> i know. >> but if you listen to cassidy, it sounds like may. >> talking policy on late night. it's, you know -- >> outstanding. >> this is the world we live in. let's check on "cnn money stream." global markets up slightly. u.s. futures, wow, doing nothing this morning after it did nothing yesterday. all three indices rose, look, less than 0.1%, five points on the dow, but guess what, that was enough for the s&p and nasdaq to hit record highs. right up here, just hanging in record-high territory. you know, trading may have been muted, but emmanuel macron's victory in the french election sent the wall street fear gauge to its lowest level in decades. >>> apple is the first $800 billion company after billionaire investor warren buffett said he nearly tripled his stake in the tech giant. the stock rose 3.2% to an all-time high, putting the market value above $800 bill, the largest of any u.s. company. apple shares have had a great year. if you own the stock, you know it. the stock is up 32% so far this year and it's sitting on piles and piles

senator bill cassidy.servative and moderate republican from maine coming together putting this -- putting this bill together. it would be great if -- >> either one of them were on the committee to broker the bill. neither one of them are. >> yeah, that's too bad. >> find a democrat. maybe joe manchin, bring joe in. bring another democrat in, claire mccaskill from new jersey. she's a moderate democrat. >> could actually break -- >> ideological thing. >> it has to be. >> susan collins was the insurance regulator in maine prior to becoming a united states senator. she knows just a bit about health insurance. >> a smidge. >> let's look at the first two goals. donald trump promised this and i guess donald trump forgot that he promised this, but all pre-existing conditions are covered. here's a federal guarantee. that was a promise that donald trump made. also, cover as many people as obamacare. that was a promise that donald trump made. he said, you know, we will have as many people covered. so why can't these

bill? it does begin to remove power from washington back to states. and that is part of cassidy collins. think that louisiana and maine and california and alaska could thrive under the same set of rules. that again was the could not seat of obamacare. the fact the house bill begins to move back to states. >> i guess i don't understand about the state differential. are pre-existing conditions the same way you live in alaska or louisiana or maine. >> i was going to say to add to what bill said, one huge difference is while we move power back to the states, give states a lot of freedom to decide how to descene their plan or even keep the current law, we require are states to follow consumer protections that are in the aca. and that includes protections for people with pre-existing conditions, no lifetime or annual caps, allowing, two people to stay on their parents' policies until age 26. no discrimination based on gender, race or national origin. those are key consumer protections. >> let's look to the politics of this. you're going to have to do this with only republican votes. how do you

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take a listen to senator bill cassidy from louisiana talking about what he wants to see in the bill.oes it pass the jimmy kimmel test? with a child born with a congenital heart disease be able to get everything he or she would need in that first year of life? i wanted it to pass the jimmy kimmel test. >> jimmy kimmel talking about his son billy 15 days old born with this heart defect and had intense surgery. i talked to a health care expert today who said if you take away the obamacare rules which do not allow discrimination on individuals based on pre-existing conditions, billy might have the to pay $40,000, $50,000 a year for insurance. >> that's right. jimmy kimmel can do that and most people can't do that, so when you have someone like charles krauthammer going on tv and predicting there's going to be a single payer system, you know, within seven years it tells you on some level where this debate is heading and whether the debate heads there now when this bill goes to the senate before the mid terms or whether the senate actually acts on a bill and then this rears its head back i

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. >> and jumped right back into the health care debate while talking to senator bill cassidy. the louisiana republican had suggested the senate's health care bill shut include a jimmy kimmel test of covering pre-existing conditions, but in a fiscally conservative way. kimmel also made light of the issue. >> so now the health care bill moves from the house to the senate, where hopefully some kind of common sense will prevail. and i would like to apologize foray should have health care. it was insensitive and i hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me. new video of billy. he says that he is getting bigger, he is sleeping well, he even joked that billy can read. >> still ahead, chaos overnight at a maim u.s. airport. the new video just coming in. >>> plus, new details in the death of a penn state fraternity pledge. what the 911 tapes are revealing as one member speaks out. >>> let's hope your packages don't get delivered like this. someone is getting ready for a big more training. pulled the driver of this bmw out through the sunroof. half of it was danging off the third f

remember, bill cassidy beat a powerful incumbent in 2014 in the midterms in large part because he pitched himself as a medical doctor -- >> that's a great point. >> -- who understood health care policy and could craft a replacement to the affordable care act if elected, but now he's been president efrozen out been very open and candid criticizing the process, saying some of the ideas bandied about in the senate aren't going to necessarily lead anywhere. so, the fact that cassidy and collins aren't involved in this means it's going to be a long process, it's going to be a tough process, and hard to game out or guess how this all plays out. >> it absolutely is. timing, though, i mean, we're all kind of talking about timing in a very abstract sense. it's going to be long, it's going to be hard, and that means when you look at the calendar, who knows where that could end up. and republicans are not necessarily putting a date on it, even though you point out the most important part, in they want to link it to the savings for tax reform. but democrat chris coons, who was on msnbc this morning,

bill cassidy, showed him at the top, republican, said it's got to pass the jimmy kimmel test. what does that mean? that talks about pre-existing conditions, protecting people with that. so like mike viqueira said, you put all this together, bill slibis likely to change dramatically, some way, somehow, if, if it passes the senate. if it does, the house version, senate version, got to put them together. there's going to be a winner there, a loser there. whatever package emerges from that goes back to the house. think about this, imagine this, if they make this bill more moderate, if they keep the centrists ha if they reach out, c some deal with susan collins, say, in the senate, guess what, the house freedom caucus has to vote on it again. could there be a rebellion on the right when you troy ty to j that through the house the second time? still not done. got to go to the senate again. it's got to pass there again. that new merged version. only then, only when you get through all those step, only if you get through owl those steps does the bill land on donald trump's desk and he

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bill cassidy / (r) louisiana: "well, the senate will write it's own bill., that's the way it works, right."senate republicans will need at least 50 of the 52 gop senators to sign onto a final bill for it to pass the chamber, but so far many are cold to the very proposal. their house colleagues labored for weeks to squeeze through. already making clear in statements that from the structure of the tax credit, to the sunset of the medicaid expansion, obamacare's regulatory infrastructure - even the bill's defunding of planned parenthood - each major piece will need to be rewritten sen. lamar alexander / (r) tennessee: "there won't be any artificial deadlines we will carefully consider the legislation passed by the house . we will work together carefully to write our own bill . we will make sure we know what our bill costs when we vote on it."top senators from across the party's ideological spectrum...now committed to working groups - an effort, gop aides say, to reach crucial consensus before publicly moving forward on the bill. the 13 member senate gop workin

kimmel brought on senator bill cassidy who says any new health care law passes the jimmy kimmel test.if the american people call their senator, say we got to fulfill president trump's contract, lowering premiums with coverage of passing the jimmy kimmel test. if we do that, we get an american plan, not democrat, not republican, an american plan. that's where we need to be. >> using his voice and laughs to bring attention. also happy his son is doing much better. >>> terrifying moment. check this out at an alabama zoo when a young girl was attacked by a kangaroo. [ screaming ]. >> poor thing. >> absolutely terrifying. 9-year-old cheyenne was with her mother and younger sister when the kangaroo reached through the fence grabbed her by the hair and appears to bite her. after receiving 14 stitches, she appears to be okay. >> ahead which former president is teaming up with a best selling novelist, plus new video this morning in another shocking airline incident to show you. ? restrained driver in a motor vehicle. sir, can you hear me? two, three. just hold the bag. we need a portable x-ray

maria: bill cassidy one of the moderate drain spent "sunday morning futures" and said we are going to start again. we are going to start anew. why start anew? is there nothing in the bill they like? >> to cassidy: spill. it seemed silly to scrap it and start all over again. >> i can't seem to get on the same song sheet. dagen: it's a lot more involved that whatever the senate crass because you have moderate senators on the republican side of the said murkowski and susan collins speaking negatively about what came out of the house. a lot less rollback of medicaid. i would guess and also more generous subsidies -- excuse me, tax breaks. were not allowed to call them subsidies anymore. were generous tax breaks to people older. maria: interesting to see president obama talking about it this weekend. a lot to talk about her. turning the conversation coming up from the california congresswoman and majority leader kevin mccarthy is at best. the human longevity and dr. craig venter is that desperate special guest today. he is one of the people who map the genome 20 years ago. senior judicial

there is a very small working group having bipartisan billssions about a authored by bill cassidy of louisiana, a republican and susan collins of maine, another republican. they have some democrats in the room talking about health care reform. sometimes a deal can germinate from those small groups. that may happen if republicans cannot get to a deal themselves now. they don't have the 50 votes they need and they are just now beginning to write legislation. things could shape up. they don't have a lot of time. the president's budget is top of conversations. in your reporting, what has been the reaction to it and where does it go from here? muche budget did not get backing from either side. of course democrats would be against it but republicans also were really against it. ishink what we are seeing the situation on capitol hill where there has been so much partisanship and some is fighting for so long that there is a bit of weariness setting in. on the health-care care bill, republicans are having such a hard time coming to agreement on that. get there are problems that are affecting

one of his guests tonight is republican senator bill cassidy.t week cassidy said the house bill should pass the kimmel test to guarantee care to patients with pre-existing conditions. >>> just ahead on abc7 "news at 6:0 6:00", the warning president obama gave president trump. >>> this is the most damaging operation on the coast of california. >> the dust up over sand along the central coast, a look at the operation environmentalists are tr >>> and good evening once again. tonight president trump's calling investigations into the campaign's alleged ties to russia a total hoax. >> he says former acting pattorney general sally yates said nothing new, yates said she warned the white house about michael flynn's contact with the russian ambassador. >> the russians also knew that general flynn had misled the vice president and others. not only do we know that the russians knew this, but they likely had proof of this information. and that created a compromise situation, a situation where the national security advisor essentially could be blackmailed by

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[laughter] bill cassidy, i don't have a better friend in the room. what their bill says, what they claim their bill does is to allow for states to want to keep the affordable care act to keep it. for states that don't want it to get rid of it. practically simply does not work because, you know there already is a pretty massive transfer of resources from state has haven't done the medicaid expansion to state has have done the medicaid expansion. if you deconstructed all the subsidies in republican states an maintain them in democratic states it would be even bigger shift of money from red states to blue states that would be unsustainable. you couldn't keep that together because a republican congress would never support continuing to fund a law that only sent subsidy dollars into states that had democratic governors and democratic legislatures problem. a practical standpoint it just doesn't work. their bill is actually silent what happens with respect to the taxes which is, kind of a big fatal flaw in their bill. what would happen under their premise fo

on fox news sunday, bill cassidy of louisiana defending a bill he code drafted saying conservatives wouldd a lot to like about it. listen. >> it is a conservative solution. they think the power should return to individuals in the state, we do that. the apartmen power obama care tm the states we get back. you can see your conservative and believe in states rights and mental states what they can't do. if a blue state wants to do blue thing, god bless them. >> let's talk about this with tom mcclintock of california. he sits on the budget committee. thank you for being here. >> it's a pleasure. thanks for having me. >> arhtel: do you think the power over healthcare belongs to the states? also the drafts of senators cassidy and collins would let states either keep obama care or opt into a concerned entrance conservative framework. are you and fellow house members willing to give impartial consideration to the senate bill once it makes it back to the house? >> if they're gonna take that approach it will be all the more important to restore to people the freedom to shop across state lines. someo

the better way to do is what we have in the cassidy collins bill. in that, you fulfilled trumped pledge to insure all. think about exxon mobil. they have probably 50,000 employees. if one person gets a liver transplant, it doesn't affect everybody else's rates. there's so many people insuranced, it's a blip in terms of the overall cost. >> neil: but it's still a lot. so a lot of people are looking to this republican effort, you know, it's still going to be a pretty big government program. that might be all well and good and the president i understand, sir, has been telling people that it's not going to be nearly as bad as obamacare and it will be smaller, leaner and more effective than the president's affordable care act. do you think that will be the case? >> i don't know the final version. i can't comment on that. is $8 billion enough? it's hard to say without a cbo score. on the other hand -- >> neil: you won't get a cbo score. they're going to vote on it without that. >> yeah, the house will vote without it. obviously i'm sure some people are ob

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in addition to that, just what you heard from bill cassidy, a senator from louisiana who said look, we'llod ideas from the house bill but we're going to pass our own bill. there are republicans in the house when you consider this only passed by one extra vote who say this was on the tip of a knife and you fool around with this too much and the coalition, the very narrow and delicate coalition you had in the house blows up. so to pass something that will be satisfactory to the senate and republicans can only lose two senators and still pass it and then have it also be satisfactory to the house where you have this very delicate coalition, that's a heavy lift. >> shannon: it is. so we understand there is this 12-member working group that includes some key committee chairmen over in the senate side meeting for weeks. so while everybody has been watching the action on the hill they've been putting together their own thing in the senate. it has no direct connection to the house. so explain for folks how this would work. a senate and house version, where do we go from there and how long could th

charles: that was republican bill cassidy of louisiana, he's proposing his own health care bill, a billhere. exactly how does the cassidy-collins bill differ from the house bill now? >> set up to tax reform. our tax -- our bill is more set up to achieve president trump's goals and one to lower premiums, that's a huge thing for middle america and at the same time achieve what i call a jimmy kimmel test which is if somebody has a preexisting conditions which should have coverage would allow her to get care she needs. lower premiums, but jimmy kimmel test, can you provide access to the cure that's needed. we can do that, obviously it takes money, the house bill uses that money for tax reform, cassidy-colins uses that for that particular patient. charles: the notion this has shifted back to the states where states can handle it individually as they see forth and perhaps the federal government kicking in some financial assistance but no longer being this sort of obligation at the federal government. are you concerned about that in the states maybe not living up to preexisting conditions? >>

bill cassidy / (r) louisiana: "well, the senate will write it's own bill. mean, that's the way it works, right."senate republicans will need at least 50 of the 52 gop senators to sign onto a final bill for it to pass the chamber, but so far many are cold to the very proposal. their house colleagues labored for weeks to squeeze through. already making clear in statements that from the structure of the tax credit, to the sunset of the medicaid expansion, obamacare's regulatory infrastructure - even the bill's defunding of planned parenthood - each major piece will need to be rewritten sen. lamar alexander / (r) tennessee: "there won't be any artificial deadlines we will carefully consider the legislation passed by the house . we will work together carefully to write our own bill . we will make sure we know what our bill costs when we vote on it."top senators from across the party's ideological spectrum...now committed to working groups - an effort, gop aides say, to reach crucial consensus before publicly moving forward on the bill. the 13 member senate gop w

bill cassidy / (r) louisiana: "well, the senate will write it's own bill., that's the way it works, right."senate republicans will need at least 50 of the 52 gop senators to sign onto a final bill for it to pass the chamber, but so far many are cold to the very proposal. their house colleagues labored for weeks to squeeze through. already making clear in statements that from the structure of the tax credit, to the sunset of the medicaid expansion, obamacare's regulatory infrastructure - even the bill's defunding of planned parenthood - each major piece will need to be rewritten sen. lamar alexander / (r) tennessee: "there won't be any artificial deadlines we will carefully consider the legislation passed by the house . we will work together carefully to write our own bill . we will make sure we know what our bill costs when we vote on it."top senators from across the party's ideological spectrum...now committed to working groups - an effort, gop aides say, to reach crucial consensus before publicly moving forward on the bill. the 13 member senate gop workin