The president and his plans for obamacare with action expected just days from now. Good morning to you, im jon scott. Melissa im melissa francis. President trump said to be putting the finishing touches on an executive order to allow Small Businesses for other groups to band together to buy Health Insurance and they would be able to cross state lines in order to get it. The move comes after repeated failures to repeal and replace obamacare in congress. The plan is not without controversy. White house correspondent john roberts is live with the story. Good morning to you. The president is on thursday according to sources telling fox news to sign an executive order that would allow certain individuals to band together in what are called healthcare associations in order to use the power of numbers to buy healthcare at a lower rate and by across state lines to get the best rate available. The president tweeting this morning, quote, since congress cant get its act together on healthcare, i will be using the power of the pen to give great healthcare to many people fast. The idea of allowing people to band together in these socalled association is championed by rand paul who likes this idea tweeting this morning, quote, this will be a great plan and a big deal for millions of americans. I have been working real donald trump for months on this. Details soon. The executive order will have limitations, though. Wont completely change the rules about selling healthcare across state lines and there is no framework yet for how people would band together in associations and which people would be allowed to do it. The president , by the way, still wants the take another shot at repeal and replacing obamacare next year. In an interview with forbe magazine he insists obamacare is on the verge of collapse and it is not his fault. The president saying what were doing is trying to keep it afloat because it is failing. The Insurance Companies are fleeing and have fled. They fled before i got here. With that being said, obamacare is obamas fault. It is nobody elses fault. There are some Health Insurers worried about the proposed change the president will come up with fearing it could destabilize the Small Business group and individual market. This is something the president promised when he was on the campaign trail and as president that is part of repeal and replacing obamacare he would allow people to buy across state lines. He is making good on at least part of that pledge. Repeal and replacing obamacare is still elusive. By the way, we should mention that an hour from now the president will be getting together for lunch with his defense secretary james mattis and the secretary of state rex tillerson. To be a fly on the wall in that lunch, melissa. Melissa i would settle for being a server. I could pass out the rolls. I would be happy to pour water, anything to get throws clowes close to that. It should be interesting. Thanks for the report. Jon for more on the president s expected executive action on obamacare lets bring in the Deputy Managing Editor of the Weekly Standard and the chief washington reporter at the boston herald. The tweet, kimberly, from the president expressed his dissatisfaction with congress in not getting something done on obamacare. Huge Campaign Promise of the republicans. The fact that he has decided now to do this, the question is, can he . Does he have the executive authority to issue the kinds of changes . It depends on exactly what this executive order does. Youre right. This is born at least in part out of frustration by the president that congress failed to repeal and replace and weve seen him make many tweets about that. So this plan as you mentioned to form these sort of association plans where Small Businesses, small groups can band together and get coverage depends on how far it goes. For example, if he tries to allow individuals to buy into these plans the same way they can buy into the marketplace, there are some experts who say that goes beyond the scope of the law. It is going to have a legal challenge either way. There are people opposed to these measures because some economic healthcare experts i talked to worried that by creating these plans that dont cover preexisting conditions and are really something that healthier people can buy for a lower cost, it will shift all the sicker people to the more traditional plans that do have to meet the obamacare requirements and this will destabilize the markets and really cause insurers to pull out more quickly, perhaps thats what the president wants. He talks about how obamacare is failing and collapsing. Perhaps this is a way to speed that process. Jon if the devil is in the details, one of the details, are they talking about offering these new plans this year . Because there is only three calendar weeks left in october and the Health Insurance buying season starts november 1. Exactly, jon. You have to wonder when they are going to start this and did they realize how quickly they need to get this going if theyre going to offer it for this year . I think they must want to do something quickly as you just showed on your screen. Premiums have gone up by 50 in some states and i thought that donald trump in talking about his power of the pen might have been echoing obama a little bit there who often talked about how he can rule by a phone call or a pen and so i wonder how democrats are going to have trouble arguing that donald trump is doing something illegal when president obama did the same thing a number of times himself. Jon sticking with you, kelly, for the moments. There are some things that were added through sort of executive fiat to obamacare. Thats right. I have think this would be a decent first step and all americans should be able to buy plans that dont offer the full menu of benefits that obamacare specified. In fact, some of those benefits that we hear the plans have to offer were put in under executive order or agency rules. The contraceptive mandate. One of the most controversial parts of obamacare. That is not in the Affordable Care act itself. That was a rule put in by health and human services. President trump could have gotten rid of that entirely if he had wanted to. He decided to keep it and just to add a few more exceptions but there are a number of things like that that arent part of the law and dont have to be part of any sort of healthcare bill. Im surprised that the president and administration havent taken steps to get rid of some of those rules. Jon rand paul is one of the senators who helped torpedo some of the earlier repeal and replace efforts. He seems to like what the president is proposing here. Does it bode well for the future of this proposal . I think it does. I think it shows that rand paul is one of the key people who, as you said, were opposed to grahamcassidy and the skinny repeal because it does not because those measures did not repeal obamacare. He is interested in repealing obamacare. It makes me wonder if its a measure to quicken its demise if it destabilizes the markets. The problem is people want more affordable healthcare, yes. The issue this could bring up is what bill clinton talked about on the campaign trail during the president ial race. He got in trouble for saying how middle class or upper middle class people who buy on the exchanges are going to bear the brunt of the costs of any destabilization on these markets and really send those people who dont qualify for subsidies. Their healthcare rates soaring. The craziest thing about obamacare. He is right. Jon lets turn to immigration reform. The socalled dreamers and democrats. Here is what President Trump tweeted earlier today. The problem with agreeing to a policy on immigration is that the democrats dont want secure borders, they dont care about safety for the usa. Kelly jane, take that one on. Is this president ial he got nowhere with democrats. It proves the deal he supposedly struck with chuck and nancy as he now likes to call them really wasnt much of a deal at all. It sort of proves the democrats are not willing to negotiate at all. Trump did these are very, very serious policies that a lot of even moderate republicans dont agree with. You might think perhaps trump this was his first play. He likes to consider himself a great negotiator. You start from a position of strength. Nancy pelosi was so upset by these proposals she said there is nothing to negotiate. We dont have the same values. Im not sure why President Trump ever thought he could somehow make a deal with the democrats on healthcare and immigration when they are so opposed to even changing the system a little bit in favor of the sorts of things donald trump and a lot of americans want to see. Jon it does seem like he opened with, you know, his strongest possible hand kimberly. But the reaction from democrats was this is an nonstarter. We wont even talk to you about this. Its hard to get a negotiation going from a standpoint like that. It seems to me these demands were a signal particularly to his base and to conservatives. That said look, even though i had this meeting with chuck and nancy i havent forgotten the principles i campaigned on. I want a wall, i want strong security. I want to limit even legal immigration. That was like an opening salvo to this discussion. And then people can come together. Remember that for the issue of daca, these recipients and dreamers brought into the country illegally when they were children, there is broad support both among the American People and bipartisan support here in congress for addressing that issue. If they can focus on that, maybe come to some other agreements, add onto it a little bit, that is one way that you could possibly get to an agreement. I just think that either if the president digs in too hard on these demands or if leader pelosi on the other hand threat ens things like a shutdown. No american wants that. Thats not a good negotiating point, either. They have to get back to someplace in the middle that could be a starting point. Jon lets set aside the wall. He is calling for more Border Patrol agents, no judges to hear cases involving border transgressions. That kind of thing. It is all about securing the border and just the response from democrats surprises me that they dont even want to talk about some of those things. You might be surprised. I have to admit im not shocked the democrats arent willing to give an inch. Ever since President Trump was elected they really just hate him so much they dont want to give him anything that might be construed as a win. The immigration debate for years now people have had a back and forth. Moderate republicans want a little bit under a little more open to amnesty than the hard line republicans and there has always been always been a decision that in exchange for helping out people immigrants who came here illegally and to deal with them. Especially people like the dreamers who came not of their own accord, in exchange you will increase border security. Otherwise you are just telling everybody around the world come in here because this is what is going to happen in the end. Youll get amnesty. That has been part of the debate from the beginning. The democrats are really just basically giving up the last decade of the way washington has been working on the subject. Jon thank you both. Melissa iran warning the u. S. That if the nuclear deal goes south, there will be consequences. Plus Las Vegas Metro police changing the timeline of the sunday night massacre saying it started earlier than they first thought. And its changing the way they are approaching the investigation. We believe he decided to take the lives he did. He had a purposeful plan that he carried out. I just saved thousands on my loan at lendingtree. Com. In less than a minute, i found out how much home i can afford. I like how you shop for loans the same way you shop for flights online. I didnt realize at lendingtree you can save money on almost any sort of loan. I consolidated my Credit Card Debt with a personal loan. I found a new credit card with 0 interest for 15 months. You just shop, compare, and save. And its all free. Go to lendingtree right now and start saving. Jon the head of Irans Nuclear agency warning the United States there will be consequences to u. S. If the iran deal goes sour. The u. S. Agreed to lift sanctions against iran and in return iran would halt its Nuclear Development for now. President trump is expected to announce a decision on the deal this week. He also could call on irans revolutionary guard as a terrorist organization. Iran says all options are on the table if that happens. Even though we have been talking about the numbers of people who attended the concert and the number of victims injured or killed you really dont understand the magnitude until you see the rows and tables of personal belongings. Melissa that was sheriff lombardo in the press conference yesterday when police changed the timeline of the las vegas massacre. They say the first shot was actually fired at 9 59 last sunday night. That is six minutes earlier than they originally thought. It is an important distinction. Stephen paddocks first shot was not at the crowd. Instead we now know it was the shot that wounded a Security Guard. Officials previously thought paddock shot the Security Guard after killing 58 people and injuring hundreds more. Joining me now is Sergeant Sean larkin from the tulsa, Oklahoma Police department, a member of the gang unit and also an analyst for the a e reality show live p. D. This is a huge development. He unleashed 200 shots into the hallway and wounded the Police Officer before he started shooting at the crowd. What difference does it make in your mind . He was still in the process of getting things set up. He had the mindset, the means of being the weapons he had to do what he was going to do at the crowd. My guess is he was still in the process of getting that ready and when the Security Guard just showed up, it was the catalyst that kicked this off a few minutes earlier. Melissa he shot the guard. It is unclear were seeing differing reports about whether it was the Security Guard at the hotel. Not a Police Officer and different reports whether the Security Guard was able to radio in and let people know he had been hurt or what happened then. Does it change your mind about the man was injured, he was hailed as a hero for stopping the shooting. But in fact it all happened before. Does it mean that people should have moved faster . What is your assessment . You know, with him getting shot, whether or not how fast he was able to radio down to the other Security Officers there in the hotel, the public needs to understand these things take minutes from the time an incident happen, the call goes into a 911 call taker, goes to a dispatcher and gets broadcast out to officers. The officers have to respond. There as far as using the term hero for initially we thought this is what stopped him from shooting at the crowd. Still him showing up there, getting shot at least allowed the responding officers once things started to know exactly where to go to. Melissa to know where they were. Exactly. Melissa another detail that we got was that he was drilling a hole into the next suite. They didnt figure out what that was about. What is your guess on that one . I know he was had use small metal plates to the stairwell coming up to the 32nd floor to try to barricade that against entry. Fortunately the team that moved up there had a hand held breaching device. With the cameras he had set up he could have been trying to set up additional cameras. He could have been possibly trying to mount a weapon to be fired at officers as they responded into the hallway. Just as i said at the beginning here i think he was still in the process of setting up the way he had wanted this thing to go down. Melissa they also said they found medication in the room. They didnt specify what that was all about but that raises more questions that he shot 200 rounds into the hallway as well and that he checked in on the 25th, not the 28th. All small details but if you put them together, does it tell you that the hotel didnt have enough security . No, not in my opinion. A lot of people are talking about how could he have gotten all this stuff in his room without anybody noticing . This guy appeared just to be a regularlooking guy. He comes there regularly to gamble. Nothing about him has stood out to anybody else leading up to this that has been odd. With the hotel of that size being las vegas, people are coming in and out of the lobbies, the rooms, the elevators all day long and so if he didnt do anything to draw any attention to him i think it would have been very difficult to spot. Melissa that makes sense. Sergeant sean larkin, thank you for your time. Jon in mississippi a teen killed in a small town there almost three years later now the murder trial is beginning. Plus. The race is on to contain raging wildfires in california. Were live on the ground in that states wine country. Scary. 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