we talked to bret stephens of the wall street journal and -- >> had bill clinton passed welfare reform before he moved on to health reform it's quite possible you wpbt have had the republican revolution of 1994 if george w. bush tried doing something about the woes of middle class folks troubled by their gen rule health insurance before massing a big task cut the bush years would have been different too. trump has an opportunity to get this right by cutting ryan loose. >> we look at march madness the ncaa basketball tournament and a larger conversation about the ncaa. john feinstein, joe nocera and william rhoden. >> whether it's football or basketball does not care. if you go to a football game and you start to ask people about the exploitation of athletes, they'll laugh at you. if you go to an ncaa game they'll laugh at you. there's a segment of this society that has come to view this as a problem. i'm among those people, something wrong is happening here in the way they're treated both this terms of financial he can ploitation and academic exploitation. but most people don't care. >

can they please stop comparing this president to an unspeakable mass murder.steven bret stephens tweetedwill they acknowledge that the president of the united states is mentally ill. he is a columnist not a medical guy. they didn't exactly did exactly back off the charge. can we just stick to journalism.ournal jon stewart is back briefly. he has a message for the media. systemic media. i heard donald trump broke up with you. sings a little dozen it. good riddance i say. kick him to the curb. like we can't live without trump. i notice noticed you can say it either. that is it for this edition of mediabuzz. thank you for joining us. check it out give it alike.. continue the conversation on twitter as well. if you happen to miss our program dvr it i also appear on xm radio. you might enjoy that as well. we are back here next sunday. see you then with the latest buzz. the claim that president obama wiretapped hello everyone. welcome to america's news headquarters. tapping the news it is our this hour the reaction is printed from washington. plus the new call from the white house. >> there is

bret stephens and deputy editor at the wall street journal. and executive editor of national view.'m pleased to welcome you to the table. let me start with you, ryan. this can't be what the white house and the republican leadership had hoped to find when they put the health care bill out. >> well, the truth is, this is not really president trump's health care proposal. this is a proposal that's been knocking around and involving over a long period of time, in the mind of house speaker paul ryan. and it reflects paul ryan's priorities. and the trump administration has decided to put its muscle behind this legislative proposal. it's not obvious that that's a very sensible thing of the trump administration to be doing. the fundamental problem for ryan and his allies is that the goals that republicans have articulated on health care are really pretty contradictory and irreconcilable. they both have to solve a political problem of not completely unraveling this new health care system that has been created over the past few years. on the other hand, they want to deliver smaller governmen

. >> bret: you are in the stephen hayes chair. that's what he does. next up, where we go from here on the wiretap claims and the u.s. attorney story. ♪ >> president trump has to provide the american people, not just the intelligence committee, but the american people, with evidence that his predecessor, former president of the united states, is guilty of breaking the law. >> he doesn't really think that president obama tapped his phone personally. but i think there is no question that the obama administration, there were actions about surveillance and other activities that occurred in the 2016 election. the president used the word wiretap" to mean broadly, surveillance and other activities. >> we will have an open hearing on march 20th, we will ask the director of the fbi among others, is there any truth, have they seen any evidence. i don't think anyone has questions about this, george. the only question is why the president would make up such a thing. >> bret: this wiretapping question, the tweets, asking for evidence. late this afternoon, the depar

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