to find a way to something better than obamacare. so i expect that they are pretty satisfied tonight. i regret to say that they succeeded in that effort. so now i think it's appropriate to ask one of their ideas. it'll be interesting to see. what they suggest as the way forward. senator mitch mcconnell, in 2017, we are talking about the legacy and career of senator mitch mcconnell joining us for this conversation is michael tackett. he wrote a recent biography of the senate leader the price of power how mitch mcconnell mastered the senate, changed america and lost his party. michael, let's look at some other issues, policy issues that are key to understanding the legacy career of the senator. elaine chao, his wife and her family who came to the united states from taiwan. healksbout immigration in this debate over immigration in a clip when he about her family. it's key to understanding his view on immigration policy. let's take a look here. her mom, her mom and dad. born in mainland china when they were young, they were dodging the j

the last big ones were obamacare was a big one. that wasn't positive at all. but one of the other factors that comes into that, of course, is that the president tries to make policy through a large number of executive orders that increases polarization which means a lot more rides on every single election and that's a negative trend. how can we fix this, that's a great question. we have some ideas in the final chapter of the handbook of cato handbook on executive orders that i recommend you to check out but we did talk about a large number of them on the panel. another question from the audience, we have a question in the back over there. >> ethan yang, legal studies department here. my question is what prospects do you see for congress to exercise oversight function or perhaps pass any laws that would leave the president's power and perhaps maybe democrats slip one in the chambers in the next term. i was wondering what is the prospect for something like that? >> over the next two years pretty much zero. republican congress can hold trump administration to acc

the last ones i can think of our obamacare was a big one. that wasn't positive at all but one of the other factors that come into that is that the president tried to make policy through a large number of executive orders and increases polarization which means a lot more rides on every single election and that's a negative trend. how can we fix it? that's a great question. the final chapter of our handbook on executive orders and presidential directives that i recommend you check out but we did talk about that on the panel. another question from the audience. we have a question in the back over there. >> hi. legal studies department. my question is what prospect do you see for congress to exercise oversight function or pass any laws that limit the president's power since i feel like congress is talking more about how many executive orders the president has been passing and maybe democrats flip one of the chambers in the next midterm their disdain for donald trump might inspire more oversight action. what do you think the prospects are for som

this comes from the same woman who oversaw the failed launch of the obamacare website. do you remember that? now, remember when no one could access it? no one can access what she is saying now. it took me three years to figure that out. the left is upset because, most of all, trump is doing what he promised to do. fix large parts of our government frarkly all of it. joining me now dr. marc siegel nyu langone professor of medicine. dr. siegel, your response to kathleen sebelius, if you didn't fall asleep like i almost did? >> well, i was thinking of the irony here which kept me awake. listen to what she did under obama she brought in obamacare, as you mentioned the failed websites but but how about the fact it extended the sick care system more and more people got coverage but didn't give them care. let's make everybody sick so the insurance companies are happy and then we will cover it and pump you full of pharmaceuticals and get heavier and heavier. you will drink more alcohol. obesity epidemic, all of the things that r.f.k. jr. and president trump under make america h

at the same time, most want obamacare repealed. and on guns, democrats are overwhelmingly in support of gun control, while republicans, and to a lesser extent independence, described themselves or as second amendment supporters. how can one candidate from either party truly represents such a divided district? ms. throne-holst: i think that is -- it is important to understand that we are a country that today is very divided but when i got elected to the town board in southhampton i got elected on a people, not politics, platform. i got elected on that i was going to be there to serve people, keep the politics out, find common sense and common ground solutions. and i believed that to everyone of these issues there is such a thing. we have to deal with the immigration issues today. we have somewhere between 11 and 15 million undocumented workers in this country today. if we don't solve that and come up with a bipartisan solution to that -- and i will remind all of you that there was a gang of eight planned that was a bipartisan soluti

at the same time most want obamacare repealed. and on guns, democrat overwhelmingly in control of lotto a lesser extent independet describe themselves primarily second minutes of order. how can one came from either party represent a district? >> i think that it is important to understand that we are a country, that today is very divided. but, when i got elected to the town board in southhampton i got elected on a people, not politics platform. i got elected on i was going to be there to serve people, keep the politics out. find common sense and common ground solutions. i believe to everyone of these issues there is such a thing. we have to deal the immigration issues today but we have the summerbetween 11 and 15 million undocumented workers in this country today. if we do not solve that and come up with a bipartisan solution to that. i will remind you there is a gang of a plan that was a bipartisan solution that was passed in the senate and then did not make it through congress. as a bipartisan plan to solve all of these issues. o

i'm afraid the inflation reduction act could join obamacare, they have a farmers lobbying for carbonblican congressman signing letters wanting to keep it, all these goodies for bipartisan, it, trump will face a tough challenge to overturned that. i'm hearing it will be surgical repeal, not total repeal but even big oil who wants to keep it for the subsidies. brian: trump off to a fast start. what's the next thing you want to see for the trump administration to unleash energy and get prices down? >> the biggest thing when getting prices down, the energy markets are like the stock market, if they get spooked to they go down. if donald trump is unleashing these executive orders and what the republican -- sending a signal to the marketplace, america is open for business, it is so impressive that we have a canadian leader talking about reopening the keystone pipeline which has been dormant for these many years. a consequential energy presidency, donald trump learned he has to get the un paris agreements a minute as a treaty to the senate, get the senate to reject it and get out of the mes

he claimed health care better and cheaper than obamacare, he never even put out a plan. so there are a lot of things that can go wrong they didn't go right. and yet four years later, after leaving the presidency, he's been able to convince a lot of americans that he has an idea of what to do but also corporate america. to me, the biggest change we are seeing, and i wrote about it this weekend, is that for years ago the capitals follow white nationalist, christian nationalist, neo-nazis and extremists who were kicking the you know what out of law enforcement officers in order to serve trump and to stop the peaceful transition of power from donald trump to joe biden. we had thousands of people attacking the capital is basically an attempt to subvert the constitutional order. and now four years later when he returns to the capital, is people returned the capital, it is not these extremist radicals, it is jeff bezos, mark zuckerberg, elon musk. so a lot of corporate america has decided to accommodate trump. they are scared of his tariffs and his power. he has said he will ex

now only one obamacare exchange option. only one.nd i look at legitimate criticism but these are two separate debates and arguments here. if you don't like the guy that cooks your food in the restaurant you don't have a right to walk into the kitchen and take out a gun and assassinate the chef. if you don't like a driver in a taxi cab you can't assassinate the driver. and that is the mentality here is it any different to? >> i think you are right and i totally agree with the way tommy characterize this i mean what is wrong with these idiots? they forget there should be some consequences to your actions. you know you look back at the sympathizers with hamas. that is a terrorist organization. over 1000 people killed. americans taken hostage and yet there seems to be little sympathy. and then there is also no consequence you can go ahead and protester government, that is as american as it gets. but when you go out and preach violence and you go vote and physically attacked people that is fundamentally wrong. not only are they being radi

remember, in 2017, they spent the first six months of that time trying to repeal obamacare and that didork out. and they learned the lesson: you have got to get a running start. as we have been talking this morning. there will be dozens of executive orders signed with hundreds of actions involved to undo a lot of the things. and stephen miller, one of the president's top advisers, detailed essentially where those areas are going to be. they're going to be on the border, energy, the federal workforce, and lawmakers are going to wind up getting a list of the actions just a little before they actually become the law of the land. >> ainsley: well, also, he vowed to make records relating to the assassinations of jfk jr. -- jfk, i thought of you with that because you love history. robert kennedy and dr. martin luther king jr. which by the way we're celebrating him today. is he going to make that publicly available. then also starting the great iron dome missile defense shield for america. get north carolina back on its feet after the hurricanes. and then as we said visit the fires on friday.

it didn't help when congress took 700 billion out of medicare to pay for obamacare. and instead of helping families find affordable health care we created a monster that forces us to buy coverage we don't want, don't need, and can't afford. [applause] >> and imagine members of congress boasting they will fight to repeal obamacare and then turning around and signing up for it. real health care reform is going to focus on prevention and cures, rather than costly intervention. hope comes from finding cures for cancer, heart disease, diabetes and alzheimer's. the same way that we once lined up at the courthouse in the 50's and took our vaccines and eradicated polio, cures, real cures to give real hope to families who hear a dreaded diagnosis and are sentenced to slow and agonizing death. alzheimer's disease alone will cost well over $1 trillion by the year 2050. focusing on cures instead of treatment saves money, lives, and families. i remember president kennedy telling us that we were going to send a man to the moon and bring him home within the decade. president kenned

ready our secretary came out and said that it was bigger than obamacare, which is because of the coal they said they had seen for you. it's been interesting here here watching this giant monitor, trump supporters, this giant monitor, they're watching all the proceedings. it's really fascinating. they booed like, but when they saw the vice president, mike peds, hillary clinton rock obama, and i talked about jackson for justice and george w bush, just to show you how far this republican party has moved away from what it was traditionally before you know, setting the stage you can see that there really is filling up. i think it's important point out. we see a desk on stage where that seems to be an indication that he may be signing present . donald trump, maybe signing some of those executive orders here. looks like a rather small desk, but what we're doing now is just basically these people are, are waiting to hear. they've been in line since uh, early, early and getting there is there you see the desk and uh, you know, i can tell you i've covered most of my physically not duration and

whether you are for obamacare or not, what was clear politically was the american people in 2010 other things addressed. you had the biggest swing against a first-term president in decades in 2010 and a complete he wiped out his chance to realign the country along a democratic line. trump faces the same challenges. if he pursues base concerns rather than what he ran on, the people will -- will reject him and they will move back into either independence or the democratic party and the chance for realignment will have been thrown away. host: give me the base concerns you could be referring to versus the things he ran on. guest: there's no interest in the things that chip roy wants to do. that is not what donald trump ran on and what the american people want. if donald trump will pursue a chip roy strategy to the federal budget, he will throw away his advantage. there's no interest in fighting a religious conservative culture war were liberty, yes. fighting against aggressive excessive and transgender issues, yes. fighting a religious culture were to reestablish to reestablish traditional

-- the collapse of the economy, the financial problems and so forth were addressed by obamacare. none of them. that was the american recovery act. that was things like dodd frank. that was things like the implicit or explicit bailouts through loose monetary policy of a financial institution. obama stuck to that, he might have gotten his realignment. but he didn't. that is the point and wanted to make. he had to adopt a number of policies to help stabilize the global economy. there's an article that i quoted in my reagan book that timothy geithner, the treasury secretary said. that he will be judged by avoiding a second great depression. obama supposedly said that is not good enough. well, he got what he wanted but he threw away the democrats' change for a multi-decade realignment in the process. host: next week we will see him lie in state of the capitol. guest: jimmy carter was a decent man who was a poor president. i can't say he was a poor politician. he pioneered the modern presidential campaign model. before jimmy carter you did not start your campaign two years before the c

cobertura de algunos cuidados preventivos requeridos por la ley de cuidado de salud asequible o obamacarenicolÁs maduro tomÓ posesiÓn para un tercer mandato, pese a que nunca presentÓ las actas electorales, comprobando su presunta victoria. la oposiciÓn anunciÓ que no consideraron conveniente que edmundo gonzÁlez urrutia ingresara hoy al paÍs como lo tenÍan previsto, pero insiste en que asumirÁ la presidencia cuando hayan las condiciones necesarias. y acusaron a maduro de consolidar un golpe de estado. la uniÓn europea y estados unidos reaccionaron imponiendo nuevas sanciones contra funcionarios venezolanos. mientras aquÍ en estados unidos los venezolanos recibieron una extensiÓn del estatus de protecciÓn temporal. el gobierno de biden extendiÓ el programa conocido como tps por otros 18 meses desde abril hasta octubre de 2026, lo que permitirÁ que unos 600.000 venezolanos se vean beneficiados. la administraciÓn justificÓ la medida por la grave emergencia humanitaria que el paÍs sigue enfrentando debido a la crisis polÍtica y econÓmica bajo el rÉgimen de maduro. sin embargo, la extensiÓn n

sistema de saludentre ellas no los precios pero dejar medicamento, recordÓ el tiempo de inscripciÓn a obamacarea revelÓ que no —— en el 2010 identificÓ casos de extorsiÓn, solicitÓ inapropiada y posiciona contenido sexual. sÓlo en 2023 se registraron mÁs de 36 millones de reportes de explotaciÓn infantil. los expertos le recuerdan a los padres que hablen con los hijos de los peligros que se pueden encontrar en internet, y que tenga un control de las personas para que sus hijos hablan, y juegos en lÍneas en las que sus hijos conectan con otras personas en las que aparentan ser niÑos y no lo son. doctor juan: aprendan los juegos de sus hijos, circula en las redes sociales si genera reacciones un necio que sugiere que las parejas se sienten mÁs medidas de puede adoptar comportamientos, todo saludable juntos, fue publicada en la revista, y explica que la shakira de cÓmo consumir comida chatarra, o ser sedentarios, les da a las parejas una sensaciÓn de complicidad, tampoco hay que abusar, seÑores, porque no podemos hacer de lado nuestra salud, si es que queremos disfrutar el todo nuestra pareja. bor

they have one obamacare exchange option, only one. and as i look at this and i look at legitimate criticism, but these are two separate debates and arguments here. if you don't like the guy that cooks your food in the restaurant, you don't have a right to walk into the kitchen and take out a gun and assassinate the chef. if you don't like a driver in a in a taxi cab, you can't assassinate the driver. and that's the mentality here. is it any different? >> no, i think you're right. >> and i totally agree with the way tomi characterized this. i mean, what's wrong with these idiots? >> i mean, they forget that there should be some consequences to your actions. you know, you look back at the sympathizers with hamas. it's a terrorist organization. there are over a thousand people killed in and americans taken hostage. >> and yet there seems to be little sympathy. >> but there's also no consequence. >> you can go ahead and protest your government. >> that's as american as it gets. >> but when you go out and you create violence, when you go o

you know, we saw that with obamacare replacing repealing obamacare was a rallying cry politically. but then when it came time to figure out how to replace it, nobody could come up with a better, better way to do it. i would leave fema in place. i'm disappointed that the administrator has left in the midst of the california wildfires. um, let's not get lulled into the belief that somehow fema should be eliminated. fema does an extraordinary job in very crucial, life dependent circumstances. >> it certainly does. jeh johnson, the former secretary of homeland security, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> and thank you. thank you. and just ahead, there's more breaking news we're following. cnn speaks with former proud boys leader enrique tarrio after his release from prison and pardon from president trump. we'll be right back. >> kobe believed. >> in himself. >> at the. >> youngest possible age. >> it's one. >> of the most remarkable. >> stories in sports history. i don't want to be remembered as just a basketball player. >> kobe premieres tomorrow. >> at nine on cnn. >>

presidente trump solo firmÓ una orden ejecutiva en su primer dÍa apuntando al plan de salud asequible obamacareden ejecutiva, para que tenga validez tienen que. tienen que ser siguiendo alguna pauta establecida por una ley del congreso. el presidente no puede con un plumazo hacer una nueva ley ni cambiar una ley existente. quizÁs se puede implementar por unas semanas o unos meses hasta que se lleve esto a los tribunales y las cortes tengan la Última palabra. >> otras Órdenes anunciadas por el presidente trump incluyen incrementar la producciÓn energÉtica buscando que disminuyan los precios. retrasar por 90 dÍas la prohibiciÓn a tiktok en el paÍs y crear el departamento de eficiencia gubernamental, ademÁs de renombrar la montaÑa mÁs grande de norteamÉrica en alaska y el golfo de mÉxico. ahora, por instrucciones de trump, el golfo de amÉrica. y no es solo lo que el presidente trump implementÓ, sino lo que echÓ abajo. 78 Órdenes ejecutivas que habÍa firmado el presidente biden y que ya no estÁn en efecto entre ellas ha puesto a cuba de regreso en la lista de paÍses que patrocinan el terrorismo y t

chairs and the general pacific. joshua robertson at the old style could register this 3 years with obamacare. and these kids will occur, can you continue to be charged more expensive also when it's the opposite 5th street, you to go staging on virtual list just and then one is much the blame of the visual which from the you know, you're the one with him before i use the money in front of much so for which i appreciate, you know, it's which, which corner stands for creative filled up those to use the equipment. and then you go to the, the only people they go down below western music choice. don't they match the positive sewer at the, at that on great out of pro participation. so again, i thought from you was to, to, i'm not going, there's no change of good, i have time. but what i do is when it's quarterly, which isn't so bad because of the book as a school, it is a. ringback morning. ringback there are certain meals with me that of course, don't know if you have all the colors coming to them, but for me it depends on if in strip. so showing this courtney in the morning who, you know, smart t

. >> or if it ends up like obamacare repeal and goes nowhere, wa, wa. >> no, we're not doing that. thank you, appreciate it. >> listening to program on c-span through c-span radio is easy, tell your smart speaker play c-span radio, listen to washington journal daily, important events throughout the day and weekdays catch washington today, listen to c-span anytime, just tell your smart speaker, play c-span radio, created by cable. >> in the u.s. senate is about to gavel in for the day. today senators will continue work on a bill that would require the homeland security department detain migrants for theft related crimes. in about half an hour, members will vote on whether to advance the bill, which would need the support of 60 senators. more floor votes are possible. now live to the senate floor, here on c-span2.

treat any general project. joshua robertson at the old style with the registration we years with obamacare. and these kids were to continue, continue to be charged more expensive also when it's the opposite. 5th street, you to go staging on virtual 4th. let's just and then one is much blamed. the initial is from the, you know, use the one over him before when you use the info to watch the full, which i appreciate, you know, it's what your score, this thing and this one creative just filled up those to use the equipment and then you go to the, the, on the digital down below, western music had our choice, don't they match the positive sewer the at that on great out the pro participation . so again, that definitely was to, to, i'm not conditional which i'm glad i found, but i'm glad you go to the one you're squared away, which isn't so bad because of the book as a school it is a. ringback ringback is not, there are certain meals with me that of course don't know if you're just kind of coming to them. but for me, it depends on if it's just so showing this courtney in the morning who, you know,

they can with obamacare they'ree penalize your success will have more than 50 employees year old numbern the president comes out says we're going to create jobs to regulation would have a politician that's ever done anything but been a committee organizer he does not understand entrepreneurs do. he is not understand is not a place where they environment. got a 5000 packages job out there or job package out there know you don't, you've never created job in your life. not supposed to creates. jobs. doesn't make any senseen they we saying it. the print jobs the regulations washi regulated one of our businesses out. out of business. we have a saying in our family you're never going to change anything you're not going to tolerate understand what i said you are not gray purse, you are doers because you are here and want to learnnt more. the rest of the country had to wake up to that. it took some people put bided in office and it took them four years to find out what happens when you take a businessman out of office and you put a woke career politician in office. you guys are here because you

it was an infamous situation with the there was a jump activation that obamacare would mean that you would lose your doctor. the one that you use. they said all that is fake news. and what happens, of course obama care passed and people lost access to their doctor and politicized . had the nerve to call this, then lie of the year was it was a very lie of the year because they fact checked it and said, well, this is wrong. this is fake news when of course it wasn't. and that really when you look into the funding as well and to some of these fact travelers, it really is a mess up. they allow that to happen and continue for years until it was time for donald trump. to return to power, i guess, and mark stucco work had to do a user and start using trumps word single. these fact checkers actually sensory more than they're doing any good after come 1st go to what did it in 2016. the legacy meteor wrote non stop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. we tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. but the fact checkers have just been too

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there was an infamous situation with the there was a jump activation that obamacare would mean that you would lose your doctor, the one that you use. they said all that is fake news. and what happens, of course obama care pass and people lost access to their doctor and pull it to fax . has the nerve to call this then lie of the year when it was there lie of the year because they fact check that and said, well this is wrong. this is fake news when of course it wasn't. and that really when you look into the funding as well and to some of these fact travelers, it really is a mess. but they allow that to happen and continue for years until it was time for donald trump to return to power, i guess. and mark soccer work had to do a user and start using trumps were it's same all these fact checkers actually sensory more than they're doing any good. now the leadership of greenland has assisted the people of that danish territory. you have the right to determine its future. that's in response to emissions expressed by us president elect donald trump, stake over over and take control over the isla

a lot of supporters are on medicaid expansion under obamacare. he's going to take away the only affordable health care they have ever known and they voted for him? i don't know what to say other than i am utterly depressed for the next four years for this country. i have a good day. >> fred in maryland on the line for republicans, good morning. >> good morning. trump team range syndrome is still alive and strong with that last collar. you are 70 years old and you have not figured out the last four years? [indiscernible] host: it's a little hard to hear you. guest: 14 interviews joe biden has done. he's had plenty of time. the democrats you bought that he was sharp as ever. all the racist remarks he has made and he's never been held accountable to that. my democrat friends my black americans you cannot keep blaming drum -- trump for these things. i live in maryland. they are giving surpluses. we don't even know what's going on. now we got a chance for accountability. mike from ohio said it the best. we finally got a president for all the people. n

and people said, when they realized the health care was affordable care act, and obamacare, they didn't want donald trump to take it away. he took away, americans access to affordable, quality health care. he took away lowering prescription drug costs for americans. those are things that the american people wanted donald trump to do today. and instead, he did something he did an attack on our democracy by pardoning them. he's doing things that are going to make their cost of living higher. and he did one other thing. he took away the office of faith- based and neighborhood partnerships, an office that your boss created. we had a lot of talk about god and cripture quoting and he took away the area of faith- based institutions. he did a lot of dancing to "ymca" and he hurt a lot of americans. the clock has started to tick on donald trump. he has to make good on his promises. and the show is not going to end well for him. >> i would argue, he has every right to do all of those things. and that's well within the bounds of the things that any republican probably might want to do. but that's

a lot of trump voters and supporters are on medicaid expansion under obamacare.e is going to take away the only affordable health care they have ever known and their spouses and children and they voted for him. i do not know what to say except i am just totally and utterly depressed for the next four years for this country. have a good day. host: fred is in maryland on our line for republicans. caller: good morning. i can see that trumped arrangement syndrome -- trump derangement syndrome is still alive and strong. you are 70 years old and you have not figured out what is going on? host: it is a little hard to hear you. i want to make sure you're speaking directly into her phone. >> i am. 14 interviews joe biden has done. trump has done 24. he has had plenty of time. four years. you democrats thought he was sharp as ever. all the racist remarks he has made and he has never been held accountable. president trump finally got accountability. you cannot keep blaming trump for anything. these cities failed because of black violence and democrat politicians. he has not

you don't want to make mistakes of 2017, quixotically republicans republican after obamacare and this and that almost did not get that tax cut through this time russian roulette with a tax hike. i don't want to obsess about it at least not overly obsess. in kudlow terms, i think that is just -- you heard me out on that, you have been kind. and been very access in ible to media, i know you will be tough on other matters, and the border and terrorism. one thing for sure, sooner we can get dru trump in in, sooner we can get his agenda moving and hit the ground running perhaps with god's grace less will have to worry about jihadists and isis and al qaeda in united states. as well as combination of economic slump and high inflation, the lord will play a role but i say sooner the ber, how about that. >> absolutely, right, a great way to conclude it make america great again, we will. larry: all right, speaker mike johnson thank you for your time, you are busy good luck to the vote tomorrow, sir. >> thank you. >> happy new year. >> thank you. >> on kudlow, will tax cuts drive the bond v vigil

-- the collapse of the economy, the financial problems and so forth were addressed by obamacare.of them. that was the american recovery act. that was things like dodd frank. that was things like the implicit or explicit bailouts through loose monetary policy of a financial institution. obama stuck to that, he might have gotten his realignment. but he didn't. that is the point and wanted to make. he had to adopt a number of policies to help stabilize the global economy. there's an article that i quoted in my reagan book that timothy geithner, the treasury secretary said. that he will be judged by avoiding a second great depression. obama supposedly said that is not good enough. well, he got what he wanted but he threw away the democrats' change for a multi-decade realignment in the process. host: next week we will see him lie in state of the capitol. guest: jimmy carter was a decent man who was a poor president. i can't say he was a poor politician. he pioneered the modern presidential campaign model. before jimmy carter you did not start your campaign two years before the convent

support a hundred billion dollars without reading the bill, even republicans -- >> you did that with obamacareright? >> i supported, government in congress back then i had i wasn't in congress looked at the bill as you know largely modeled after mitt romney. >> i know nancy pelosi had to pass the bill before we actually read it i want your take whether or not, getting the salt cap lifted is enough for you have to get onboard with the other issues that trump is trying to execute. that includes border security, that includes raising the debt ceiling, that including energy permitting are you onboard with those things if you get your salt cap lifted? >> no. >> okay. >> what took breaks are going to do is explode a deficit that could go to four trillion dollars, deficit spending, by the way, that is going to put pressure as you know on mortgages interest rates a 36 trillion-dollar debt now want to began more treasury bond rates going up putting pressure on morts physically irresponsible. >> are you going to talk with president trump about this meeting with gop lawmaker this weekend politico reporti

i was there when -- said we don't have votes to replace ob obamacare. president trump hosted house freedom caucus, that 40 plus seat margin was distorting. now with slim margin, you saw the speaker not a squeaker vote. they all came together. what did president trump say to them? look, it is disrespectful to people, they gave us mandate for security, prosperity, safe streets, affordability, get this done for them. as much as what is different, a lot is the same. when i went to blair house, eight years ago, it became real to me. sitting there about to go to the church. after the inauguration, we went right to work. he called press into the oval office so america could see it in realtime. tomorrow, america wakes up and things feel differently, we're out of paris climate, dei nonsense is gone as much as can be done with the pen. deportations and things will look measurably different. >> lawrence: right now what is he doing? reviewing the speech? is he making phone calls still? he likes to have personal contact with people, is he working on executive orders

need medicaid and the affordable care act and people said when they realized there healthcare was obamacarethey didn't want trump to take it away, he took away continuing to strengthen americans access to quality healthcare, he took away lowering prescription drug costs and prices for america. those are things that the american people wanted donald trump to do and instead he did something, he did an attack on our democracy by pardoning them and use doing things that is going to make their cost of living higher and he did one other thing, he took away the neighborhood partnerships and office that your boss created, that many people in the middle of america we had a lot of talk about god and scripture quoting and all of that and he took away the office in the federal government that works with faith based institutions. there's a lot of show that donald trump does, a lot of dancing to ymca, but he still hurting american people and that was the message that democrats were not able to land and make clear but the clock has started to take any has to make good on his promises and the show is not g

and then it was decided to try to appeal obamacare first which ended up failing.n did not start rolling through until the spring. what would you say to people watching today about what is going to look like. obviously i know you said border, taxes, national security, energy is very important but what can people can expect through this process in the first 30 days. >> lake and ran the is coming out of the gate, i think we will get they'll that we can get on the president's desk. and then we are starting to tee up bills that we think could get done. i think what you are referring to and five away, just to state facts the obama standard for nominations. he got his first 12 threw in 90 days -- in nine days but it took trump 43 days. so we are going to grind hard as soon as they come out of the committee and the president officially nominates them. the committee will get to work and then we'll start grinding through them on the senate floor. but my hope and expectation is that we can get a lot closer to the obama standard than to what they did to trump back in 2017, an

obamacare as broad as it was, was about one thing, so he was a president who promised on day one to change world is going to resist being changed. denmark is not going to want to yield agreement, panama is not going to want to give up the canal. canada will not give up its sovereignty, you know, people who are going to be paying shopkeepers, who now have to sell more expensive chinese goods because of tariffs will not want to sit idly by and they will be demanding their own tax breaks, the dreamers, the immigration -- it's an impossibly complex and very, very difficult machine, washington is, and the president, for all his bravado and all of his bluster and his huge charisma, in any way, i don't cut him short, but it's not going to be enough it seems to me to get some of these real stick in the months to move in his direction when they see the world in totally different ways. >> and that's where the government comes in, if you had a larger mandate, a 30 seat majority in the house, that would be different, and you have to price it out based on what you have. i want to show you this reportin

times and wrote a book about what is happening in the health care industry and other reforms like obamacares the now "out of pocket coalition." and you might be the ideal guest for nonideal situation in america. welcome. >> thank you, ari. good to be on your show. >> let's start with the point that i raised that if you put aside what i am calling the legal semantics, there has to be a regulatory, societal and fiscal obligation for the people who followed the rules and paid in and shouldn't be denied. >> there should be, and until a few years ago, that is the way it worked. but in the mid-1990s, things changed, and back then, and before then, most of us got our health insurance from nonprofit or blue cross blue shield companies and now the companies are big new york stock mega corporations that have put profits over the needs w,and this is what happens when you allow wall street to run the system of health insurance. these companies have to show these investors and wall street financial analysts every three months that they are meeting the investors' profit expectation, and they are doing it

they're going to try to repeal obamacare. we will push back on that with everything we've got. their grand scheme of plans is to reshape benefits in this country for working class people. they want to change programs that people that worked their entire lives to support. on top of that, they want to roll back rights for women, roll back rights for gay people. roll back civil rights we have enjoyed in this country for a long time. what's most important, what people want to see is democrats in the fight. this is going to be a bar fight. we cannot sit around and kum ba yah, holding hands with republicans hoping that things will go our way or hoping they will cut us some bipartisan deal. that is not going to happen. and it makes no sense, none to work with elon musk and his billionaire friends on trying to cut the government. >> well, robert garcia of california, someone with clarity about this 119th congress. i appreciate your time, sir. it is good to see you. congratulations on being re-elected and sworn in. >> thank you. >>> thank you. today a new york judge scheduled donald tru

obamacare has been a disaster. we know that. i don't think -- i won't keep litigating that.icare and medicaid are the two largest federal government programs. that's where congress' attention needs to be focused and needs to be a part. reconciliation packages that they will have to extend tax reform to deal with a in am of border issues. 14 the piece of legislation for this year in congress, and it needs to have significant spending cuts and reforms to these programs to have any credibility to extend the tax cuts. >> maybe medicaid, but the president didn't he campaign on not touching medicare? >> yes. and you can take and have substantial reforms to medicaid, which we hadn the first repeal and replace bill in 2017. this is not a new policy set. this is not something -- all you have to do is dust off the old policy and you get significant. hundreds of billions of dollars of savings the next decade by putting in simple reforms like handing medicaid over to the states with a growth rate that is significant but not gross and generous like it currently is. reforms like that have