Page 9 - Policy Items News Today

Presidents own making. >> sean spicer, the white house press secretary, said today its possible by the end of the week well have an answer whether or not there are tapes, recordings, of the presidents private conversations with comey. why is this such a difficult -- its been a month now since the president himself first raised the issue. why is it taking so long? >> its ludicrous, the idea that he says or puts out there, hey, i may have tapes, i may not have tapes, and its been a month that we d...

She declined multiple times to answer questions about the testimony saying repeatedly that she would refer the matter to mark kasowitz who she said is expected to give a statement. this is what were seeing from this white house which has gotten repeatedly bogged down in this russia trying to move forward on policy items and now were seeing this white house trying to farm some of this out. they are trying to farm it out to marc kasowitz, the presidents newly hired attorney on this matter and the ...

Communication and republican senators and lawmakers have admitted theyre not sure who to talk to talk to on specific policy items on tax reform and healthcare. its a big problem. >> shepard: healthcare repeal and replace is the number one thing going on for half a decade, maybe longer than that. they voted to repeal obamacare more than 50 times. then it comes around time to get something done. they cant get everybody quite together on the republican side. the moderates are here and the more cons...

Probably is going to differ this time around given how motivated the democratic base is. number two, you have unbelievably unpopular policy items coming out not only the health care bill in the house, but the budget that just came out would flash benefits for people in trump country. i think this is a different formula this time around. well seat for the first time in a long time, the party out of the white house doing extremely well in the midterms. >> jon: mercedes, republicans do do better in...

Her on policy items that would benefit women, families. we were talking a moment ago about bill deglass wro who once -- de blasio who once took universal preschool to 3-year-olds not just 4-year-olds. hes a left wing democrat in the eyes of the trump administration, but maybe thats the sort of initiative she could get involved with. its got to be through demonstrable action. shes never going to take issue with her father like that publicly, i would be surprised. >> we need a womens advocate were...

They going to prioritize like the president said during the campaign, which is a major criminal, felons, people who have committed horrendous acts of crime? i think that is where you get into where local authorities are little bit confused on where their priorities are going to be. >> jon: it is a real change in priority from the obama administration. then attorney general eric holder would actually file suit against states that were trying to do more to enforce immigration laws. this is a 180-d...

And so far, and so on. this is the heart of the question. does trump need to rile up or hold on to that base in order to do what need to do both in governing terms and in political terms? and its not clear that that is the case. you know? i mean, where would a die-hard trump supporter, a nationalist, a populist supporter, where would they go now and have him do what he is not doing? you have a whole bunch of policy items that this administration has to get on with and that is governing. that is ...

Make sure that they have a sense of job security if jared kushner pushes for one of them to be ousted. i do think that he has continued to push president trump even in the absence of being in certain meetings that have been important over the last week to stay on top of his agenda, to continue to pursue the policy items that he put forward on immigration, on health care and whatnot. we really saw this reach the boiling point when the health care debacle occurred. you had sources telling us that ...

What does that mean? >> it means folks on capitol hill, especially the defense hawks like senate armed services committee john mccain, are probably jumping for joy. i actually did talk to a few house members on the armed services committee, republicans, who said, you know, this is -- this is probably the best time for this to happen given whats going on with susan rice whos seen as somebody -- who was the press set sore to current nsa mcmaster. shes seen as being political and this is not a poli...

Rest of the affordable care act through reconciliation, what we have proposed is a path that will repeal and replace obamacare. we start with the bill that we put on the presidents desk last year that president obama vetoed so that is the repeal bill of obamacare and we add to it the transition items that are going to make for a smooth transition and we are adding the tax credits, medicaid reform, expansion of health savings accounts and phase two, what they can do under administration under sec...