Six months in and politics, oh, thats a very different story. No major legislation passed and the president has had it, on health care, he says, dont leave town until you get it done. There is a Health Care Vote next week. The outcome very uncertain. News developments today, sad news from senator john mccain. Hes been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. He will not be in for next weeks Health Care Vote. President trump tells the New York Times, i would never have appointed Jeff Sessions attorney general if i knew he would recluse himself from the russian investigations. And not writing tax reform until the fall. So what chance of tax reform this year . Russia, russia, russia, when donald trump, jr. , and Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort appear. And stocks up, youre going to love it. Varney company is about to begin. Straight to the markets, please, it looks flat to slightly higher at the opening bell in 27 minutes time. Im going to repeat that big number for you. More than 4 trillion dollars, 4. 14 trillion has been added to the stock markets total value since the election. Thats americas new wealth over 4 trillion, just since the trump win and its been six months since the inauguration. Here is how big tech has performed. Netflix, facebook, amazon, those are percentage increases at the bottom of the chart there, since january the 20th. How about the banks. Citi, j. P. Morgan, and morgan stanley, nice green arrows, too. There are the health care stocks, surprisingly enough, aetna, united health, cigna all up 20, 25 . And lets go straight to capitol hill right now, we are joined by senator rand paul, republican from kentucky. Mr. Senator, i understand that you spoke on the phone with President Trump last night, and i believe you offered a kind of solution to health care, that is vote very quickly on straight repeal, and then immediately debate another bill which would handle Insurance Company money. Have i got it right . Yeah, one of the things that conservatives object to on the bill that the Senate Leadership has put forward, theres a lot of money floating around that really, we just object to federal programs that bail out private businesses. The Insurance Industry doubled their profit under obamacare, they made 6 billion a year before obamacare and now make 15 billion. My concern is that were going to pass a republican bill and make their profits 30 billion a year. Its not the job of government to be doling out money to private industry so what ive said is if you insist that you want it, they should put that on a separate bill that democrats like, democrats typically like spending bills, put it on a spending bill, and put the repeal, make it more of a repeal bill and ill vote for it, but and i still think its not perfect, but ill vote for something less than perfect as long as its not obnoxious and obnoxious to me is subsidizing rich corporations. Stuart do you think that the votes would be there for a straight repeal bill . Well, this isnt really a straight repeal bill. It would be more of a repeal bill and still a lot of things on it that arent perfect. I still think it will not perfo perform perfectly fix the system and we will have some death spiral of obamacare. Thats why they want the fixed, and subsidize it. Theres a lot broken in the health care system. One thing republicans try to acknowledge not oversell this. The federal government has the ability to fix this at once. The federal government created the problems, but the problems in health care have been going on for decades. Stuart how did the president react in the phone call last night . He said thats not the easy way to do it. The easy way to do it is vote for the bill asis. The thing is, i said, look, mr. President , i do want to help, im a great defender of the president , but i cant give up what i believe in. But im willing to vote for it if we can do something to separate out the pork and the spending, i wont vote for that bill, ill only vote for the repeal bill. Depends whether they need my vote. If they get to the end and they need my vote, i will vote for a compromise. Its not that im opposed to everything. I think it could be better, we should have more strength of character and vote to repeal all the regulations because once you have federal regulations on the marketplace, thats what leads to the adverse selection of the death spiral. And theyre keeping a lot of the regulations and keeping problems of obamacare, we shouldnt promise people this is the endall and beall and fixes all of our problems. Stuart during the end of the campaign, then candidate donald j. Trump insulted a lot of republicans, whats your rarp relationship via the phone call. We dont always agree, im not a yes man. I have a lot of respect for the office. We have give and take, and i told him, when i can and i agree i can be supportive because hes doing a lot of good things for the country. Getting rid of regulations and appointing gorsuch, you cannot overstate it, these are great things that happened in six months and compare and contrast the disaster that would have been Hillary Clinton we are very hawk to have President Trump in the white house. Stuart overnight we heard the sad news that your colleague, senator mccain diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. Your response, sir . You know, senator mccain and i have had a sort of a storied relationship. We havent always gotten along. Gone back and forth at each other, but when Something Like this happens, its a personal crisis for him and his family, you know my prayers go out to him and i want only the best for him. One thing id say ive seen a lot of people in my career as a doctor, ive seen those who defy expectations of a disease, this is not a good diagnosis, but ive seen people live for years with it and if theres anybody else tenacious enough, hes beaten cancer a couple of times, my hope is that hell beat it this time. Stuart senator rand paul, i appreciate it. Look at this, a new fox poll, 74 of voters say the g. O. P. Should make a deal with the democrats if they cant agree on a Health Care Plan of their own. President trump says stay in d. C. Until you get it done. Roll tape. For seven years you had an easy route, well repeal well replace and hes never going to sign it. But im signing it, so its a little bit different. But im ready to act. For seven years you promised the American People that you would repeal obamacare. People are hurting. Inaction is not an option and frankly, i dont think we should leave town unless we have a Health Insurance plan, unless we can give our people Great Health Care because were close. Stuart were close. Joining us now, lisa booth, Fox News Contributor and Washington Examiner columnist. We like to good morning. Stuart yes, good morning. Hi. [laughter] we like to offer our viewers clarity. I cannot offer clarity on this Health Care Deal. Because its a mess. I mean, it all is, quite frankly, a mess and its deeply disappointing as well because republicans are showing that they cant govern right now and my concern is, i dont know how if they cant get this done through the reconciliation process what theyre trying to do on health care, how are they going to get tax reform done . Because the deep ideological differences which is preventing them from getting to the middle are going to rear its head in the tax reform process as well. Do you think that the g. O. P. Is committing political suicide . I do. If they dont get any major if they cant get tax reform done, cant get health care, cant get some big piece of legislation done before the mid term elections, i dont know how they can face voters with a straight face and ask for reelection. Stuart it might come to that. Speaker ryan is not even writing the tax reform bill until the fall. Yes, and this is not going to play well for Republican Voters because they asked to get elected to have a republican majority, to get some of these big ticket items done that would help america and benefit their lives. I dont know what their case is to voters in to 18 why they deserve to be reelected. Stuart youre a close observer of politics. I like to think so. Stuart President Trump slammed the attorney general. Roll that tape. Sessions should have never recused himself and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and i would have picked somebody else. Its extremely unfair and thats a mild word, to the president. Stuart a, whats your reaction and b, why on earth did he do this . Would like to slam my head against the table. I do not for the life of me that he would grant the New York Times, of all publications, a 50 minute interview and ramble about the different stuff. I want the president to succeed. I want him to succeed for the American People. I want his agenda to be successful. s constantly undermining his success and undermining himself by doing things like this. He needs to avoid the russia issue and move on to big ticket items to make America Great again and this hurts this and hurts this process. Stuart and you walked onto the set 20 minutes ago and you were bubbly and lively and now i think weve put you in the have we . Depressing depressing. Stuart are you in despair for too early for a glass of wine. Stuart yes, it is. Lisa booth, thank you for joining us. Thank you. 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Diane, this is not good news, not even starting to write the tax bill until the fall. Whats Holding Things up . Stuart, as you know, the first part is to actually pass a budget which sets off the ability to have tax reform through reconciliation. And we were successful with getting that budget out of Committee Last night so were at the first step of that. Look, weve been talking about tax reform. Im on the Tax Writing Committee for almost seven years, its a complicated thing to do. We have not reformed the tax code since 1986 so it takes time to do. Stuart are you married to tax cuts paying for themselves . I do believe, as the committee has talked about, that this should be deficit neutral and we should find a way to make sure we dont put this country in more debt than it is right now. Stuart but it will stimulate with the economy. It will stimulate the economy. Stuart if you take with one hand and give with the other, where is the stimulus . Well see more jobs created, more people purchasing products, getting more jobs, we will see the economy grow. We saw it during the tax reform of reagan and youll see it with this as well well get the rates as low as we can, simplify the codes for the individuals and make sure that we can grow this countrys economy. Stuart theres all kinds of talk that the current Corporate Tax rate of 35 will not be coming down to 15 as President Trump wanted, but will actually come down to more like 20 or 25 . Can you confirm that . We need to get that rate down as low as we possibly can. All we have to do is look around the world to see what other countries are doing. I was with some folks from the u. K. Several months ago and i told they were eating our lunch at 20 and now theyre down to 17 . We have got to be competitive around the world. An absolute necessity. Stuart are you going to stick with 15 , with the tax rate . Wed love to get it as low as we possibly can. I dont want to commit to any particular number now. 15 is a good thing to shoot for and well continue to do all we can to get it as low as we can, thats what we need to do in order to compete around the world. Stuart you realize theres a good deal of frustration amongst voters. Nothing on health care so far, tax reform, tax cuts all delayed until late in the year. Do you know how frustrated people are . Look, i appreciate their frustration and i will tell you im frustrated that the state cant come out with something. Weve done our work and sent them a bill. We need them to do their work. We need to get the job done. They cannot give up. This is important to the American People and people are frustrated. Stuart its with the Republican Party. Its not with the senatal party, or the freedom its the Republican Party. Were doing the work over here in the house. Weve done our work on health care, weve done our work on getting the budget out, the first step to getting tax reform done. 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Even with treatment, generally 14 to 18 months and this is because its a very aggressive, from what i hear, i havent examined him or seen the record, a very aggressive brain cancer based on the support cells of the brain. Stuart, by the time you find it its infiltrated the brain, you think you got it out, but almost never get it all out. Chemo and radiation tends to be resistance it tends to come back. Thats the poor prognosis. Stuart and chemo and radiation, the first line. Yes, a drug and standard from the 1980s, pretty much all they had until recently. Stuart and then whats the chance of using, the possibility of using this cell therapy, immuno therapy where you take cells out of the patient, doctor them, put them back in and it fixes the problem. Whats the chance of using that on senator mccain . We were talking about that last week. Stuart we were. They were doing a study at university of pennsylvania and harvard. Its interesting, because if he has a certain growth factor on his tumor, etg, 30 of tumors have it, if he has it, they can try immuno therapy, which hasnt been that successful because this cancer tends to be resistent to it and varied. But when they do the treatment, take the immune cells out and alter them, this is the wave of the future, exciting stuff. Theyve shown a big improvement. Stuart is it possible to use it on senator mccain . I think if he has this particular protein, yes, i would predict he would get this treatment. Im sure hes going to the top centers, the places im mentioning now. If he has tested positive for that, i would expect to see it. One more factor here, intangible, the courage of this man and you know, the ability