as far as i'm concerned healthcare is a right not a privilege, reserved for those who can afford it. medicare for all is oneto get to universal healthcare that is affordable and accessible for everyone. but it's not the only way. the democrats are working to build on the success of the affordable care act to cover even more americans, senate republicans have tried time and time again to eliminate coverage for tens of millions of americans. this is particularly evident in the president's budget, a budget that would take over 2 trillion in cuts to medicare and medicaid. programs that provide healthcare to one out of every three people in our country. i call on my republican colleagues to join us to improve the aca and expand coverage to more americans rather than trying to repeal the affordable care act time after time. it is unfortunate that my colleagues would rather offer this ddestruction then acknowledged that millions of americans rely on medicare, medicaid, and the aca healthcare. in offering this resolution per republicans continue to do nothing except promote cuts to all three critical programs. mada

it's been a pit for conservatives, theresa may and no one solution. with healthcare there is no easy solution to this. why we don't have it. >> on the economy he's going to win on that. in immigration, he's going to win in the end. the choices people have to make is, do i want obamacare changed, fixed improved, he said he would do or do i want this government run i don't have a choice who my doctor is. kamala harris is out there if she's the nominee. >> people have choice under medicare for their doctor and under obamacare for their doctor. i don't know anyone -- >> private insurance, kamala harris has said, get rid of it. >> there was some when they thought there would be none. very very few. it's not just true. >> you have far less of a choice. far less of a choice. >> i've looked at all the democrats healthcare care plan. i will agree with david. the only person dug in is bernie sanders. the other democrats, kamala harris, even elizabeth warren have ko sponsored many different options. what we're looking at in terms of how the american people see it, not different

number three on healthcare. i want to bring up briefly, i'm in the capitol, talking to members of congress who think this is beyond stupid. republicans wrestled with this for eight or nine months in 2017 when they had all of congress. they were unable to do anything. they don't want to revisit this in any other administration would be practically unthinkable to return to the issue that cost you your majority in the house. here we are and that's what the president is indicating that's what he wants to do. >> the president has started a pitch to americans on healthcare. this is what president trump said on fox news last night. >> we'll become the party of really good healthcare. we're going to have great healthcare. the republican party will be the party of great healthcare. you watch. >> what do we know so far about the president's plan for healthcare? >> one thing we know is that there is no plan. this all stems from the decision to have the justice department seek to have, again, obamacare overturned in its ent

entire affordable care act - known as obamacare ...as the perfect pivot point to refocus back on healthcare- one of their marquee bread and butter issues.pelosi: "protecting and strengthening health care is why democrats are here on day one."the trump administration' s move - laid out in a legal filing on monday - continued a remarkable shift from their position in the past.the president first proclaiming trump: "i want to keep pre- existing conditions. i think we need it."then last year then-attorney general jeff sessions saying parts of the law that protect people with preexisting conditions could not be defended -- but the rest of the law could stand. now, the doj telling an appeals court that it agrees with the ruling of a federal judge in texas that invalidated the entire health care law, saying it "is not urging that any portion of the district court's judgment be reversed."meaning the health care of millions of americans who rely on obamacare is in greater peril.if the law is ultimately overturned. many americans could lose coverage for kids up to 26 remaining on their parents plans,

the healthcare debate earlier today on futures with maria. sident trump last week declared the gop would be the party of healthcare as he works to eliminate obamacare and push for a new healthcare law. let's bring in democrat from utah on the house financial services community and a member of the blue dog coalition. great see you. the map white house senior advisor eliane conway said your party doesn't like obamacare either. take a listen and i'll ask you to react. >> if the democrats actually liked obamacare they'd be running on that instead they're running on medicare for all and it got exactly zero votes in the senate. people made choice on the campaign trail and when you had to vote on nonsense like medicare for all, they vote present. >> conversely, where are you right now on healthcare going forward. >> i think we have a healthcare system that works by and large but there are a lot of people who are left out. we have to come together and find ways to move forward in a bipartisan fortun fashion. as long as either side define success as th

where there is healthcare coverage under one system with the option of buying healthcare or you are talking about what we have in place adding of a public option? >> i think what we have got in place is so entrenched. we have north, 60 million people that get healthcare insurance privately. i understand that many of them are unhappy with that. many of them are on tent and don't want top lose it. i think better to take what we have now and provide a public option and could be medicare or medicare advantage that we can negotiate and figure out what the best system is of how we maintain and expand our quality and at the same time control costs even if we get the universal coverage. medicare and having a public option where people can choose and if they can't afford private coverage or if they are not happy with the coverage they can afford, they want to buy into medicare, they should be able to. i don't think we go and impose in the entire country right away. i think it would be disruptive and divisive. >> how much invest guyiigating d the president do? >> i want to see the mueller report as s

it would allow them to focus on the healthcare needs of their patients. are the most profit generating. the central premise here that the private sector is not borne out by any evidence. >> this is kevin on the oppose line. >> caller: gentleman you're doing an excellent program here. one thing you haven't addressed is human nature and mr. antos said it could have unintended consequences. as far as human nature, doctors have to spend so much money to get through medical school, they have to spend so much study and everything in here you're going to have the government telling them what they can make or mediocre professional athletes are making 20 million a year. you can have enough doctors in the future . i will be long gone because i'm an old man that that stuff happens, people say what happened? nobody takes into account human nature. >> thank you caller, dr. shortage of potential one? >> it's only a doctor shortage if you don't accept the improvements in medical technology that will increasingly take it possible for people without full md training to pro

new healthcare plan would be and it also came on the exact same day that democrats unveiled their new legislation to not only shore up obamacare but to expand it so democrats are thrilled if 2020 is going to be all about healthcare. >> let's talk quickly about some of these new polls that we have been seeing with regards to the release of the mueller report. in the past, many of the people that were polled, a lot of the voters said they didn't necessarily care about the russia investigation. in fact, now, those very people want this mueller report to be publicly released. what do you make of that? >> yeah, this investigation has been going on for almost a year or two years, really. so it's not a partisan issue that people want to see what is in the mueller report. that's evidenced in the house of representatives voting unanimously a couple weeks ago to release this report. but circling back to this healthcare issue, i was on the campaign trail over the weekend as well as several other of our nbc road warrior colleagues, we all found that the mueller report was not an issue that was to

entire affordable care act - known as obamacare ...as the perfect pivot point to refocus back on healthcare- one of their marquee bread and butter issues.pelosi: "protecting and strengthening health care is why democrats are here on day one."the trump administration' s move - laid out in a legal filing on monday - continued a remarkable their position in the past.the president first proclaiming trump: "i want to keep pre- existing conditions. i think we need it."then last year then-attorney general jeff sessions saying parts of the law that protect people with preexisting conditions could not be defended -- but the rest of the law could stand. now, the doj telling an appeals court that it agrees with the ruling of a federal judge in texas that invalidated the entire health care law, saying it "is not urging that any portion of the district court's judgment be reversed."meaning the health care of millions of americans who rely on obamacare is in greater peril.if the law is ultimately overturned. many americans could lose coverage for kids up to 26 remaining on their parents plans, coverage f

the top ones are the economy, healthcare, there are a few others that get put into that mix. the president right now has a strong economy, which he has suggested he's going to run on in a major way. now, the economy may be weakened -- weakening more once we get closer to election day. that will change the dynamics of the race. healthcare, on the other hand, is something that everybody has to deal with in their lives. it's something that americans really care about. it's been a big issue as david was laying out earlier in nearly every presidential election cycle in the last several years. and it will continue to be in this next cycle, especially if many americans who feel they have benefitted from obamacare, specifically from the preexisting condition aspect, also being able to keep young adults on their parents' plan see that as a risk of going away. >> jeff, thank you. david, thank you, antoine, thank you, sir. >>> funding fallout. outrage growing over education secretary betsy devos and her proposal to slash federal funding for the special olympics. i'll talk to one senator

on. we'll talk about healthcare. hat's a more important thing for us to spend time on. >> bill: it appears some of your colleagues aren't willing to move on yet. would democrats be smarter to pivot back to the issues? >> absolutely. i think it's always better to talk about things that really matter to the american people, whether it's healthcare which we'll talk about, whether the kind of things we need to do to partner with rural america to help them deal with struggles, building infrastructure, creating a digital privacy policy. these are things that matter to the american people. the mueller report was very important and it took a lot of time and attention and we should see the results, but we have to balance. our job is to do things to benefit the american people and i think we need to get back to focusing on that as democrats and republicans. >> bill: here is what you tweeted on valentine's day on the green new deal. you said it has been proposed. it is about as realistic as trump saying mexico is going to pay fo

or move on to healthcare. so adam schiff, as you know, the chair of the intelligence committee said to the "washington post" yesterday, he's sticking with his collusion fight. he says, undoubtedly there is collusion, we will continue to investigate the counterintelligence issues that is, is the president or people around him, are they compromised in any way by a hostile foreign power? it doesn't appear that was any part of mueller's report. are you comfortable with chairman schiff digging in in that way? >> i think we're capable of addressing two different issues at the same time. and if the intelligence committee and the house wants to continue the counterintelligence aspect of this issue, i think that's fine. it's undisputable now, particularly given mueller's report on this topic that the russians interfered in our 2016 election. i think likely from what we're hearing from the intelligence community they will try to do so again in 2020. so i do think congress has a role, in particular, looking forward makin

, repeal and replace or medicare for all, republicans and democrats could not be farther apart on healthcare panel is digging a next. rob: put your on and it is opening day. the best ways to celebrate america's past time. stay tuned. guys do whatever it takes to deal with shave irritation. so, we re-imagined the razor with the new gillette skinguard. it has a unique guard between the blades. that's designed to reduce irritation during the shave. because we believe all men deserve a razor just for them. the best a man can get. gillette. ifor another 150 years. the fire going ♪ to inspire confidence through style. ♪ i'm working to make connections of a different kind. ♪ i'm working for beauty that begins with nature. ♪ to treat every car like i treat mine. ♪ at adp we're designing a better way to work, so you can achieve what you're working for. ♪ >> welcome back. republicans and democrats shifting their focus to one of the biggest issues facing our country, healthcare reform. >> obamacare is a disaster, too expensive by far, something we can't live within this country, democrats of what you d

is already giving easy ammunition to democrats -- many of whom ran and won on healthcare. jeffries: "house democrats are focused on kitchen table, pocketbook issues involving lower health care costs and increased pay for every day americans."and plays right into the hands of president trump's 2020 democratic opponents eager to take this on.trump: "leaders should stop playing politics with people's public health." (ken) that was (ken) (ken) (ken) that was sunlen serfaty reporting. observors say the chance to fight for healthcare is a welcome opportunity for democrats looking to move on from the mueller report. let's get a check of the weather around the bay area.... time now for the 4zone forecast... with chief meteorologist lawrence karnow. lawrence karnow: we enjoyed some sunshine and partly cloudy skies with showers moving in late. highs today were in the 60s. on the doppler you can see a few showers moving in but heavier rain is on the way. on the satellite you can see the storm off the coast. clouds and rain will be on the increase especially after midnight. there is e

but i think a lot of those laws really have to be changed. >> and yet, chris, just like on healthcare, where's the middle ground in congress. >> there's no middle ground. it's the great tragedy of our time and it's not just under the trump years, there was also, in obama, we could go on and on, whether it's healthcare or immigration, all kinds of things, the budget, $22 trillion in debt. there are all kinds of solutions that people come up with. but with our disfunctional electoral system, don't get me started here, and the fact the only problem if you're a republican you think you have somebody further to your right or democrats further to the left. in a primary. that makes itany kind of compro. >> limit's get beyond congress and deal with the pres ago william barr the attorney general of the united states put out thisert, summary if you will, of the mueller report. democrats still digging in and saying they want the entire report, we're likely to get some version in the middle. the president isn't shy about taking victory laps. we saw it at this rally in michigan. what do you think

this was a bad week for president trump on healthcare. berals were asserting because his own party clearly does not want to get back into the healthcare fight after what happened in the mid-terms 2018 when, as you saw, the democrats were able to regain control of the house by pushing one issue, healthcare and especially the notion of protecting people with pre-existing conditions in terms of their insurance coverage. now what you see the president has reopened that box. the trouble for the republicans with no understanding that he needs a plan that is better, which is what he had long promised. he doesn't have it. you see people saying mr. president, even the president's most stalwart supporters, mr. president, this was a mistake. >> primaries push the political rhetoric to the far left and right sometimes. you see that this time around. you see a left position forwarded in the green new deal. at the same time a lot of democrats are backing away from it. they know it won't be popular with the electorate. the vote in the senates where all t

saturday the president went after mcdane for a no vote on healthcare bill. meghan mccain defended her father on twitter. responding to the president. saying quote no one will ever love you the way they led my father. >> will brave win. >> new york senator gillibrand seizing on the word brave. in a video officially announcing her run for president. she has bee in the exploratory faze. she calls for universal healthcare and green new deal. the democrat asks supporters to meet next sunday for outside trump tower in manhattan. >> todayongresswoman hosted her town hall meeting since being sworn into office. representing the tenth district in northern virginia. she took questions from the crowd at elementary school. sheo vows t hold more of the town halls in the coming years. >> we continue to follow breaking news. police want to find this man. he killed his u ple inrince george county. and they are calling him armed and dangerous. >> the wearing of the green at one local establishment isn't just about st. -guys, i want you to meet someone. this is jamie. you're go

she lays out some simple truths on education, on healthcare. >> i think that people want right now in our country leaders who will speak the truth, no matter how difficult it is to hear, have some vision of the future. i can provide that. >> senator harris says she's talking to people across the country who share the same concerns. she's hoping policies like medicare for all and raises for teachers will unite those supporters and help her rise above the crowded field of candidates. harris has another fund-raiser in atherton later this morning. >>> a woman says a bay area hospital prevented her from being with her dying hospital. the hospital is defending itself saying it was an issue of safety. ian cull explains. >> meeta chetal's father, jai, was hospitalized in last week with fluid in his lungs. he was in good condition until she got the call. >> he was complaining about chest pain. we were waiting for the cardiologist to address that. >> reporter: she went to the hospital. but when she arrived her name was flagged. she and her uncle were asking when the next operation would take pl

on topics, healthcare is number one. i think people want to make sure they can afford their medicine and their health care. >> if you get rid of insurance that is healthcare they are talking about. >> most people do not say, that they say to extent public option. >> an issue you grab that will turn this, second, student debt. >> oh, yeah. >> touches so many people now, if you grab on that, i think you, get a lot of votes. -- >> peter, i am sorry, we have some breaking news. break in faa said southwest airline boeing 737 max 8 aircraft without passengers, without passengers aboard has landed safety, after declaring an emergency over engine related problem, it left orlando international in florida, two pilots on board. and they were flying to victorville, california to deliver the plane for storage. all this coming after grounding of 737 max following two fatal crashes since october, boeing spokesman, said the company was quote aware of the indent and supporting our customers. a lot more on this, a little bit later in the s

. >> with opposed to your views on healthcare. >> look, were not talking about healthcare right now, but we will. and you'll see this very soon because obama cares into the disaster. it's too expensive by far. people can't afford it and the deductible is horrible. the premiums cost too much, the deductible is horrible. the only difference between now and the other administration is that we are administering obama care very well. so, we have made it better, but is still horrible, no good, it is something we cannot live within this country. it is far too expensive for the people. not only for the country, i'm not even thinking about for the country. it's too expensive, the premiums are too expensive. people are going broke trying to pay for it. and, the deductibles are averaging over $7000. you have to spend 7000 before you get anything. that's an unusual circumstance. so, the deductibles are too high. obama care is a disaster. so, i said this yesterday and, i mean, it. i understand healthcare now especially very well. we are going to be the republicans, the party of great healthcare.

has never once given us any statement that he understands the int kasiraka of protecting people on healthcareused to offer this expansive nature of healthcare and now his administration is pursuing a very extreme anti-obama line. clearly the animus against obamacare is the run through. because the aca was originally a republican-proposed plan, let's not forget that. but now the administration is all in in terms of trying to remove the preexisting conditions after the republicans campaigned on it and the president continues to promise that he's for it against the evidence of his administration's actions. that, you know, they can say they're going to propose a plan but they've had almost a decade do it as a party. so the president would seem to be lying to his base. >> margaret, i think what's interesting is hearing how majority leader mcconnell is trying to deal with this, because this has been tossed into his lap. he doesn't want this hot potato. and so he said to "politico," i look forward to seeing what the president is proposing and what he can work out with the speaker. i think that's so

on. let's start with healthcare. obama care is the law of the land. we are not successful and repealing and replacing that was something. there is not one republican part of the process who will touch the protection for pre- existing conditions. that is the law of the land, it will stay that way. what we can do is provide the protection without having premiums double, triple, and quadruple. what i propose is, let's fix thathe faulty architecture of obama care, which cost about 5% or 7% of the american population, who had to buy healthcare with after-tax dollars, and were forced to admit the full cost or burden of pre-existing condition coverage. the better way of handling that is things with high risk pools. they pass guaranteed issue, premiums skyrocketed. premiums for young people were cut to a third of the level for elderly to have to let's fix the problem maintain the protection for pre-existing conditions, but do it in a way that is financially responsible, and does not call his small size slice of the american population to bear the full burden.

party will soon be known as the party of healthcare. >> democrats are trying to focus the message on healthcare. >> the republicans want to take away healthcare from tens of millions of americans again. >> the department of justice announcing it will no longer defend the affordable care act in court, agreeing with a lower court ruling that the law is unconstitutional. >> the department of justice have become the department of injustice. >> healthcare is being overshadowed by new efforts to impeach the president. fox news has learned george papadopoulos has formally asked the president for a pardon. he pleaded guilty as part of the molar probe. he told foxnews if granted i will be honored to accept it. t. >>> the pentagon allocates another $1 billion for the president border wall. democrats are calling the move a pet project. the latest back and forth next. >>> a study looking at the effects of medical marijuana on american workers over the age of 50. we'll talk live to the author of the study to learn more about the finding. >>> today about to overturn the president's veto on the order wall eme

healthcare. you had republicans trying to run under this as well. josh hawley ran ontecting preexisting conditions. obviously, republicans see healthcare as an issue they need to be stronger on. do they behind the scenes want to keep obamacare in place and keep them steady and don't want the president to take it. what are you hearing? >> i can't report on private conversations. i think republicans are stunned on this move the other day that the president had a good day on sunday where the barr's letter came out and he was taking a victory lapse and it was a self-inflicted wounds to take this step which was against the advice of attorney general and ahead of home and human services which is what we are learning. i think it was advice of a lot of the republicans. they had something that was going for him and all of a sudden, they shifted the ground to an issue that had a great deal to do with the democrats taking the house in 2018. >> quick question, if the court rules and the president's favor and dismantle obamacare, do democrats have a plan to replace it and they'll

we're not gonna give up on healthcare. it is an important issue. nk our eyes are gonna work better for the public than obama care. music to my ears. everybody talks about the politics of healthcare. what i'm talking about is outcome. people need lower costs. prescription drugs. he mentioned that. that will be a top priority for the president. try to reform prescription drug costs so they will be lower. >> thank you. >> dana: there you had it, the senator from south carolina. he's also the senate judiciary chairman, talking about a range of things. we were just about to talk about the agenda going forward. he said healthcare, drug prices and preexisting conditions are going to be the thing republicans will be able to count on going forward. your thoughts? >> it's a really important area for us to focus on. we've lost two years talking about the issues that impact the american people. i have talked to the president about this as well. he believes republicans have an opportunity to put forth their version of healthcare. it will have to be done in a bip

>> spend less money on healthcare in this country. look, we spent 16% of g.d.p. on our healthcare. . >> tucker: these are talking points. anyone who writes a piece of garbage like this is not interested in solve ago problem. i think we can both agree on that. chris hahn thank you very much. >> thank you. >> tucker: leaked phone call shows how google, the most powerful company in the history of the world not opposed to congress apparently in its pocket. google tried to control the conservative's movement on immigration by cpac with own puppet. cpac is going on. last year we have the audio exclusively just ahead. democratic presidential candidate has a warning about artificial intelligence. he joining us. we are happy to have him join us after the break. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: big technos about you in some cases more about yourself. they know where you go and what you eat. may know what you think. the only thing you can't control is what your thoughts are but they are working on that too. in a 2018 phone recording obtained exclusively by this show. the head of u.s. public policy explains to g

you went on to work in healthcare. you worked in healthcare at baltimore. you enforced there. you have been a bad-ass from day one. you implemented programs where you helped kids get reading glassing and this improved test scores. the kids weren't dumb, they just couldn't see, right. >> yes. >> trevor: you worked on improving general healthcare of the community, has this always been the focus of your life, improving lives with health? >> yes. i've always wanted to be a doctor as long as i can remember and also working in the e.r., helping people who are sick isn't just all there is, it's systemic issues. healthcare needs to be a human right available to all and not just a privilege available to some. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: when you take over planned parenthood, though, you are taking over an institution that is easily one of the most divisive in america. you have an institution that works to support so many pemwomen and their reproductive right, and you have an institution that has become the single enemy of the right. what is your idea of what

healthcare. they both have gone way up. there's only oneuality and reduces costs and that's competition. when you put government into the process competition goes away, prices go up, quality goes down, so i think it's exactly the right approach, we want to lower costs, we want less government involved, we want more competition involved and that's exactly the mantel that republicans can assume. this is exactly what republicans stand for, so i think it would be great. if we can be the party of healthcare, i think that'll be real positive for the american people. >> andy, this is jonas ferris. i agree broadly speaking with everything you just described, any system, but with healthcare, since the republicans seem to want to keep the popular pre- existing conditions rule from obamacare, how does that ever jive with any kind of free market? someone could walk in and need hundreds of thousands of dollars of something and you have to provide it at a relatively low cost and with no limit. how would that ever work without got backstops or taxes so it

or on infrastructure, is there a way to negotiate with him in order to get healthcare and obamacare backup top fix those problems in exchange for parts of the wall? >> it is a good question, senator mcconnell has not been successful in trying to negotiate with the president on this. i am not sure if there is any opportunity to do that. it is really kind of a shame because one of the things that the president's budget talks about which we are interested in is getting a handle on prescription drug prices. there is an area that we can work together on. infrastructure is another area. we think his proposal is inadequate but at least we have the same goal. we ought to be working on things like that rather than just arguing over something again. the signs have been clearly drawn and we are not going to get anywhere on this. >> is this the 2020 battle beginning now? >> that battle started long time ago. >> is the president trying to say here is what i am focused on, defense spending and here are what democrats are focused on, bigger government and more money for taxpayers. >> the president

>> now veterans affairs officials testify on female veterans healthcare issues and a house appropriations subcommittee hearing on capitol hill. va women's health services chief consultant patricia hayes says the number of women using va health services has tripled since 2001.and women constitute about 16 percent of today's active-duty military forces. this is just over an hour. >> i like to call the meeting of the military constructions and veterans compares Ãb this morning we welcome doctor patricia hayes chief consultant for women's health services and doctor susan mccutcheon national mallhe topic of our hearing today, which i am really glad we have an opportunity and the time to take, there are some byproduct benefits of the government shutdown. in the vice president's budget being late as we have an opportunity to slow down for a minute and take a step back and be able to have some really important discussions about the issues that we need to consider before we actually start writing our bills. and access to va health care for women is really critical and one that i think is important

spending on healthcare is increasing, but there's no single solution.ty so the families here can afford to buy the food they need, and there also needs to be improvements to sanitation, and increased awareness about nutrition and family—planning. his mother's story is typical of many rural women, married off at a young age, she has nine children and her husband struggles to provide for them. translation: all we have to eat is bread, yoghurt, and chile. we cannot afford things like fish, chicken, or meat. in the hospital's maternity ward, many of the mothers to be are malnourished themselves. that means that children are more likely to be stu nted. that children are more likely to be stunted. there's a cycle that pakistan needs to break, for their sake and the country's. secunder kermani, bbc news, sindh province. we had back to sharanjit leyl in christchurch. you have been there for a few days now, and people still coming out in large numbers to pay their respects where you are, and their respects where you are, and the botanical gardens. that's rate. i

i am hopeful surprise medical billing can be the issue that can lead to agreement on other parts of our healthcare system which also need addressing. >> all right. and on a positive note. i'm going to take a few more minutes to pose a couple of questions to the panel for we go to the audience q&a. direct your attention to the brookings report. i think it pushes the boundaries a bit more because it tries to get down to the root of market failure that causes the problem as presented. it brings more the role the hospital please. i think it presents an innovative idea but i want to get your reaction to in terms of whether you would agree. you can speak to the pragmatics also the principle, you see problems essentially requiring these key specialists, their services to be bundled with the hospital so the hospital has to negotiate and bill for that on their behalf to bill. or number two, don't worry about setting the cap to low because if you do there is a market correction which is the hospital can top off the payments to these ancillary specialists and bring it up to a level necessary to keep adequate

at that same time we were still doing hearings on healthcare, talking about how to bring down the priception drugs. we have begun outside the hearing room talking how we will pass a real infrastructure bill to rebuild our country. we are talking about that and having hearings on those very very important topics. i'm guessing your viewers have no idea that is even going on right now. >> our viewers pay very close attention. i wouldn't insult their intelligence right now. does it seem to you that the speaker is trying to down play expectations from the mueller report? >> i don't think that's it at all. she doesn't know what's in this mueller report, she doesn't know what's in the mueller report. adam schiff doesn't know what's in the mueller report. we will only know when he releases that. only a select few people will know that. we will be passing a resolution that says the mueller report is very important. we've invested almost two years of our resources and time, energy, effort, money, to get to the bottom of this. i believe the american public deserves to know what that report says. >

one of them was healthcare. because we woke up yesterday shocked, frankly, that the white house signed on to this legal argument saying that obamacare should be invalidated immediately. the president dove in with these republican senators. explain. >> the president was not demurrer, john, as you say, he often isn't in these moments. look, i think the president is mindful the republicans had campaigned on depeeling the affordable care act, including him in 2016. there is this existing suit. i think the white house is trying to figure out how you deal with nevada that sa deal with that. that said, the chief of staff, the first ideologue the president has had in the chief of staff role, reince priebus, not ideologues, nick mulvaney protested the affordable care act in congress. he was very much for this. on the white house counsel told others that bill barr and alex aczar objected to this move as well. the president, however, likes the idea going forward with it. and has been pretty celebratory about it. you saw tha

the number of women's veterans enrolling in va healthcare is increasing with increased demands on the healthcare system. women make up 16.2% of today's active-duty military forces and 90% of the reserves. in all service branches the expected number of women's veterans healthcare will continue to rise rapidly and the complexity of injuries of returning troops is likely to increase. more women are choosing va for their healthcare than ever before. the number of women veterans using va services have tripled since 2001 growing from under 160,000 per year to 500,000 a year today. to address the growing number of women veterans eligible for va healthcare we are strategically enhancing services and access for women veterans. every vha healthcare system has a full-time women veterans program manager tasked with advocating for the healthcare needs of women veterans using that facility. any residencies use components which have been disseminated to improve efficiency and since 20 oh 8/5800 healthcare providers have been trained in our national program. we have enhanced by focusing on the goal o

capita on healthcare. plus a lot of money on healthcare. prices in healthcare, it's worse. when you talk about medicare and medicaid, understand the number of americans receiving will be eligible for medicare work go up by ten million people from 60 billion to 70 million. number of americans receiving medicaid also going up by ten billing over the next five years. you are seeing more and more pellet people eligible for the programs, healthcare general inflation and, we're not addressing that issue. if you want to have cost-effective health care for all, look at him medicare for all your pair program. the last thing you want to is medicare and medicaid and cause more health suffering in the country and more death. >> time is expired. the amendment is laid aside. next moment is senator kennedy. amendment number one. >> thank you. americans take care of their less fortunate neighbors. i'm very proud of that fact. in our country, if you're hung hungry, we feed you. if you're homeless, we house you. if you're too poor to be six we will pay for your doctor. we stand about a trill

healthcare was number one. of them were healthcare workers, many were the primary gare givers for family members who need healthcare and they were scared to death about what s going to happen to the healthcare of their families and people they care about. and interesting, too, i wanto remind all journalists always, not a single trump voter we asked throughout the campaign was on twitter. >> woodruff: again, a subject we're going to come back to. it's a big one, healthcare. connie schultz, chris bus we will be having both of you back. we thank you. >> thanks a lot.ju . am woodruff: the amount of student loan debicans hold is at a record high. and much of it is shoulded by millennials-- people now in thr late 20s and 30s. which means that young people coming ang behind them, in what's called generation z-- those born after 1996-- are facing some tough choices about how to pay for college. as economics correspondent paul solman learned, some are taking lessons from what's happened to eir older brothers and sisters

it encouraged and condoned the rule and its áeffects on women's rights of healthcare.are living in a narrow thought was a beast of power. under a president who has shown nothing but disdain for the flow of law. all the more important in this dark and dangerous era that we have someone willing to set limits on the executive power to prevent an imperial presidency, in pfact, ms. rao a proponent of a fringe theory on executive power known as the unitary executive theory. she believes that the president as the head of the executive branch holds absolute control over executive powers. recently as 2014 she outlined the implications of this theory in the alabama log review. according to her, the president must be able to remove, at his sole discretion, all principal officers, including the heads of independent agencies, and she's criticized the supreme court decision in morrison versus olson. which upheld the independent counsel statute in effect at that time. her view, the president must be able to fire, at will, anyone from the executive branch. in her view that includes sp

he does have issues that he can campaign on. >> healthcare being when he came out of the gate surprising people on and that was the biggest issue when it came to what moved swing voters was healthcare, democrats especially paid a lot of attention to that interviews looking at targeting audiences that frightens a lot of people because his approach was to repeal health care and the preexisting condition clause in the existing aca is important to a lot of people so what is his plan for replacing? on the front of whether he continues on this mueller finding and being exonerated, the thing he needs to take part on his there's a 300 page report looming and while there were criminal charges a lot of those independents are people who don't look at issues as black-and-white which is why they are independent. they are thinking more about there may not have been criminal charges but there was interference in the election by the russians, that has been proven and there are close ties with the campaign so that is in the gray area. i would caution him ongoing too strong on that issue. shannon: your of

i would be careful about the messaging on healthcare, especially considering that democrats are very ing one-fifth of the economy and made car and medica. ashley: the democrats seem to be struggling with far left policies as opposed to a joe biden moderate. >> when you're talking about a $93 trillion green new deal and renovating every building in the country and abolishing private health insurance, that's a boone to the trump campaign. ashley: president trump says come on green new deal, i love it, because he knows it's an electiohe'llanelection winner. lauren: the dow is up 30 points, the s&p up 3 and three quarters this morning, it's the s&p's best quarter since a decade. changes at the happiest place on earth, the ban at disney parks that has some parents fuming this morning. and wells fargo's ceo stepping down, one presidential candidate is over the moon about it. what will it mean for the bank and its customers? keep it here, "fbn: a.m.." ♪ when we're together. ♪ what do you look for when you trade? i want free access to research. yep, td ameritrade's got that. free access to ev

party in the last mid-terms total us you were running on the economy and you would do great things on healthcarebut what we see mostly is a whole bunch of investigations and 81 subpoenas from jerry nadler. >> the point of this to act like this investigation is a witch hunt that trump keeps trying to call it. this resulted in 34 indictments, 7 guilty pleas, six of those guilty pleas were people in the trump campaign admitting to criminal behavior. it's not like this investigation makes trump look great. when you have everyone around you involved in criminal behavior -- ed: everyone around you involved in criminal behavior seems like a stretch. >> enough to field a football team. that's significant. these are the conservatives who wanted to investigate hillary clinton seemingly to her grave over benghazi and her emails. but something came of this. and that should raise eyebrows. ed: most of of those indictments were to russians note actual trump advisors. stephanie, i will give you the last word. >> a lot of people got in trouble. this was mueller investigating, finding a crime. this was about tax

healthcare. it is the number one issue.ng across the country, across my district, for, too many people their health-care plan is the charity of strangers. you see these gofundme accounts all over the bay area where someone gets sick and they don't have a plan they can count on. they need you to click that link and send $20 your way. that shouldn't happen in the united states. >>> democrats facing a wide variety of choices. what do you think would be the thing democrats are looking for? >> coverage for all which is to me a public option that puts pressure on the private in shirers to bring down the costs but to solve the unsolve ac. invest in cures in our life time. if we take just half of the trillion dollars tax cut the president gave where 83% went to 1% of the people and put that in data sharings, targeted therapies, and look at every alzheimer's patient and say we're going to bring down the cost and save life. >> you have been talking with democrats. what are they looking for? >> go big, be bold, do good. >> i can do th

on that. >>> president trump wants the gop to become the party of healthcare. the top republicans in the senate may not be on board that. senator majority leader mcconnell is speedometers on t responsibilities on the white house. quote, mcconnell says, i look forward to see what the president is proposing and what he can work out with the speaker. >> thanks to both of you, geoff bennett. >> geoff, this is a remarkable situation. it is not the first time that mcconnell had broken with the president. president trump has to come up with a plan. >> here is what's causing disconnect. president trump often engages in what you can call bumper sticker politics, saying things like repeal and replace or republicans are now the party of healthcare. mcconnell does not have that luxury. unlike the president, he has to be invested in all of the political and policies and details and nuances. mcconnell and we all know it is democrats that campaigned heavily on things like healthcare and the economy and it is democrats who were successful in flipping the house. there is also th

she is now with grand rounds, which is a healthcare company as well. and she is on the hot seat this morning because we are talking about healthcare, one of the hottest issues in the united states today. and one of the components of that is what we in the news call big pharma or that's what we hear politically. which it brings to the question is how much of our healthcare problems, solutions, do the drug companies play a role in? >> well, phil, the rising cost of healthcare, drugs and healthcare is an issue that actually hits really close to home for me. i have seen many, many patients end up in the emergency room or admitted to the hospital or in the icu because they couldn't afford drugs that probably could've prevented their illness. i think the cases that we are hearing about today with insulin, for example, shouldn't be happening in this country. people deserve better. you shouldn't die because you couldn't afford your insulin. >> so the question becomes whether we provide the money for the insulin or we control the cost of the insulin. that seems to be the two