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>> bret: lets all have town hall. vivek is going to be on this show little bit later. beers and town hall. thanks, jesse. ♪ >> bret: good evening, welcome to des moines iowa, im bret baier. five days away from the first in the nation iowa caucuses. tonight at 9:00 p.m., we will hold the third of this weeks candidate town hall meetings right here and our guest tonight on this stage former president donald trump. well have more on that in just a moment. but, we are following two major ...

extremist group and a man convicted for crimes related to entering the capitol. the committee also played clips from its deposition last week with a former white house counsel pat cipollone. chad pergram watching it all joins me live now from capitol hill tonight. chad, good evening there. what happened today? hello. >> good evening, bill, allegations of witness tampering. liz cheney says the former president tried to call a witness who has not yet testified before the committee. the p...

Insurance market which actually allows people to choose a diversity of health insurance plans. the reason we dont have that is because of antitrust exemptions for health insurance companies. im going to put an end to that the pharmaceutical industry lob idea for heightened standards for fda approval keep competition out. bring competition back into healthcare. have a system that pace for health, not just sickness on the back end and i think thats how we are actually going to get our country back...

>> they dont need democrats. if they know they can do it with republicans, they typically wont get any democrats. there are bills, however, that are designed to win democratic support and there are a couple healthcare bills that will be on the floor, in addition to the one you mentioned. one has to do with eliminating antitrust exemptions for healthcare companies and another allows small businesses to pool their resources together to purchase insurance to increase their buying power. they are ho...

The beginning up, so the lobbyists have to argue to put something in rather than keep from getting something taken out. >> well, let me ask you about another protection that professional sports have, and that is the antitrust exemption. where are you on this? its something that allows basically allows for the leagues to be monopolies, and obviously, you know, you could make an argument, you know, theres plenty of other industries that would love to have the negotiating power and the monopolistic...

I understand that government has always provided indirect subsidi subsidies. i think its a horrible idea to government to give any kind of funding because it carries the or ra of politicalization. >> again, the commission hasnt recommended a single one of these ideas. >> but youve kind of put it on a table, just like this table. >> well, no, because its a report. you can read it, its on the internet. its not like a solid table. we want to get a broad range of ideas. from my perspective, for exam...

Pushed tax increases off to 2018 on these plans. no cost savings. it is -- hes paid off all the big special interests in washington, d.c. behind closed doors. it requires everybody to buy health insurance and theres nothing on the other side to contain those costs. >> so give the gop a month and tell them to come up with their plan. >> they have a plan. anybody that watched the summit the other day knows its simple. start with tort reform, you save $54 billion. >> thats where you start? start wi...

District set prices they can go to jail. but when the biggest health insurance companies in the country do it, its okay. simpbs 1945 rks it was an early ben nelson compromise, it was supposed to be a three-year exemption, but they got rid of the phase-out. and ever since then, the industry has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars on lore bying to protect their monopoly. >> is there a justification to allow price-fixing in health care insurance companies? >> since 1945. overwhelmingly a ...