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Will receive flooding and torrential rain. many people here will not be going to school or work today in order to prepare. in the meantime, what we are seeing here, david, is the calm before the storm. officials are recommending that everybody use today what is the last of the favorable conditions to prepare before the weather conditions take a turn. >> polo, i think thats one of the big questions, which is how in this calm before the storm, whether people are thinking of this as a big rain even...

Theres also public health issues. the congress has been the hurdle. it isnt just the democrats but the senate. the house has passed something but this game has been going on since 1980. president trump is a builder. he knows how to finish a project. this wall will get built. >> heres a big question. we have the big debt ceiling issue coming up the republicans will have to deal with which is another national disgrace washington has given us. the government will be funded, its a fact. the presiden...

Decisions not letting the epa get in the way in certain cases where they are going to find a way to block it. that deep state bureaucrats. ive got bad news. >> chris: the first rule about winning a government shutdown fight is stop threatening that youre going to shutdown the government. second, we are not going to back to regular order. its not going to be about the border wall. there is going to be a debt ceiling vote in three weeks thats going to fail not because of democrats but because of y...

Coverage or the expansiveness of the current health care coverage that we have. and what is the essential services and what people expect and are really needed. the new version of the senate bill -- >> let me go deeper on this. i have had senators and members of congress on my show saying were not cutting any money. were giving the states the responsibility to handle this themselves and to make the decisions that are better done at the state level. in your state fearly 65% of those -- nearly 65%...

Get done. as far as the stories i hear, there are people who say they dont want to lose their insurance, but as you apply their particular situation, my constituents to the legislation that is being passed, the impact is not on them, the impact is on people who will choose not to purchase insurance because their government is not telling them to and down the road, the changes are not for people on medicaid right now. it is primarily for new enrollees. it also affects medicaid expansion. it takes...

Are crunching the legislation behind closed doors, they werent sharing it with other members. we havent seen hearings about this hinge. they dont want to discuss what is actually in the legislation. when the senators come out and they talk about, you know, were going to roll back regulations, what theyre really talking about are -- is providing health insurance to people and essential services. so to have donald trump sort of meet with chuck schumer, it was a wonderful limitation for people that...

In the meantime, we are dealing with an issue where people have personal opposed to dealing with anger against washington, which is more general or not thinking congress has credibility. whats going to happen under the gop plan is states will have more power. so, republican senators that are doubters, you cant guarantee what will happen until you know more what your state governors want to do. so, if you say one way premiums can go down is if you dont have the ten essential services defined by t...

Income. and some could pay more, a lot more, for less. if you are a single person making $42,000 a year, you would not qualify for tax credits to coverage. the senate bill cuts medicaid. rolling back obama cares expansion. right now, the program covers 1 out of 5 americans. >> it puts medicaid on a more sustainable path. >> reporter: critics say hardest hit, low income families and seniors. or the other hand, wealthier americans win big. many will get sizable tax cuts. >> yet again a tax bill di...

These priorities. i know you have to cut deals, i get that. but you got to get some of your big things in there. you have to be willing to shut down the government. not essential services, but some of the government to do this. you have to do it. i cant be so scared, unilaterally disarmed right off the bat, which is what the republicans always seem to do. they are petrified of shutting down the government. >> bret: the administration, chuck says, they were able to get into this year because it h...

These priorities. i know you have to cut deals, i get that. but you got to get some of your big things in there. you have to be willing to shut down the government. not essential services, but some of the government to do this. you have to do it. i cant be so scared, unilaterally disarmed right off the bat, which is what the republicans always seem to do. they are petrified of shutting down the government. >> bret: the administration, chuck says, they were able to get into this year because it h...