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Growth, pro worker, comprehensive tax reform and i think my credential on this issue has been consistent about growing the economy. Let me highlight principles that we believe must be adhered to in tax reform. Our number one priority is moving the dial to help the middle class and their families prosper. Creating jobs, boosting wages and giving hard working middle class americans the relief they need to get ahead. The key component to this first test is any tax reform must place workers first. T...

Thanks for your great reporting on that. joining me to discuss the new republican health care plant canned the america health care act, dr. kavita cabbel and bruce bartlet, who held senior policy roles in the reagan and george h.w. bush administrations. thank you both for your patience and being here. kavi kavita, even republicans said the bill needed fixes. did they fix it? >> no. we still havent seen details on how were going to advance care. there are provisions in the bill

Where states have flexibility to charge up to five times higher or even more for the age of a person. so insurance could be way more expensive for a 60-year-old, as you said, than $4,000 a year. >> were going to talk a little bit more about that in detail. bruce, you tweeted and i want to put it up here, proof that republicans health care plan stinks is that they plan to pass it without a cbo score, contrary to congressional rules. i just want to get into this for a second. a cbo score is -- eve...

Fast one by doing something in the dead of night while expecting the american people to take their lies as assertions and as facts. and theyre not. theyre just making things up and playing to their own base. >> bruce, i wanted to talk to you about other things that were going on but at the pace at which things get unrolled in this administration, we havent had a chance and i hope youll come back and well have the conversation about other matters we were planning to have. kavita patell. she worke...

Think of this is that they will use 2016 spending dollars and the amounts that were spending last year to determine how much they should spend on medicaid in 2020 and that will dramatically reduce the amount of money that the federal government is giving to the medicaid program. >> that wouldnt work if you w buys buys can, which havent gone up in many years. the problem here is those worse off are getting hit a little bit harder. >> and we know. forget obamacare. even before -- people talk about...

Landslide. bruce bartlet wrote, the trump phenomenon perfectly represents the culmination of populism and anti-intellectualism that became dominant in the republican party with the rise of tea party. a trump route is republican moderates best chance to take back the gop. joining us now, bruce bartlet, former domestic policy adviser to ronald reagan and former deputy assistant for economic policy under george w. bush. bruce bartlet, you have the floor, make your case to moderate republicans that ...

And yet, heres ronald reagan, the hero of this party who granted amnesty to 2.7 million immigrants. the party has changed a lot. >> the amnesty point and several other important lost elements of reagan history are all in bruce bartletts editorial. we thank you all for joining us tonight. we appreciate it. coming up the prime minister of malaysia says the plane part found in the ocean on that island, is from malaysia flight 370, but bowing is not so sure.

Funding? former reagan administration official bruce bartlet said in an essay that the best thing that can happen to the republican party is for donald trump to win the republican presidential nomination and then lose the election in a landslide. bruce bartlet wrote, the trump phenomenon perfectly represents the culmination of populism and anti-intellectualism that became dominant in the republican party with the rise of tea party. a trump route is republican moderates best chance to take back t...

Republican today because he supported tax increases and amnesty for illegal aliens and supported gun control. any number of issues that would have gotten him read out of any party meeting in this country today. >> mr. bartlet, is it your impression, im not trying to put words in your mouth, are they trying to outdo one another when it comes to being radical? sfwl i dont think tlsz any theres any question about that. thats one of the problems, the escalation of rhetoric. every potential republica...

For no to 67622. go to our blog and well bring you the results later on in the show. i challenge -- i challenge governor jindals office to put out a statement tonight to explain what a hostile takeover is. and explain what he means by rebellion. let me bring in bruce bartlet, former bush 41 policy adviser. you know, the conservatives today love to quote and point to the example of ronald reagan. would reagan use the term, h hostile takeover and use the term rebellion in terms of people rising up...