way, these plans are --ng to make obamacare more obamacare's costs more transparent. i have more to say about that in a while. ?ow did all of this come to be with the federal government realized is that in federal law, there is a provision that predates obamacare that exempts short-term plans from federal health insurance regulation and with the federal government realized was this provision, this exemption from federal health insurance regulation was much broader than anyone had previously realized. obamacare requires consumers to purchase specific types of coverage and imposes hidden imposes consumers and obamacare as well as federal law that predates obamacare proposals also to regulation on health insurance. when congress added those visit law, itsions to federal added them to an already existing part of federal law called the public health service act. called the public health service act. is the very first provision in the affordable care act, you obamacare's it adds rules as amendments to the public health service act. health service act relates health insuranc

plansare under obamacare and cost sharing in the obamacare market has increased. doubled in the market over obamacare's first four 2018, the in in average premium available to 27-year-old enrollees increased a record 7%. they compound. they don't go away if in 2019 they only rise by 10%. increases are still there. the worst part about obamacare is the quality of coverage. aspect bears on this. if you look into this, you will find no obamacare plans cover -- or the mayo clinic morrill sloan kettering. anderson accepts dedicated but it does not accept obama. onhas a real impact obamacare plans. her father had just switch jobs. he had to switch from his obamacare plan to an which meanted plan he had to switch jobs because no obamacare plans covered the chemotherapy she needed. provider is out of network there are no limits on obamacare. the erosion coverage will probably get worse because most of the measures that obamacare created to prevent that from happening have disappeared. these are very significant. we have done polling at cato where we have asked people if y

that obamacare requires. so many purchasers of obamacare plans have to pay. number two, because we are talking about short-term health insurance -- i will explain why this change allows short-term health insurance plans to offer long-term protection. finally, i will address criticisms of the health insurance plans short-term and the rule. to begin with, obamacare is now optional. we now have, in health insurance, from the federal perspective, a free market. free from a must all federal regulation. as a result, this is a market that will exist alongside of the affordable care act, obamacare exchanges. as a result of this change, the final agency rulemaking that the federal government issued, we have a market where there is essentially no federal mandate to buy coverage you do not want. no hidden taxes. the premiums for health plans in the short-term market will be 50% lower, even 70% lower than premiums for obamacare. the change will even make it possible for people to purchase health insurance protection for

obamacare. that was a beauty. obamacare. it was repealed and replaced. and you know weighs we did, which i think is really great. it's really something. when you are really sick, it's called right to try. how many times do you know

to kill obamacare, et cetera.ot upholding the law. is this the only time a president has refused to carry out or refused to enforce a law? >> we don't know if it's the only time. the distinction here is that the president himself is stating that it is his goal to use this statute in order to undermine it. according to the constitutional scholars that i spoke to, that is unprecedented. if there was any time that there has been a breach of this so-called take care clause, it is now. now, i did talk to a conservative constitutional scholar who said, you know, it's not going to be that easy, quite that easy because what you are going to sister to have to do i and show that the president is actually flouting a specific statute. this conservative scholar said that obamacare, because of the way that it was written, gave a lot of leeway to the executive. so in terms of the legal nitty-gritty of this and how it all plays out, that's still very much to be determined. but i can tell you that a number of constitutional schola

obamacare was in a death spiral. that is a republican talking point.tely not true. >> the cost doubled, don, that is absolutely true. >> go on, chris. let's talk about this policy. >> don, let's talk about this health care. if steven is going to sit there and say a bunch of stuff that's not true and pretend the problems that exist with obamacare, that a whole bunch of them weren't caused by stuff republicans did over the last few years on purpose, if we're going to do that i would prefer that he and the other people defending this trumpcare plan just be honest about what they want. what they want, don, is to go back to 2009. they want to go back to when insurance companies were in charge. they want to go back to when preexisting conditions were a reason not to give you health insurance. they want to go back to when you thought you were covered for something and you weren't and you got sick and got dropped. i would just prefer they actually make an argument for what they're for rather than pretending that they're for something else, rather than checking

unlike obamacare plans.reached out to some of america's largest insurance providers, but none would comment on camera. in a statement, america's health insurance plans, an industry trade group, said consumers should clearly understand what their plan does and does not cover. the new requirement for short-term plans to make clearer disclosures to consumers is an important improvement. that knowledge, critics say, is crucial. >> in the case of a lot of cancer patients, when they get a cancer diagnosis, they found out they were not covered for things they thought they were going to be covered for. that's the problem. >> reporter: critics fear the alternative plans could divide insurance risk pools. with younger healthier people opting for short-term coverage, while driving up premiums on obamacare plans because they have older, sicker patients. >> the better solution would be to have everybody in the same insurance pool. >> nbc's anne thompson joining us now. anne, that was the whole theory behind the obamacare

the majority of obamacare did not go into effect. mentioned when obamacare went into effect. the corporations never were forced to make the decision about having to cover their employees or pay the penalty. and the 2009w, house committee meeting, they clearly understood 110 million people. host: i don't want to go to too far down this road. let me ask you about that year. did you need to see a doctor and you just did not want to pay the cost? trying to avoid the expenses? caller: i am overweight but the healthiest overweight dude in our area. we are very healthy but insurance. it is not about health care. the insurance is so expensive. even if we could ask then -- afford it there was not a doctor we could see in our county. , that wase paying for the only reason we were paying what we were paying. ok.: guest: not all insurance plans are created equal. what we see in our data are whole with health insurance have substantial medical debts. a lot of that shows up because that is what the hospital or doctor will take. that becomes unsustainable. problem and you are in bankruptcy

we are even keeping the remnants of obamacare. we mostly got it killed and we got rid of the individual mandate, but we are getting the remnants of obamacare, the increase is much less than people thought, that's because of us. and we are getting rid of it slowly and putting in new healthcare systems which is a beautiful thing. ainsley: 76 days away from the mid terms, hard to

the policies may also contain annual or lifetime benefit caps, unlike obamacare plans.eached out to some of america's largest insurance providers, but none would comment on camera. in a statement, america's health insurance plans, an industry trade group said, consumers should clearly understand what their plan does and does not cover. the new requirement for short-term plans to make clear disclosures to consumers is an important improvement. that knowledge, critics say, is crucial. >> in the case of a lot of cancer patients, when they get a cancer diagnose, they found out they were not covered for things they thought they were going to be covered for. >> reporter: critics say it could divide risk pools, with younger people opting for short-term plans, while driving up premiums on obamacare plans, because they have older, sicker patients. >> the better solution would be to have everybody in the same insurance pool. >> reporter: now, the trump administration predicts about 200,000 americans will switch from obamacare to these extended short-term plans. these extended pla

. >>> gracias, buenas tardes, california es uno de 12 estados con más impresiones al obamacare , peroa, tiene que ver con el seguro médico en general y las opciones, ¡están satisfechos con estas opciones? >>> el 70% están contentos, no están contentos el 26%, en cuanto a las edades, personas que son mayores de 50 años dicen que no están satisfechos en un 77% comparado con menores de 50 años no satisfechos con sus seguros médicos con 64%, ahora sí, hablamos del obamacare porque muchos son los que están inscritos y muchos son también los que no están contentos con esto, algunos incluso dicen que no han sido beneficiados y no se sienten beneficiados, 61% alcanza esa cifra y quienes y se han visto beneficiados por el obamacare suma 33%, en cuanto a los partidos, si apoyan al obamacare , hablaremos de los demócratas, el porcentaje se quedó en 41, los republicanos que apoyan el obamacare , 16, y quienes respondieron a esta encuesta que no tienen afiliación de partido se quedó en un 30%, esta es la información sobre la salud, mañana hablaremos de temas generales y respuestas a seguridad por

but he himself voted against the obamacare two thousand and nine along with all other republicans so if you look at the big picture his decades long voting record he's really quite squarely in the middle of the road of conservative politics even donald trump who is sparred with publicly he's voted more than eighty percent of the time with trump's positions according to five thirty eight statistics platform well william mccain's term as senator was actually supposed to go on until twenty twenty two briefly if you can what happens to i think now yes rather complicated so the arizona governor appoints someone to fill his role in till the next general election is twenty twenty of the winner vattel lection two thousand and twenty will fill the rest of mccain's term and until twenty twenty two and then it will go on as normal senate races go to important moment for republicans who are trying to launder senate majority now in two thousand and eighteen mccain's junior colleague also republican senator is retiring and democrats are giving that seat a real run for its money. reporter william b

lower-cost lower coverage alternatives to obamacare, democrats pushed back and how scientists will determine whether the korean war remains are really americans. this is "special report" ." ♪ good evening i'm bret baier, were coming to you live from los angeles and will talk about the california fires, how the china trade wars affecting farmers here and also the arizona senate primary next door. we began back in washington where we are getting mixed signals tonight from the white house about president trump's latest demand that the russia collusion probe be terminated. earlier in the day, the president called on attorney general jeff sessions to pull the plug on that investigation on twitter. the walk back began shortly thereafter. good evening, john. >> late breaking news regarding the possibility of an interview of president trump by robert mueller, the president's outside legal team had sent him a list of conditions for an interview as to what they would and would not agree to. now they have finally heard bac back. fox news has learned that special counsel robert mueller has not agreed to

this mean for the blue cross options that are already existing in obamacare?ly don't think that that's a concern here because what we've found is that the obamacare individual market on the exchanges is largely drawn to the tune of 87%, people who are getting subsidies from the taxpayers to buy their insurance. people are not likely to walk away from insurance that they're getting for free or heavily subsidized by taxpayers in order to go out to the market, go through individual underwriting, and buy a package out of their own pocket instead of that so i think this is a bit of a canard, this notion that somebody will leave that and move to these plans. these are options for the 28 million forgotten men and women left behind by the false promises of the affordable care act. there are other options for other individuals. >> mr. secretary, 87% of the folks in the obamacare exchanges are subsidized well, 13% not subsidized i mean, it doesn't take a lot of some of the choice members of an insurance pool to drain away to maybe cause that insurance pool not to functi

lastly, obamacare. that was something republicans campaigned on ever since obamacare became the law of the land. so, seven issues. border, national security, economy, trade, judges, drain the swamp, obamacare. if i could get a quick show of hands. help me out here. how many of you think it was principally illegal immigration, build a wall that was what drove people to support the president? okay. a solid showing. national security concerns about where we were around the globe. all right. the economy. okay, so far the biggest number. trade agenda. a few. it's okay. judges, the 21. good number there. drain the swamp. and healthcare. obamacare. all right. it shows there were multiple issues. and a lot of different reasons people came to support this president and this campaign. i will tell you i joined because i was chief of staff for mike pence on capitol hill. when the president selected mike as his partner, i was someone who had doubts about where this campaign would go. i had doubts about the ability t

we are even keeping the remnants of obamacare. we mostly got it killed and we got rid of the individual mandate, but we are getting the remnants of obamacare, the increase is much less than people thought, that's because of us. and we are getting rid of it slowly and putting in new healthcare systems which is a beautiful thing. ainsley: 76 days away from the mid terms, hard to believe. if the democrats take back power, do you believe they will try to impeach you? >> well, you know, i guess it says something like high crimes and all -- i don't know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job. i will tell you what, if i ever got impeached, i think the market would crash. i think everybody would be very poor because without this thinking, you would see -- you would see numbers that you wouldn't believe in reverse. if hillary clinton got elected. instead of 4.1 up and each point is $3.5 million and 10 million jobs. when i took it over it was at 1. and it was going to be down -- it was going down. i freed up, i got rid you ha

things were supposed to get better and cheaper for us in fact premiums went up for obamacare response and employer these are employer sponsored so the average contribution per household is now five thousand seven hundred fourteen dollars that's your family the promise of them as you venture to run out of other people's money the problem with the system is that these health care companies are going to eventually not have any more money to steal or i think stuart so they are going to topple over when they stolen all the money there's no more money still people might be voting on this instead it was now it's never been looked into on the us mainstream media that i've seen there are some great people online who write blog posts to do research into obamacare and health care premiums you and i were in north carolina and right before the november two thousand and sixteen elections obama care prices rose by forty four percent just two weeks before the election that is never been discussed in the mainstream media about a possible reason for people voting in a certain way and i'm going to look

he was conflicted because he really does want to repeal and replace obamacare, and there was a lot of pressure on him to do this and do that. i said do what you want to do. >> as someone who had just learned of his own health challenges, to have a healthcare repeal bill with very little replacement, i think was really close to his heart at that moment. >> hillary clinton spoke to her former colleague and friend about how personal this decision was. >> he was getting the world's best care. there was nothing that would be beyond his reach if he needed it for his own treatment. and i think he did really consider all of the people that he represents in arizona and people across the country, and worried that because it was rushed through and there was so little thought to it what would happen to them. >> thoughts that weighed on mccain well into the early morning hours of friday, july 28th as senators gathered for the vote, mccain was being lobbied and wooed in plain sight by republican leadership. but he was quietly sending signals to friends on the other side of the aisle, like democrati

conflicted because he really does want to repeal and replace obamacare. there was a lot of pressure on him to do this and to do that. i said do what you want to do. >> as someone who had just learned of his own health challenges, to have a health care repeal bill with very little replacement i think was really close to his heart at that moment. >> hillary clinton spoke to her former colleague and friend about how personal this decision was. >> he was getting the world's best care. there was nothing that would be beyond his reach if he needed it for his own treatment and i think he did really consider all of the people that he represents in arizona and people across the country and worried that because it was rushed through and there was so little thought to it, what would happen to them. >> thoughts that weighed on mccain well into the early morning hours of friday, july 28th, as senators gathered for the vote, mccain was being lobbied and woed by republican leadership, but he was quietly sending signals to friends on the other side of the aisle. >> he ha

we're getting nothing done. >> he's no fan of obamacare. he voted against it.didn't like the way it smelled. and he wasn't going to put up with it. >> president trump made the repeal of obamacare one of his top priorities. >> obamacare is a total disaster. >> in the hours leading up to vote on what was called the skinny repeal, the usually tightlipped about his decision. reliable republican was tightlipped about his decision. >> i was there the night of the senate vote and john mccain said we should watch the show on thei floor. we had no idea what that meant. >> two republican senators, susan collins of maine and lisa murkowski of alaska voted against the bill. john mccain would be the deciding vote. >> he knew where he was going to vote and there was no moving him. >> he walks back out on the floor and it's almost like a moment out of "gladiator" where the emperor is like thumbs up, thumbs down. there were gasps.p, when he put the thumbs down, when he said no, there were gasps in the chamber. even people who heard he was going to be doing that was, whoa, he a

obamacare and healthcare. this is one of our greatest disappointments that, since 2010, republicans campaigned on a promise to repeal replaced obamacare when they took majorities. when given the chance, we failed in that effort. i think there are a couple of particular senators who voted against our efforts to repeal it and i think they had campaigned and promised their voters they would support it, obviously that's a big disappointment. we were excited that inside the tax bill we tried to make sure americans had more freedom in selection to not purchase something they don't want but nonetheless that's an ongoing struggle for this administration and how can we provide more freedom and more access to markets inside the healthcare industry and drain the swamp. as i said to you before, i really think that is a message that means different things to different people, but it's something that i think american people wanted somebody else. today you still see very low numbers of popular congress. i think it drives me

senators try to overhaul obamacare. >> senators are focusing on what's being called a skinny repeal. >> mr. sullivan. >> three nights later when the senate was taking the pivotal obamacare repeal vote, all eyes were on john mccain. >> i think he was conflicted because he really does want to repeal and replace obamacare. there was a lot of pressure on him to do this and do that. i said do what you want to do. >> as someone who had just learned of his own health challenges, to have a health care repeal bill with very little replacement i think was really close to his heart at that moment. >> hillary clinton spoke to her former colleague and friend about how personal this decision was. >> he was getting the world's best care. there was nothing that would be beyond his reach if he needed it for his own treatment and i think he did really consider all of the people that he represents in arizona and people across the country and worried that because it was rushed through and there was so little thought to it what would happen to them. >> thoughts that weighed on mccain well into the early

we're getting nothing done. >> he's no fan of obamacare, he voted against it. but he didn't like the way it smelled and he wasn't going to put up with it. >> president trump made the repeal of obamacare one of his top priorities. >> obamacare is a disaster. >> the usually reliable republican was tight lipped about his decision. >> i was there during the senate vote and john mccain said we should watch the show on the floor. we had no idea what that meant. >> two republican senators, susan collins of maine, lisa murkowski of alaska voted against the bill, joining the entire democratic caucus. john mccain would be the deciding vote. >> he knew how he was going to vote when he came on the floor and there was no moving him. >> and then he walks back out on the floor, and it's almost like a moment out of the gladdategla >> when he put his thumbs down, he said no, there were gasps in the chamber. oh, he actually did that, it's a shock. >> nobody should under estimate john mccain's ability to seize a moment like that in politics. >> we talked about this, it was not so

could it feasibly stop the president's efforts to dismantle obamacare in its tracks?ierce challenge to it, but here is why the scholars i talked to and the lawyers that i talked to think that it may have a chance. there have been many challenges using this article 2 part of the constitution, requiring the president to faithfully execute the laws, but what makes this different is that there is no pretense here by this president that he is trying to faithfully execute obamacare. just yesterday if an interview with rush limbaugh, in fact, he said, i think i've almost ton aw dunaw done away with obamacare via execution of his pen. he has been open about sabotaging since his tweet last year saying, let's let this baby implode. >> it is different than the executive orders issued by president obama? >> reporter: well, this is trump's executive orders that have effectively tried to create alternative -- what the critics call junk insurance to try to drive people out of the markets. it is trump's orders to roll back funding for so-called navigators or people who could help peo

obamacare. that was a beauty. obamacare. it was repealed and replaced. and you know weighs we did, which i think is really great. it's really something. when you are really sick, it's called right to try. how many times do you know somebody, and you are reading about this potential cure, but it will be 10 more years of experiments and food and drug. and we have right to try. people sign a disclaimer, they sign an agreement for more liability. instead of traveling -- most of people don't have the money. right to try, it's passed. you wouldn't think it would be tough. but the healthcare companies had a problem. the pharmaceutical companies had a problem because everybody was worried everybody would be sued. you sign an agreement where you don't sue people. they want to get better. they want a right to try. we approved that. they have been trying to get it for 40 years. i signed it into law three months ago. right to try. so if they have something you read about that looks really promising. you don't have to wait 12 years. you know one of the reasons you co

many of president trump's own supporters really don't want obamacare to be repealed and so he's now in this pickle where he's trying to essentially undermine the law in the hope that it will make it look worse over time and that people will blame plays it and obama there's really not a lot of evidence that's happening in fact what's happening is that democratic and republican governors are trying their best to make the thing work despite the best efforts of president trump and many republicans in congress it's a very strange situation where where the people who are actually running the government and running these programs really don't want them to succeed and it's very difficult for everyone else involved to try to make it work under those kinds of circumstances and even the congressional budget office says an estimated twenty four million people will lose coverage over the next ten years so where does this leave the affordable healthcare act then. well i think that it will muddle through because i think that there is a concern ironically the effort to overturn the affordable care act

concerns the obamacare case. some people said that judge kavanaugh upheld obamacare, which i don't think to be true. how would you explain that dissent and how would you explain his dissent in what he 5 obamacare case. elizabeth: who would like to take that? >> i think what you see in the is a case you mentioned judge who cares a lot about the words of the statute. and who does not care about passion or presages or any particular party or any particular policy outcome. the threshold question in that case was whether or not the challenger toed a the aca individual mandate to penalty hadhe tax been assessed before challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate tax penalty. writtenvanaugh had extensively about the anti-injunction act in previous calledncluding a case cohen. he interpreted the anti-injunction act to require that the challenge to the individual mandate county be delayed. i think that reasonable people can agree and disagree about. that ist i take from not just how did he decide that issue

the trump administration is once again going after obamacare. today it announced a rule change for cheap short-term health care plans. you're probably thinking what's the problem with that? well, these plans are aimed at healthy people and offer very minimal coverage for low premiums. they can turn ay people with pre-existing conditions. the short-term coverage is already in place under obamacare but the way it worked is that you could only get it f thr months at a time. now you can use this short- can extend it for ng as a another two y give you three years. unr obam it wanted to limit healthy people from being on the cheaper option, forcing people to buy better insurance and then helping keep the price down for everybo becau you had the economy o scale. so the trump administration is trying to get people off obamacare to create instability anigher pres,e president being , hase always doe anyway, that obamacare is failing. relaim of his during the campaign and in his ndof for more on all of this, i'm joined by dr. patel, a practicing physician

>> we've known for a long time obamacare is divisive issue.ple who say they favor it, even support it in this poll is 51%. that is not something to write home about, however the gop tax plan is 40% approval that should be concerning for republicans. it should be reminder they need to communicate well what the law does, state of the economy. reminding people, objective our economy is in pretty good shape. on the other hand, obamacare is 8-year-old law now, it is enjoying status quo advantage, people perceive some benefits from the law, especially people newly-enrolled in medicaid and generous taxpayer-funded subsidies to lower their cost of insurance. they may not see the cost of insurance has been skyrocketing. melissa: other thing struck me unfavorables are really high. if you look at people who view the tax law unfavorably, 41%, more than are favor ann, and unfavorable on obamacare, 44%. sort of like, when you ask people, they hate, they're quick to say they hate stuff too. >> that's right. why i said it has been divisive. there are people w

and then the third one is on obamacare, they promised for eight years to replace it. when they finally replaced it, they could not replace the family car with a bicycle. you need to highlight those points. then make the promise that the best way forward for health just -- health care is to repair it and not replace it. host: thank you for the call to messaging and strategy. guest: i think he has got good points. i do think that both the tax fight and the health care fight were very much things democrats ought to be focused on now. i think we won the messaging war over both of those sites. right now, people trust democrats far more on health than republicans because they see what the republicans are doing, which is trickle-down economics. they want to take things away from working people, give them to rich people and the big corporations. that is a message we could definitely use. host: what about the impeachment message? is that something democrats should use this fall to say, if we win, the house will initiate impeachment proceedings against the president? guest: you

they can't afford obamacare's high rates. >> more people are insured today because of obamacare. >> rates have gone up over 100% in new hampshire since 2014, rates have gone up 64%. >> how much they went up to 20,002-2003 if i got my years right, for some people 200% to 300%. the rise of insurance premiums has not been a product of the affordable care act alone. i have a son today who is alive because of the research and development in the medical field that allows him to have 10 to 15 different high-cost medications, feeding tubes and a bunch of other things and home nursing. he wouldn't have been alive a generation or two ago. let's just talk about short-term plans because the concern is we are saying to people you can spend less money on a short-term plan and when they need coverage they find out the money they spend doesn't cover it. how is that better? >> there are individuals today that can't afford anything because of the high rates. this is intended to give them a choice, an alternative. i'm not saying this is for everybody. what we have done is strengthen the consumer protections

obamacare, that was a beauty. obamacare. it was repealed and replaced, remember? than one vote. and you know what else we did? it is really something. when you are really sick, the right to try. how may times did you know somebody hand you are reading about this potential cure but it will be 10 more years of experiments and food and drug to try now.right people sign a disclaimer, they sign an agreement for no liability and a set of traveling if they have the money, most people don't have the money but i know people of tried -- i know people who have traveled all over the world to try. tough.ot the health care problem had a problem, the pharmaceutical companies had a problem, everybody was worried they would be sued. i said, you will sign an agreement where nobody, you do it, you don't sue people, they want to get better, they want to have a right to try. we approved that. and now was a big thing. a very hard thing. they have been trying to get it for 40 years. i signed it into law three months ago. right to try. so, they have something that you read about the look

chair. >> i do a to point short-term plans a part of obamacare. up until just leading office that was a term of 364 days. with the door president obama restricted those to 90 days of individuals that have been seeing their premiums double, triple, quadruple simply couldn't afford it. they are being forced by his limited plans 90 days at eclectic what the administration does, returns them to where they were, 364 days, and allow renewability up to three years to get people end up with the existing condition can't renew them, you've got the obamacare exchanges. this is just getting an option. well all freedom. >> mr. chair, if i may, if they have an event that the pre-existing condition from the the time that there covered by that short-term plan, they are stuck. and secondly, what we also know is that by extending these short complaints was supposed to be for between jobs. it's minimal coverage while you move to next long-term plan. we know is it's going to drive the cost for everybody else but that's what we have good data about. i'm happy to have

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the trump administration reversing obama-era fuel standards, also taking aim at obamacare. both moves could have major impacts on americans' health. >>> and good day, everyone, i'm andrea mitchell in washington where president trump is reportedly pressuring his legal team to secure a sit-down with the special counsel. robert mueller has a new interview offer on the table for the president. what personal attorney rudy giuliani calls slight improvement by investigators in their offer. three sources briefed on the matter are telling "the new york times" that the mueller team wants to discuss possible coordination with trump associates and russians and whether president trump tried to obstruct adjustmenjustice. the special counsel is willing to accept some written answers from the president but wants the ability to ask followup questions of the president. peter alexander is at the white house. bob bauer is here with me. peter, what do we know so far about this possible interview offer? it appears from this that as of now mueller is not really considering the possibility of push

this exception got fanfare in obamacare. chief justice roberts, writing for a six justice majority applied it and said when it comes to statue ambiguities that provoke a question, we are not going to defer to the agency. you are asking us to defer to the irs about how to regulate billions of dollars in the health market. that is a major question. we are not going to defer. justice roberts still found a way for the irs to win. exceptionhis question to chevron deference. in the net neutrality regulation, judge kavanaugh confront of the major questions doctrine and embraced it. well,id this applies as regulating internet's in this way. congress has not spoken clearly. we are not going to defer to the agency. if we had more time to explain, he took the step further. he would not even have the authority to regulate. question in which you might have justice kavanaugh narrowing chevron deference. i encourage you to read the heritage foundation he published last fall in january. he explains a deeper concern with chevron deference wi

what does skrvictory look like terms of obamacare?at is looks like is what the initial protocol was for obamacare. i call it the aca, affordable care act. that was provide opportunities for people to get health care, to advertise those opportunities and promote them. what we saw in the states were robust rolls increasing with people applying for the affordable care opportunities that were made available to them. now that we've sort of kind of slowed it down, not promoting it or advertising it, no the enforcing it, and now we're driving up the cost. and people cannot afford the costs that are being driven up by the acts of the trump administration. >> mayor thank you for joining me. joining three other cities in a lawsuit against the trump administration. >>> next up, the trump administration going after fuel efficiency standards, proposing a freeze. the white house says it would keep drivers safer and cut the price of cars. we'll ex-complaplain what it wi really do. >>> you go out and you want to buy grocery, you need a picture on a c

my question concerns the obamacare case. some people such as judge napolitano and fox news says judge kavanaugh held up obamacare, which i don't think to be true. how would you explain that dissent and how would you explain his dissent in the 2014 or the 2015 obamacare case. elizabeth: who would like to take that? >> i think what you see in the first case you mentioned is a text realist judge who cared a lot about words of the statute and who does not care about passion and prejudice for any particular party or policy outcome will the threshold question in that case was whether or not the statute required a challenger to the aca individual mandate to wait until the tax penalty had been assessed before challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate tax penalty. judge kavanaugh had written extensively about the anti-injunction act in previous cases, including a case called cohen. there was a lot at stake. he interpreted the anti-injunction act to require that a challenge to the individual mandate county be delayed

obamacare. that was a beauty. obamacare. it was repealed and replaced. and you know weighs we did, which i think is really great. it's really something. when you are really sick, it's called right to try. how many times do you know somebody, and you are reading about this potential cure, but it will be 10 more years of experiments and food and drug. and we have right to try. people sign a disclaimer, they sign an agreement for more liability. instead of traveling -- most of people don't have the money. right to try, it's passed. you wouldn't think it would be tough. but the healthcare companies had a problem. the pharmaceutical companies had a problem because everybody was worried everybody would be sued. you sign an agreement where you don't sue people. they want to get better. they want a right to try. we approved that. they have been trying to get it for 40 years. i signed it into law three months ago. right to try. so if they have something you read about that looks really promising. you don't have to wait 12 years. you know one of the reasons you co

certainly more people are insured today from obamacare then before, correct? verma: rates have gone up 64%. senator: inator hassan: the rise insurance premiums has not been a product of the affordable care act alone. alive a son today who is because of the research and development that allows him to have a pump, a feeding tube, and home nursing. he would not have been alive. let's just talk about the short-term plans, ok. because the concern is we are saying to people, you can spend less money on a short-term plan and when they need coverage, they find out the money they have spent does not cover it. how was that better for them? verma: this is intended to give them a choice, on alternative. i'm not saying this is for everybody. what we have done is to strengthen the consumer protections, we make sure individuals are aware of what they are buying and what the limitations are but the reality is there are so many individuals in our country, 28 million have gone upates over 100%. this limited choice, limited networks, many of the plans being offered have high ded

my question concerns the obamacare case. some people such as judge napolitano and fox news says judge kavanaugh held up obamacare, which i don't think to be true. how would you explain that dissent and how would you explain his dissent in the 2014 or the 2015 obamacare case. elizabeth: who would like to take that? --uired a challenger to be penaltyuntil the tax have been assessed before challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate tax penalty. judge kavanaugh had written extensively about the anti-injunction act in previous cases, including a case called cohen. there was a lot at stake. he interpreted the anti-injunction act to require that a challenge to the individual mandate penalty be delayed. i think that is a question that reasonable people can agree and disagree about. but, what i take from that is not just how did he decide that issue, but what do we learn about how he will decide all issues? i think the answer to that question is judge kavanaugh goes where the law leads. he goes where the text of the

those who support obamacare and those who oppose it. something has to be done. we republicans have locked for a way to end -- have looked for a way to end it and replace it with something else without paying a terrible political price. we haven't found it yet and i'm not sure we will. all we've managed to do is make more popular a policy that wasn't very popular when we started trying to get rid of it. i voted for the motion to proceed to allow debate to continue and amendments to be offered. i will not vote for this bill as it is today. it's a shell of a bill right now. we all know that. i have changes urged by my state governor that will have to be included for my support of final passage of any bill. i know many of you will have to see the bill change ?anl for you to -- substantially for you to support it. we try to do this by coming up with a proposal behind closed doors in consultation with the administration, then springing it on skeptical members, trying to convince them that it's better than nothing. that it's better than nothing? asking us to swallow ou

again, he was not a fan of obamacare. he was not a fan of barack obama. but he did feel that at that point he couldn't follow his party and repeal what barack obama had passed for the american people. he wasn't afraid to go out there on his own and say no >> george, stand by for us. >>> i want to bring in cokie roberts. she covered john mccain on capitol hill. she covered those campaigns as well. we'll talk about senator mccain and as he reached across the aisle. an incredible moment on "the view." when joe biden was on "the view" and he was talking to meghan mccain, of course john mccain's daughter. they had this incredible moment. very real moment. you could hear joe biden's voice that the type of relationship we had with senator mccain. let's listen. >> your son beau had the same cancer that my father was diagnosed with six months ago. and i'm sorry. >> look, one of the things that gave beau courage my word was john. your dad you may remember when you were a little kid, your dad took care of my beau. your dad when he worked with me, became friends with