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Through it legislatively and the indication is, no, they're staying the course for now. president trump monitoring and reacting over the weekend. let me read you some of his sharp tweets from over the weekend directed at the judge. one just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. if something happens blame him and court system. people pouring in bad. in a second tweet he wrote "i've instructed homeland security to check people coming into our country very carefully, the court making thing very difficult." republicans express concern that the president complicating that sepa...

V.a. that means that there are? concerns, now, about the plans to privatize veterans care and whether or not that could now be off the table. the executive director for concerned veterans said in a statement, it noise secret that the v.a. has been failing veterans for years. while shulkin already holds a leadership position as secretary, he will now have ultimate responsibility over the agency and we are hopeful he will take it in a new direction. joining me now is congressman mayor that roby, she's been a very vocal supporter of change at the veteran's administration. welcome to you, congress...

Years republicans -- eight years really, but more importantly over the past three or four, republicans have complained that the regulations that the obama administration have put in place have -- it has been terrible for the business community and sort of hurt the economic process and so forth. you are going to see republicans try to push through those reforms. >> remove a lot of the regulations that the president signed by executive order. >> exactly. >> which the new president can unsign by executive order. >> he can do that, but they want to also do it legislatively, and they've actually pa...

Legislation in congress, but first we'll talk legislation. it does seem to me that people say, you can fix part of obamacare through regulation right away, including maybe reducing some of the mandates. how much of the law can be repealed or minimized through regulation? >> through regulation alone, you're somewhat limited. the legislation is this famous 2700 pages. there are many, many more thousands of pages of regulation after that, but those implement the actual legislation. what they can do administratively are some kind of state waivers for medicaid and state waivers in general for the a...

Always pushing for some way to defund obamacare be it legislatively. they always want to defund obamacare. that seems like they are playing to the crowd. >> ted cruz has made a career at this point argument, i'm the only one who has stood up to mainstream republicans in congress. >> i must say donald trump's a absence at this event is a huge opportunity for ted cruz who very badly needs some oxygen. needs some running room and as we could see there, he was taking it. interesting too the other night in the debate obamacare did not come up with single obamacare question. >> donald trump also hel...