the obama administration restricted maximum term of short-term plans to three months. the degree from 12 months down to three months. they also banned in called renewal guarantees. a renewal guarantee and this is going to become very important later, a review will guarantee is a guarantee from an insurance company that your premiums won't go up because you got sick. they might go up further reasons, but if you have a renewal guarantee, the fact the that cancer will not cause your premiums to go up, even if you get cancer, you will still play -- is still a healthy person premiums. it turns countries have been offering these guarantees for decades and i stopped doing so what about air was passed because obamacare essentially banned them. they charge a little more for this protection and what it means in the economic literature is fairly unanimous in these renewal guarantees works pretty well. veryans even if you get a expensive illness, you can still pay healthy person premiums. administration shortened the maximum term of short-term plans from 12 months of three months

the obama administration restricted the maximum term of short-term plans to three months. from 12 months to three months. they also banned renewal guarantee. a renewal guarantee -- this will be very important -- is a guarantee from an insurance company that your premium will not go up because you get sick. your premium could go up for other reasons. if you have a renewal guarantee, the fact that you got cancer will not cause the premium to go up. even if you get cancer, you will pay healthy person premium. insurance companies were offering these in the individual market for decades. they stopped doing so when obamacare was founded because obamacare essentially banned them. they charge more for this protection. the economic literature is unanimous that these guarantees work well. it means even if you get a very expensive illness, you can pay healthy person premiums. when the obama administration shortened the maximum term of short-term plans from 12 months to three months and banned the guarantees in these plans, that had the effect of exposing a lot of people in the short-

what the obama administration did was made a short-term plans less attractive by subjecting sick people to medical underwriting as a means of forcing healthy people out of the market and into obamacare. that happened in 1996. administration short-term plan fell, the federal government this year, beginning last year, began to take another look at short-term plans. they realized the statutory exemption for short-term limited insurance is a larger than anyone realized. they work within the law to provide as much flexibility as possible. significantly, -- what did they do? do first, they lengthened the term -- the maximum allowable term from three months back to 12 months. in addition, they said that if the initial term but the duration can be longer. they looked at other parts of federal law and said congress can generally accept certain types of insurance for 36 months. short-term plan must have an initial term of less than 12. insurers can extend that term as long as -- for as long as already six months. all of a sudden, the plants have become more taxable. the most significant that the

part of president obama's legacy is going to be the failure in syria and abandoning the field in syria to russia, to president putin and also to iran. at the very end of his administrationaid something in a closing press conference describing russia as, quote, a military super power prepared to do whatever it takes to keep its client's stake involved. was president obama, were you all actually kind of worried about pushing putin too far? >> yes, both in syria and ukraine. in my book, the longest chapter in the book is about syria. it's called "chasing russians, failing syrians." i think we made several mistakes there and i write about it candidly. our theory was always if we could get the russians to cooperate with us, we could help to pressure the regime -- they would pressure the regime and mr. assad, we would pressure the opposition, and we would get some kind of political transition. i always thought that was a mistake to think that putin would do that. and you just quoted the president. i think eventually he came around as well because he was not going to in any way, shape or form undermine his partner or his client in syria, mr. assad. but we were constrained beca

not that the obama administration didn't want a stronger economy, they did. but they always wanted something else more. the other thing always one out. -- won out. we now have seen strong evidence that the arguments were valid. the first thing the trump administration did was to suspend regulations in the pipeline of various agencies. congress got into the act of repealing the regulations they were allowed to repeal that were particularly onerous to economic growth. the trump administration out with reforms of their own that we are seeing unfold. all of these in detail were important but what was really change inwas the sea the psychology of the economy. we see this in business confidence and consumer confidence, which has shot up as the psychology, the background psychology in our economy has changed. the economy is growing very robustly. it has showed up in the labor markets with a very low unemployment rate hovering around 4%. it ticks up and down depending on the month, but it is below what the congressional budget office would consider the long-term full

i want to emphasize we fought , for access under the obama administration. we often had adversarial interactions. i was often shouting questions at former president obama as well. there are some very notable differences though, and so, i will speak to some of those. i know you will address them in your questioning. i think one of the biggest differences is the pace of our new cycle. as a white house correspondent, you are constantly trying to stay ahead of the curve, and under the obama administration, we would be sort of tracking three, maybe for big stories at any given time, and i think under the trump administration, that has just grown exponentially. we are covering domestic policy, forward policy, covering his tweets, which at times can completely change the news cycle. we are covering the russian investigation, special counsel is investigation into russian meddling. that is a beat in and of itself, yet we can never fall behind in terms of being in contact with the folks who are working on that. both his team, special counsel, and otherwise. so when you

the obama administration -- you know, this isn't just partisans. are top military officials who have in some cases survived multiple administrations, both parties looking at the options on the ground and tactically what they concluded was the ability to strike iran to reduce their nuclear capacity was woefully limited. they can put things underground, they can rebill. once they have the technical know how, they can always in a few months get back to where they were. you're at the very real risk of a perpetual cycle of strikes. this is a very dangerous footing we've put ourselves on. >> of course, part of the big issue right now is syria and america's role there and the obama administration sadly will be remembered for having failed in syria. >> absolutely. >> and you use syria paz part of your case study. >> uh-huh. syria was one of the examples of the chaos of not having a concerted unified diplomatic effort with empowered diplomats at the helm. the obama white house vacillated and talked about red lines and didn't react to the crossing of red lin

how would you characterize our relations today versus the obama administration. >> the obama administration was a disaster. we would not be in this situation in syria if obama would have kept his word if he said if you crossed the red line. they crossed the red line and he didn't do anything. the significance of that is it made the u.s. look weak and stupid that they are threatening without action. it's like -- it's the first thing they teach you, you should never do that. if you say something, you should act on it. on egypt they sold us out. they supported the muslim brotherhood. maria: north korea, iran, china trade. >>it it's caused me to be more bullish in gold. i am the largest shareholder in two of the world's biggest mining companies in africa and australia. and the reason why, i saw all these crises, people can always go to gold for safety and it's an anti-inflationary place to put your assets. it was misconceived. people said i changed my net worth into gold. no. i invested in gold mining companies. charles: that was maria's ♪ a hotel can make or break a trip. and at expedia, we do

difficult now you mentioned before that on a number of strategic and important issues the obama administration and the putin administration despite the lack of very warm personal chemistry between the two leaders they were able to find some degree of compromise they could work together but obviously i think in moscow at least there is a sounds of missed opportunities what's interesting about donald trump is that so far he has been finding it very hard to find a strategic overlocker if he's adversaries but he found one geopolitical soul mate and this is israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu. do you think the two are working in concert or do you think that policies are planned mutually planned and coordinated or is israel just being a portion a stick in following a perhaps orchestrating directing president presidents trying to leave so you know i think it's very difficult to work in concert with the trump administration because the trumpet ministration is so internally chaotic they don't have anything that resembles a normal policy process in the united states and so i'm a little bit skepti

not that the obama administration didn't want a stronger economy, they did. but they always wanted something else more. we now have seen strong evidence the arguments were valid. the first thing the trump administration did was to suspend regulations in the pipeline of various agencies. and as congress got into a review act including what they were allowed to repeal that were growth, theconomic trump administration set out with regulatory reforms of their own that we are seeing unfold. all of these were important. what was that the exchange was the economy. up.umer confidence has shot grown robustly. it has shown up in the labor market with a low unemployment rate. we are around 4%. that is a low what the congressional budget office would consider the full employment rate. growth in excess of 200,000 jobs a month. what that is telling you is that the economy is strong. it also tells you we are not yet at full employment. we will be at full employment when job growth matches the growth in labor supply. 80,000-100,000 jobs a month. this also is something that is

>> i was first subpoenaed by the bush and administration and then the obama administration continued and got new subpoenas. i was subpoenaed for a grand jury to testify about sources for my book "state of war" that came out in 2006. by theubpoenaed in 2008 bush administration to testify before grand jury. in the obama administration renewed that subpoena and the judge quashed it. actually quashed two grand jury subpoenas. they subpoenaed me to testify at after -- in the same case, and that subpoena was quashed by the judge. at the moment -- but the obama initiation of fields that to the appeals court. they wrote aal, brief saying there was no such thing as a reporter's privilege, which meant they believed there was no legal right for reporter not to be forced to testify about their sources. agreed court of appeals with the obama administration on that and then i took the case to thesupreme court because in -- in the supreme court refused to take the case. a 2015, i had to appear in pretrial hearing to determine whether or not was going to testify or not. and i said i would not. the o

first nine months of the bush administration and 35% compared to the first nine months of the obama administration. 50% less inought fines and money for environmental cleanup than the bush administration and almost 90% less than under the obama administration. some of that appears to have been a decision made by the epa office of compliance and enforcement to seek headquarters's approval before beginning investigatory actions. i have the memo here, effective is required review prior to issuance of information request under the clean air act and the clean water act. i would like to ask that this memo be made an exhibit. sen. barrosso: without objection. sec. whitehouse: what is your intention regarding that headquarters review stymieing what had always been the differente of regional agencies in getting information about potential violations? mr. wheeler: i am actually not -- i have not seen that memo. is there a date? sec. whitehouse: this memo was dated may 31. mr. wheeler: this year or last year? sec. whitehouse: 2017, so it has been in place for a while. if you have to run the ability to ask an

the administration has taken major steps on the wotus rule. this outrageous obama ever rule would have put backyard ponds and puddles under washington control. under that rule, the epa told farmers and ranchers that the year irrigation ditches were considered navigable waters. and would be regulated by the federal government. the consequences were staggering. epa threatened to find one landowner in wyoming $75,000 a day. the crime he committed was digging a stock on in his backyard. this past january, the epa delayed the implementation date of this devastating rule. the epa should not punish ranchers and farmers for managing their land. it must replace the rule with commonsense policy that restricts states and local authorities. the agency has taken important steps to protect small refineries in wyoming and across the country. i applaud the trump administration for rejecting efforts to undermine the ability of small refineries to obtain hardship relief under the renewable fuel standards of eps. during the obama administration, the epa frequently ignored the law whi

i know the former administration of president obama and the current administration of president trump share my desire to see austin come home as soon as possible. but we need to take a step back and realize why people like austin are taken hostage in the first place. in many parts of the world, authoritarian regimes and criminal state actors see a free press as a threat, an existential threat. they don't want to risk a spotlight exposing human rights abuses, lives, corruption, and graft. they want to inoculate themselves from the criticism and bury the truth so it never sees the light of day. so in places like turkey, syria, china, and elsewhere, journalists are silenced and often jailed, sometimes even killed. we have seen this to the south of our border in mexico, too, with drug cartels and criminal syndicates who don't like the scrutiny that a free press provides to their illicit activities. according to organizations like reporters without borders, 2017 was perhaps the most dangerous year on record for journalists, and 2018 is not expected to be any different. we need to be aware

the first 9 months of the bush administration with 35% compared to the first 9 months of the obama administration. in the same period epa thought 50% less in fines and money for environmental cleanup, then the bush administration and 90% less than under the obama administration. some of that appears to have been a decision made by the office of compliance and enforcement to seek headquarters approval before beginning investigatory action. i have the memo here, effective immediately, ecoa headquarters reviews required prior to issuance of information requests under the clean air act and clean water act. what is your intention regarding the headquarters reviews stymieing, regional agencies and getting information. >> i am not -- i haven't seen that memo. is there a date? >> this memo was dated may 31st. >> this your last year? >> it has been in place for a while. if you have to run the ability -- the information requested headquarters, gives headquarters the chance to create massive institutional delay or put the kibosh on an investigation from the very beginning. that doesn't seem like the right r

created by the obama administration, but because of the lack of american leadership. the iran deal. i have to illustrate the deal with one analogy of comparison. transportyears ago, a -- a metro police officer in d. c., who was a jihadi sympathizer, wanted to send money to isis. this police officer met somebody who he thought could be the conduit for his sending $500 to the insurgency. little did he know, this was an fbi asset. this police officer, once he made the commitment to send money to a terrorist group, was arrested, charged, and prosecuted, and sent to a maximum security prison, where he languishes today. he committed what is technically called material support for terrorism. for $500. the obama administration, at the time the obama state department listed iran as the largest sponsor of state terrorism, $140,ed 140 billion, not $140 billion, plus cash pallets for ransom money. if anyone in this room had sent $500 and been caught, you would go to a federal super max prison. that is the story of the last eight years. that is the strategic culture that was enabled, from the ri

policies, josh mitchell has his piece about the trump administration looking to scrap obama rules for for-profit colleges. guest: the main thing that the trump administration just did, there were rules called gainful employment that the obama administration put in place that thatif you are a college leaves your student in high dead compared to their incomes, you will lose access to student funds from access to student loans that students used to cover the price of that school. underump administration betsy devos rolled back the roll saying we are not going to impose them. we will go with our own plan to address these issues for high school student that hearing -- for high school -- for high student debt. there will be more for-profit schools that will remain open if these rules are put in place. the approach of this administration is to provide more information to the consumer on the return to investment of the schools, so they are relying on the consumer to be informed to make their own choice about what is the best school to go to and the best place to spend their student loans. hos

have enjoyed wide military cooperation both under the trump and obama administrations washington provides riyadh with billions of dollars worth of planes tanks and other military equipment but now the united states u.n. ambassador seems to perceive the latest attack on civilians as a new development despite the same scenario having played out for years. we had that a saudi led coalition had airstrikes today against a fish market and a hospital in his data that may have caused dozens of casualties we've hit a new day now in yemen. and we've had a new sense of urgency and you know. that if this is what started to happen civilians are at risk infrastructure isn't risk for nikki haley it just occurred today which is unfortunate because the united states is actually supplying a lot of the logistics and the the intelligence for the saudis and you don't hear too much criticism he should have been out there months ago condemning what the the the humanitarian catastrophe that's occurring in yemen. you just you just cannot be nice about this any longer or or just overlook it because it's gone on fo

administration settlement, plans for the 3-d printing of guns were being put up on the web after the obama administrationtopped it. in that settlement the trump administration specifically said 3-d printing instructions for guns were now available for, quote, public release, ie unlimited distribution in any form. which caused the texas group you just referenced, defense distributed -- the age of the downloadable gun formally begins. it should come as no surprise the president's stance now echoes the nra who also pointed to, and praised, the reagan era undetectable firearms act. wh the nra said it strongly opposes any effort to expand the law and the nra's already on record calling the printable guns innovation. while the president deserves credit for recognizing that his own administration settlement was about to lead to a policy that, quote, doesn't make much sense, which is put being it mildly. under pressure, the administration ran right back to the nra for approval of its position. if it weren't for the late night actions of a judge this policy would have gone forward despite the president's tweet. b

. >> and then you went to cornell, you were in the obama administration. what prompted you to run for congress? >> it was about that i don't feel like the third district has been represented well in do.c. and i want to see someone represent our voice and have a decision maker who wants to listen to people in the third district and not just the special interests that he is making sure he stays in office. >> if you win, what are you going to do when you get there. you get to work on three things your first day if congress, let's say you have a democratic

comment 2012, the obama administration agreed with automakers to nearly fuel efficiency to more than 50 miles per gallon by 2025. there was a midterm review to make sure it was feasible and last week president trump's administration proposed freezing the standards at 2020 levels through 2026. so instead of standards rising 5% per year, they proposed to freeze them. also proposing to revoke california's ability to set the emissions standards. those are adopted by 12 other states. as part of the obama agreement, california had agreed to adopt those standards. now california and other states which account for about 35% of the u.s. vehicle market are planning to sue if the trump administration follis there with freezing the standards. the administration also proposed to prevent california from acquiring new rising number of zero emission vehicles, mostly electric vehicles, from being sold in the states. it set up a huge fight between large states like california, new york, and others that adopted those rules, and the administration over the future of vehicles and how many vehicles will h

. >> in the obama administration, the democratic barack obama administration should have shut those downld have been easier if mcconnell would have worked with them. >> so should the trump administration. [ overlapping voices ] >> obama should have done more, but mcconnell shouldn't have blocked his efforts. and now trump, it's on him now to see what he does. he's the president. >> you're right. and today secretary of dhs, kirstjen nielsen said we need to prepare for a category 5 event. >> what is he doing? >> so, governor -- >> he's been saying he doesn't believe there was a storm coming. he's been doing that for a long time, dave, and now they're starting to change their tune in the administration. we'll see what they do. >> can i just say -- >> i got to go. >> this is another case of classic incompetence. he had incompetence in puerto rico. he has incompetence -- >> incompetence in the obama administration -- >> and you're going to see another -- >> i hear you. dave has a point to. >> governor, incompetence of the obama administration? >> dave has a point. >> my head explodes when i s

bush administration when they even considered regime change we saw it with the obama administration when in fact you know they took a fairly tough line to lead up to the two thousand and fifteen agreement but the huge difference here is is that. there was cooperation between those administrations and between partners such as the europeans and indeed between russia and china who were other parties to the agreement because you knew the rules you knew you could work with the state department you knew you could work with the national security council there was an element of trust here what has happened is that a combination of certain officials in washington such as the national security advisor john bolton who is committed to regime change and just the volatile nature of donald trump who has very little knowledge about the issue but just wanted to rip this up because barack obama did it means that the rules are gone you can't trust dealing with troponin on and again steve wants to make this into a fantasy where trump is like the leader of this coalition or i'd love a rainbow unicorn for chr

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. >> is the same economy that was doing well in the obama administration. i have and have-nots. those dependent on wages, many who stood up in 2015 and said obama can you stop talking about the great economy? i'm suffering. we are still suffering. wages remain stagnant. >> president trump goes to a rally in ohio tomorrow with the media ratcheting up. breaking news, this just in, democrats new battle plan about the economy. it is going to win basically they go to try and win in the midterms with the new battle plan. we will show you the debate. i ran not turning to raise oil and gas prices all over the world. launching a major naval exercise. a swarm of ships and drones. this is the white house now has a middle east policy theme to work on a new mideast plan. and president trump's is democrats oppose him on everything. new data and warnings on just how bad it is though. at the board. thank you for joining us thank you for watching, money, politics, we have the debate behind tomorrow's headlines. i am elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. elizabeth: let's get yo

the white house, that there is a conspiracy against them that involves former members of the obama administrationurn, working with what they describe as their allies in the media to undermine the administration. and what trump did not do in 2017 against john brennan and other members of the former obama administration, he seems more willing to do now in 2018, in part because some of the advisers who told him not to retaliate are no longer there. >> that's a very important point. fascinating reporting, important reporting, adam entis, thank you. >> pleasure. >>> "outfront" now, denny heck, he sits on the house intel committee. nice to have you this evening. and before we get into other issues, let me get your take on this new reporting from the new yorker. >> well, i don't think anybody should be surprised. this administration has been marked by daep, deep chronic suspicion of others since its beginning. there's another word for that, paranoia. they've been dog whistling to the qanon conspiracy network since day one. i think actually what's more interesting about it is, what happens to an administ

on the newshoutonight: ane trump administration rolls back obama-era cfuel standards due to take effect in coming years.re thenlts from zimbabwe's historic presidential election are announced, aftersts turn deadly. and, the tale of two factories, and the impact of the trmp administration's new tariffs. >> it's picking winners and losers, and the losers are the end manufacturers of finished goods and products. it doesn't seem right. i mean, if we're goi if we're going to make america great, let's make sure we make all america great. >> woodruff: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs

one town will be open is a symbol of that is this a level of significance and rebuking the obama administration agenda of trying to close it and keeping it open and trying to fill as many people with as possible whether they are charged with an actual crime or not of course you know the obama administration ran into a lot of red tape with respect to closing it because there were not many u.s. prisons or any people that wanted them to be transferred to the united states remind people what happened to president obama there's a clip that we've got and then you see me twenty thirteen and you see me twenty sixteen have a look. the idea that we would still maintain forever. a group of individuals who have not been tried that is contrary to who we are it is contrary it was in these discuss true that i have not been able to close the door. because of the congressional destructions the place of admission of failure of right right that right so people are being detained there's no trial people who create who knows where they're going to get out how do you fix that. well there are a number of different wa