Page 245 - Prism News Today

Parties some of whom worked for president bush and are now among mr. trumps biggest tricritic t, it presents a real problem. it presents a question in the mind of the voter who hes working for, is he working for the american people or is he trying to fatten his own wallet. and thats why people, especially politicians avoid these kinds of events. >> in traditional times the consequences are outrage among voters and outrage among colleagues that sort of forces the person who is doing this to take ...

Medicaid. one thing that we are viewing this bill through the prism of, were taking away, but maybe we ought to view it through the prism of we overextended ourselves and promised something we cant afford and now were having to do reforms to bring it in alignment of what we can deliver. another issue is this. under the current medicaid system, you get more reimbersment for covering able bodied people than disabled people. under the way medicaid works, it is disadvantaging people who have disabil...

Hang your hat on, and theres room to negotiate now. mcconnell now has some room to run with the individual senators. so it was not unexpected that the cbo score would set off a round of hand wringing. but theres room to negotiate, and i really hope republicans remember what we ran on, which is cut taxes, cut the deficit, cut premiums, and the bill right now under the current framework does that. >> van, what about that? to the point, the president did say hes not going to cut medicaid, but is th...

Billion, so, theres more spending on medicaid. one thing that were viewing this bill through the prism of is, were cutting, were taking away. but maybe we ought to be viewing this through the prism of, we overextended ourselves, we promised something that we cant afford and now were having to do reforms to bring it in alignment with what we can actually deliver. another issue were not talking about inside of medicaid is this. under the current medicaid system, you get more reimbursement for cove...

Rating. and it is hard to oppose them alone. it seems very smart for him to tie himself to the very popular governor. hell have to stab before the voters in that state and give himself the cover of going out two paired together so he doesnt to have stick out alone. >> thats exactly right. >> lets look at i through political prism. forget whether it is right or wrong to kick people off health care. and i know for sure that brian sandoval considered that when he expanded medicaid. dean hell here i...

Talking about the -- sort of from the operational perspective. there is no way to go into a discussion about our proportional response or our abilities to respond or the operational efforts involved in that, so im going to stay well away from that because its not appropriate to talk about that sort of activity. however, i would say that i think that were -- if were in an untenable situation, its not because putin put us there and i think its because, in a sense, the previous administration, as t...

Environment, in a change election, if the answer to the question of okay, who is democrats going to put in as speaker of the house if is answer is still nancy pelosi, democrats have very little to show for their anti-trump resistance and it will only likely embolden republicans on the hill, particularly with health care. president trump has yet to be a tangible drag on the polls. he may not look good and be an asset per se, but its too early to call him a liability. you can make an argument the ...

Many are wanting the race to be over. its too close to call at this point. let me give you an idea of whats been happening here in the sixth congressional district. for years its been republican. donald trump narrowly carried it in 2016. democrats saw an open. enter jon ossoff. he got a lot of attention early on in the campaign by making the race about donald trump. youve got karen handle on the other side of things who says jon ossoff is another typical liberal. shes been doing all she can to t...

Through the prism of his russian problems and stuff with the president number one issue being health care. it feels like health care is the future for republicans might be on the ballot tuesday. >> thats my theme of the morning were focussed and get excited about the russia story but voters there from every reporting ive seen is they want to investigate and get anything done all this other stuff, youre not helping us and more moderate college educated is the key to actually have. >> the health c...

This. a lot of it really, truly is going to be about the psychological impact that this race has. is it going to make democrats more excited, turn out more candidates running, raise more money for the party committees, or if they lose, is it a way to sort of tamp down that enthusiasm? >> david brooks, a lot of people are probably looking at it in washington through the prism of his russian problems and all this stuff with the president. number one issue being a debate if theres health care. heal...