Government can force you to pay money to a private entity that you don t want their product and being forced to buy it. repealing the individual mandate is a big part of getting rid of obamacare but it also coincidentally helps the tax cut to be a little bit bigger because it reduces some of the costs of the government. bill: go ahead on the healthcare issue. you are concerned about the middle class and he told me that he is concerned about the middle class, too. he has gone to president obama and said look the middle class better have a tax cut here and why he may want the deductibles back. bill: president trump. senator paul is concerned the deductions should be put back on the state and local level. what he is talking about here on the sound bite he believes the obamacare mandate is a significant bump for the middle class. here is why. you don t know this, but 80% of the people who paid that penalty last year are making under $50,000 a year.
He says i don t know what that bill is because it s not written yet. probably be out sometime tomorrow. you get down to the nitty gritty. look at lisa murkowski. they re trying to get her vote. they re going to allow drilling in anwar, the wild life refuge. they moved that through committee yesterday. she had a lot of reservations about the healthcare issue. you put that in the bill, i asked mitch mcconnell about this. he thought it adds votes. there s other republican senators that don t think it will at all. and then there s the deficit. you have the budget hawks. people like jeff flake, bob corker that says this will add $1.5 trillion in deficit spending. that s a problem. shepard: chad pergram live for us on the hill. thanks very much. the house republican tax plan could raise taxes on more than a million older americans just next year. that s according to aarp. the nation s largest lobbying group for folks over 50.
Mccain from arizona, very few details. we heard from senator collins yesterday saying, my concern is that we combine the healthcare issue with the tax reform. we make it a more controversial bill. that to me seems like a very soft or at least a warning, soft no to a warning. murkowski is neutral at best. that s three votes if we count johnson and mccain as nos. you said for the process, we even heard from paul ryan saying i m not going to weigh-in. the idea is that the house passes and then we send it to the senate with the strongest support possible. i don t know how he feels. i don t know how you go forward at this point looking as if the senate at this moment has some pretty heavy brakes against its wheels. thanks, deidra. senator john cornyn with us.
Saying i m not getting fired today. i m pretty sure the president will not let me go. i m not going to quit. my job isn t to control the president, my job is to make sure he has the best information available to him on a daily basis so he can make the best decisions. so we ve seen that over the past two weeks them coming out in their own words and reaffirming their own positions and where they stand rather than just the president having to do it. i think there is some powerful statements there when it is the person themselves coming out in defense of their own position and in defense of the administration as well. bill: he doesn t mind tweeting. thank you, katie pavlich. sandra: much more on obamacare and iran coming up at the bottom of the hour. texas senator ted cruz will join us with his reaction to what is shaping up to be a very, very busy day in washington bill: looking forward to that. tax plan, what happens with the time schedule for him, how does he view it? he has been knee deep in the healthcare issue for years now.
Things, about which there seems to be broader agreement but i could be wrong. it s an important enough issue, the healthcare issue. this relates to the economy and americans healthcare. so i think with the idea, it s a simple idea when you look at graham-cassidy, the overall idea here. if it s getting momentum, it s worth while to dig into it that s what i m doing and a lot of senators are doing. it s an important enough issue to spend more time on it. neil: thanks, senator. thank you, neil. neil: and more breaking news right now about the british london subway attack could have been worst. british police have arrested a third suspect in connection with that bomb. it was a painter s bucket with wires sticking out of it. a third suspect in connection with the bomb on the london subway. so they re rounding up possible culprits behind that in london. want to let you know more about
Congress has the reputation of being a do-nothing body. kristen, is it fair? our founding fathers set congress up to be a body that takes a little while for stuff to get through. the senate in particular. so if you like limited government, it s a good thing that politicians can t just snap their fingers and create a new program. however, when you ve got a nation with a lot of problems to be solved who have just elected a leader like donald trump who love him or don t love him he was elected because people wanted really big wrecking ball style change, that is, of course, absolutely going to collide with a body that is set up to be more deliberative and take more time. what s funny is the healthcare issue, the first big failure of the trump administration and congress to get a big promise done is that it was actually criticized for being too rushed in some ways. normally congress goes through a variety of different hearings and congress trying to rush the
Here to help. neil: vice president mike pence is getting ready to speak on a big healthcare issue in lexington, kentucky. more people are paying attention to him these days. wonder why that is? more after this.
Arthel: a historic mountain town had been threatened by wildfires but now there s a different kind of danger. america s news headquarters starts right now. eric: we begin with the end of president trump s second official trip overseas and the start of an eventful week here at home with the healthcare issue on the docket. as you know, the president is heading back home at this hour to arrive later at the white house. after a very busy few days at the g-20 summit in germany. president trump and the first lady departing hamburg earlier today after the president held a series of meetings with world leaders including that showdown with president putin and another highly anticipated sit-down with the chinese president. the president has become sharply critical of china in recent weeks, over beijing s reluctance to increase pressure on north korea over its nuclear weapons program. it s a topic that leaders did discuss along with trade, but
The dignity of the president. this has to stop. does this bother you? well, what i am concentrated on is the job that he s given me and that s to make sure that we fulfill the mission of the department of health and service, which is the health and well-being of the american people. there is a whole array of activities that we are taking. my job is consumed by making certain that we fulfill the mission. i am asking you as a father. your son tweeted about a woman like that, what would you say to him? this is remarkable. you got incredible challenges across the nation. incredible challenges around the world. the challenges that i have been given is address the healthcare issue. your program with the incredible history of meet the press and that s what you want to talk about. mr. secretary, i am asking you why the president of the united states, mr. secretary, with all due respect, you are
Paying up. he has reset the entire middle east. this is a president, i don t care what the liberals say, he has a lot of accomplishment s in a short period of time. and i think his record needs to be speaking way more lewdly than any tweet. abby: governor, you have dealt with this in your own state a lot of pressure on this bill. g.o.p. leaders saying they want to cancel the august recess. too much on the line and obamacare needs to be repealed. what is going to happen? what do you think needs to be done. i think a lot of people would say you don t get a recess until you finish your work. that s part of it. so i get that part. but it needs to be more than window dressing. the biggest things republicans need to do not healthcare issue. it s health insurance issue. they re not doing anything about healthcare. they are doing something about health insurance. frankly i think part of their problem is they have this big stew pot on the stove and rather than saying that stew just isn t edible, ie obamacare, and throw it out and start over, they are letting everybody bring a