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Have agreement on and we will work forward on the details. lets go in the back. >> thank you, mr. secretary. quick question. you bring up the estate tax. this is an issue thats been going on for decades. and it used to be they were always talking about phasing out the death tax over a period of years. groups suches a the senior association said they wouldnt accept it and wanted an immediate killing of the death tax. is that what this is going to be or is it going to be a phaseout measure again? ...

Work forward on the details. lets go in the back. >> thank you, mr. secretary. quick question. you bring up repeal of the death tax, the estate tax. this is an issue thats been going on for decades, and it used to be they were always talking about phasing out the death tax over a period of years. groups such as jim martin, 60 plus senior association said they wouldnt accept it and wanted an immediate killing of the death tax. is that what this is going to be, or is this going to be a phaseout me...

Pre-existing conditions. its going to give more responsibility for the implementation to th states. my state, missouri, would not expand medicaid. its not going to want to be sympathetic to pre-existing conditions and so i dont think that its going to pass. republicans are going to be in a tough situation and that is because if they vote for this, many of them will be voting for health care for the last time because theyre not going to be around up to the 2018 election. and on the other side, th...

Of events to tout his accomplishments ahead of the 100 day marker saturday. here with me is former top trump adviser chris christie. a current trump friend. i think thats fair to say. >> absolutely. >> you talk all the time. >> we do. >> what grade would you give him? >> i would give him a b. >> a b? >> i would. i would give him a b. i would say the reason i give him a b is first and foremost because of neil gorsuch. i think getting that done and getting it done in the way that he did with someo...

Menisc currency manipulator. none of this has been done. at least you would have to say incomplete. or as chris christie, his friend, the new jersey governor says, maybe a "b." >> id give him a "b" and i would say the reason i give him a "b" is first and foremost because of neil gorsuch. i think getting that done and getting it done in the way he did with his record is going to be something that will well survive his presidency. i also think some of the things hes done by executive action have b...

Advisor of new jersey. chris christy. a current trump friend. i think thats fair to say. >> absolutely. >> you talk all the time. >> we do. >> what grade would you give him? >> i would give him a b. >> a b? >> i would. i would give him a b. i would say the reason i give him a b is first and foremost because of neil gorsuch. i think getting that done and getting it done in the way that he did with someone with gorsuchs record is something that will well survive his presidency. i think thats an im...

South korea. i want to bring in bruce, a senior research fellow at the heritage foundation. previously spent 20 years with the cia and the defense intelligence agency, including as the cias deputy division chief for north korea. bruce, you know a lot about this. in an opinion piece for u.s. news and world report last week, you said president trumps policy for handling north korea appears to be strong, but the implementation so far has been weak. what do you mean by that? >> well, in my discussio...

Between disruption and implementation. i think theres a lot of political value in coming to washington as he has and saying that im not going to be locked in to the old ideas. both parties i think republicans and democrats have been sort of used up in old ideas that they have pedaling for 30, 40 years. they may be good ideas but i think theyre exhausted. but if you want to get anything done in washington, theres a certain way you go about it and so i think where weve seen him do well, whether it...

You simply dont have process. process is built to protect presidents, as much as enable them. we dont know if this is something ton -- >> thats the point im trying to make. you have a good foreign policy team but a president who still lurches on the international level, a president who still lurches with no discipline. >> coming up on the 100-day mark, you dont have a foreign policy you have jim mattis home alone at the pentagon, rex tillerson home alone at the state department. the implementati...

Implementation of any new health plan, cnns dr. sanjay gupta talked one-on-one with secretary price. watch this. >> you have done so many things in your life, youre obviously a doctor and orthopedic surgeon but also a legislator and now cabinet secretary, only the third doctor to hold that position. >> im a third generation physician, so my dad and grand dad were doctors. i learned about the physician/patient relationship that weve talked about before i think from my grandfather. i will never fo...