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Government help people and so when the obamacare came out they hated it way beyond the -- what the law said, it was just the fact with that government was doing something to help people that they didn't like. representative price, for instance, wants to privatize medicare, wants to greatly reduce medicaid. same kind of thinking, totally against what the american people believe. and so they have this ideological vision but they can't translate it into reality unless they hurt a whole lot of people. >> right. so then the president-elect, someone that you've talked to on the phone and you've expr...

Today three democratic senators on the committee overseeing price's nomination called for that hearing to be delayed until these allegations can be further investigated. joining me now, the man leading the calls to investigate representative price's actions as well as fighting to save the aca more broadly, senate minority leader chuck schumer. >> hi, chris. >> good to see you. you know, the job in an oversight and confirmation hearing is to tease out this stuff. why do you think the hearing should be delayed to further investigate these charges? >> well, first, they're very serious charges. th...

Cetera. what do you think we should do about medical liability? >> this i a really difficult challenge because it's not just the malpractice rates that doctors or hospitals pay but the practice of defensive medicine which are the things that physicians do that don't hurt anybody but they are tests and procedures and examinations that aren't necessarily needed to make a diagnosis or to -- >> that show up in their history. >> but shows up in their history so if they're called into a court of law they can say, i don't know what you wanted me to do because i did everything. if we look at it in tha...

Important. trump warns on house tax plan. he seems to be breaking with a better way. a big development. he will not do the border reform tax. instead do tariffs. that is a difference with him and the house republicans. >> and a parallel things with the obamacare right now. between the incoming president and perhaps the incoming secretary of health and human services. representative price. very different notions. it seems as well as we can tell, different notions about what should replace obamacare. should we have universal insurance for all? >> it is interesting. he is going his own way. a lot...

Approval for a new drug. "the wall street journal" previously uncovered that price had traded 300,000 shares in health-related companies since 2012, at the same time he was sponsoring legislation to affect those stocks. on thursday price told ethics officials he's going to divest from the investigations if confirmed. but nancy pelosi is calling for confirmation to be delayed with schumer saying last night, the office of congressional ethics needs to conduct an immediate and thorough investigation into these potential violations of the stock act before representative price's from nation moves f...