he s done. we haven t talked about portions of the executive order that is i fond off healthy people in order to make the regular obamacare plans much more expensive and loaded with sick people. if you look at that. you look at the fact that he s pulled advertising money for open enrollment, he s used obamacare money to run a pr campaign against it it s hard to avoid the conclusion that he s trying to make health care worse. he s trying to screw up people s lives. this is what he said. this is donald trump himself over the last several months saying what he wants to see happen to obamacare. i said from the beginning, let obamacare implode. and then do it. i turn out to be right. let obamacare implode. let obamacare fail, it will be a lot easier. we won t own it. i won t own it. republicans won t own it. we ll let obamacare fail and then the democrats are going to come to us and going say how do we fix it or how do we come up
absence of a few minutes peter baker from the new york times. appreciate you sticking around, peter. heidi you get what maybe the toughest question of the day. this is for all of our viewers who have just gotten home who may not have caught up. what happened? what did the president do to healthcare today, more broadly, obamacare today? was there cruelty? was there sinna six involved as some of the democrats have charged. they have talked about letting obamacare fail. this is is not letting obamacare fail. had is actively ambushing obamacare and they re being pretty up-front about it saying he didn t get his way in congress in terms of repeal and replace so now he s going to going after this law. what he did today is, according to healthcare experts who i talked to, potentially one of the most damaging things he could do to try and upset this marketplace. why? because these are the subsidies that allow these insurance go to these insurance companies, not just to help any america
reporter: experts say the president s move will hike rates for both middle class and lower income americans at an estimated cost to the government of more than $7 billion next year. the president is acting to dismantle obamacare even though he said he would let it collapse on its own earlier this year. let obamacare fail. it will be a lot easier. and i think we re probably in that position where we ll just let obamacare fail. reporter: holding a mini news conference on the south lawn of the white house, the president also defended his actions in puerto rico, including his tweet slamming local leaders on the island as well as his warning that assistance won t last forever. why do you keep going out to puerto rico and saying you won t stay there forever? we ve done a great job. we ve done a great job in puerto rico. puerto rico has to get the infrastructure going. we re helping them with their infrastructure. reporter: now, as for the iran deal, there are mixed messages comin
art of the deal, one of the great books, of course. the iran deal, this recent deal which is a catastrophe. reporter: the president is taking dramatic action to undermine another piece of barack obama s legacy, obamacare. ending the payments to insurance companies that help provide health care to lower income enrollees. and one by one it s going to come down. reporter: mr. trump said his actions won t harm the poor. are you concerned about poor people losing health care? no, because i think what we ll do is we ll be able to renegotiate so that everybody gets we just took care of a big chunk and now we ll take care of the other chunk. what would be nice, if the democratic leaders could come over to the white house, we ll negotiate some deal that s good for everybody. reporter: experts say the president s move will hike raesd for both middle class and lower income americans at an estimated cost to the government of more than $7 billion next year. the president is acting to
had them. these payments are payments to insurance companies. i cannot believe that nancy pelosi was just on your screen there defending bailout payments to large corporations. typically the democrats are against that. it s sort of like the shoe is on the other foot here. the bottom lionel is these are bad policy and the payments are not appropriate. once again, they re designed as subsidies to help with the premium for individuals, the premiums are going to go up if the subsidies go away. the other criticism is that the president is doing this because he wants to see obamacare fail. zen, the president doesn t want to write a check of your and my tax money to these large health insurance companies that are making hundreds of millions of dollars. let s be perfectly clear, these companies have done extraordinarily well since obamacare became the law of the land. and the president didn t want to simply stand by and see that continue to happen. that, married to the fact that these are