Program that cuts back on medicaid in order to have tax cut for wealthy people, but we do need to deal with the cost of the individual market and the premiums. One way to do that is to make sure that the cost sharing is a predictable payment to the Insurance Companies to cover the cost deductibles and copays. Another thing we can do is improve subsidies for lower income families. Democrats and reins cpublicans o that together. Democrats and republicans can bring down the cost of prescriptio prescriptions. We could follow a canadian mod e. We could organize the patient as Value Reimbursement rather than just volume. Do you accept the idea that repeal and replace of obamacare is a mandate for the republican majorities . There is an agreement here, im trying to think of this almost like middle east peace, first negotiate the the ceasefire and then agree, the democrat agree Obamacare Needs Major Reforms and heres what were willing to talk about. What are you willing on your end to talk about . I think what the republicans are trying to do is bring down the overall cost of health care in this country, the growth rate. Yes,ets sit down and do that. Theres better ways to organize the delivery of care. Republicans have good ideas in that regard. Democrats have good idea. Weve come together on Mental Health and addiction to organize that in a more constructive, Cost Effective way. The way we pay for prescription drugs, theres a lot of republicans who believe we could do that in a much more Cost Effective way. There are places where democrats and republicans can come together. Dont ask me to support the con traction of the medicaid
program. Cant do that. If you and senator portman think you have the idea on prescription drugs, do you feel as if your leaders would let you put together a bipartisan bill right now because it such a hot political potato . Im glad you chose senator portman because the two of us came together in Pension Reforms when we were both in the house and both of our leaders toll d not to do it and we got it done. Why hasnt that happened . I hear all the time from senators who complain to me about the leadership and say we cant do it, we cant do it. It seems to me if enough of you just did it, leadership would listen. Chuck, fair enough. On the Affordable Care act, we didnt have public committees and this bail came out of the Leaders Office a week ago with
no work done at all by members. No, i get that. And i get that i understand that for many democrats, you wont even listen until they take reconciliation off the table. Is that fair . We want to have equal rights in the discussion. We dont want to be told how were going to consider our bill. And reconciliation makes that virtually impossible. And if President Trump issued an invitation to all the senate democrats, would you go . I would. He had an invitation before and i was there. Absolutely. Hes the president of the United States. I might disagree with a lot of his apologies. Im not apologetic about the Affordable Care act. Can we do better . Yes, we can. Come together democrats and republicans it, will be a better bill. Just seems like were banging our head against the wall. We know the outcome here and we know what may happen. Thank you, chuck. Senator ben cardin, democrat from maryland, thank you very. Is it more likely this bill will pass after members go home for the july 4th weekend, after they go home for the weekend and theyre home . Ill bring in two republican strategists. Glen bulger. The firm is one of our partners on the msnbc poll and john boehner. Im being pollyannish here in trying to bring both parties together. Do republicans have to learn what the democrats learned, that a partisan bill is not going to have long routes in. After eight years of promising to repeal and replace obamacare, republicans owe it to
their voters to try every means possible to get that done. Senator mcconnell today bought himself a little more runway to try and get this thing off the ground. So let me go to what you have to do, glen, which is some of these people hire you to say, okay, i got to support this bill. Im not crazy about it. How do you be an i mean, i pointed out i think the democrats set themselves up in 2010 because none of them wanted to defend it. It made it easier to attack the bill. Sounds like republicans, setting themselves up for the same thing. The challenge it Neither Party can deliver what the voters want. They want highquality health care thats easy to access and doesnt cost them hardly anything. Thats just not going to happen either way. What republicans do have to do politically is do something that repeals the worst elements of obamacare because thats one of
the things that weve been talking about for the last seven years. If we dont do that, our base is depressed. And if the base is depressed and angry, they might not turn out in 2018 and thats a huge political risk. But what about Policy Failure . I think the Policy Failure is obamacare. In my home state, there is one individual insure. Last year they raised cost by 34 and this year its 27 . And an obamacare supporter would say it because marco rubio got rid of the risk corridors. Obamacare is failing for the people who need it. So the question is what should the Republican Administration do, do they try to prop it up while congress sits here and negotiate failure is not an option then why not help keep it working . Were working on a senate bill that will be conservative Health Care Reform, lower taxes,
fewer mandates, more flexibility for the states that will lower the cost over the long term. Universal coverage is not the goal in the United States. Lower cost is the overwhelming goal of twothirds of the American People. But, glen, i go with this, is it going to lower cost . It may lower the premium but then your out of pocket cost goes up. This to me sems like it is not solving the problem that they promised. The huge concern with obamacare is higher deductibles, higher premiums and higher taxes on businesses. Its hard to work around those things when youre trying to change this. Again, republicans are going to pass something. At least we better i was just going to say, put it in this term. But theres going to be political pain. Is it better to pass an unpopular bill that keeps a
promise or tank a bill that you think would be unpopular down the road . Rob portman, rand paul, i think they all have different i think if we dont pass the bill, its going to be hell to pay with the republican base. So this is not a Policy Argument anymore. I would argue its a great Policy Argument to be made with this bill. At the same time, its a necessity after eight years of promising. It doesnt seem as though republicans are enthusiastic in selling this bill. This is because glens exactly right. Wants access o high squault Affordable Care. Everybody wants to go to heaven, nobody wants to die. This is going to be tough is sell. At the same time, there is an argument to be made on the merits. Its an opportunity to get smart on the issue and how to talk
about it. How much of a challenge is President Obamas overpromising on the campaign trail . Its certainly a challenge. With you say youre going to overdeliver because you overpromised and you cant, that just makes it very challenging. Theres only so many things can you get done in this bill. What if trump comes out and says ive learned im not a big fan of obamacare, but it seems to me we have to repair this thing, repealing cant be done. If he comes out there and tells the base that, does that save the bases skin sp. I dont think so. And i most House Republican fierce a primary opponent more than a general election opponent so coverage from the president isnt go to get it done in this case, youre going to have to keep your word. What role does he play here . Hes going to say we need
massive changes. It not 100 repealed but its major changes. Its not oh, we got to tinker at the edges, obamacare, turns out its okay, its better than anything weve got. He cant say that. Shes got to say were cutting mandates, were increasing jobs, its a good conservative Health Care Reform bill. Does this bill become more of a problem for donald trump in 2020 because hes the one that made the promises . I think it depends largely on whats done after the Health Care Bill. Remember the Health Care Bill is kind of a log jam keeping us from making more progress on things like tack reform, infrastructure,ets. So if you get Health Care Con and move on to the popular. Say who who has to deal with the ad in 2018. Health care is going to be a major issue in 2018 and 2020. If nothing happens, its still going to be a major issue. Minor changes, it going to one of the defining issues of the campaign . Youre not saying it harder for trump than it is incumbent x . No, or house incumbent. Ah, washington never ceases to amaze approximately so what happens to the Health Care Bill now . Did President Trump really just accuse President Obama of colluding with the russians . Yes, everything up and everything up is down. These stories and more coming up right after this. En johnsons, nos importa La Seguridad Tanto como a ti. Es por eso que cumplimos o superamos 15 estandares normativos globales de productos para bebes. Y donde los estandares difieren, siempre elegimos cumplir con los mas rigurosos. Johnsons. I need the phone thats where i happen to be. To be the one that rings. I need not to be missed phone calls. To not be missed. I need seamless handoff. Canyon software. From reception, to landline, to mobile. I need one number. Not two. Im always moving forward. Because i cant afford to get stuck in the past. Comcast business. Built for business. A bruising health care battle, possible Syrian Mission creep. On monday the president lashed out on twitter writing the reason that president clinton did nothing about russia after being notified by the cia of
meddling is that he expected after four months looking under a magnifying glass, they have zero tapes of people colluding. I should be given an apology reporters asked sean spicer about President Obama colluding and obstructing. How can you accuse President Obama about colluding when he was egging him on . He was joking. You said i welcome them to find those 30,000 emails. Does that not give you pause . Gives me no pause. If they have them, they have them. You know what gives me more pause . That a person in our government, crooked hillary clinton, heres what give me be quiet, i know
you want to save her. That a person in our government, katie, would delete or get rid of 33,000 emails. That gives me a big problem after she gets a subpoena. She gets subpoenaed and she gets rid of 33,000 emails . That gives me a problem. If russia or china or any other country has those emt mamails,e honest with you, id love to see you. That was the joking that sean spicer was referring to. Liberty mutual stood with us when a fire destroyed everything in our living room. We replaced it all without touching our savings. Yeah, our insurance wont do that. No. You can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. Liberty mutual insurance. Welcome back. Tonights panel joins me now. The Wall Street Journals care lee, and white house veteran stephanie cutter. Welcome all. Carol, theres nobody that understands Vote Counting better than Mitch Mcconnell. He will stay on course but when he changes course, its for a dramatic reason. And for him to pull up stakes already said a lot about the
it tells you everything you want to know. Mitch mcconnell has always been the one you can rely on, he knows where his votes are, he knows how to get things done. This ceased being a policy bill a long time ago. The question for Mitch Mcconnell and donald trump is where does this lead them on the rest of their agenda . Where are they going to be on tax reform . There was a point in the Obama White House where we cant get
to xyz because of health care. I almost can see republicans basically having the same play. Remember, we passed health care after a very public process and well over a year of debate. So when the bill passed, people were very tired and it was very difficult. I was there at the white house trying to get people out there to defend it and it was very difficult to get members of congress to want to go out there and defend it. It was very unpopular at the time because people didnt understand it. It want yet implemented so people werent seeing the benefit and we were very close to a reelection to a midterm campaign. So it was very difficult. And we suffered because of it. So we didnt have any of the benn factors out there touting what this bill could do. It was very difficult to do that until that bill started to take hold and people saw an increase in their benefits, a subsidy
reducing their cost, more access to health care. Now were at the bring of another were in the middle of another Health Care Debate where a lot of those things are going to be taken away. Regardless of what happens in the senate, i dont see anybody in the house or senate going out there and touting. And this gets to the Wall Street Journal was also getting to this this morning. The Editorial Board and you guys are separate but it was interesting to me. How about owning the conservative alternative and conservative Alternative Vision of health care and there was almost Allahme Mlamenting that setting up to the democrats have had eight years for promising this, to not have a plan, no have had a plan, to have a vision, to be able to
provide a vision at this stage when they finally get control, theres still going to be political blowback because its not going to satisfy everybody, its not going to be implemented and nobody is going to understand what it is everything shes saying i can hear a republican saying to me in two years. Well, they didnt fully implement it they know what the facts are. They know it going to be taken away from me. What if 15 Million People dont want to sign up for insurance but they were forred ced to. Are the Insurance Companies not covering here because of x or y . Theres been no hearing. There are no substantive debates. We talk about the conversation that happens around the real issues but we dont talk about the issue behind they. Its become reality tv politics. Nobody is willing to have the thing is, when you start having an honest conversation about health care, about you know what, end of life issues, were spending all this money on end of live issues and all of a sudden everybody runs away. You talk about the substance, it becomes more politically toxic. I worked for a long time for ted kennedy and he used to say theres a reason why Health Care Reform hasnt passed because it is one of the most difficult issues to deal with, youre dealing with lifeanddeath issues. It easily politicized, a very difficult problem to actually solve. I realize i worked for President Obama and i was for the Affordable Care act, but i do think there has been some significant progress in solving
some of the problems of the health care system. Does it do everything . Absolutely not. There are some problems that can be fixed. But because it was the president is having senators over, theyre all republican senators. You have a senator running this process who doesnt have a clear vision for what he wants. The clearest thing weve got from him is that he wants a bill with heart. No one knows exactly what that means. The president saying that the house bill was mean is really something that i think had a much bigger effect than we even know yet because it doesnt make people want to side with him and then he goes and undermines that. Was just going to say, hes got to make a political sell here at the end of the day. If youre a republican senator, you have to think is this guy
going to throw this bill under the bus if it just becomes too unpopular . I dont think anybody know, republican or democrat, what the president is going to say yet. Before you have consensus with the democrats, you have to have consensus with the democrats. I think every one of them has trep dag about what hes going to say about this tomorrow. Ill keep here. Still ahead, democrats are in the minority in the senate, in the house and most state legislature. Well ask brian shotts how he turns his interaction into more support at the polls. I will turn this car around right now theres nobody back there. I was becoming my father. [ clears throat ] its. Been an adjustment, but were making it work. You know, progressive. Com makes it easy for us to get the right home insurance. [ snoring ] progressive cant protect you from becoming your parents, but we can protect your home and auto. [ chuckles ] all right. To homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. That your business is our business the United States postal service. Priority you
business worldwide. A little developing situation here. Mitch mcconnell and john cornyn just got out of the white house meeting with the president. Here it is. The president got an opportunity to hear from the various members who have concerns about Market Reforms and the medicaid, the future of medicaid and medicaid expansion, so i think the meeting was very helpful. The one thing i would say is that i think everybody around the table is interested in getting a yes, interested in getting an outcome because we know the status quo is simply unacceptable, unsustainable and no action is just not an option. Critics say the longer this takes, the harder its going to be pass a Health Care Bill. I dont think so. Certainly we spent a lot of time on this over the last seven years. And our members are increasingly
familiar with the various moving parts. Its a very complicated subject. I had hoped, as you know, that we could have gotten to the floor this week but were not quite there. But i think we got a really good chance of getting there. It will just take as you little bit longer. Will you hold town halls over recess . Some members have town halls, some dont. Well see what happens. Sir, is the president getting involved in the details of negotiating . Is he getting into the details of the bill that might bring some of those wavering senators on board . And what is his message overall . I think the main thing is, as ive said, the status quo is simply unsustainable. It will be dealt with in one of two ways either republicans will agree and change the status quo or the markets will continue to collapse and well have to
sit down with senator shum achu and my suspicion is any negotiation with the democrats would include none of the reforms that we would like to make both on the market side and the medicaid side. So for all of those reasons, we need to come up with a solution. The American People elected us to do that and were working hard to get there. Joining me now is another u. S. Senator, happens to be from the democratic side of the aisle so hes not at the white house, hes the senator from hawaii, senator shotts, brian shotts. Welcome. Thanks for having me. I want to give you a chance to respond to what he said, i guess we negotiate with the democrats or the democrats will draw these lines in the sand. Is he portraying the democratic
position fairly . Hes not. I find it really striking the argument hes making is he was making this internally within the caucus this morning and i found it shocking. Now hes saying it out loud to the media that if they dont get it done on their own, shock, horror, terrible news, we will have to do this on a bipartisan basis. And my view is thats the way the mat senate is is supposed to work, thats the way the country is supposed to work. We ought to have hearings. Youve got two chairmen capable of doing bipartisan legislation, orrin hatch and lamar alexander. But weve got to let them having hearings and do their process. So what is look, what is the price i know theres a politics infused into this whole debate. What do you want republicans to geoff up. Were trying to negotiate
ceasefire. What does Mitch Mcconnell have to do to teak to the table. Thats not reform. That is the possible and in urban parts of the country. So these 800 million worth of tax cuts in exchange for 800 million worth of medicaid cuts, thats not a Health Care Bill, thats not a reform bill. We know we have problems with the individual marketplace. We are open to conferrings with how but a Big Medical Cade Cut in exchange for a big tax cut for what well who are already doing well, its not a Health Care Bill. The true sort of the rand paul and others said, look, you do this now, its an entitlement that never goes away and all of a sudden you think the federal
budget is impossible to get into balance, now you add medicaid to that and thats going to be 75 of the federal budget. Fair . I think we need to look at the expense and the revenue side and look at defense and nondefense. But right now were not having a an adult conversation at all on budget and atheyll say, listen, we have to cut medicaid, even though its nursing home care, even though its opioid treat, it it sure is. Ifor going o to have these it
sort of like you and ben sass. In interesting ways you come at it differently but youve developed a personality in social media that to me comes across as aej appropriate. Both of you are younger senators. I dont know if youve spent in i dont want to say unsenatorial in a negative but what people in the 1970s would have said is senatorial. It interesting. Ben and i do have a sprend fine over the last six months or so ive done my own tweeting. I i it bernie and the president have very little in common but i think peoples response to them was a common eresponse. They didnt feel like they were being sold so. They didnt feel like they were
being given a prepackaged product or slogan. If that means occasionally im not so officious and maybe sometimes inform yal, i tried not to goover. So im curious where you are inside the debate inside the the former late senator Daniel Inn Way was supportive of his causes. Do you have to be less polished in order to bust a machine . Is that what the democrats need to be, less polished . I dont know about thatbefore
members of senate, pbd, strategists to say they dont know. There is a sendcy in to want to settle on a standard bearer, want to settle on a Policy Position as the new set of Solutions People who are motivated and energized want to have a say in the future of the democratic party. I dont think it should be preordained or chaotic forever but i think this is a beautiful case of kie os. Want to tell them what to think been so what did you take away from georgia . I think ossoff was a compelling candidate and inspired a lot of people but recruitment very much matters. I can say this maybe with a little more credibility than
others. I ran for the United States congress when i was 34 years old and i had done a few things that i was proud of but i think people made the judgment that i just wasnt ready to serve. Were they right . You never want to say they were right when they dont vote for you but they made a judgment that i wasnt ready and now in hindsight considering youre a u. S. Senator, things have worked out okay. It all worked out and sometimes getting your butt kicked is the best possible thing in poll it can and had more roots in the neighborhood, thats easily 3. 8 percentage points. Democratic senator from hawaii, hope to hear from you a lot more. Up next, when an increase is actually a cut . Were going to dive into this medicaid word jumble. Whats going on . Oh hey
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the world. This is what leads to the election of people like the elections that we have seen in our country and around europe. You saw chuck throw out let oos get together and everyone was like thats a bunch of bait. Nobody wants to get in the same room and They Dont Trust this white house and the president that he will follow through. Yet you have a president who doesnt care how this gets done. He just want to get a win. Its looking like thats something he might not get. At this point, i guess the question is, is it politically feasible for Mitch Mcconnell to do nothing . No. I dont see how republicans saying they need to do this go and face voters again without
doing this. No permanent collusisolution work. No. He will pay a price either way. When is somebody going to say enough is enough. We know the only way this gets fixed is if everybody admits we cant do it on our own. It would be a political benefit for a group. We need a gang like that to come together. Who are those leaders a and why do we not see them standing up together . Theyve had plenty of time. On health care its going to require the republicans to give up the idea of repeal or the
democrats to not hold on so tightly to obamacare. Okay. Theres no doubt. They will always say well wait to the next election to decide it. Thank you. Depressing and fun as always. After the break, how the world views President Trump right now. Upbeat Dance Music bell ringing en johnsons, nos importa La Seguridad Tanto como a ti. Es por eso que cumplimos o superamos 15 estandares normativos globales de productos para bebes. Y donde los estandares difieren, siempre elegimos cumplir con los mas rigurosos. Johnsons. Think they cant depend on us. We had a president who disliked our friends and bows to our enemie enemies, something we have never seen before in the history of our country. But right now he may not be doing so much better so far. Check out these new numbers from pew research surveys. The end of his presidency, 64 of those surveyed afternoon the world expressed confidence in President Obama handling international affairs. Just 22 feel the same way now about President Trump. That is quite evident in most countries. This chart shows the net change in confidence that people had surveys in various countries between president s obama and trump. As you can see theres a massive drop in confidence in some nations. Look at sweden, canada. Some of those not surprising. Steep drop off in some countries between the two american leaders. Pew surveyed 37 nations and all but two gave higher marks to President Obama over President Trump