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You the ways to be able to make that work. >> thank you. >> i wanted to go back to the first round of questioning with the chairman who showed a chart, and it seemed like the -- what was implicit in the back and forth was the act of repeeling the affordable care act would only impact perhaps a very small part of the health care industry. you talked about 6% being covered by the markets. the protection type coverage on the coverage and premandating that people be covered even if they have a preex...

They do good work of the american academy of pediatrics. im a fan of and think they do good work of the american lung association, and im a fan of and think they do good work of the american public health association. all of those groups and many others have gone very clearly on record that climate change presents significant health issues. they signed a declaration on climate change and health which stated that the science is clear that this is happening. you, on the other hand, have said that ...

Give president-elect trump a mess that barack hussein obama has left us. co-host of "fox & friends," author, fox news contributor, do you have any more jobs? and mom of three! >> most important. >> sean: they are not going to change, starting with obamacare, take it from there. energy dependent, the environmentalist amount. the nea comes out. when it becomes about taxes, the rich versus poor. old versus young. its predictable, its not going to stop, t is it? >> no, it isnt. to some extent, it is...

Continue to be a helpful laboratory for health care experimentation with respect to delivery models, payment models, and so forth. for medicare, for medicaid, the childrens health insurance program. perhaps other areas. save taxpayer money, provide greater value. we see what doesnt work. we scale up what does work. dpor me its commonsense. this is the way sort of scientists operate as they start with experiments and then they evaluate and then they scale up. i would like to know your intentions ...

Without children to seek or gain employment or to study to gain employment -- >> what do you mean by able-bodied. you just used that term again. >> thats what would be defined in the regulation itself. i dont know the -- >> you used a term without an idea of how you would define it? >> i think people have an understanding of what able-bodied is, and thats doesnt have the kinds of things that you described, i dont believe. >> that was a simple answer to my question. able-bodied does not include p...

States congress in opposition to this demonstration project. you wrote a letter with 242 members of congress opposing that demo. aye read those letters. i know thats not easy. that takes a lot of work to get 242 people to sign on. >> thats good staff work, senator. >> and then, guess what, within two weeks of you taking the lead on opposition to that demonstration project, the stock prices for four of those six companies went up. you didnt have to buy those stocks knowing that you were going to ...

To do the technical work behind it for the administration. are you going to be proposing in that role something that reopens the donut hole? i have a lot of seniors who want to hear about that if thats your plan. >> im not aware of any discussions to do that. >> okay. finally, my recollection of that meeting in my notes that you told me you would not want to return to insurance company lifetime caps or insurance company denial of preexisting conditions or insurance companies going back and looki...

Weak threat and hell have a hard time getting those passed? >> hes been so explicit about that threat. that threat is often implied by a lot of presidents but this one hes been saying i won your state by x amount and ill go back there. >> and you better be afraid. and it either works or doesnt and we will see. >> doesnt work at 38% approval rating. >> i would say thats right. >> michael beschloss, nbc news presidential historian, thank you for being here. >> nice to be here, rachel. >> much more...

Again, thats a legislative question. >> they would leave it in place? >> its a legislative question, not an administrative question. >> now, in one of your budgets you had a proposal that would allow states to throw what you called able-bodied people off of medicaid unless they were working or looking for work or in job training. people with addiction behavioral health, mental health issues, are they able-bodied in your definiti definition? >> well, we werent as specific as what the definition w...

A bombastic announcing with your goals and then you retreat and end up with a deal that somewhere in the middle and the way donald trump is used to behaving. the problem is that that doesnt work very well for a president. in our system, a president is -- once the prime minister, the negotiator in chief, the head of state and he represents our country also. if you look at those poll numbers, there is a clear message for trump. the country wants him to succeed on his basic program, his basic agend...