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Soon. this is going to be only a few dozen major employers because i think employers see the need to attract employees and they dont want to just be cutting health insurance coverage. so democrats will raise a big hackel ever this but the real-world effects are unknown at this point. >> the president in his commentary, going back to peter alexanders reporting here, wishing himself secretary of state was a little bit tougher on north korea. and also saying that there have been 25 years of discuss...

Sometimes slice the groups in different ways and daniel dale, ill show you the republicans number. job approval of among self identifying as republicans and those that do, a third disapprove, daniel. >> yeah. i think the country can be overly fixated on the continued existence of any base for donald trump so people see that, you know, theres a 30% that does stick with him. >> right. >> oh my gosh, how could that be? but, you know, he has been overwhelmingly unpopular from the minute he took offi...

>> sure. i talked to him about this at lengths after the puerto rico trip. puerto rico is $79 billion in debt, depending how you want to count it. there is no way they will get back to prosperity having that debt hanging over them. the mesa process, which is a bill that passed two years ago, is going to have to find a way to relieve puerto rico of that debt. it doesnt mean well wave a wand and wipe out their debt and it also doesnt mean well bail them out, because were not. >> but you will work ...

The white house, the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, all of our diplomats all across the world the same message on these really important decisions. if the president chose this week to decertify the iran nuclear deal in some country somewhere outside of the p5+1 theres going to be some person contacting his or her counterpart with the u.s. government asking what does this mean. and thats where -- >> well -- no, no, sir, in terms of what does this mean, i want to ask you relative to...

The window with one tweet. i can understand why morale is low. we are seeing that reported from folks that i talked to that are still there or have left, so its an unfortunate situation. i think the tweets by diplomacy is reckless and dangerous. >> because the president is essentially saying that he wants -- he doesnt want there to be diplomacy, and he sees diplomacy as weakness and wants tillerson to be strong. donald trump did a interesting -- maybe bizarre is a better description of it, and i...

>> democratic leaders such as nancy pelosi are again pushing for universal background checks issues and very opens and she hopes bump stock will be the first step in a slippery slope towards more gun-control. eric: as north korea prepares a reported missile that one lawmaker claims to hit the west coast of our country. president trump is not backing down. cryptic reminders of what kim jong un good faith. yesterday he treated quote the president said their administrations have been talking to nor...

Chief spoke with his relationship with secretary of state rex tillerson. take a listen. >> we have a very good relationship. we disagree on a couple of things. sometimes id like him to be a little bit tougher. but other than that we have a very good relationship. >> and then earlier in the day the president brought north korea back to the forefront of the conversation tweeting this -- "presidents and their administrations have been talking to north korea for 25 years. agreements made and massive...

That in various ways. and i think now president trump has his own particular way. and it seems to be that the hyper nationalism which says we do not want to be constrained by international norms and agreements and institutions and so on, i think that is kind of the hallmarks of this presidency. and you can see that in the fact that america with drew from the climate accord. you can see that with iran nuclear agreement where iran is actually complying with the terms of the agreement but is still ...

General kelly operates. would it surprise you that the secretary of state and the general was pushing to some kind of breaking point? >> dont know john, but i can tell you john kelly is in this for per perfection. hes in this for his country. hell continue to lead up as best he can. im sure its frustrating at times. i can imagine the contest hes experiencesing between the personalities, e zbgos and processes that donald trump has brought to office that kelly is not use to under other administrat...

Time. [ applause ] >> again, listening into the vice president, those are live comments radioiight now. this is an event in las vegas offering healing thoughts to the community prayer walk thats about to get under way remembering those lives loss of the community thats been in grieving for r almost a week. well keep listening and bring you highlights as we continue. the president trump is back in the white house, earlier today, he was in virginia and golf club and moments ago tweeted more commen...