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Terminate nafta. he thought it was a bad deal for years. he decided to renegotiate with canada and mexico and hit the pause button. that was a sudden shift in the deal. he is looking forward to terminating nafta. on saturday, he would make a big splash and decided not to because he had phone calls with the canadian prime minister and mexican president. he felt like doing so would setoff a bomb on their relationship. they would have such tension between them. he could not do it. >> that is fascin...

No statement under the presidents name. not even from the desk of the white house. instead coming from the department of defense, jim mattis, the secretary of defense. thats a different kind of strategy, one that senior advisors had suggested to me earlier was the likely approach and it really does turn down some of the angst on the global stage or perhaps taking some of the sort of response down to a level that is a bit more in line with what took place here. not that the north korean attempts ...

Talking about what a complex situation and fight this is? >> i think it was a polite way to get her out of the white house. i think this is general mcmaster cleaning the white house bringing in his own team. this is one of the things the president is going to allow him to do. i think it was a good move. >> guys, thank you very much. gayle, colonel, errol lewis, we appreciate. the opening bell moments away on wall street. international tensions and pending investigations with china have investo...

Surveillanced by potentially some intelligence group, whether they were inadvertently swept up and whether names were unmasked. chris, you dont know the full answer that to that and i dont know either. >> joining me now is adriana cohen. welcome to you. so how long should trump operatives push this narrative when the head of the nsa and the head of the fbi have no evidence of that and is the white house at risk of wearing down its credibility with this? >> i think we need to just hit the pause b...

This week a little pause here, hitting the pause button, the dow is up 2,400 points since the election. a big run. the dow is a leading indicator. it has already priced in like the best possible scenario. >> its already priced in the corporate tax cuts this president promised and can get done with a republican-led congress. however, he cant get it done without getting health care done. is this the market saying whoa, whoa, whoa. >> this is the reality part of the phase. all hope until now. this ...

More that unites republicans than divides republicans on this issue. repealing these awful taxes, those subsidies, those mandates that have hurt our local businesses, we unite behind. >> the reforms that the american people asked us to do, we are ready to the go, and the worst thing we could do is hit the pause button and and continue obamacare and broken policies that are hurting our people. >> reporter: theres still a long road ahead for this republican health care bill. it will head to the bu...

More that unites republicans than divides republicans on this issue. repealing these awful taxes, those subsidies, those mandates that have hurt our local businesses, we unite behind. >> the reforms that the american people asked us to do, we are ready to the go, and the worst thing we could do is hit the pause button and and continue obamacare and broken policies that are hurting our people. >> reporter: theres still a long road ahead for this republican health care bill. it will head to the bu...

We could do is hit the pause button and continue obamacare with the broken policies hurting the people.>> there is still a long road ahead for this healthcare bill. it will head to the budget committee this week and the rules committee before the house floor. >> thank you so much. >> this is a rockier road than many may have expected. lets talk about that. lets bring in bento is a staff writer for the hill. republicans now control the house, senate and the white house. president trump made repea...

Other republicans saying the plan would be dead upon arrival to the senate. chairman of house committees that visited the white house on friday argue that despite disagreements, the g.o.p. remains strong in their belief that obamacare needs to go. >> if you hear nothing else that i say today, this the most important one. there is so much more that unites republicans than divides republicans on this issue. >> its the reforms that the american people asked us to do. we are ready to go and the wors...

The pause button and continue obamacare and its broken policies that are hurting our people. >> reporter: theres still a long road ahead for this republican health care bill. it will head to the budget committee this coming week and then the rules committee before the house floor. rick? rick: arthel? arthel: all right, lets bring in phillip bump, washington correspondent at "the washington post." good to see you this afternoon. one of the major points of contention, medicaid expansion. health ca...