Speaking of rocket men they are vowing to step up missile arsenal. Things are going really well here. It seems like an austin powers movie except the stakes are sort of high. Kind of high. Nuclear holocaust high. You speak korean. What is it . A sort of an older man that the Miles Per Hour may have lost a few Miles Per Hour on his fast ball, if you will. Thats fantastic. Ill look over when i think about that. Back here at home some democrats doesnt sound good. Some are fuming that Bernie Sanders may have handed the gop a perfect platform to pass their health plan. Went up and said everybody hates their plan. Their plan is horrible. Why dont you jump in the middle of that and actually try to help them out by debating. Whats going on . The democrats have had so many bad ideas politically. I do have to say and well talk about this. This is without a doubt one of the worst political ideas i have heard in a very long time. They saving the republicans from their own stupidity. Some would say immorality. Its not good. Its not pretty. Thats to be really short here. Well tell you all about that in just a moment. Puerto rico reels from Hurricane Maria. Pictures are still coming in. Well be following both of those stories throughout the morning. Another very busy morning along with joe, willie and me. We have washington anchor here. Good to have you on board this morning. Republicans have until next saturday to pass a bill to repeal obamacare. That race seems to have been ignoring earlier principals. Varied on page 95 is a provision that exists alaska and montana. The provision is seen so this is like a corn husker kickback 2017 style. Times two. Exactly. Let me tell you something right now. I have been critical of my republican brothers and sisters. On occasion. On occasion. I know they will not go there. My good friend lindsay gram said not too long ago this is the sort of stuff he will never support. Lets go to the next story. There must be some kind of mistake here . No. Im saying it isnt it couldnt be in lindsays bill. It is a way to win over alaskas senior republican senator. Lisa is one of three no votes on the health care repeal. Who is trying to buy her off . I dont know. Would they . Lindsay gram and bill cassidy vowed there would be more for alaska. Less than three months ago he said this. A couple of months ago he said he would never vote lindsay wouldnt go back on his word would he . Lets take a look. Well, i worry about corn husker kick backs. If they start doing that they will lose me. If you start taking some of the money and savings and buying off votes thats exactly what got us obamacare. I would repeal against that. I heard he said that kind of crap. Yeah, that kind of crap. He said the corn husker kickback. The louisiana purchase. Would he call it the montana provision and the alaska got to be careful about alaska. Youre asking me to get in trouble here. Maybe somebody ought to tell lindsay this is happening. Maybe he doesnt know. As a Public Service to lindsay gram and all of the other republican senators we kindly refer you to page 95 of your own bill. Maybe some of you ought to read your own bill. Last week i cant believe no. I think this is fake news. I cant believe that lindsay gram three months ago would say that this crap would lose him. You wouldnt do this would he . Maybe it is one of those fake facebook ads. Like we are misreading it. In the real bill doesnt exist. Suddenly even if it means a little more cash becomes a lot more palletable. This is a much bigger problem. We have had people coming on the show. I hate to say it but they have been lying about whats in this bill and whats not in this bill. It is objective. It isnt some subjective on my part. They come on the show and they lie about guarantees that arent there. Here is another example of somebody saying i would never do this. I would vote against this crap. And now as kasie hunt is reporting, now their donors are putting pressure on them. So three months later you go back on your principals . I really dont understand what would be worth it for them. So there is the president tweeting out he would never sign it. Anyone who reads the bill would read that the states would have a waiver. They are saying there are but there arent. There are not guarantees. If they can be waived they not a guarantee. Lisas central objection was the Medicaid Expansion piece of it. If you look through page 95 they would give an exemption from 2020 to 2026 ton medicaid roll back. This is the second time lindsay gram and others have gone back on the core objections. Remember the regular order . He said you cant rush this through. Thats right. Here we are now rushing towards a deadline to get this done. Thats one piece he has gone back on and now this idea of some kind of kickback. And john mccain, his declaration that they had to return to regular order, it was very moving. We have to bring sanity back to this process. There is no way that john mccain can now after saying that theres no way john mccain can support a bill where theres no regular order. The proper committees havent had hearings. The Congressional Budget Office hasnt even scored it. They are ordering one sixth of the economy. They dont know what the impacts are. They are all rolling overin their graves buzz this is a radical lurch on health care. This is the part about Bernie Sanders we were all eluding to. Last week 16 Senate Democrats flocked to support independent Bernie Sanders bill far singer payer medicare for all Health Care System. This coming monday sanders will start the week with a nationally televised debate. A democratic source told nbc news this is exactly the debate they want to have. Sanders is looking out for himself rather than being a teen player. Former obama spokesperson tweeted im not your single payer versus gram ka exactly. The debate the republicans want. In fact senator gram framed their the only alternative to the single payer idea when he introduced it last week. If you believe repeals and replacing obamacare is a good idea this is your best and only chance to make it happen because Everything Else has failed except this approach which will work if we get behind it. If you want a Single Payer Health care system this is your worst nightmare. Bernie, this ends your dream of single Healthcare System for america. I cannot believe how stupid this is politically. I cannot believe that chuck shumer or anybody could have ever signed off on this idea where your actually going to drive a lot of people towards lindsay grams bill because wait a second, socialism, medicare for all for a system we already know is going bankrupt versus returning it to the states. Both of them are radical. I want to go with a radical plan or do we go with a radical plan that may not how could Bernie Sanders how could they do this . It is not just the democrats they are letting down. It is millions of people that could be hurt by the passage of the republican bill. The reality is medicare for all is way more popular with people in principal and it polls much better than what the republicans are suggesting. If youre with Bernie Sanders right now and you see lindsay gram giving that speech. He is beating Bernie Sanders. Any half way sane politician that sees it says that guy is try to go bait me, probably far reason. The whole point here is to keep the focus on how bad this republican bill is. We can have a debate later about the virtues of medicare for all and single pair. You might win that debate. How about after next saturday . How about that . Its not like he has a way until 2019 all you got to do is keep focused on how many people of every stake holder just keep talking about that. Thats all you got to do. Dont take the bait. Even the Insurance Companies are against gram cassidy. Part of them will lose it but they are also worried about single payer. They say if you turn all of this money over youll end up with a single payer system that states cant afford. It will be scarcity. People wont have coverage. Youll put it back in and allow people to go after single payer. And theres not one sane person on the deck. A modern kplieconomist, busines leaders that have looked at medicare if you dont that dont understand in its current form is not sustainable. Bernie will be going out there giving lindsay gram all of the biggest target in the world. Suddenly here is radical plan doesnt look so radical. I know its been announced that democrats should go to bernie and say for the sake of us, for the sake of millions of millions of americans you have to wait until next saturday. Yeah. You cant believe and i know that the Democratic Leadership has been work around the clock to make this front and sicenter. They have been dealing with earthquak earthquakes. They have had to really work hard to try to make sure this is getting the attention it deserves. They have been celebrating they have got this on board. Along comes Bernie Sanders and totally distracts the attention. What i dont understand is why amy has signed onto this. I dont know why she is doing it. Ill say that even in the narrowest sense for Bernie Sanders own politics, if Bernie Sanders wants to run for president in 2020, the reality is right now the biggest weakness he has which a lot of democrats agree with. He is out for himself. There are a lot of democrats who feel that way. Him doing this on his own narrow selfinterest will make that argument more powerful for those who say this guy is not a team player. This guy is out for himself. Its bad for the debate. Its bad for the party. Its bad for its strategically bad and bad for sanders on his own narrow selfish terms. The Bernie Sanders debate is probably a bad idea. I dont think they will sit and watch that and say you know what . Maybe bernie is right. In other words its a theoretical debate. Where the rubber meets the road is where lisa votes. If you make it a choice and there will be a lot of polling next week. It will poll the low 20s, high teens and thats something that john mccain and Susan Collins, all of these other republicans will look at it and say wait a second. You want me to go out and basically screw my legacy over a bill that 80 of americans are opposed to . Lets have the bernie debate. Just full blown Health Care Socialism versus states rights. And dont vote for this. Lets have that. And then suddenly when they go to vote on saturday i guarantee you there will be poll that is show 40 of americans support grams bill. Suddenly he is waiting 75 or 80 of republicans in my state want me to vote for this . You talk about something that will push triablism. Bernie sanders preaching socialism will do that. Just think about it this way. One of the things we have seen in 2017 is as we debated it more all thats really happened is that obamacare has gotten more popular. Right. Which debate do you want . Do you want a debate between the horrible bill and the increasingly possible status quo or do you want to have a debate between the gram cassidy bill and this which is more popular but its not more popular than the current system. Have the debate you want to have which is the debate between this status quo and horrible alternative. Yes. We want to turn to the devastating news in mexico. Rescue workers continue to dig around the clock as the search for survivor i heads into a fourth day. The situation remains fluid Officials Say the death toll has climbed to 273 with majority of those deaths coming from mexico city. Crews are using dogs, cameras, motion detectors to try to find those who may still be alive trapped under the rubble. Mexico city firefighters shared this footage of an elderly woman being car rid out to safety as cheers erupt among the rescue crews. Mexicos navy is apologizing for communicating Incorrect Information that captivated the country and the world. Officials say all students at the collapsed school in mexico city have been accounted for and that the schoolgirl supposedly trapped turned building had either tried or never actually existed. Joining us now is steve patterson. Youre at a collapsed factory where they were able to find two survivors last night. You may have to interrupt and stop talking due to the fluid nature of whats going on but tell us what you can. Reporter well, what happens when that happens is crews have to automatically go into a silent mode because they think they identified or found a pocket. Since this earthquake struck we knew this would be a matter of life and death. That point is now emphasized. When youre talk about going into day four, if youre talk about rescuing anybody beyond this point it better be down within the next 24 hours. This is what used to be a text tile factory. It pancaked down collapsing on top of people inside. So far mexican authorities confirm at least 20 bodies have been pulled out of this site alone. However as you mentioned there have been a few bright spots. Workers will stop what they are doing and they have identified somebody that may be alive and in some cases they have found the living. They pulled two People Living out of that rubble. It was a miraculous site. Pretty joyous but they get right back to work. They have been using sledge hammers and using this giant crane to pull debris out of it. They have been using backhoes to pull as much debris out of this site so they can go in and do the hard work of trying to find any source of life and to move it out of here. Hopefully it can be done in the next few hours to find anybody thats still lifg around mexico city. Back to you. Thank you very much. Now to the latest on Hurricane Maria which is still a deadly category 3 storm. This is after hitting the Dominican Republic knocking out power to tens of thousands of people in puerto rico. Humanitarian disaster. The extent of the crisis is just being realized. Major flooding, no power. Little food and water. Yesterday we saw people carrying empty plastic bottles and waiting in long lines. Fema said it would start flying supplies today including more food and water and generators and temporary shelters. Joining us from san juan is tammy. Whats the latest where you are . Reporter these are war zone conditions. No power, no Running Water and food is starting to get low. To make it worse rescue teams are out there not sure who needs help because of the lack of communication on the island right now. We got a chance to go out to neighborhoods and roads are completely under water. They have turned to rivers. Some people in order get out of their home, they have to wade through water. People bought rash shons but they didnt buy enough is what we are being told. They have enough to get them through a week or two weeks at the most. With no electricity they have no way to refrigerate anything they purchased. We saw people looking for loaves of bread. Oonl few bakeries. We spoke to police an hour or so ago. They said that the looting is starting. As people begin to get low on supplies thats when the looting gets worse. This situation is not showing any signs of improvement. Thank you very much. Lets go right now to nbc news meteorologist, bill. Flooding conditions continue but they will improve this afternoon. We have a couple of flash flood warnings. A Flash Flood Watch for this afternoon. There is still bands of heavy rain. One is close to 40 inches of rain for the storm. Just picture when we actually get to say all of the mud slides and all of the rain and what e rivers did. The damage they did will be breathtaking. The storm itself is battering pretty hard. It is only about 30 miles away. Still has 125 Miles Per Hour winds. Still a major hurricane. It will be done effecting any land areas. The path does take it to the north between bermuda and the outer banks. On wednesday or thursday as a much weaker storm it could get close to the outer banks. It could be in large waves. It is important to point out we are at the peak of the Hurricane Season. This is the graph of that shows how it descends here. Another two or three weeks and well see it kind of going quiet. Nothing else brewing out there. Thank you very much. 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