town hall and came out for medicare for all. and jake tapper pressed her on how it would work. she said we don t need people going through insurance companies, let s eliminate that. let s just goat rid of people s 150 million private insurance. once you start running as a presidential candidate, a lot of these slogans and ideas thrown out as a member of the u.s. senate are going to be judged under new light. how feasible they actually are. in the case of medicare for all. we have seen time and again multiple states going down the road of a single payer program and they can never make the math work. i think this is one of the this we ll see develop over the
here. she is talking about a middle class tax plan. it is aimed at a group that they did not perform well in 2016 but also medicare for all. it takes you to the left certainly here but to both of you, because i m curious, give me your review of that policy as well. i would say it is interesting that the democratic candidates seem to be jumping in together on medicare for all. i haven t seen her explain the economics of that. i don t know that she s is most well suit today do that. it would be warren s lane. i haven t seen any democrat make the math work on that. so i think there will be some negotiation and waiting in a field this big to see who gets ahead of explaining heart issues like that first and this speaks to the vagueness you pointed out when it come to harris is that she will wait and see i would think. you have to do that.
the president has every incentive to try to force this fight and hold his ground. that means on december 21st could be the longest day of the year. garrett, we know that the democrats wanted this to be settled in a week. however how long this ends uptaking we go through this every time there s the shut down or threat of a shutdown. in this case we have shuck schumer saying if there s a shutdown, it s on president trump. i m wondering what republicans on capitol hill are saying. are they concerned if there s a shut down it s going to go against them? reporter: republicans on the house side have voted to give the president the $5 billion he wants. republicans on the senate side are scrambling to find some kind of way to make the math work. whether they could give him 2.5 billion now. give him 2.5 billion more in a year or two. whether they can move money around from different places. nobody in congress want a shut
the waters warm. shannon: ed henry, thank you. as a mention, overseeing a defined pelosi to make confident she has no votes to be elected speaker again so does the math work. let s see what fox news politics editor and editor of the halftime report chris stirewalt thanks. good evening to you. happy thursday. shannon: want to play more of what nancy pelosi had to say. i have overwhelming support in my caucus to be speaker of the house and certainly we have many, many people in our caucus who could serve in this capacity. i happen to think at this point i m the best person for that. shannon: okay, so there s challenges from younger upstart people. a lot of new members. we have 17 who have signed onto the letter saying there s no way we have their pictures that they re going to support her. how many democrats can she lose and still win? depend on how many democrats and up winning seats.
house? what would the agenda look like for an emboldened, because they d be emboldened if they won republican party. according to the new york times, house republicans have deferred the messy work of planning a legislative agenda at this point. but if they were to win on tuesday, republicans would claim a conservative mandate to cut taxes, chip away at the affordable care act and shrink federal spending. something else that could land on their agenda is special counsel robert mueller s ongoing investigation into russia s 2016 election interference. i m joined by shona thomas for vice news and sam stein, politics editor for the daily beast. shona, what do you think they would do if think kept clinging to power? i think the tax cut thing is what they would want to do is make the tax cuts from the middle class term. it had a ten-year sunset period. and one of the things they kept saying you okay? to make the math work. yeah, excuse me.