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Health care policy. chuck schumer says you cannot do those things without also taking on the bad parts of obamacare. the things that people do not like. i dont know that that is necessarily true, but give us your take from the white house correspondents position. >> the single biggest stumbling block to a replacement plan for obamacare is how do you keep insurance companies from distinguishing against people with pre-existing conditions once you get rid of the individual mandate? then you have a...

What donald trump said is understandable. i think the chances of it are pretty small. but perhaps not zero. >> do you think its understandable that sanctions might be removed, nick? >> you know, i mean the fact that he said for a time makes thee think maybe that is on the agenda. look, every new president seems to come flow office thinking oh, these are only people. i can make things work. jimmy carter, almost every president since. president obama tried to have a reset. they end up disappointed...

Jimmy carter and almost every president since, president obama tried to have reset and almost all disappointed. we have different values and interests and i dont think russia will be cooperative. they have not been helpful on ice and oo isis and ukraine is major stumbling block. michael flynn contacted the russian ambassador the same day that president obama was imposing sanctions about the election. do you have questions? >> i do and put them through to the trump organization. been a bunch of r...

Have, it would give donald trump a win potentially in his first 100 days that he could point to and say, look, im already fulfilling my promises from this campaign and taking the country in a new direction. so, they have a lot of political incentive to get the repeal aspect of this done. but they are worried about the backlash potentially if they dont have the parts of the law in place that americans actually do like. >> rob brown, thats the issue. 20 million people, many of them trump voted. th...

To say how he was going to vote. still saying he had some questions he wanted answers. remember that foreign relations committee is one vote majority republican. if marco rubio in committee votes down the tillerson nomination that can be a huge stumbling block. still can get to the floor but that would just be -- it would have huge reverberations. if john mccain and lindsey graham and marco rubio and there are a couple of others, republicans who have been circumspect about the tillerson nominati...

Affordable care act and create an alternate solution? >> we have to take it step by step. but once it is repealed and if benefits start going away, we should put forth some proposals. one is like drop medicare down to 55 and allow a lot of these people who are in that gap that are working hard, playing by the rules, havent seen a raise in 30 years, allow them to get into the medicare program at age 55. that would be something we should be putting forward and really advocating for. and i finishin...

Shootings, rockets that come over from gaza, the talk about that, then they feel like look, those are issues, too, why are settlements turning into kind of a number one issue as the stumbling block for peace. on the other hand, the palestinians saying we have been talking for a very long time and these settlements are taking over land that was supposed to be part of the two-state solution so how will there ever be two states. a lot of people feeling like two state solution may be near dead at th...

It could and -- we know youre insinuating. >> not what i am -- >> can i ask the question. >> just -- >> its dons show. >> why would he put this stumbling block, why not just remove it from leg so he can as you say make america great again without people thinking he or his family is trying to enrich himself? >> great question. tens of thousands of people. >> wouldnt lose job, someone else just controlling them. >> look its not as simple as that. either have to sell or what hes doing, which i thin...

Successful. >> no one is saying it is going to lead to a massive conflict. were saying it could lead to a massive conflict. >> but, don, don -- >> the concern is it could lead. >> we know what youre insinuating. >> no, thats not what im insinuating. >> what youre insinuating is the only people who can be president are people that dont own anything. >> it is dons show, not matts show. >> the thing is why would he put a stumbling block, why wouldnt he remove the stumbling block from his way so he ...

He wasnt pro-life at one point. >> abortion, guns, things like that. >> those were stumbling block force me. he was in favor of bigger government than i was but thats all in the past. i believe firmly that he has evolved as a person, certainly as a candidate. he persuaded me more than anything, chris, that theres a palpable discomfort, a disquiet out there in our country. the status quo isnt good. slow growth and terror on the march. if we stick to those macro issues of security and prosperity, ...