Page 2 - Beth Fewy News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

See the president is accusing of people of crimes without evidence and pronouncing them guilty and saying they should be in jail. that should wake all of us up with a start. there's been so much that we're numb and that's dangerousing. > the "hardball" roundtable, michelle goldberg, john pod her rets, and beth fewy senior politics editor for nbc news. thanks for being here. michelle, i'm trying to figure out how comey is being received by the public. we put this poll up the other day. if you asked a year ago after the election, all the democrats hated him. trump fired him, all the republicans ...

Beth fewy is there for us. talk about the power to the polls this march. >> well, it's a beautiful day here, too, in las vegas. a little bit chilly, but very sunny, and that attracted a big crowd of women. mostly women, there are men thrown in, as well, but vigorous crowd, young, old, african-american, lots of latino women. we have reverend william barber right now, the civil rights leader, voting rights activist speaking to the crowd. it's a voting rights crowd. they've come out to talk about how to get more people to the polls in to have an impact on the 2018 election. but, you know, i've be...

Are going to be there, they count them one by one, that's not the kind of unified republican conversation about health care they need to convince everybody this is the right way to go. >> yeah. and we may be too far -- if you will, down that process, beth. because as you know, all the years you're reporting on the beltway here, they were not including key members as they were drafting this. that was the complaint. along the way. thursday, during the markup, almost no major adjustments to the ahca, which was surprising to some here. is it already baked then, because it's too late? they didn't b...

Problem, in the beltway here. beth, he picked florida. he picked jacksonville. clearly a friendly ground for him as he's coming out with this message. but the question is, when you have strong voices, and we'll go back to those four governors, voices that resonate across america saying ts isot good. they're having a tough tim really trying to bring this together. >> right. and he didn't go to a state with one of those strong governors. he went down to florida governor, rick scott, did not expand medicaid in this state under obamacare. but as was said, in many other ways, the law is benefitting...

Would change here? one thing that would work for both sides of the aisle that this president can then go out and have a little bit of success? >> well, actually, there is something in this legislation that's $100 billion or so that's aimed for the states. what it's really targeted to do and that can work is increase the subsidies to the middle class and put in place state-based reinsurance pools to defray the risk. remember, over the last seven years, republicans have not only fought against the aca, but they defunded about $10 billion that was intended for rate stabilization. i think if they ...