That was fake news by nbc. They had beautiful soft ta towels. There was a crowd they were screaming. I was having fun. They said throw them to me. So im doing i went to puerto rico and i met with the president of the Virgin Islands. Good morning. Welcome to a. M. Joy. Questions grow about Donald Trumps fitness for the of of the presidency. Hes trying to change the narrative by fulfilling some of his legislative promise. After trying and failing and then trying again and failing again and failing after trying it again to repeal the Affordable Care act trump this week switched to dominican republicly sabota directly sabotaging the health care law. He stopped short of unhalving the iran nuclear deal. Leaving the decision to congress. Why all of these sudden but less than effective attempts to push his agenda forward . According to a series of articles trump may be lashing out desperate for some legislative wins after nine months of stalling. As vanity fair Gabrielle Sherman puts it, his ire is being fueled by his stalled agenda and by his agenda to back the losing candidate Luther Strange in the alabama republican primary. Sherman even vented to his security chief that quote, i hate everyone in the white house. There are few exceptions. But i hate them. In fact, ten current and former Administration Officials and accessories confirm they often spend much of the day managing trump in his anger induced whims. Thank you all for being here. Catherine you have a situation in which the president is being described as unraveling by members of his own administration who are verntsing to reporters. At what point is it fair for the American People to quite honestly start to address whether or not donald trump is having a breakdown of some kind. It seems like he had been having this breakdown and unraveling to use the term of art for months. Predating his arrival in the white house. The issue is that there are americans who are concerned about it. There are the majority of americans who voted in the last election, of course, if you look at the popular vote. But his base either doesnt care or doesnt know about it. In my view the only way youre going to have a turning of the tide and have other elective republicans decide to stand up to him is for like fox news to suddenly turn against him. I know its not is going to happen. If Rupert Murdoch decided were not going back this horse any more then maybe youll have more coverage of the crazy stuff hes doing and his base would learn about it and start to care. I wonder if that matters. To catherines point lets play a little bit of the history of donald trump even before he got into the white house. This is donald trump. I could stan in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldnt lose any voters. Its incredible. You know what that is. Its rubio. You see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them. Would you . Seriously. The president elect told you what . Let it be an arms race, well outmatch them at every pass. Outlast them all . Out last them all. Jason, isnt it to me a question of Donald Trumps donald Trump Supporters at this point they are not changing their mind. They are not the definitive issue here. The question is whether or not the people who have the power to do something about donald trump, members of congress, his cabinet are going to take action if they themselves feel hes unraveling. Joy, there is that report that kelly and some of the other joint chiefs will literally tackle him if they think that donald trump might launch a nuclear code in a peak of anger. This is the larger question that america faced. Its not about the Trump Supporters. They will do what they want to do. They are enjoying this spectacle. Its a question of paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell and members of the administration, do you love america or do you love power . Because if you love america, you have to constrain this man. Hes a living, breathing danger. Hes an imminent threat to our National Security, our domestic security and our economy. He has fumbled through the first ten months of his presidency. Hes not going to learn. He wont get any better. The more he angers people. The more he tries to pull out of deals. The more he yells at the Prime Minister of australia. The more that he meets with fictitious president of the Virgin Islands we wont have allies when his mistakes drags us into conflicts we cant handle. Do these people love this country if they do they will do something about it. This is whats disturbing is behindthescenes all of us who talk to republicans off the record get the same message people on capitol hill know theres something deeply wrong in the white house. And that they are concerned for the country. Hes pulling us out of the iran deal widow destabilize our relationship with the allies. He made a move that could take the individual Health Care Market out of spite without understanding what these things will even do. You have bob corker a sitting senator, a Committee Chairman say its a shame, tweet last week a shame the white house has become an adult daycare center. Somebody missed their shift this morning. He had an interview with the New York Times in which he stood by those comments and said i know for a fact every single day at the white house its a situation of trying to contain him. Robert rice who reports his own background conversation again off the record with a former Republican Congressman who said tillerson, that rex tillerson, the secretary of state, would leave tomorrow if he wasnt so worried trump would go nuclear, literally. Robert rice, you think trump is really thinking about nuclear war . He knows who knows whats in his head. I can tell you this hes not listening to anyone. Not a soul. He has the Nuclear Codes and it scares the hell out of me and starting to scare the hell out of them. Thats why bob spoke up and by that he means republican members of congress. At what point are they responsible to do something about that . Clearly were getting close. We do have to put in context removing a president from office is a very significant measure historically. Weve had incompetent president s before. We had angry president s before. But the bar to impeachment is very high that we have not yet reached. The stages of reaction, comments like corker first, theres a little bit of joy, if you will, for those who have concerns about trump that someone spoke out. Then the sobering reality the Foreign Relations chair suggested our commanderinchief is incompetent. Theres a fraugs you realize nobody else is saying anything or doing anything on the hill and so nothing will change. This is a president whose egg shell ego is continuing to put us at risk. Theres no strategy to what hes done either on obamacare or on iran. Joy, a lot of republicans have concern with the iran treaty, but what the president fails to realize in his impulsiveness, to react as he did at the same time we need other nation states like russia and china ear nato allies to deal with north korea, why disrupt that alliance and that strategy and those relationships now by pulling out of iran possibly. You represent the group of americans who stand to, you know, be the first to suffer if donald trump decides that his, you know, lashing out in anger, if he decides in lashing out process to take this country into a war. If you have a former member of congress worrying he would start a nuclear war, when you have a president who can deploy u. S. Photoses anywhere, antagonizing the dictator of north korea with our troops stationed on the demilitarized zone, what are you hearing from people who are either in the military or retired military. Is there a fear now about this president in that, you know, part of our country . Its terrifying to wake up mostly on the weekends and you see tweets that are, you know, things like the calm before the storm. That terrifies people throughout our military installations across the country. Because even if you supported donald trump the perception inside the military is Something Like hey this guy is going to do it. Hes got that kind of mentality. When you look at the road hes on, specifically first with the iran deal, that puts, you know, u. S. Troops in greater danger in iraq. Weve worked with the iranians on the ground to push isis back into syria and now have isis, you know, at their last ropes. Then you start to look at the north korea situation. If youre north korea and you see us basically decertify the iran deal, and you see us if nve iraq and topple north korea it puts the country on notice. I think this week also from inside the beltway standpoint there was the ausa conference the big Army Convention that happens annually. Anyone can google the army chief of army statements on this and this making its way to the bottom levels of the u. S. Army about the devastation that would occur if u. S. Forces in Ground Combat in north korea. You could read on military website, Lieutenant General a tremendous piece about use of Nuclear Weapons in north korea. Theres a lot of anxiety inside the military that this president will just do it. But, i dont think and this is my personal opinion that mcmaster and kelly will live up to general mcmasters ph. D. They sees dereliction of duty where moilt leadership stops this guy. I dont think it matters bob corker challenges donald trump. We need a republican who will take on Donald Trumps base to do that. We need congress to stand up to constrain Donald Trumps ability to wage war. They have been unwilling to touch that narrative where u. S. Troops have died down in niger and the president still hasnt acknowledged it. Trump want as ten fold increase in Nuclear Weapons. Apparently that is the meeting that he had with his senior, you know, his senior cabinet members after which his secretary of state reportedly then called him an fing moron for him saying he wants more nukes. Hes made flippant statements in the past. At what point is it the responsibility of republicans who control the congress to use their power to constrain someone they themselves tell reporters on background may be dangerous . They have a responsibility now. This is a commanderinchief with no understanding or appreciation for National Security. We know that. I do have great confidence in john kelly. Hes a very sober leader. A very experienced National Security leader. I think hes doing a good job trying to contain him. If the moment comes where key not watch john kelly because the seriousness of this administration rests on how long john kelly stays. You know, in law theres whats called an angry withdrawal a clients committing fraud the attorney is required to leave. If john kelly leaves thats significant. There are republicans, not elected ones in washington right now beginning to question whether or not we would be a safer nation if democrats took the house in 2018. Because to your point republicans are never going to do the job they need to do because of the political consequences they would face at home. I would not look to paul ryan or to Mitch Mcconnell for moral leadership. Thats the fundamental problem here. As long as they are terrified of the base, you know, of having their members being primary from the right or attacking trump, or for publicly attacking trump, i should clarify rather than on background to reporters they are not going to do anything. Theres a duty to the American People thats bigger than your desire to be reelected. I dont see the courage in the leadership of the republican party. Everybody is dismayed on the background. Thank you all. Up next, trump came for obamacare not once but twice this week. More on that after the break. This woman is laughing because shes listening to audible. And this woman is pretending her bosss terrible story is funny. Experience the comedy, not your commute. Dial starstaraudible on your smartphone to start listening today. But can also loweresterol, your bodys natural coq10. Qunol helps restore this hearthealthy nutrient with 3x better absorption. Qunol has the 1 cardiologist recommended form of coq10 qunol, the better coq10. 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When he first signed the executive order that could undermine the individual market and took the damage much further by announcing the administration wont reimburse Insurance Companies for making costs lower for you the consumer. Catherine and jason are still with me and joining our panel now is julie. Julie, explain what does it mean to the average consumer that the Trump Administration is taking away these cost sharing subsidies to Insurance Companies . Its all kind of counter intuitive. These cost sharing subsidies are for people that make under two and a half times under the poverty line. But what happens when they get taken away is that these, the consumers are still entitled to get, these are discounts on out of post costs. The Insurance Companies have to provide them. What the president said the federal government is no longer will reimburse the Insurance Companies. What happens . Insurance companies will raise their rates. The Congressional Budget Office says by about 20 . Who pays those . Well not the people who are getting the discounts or the people who are getting help paying their premiums. People getting hammered are people who are just slightly too much to get premium help. So they are going to get the entirety of these increases loaded on them and who are they . They are people who are primarily republicans. In these states where people are in the individual market and just always reiterate to the viewers when were talking about this, the 7 of market who buy their own insurance. If youre one of those people who buy your own insurance the Insurance Companies gets a subsidy or did from the federal government to lower those costs for you. Donald trump is not paying that any more. To the point we just made. Premiums in the individual market are expected to increase by 25 without those cost sharing reduction payments. I know somebody who is in the individual market and didnt like obamacare and their response yeah, 20 Million People just joined me. Not like he helped people who were having problems paying for their individual insurance, he just added more people. Exactly. Joy, i think the core of this is should any of us be surprised donald trump doesnt want to pay his debts. Isnt that his entire career of having financial obligations and then saying i dont want to do it any more. Heres the problem. This is deeper than pulling away the government subsidies. There was a lawsuit where you have Insurance Companies who say pay up. The government still owes some Insurance Companies for back bills. All of this is par for the course with donald trump. The consequences are going to be this. People will lose care. Their care will become more expensive. Cheap phillipsy Health Care Plans slipping back in the market. By next summer you will have devastated the marketplaces again because theres no replacement. At the end of the day this is an excuse because republicans couldnt come up with a better plan. So some numbers. The number of people who get their insurance through nongroup plans meaning the individual market is about 21. 9 Million People. 85 of those get subsidies. Their subsidies are vanishing. Then we go to what the Congressional Budget Office said. Implementing this policy would actually increase the deficit. Thats everybody. All of us paying for it by 194 billion. Heres how donald trump responded to that in his favorite medium twitter. Donald trump tweeted almost gleefully yesterday morning. At 5 36 a. M. He gets up early. The democrats and obamacare is imploding. Massive subsidy payments to their pet Insurance Companies have stopped. Dems should call me a fix. Hes gleeful over the fact that he himself is taking the insurance market. I go back and forth between thinking he actually believes hes making the problem better. M