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Right. Plus, going global. The president announces his first foreign trip including a meeting with pope francis, after saying a few things about him like this. A religious leader to question a persons faith is disgraceful. We begin with that blockbuster jobs report just out a few minutes ago and the president , hes going to really like this number. 4. 4 unemployment. Hasnt been this low since before the great recession. The april jobs report also showed the u. S. Economy added 211,000 jobs that is more than most economists had forecasted and youre in luck, i love talking jobs and we have a great team here this morning to help me break it down. I want to take you first to nbcs cykristen welker out in front of the white house. When we got the jobs number and it was iffy there wasnt a lot of talk about it because we were focussed on syria at the moment. When we look at this number we know the white house again is going to be saying its all about us, this is a big win. What are the highlights. Thats right. The president campaigned saying that he was going to create more jobs. He was going to be a jobs president. Lets take a look at the numbers, stef, as you pointed out, 211,000 jobs added this month. Had that is way up from last month, 79,000. February, 232,000 in total since President Trump has taken office, 522,000 jobs. The white house will be celebrating this. President trump only tweeting about health care today. I anticipate we will get a few tweets about the job report. The Deputy Press Secretary is going to brief at the white house a little later today. This is certainly going to be at the forefront. President trump is in bedminster at his resort there. I dont anticipate well see him on camera but that could change. This is going to underscore the argument hes been making that this he is good for the economy and good for Economic Growth and that his policies create jobs. But, of course, economists will argue there are a lot of factors at work here. A lot of them that were put in place under former president obama. The Unemployment Rate was at 10 when he took office. Weve seen this steady decline ever since then. So a lot of questions for the white house today but theyre already in celebration mode, stef, because, of course, the house passed that Health Care Bill yesterday. It still has a steep climb it has to go through the senate and then back to the house, but this is an administration that likes the narrative at the end of this week. I may have seen cool and the gang and a coors truck when swinging by the white house yesterday. I want to bring my panel in, matt, the chairman of the american conservative union, ron, a democratic analyst who serves as chief of staff to both Vice President biden and Vice President al gore and brendan is a contributor to the economist. I want to start with you, this jobs number, i mean last month we got a lousy number, and people said well, or worse than maybe the white house had expected and they didnt think that number was that valuable. Here we are, with a booming number. What does it represent to you . I think the top line number is mostly meaningless. Heres what im looking at. You cant really give credit to this jobs number to President Trump or president obama. This is all about Janet Yellens slow, steady slide path, her focus on employment over inflation. An economist who focused on employment went to the fed and been doing this for five years now and this is the fruit of that work. So i would lay this success at her feet. The one number that jumped out to me in this jobs report was the unit labor costs. What that is is what businesses pay to make a widget, right. So thats up over the year, over the quarter, 3 . Thats a nice healthy number. And businesses have got to be looking at that thinking how do we invest, when do we invest and i think thats what were going to start seeing very soon. Matt, youre a trump supporter, President Trump, this helps sentiment and one of the things he said in those first 100 days, he got optimism and sentiment up. This underscores that and has people excited. When you look at Small Businesses, whether or not theyre making those investments now, getting loans, growing their businesses theyre excited about the president and this does help that story . It does, except having worked in a white house, this is tricky business, right. You want to hype these numbers when theyre good, but when theyre bad you want to talk about anything else. The fact is youre right sometimes the numbers will be up and down. Lets look at the big picture. Donald trump will be in a good political position ifs the economy grows. I think the Unemployment Rate is less important than the fact that the economy is growing. One more step, it cant just be about the 1 . Every day average americans have got to start feeling like they bring more home and have greater economic prospects. This is such an important point. Were basically at full employment. The jobs numbers and employment numbers have been improving almost 80 separate quarters. If you look at wages we are still so sluggish and it is that bottom tier, people who need to have multiple jobs, who cant make ends meet, when will we start to see that shift in wage growth . I think thats one of two things that were looking at. Trends overhe next year. Either we will see wage growth, Business Owners will say well pay u more and give you more of the percentage of our profits or theyre going to start investing to make every new worker more productive. The one we got last week from the bureau of economic analysis, Business Investment and it was ticked up. Lets look at that again in the next quarter and see if we get another tick up and then well know where the story is headed. I want to bring in Mike Viqueira and talk about the Republican Health care plan, cleared the critical hurdle in the house, but the senate its not going to be easier. Its going to be a lot harder. We could see dramatic changes to this about ill before all is said and done. Mike is on capitol hill. I want to play a bit of what republican senators have said about the bill that just passed. Now its in their lap. Do you like the house bill . I havent paid that much attention. Now well go to work on a senate bill. Its a work in progress. More work to do. The state will write its own bill. Is there any chance for an up or down vote in the senate . No. Zero. I mean no. Bob corker basically saying thanks, dude, you gave me the hot potato. Mike viqueira, what are we going to learn next here. Thats a story as old as the republic itself and this building im standing in here. The house, the senate, one body is acting completely independent of the other. The senate is going to take a god deal of time. As a matter of fact, a Republican Leadership john cornyn of texas said exactly that yesterday after this vote. You can expect this to take months for the republicans in the senate and the senate as a whole to try to get this to the floor. Its a question of not only when, but if they can do it. Theyre not going to bring it to the floor Republican Leaders in the form of Mitch Mcconnell unless they have a majoritity. For folks who may have tuned in yesterday and witnessed the celebration in the rose garden with President Trump, and a whole slew of House Republicans, they might not realize that obamacare is still the law of the land. And its got to go over to the senate. Its not likely to look anything like what it looked like coming out of the house the most controversial positions dealing with preexisting conditions, dealing with essential health benefit, dealing with lifting the restrictions on how many premiums are the amount of premium, the cost amount of premiums can be charged to Older Americans between 50 and 64. Those are deeply unpopular provisions. The senate is going to work its will, whether or not the two sides can get together over the course of this year and im talking about months, still remains to be seen. Ron, weight your take on all this . Well the white house had a kegger party yesterday. Im not sure what they were celebrating. They managed to cut health care. Well find out next week for how many people, probably 20 million will lose their health care. Every one of those representatives is going home to a district where 40 to 70,000 of their constituents lost their coverage. For older people their premiums going up. Being a woman now is a preexisting condition under this bill. I think they signed themselves up to a world of hurt. Democrats lost 60 seats in the congress for giving people, 20 Million Health care in 2010, i want to see how the republicans do when they take away health care from 20 million in 2018. Is this celebration premature . I spoke to republican lawmakers who hadnt read it yet. Im going to take a guess i dont believe the president has read it yet. What could the fallout be . I was concerned when i saw them get on the busses and go to the white house. Ron said millions of people just lost their health care. Its not law. They did go to the white house i think prematurity. But as the event unfolded the intent was to say okay we havent done a good job selling whats in it. We need to explain it to the American People. You covered it which is what they needed and they were speaking to the American People about what their values were. I love the arrogance of the senate. I know they were all republicans. Thats my party. But we dont know whats in it. Were going to write our own bill. Guys, theres a house and senate and you both have to come together and come up with a bill. I can see why people watching this are dubious that republicans can get together if they act like theyre not talking to each other. Brendan, arent republicans in a stuff spot, were criticizing them for celebrating yesterday, but if they hadnt gotten together and gotten this through, they would be getting more criticism like man, you cant get your house together. So arent they dammed either way a little bit here no. That seemed to be what they were celebrating. Im not a member of the Republican Party but they did seem to be celebrating we got it together and figured it out and why were having the kegger. There was the hey hey goodbye from the democrats. I feel Like Washington was a frat party from 1985 yesterday, which was a little disorienting. You dont hang out here often. Hold on. But my point about republicans and the senate and in the house, is that this question of reading the bill i dont think its as important. You have staffers who do that. I want to see the cbo score. Im not worried they didnt read it. Im worried with they didnt get it scored. We dont know the cost or a guess as to who will lose insurance. Ron. We know a lot of people will lose insurance and we know that the earlier version of this bill which in some ways was more generous to people had a 17 approval rating. Its not so much whether or not they got it together. What they got together was passing a bill that wont pass the senate and will be a huge political liability for them in 2018. Whether or not hold on. Whether or not everyone read it or not there is this concern or disconnect between what paul ryan wants and what President Trumps voters wanted. I want to share President Trump sitting with the p. M. Of australia talking about health care and Bernie Sanders response. We have a Failing Health care. I shouldnt say this to a great gentleman and my friend from australia because you have Better Health care than we do. They have universal health care. I thought you would oh, okay. Wait a minute, chris. All right. The president has just said it. Let us move to a medicare for all system that does what every other major country on earth does, guarantee health care to all people at a fraction of the cost per capita that we spend. Thank you, mr. President. Well quote you on the floor of the senate. Being a sassy pants but in all sincerity they have a Better Health care system than we do, they have universal health care. Do you know what you just signed and what we just approved . President trump way too often is way too polite to world leaders. Another case where politeness. You know President Trump, youre too polite. Lets go to the he doesnt know what hes talking about. Lets go to what youre talking about. The fact is this, you want a cbo score fair point. Weve had two and we had this question about the cbos accura accuracy even on obamacare. People like me lost their care. They had to get a policy twice as expensive. Two important ones i had to get services i didnt want or need. Number two, lets face it, i was paying for a bunch of people, right, who didnt have Health Insurance before. Its a simple thing. On this plan the people who wont have Health Insurance by and large are people who arent mandated or forced to buy it. Guess what, we believe that in america. Its okay to have freedom. Youre allowed to live your life and smoke if you want, i dont think you should. You dont want to purchase Health Insurance its your right. I think you should. Its your right. It was working class people this country who voted for donald trump who thought obamacare was failing. Thats why hes in the white house. Hold on. Brendan . Let me jump in on costs which is you talk about having to buy a bunch of services you dont want or need. Fair point. All these other countries were talking about they have different systems but one thing they have that we dont is some way of controlling medical costs. All of this reform. All that bill does and all that bill does is control insurance costs and offering. Doesnt control health care costs. When will republicans address that . Final point. You cannot bring premiums down by taking a trillion dollars out of the system and giving it to tax breaks to the top 1 . That is not going to lower anyones Health Care Insurance in the United States. I said final point. Weve got to take a chommercial im chomping at the bit. Youre here another 45 minutes. Im glad my takeaway, President Trump youre just too darn polite. Mike viqueira and kristen welker, thank you. You three not going anywhere. Did yesterdays vote solve the confusion surrounding the future of health care in this country, clearly not. We cant figure it out here. Were going to speak with the ceo of a Major Health Care company about how the industry is responding to this new legislation. But first, many members of the house reportedly voted on a Health Care Bill, we mentioned this, without knowing exactly what was in it and seth meyers couldnt help but see a similarity. House republicans today voted on and passed an obamacare replacement bill without knowing how much it would cost. Though im not surprised, they also voted on an obama replacement without knowing the costs. So tell us your big idea for getting the whole country booking on Choice Hotels. Com. Four words, badda book. Badda boom. Let it sink in. Shouldnt we say we have the lowest price . Nope, badda book. Badda boom. Have you ever stayed with Choice Hotels . Like at a comfort inn . Yep. Free waffles, cant go wrong. I like it. Promote that guy. Get the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed. When you book direct at choicehotels. Com. Book now. 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Good morning. Youre a leader in the industry, please, boil this for us. God bless you for saying so. Will more or less afford coverage . Definitely the intent of the bill is to allow more Market Forces to work. There are very few Market Forces that work in health care. Definitely if you can choose to not adopt you can choose a less expensive plan that forces the people that sell the expensive stuff to come down to get you with lower prices. The flip side if you dont cross subsidize people in the short term while there is no market competition, its going to hurt. The problem is when do you get started . There is no market in health care or platform. Even athena health, which is 12 of doctors, theres no online place where you can get connect medical records, referrals, doctors, cant see whats going on as a doctor or patient. You need those fundamental things before you talk about moving the who gets cross subsidized by what 5 , what 8 billion will cover the people that fall out. Thats a tempest in the tea pot against a larger issue that none of us feel a lot of power or connection to the system. We understand the intent. Take me to reality, do you believe what do you believe is going to happen here . Youre in the industry and have to make these predictions. I have to make these predictions. I think everybody will get on athenanet stop. Lets go. I believe if we get through the current sort of kerfuffle and settle down, its inevitable regardless of which slice of safety net level we choose, as long as we dont give up on the whole thing and go all medicare or something whacky, we will continue to move on. People are moving online. Doctors are choosing hospital are draining, 38 of the beds are empty now. There is momentum already. More or less people will have access to affordable insurance . Well, theres no question if you take away other people paying for your insurance it gets more expensive. The cbo said that 14 million of the people who would drop out would drop out because theyre only in because they will be fined if theyre in. Yeah, if they dont want the product and you dont fine them for bailing you will see an initial balloon of people bailing. The question is, can you then on the other side, and i do think there will be some down pressure on the price of health care. Were seeing it. I dont know if its through, you know, wisdom and markets or just a little bit of contraction and wait a minute, i dont know whats going to go on here, but youve seen a reduction . Visits to the doctor on a per doctor basis q1 of 16 to 17. People are getting a little more cost conscious with the way they use health care right now. When you look at that list of preexisting conditions, and people who are so worried theyre not going to be able to afford their own health care, what do you make of that list . Well, obviously, if you want to preserve a social Safety Net Program youre going to make it very personal stories, this is jennys story, joes story, a bill called jennys bill which never again will we let anyone die for lack of a brain transplant. Thats, of course, you know, bringing the personal risk, the personal challenge of something that is such a public good like health care, and people should do that, on the flip side, you have your guy that says everyday joe is forced to buy things he doesnt want and cant afford at prices he would rather not participate and hes being told hes not allowed to bail out. Both are legitimate and sort of moving points of view and were really kind of split as a nation right down the middle. Either way, everybody on both sides would like to be able to see what theyre getting, not redo tests, not not understand what tests are for, be able to change doctors without losing their whole chart. These are the things that arent being addressed in any of these bills that i think are much more galvanizing where we really are as a country right now. Well youre talking about longterm technological investment, President Trump and so many others have said and you can see it, its been very difficult for Insurance Companies to stay working within obamacare. Take a listen. The Insurance Companies are fleeing. Its been a catastrophe. Its obvious its failing. Its dead. Its essentially dead. If we dont pay lots of ransom money over to the Insurance Companies it would die immediately. Ransom money. Is obamacare dead . All i can see is paul ryan trying not to snicker in hyperbole behind him. I couldnt Pay Attention to the great orange leader. Hold on. Wait wait. Youre smiling and laughing, but youre saying the great orange leader and this is life or death. This is health care. What is going to happen here . Even things youre saying, we need, you know, these technological advancepoints people should know where their charts are. Lets get real, for people out there who are scared, scared, what does this mean . For 95 of your viewers, the law doesnt change much. Right. For 95 . 55 of americans are on employer based Health Insurance. Then another 25 on medicare and m medicaid that arent changed. Some went from employer based to medicaid to obamacare that was unfortunate, but by and large this doesnt affect any of us. This is about the edges of our social safety net which is critically important. Were a caring nation. It does. If there are certain levels and if im a Small Business owner and i look and say its going to cost me more to hire her because she might have a baby, its going to cost me more to hire him because hes almost 70, isnt that going to affect Everyday Americans . Well, thats true today. Its been true forever, you know. Anybody whos foolish enough to miss out on a woman because shes going to have a baby, in their work place is going to have a crappy company. Nothing about this law changes that by much other than hairs. Johnny, theres nothing appropriate about cursing at 9 00 until morning on television either. Im going to apologize on your behalf. Oops. Tell me what does this mean for your business before we go . In general, contractions of visits to the doctor hurts athena a little bit because we are a percentage of the network of what doctors and hospitals on athena net do. By and large, the need to cut costs and hunker down gets new doctors on to the network, new hospitals on to the network, so we think while each individual practice and hospital on the system is going to be under pressure there will be many more hospitals and doctors on our network as a result of the natural pressure on the Health Care System to get cheaper regardless of what happens with this bill. All right. Jonathan bush, thank you so much for joining me this morning. And to our audience apologies again, no cursing allowed. Were moments from the market opening going to find out what the market thinks of the strong jobs report and the one key job sector that affects all of us that were not talking about. We have to take a look its not just jobs day, it is cinco de mayo. Last year President Trump was enjoying, quote, the best taco bowl that was made at trump tower grill in honor of cinco de mayo. He noted his love for hispanic communities. That one was harder to swallow than maybe that tortilla. I wonder what he will be eating or tweeting today. Kevin, meet your father. Kevin Kevin Kevin Kevin Kevin Kevin Kevin Kevin Kevin Kevin trusted advice for life. Kevin, hows your mom . Life well planned. See what a Raymond James Financial Advisor can do for you. Everything your family touches sticks with them. Make sure the germs they bring home dont stick around. Use clorox disinfecting products. 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Many lined up across from the uss entry pid sea air and pace museum where trump met with Prime Minister turnbull saying they got along great and recalling reports of a tense phone call in january a big exaggeration. A u. S. Defense official says one Service Member was killed in action and two wounded in action in an exchange of gunfire thursday in somalia. Russia, iran and turkey signed an agreement thursday setting up four safe zones in syria in the latest effort to resolve the countrys sixyear conflict. U. S. Officials responded with caution about the chances of success of that deal. Uber is under criminal investigation this morning for use of secret software that allows drivers to identify and avoid government officials in areas where the service was banned or restricted. Take a look at this amazing catch from last nights mets game. A braves fan managed to catch jay bruces fourth inning home run ball in one hand without spilling his beer with the other. Thats extraordinary. Im going to say the wizards game was extraordinary. Nice win last night, guys. My favorite part of the show, talk money, power, politics. Happening right now at this moment, the opening bell at the new york stock exchange. Amid new jobs numbers this morning the latest jobs report shows the u. S. Economy added 211,000 jobs in april, dropping the Unemployment Rate to 4. 4 . That is the lowest level in a decade. Weve been talking about it all morning. Brendan, i want to start with you, that is a great number, but theres another number i want to focus on. The u. S. Added just about 6300 jobs in the retail sector. That is essentially unchafkds after months of losses losses, losses. Do we need to focus more on the new retail worker . Malls are closing across the country . Lets talk service work in general. We have 12 Million Manufacturing jobs in the u. S. We have 125 million service jobs. It doesnt have to be retail. Retail is one industry, however, that is not following the glide path of the rest of employment. Were seeing these numbers that have been going up the last four years. Retail has ha economists call structural challenges, not cyclical. They have a longterm problem and that is as we all know is called amazon. So theres no real good way for a president or the fed or congress to fix a structural problem. The problem is somebody has come up with a more efficient way to do their job. Not just amazon but the asymmetrical tax treatment of sales taxes you can go online and avoid paying sales taxes having a big impact. Second thing when we talk about tax on our side and the republican side thats a big hit for retail as well. Retail has got to get a better footing in the tax game or they will be in big trouble. If we were faced with that border adjustment tax it would be worse. I want to pull up this graphic to that point in the service industry. You look at jc penney, arbys, and dollar general, thats what we pulled up, they employ more people than the entire coal industry. So one of these structural issues, no one wanted to talk about the fact that as these industries are shifting so much there isnt a clear solution. I think this is going to be a big problem for President Trump. People work at arbys than the coal industry and you see broad swaths in retail. The things matt cited. But automation, go to a Grocery Store or a theater, its a robot checking you out instead of a person. Shipping on the internet. I think this is a big trend. Weve seen huge job losses in retail and politically for a second, you know, these are largely trump voters. A lot of them are people who are dissatisfied with the economy, frankly dissatisfied with the jobs they have, they voted for President Trump. Theyre going to be more dissatisfied when they lose those jobs. This could end up being a real problem for the president because he did say over and over, im going to solve this for you and in the short term it is an unsolvable problem. I dont think were going to kill the inperson experience. This happened to books, right. Amazon hit books first. What we saw was that borders disappeared, barnes noble disappeared. But weve had a resurgence of small book stores. Big box retail. Its where all the jobs went but those jobs were somewhere else 30 years ago and its entirely possible, particularly given the experiments that the big box retailers are making with smaller, more local, downtown shops, that those jobs will turn into something else. We have to note as those jobs are shifting from being jobs in stores and in restaurants, when they become tech jobs, they are no longer counted. When the government, when they actually count these jobs and they move to being online jobs theyre not counted in the same way anymore. You have to factor that in. This is why it gets down to what does the individual in the middle class feel their economic prospects are if they dont continue to improve its big trouble for the republicans. They do need to improve but that individual american wants to shop at amazon. He or her are not willing to say i want to do buy american and pay more. They cant. Everybody deal with the same taxes and regulations as america. Then that would be an absolute flat tax. As long as no. What im saying is this, which is, the tax treatment when you buy a mug, should be the same whether you buy it online or go into a store. And thats where were when we give carve outs in the tax codes you pick winners and losers. That proposal hold on. That is blocked in congress by the republicans so lets start there. More importantly theyre always attacking people. Its true. I think the other issue here is that, you know, in a lot of these communities these retail jobs are going away and they are being row placed by startup smaller businesses and thats a part of the economy. President trump has had a blind spot to it. He likes to meet with the Big Company Ceos and Big Companies and have them at the table. He may. But you cant argue Small Business sentiment since President Trump was elected is booming so he may not sentiment may be booming but policy isnt. He had no more to do thats not true. It is with the jobs report in may than he had with turning the calendar. His budget hasnt passed his tax hasnt passed. The fact that he has made a promise to deregulate, its regulation, that is one of the reasons these people are that enthusiastic. I dont think theres any evidence of that. Theres a lot of evidence. The one thing he did right during the campaign he talked about the quality of jobs and not just the exindianapolis of jobs. Thats existence jobs. 4. 4 . What people care about is, can i get 40 hours. What is my wage. Can i skeds mile job around my schedule my job around my child care. Thats something were still waiting to improve. We have to take a break. Next President Trumps Health Care Bill is not a law yet. Its going to face the next hurdle as it heads to the senate. I will speak to a democratic senator. Ed markey. Does he think its going to pass . Former president obama jumping back into the political ring sort of, this time in frances election. He endorsed french candidate Emmanuel Macron in his election with Marine Le Pen this sunday. I have admired the campaign that Emmanuel Macron has run. He has stood up for liberal values and put forward a vision for the Important Role that france plays in europe and around the world. And he is committed to a Better Future for the french people. He appeals to peoples hopes. With unitedhealthcare, you can get rewarded for all kinds of things. Like walking. Hey, honey. Dad, wheres the car . 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I want to bring in senator ed markey, a democrat from the state of massachusetts. Senator, what do you think the odds are of a similar version of this house bill passing through the senate . Absolutely zero chance of that bill ever becoming law. Zero chance. Dead on arrival. Over in the senate. It guts medicaid, takes 830 billion in medicaid funding for grandma whos in a nursing home with alzheimers or parkinsons, for people who need opioid treatment, for the disabled, for poor children, and takes that money and gives it as a tax break to the wealthiest 1 in our country. Dead on arrival in the United States senate. No chance at all. Okay. If it has no chance at all, and were seeing things get more and more difficult, especially in some states where youre seeing, you know, aetna drop out, other states where they only have one insurance option, whats going to happen in the near term . If youre saying this future bill already has to be gutted, given where we are right now, whats going to happen . Well, obamacare is working in most of america. Its working in massachusetts. We have 98 coverage. Its working in state after state. We have to work to try to make obamacare work better so that more young people are in the system so that we can so that we can control costs and increase competition. Thats achievable. Weve done it in most of the states that have obamacare right now. What theyre doing is theyre still trying to fulfill their ancient animosity towards providing health care for people who need it in our country, and this is just a way for them to defund the medicaid system in our country. And so right now, to a certain extent, the republicans are like searching for a unicorn. What can make the far right wing Freedom Caucus in the house happy, while at the same time, making moderate republicans in the senate happy. Good luck in finding that political unicorn. I do not thing that it is possible. All right. How about the animosity those republicans have for democrats . Do they need democratic support in the senate to get this bill through . I think that they are going to try to do it on a partisan basis first, see what they can do as republicans, but i think they have a problem because they have their own faction of the Freedom Caucus which is in the senate who will want to gut obamacare and then there are going to be moderate republicans who are going to want to find ways of making this bill better because their states have already expanded on this on obamacare, and i just dont think that it is possible and so the only solution is, to ultimately try work with democrats to make obamacare work better, but that makes it impossible to ever get a bill passed through the house of representatives. So its an unsolvable conundrum to a larger extent Republican Party because they are like the hatfields and mccoys at each other trying to find a way to put together something that can become a law and i dont see a formula for them to be able to do it. Well they were, but one of the things theyre celebrating is that they got this through. Theyre working together. I want to play a bit of a video that has gotten attention on social media from a constituent of yours, ben jackson, he posted this on twitter. For the past 101 days i have been with my daughter maem jackson. She will be the victory of the Gop Health Care attack on obamacare. She will pay for this foley. We need you, please do not allow it to happen. Please dont let them destroy her future for money. I know its a really contentious time in government but what is your response to them . What are democrats going to do, can you do, to stop this Health Care Legislation . People in your state are asking for your help, can you help them . Yes. We are going to block this radical right wing attempt to kill obamacare because what they are really trying to do is fulfill their promise to their wealthiest contributors, to have all of this money maltsly be ultimately be taken away from people who need it, the poor, the middle class, people in Senior Citizens people who are in nursing homes, poor children, and then transferring it as a tax break to the wealthiest 1 . You just had a jobs report. You just had a big discussion about how the wealthy are getting wealthier in our country and how the stock market is booming. Those are the wealthy people. They dont need a tax break right now. At the expense of the poorest people, the seniors in our country . Thats immoral. Its just wrong. And so for that father and for every person out there, you should know, we are going to fight as hard as is humanly possible to ensure that this historic injustice never becomes a law in our country because those poor people should not have to be the piggy bank for donald trump to provide a tax break for the wealthiest people in our society. All right. Senator, thank you so much for your service. Thank you for your time this morning. Thank you. Next, President Trump announces the destination for his first trips overseas where hes going and what it all means. And why is he meeting with the pope and could that meeting, could it be a little awkward . Were going to find out. Wise man, im nervous about things i cant control. Affecting my good credit score. I see youve planted an uncertainty tree. Chop that thing down. The clarity you seek. Lies within the creditwise app from capital one. Creditwise helps you protect your credit. And its completely free for everyone. Its free for everyone . 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President trump yesterday announcing hell take his first foreign trip at the end of the month. The trip ends with a pair of high stakes meetings. Nato on may 25th in brussels and the g 7 summit in sicily the following day. I want to bring back my panel. I want too talk about the places hes arabia. President trump has a goal here of saying this isnt just going to be im a statesman shaking hands, kissing babies, were going to get business done. Is any business going to get done here . Actually what happens when foreign leaders come in america, certainly european leaders, they bring their ceos with them and the Companies Based in their countries and aadvocate for those Companies Aggressive low pressurely. What weve seen too many times with the american president s, we think thats a little toddy to push or own companies. With President Trump, what youre going to see is hes going to push these guys to accept the investment from these companies. I want to share with you President Trump in an exchange yesterday with the australian pm. These are difficult conversation. Theyre testy. Take a look. You know, they said we had a rough phone call. We really didnt have a rough phone call, did we . Everyone is talk about the phone call. The media is saying what did you think about the phone call. You didnt really hang up. No. We had a very nice call. Good. Now the record is straight. All of those people back there. Thank goodness. Its true. We had a very nice got a little testy, a little testy but thats okay. Whats your take on this. Some are saying oh my goodness hes going to see the pope. Theyve had difficult times. President trump talks tough, you know, tone phone or wherever but then in face to face hes a softy. And you know kind of gets rolled. So i suspect that hell have perfectly lovely meetings. I think business will get done in saudi arabia. Business for the trump organization, business for the trump family . Is that come on. You cant say come on. Ivanka trump sold her book this week on the state Department Twitter account. Hes at a trump property for 30th day of president of 100 days. You cant say that self dealing hasnt been welcome in the white house . Why did he hire all of your democratic lawyers friends to do the ethics scrubs on these deals and who is he going overseas with. You cant deny that what hes doing, hes an advocate for americanbased businesses. Okay. He is an advocate for americanbased businessings. Hes also an advocate for trump businesses. Brandon. Were talking about the business impatilications of thi trip. President s when they go abroad, particularly at the beginning of their terms, thats when they choose what they want to signify. After that its driven by events. In the First Six Months you determine you choose who youre going to see side. Its interesting this is the signal hes going to send to the world, hes going to saudi arabia and israel. 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Their focus needs to be the same and that is lowering premiums, rescuing families from the failures of obamacare and we gave them that opportunity. Good luck to them. Well President Trump using the vote to take some public victory lapse. This morning how that taste of victory is turning bitter for some republicans. And what about the democrats . Theyre on the attack gearing up for a fight. Warning republicans that it will be repealed and replaced come election day. Lets begin our coverage this friday with mike on capitol hill, Kelly Odonnell is in new jersey with the president. Mike, to you first. Big vote, then everybody gets out of town. When the lawmakers go home, what kind of reception are they going to get over this and what is it looking like for the senate . Reporter thats a great question. We skau the town hall the last time the house was going to take up the bill, the