Andressman from virginia the democratic representative from virginia talking about the standoff with north korea. Cspan washington journal is life now. Host good morning. At three will be in 00 p. M. 3 00 p. M. We will be with you for the next three hours on the washington journal. We will spend the morning talking about the big issues on capitol hill. How the latest Affordable Care act replacement failed bid leaders announcing they cannot get enough votes. Chief Justice Roy Moore now defeated Luther Strange. Despite the backing of republican leadership. What does this all mean . That is what we are asking you grade we want to hear your thoughts. Call the numbers on your screen. You can also catch up with us on social media and on twitter. A very good wednesday morning to you. You can start calling in now greatly what to get your reactions. Taking up the lead spot on the national paper. Here is the front page of the Washington Post this morning. Some fear a backlash over unmet Campaign Promises. Times thisington morning, that story noting the focus will shift on tax overhaul after too many inspections on the senate help care bill. The story out of alabama, runoff that was happening with ublican firebrand picking winning over trumps pick. That outcome in the closely watched senate race is a close blow to President Trump after he pleaded with voters to back Luther Strange. Seat until thet runoff and eventual general election that will happen in december. The president tweeting about more and more. To roy that he spoke moore for the first time. Guy whos like a great ran a great campaign. He will help make America Great again. Here is him last night with his speech. Together we can make America Great. We can support the president. In the pressone think because he supported my opponent that i do not support him. And that i do not support his agenda. Constitutional, as long as it advances our country i will be supportive. As long as it is constitutional. We have to return the knowledge of god and the constitution to the congress. [applause] i believe we can make America Great. We must make america a good bid you cannot make america a good without acknowledging the summer to of that goodness. Nation thatme a distances are so from the very foundation. Washington said that of all the dispositions that happened with prosperity religion is there great we have to recognize that we have been separated that something church and state does not stand for. It does not separate us from god. Nothing separates us from god. We are one nation under god and we have to become one nation unified bid there is so Much Division in our society. Road test protests, demonstrations, mobs, racial strife, we are all created in the image of god. I remember what harry truman said in his inaugural address. The American People stand firm in the faith that in spite of this nation from the beginning. Areelieve that all people created in the image of god and from the faith we will not be moved and we have been moved to we can move back. Host all eyes turned towards that december all election he will be facing the former federal prosecutor of the democrats. Thisnt to hear from you on thick story of the collapse of the Health Care Repeal effort in the senate. Of course, roy moore winning his primary runoff bid call the numbers on your screen. Onestory to show you as you are calling in. The headlines from the Washington Post. A longtime reporter on capitol hill said tuesday started as a bad day for Mitch Mcconnell and it only got worse. Citing the collapse of the Health Care Bill and also the defeat of his backed candidate and that primary runoff. Announcedng the retirement of bob corker out of tennessee. While no stranger to defeat in the past he spent eight years as minority leader. If punctured much of his flow crafted image and the outsider who could deliver. But to your thoughts. We have a caller from maryland. Go ahead. Caller what i wanted to talk thank you for taking my call. I wanted to talk about the Health Care Bill. I think it is going to continue to collapse because the Affordable Care act is not perfect however people like see thatccain they do it has to be better before you can repeal and replace. Senate ve that the if they actually look at the problems in the bill it may indict them because they would not pass the bill in the first place. They may point the finger back at the republican party. Host you think the senate can do that now . You think there will be Center Republicans who promise at this was that over when announcing this particular vote was not going to happen. Bernie sanders and democrats calling in aor singlepayer system, do you think they can come together and fix the Current System that is in place . Caller i do if they take a honest look. What is your motive . What are your motives behind fixing the . Really move and make a decision. If you dont it will always be this. Youll always be this and nothing is ever going to change. That is what people think now. Nothing is ever going to change. There are people who are trying i am losing my words they are trying to come off of the somehow. Host we mentioned bernie sanders, here is his tweet touting the lack of votes for the latest aca repeal meant. We stopped another disastrous republican bill now we must go forward and guarantee health care to all. From new hampshire, go ahead. Caller thank you so much. You guys are awesome. My favorite show in the world. Say this isd to about health care. Had itve that the aca been implemented the way it was before the insurance if you did not have insurance and you paid a fine we would be enjoying some lower premiums. It was not allowed to go through. We need health care for all. When donald trump came in i did not vote for him. Host did you vote for hillary . Caller yes, i held my nose and voted for her. Donald trump said his Health Care Plan would be at her. I was wonder with this last Health Care Bill that the , up tocans put through 10 Million People are still going to be kicked off of their health care. With this new bill that was unable to get through. I just dont see how that is better for anybody in america. , that is what donald trump promises that we are going to have better and cheaper health care. Here do you think those 10 Million People were going to end up at . Host republican still optimistic that they can move some form of this legislation. Talkinglindsey graham about his Health Care Bill that was trying to be moved. Believes this will eventually pass. Here is what i have concluded. That gives more attention and time we will repeal and replace obamacare. With a block grant. The missing ingredient for us is we dont like to obamacare is networking. We make that case effectively. I had kind of articulating what we are for. Now we have some that makes sense. 50 republican senators and a lot of governors and the hope of the American People. If you are a singlepayer believer, cap lets you but i disagree. Proposing is the end of singlepayer in washington. This is a idea that worked with welfare reform. Under billgress clinton took a welfare system and block printed this back to the states with a guideline and a light ofo achieve success with health care reform. I am convinced that with innovation and flexibility it is the key to Sustainable Health care that obamacare is the exact opposite of innovation and flexibility. We are down to one provider in my state and in 2014 we have five. This system is failing. The good news for america is republicans are not going to deliver on a Campaign Promise we are actually going to review health care by giving you access to the people who care more about you that any bureaucrat in washington. Big stories we are talking about on the washington journal are the repeal and replace of obamacare and roy the primaryg runoff. He will now go on to the general election in december. With this strange was eaten, the incumbent who had the backing of republican leadership. Republican spent millions of dollars in advertising. We want to know what it all means to you. We will have various opportunities this morning to talk about this when we are joint by a congressman from virginia. Keep calling in all morning long. We have a call from north carolina. Go ahead. Caller yes. I am calling because i have to withperson who lives decent providers of care. The biggest problem that we have and i am calling from a think tank. I work in health care field. It forbeen away from about 20. It is a nightmare in this country. Up where westem set send people to represent us and impact our lives. Thomas jefferson said we are not free if we are ignorant. Most of us are lacking knowledge of about how the Health Care System works. That we decide how we are going to throw some people in the makes everyone seems to be focused on money. It is not about caring for help. American people you better try to stay as healthy as you can because if you think you will go to the hospital and you have the end up in the parking. That is all i have to say. Look to the American People. I hope everyone stays healthy because we are in for a nightmare. Host from rhode island, go ahead. Caller that lady was correct. I would like to talk about two of the issues. Talk about two of the issues, if i may. Victory that was really much expected out of alabama is probably the most conservative state in the united states. I happen to support him because he is a populist conservative did i like steve bannon. Did you see all of the attacks on him . What a fraud that guy is. He is cowardly. He is afraid of him. More before we leave right write more, is his election a rebuke of the president . Since he was tweeting about Luther Strange and asking to vote for him. This that mean anything about President Trump . Caller that is a very good question. Donald trump is a man who believes in loyalty. With this strange voted practically all the time. President trump wanted to do a favor. It is a rebuke of Mitch Mcconnell who steve bannon called corrupt. Bannon youbout steve can agree or disagree, you know as well as i do Mitch Mcconnell has more brains in his finger than a lot of people in the American Congress having her whole body he is brilliant. The deconstruction of the administration. The way he speaks with his language and his quick mind. That guy is brilliant. See you later. Host roger in florida. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Republican now in no mans land because i will never be a democrat. I do not know who to support frankly. I am very disappointed in the gop leadership. I think they are sorely lacking in conviction. I do not know what is going on there. It is difficult to tell if Mitch Mcconnell and all right are what they are doing out of conviction or whether they are simply trying to undermine President Trump because they did not want him to the elected in the first place. If you people mention that. It seems likely to me that there is nothing like that going on with a lot of the Republican Opposition to the president s agenda. i dont want to rail on. Years promised for seven to not replace but to repeal obamacare. It were supposed to replace it with something far better. They had a long time to think s sense. An that make they have not been able to do it. I have no respect. I dont know who may help us. I am not in favor of singlepayer health care. I know where that would lead. Probably too national bankruptcy. Havecentralized power we the less control we have over our own lives. Think the whole thing is very weakening to americans will and morale. That is really all i have to say. I do not know what the answer is. I wish people would ask more intelligent questions rather than trying to feed this beast of trying to humiliate and defeat President Trump. I think we should get behind him because he is the president. He is i believe trying to do something powerful for us. Host if you tweet on this other story that we are following. Blast of that Health Care Repeal and replace and the primary victory in alabama over Luther Strange. Some tweets on the alabama primary. Some of those following along on twitter. Happy. Says i am not as long as he keeps the bible in his office and out of the senate it may work. I do not care who won in alabama, they knew and loved right more better. He would not win the general election, trump knew it that is why he endorsed Luther Strange. The income that went on to lose the general election to joe donnelly. The democrat in that race. On his defeat this from the new york times. Was the first time a income but with active white house support lost since 2010. We are talking about those two big stories and getting your thoughts about what it all means. The line from democrats, what do you think . Caller this is from new york. First of all i would like to say singlepayer aca originally was a republican idea. Was trying ton press universal coverage. Go look back. Republicans want singlepayer insurance or everybody. Singlepayert would cost about 38 million per year. Lets look at our military budget that is over 63 of our entire budget. Dont you think we could trim back a little bit from that . Host 38 billion per year, what number is that coming from . Caller that is just from what i heard other people say. They say it would go bankrupt because of that. Host i have not heard that number before. Caller i have heard that number. I am going by what i heard. I am not so certain how accurate that is. That is a number that i have heard about how much it would cost for singlepayer. Host the life for independence, go ahead. Caller hello. How are you doing . Host i am doing well. Had the best i hope people will see the health care that i had. I have had two operations. To 150. Up America Needs to wake up. Something that we need. Universal health care is not obamacare, it is Affordable Care. That is all over the united states. I am a democrat. Living for 20 years and i have had two operations. From europe it was Better Health then we are talking about here. Host july for republicans, go ahead. Just a minute. Let me just host when you are ready, we will come back to you. In north carolina, go ahead. Caller hello. About oncell before the dialogue gets set about singlepayer or about health care in general it never seems to go into any new areas or any explanations. That is like i hear people say we have singlepayer in the v. A. I am a veteran and i am pretty intelligent. I have no idea what that means. I dont know why someone does not break it down and explain what these things are. Otherwise everyone will speak as if they are a expert. Yet i do not hear what it is all about. Host we have tried to do that a few times throughout this with segments on the washington journal and talked about various aspects of health helping us with that. I point you to our cspan archives and some of those segments we have run in the past. Any segment whether it happens one hour ago or 30 years ago you can find on our archives for our 30th anniversary year of our cspan video library. Check that out and look for some of those segments. Try to do that here on the washington journal. Thisnt to show our viewers tweet from bob corker who announced he would be stepping down after he finishes his current term. He will not be running again in 2018. Tweeted outer yesterday serving the people of tennessee in this capacity has been the greatest of which of my life and he put out a statement that said when he ran the first time in 2006 that he could not imagine serving more than two terms. The mosthis was Important Public Service he has to offer the country. I want to be able to do that as independently as i did in the first 10 years i did of my senate career. Serving the people in this capacity has been the greatest privilege of my life. I reminded that we live in the unit waste where people care about the direction of our country. Histor corker announcing retirement yesterday. A lot going on in capitol hill we want to hear especially from these two big political stories. The latest from the Health Care Repeal bill that failed yesterday and roy moore winning the runoff election. The line for democrats, go ahead. Caller thank you. I am certainly not a Health Care Expert either. I am start enough to know that the biggest problem with health the single biggest problem is the cost. Believe that if you take the biggest cost and that is the Insurance Companies. It does not take a Rocket Scientist to figure out if you do not have to pay a third party and you keep it between the then itand the provider is going to be a lot cheaper. I do think that if you roll it all into one and you took the money that is spent on othera. And all of the costs that the government pays and took the money from the Insurance Companies premiums would be pretty darn low. They would be a heck of a lot better than they are now. I will point you to the usa today headline. One of their stories with the repeal met of aca some uncertainty remains, one of those uncertainties is how much insurance will cost. They talk about the issue regarding cost and choice and whether subsidies will continue with these issues addressed in the morning usa today article. In san antonio, texas, go ahead. Caller i am a veteran. I served in branches during the Reagan Administration army and navy. I believe obamacare will not work because it is corrupt. It is a handout that is too expensive. They get together and they are [indiscernible] host the line for independence, go ahead. Yes, all of this talk i Health Care Repeal believe we have a different discussion. If one wants to provide health care to the masses one can easily see that the Single Player hair system is the most effective. With the countries like switzerland or even canada the u. K. , they have this health care set up. It is much better than what we have here in the u. S. Moneyy spend much less per person. Is theglepayer system more conservative the more fiscally conservative system. However going to a singlepayer system is also necessary to increase the government financial burden. Even though you are spending less per person you will be covering more people. Do we want to save the government money or do we want to provide a affordable effective Health Care System . Those two things are mutually exclusive. We have to decide what debate do we want to have. Host which do you think is more important . Caller i believe the former is more important. I believe that we should provide effective Affordable Health care. That wee other ways could do this. We could trim resources from other branches of the government. That is a debate that i think we should have. The noise that you hear about the ineffectiveness of noisepayer is that it is at a distraction. Host we are going to come back to these two big stories more and more with that alabama primary runoff. As well as the latest on the latest aca repeal and replace effort. The congressman from virginia will join us to talk about the details of how they plan to overhaul the tax code. It are in our program the Committee Member will discuss the latest on the north Korean Military threat. 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