i m talking to the v.a. and i asked them that question, is the v.a. being in the veterans administration, is that considered health care. bottom line is where i m getting at is so i don t have to pay the penalty on my taxes, if i m a member of the v.a., is that considered health care, and they re telling me they got a whole lot of calls about that same question and they are still waiting to hear back from the irs. they don t know if it s considered health care if you re in the v.a. system. wondering by chance if your guest has any idea. so there are a couple of different kinds of benefits that you can get through the veterans administration so some people have disability benefits and some people get health care. i think there are some other services, too. i don t know exactly what it is that you have signed up for, but if you are getting a health benefit through the v.a., you are able to use their doctors and hospitals, that should count as health insurance under obamacare
first 45 minutes today. we are asking for democrats and independent to weigh in. the line for democrats for the first 45 minutes and for independents. you can catch up with us on a a very good friday morning it to you. much of the speculation about a joe biden run this week came in the wake of a story yesterday on the front page of the wall street journal. front page.d on the since that story came out, others have noted that it s clutch time for joe biden. bernie sanders should be rooting like crazy for joe biden. the headline from the new york , we want to hear your dots. thoughts. join us on the phone now is one of the reporters who worked on that wall street journal story. we appreciate your time in a getting with us this morning. guest: thank you for having me. host: talk about that headline. which allies in particular are we hearing about? he has vacationing this week in south carolina. we assumed he would be talking with his family and weighing the decision. he is
are we going to embrace it, or ignore it and get left behind. the world is teaching, but it still requires american leadership. in the absence of leadership, that leads to a vacuum and that leads to chaos. we never asked for the job of being a global leader, but fate has given it to us. we must accept it or the world will become a darker, more difficult place to live in. in the absence of leadership, there is no one to take our place. it makes the world more dangerous. [applause] [applause] within that inspirational closing, we should let senator rubio get on with the rest of his day. he will be on air and less than 10 minutes across street. let s please let senator go out. [applause] everyone stay seated. thank you very much. [applause] we ask again that you remain seated so that the senator can make his way out. i want to thank the senator again for sharing his time and views with us. [applause] [applause] and of course thanking all of you for joining us. have a won
absolutely, you go ahead. whenever you are ready. thank you to cnn viewers around the world. it s good to see you guys. thank you and good morning everyone. appreciate, john roberts fact-checking from the sea. good morning, good afternoon. [laughter] it s not my fault, it s on the paper. after receiving his daily intelligence briefing this morning the president led a national economic council listening session with ceos of small and community banks. since 2008 the number of small banks has declined 30%. the dramatic increase in regulation following the financial crisis has been a major driving force in the decline of these banks. dodd-frank alone has resulted in 22,000 pages of new regulations. while large banks can hire armies of complaints officers whose sole purpose is to ensure they meet the ever-growing number of regulations it increases the cost of doing business for community banks leaving some not to engage in some forms of lending were simply due to the time and
this in the last remaining days of his campaign to settle scores and to, basically, relitigate every wrong that he feels he has been suffering. this is a candidate who has, as we quote one official, just taken the party and has forced them to the darkest places possible. , nurturing the worst instincts of some of the conservative members of his party and torturing and that is not an exaggeration torturing the establishment-minded republicans who have devoted their entire lives to building up a conservative party in this country that can debate ideas and can talk about its history. this is about as far as from the party of george h.w. bush as you can imagine. host: so where does that put house speaker paul ryan, the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, and the so-called mainstream republicans as they try to maintain control of the house and the senate and figure out where the gop is going next? philip elliott: paul ryan is an interesting character here. he, he always