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Legislative agenda plans that the congressional republicans have. >> lawrence, winston churchill used to tell a story about a negotiation within the british government around the time of world war i. the admiralty wanted to fund four battleships. sorry, the treasury wanted to fund four battleships. the admiralty wanted six battleships. so churchill said, we compromised on eight battleships. thats the sort of deal that we got done today. this is not surprising. mr. trump has no intellectual balla...

Leverage point to cut spending. mr. trump has no interest in cutting spending. he ran on a promise not to touch the entitlement programs that are the great drivers of federal spending. so this is really not surprising, and it is in a way condine punishment for a party that has allowed itself to be rented by him. >> today senator bob corker on this very day, when this strangest of oval office meetings occurs, bob corker was asked does he still hold to that position about donald trumps stability. ...

His career, he believes chaos benefits him nap he is strengthened when there is unease around him. and when lines are uncertain and positions are uncertain. somethingals larger. steve bannon and reince priebus were supposed to represent the book ends marrying with a populist nationalism that bannon embodied and the administration really struggled i think to make that balance. you see the tension on all sorts of issues like foreign policy, trade. above all i think, what youve seen over the first ...

Anderson, what the focus has to be, and its something i suggested, i dont know, four, five, six months ago, the focus ought to be on stabilizing those insurance markets on the exchange so people can get health insurance. then we need to move beyond that and think about what insurance is all about. what is the risk were trying to cover? what are the responsibilities of people aside from those risks that we cover on insurance? and then i also think, anderson, that we need to look at all these enti...

Obamacare fail, is that an option? >> no, i really dont think it is. and im not sure thats what he really means. ive always believed that hes not hung up on some ideological fix on this. thats my view. if they were able to give him something thats stabilized the insurance markets, began to deal with the problems of rising halth care costs, i think hed sign it. anderson, i mean, what the focus has to be and its something i suggested, i dont know, four, five, six months ago, the focus ought to be ...

is it not the case that it used to be a benefit to be the party with the most ideological diversity, but the republican party is having one heck of a time figuring out how to govern with senators like shelly mark capito and others who are not taking away entitlements like rand paul and ted cruz want to repeal the whole thing? >> i think its fine to have a lot of diversity as long as theres a commitment to the party. >> or some sort of principle. what is it theyre trying to achieve? take stuff...

36%, is that why he couldnt get those waive erring republicans -- if his job approval was better he would have had a better chance? >> certainly a higher job approval rating would have been helpful. the president would have had more leverage over these senators. as it is, those senators actually probably have more leverage over the president because in most states, they are more popular than he is. that is certainly a problem, but i think what republican senators truly confronted in this situati...

They didnt do it. >> if you vote for a republican bill that keeps the death spiral you say were going to subsidize it with taxpayer money. thats not conservative, not republican, not the free market. thats not what we promised. i promised to vote for repeal and i will keep my promise. if they bring the bill up i will voting to to the bill if were talking about a clean repeal. i wont go to vote for a bill thats a bunch of pork and entitlement programs. >> martha: i get where youre coming from. wh...

Paired back in some fashion to account for the growth in spending and all the other entitlement programs. now, there is a split among senate republicans and house republicans generally with many wanting to keep the medicaid expansion in some cases because of the opioid abuse issue. this is causing a real problem as they move forward and try to do something. you have the political pressure which we have been talking about from the right, the fact that if they dont repeal obama care, even if it is...

We keep the entire program intact, the new eligibility program intact, ask states to pay their share. maybe as important as all the rest, in the eighth year, we actually require that the program begin to grow at a slightly slower pace so that we have a chance of actually keeping up with it. joe, ive always been concerned about the growth of our entitlement programs. they are driving the fiscal train wreck were on. medicaid is the single biggest driver of this. and someone needs to tell me, what ...