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Shows the u.s. economy added 211,000 jobs in april, dropping the unemployment rate to 4.4%. that is the lowest level in a decade. weve been talking about it all morning. brendan, i want to start with you, that is a great number, but theres another number i want to focus on. the u.s. added just about 6300 jobs in the retail sector. that is essentially unchafkds after months of losses losses, losses. do we need to focus more on the new retail worker? malls are closing across the country? >> lets t...

And brought it down to a half trillion. what do you say? >> ultimately obamacare was broken. the easy play would have been to let it continue in a glide path to doom. our job is to do our job to create the best paradigm for the american people. i rarely disagree with senator paul but i think we got what we needed to go. i saw numbers that indicated a 38% drop. somebody said do you believe that? no, i dont. if its a 3. 8% drop, the first time in eight years that our healthcare prices have moved i...

Im concerned about it. actually im concerned about something even more that has to do with the same issue which is treatment and longer term recovery and medicaid expansion which 31 states have, including our states, is providing a lot of the treatment n.ohio we think its about half and by far the largest provider of treatment for the opioid addiction crisis. in ohio were seeing more deaths than ever before. unfortunately, thats true nationwide on average. the problem is getting worse, not bette...

Interactions, but it is very few and far in between. >> we also hear is he a prolific reader. we also know the president has proposed a budget that would cut almost 30% of the money from the secretary of states budget. there are still a lot of positions under him that have been left unfilled. whats going on there? >> well, i think there is a lot of concern that secretary tillerson is not really fighting back for those cuts. he has said that he thought he wants to see it as kind of a glide path t...

The presidents right, lets get it down, 2:00, 3:00 tomorrow afternoon. i think its a yes. >> and you handily won reelection in your district but youve got people living in poverty in your district as well. the president is polling at 37% popularity. only thing worse right now is the popularity of this health care bill and that is the 17%. are you prepared during the easter break and several easter breaks to come to hear from your constituents, some of whom may be dropped from health care? >> wel...

The presidents right, lets get it down, 2:00, 3:00 tomorrow afternoon. i think its a yes. >> and you handily won reelection in your district but youve got people living in poverty in your district as well. the president is polling at 37% popularity. only thing worse right now is the popularity of this health care bill and that is the 17%. are you prepared during the easter break and several easter breaks to come to hear from your constituents, some of whom may be dropped from health care? >> wel...

Pilot. we saw growing costs to a point that it was going to crush our state. a democrat governor discontinued the program. he discontinued it without having a glide path to take care of people. were not going to do that in our program. ive been through that. i dont want to see that again. were going to make sure people are taken care of and a glide path into a new program that will be more sustainable. >> can you tell me of any significant government program in the past that has been completely ...

Exercise free will. they certainly did under obamacare with the individual mandate where so many people chose to pay the penalty. we need to recognize thats not only inherent to human nature but inherent to a free state. we need to create access to care thats actually care as opposed to coverage. thats a false paradigm that we have seen throughout the obamacare story, that look how many more people have coverage. coverage doesnt equal care if you cant pay your deductible. and thats the glide pat...

>> not in my mind. >> tucker: the legislation attracts it, thats what i mean. >> not that im aware of. it doesnt leave up to the states to be monitored by the states. >> tucker: obamacare taxes are still in here and not all of them will be repealed, the bulk wont be repealed until 2018, why is that? >> one of the things that we promised is a stable transition. mack. in order to have that, weve got to make sure, everyones make sure, they expressed to me how concerned they were about to do. i unde...

Two-year kind of glide path to get a market in place. and you got to remember where were at today. right now, today, americans have fewer choices. higher costs. higher premiums. higher deductibles. so never forget the context were in right now. obamacares -- think what it said, obamacare said were going to put taxes, regulations, mandates on the insurance industry, drive up the cost of insurance, mandate you buy it and if you dont, you get penalized. such a deal. thats what were living under now...