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

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

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

to kill obamacare, et cetera. not 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 scho

unlike obamacare plans. we 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 obama

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

this mean for the blue cross options that are already existing in obamacare? >> you know, i really 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 insuranc

obamacare,ne is on they promised for eight years to replace it. --n i finally replaced it, you need to highlight those points. then make the promise that the best way forward for health just for 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 think both the tax and health care fights were very much things democrats ought to be focused on now. right now, people trust democrats far more on health care and taxes because they see what the -- what they're doing, trickle-down economics. they want to give things all to the rich people in the big corporations. that is a message we could definitely use. what about the impeachment message? the house will initiate impeachment proceedings against the president? guest: i have never been a big fan of process arguments. we need to focus on issues that matter to folks. a lot of democrats are in favor of impeachment and i do not have a problem at all saying that we should aggressively investigate the president because

could it feasibly stop the president's efforts to dismantle obamacare in its tracks? >> reporter: there will certainly be a fierce 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-calle

even subsidize obamacare. >> food stamps and subsidized obamacare, they are lawful products. if you meet the poverty level requirement. and you cannot punish a person in america for partaking in a lawful product, particularly one offered by the same government that is purporting to punish them. stuart: if you come out and say we don't want immigrants to a burden there is nothing wrong with it. >> correct, it would be an easier case if they started anew and said whoever comes in after august 8, 2018 and participates in this program is going to get back of the line for citizenship. they'd be on notice. stuart: which is what president trump wants to do with a new immigration policy and put it right up-front. you can't come here unless can you show you're not going to be a burden on the public purse. >> none of this can be done by the executive branch. this is legislation, this has to be done by congress if this is the president's way of getting the congress to think about immigration, that's a legitimate political technique, but the proposal itself is standing alone, coming from

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

he voted no on obamacare. we had obamacare done if you would have raised his hand. repealed and replaced, he voted no on repeal and replace. we did get rid of the individual mandate and we brought it down and it is leaving fast. does leaving. joe donnelly voted against the wall for refugees. let the men. open up those borders, open them up. he says open up those borders and let them in. he voted against stopping illegal immigrants from getting welfare. and he repeated voting for amnesty. he wants amnesty! he also voted for the liberal obama judges who want to take away your second amendment and lots of other things. we need to elect senators who will vote for judges who follow our laws and our constitution as written. like supreme court justice neil gorgeous who is doing a great job. and judge brett kavanaugh who we are trying to through in this election you are not just voting for a candidate, you are voting for which party controls congress. it is a very big vote. people say we have the majority, by how much? buy almost nothing. somebody has a cold, we know longer

that's why obamacare struggled because young people didn't want to sign up and older sick people used the service. >> oh, i get what you're saying, we need to combine movie pass and obamacare. >> trevor: no, that's not -- >> i read you loud and clear, trevor! that is an amazing idea! ( applause ) so young people get movies, old sick people get healthcare, we'll call it moviecare or obamapass. i don't know, we're working on the title. picture it, you're in the movie theater, watching the spy who dumped me starring hasan minhaj, you're getting your popcorn on, your sewedd sewed -- soda on ans to movie pass also a colonoscopy. >> trevor: hasan minhaj! we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause ) sewedda ♪ well, here's to first dates! you look amazing. and you look amazingly comfortable. when your v-neck looks more like a u-neck... that's when you know, it's half-washed. add downy to keep your collars from stretching. unlike detergent alone, downy conditions to smooth and strengthen fibers. so, next time don't half-wash it. downy and it's done. hey, what do you guys wanna listen to? ooh

that's why obamacare struggled because young people didn't want to sign up and older sick people used the service. >> oh, i get what you're saying, we need to combine movie pass and obamacare. >> trevor: no, that's not -- >> i read you loud and clear, trevor! that is an amazing idea! ( applause ) so young people get movies, old sick people get healthcare, we'll call it moviecare or obamapass. i don't know, we're working on the title. picture it, you're in the movie theater, watching the spy who dumped me starring hasan minhaj, you're getting your popcorn on, your sewedd sewed -- soda on ans to movie pass also a colonoscopy. >> trevor: hasan minhaj! we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause ) sewedda hey, what do you guys wanna listen to? ooh, hip-hop! reggaeton. edm. what about bubble trance? bubble what? bubble trance. it's a thing. (man) oh. my point is, everyone's got different taste. that's why verizon lets you mix and match your family unlimited plan so everyone gets the plan they want, without paying for things they don't. and right now, the whole family can get six months of f

isn't that the problem of obamacare? we're sucked into the vortex? >> and then it's like we were talking about earlier, once everyone is getting something for free, they never want to give it back. capitalism works, look at the price of medical care over the past 20 years, okay? but elective surgeries, those prices have gone down over the past 20 years because you have capitalism working there. there's a million other things too with medical care, you have tort laws where everybody is suing everybody. i read once that almost every prescription drug out there has a lawsuit against it. mark: i don't doubt it because some states when you drive around, like in florida, every other billboard is personal injury lawyers? every commercial on the radio is personal injury lawyers? >> people don't want to realize it's an imperfect world, you know? not everything is going to work right. there's always -- some people are allergic to peanuts, some people are allergic to a drug, and you get so much bureaucracy involved, lawyers involved and everything is sort of, e

he voted no on obamacare. we had obamacare done. if he raised his hand to repeal and replace. he voted no on repeal and replace of obamacare. but we did get rid of the individual mandate and brought it down and it is going, leaving fast. againstelly voted enhanced betting for refugees. let them come in, open up the borders. open them up. [booing] he says to open up the borders and let them in. he voted against something illegal immigrants from getting welfare. donnelly repeated voting for amnesty. he wants amnesty. donnelly also voted for liberal obama judges who want to take away your second amendment and lots of other things. [booing] senators whoect will vote for judges who follow our laws of the constitution as written. like supreme court justice neil gorsuch, who is doing a great job, and judge brett kavanaugh, who we are trying to get through right now. in this election, you are not just voting for a candidate, you are voting for which party controls congress. very big boats. it is very close. people say we have the majority, but how much? by almost nothing. somebody has

like on the senate floor, he said he would want to get rid of obamacare, obamacare, then he voted to keep it going. that's not really discussed. but overall, you got to give him, i would say, an a, because he was a man of endurance. and i have a question for you, sir. is his mother still alive? host: i actually don't know the answer to that question. caller: yeah, maybe you can find out, because his mother really, you know, i think she's still alive, i think. host: ok. here's a statement from senator mitch mcconnell, who is the leader of the republicans in he senate -- host: let's go to steve, calling from advantage aville, california, on the -- calling from vacaville, california, from the democrats line. caller: good morning, c-span, and all my fellow americans. i am 65 years old, a labor democrat, 32 years retired teamster truck driver from northern california, very active. and i have the utmost respect for the republican american hero. this is a genuine american hero. yeah, i disagreed a few things with senator mccain. i watch c-span regularly. i've seen him on the senate floor. w

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

that's why they use the obamacare system. that's not what one would think is typically welfare. why would we look to punish people like that? >> well this will goes to the heart of how you build the american dream. miller says he wants to target illegal immigration. most people i've interviewed you have a very familiar immigrant story. that is that someone comes here, start working a low paying jobk might need government assistance at the beginning and then they go on to maybe go to college and might become a professor. so many years after i'm able to support my family and put my kids in college. i know so many people like that. what this would do is say even if you had a simple beginning, we're going to hold that against you. i think we have seen steven miller talk about this idea of chain migration. it has just been family immigration. it's been the way that generations of immigrants have come here. come here, built a way and brought over the family and built families. it's how america was built. i think that's a really at the heart of this policy. >> julia, who does this poli

kennedy: we still have obamacare. are the american people suffering because of obamacare? >> no, they are suffering because the premiums are going up. but back -- the truth of the matter is this. kennedy: i want ned top respond to that point. >> there are bills in the house from gary palmer, the dealt with preexisting conditions that democrats voted against. >> i said it's not a law. >> no democrats are going to vote for it. this side of the aisle, you know what? we want to pass through the deal with the preexisting condition is a smart approach. we want healthcare reform. if we can't get democrats in the senate to vote along and bring real reform and obstruct, we can't have solutions for the american people. >> that's a red herring. >> no, it's not. >> republicans have a majority in the house. if they wanted to get something done on healthcare, they have democrats willing to work with them to get something done. even republicans voted against it. so let's not have this krmt about democrats being obstructionists and maybe the republicans will couple with ideas to fix our h

repeal obamacare. he did not repeal obamacare. in the nuclear threat with north korea. he did not do that. as dangerous as he is, he is an effective. mike pence knows what he is doing. mike pence is an insider. he has respect on capitol hill. he has been there is a governor. he knows how washington works. he knows how to get things done. he knows how to keep the low-profile and deal with people. he is not flamboyant, in your face ugly attack dog that donald trump is. i think in terms of a policy point of view, mike pence would be more dangerous and defective the donald trump because he would get things done. host: mike is joining us from maryland. republican line. caller: how are you? host: you are listening on c-span radio. is thismy only comment is what the democratic party has always been about the last couple years. just hate on donald trump. hope we win some elections. it is not going to happen. you attack these people purposely. aboutd you your comment calling mike pence disgusting. he called donald trump this and that. we know what we got. we know he is not the m

be 50% to 80% cheaper than an obamacare exchange plan. it is a really important to option for millions of americans. cressida is very difficult to argue with cheaper health insurance but at the same time, you get what you pay for an part of the reason it is cheaper is because they cover less things. isn't that correct? cheaperlans will be based on individual underwriting and negotiations between individual and the plan. they may not be right for everybody. folks i think these are most likely right for our people in transition between jobs. the economy worker who is an independent contractor and does not have employer insurance, the person with three part-time jobs and no employer insurance, the kid headed to come -- from college to their first job, maybe person enrolled jeff rural america who may have access to one obamacare plan but it is not affordable or does not have the network they need. people should go in with eyes open and that is why we have put more stringent consumer protection controls and even president obama had when he had

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he voted for obamacare originally. he was a deciding vote against repealing it. on that issue, i'm a guy that has lived in the real world. i've had -- i have some solutions to bring to the table on healthcare. we took on the health insurance companies ten years ago, and i've got an affordable plan where my employees haven't paid a nickel more in ten years. when tax reform went through, we lowered family plans. when it comes to border security, all the things that count, joe donnelly was for the iranian deal. he was in lock step with the point of view of chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and other liberals of the party. he disguises himself here in hoosier land because he has a few votes that aren't consequential. you know, he's not going to get away with that through the duration of this stretch through november. >> neil: we'll watch closely. thank you, mr. braun. i know you'll be busy with the president tonight. they're already lining up and he hasn't left washington. mike braun, the indiana senate candidate on the republican side getting ready for the big rally in

these can be 50% to 80% cheaper than obamacare exchange plans, so this is a really important new option for millions of americans. david: it is very difficult to argue with cheaper health insurance. at the same time, you get what you pay for. part of the reason it is cheaper is because it covers less things. isn't that correct? >> these will be cheaper based on the individual underwriting, they may not be right for everybody. the folks these are most likely right for her people who are in transition between jobs, the gig economy worker who is an independent contractor and does not have employer insurance, the person with three part-time jobs and no employer insurance, the kid headed from college to their first job as a cap, or maybe the person in rural america who has access to one obamacare plan, but it is unaffordable or does not have the network they need. people should go in with their i open, and that is why we have but more stringent consumer protection control and that even president obama had with these plans. david: fair enough, but just to be clear, this consumer protections a

if obamacare was paris hilton, obamacare is kim car trashian. it can't happen and that math is an inconvenient roadblock to warm feelings. but snuggles and butterfly kisses won't cure cancer or pay the tax bill when the too big to fail system fails utterly. tawdry lip service was paid to the health plans because they get idealistic votes. just ask vermont. ask why they discontinued the state's nearly $3 billion insurance plan. it's because their total state budget is just over $4 billion a year. similar plans are stalled in legislatures from cali to the empire state. there are never any program terts or safeguards to rein in spending for the free-wheeling socialists who are unapologetic about robbing you and spending your money. now the democratic dogma might have more bite than bark. that's the memo. there are a number of primaries across the country tomorrow. a dozen democrats running for governor tomorrow have pledged to bring universal healthcare in some form to their state. so why is single payer healthcare gaining so much traction on the l

obamacare, we get rid of the individual mandate which is the most popular aspect. i would've gotten rid of everything but as you know, one of our, one of our, one of our wonderful senators said thumbs down at 2:00 in the morning. obama carries essentially essentially decimated. we have also -- once you get rid of the individual mandate which we've done, that was really the end of obamacare. we have helped where people are still stuck on obamacare, they were tried to get their rates down. people are shocked we have kept their rates down. the increases have been much less than people were projecting that they would be because of what we've done. not because of what -- it would've been -- they were 120% when i was running for office. we have worked very hard on tha that. secretary azar. i had something passed called right to try. does everyone know what that is? it's when you are really sick, terminally ill. we are potentially a great cure but it's going to take five years to get approved. fda or whatever. people now are allowed to go try those things which may work a

border security and build the wall it is a base argument that seems to always work they can't talk about obamacare repeal they can't talk about a tax bill that's becoming increasingly unpopular so they will talk about about border security and they will play up people's fears and the story line out of ohio is a perfect example the individual who murdered this young woman frankly his nationality the status of his immigration was not a factor in his decision to brutally murder this woman he is a cold hearted more.

or do they go for another attempt to repeal obamacare? who knows? maybe they'll combine they will. but it is coming. as sure as we're talking. >> your point with a tax cut, they will go for another tax cut package too, don't you think? >> absolutely. just tonight trump is talking about using executive action to do away with the capital gains tax. they are just salivating at the opportunity. they know they blew at this time last time. they know it is not polling very well and they are desperate to make themselves whole by giving more tax cuts for the wealthy and some crumbs to the middle class. >> there's another part of this. and sabrina, you touched on this. the president attempting to block pay raises. it was about the economy or about the budget. for budgetary reasons, they blow this massive hole in the deficit. and that is the predicate. what is it looking like? i think you'll see a push for austerity, particularly cut social security and medicare if they retain control with the justification being the budget deficit. >> absolutely. and we've known republicans have been willing

about aeally care president that is rolling back obamacare, why have you not thought harder for single-payer? if you really care about reproductive health, why have you prioritize republican leadership of the senate over the reproductive health act? hold out of the pair's climate accords? why have you not fought for the climate act, which would have caused 100% just transition to renewable energy here in new york state? are sor cuomo: there many misstatements there, it is hard to do it in a minute, but let's hold up. on immigration, nobody has stood up to donald trump the way i have. we are suing donald trump from ripping the arms of babies from their mothers. we will not cooperate with a bunch of thugs. have not asked the liberty act. -- you have not passed the liberty act. governor cuomo: excuse me. i let you speak. far as drivers licenses, eliot spitzer tried that in 2007. supported that. we need a law. the legislature would not pass it. i said we would pass it in a state of new york. it would be a top priority. and corporateate democrats -- there is only one corporate democrat on this st

joe manchin always voted for keep thed he voted to disaster known as obamacare -- and i will tell you, it is being chipped away. we had it beaten. , shockingly. no surprising to a lot of people, because he campaigned on repeal and replace. we really knocked it out, including the individual mandate, the most unpopular part of obamacare, where you have the privilege of paying a fortune for not having to pay a fortune for really bad health care. we got rid of it. that came along with the biggest tax cuts in our history. and joe manchin voted no on the tax cuts. here, i sawe i was signs along the highway, "joe, you voted no on tax cuts and voted no on our president." and he's going to no. -- to vote no. i'm not going to knock him, but schumer is the boss. he should give us a vote on justice kavanagh. everyone should. this is a great, brilliant man, but joe is just not voting with us. he voted against your tax cuts. he voted against repeal and replace. he votes against the things that we want. he votes against the people of west virginia. you can't team that. -- can't do that. all, and he

obamacare is front and center at the event and start being the president's agenda on the front and now they're looking out for their own highs. that is that democrats are looking for. the president seems to be impervious to their bowling, but all of these other people are not. democrats are counting on taking control of the house in using all these different committees. not just one committee, not just impeachment, but harassment at every level of the administration or in congress. that is a significant risk if we don't perform well in the midterms. lou: as you and i have discussed, as the chair of the rnc, mcdaniels has pointed out, every republican should be attaching themselves to the trump agenda. we are told as many as 40% are not doing that. that's why a lot of savants are very worried about keeping control of the house because the chamber of commerce, paul ryan is doing nothing apparently. i am told reliably he's not raising money. he can't raise money because he's a lame duck and not particularly beloved by his party. he's not campaigning for anybody. why in the world does the

the thumbs down and repealing and replacing obamacare. he gave one of his most of compassionate speeches saying regular order had to happen. and that it wasn't about stuffing legislation down lawmakers' throats. he was somebody who stood up to power. he was a unique figure in american history. i think you can't really put your finger on many people who everr served as much or the kind of service john mccain has served the united states. marianne: even though you didn't hear from him as much in the last year or two when he was fighting cancer, he was still have much involved in the major votes going on on capitol hill. bret: he was. considered coming back for several of them. the defense bill that passed was named for john mccain. the chairman of the armed services committee. i covered the pentagon for 6 1/2 years. there would be, you know, different branches of the military who would have to testify in front of the armed services committee and specifically john mccain. and they would shutter because he would get after them about pricing a

in and said, he went thumbs down. >> we had obamacare repealed and replaced. and a man, i won't mention his name, but a man at 2:00 in the morning went thumbs down. >> one man very early in the morning went thumbs down. >> that was a very sad day for the republican party. that was a very sad day for the country. when that vote was cast. that final vote was cast. thumbs down! >> all of that, jamie, said while senator mccain was fighting for his life after he was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. >> it is unimaginable that donald trump would go out there time and time again while john mccain is battling cancer. john mccain's daughter megan called it gross and i think that's -- that word is correct. but what was very interesting about the tape you put together there is how often donald trump won't even use his name. he is obsessed with john mccain. and john mccain has really been the standardbearer for the andy trump part of the republican party. and he cannot stand it. i will say and there is been some mention of this before that senator mccain has said

republicans because i think if republicans had come up with a legislative fix, a conference of one for obamacare, we wouldn't be having the conversation about socialism at all. >> juan: what does it tell you that they didn't cop with anything? see five i think it was a gross failure. >> jesse: repeal and replace. [all speaking] >> dana: i maintain they should've done tax reform first. let the economy show what it can do when it's unleashed, and then have a conversation about repeal and replace. >> kennedy: absolutely right. >> dana: but no one listens. >> tyrus: i listen, and greg says yes. >> jesse: of course he is watching on vacation. >> juan: kennedy, what would you say to our seniors who would say we love social security. government does not write. medicare, government does that right. >> dana: conservatives can say there are programs that work. we can figure out a way to make them work better and last longer. >> kennedy: you have to be bold and brave and not worry about being reelected. but really tackle entitlements, not for seniors, and offer full who are enjoying medicare and social sec

he's an individual who wanted to promote expanding obamacare in his state. even the president coming in last minute is more about trying to rescue this. regardless of what the results is, you will see democrats use this as an example of what will happen in the mid terms and the margin is something we'll have to look at as well. adam: democrats have had a lot of close calls. but you have to cross the finish line. despite how tight this is, the numbers are against the democrats. can they snacht defeat out of the jaws of victory? >> this is a must-win. this is a district trump won by 11 points in 2016. he put his name on the line. and he came in and did that rally. and this is about setting the tone and perception the next 9 some days. if democrats win, it's a narrative that they can take back the who is. it's an up or down vote on impeachment. if baldersons wills, they need to hit the panic button. they need to be concerned about tonight. even if it's a close race, they need to renew their efforts between now and november 6. republicans have 90 days to react t

tax law. 51% favorable opinion of obamacare. come on in please, i need help on this one with, fox news contributor jason chaffetz, former republican congressman. author of the book, the deep state. how is that going? >> it is good. available for sale now. the deep state. stuart: i hope you get it. let's get serious. those polls spell serious political trouble for the president and what say you? >> enthusiasm gap is real in a non-presidential election year. who will get their base, motivate their people to get out. i happen to think the economy is good, they may not equate that directly to the tax cuts. i think republicans in general have done a pathetic job trying to message on this you don't see any national ad campaigns. you don't see a real push out there explaining what is happening and why the drivers of the economy are moving forward. republicans have always been pretty lame in this category. and they will pay a price. stuart: we have to say that the media is uniformly ignoring good economic news. look, i got three major n

si una persona ha pedido ayuda de seguro, estampillase comida, asistencia mÉdica y oba oba obamacare que puede ser negativo, aÚn no es un cambio oficial, es un rumor, lo digo no para alarmarlos, si estÁn pensando voy a pedir ayuda, lo piensen si estÁn en miras de lograr la residencia ociudano estadounidense. >>> siempre buenos sus consejos abogada y queremos invitarlos a ustedes a conectarse en redes sociales para hablar con ella va a contestar sus preguntas a las 7/6 del centro. >>> y gracias alma rosa. >>> gracias a ti, buenas tardes. >>> bye. rescatar a su guacamaya que caÓo en el lago, le dio un buen susto a un vecino en illinois, se acercÓ donde estaba el ave y se quedÓ atrapado... bomberos lo ayudaron y en todo mooe a lo complicado del rescate, el colorido pajarito no se le salÓo del hombro, como los piratas en las caricaturas. >>> el alga que invade las costas del caribe. la reina del pop latino.60 aÑos. madonna nos muestra que la edad es solo un numero. ♪ ♪good goes around and around para que vistas la última moda... desde tops atléticos... ...hasta vestidos zaf

we've done a number on obamacare. werere coming out with a tremendous health care plans, we've gotten rid of the individual mandate, the most unpopular thing in our country, gone. no individual mandate. you have the privilege to pay a fortune as a penalty in order to not pay a fortune for bad health care. is that a good thing? i don't think so. you know how many people have comeme up to me and said thank u very much for getting rid of the individual mandate? it sounds so nice. isn't that the beautiful term? individual mandate is wonderful. i'm acting presidential now, the individual mandate. it's a disaster that sounds good like the affordable care act was not affordable. remember when bill clinton got up and he saidd the problem with the affordable care act is that it's not affordable. andd then you didn't hear from him for two weeks because he got the hell knocked out of him. for two weeks he went dead silent, they wouldn't let him out of the house. women's unemployment rate, is the lowest and only 65 years, not his

been attacking john mccain in some of his policies on things like immigration and was not and on the obamacare vote but martha maccallum has the donald trump endorsement. jillian: that means a lot. we saw in florida. >> early on adam putnam was the establishment favorite, raised a lot of money, tens of millions of dollars outspent by desantis by 2-1 but a month ago donald trump came in, campaigned for ron desantis and polls show him ahead. jillian: donald trump's endorsement can do a lot. the florida senate race. >> not a lot going on, rick scott and incumbent democrat senator bill nelson, the truth of the matter is this could decide what happens in the senate. republicans are excited about the campaign of rick scott. he has been energetic, run a great campaign, interesting article about how a lot of democrats aren't happy with the campaign bill nelson has run. jillian: bill nelson spent $6 billion, rick scott $27 million. >> the truth is money will not decide this race and i will tell you why. democrats, chuck schumer, the liberal special-interest groups have reserved $50 million of air time.

they were successful later in repealing the individual mandate of obamacare which is the heart and soul of it but, you know, president trump, as you mentioned a moment ago, has been direct about being out there and the political rallies and insane we should not talk about this and i'm not going to go on and on and on mccain is not well right now but i'm not happy about that vote and so he's been direct about that and frankly, john mccain was direct about his disdain for the president on national security and foreign policy in the early days of 2017. he challenged this demonstration that gets at the maverick image and frankly, there are a lot of the president's allies who are frustrated with how john mccain approach as president. look, he was someone who lived a full life and let's not forget and gloss over there when you read that same it from george w. bush there were better moments in the 2000 campaign. i'm sure you remember. john mccain and cindy mccain were not happy about rumors of personal nature and other things that came up in the campaign that the accused the bush campaign and

the twoe been at odds since mccain voted against replacing obamacare. >>> when we come right back on news4 at :00 tonight, reaction to president trumfis dlt week. chuck todd explains what it tells us about the direction of the mueller investigation. >>> and has washington turned into a gambling destination? the new list that puts us jt us president trump wrappin up a tumultuous week tonight at a republican fund-raiser in ohio. he called for i estigations into former fbi director james comey. his comments echoing tweets today from the president. early this morning, he directed them at attorney general jeff sessions dem ding he investigate comey and conflicts of interest in the mueller investigation among otherin . it comes after a week in which mueller won a guilty verdict against former trump campaign chair paul manafort and former trump attorney michael cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations. "meet the press" moderator chuck todd joined us thi evening to talk about the events of the past week and what they could te us about the mueller investigation. >> mueller is thoro