phase out the medicaid expansion earlier. meanwhile, you have moderate republicans worried about the impact of medicaid changes on older low income americans. very people who helped get him to office. threading the needle is tricky. helping us break it down is eugene scott. good morning. what changes have to be made first to satisfy the conservative house members? before we get to the senate. one of the main things they are concerned about is the idea that funding could expand that would require government and taxpayers to put more money into the plan that they already think costs too much money. one of the criticisms from conservative lawmakers is the debt is already higher than they want and the way things are being proposed right now can only become more expensive. paul ryan over the weekend seemingly to nod to the age tax crowd. aarp movement. the demographic will get hit
that in general if anyone says things against the judiciary, as attack on all judges. threading the needle. you ve heard from the other senators they want judge gorsuch to come out and publicly condemn donald trump about the comments he made. that hasn t happened. tried to ask questions about it on capitol hill and he wouldn t answer questions. his confirmation hearing is weeks away and senators will press him. puts judge gorsuch in awkward position i don t believe we ve ever seen before. ask you does the- and saying that senator blumenthal who never fought in vietnam he had major lie, now misrepresents what judge gorsuch told him.
for secretary of state, so perhaps a bit of personal interest there. but have you ever seen anything so public? and of course there are comments from kellyanne conway earlier in the week. i ve known newt for 30 years and i ve always gotten along well with him. but it s really deplorable to use that term maybe i shouldn t use that term what he s doing. there are other members of the circle that are publicly criticizing but he thinks romney defeated him. romney did defeat him in 012 and he s never for given him i suppose. but romney has not apologized, he has not said he was wrong. he said what myself as a never trumper think, that that the trump administration administration is off to a pretty promising start and i think if romney thinks he can help the country, he should take it. so the criticism is unfair. but, yes, there were happy split this is trump s world. but one way of thinking about it, threading the needle, or
cortez masto. she s been running a little bit behind all this time. because of this very unusual surge of latino voters it could take her over the top and keep it a democratic seat. kelly ayotte in the new hampshire. she has been probably the candidate most sort of therebied to donald trump throughout this whole race. she s a republican. she at first said i m going to vote for him but not endorsing him. then when that tape came out of access hollywood showing trump speaking smack about women she said i can t even get behind this guy. at the same time, there are a lot of trump voters up there in new hampshire. she was really in this rock and a hard spot. threading the needle. so hard to say i want those republican voters to come home to me but i don t want to the alienate independents and democrats who might support me turned off by trump. that is a nail biter up there with the governor of the state maggie hassan the democrat. another enact looking to be in trouble a bit pat t
for retention, but that s the companies making the decision based on the economic reality in front of it and not the federal government making that decision. i think jeb bush made a point as if the guy was some cute little endeavor on the side. it s actually a responsibility at this point, howard dean, if people jeb actually said that this would help him retain employees because he was in an area this a geographic region where it is hard to retain employees and there is a shortage of employees. so it made economic sense for him. but that s not why he did it. i also heard jeb bush threading the needle. he said i m for the minimum wage, i m not for raising the minimum wage. which is a big challenge. can he appeal to conservatives without alienating the mainstream. this is a fascinating argument. the reason is in fact raising the minimum wage in theory could limit job, but it never does because the minimum wage is always substantially below where