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right and not a privilege. or the drug companies that don't want you to buy in bulk and get cheaper drugs for medicare patients. those the battles that have to be fought, and i believe i have the courage, conviction and character to do all those things. i also have a track record of getting those things done in my state. a state that's very diverse. you know my state. upstate new york is red. very red. it was red on election day. upstate new york voted for president trump. westchester and long island are purple. on election day, they voted for president trump. and new york city, which is blue, deep blue, and i in my state have brought people together. i've had the highest vote margins in the history of the state with 72% than any other statewide democrat. so my track record is passing legislation like the 9/11 health bill, don't ask, don't tell repeal, which i can explain to your viewers if you need. but getting people together, even in this congress -- a democrat -- a republican-controlled house,
>> really? >> i don't know. but i think it's entirely possible and plausible that it is his impulse, that he is so mad at this guy that he wants him to go. and he doesn't want to fire him. which is a whole different question. there's a lot of criticism of the president among his fellow republicans on capitol hill for, you know, the way that he's basically trying to bully jeff sessions into quitting instead of just, if he wants him to go, just firing him. i'm not sure if there really is a strategy behind this. you know, we have been reporting for the past day or so about a concerted effort among those who are closest to jeff sessions, who are inside the white house. steve bannon and others among them, desperately trying to get the president to stop, not only because they are allies of jeff sessions, but because they realize that this is bad politics and policy for the president. and just tonight, chuck grass y
>> ryan nobles, thanks very much. i want to bring back in the panel. for a lot of people the details get in the weeds and mind-boggling, your head starts to swim. do you have a sense for what's going to happen? >> that so-called skinny plan to repeal and replace obamacare is probably the only that has a snowball's chance in you-know-where to actually pass. that's why the democrats are doing this tactic, because we do only have concepts, it's really basic, to get richard md of thee and get rid of the medical device tax. >> what's the benefit of the tactic? >> to force republicans to actually -- >> come up with something. >> come up with something, but to actually put it in legislative language so they can have a real debate on it and not just surprise everybody at the end of the debate. >> you can't blame them for that. certainly they should see what they're voting on, unlike what we did with obamacare.
could not expend the same amount of energy and money on them as you would other soldiers, so they didn't train them the same way. my grandfather fought in world war ii, the first person to receive a medal from his group. but that racist commander of that group refused to approve any of those people who got injured on that trip. it was the same language. i'm just saying, they may resist the comparison, but the comparison is legitimate. >> i totally get that. let me just say this one quick thing. from a conservative standpoint, the religious right, they view this completely different. everyone has a different opinion. they view this as you're born black, that's how you were born and raised. but they view transgender and lgbtq, a lot of these issues, as a choice. i'm not saying i agree with it. i'm saying that's how christian conservatives view that issue. >> last hour, jeffrey lord said the military shouldn't pay for
said it could be at many as $3 billion in an unprecedented amount of number for any company. that's not an american company, it might be in american but that's not an american company. i think one of the thing that getz lost in the framing about when we do the taxing centers is conservators are always upset about welfare. right? this is another form of that. and we do it all the time and is a trans ferchs of tax collected de los, this is federal money in addition to state and local money, that's a trans ephesians for all of americans where someone where they want to score political gains. the people will get jobs but don't mistake the fact this is a form of welfare and we're doing it for them to have political zbans. >> and let me also add, if a lot of jobs come out and you weigh that against the benefits, i don't know if this is a way to
this idea of bathrooms that people keep bringing up, they're already going to the bathroom. all of this is a canard. the rand corporation has studied this, found that it would have a minimal impact both in readiness and in cost. they're already there. we sometimes think about military deployment as people just thinking, i'm going to go for two years and i'm going to leave, i'll go to four years and leave and go to college. a lot of people make the military their career. that is all they do. that is what they wanted to do. lgbt people are just like everybody else. they're patriotic just like anybody else. some of them want to serve in the military, just like anybody else. to tell them -- and particularly this president, who received five draft deferments, to 10 somebody else who volunteers to go, you can't do it, it's just outrageous to me. >> scott? >> i'm not a military
clear this was an announcement that happened abruptly. it took people here on surprise, on capitol hill by surprise, and certainly at the pentagon by surprise. >> do we know which generals if any the president actually consulted about this? because he says in one of his tweets this came about after consultation with his generals. >> the president says "his generals" a lot. some people in the military bristle by the words "his generals." they're the military's generals. but anderson, we do not know which generals he's talking about. this has been discussed in meetings and other things with the national security adviser as part of the military readiness. but it was not on anyone's radar necessarily until this morning. so again, it took people by surprise. there was -- at the white house briefing today, incoming new press secretary sarah huckabee sanders simply didn't have answers to the questions about what the next steps of these policies are or who these generals were. anderson, for such a big policy
i think dana is right, the skinny version will be the one that is going to be on the table. talk is that it will include the consumer freedom aspect which is ted cruz's version, whether you're shopping or selling insurance, you can have more choices. portman's amendment will be included. >> on opioids? >> yes, exactly. they want to make sure they also protect the medicaid funding, which the states want, that's critical, because the senators are going to do what their governors want to do, a lot of them are up for reelection. >> the cbo came out with scoring on the skinny repeal, and it could, according to the congressional budget office, raise premiums by 20%, and 13 million americans, which is certainly less than 31 or 22 but a lot of americans, 16 million americans, could lose insurance. so i think it is very smart of minority leader schumer and the other democrats to force the facts out there. because going from a total repeal to the skinny repeal sounds like, oh, it's not so
but that racist commander of that group refused to approve any of those people who got injured on that trip. it was the same language. i'm just saying, they may resist the comparison, but the comparison is legitimate. >> i totally get that. let me just say this one quick thing. from a conservative standpoint, the religious right, they view this completely different. everyone has a different opinion. they view this as you're born black, that's how you were born and raised. but they view transgender and lgbtq, a lot of these issues, as a choice. i'm not saying i agree with it. i'm saying that's how christian conservatives view that issue. >> just a postscript to a discussion we had last year when jeffrey lord said the military shouldn't pay for viagra. studies show that sexual dysfunction is actually a major problem for soldiers who suffer from ptsd and there's other medical reasons people could be issued viagra in the military.