Also Congress Gets back to work tomorrow after the shooting at a gop baseball practice. What role did overheated rhetoric play in that tragedy . Congressman mo brooks was there and helped save the lives of scalise and others. He will join us live. Plus, the war in afghanistan, more american troops are likely on the way, but are are we winning this war . Ill talk with House Armed ServicesCommittee ChairmanMac Thornberry as we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. Maria President Trump making a big announcement on friday, the rollback with of president obamas outreach to cuba. [applause] usa usa usa maria the announcement welcomed with open arms by a cheering crowd in miami who were chanting usa. President trump stopping short of a full reversal of the obama administrations deal with the communist country, but the new policy moves to restrict individual travel to the island. It cracks down on the flow of u. S. Cash to the cuban military and demands key reforms in havana. Joining me right now is republican senator marco rubio of florida who helped craft the new policy and was with President Trump in miami. Senator, good to see you. Thanks so much for joining us. Thank you. Thank you. Maria wow, what a reception you received with this new policy. Yeah. Maria why do you think people want to see this policy change . Why is is it so important to you, senator . Well, first of all, its democracy and human rights in our region is critical to the United States. Look at the migratory pressure whether its people coming across the border from Central America or mexico or people on rafts coming from haiti or cuba. Its all driven by one thing, and that is the lack of Political Freedoms and the lack of human rights and economic rights. And so the United States has a National Security interest in our region. If you look at the western hemisphere, every country in the region has had at least one free and Fair Election except for one, cuba, in almost 65 or 70 years. That needs to change. Now, the obama policy towards cuba made all sorts of concessions. Those concessions have allowed the cuban military which controls upwards of 50, 60 of their economy to enrich itself and tighten its grip, and were reversing that. The president is reversing that. What he is saying is if americans travel to cuba now, you will have to spend your money with private, individual cubans, not with the cuban military. That is a very appropriate thing, and i dont understand how anyone could argue that we should not have a policy that enriches the cuban people instead of the cuban military. Maria this weekend when you were with President Trump, it seemed like the two of you have just put aside any differences that you had and were truly working together. Why the change from your standpoint . Has President Trump done something beyond in that has changed your relationship with him . Yeah. I just think this whole relationship thing is overblown. He was a competitor of mine out of 17 people that ran for president. Its like asking two boxers are you mad that he punched you in the face in the ring, and is he mad that you punched him back. Thats why youre boxing. Thats what you do when youre competitors. When the race is over, the race is over. Boxers dont keep punching themselves in the dressing room or when they see each oh the next day. We ran against each other. He won the republican nomination. Im a republican. Im not going to support hillary clinton. He got elected, hes the president of the United States. You dont have to agree with the president of your party on every single issue in order to want him to succeed. President trumps success is americas success. Its not his individual success. Offing i want the of course i want the president to be successful, and in this particular case the president made was keeping a Campaign Commitment that he made in my state, in my community where i grew up and of course im going to help him do it in the right and best waysible. Maria thats terrific, senator. I want to ask you about working with the president , because youve got a lot on the agenda, and our viewers really want to understand where you are on that. But first, let me get this from you, because the president did face some pressure from u. S. Businesses. The fact that jetblue, other airlines have been flying to cuba. So he didnt roll back everything president obama did, and it basically protected some of the airlines and Transportation Companies that they can continue to do business, correct . What was behind that . But it wasnt pressure from the businesses. I never asked him to roll those back because if those airlines cant fly to cuba, the people who control Charter Companies . The cuban military. I would much rather have american Airlines Flying people into cuba on regular flights than have them chartering their planes to a company thats a procastro company operate anything the United States of america. Again, this is not about denying americans access to cuba, this is about complying with the law first and foremost. And second, its about insuring that once they get to cuba, you know, the plane trip is one thing. Once they get to cuba, americans will have to spend their dollars and their money on individual cubans, not at facilities owned and controlled by the cuban military. That was the rationale behind that. Maria senator, let me can you to give us some clarity on the agenda right now. Theres a Health Care Bill sitting in the senate. A lot of people are wondering what the progress looks like because youve got to get health care done before you move on to tax reform. Big items on the agenda, the dems are pushing back every day to try to to obstruct that agenda in help hopes that the president and the congress doesnt get anything done in this first year. Where is the Health Care Bill right now . What would be the timeline and clarity from your standpoint that you could give us . And there is a lot of confusion about that. Of theres a group in the Senate Working with input from all of us. Any one of us senators on the republican side who wants to have input on the republican replacement bill has the opportunity to do so. That group is going to produce a first draft, so to speak, a starting point. But after that happens that doesnt become the law, thats got to work its way through a committee, through floor action, every senator will have a right to offer amendments to change the law. So this is part of a process. This is just the first step in the process. It is not unusual or unique for a product like this to begin its first step among a core group and then to expand to the Broader Group of the entire senate. Its a Better Process than when they did obamacare. They rammed it down the those of the American People using all sorts of, you know, measures to kind of get it through as quickly as possible where nancy pelosi famously said lets pass it so we can see whats in it. Thats not the way this is going to happen. And, of course, even if it passes the senate, it still has to go back to the house for them to debate and look at it. People are pretending like its going to go from some back room in the senate right to the president s desk. Theres a lot thats going to happen in between, and there will be opportunities to change parts that someone doesnt agree with. Maria what opportunities . Here we are close to july. You want to execute an agenda this year so that perhaps you dont lose seats next year in 2018. Do you think you can get this done by july 4th . I do. Well, i dont know about july 4th, but i do believe it can get done. I would rather us do it right than do it fast, because no matter what passes, if it isnt good or it has some unintended consequence, the president is going to be held possible for that, republicans are going to be held responsible for that. Lets not repeat the mistakes the democrats made. The democrats rushed their product through because they were afraid they were going to lose their 60vote majority in the senate, and they paid the price for eight years because of that, and the American People paid an each greater price. We dont want to repeat that mistake. This is complicated. Its 50 states, 50 different marketplaces for insurance. Were going to get it right. And that may take longer than people want, but in the end, youre going to get a better product, and youre dealing with health care which is a massive part of our economy, not to mention a huge impact on peoples lives. Maria so you think you can get health care and tax reform done in 2017 or are we talking 18 . Well, i think health care will happen this year. Tax reform, well see. Theres a component that im working with ivanka trump on, the profamily component of it. And we argue parents should be able to keep more of their own money to raise their children. Were a profamily party, we believe in strengthening families and, in fact, well have a meeting this week with her and a number of senators and house members to lay out that portion of the agenda. These things can work simultaneously. You dont have to wait to finish on health care before you start formulating ideas on tax reform, and thats happening right now. Maria and real quick, senator, before you go, you were one of the few who really put it out there when you interviewed jim comey at the testimony two weeks ago, and you said to him, look, isnt it interesting that everything got leaked except the fact that donald trump was not under investigation . Now there are calls for bob mueller to go. Should President Trump fire bob mueller because of a conflict of interest, his relationship with jim comey . No . No. A couple things. First of all, with comey i wasnt being hostile, i was just basically in the end asking why all the president asked for is that comey do for him what he ended up doing for himself, which is putting information out there to put out his version or his side of the truth. Thats really the point of my questioning. And as far as bob muellers concerned, let me just say this the best thing that can happen for the president , the best thing for the president and for america is for there to be a full and thorough investigation. I dont have any reason to doubt the credibility of bob mueller to conduct this, and i honestly believe this and i say it again, let there be a full investigation on everything. Let it all come out. Let it all be looked at, because that is in the best interest of the president. I honestly, deeply and truly believe that. Maria senator rubio, thank you so much, sir. Thank you. Maria we appreciate it. Meanwhile, a positive development to report for House Majority whip Steve Scalise, doctors giving an update on his condition after he was shot at a congressional baseball proximate. Weve got that next. Im also talking with the heroic lawmaker who helped save scalises life. Let us know what youd like to hear from congressman mo brookses on deck next as we look ahead on sunday morning futures right now. People are stuck in very old habits of using toothpaste to clean a denture. But dentures are very different to real teeth. 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Joining me right now is alabama congressman mo brooks. Congressman, its good to have you on the program this morning, thanks so much for joining us. My pleasure, maria. Maria congressman, you may know this, i know our audience knows this, congressman scalise joined me on the program last sunday. I believe that was his last interview before this weeks tragic shooting. Last week the congressman was here, and i just want to say on a personal level, i want to send my very best wishes to congressman scalise right now as he continues to strengthen and also my best wishes to his family around him. He is a friend to this program, and we are wishing him our very best. Congressman brooks, can you give us an update on congressman scalises condition . Et seems that steve it seems that steve is improving. The medical treatment that he is getting is having very good results. The medical people, personnel themselves, theyve done a tremendous job helping Steve Scalise recover to the point that he has. Quite frankly, i did not realize that he was so close to death, the way it was described when he arrived at the hospital, so im very much encouraged by the progress that steve is making. Our prayers and thoughts are with him and his family, and we hope that it will continue to move in the right direction. Maria you know, much of the conversation in addition to worries over his life and his health as well as the other staffers that were with him was also on the fact that had he not been there, congressman, it could have been a lot worse, it could have been a bloodbath because hes the only one who had detail of officers who carry guns who could actually take down the shooter. So has that triggered a change, in your mind . Do you want to see a different security setup for congress in this day and age . Well, absolutely, i do. One thing and im going to be introducing legislation this week to do this is to allow congressmen to carry a side arm should they so desire. Right now when were in washington, d. C. , oncere off the complex, were still high profile targets, but we have absolutely no way to defend ourselves because of washington, d. C. s restrictive gun laws. Were high profile targets for the bad guys, the lone wolves, the terrorists, and ill be introducing legislation to that effect this week. Maria your name was one of the few names on the shooters assassination hit list. This list was found on him, the suspect, of course, was killed after wounding the five people at the congressional baseball practice. What did you think when you first learned that you were on his hit list . He wanted to till you . Im very much concerned by that as im sure my staff is, my family and friends are. Youve got a situation where, yes, this one shooter has been killed, but hes the member of an organization that applauded what transpired on wednesday. And so those of us who are on this assassination list, we it behooves us to be a little bit more wary than we otherwise might be. Maria all right. You know, were all worried about Steve Scalise and, of course, his staffers as well. I want to ask you though about the agenda, because as we all pray for his condition to improve, the questions about your agenda are getting louder, congressman. Are you going to be able to have the votes for health care, for tax reform that you need to execute your agenda given what has taken place . Well, quite frankly, almost everything is moot unless the Senate Changes the way in which it operates. I watched congressman Duncan Hunter earlier, and he was spot on when he said the obstructionism occurs in the United States senate. By way of example, the house during the last session of congress, we passed over 500 pieces of legislation toddress various issues that the senate d not even bother to have a Senate Floor Vote on. And now the senate once again is empowering the democrats to be obstructionists and to block what President Trump, what a majority of the house and a majority of the senate was elected to accomplish, much to the dissatisfaction of all those voters that sent us to washington d. C. So unless the Senate Changes the way in which they operate, im a aa grade youre going to continue to see this kind of deadlock without the kind of improvements that the people sent us to washington, d. C. To implement. Maria but are you expecting any changes in the senate . I mean, is there any reason to believe theyre going to change anything . Are you telling us right now youre not going to get the agenda do done . Not unless we start changing i am telling you that, in my judgment, the senate, a majority of the republicans has empowered a minority, the democrats, to block every single thing that we want to get a passed with the exception of one bill a year through a process called budget reconciliation that cannot cover all the issues that need to be covered. And that very much hamstrings us. Its been a frustration point for the house of representatives during the entire last session of congress, that twoyear period maria right. And here we are again seeing the same thing unfolding where the United States senate is allowing a minority of democrats to block the will of the president , to block the will of the majority of the house, to block the will of the majority of the senate and of all the American Voters who sent us there. And the American Voters need to start getting on the senate. They need to get their ruleses changed so they can adequately address these very important problems that we as a country face. Maria so you dont know if youll be able to get tax reform or tax cuts done in 2017, is that what youre saying . I dont know. Ill be mildly surprised if were able to get new the senate the legislation that we promised the American People that we would pass. Im confident that the house will do its work, but im not so confident with respect to the senate just based on their past history x. Their past history has been that that is where good legislation goes to die. Maria right. Wow. Congressman, thank you very much for your candor. We will be watching the developments. Thank you. I am totally blind. And sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. This is called non24. Learn more by calling 8448242424. Or visit your24info. Com. Theres nothing traditional about my Small Business. I count on my dell Small Business advisor for tech advice. 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Thanks so much for us. Thanks for having me. More r maria your reaction to what we just heard from mr. Mattis. I think thats right. It is, at best, a stalemate in afghanistan, and we have to do something different. I think what a lot of people may have forgotten is president obama put artificial troop caps on how many folks we could have in afghanistan. So we had a situation where helicopters would go over there, but they didnt take the maintainers with them to stay under the troop caps. They had to hire contract maintainers and do all sorts of moving people around just to stay under these artificial caps. So i think a lot of what secretary mattis is looking at is doing away with those political caps, just figure out what it really takes to do the mission. Maria what do you want to see in terms of these additional troops going to afghanistan . I want to focus really on what your priority is right now. In the next two weeks, the priority is the budget, and youre focused squarely on budgeting defense. Yeah, absolutely. Because the fundamental principle i start from is if were going to send men and women out on a mission, they ought to have everything this country can provide in the way of weapons, equipment and training to make that as successful a mission as possible. And that includes afghanistan, that includes wherever they are all around the world. It is our job to fully support them. Unfortunately, weve cut defense spending about 20 during the last obama years, and so we dont have the best equipment, the best training. Weve got to turn that around, and this is the opportunity to do it. Maria weve been talking for a long time about the oldest navy in several decades, the oldest fleet there, the oldest army also in several decades. This money that youre talking about, the additional money in the budget toward defense, is that going to go towards that . Or are you talking about raising mbs because you want to deal with the issue at hand, meaning not winning in afghanistan . Well, it is true that putting some more people in afghanistan will have some cost. But as i just mentioned, there was also a cost to playing games by hiring contractors to maintain the helicopters. So there may be some costs. But the bigger issue is we need to have planes that fly and ships that sail and soldiers, marines, airmen and sailors who are trained for their mission. And weve been taking shortcuts in recent years. And that is wrong on every level. Maria well, whos taking the shortcuts . We were just talking with your colleague, mo brooks, about the broader agenda here. And i want to get your thoughts on that as well. Hes putting the blame on the senate. Is that where you put the blame . Well, i think theres a lot of blame to go arounden when it comes to defense around when it comes to defense in recent years. Remember, Congress Passed this budget control act. It was supposed to move us to curtail mandatory spending. It didnt. So defense, which is now about 15 of the budget, took 50 of the cuts. President trump ran on rebuilding our military. I think there is a big majority in republicans, democrats, house and senate who agree weve got to rebuild the military. This is the opportunity to do that. And i think this is one part of the agenda we can really come together on. Maria all right. So you can come together on that part of the agenda. What about the rest of the a agenda, congressman . Where are you on tax cuts and health care . When we just finished that conversation with mo brooks, he did not sound optimistic. Youve got heavy, you know, a big agenda on docket here, and its july almost. Are you going to be able to get this done . El, i think well, i think so. Obviously, youre not going to get democrats to support repealing and replacing obamacare. So republicans are goingo have to come together and put ade individual differences. But we ran on that. So i think we have to. On tax reform there is a lot of agreement. Nobody thinks its smart for us to have the highest Corporate Tax rate in the world. It hurts our economy. So i cant tell you at the end of the day how broad and deep the tax reform will be, but im pretty optimistic that anybody whos focused on our economy, job creation, rising incomes, doing the right thing for American Workers will support some sort of tax reform. Maria all right. Well be watching. Sir, thanks so much for joining us this morning. We appreciate your time, the chairman of the House Armed Services, Mac Thornberry, there. The toxic atmosphere in washington with, what role did overheated rhetoric play in the shooting of Steve Scalise . Newt gingrich will join me on that as we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. 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Mr. Speaker, its always a pleasure to speak with you, and i remember the days i know our audience remember it is days when you would go out for a coffee with your colleagues on the left, and you would actually have a conversation and a friendship that went beyond the chamber. What has happened . Well, let me say, first of all, on this fathers day, i do hope everybody will keep Steve Scalise and his family, also the policewoman expect staffs who were shot, keep all of them in your prayers today, because they need it. Steve was wounded much more severely than people thought, so they really do need your prayers this fathers day. Look, weve had a i think what really, weve seen the left over the last, oh, 20, 25 years get more and more and more militant. I spoke to the College RepublicanNational Convention on thursday, about three or four hundred students. I said how many of you feel intimidated on campus for being republican or being protrump . One out of every three hands went upful up. Theres that much intensity in the country at large. And i think thats a big part of what youre seeing drift into the whole process of politics. Its not that you cant find ways to be bipartisan, and its not that, frankly, we couldnt do a somewhat better job. But i think in all fairness there have been, for example, the Veterans Administration reform bill had a huge bipartisan majority. The 21st century cures act had a huge bipartisan majority. Those things are not automatically partisan. But the underlying fight, i mean, everything from the controversies about russia to the way in which the senate has held up the nominees and made it harder to run the government all the way down, you do have a radical difference in how we want america to operate. And its not personalitydriven. Its very, very deeply driven by fundamentally different views of the world. Maria im just wopped oring though if its a wondering if its a radical difference among republicans. You just heard what mo brooks told us, newt. I want to play the sound bite from congressman brooks, because he basically blamed it all on the senate. Whats your take on that, mr. Speaker, in terms of mo brooks saying, look, we pass legislation in the house, and it goes to the senate to die, you know . I know that Chuck Schumer and his democrat colleagues want to obstruct the agenda. They dont want to see tax reform, they dont want to see replacement for obamacare even though the American People voted for that. It looks like theyre winning. Well, i think theyre only winning until the republicans learn to go to the country. I worked with reagan on the tax cuts of 1981, i worked with him on a number of other things. He understood, and theres a wonderful small book called the education of Ronald Reagan which studies his me at genera electric. And he understood that if he could, as he put it, turn up the light for the American People so they would turn up the heat on congress, that he could get a lot of stuff done. There are enough democrats up for reelection next year in the senate in states that trump carried that if the republicans would organize a serious grassroots campaign, if you go for tax cuts rather than tax reform, if you build a bill that is deficitneutral rather than revenueneutral, you can have so many people in their home states who want that bill that theyre not going to be able to stop it. If you build the right kind of bill in terms of infrastructure, you can have so many people back home who want it that they cant stop it. As obamacare keeps collapsing, when you get some of these states like missouri, north dakota where literally the problems are so great, if we could go out and sell the replacement, then people back home would say to their senators, youve got to vote for this. I mean, weve i went through this when we passed welfare reform. We split the democrats evenly. We had 101 yes, 101 no because back home people were saying to them at the town Hall Meetings youve got to be for welfare reform. So part of this is a Republican Party that isnt selling the issues back home, isnt creating the momentum and not being clear enough about why these things are good for you. Not just good for the country, but good for you as a perp. Maria well, you hit on a hot of important things there. I want to talk about deficitneutral versus revenueneutral. But first, in terms of selling the policy here, mr. Speaker, this has been the conversation were having all year, that they cant sell a policy. They cant communicate what theyre trying to do. When youre talking about health care, youre talking about Peoples Health care x. In terms of resonating with the American People, in terms of what the bill includes relating to their health care is critical, are they ever going to be able to sell it . I mean, were in july almost. Yeah, look, i cant tell you right now. I mean, as yoknow because was on your show the other day about it, i wrote a book called understanding trump, and the whole purpose was to say, look, youve got to start with the fact that he is the president and what are we going to do now to work with the reality of his strengths and his weaknesses . Well, i would say the same thing to the house and senate. If you cant write a health bill which people think is better for them, youre not going to be able to pass it in the long run and, frankly, it would be exactly like obamacare. Itll blow up in your face. And i think the republicans are not focusing enough on the politics of individuals. I mean, ill tell you on health, for example, the number one question everybodys going to ask is what does it do about preconditions. Why is that . Not because theyre ideologically left or right, but because they know somebody with a precondition. Maria right. Youve got to start with where people are and then write the bill. You dont write the bill and then try to sell people. Maria real quick, youve hit on exactly the issue that theyre fighting over. So one part of it is a border adjustment tax. The house has this border adjustment tax in there because they want to raise a trillion dollars so that they can be deficit this neutral. You say forget about being deficitneutral no, no, no. Heres the problem. If you try to write a revenueneutral bill, all of it has to occur in the tax cold. And that means youre in a situation where youve got to raise taxes on somebody in order to cut taxes for somebody else. Well, everybody you raise taxes on gets be pissed off, and the people youre cutting taxes op dont believe it because it doesnt happen for a couple years. So youre in a really dangerous net losing environment politically. Ill give you an example. If we were to reform medicare and medicaid and go to the same kind of antifraud system that american express, visa and mastercard use, you probably save 100 billion a year. Thats a trillion dollars over ten years. If we took the unnecessary federal property the federal government owns, 76,000 buildingses, if you took the least important 10,000 of them, you probably could raise a couple billion dollars. If you look at a place like nevada where the federal government owns 80 of the state, surely some could be available for the private sector. If you do oil and gas and mining rights on federal property, you probably raise at least a half trillion to a trillion over ten years. All these things are doable if you have a will to go out and if its deficitneutral, you take all of these savings, and you can apply it to the tax cut. If its revenueneutral, none of those savings count. The reason i got to this is in the 19th century this is how the british continually cut taxes, because what they said to people is were going to be very frugal with the government, but were going to be generous with your pocketbook. And so every year they cut a little spending, and they cut a little taxes. And it went on for almost 40 years. Maria so theyll find that trillion dollars that would have been raised from the border adjustment tax, theyll find it somewhere else if they are they could. Maria if they are deficitneutral. They could. Maria mr. Speaker, thanks so much for joining us. The battle over Health Care Reform heats up with gop lawmakers pushing for a senate vote by the end of the month. Our panel is next on deck as we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. 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Liberty stands with you™. Liberty mutual insurance. Maria welcome back. It is centerly crunch time for health care in the certainly crunch time, President Trump and the two top gop lawmakers pushing to bring a new bill to the floor by the end of the month. Ed rollins is former white house adviser to president reagan, mary kissell is a member of the wall street journals editorial board. Shes host of the opinion journal, good to see you both, thank you so much for joining us. I said did you see the mo brooks interview, because he joined us at the top of the show and was not sure about getting the agenda executed. Heres what he just said, ive got the get your reaction to this, both of you. Listen. The senate, a majority of the republicans has empowered a minority, the democrats, to block every single thing that we want to get passed with the exception of one bill a year through a process called budget reconciliation that cannot cover all the issues that need to be covered. And that very much hamstrings us. Its been a frustration point for the house of representatives during the entire last session of congress, that twoyear period x here we are again seeing the same thing unfolding where the United States senate is allowing a minority of democrats to block the will of the president , to block the will of the majority of the house, to block the will of the majority of the senate and to block the of all the American Voters who sent us there. More pr the ageneral a that is number one agenda is number one purity for the American People. We priority for the American People. We call Chuck Schumer every week to join us on this program so we can ask him these questions. We will continue calling him every week for our viewers who want that. Your reaction to mo brooks. I think hes absolutely accurate, unfortately. I think the minori does get to control the senate. Schumer now is in a mindset of were going to do everything ec to stop trump and republicans agenda, and i think theyre going to be able to do that. Thats the absurdity of this plan of 60 votes needed to pass stuff. The senate has changed dramatically since it was first put into the constitution. Theres no reason they cant change the rules again and make it a majority rule. Maria mary, what do you think . I dont think its ideal to pass Health Care Reform through reconciliation, but the political reality is democrats will not cross the aisle to make compromises with republicans. This is what republicans are forced into doing. And with respect to the congressman, hes not sitting in the senate talking and hashing out the deals that need to be made. Look, we already know what the outline of the senate bill is going to be. Theyre going to make the house tax credits more generous. Theyre going to give more power to the states to experiment. Slower winddown of Medicaid Expansion. They may not give they might not be as aggressive as getting rid of the Obamacare Tax cuts as they once thought. You had senator rubio coming on earlier in the show saying that process is continuing, and lets hope that hes right. Maria he said its a long process. So im just wondering if theyre going to be able to get this done in 2017. Im not sure they are. And equally important, i think its a flawed process. Exactly what the democrats did last time, theres no public hearing, no committee hearings. Historically, bills go to committees, you have open hearings, you come up with a bill and basically put it to the floor. Theyre attempting to draft a bill and shove it through, no ones going to know what it is and try to amend it on the floor of the senate. This bill is very unpopular with the american public, and the president and the congress has to go sell it. Maria its exactly what they did with obamacare i dont know if it is maria behind secret doors, still dont know whats in it. Thats the talking point of the left, come on. Paul ryan had the better way plan, gave us the outline of this bill. You have had republicans working for years on the various aspects. You just have a disagreement within the caucus because you had some states take the Medicaid Expansion and other states who didnt, and now theyre trying to come to a compromise, and youre seeing that with governor kasich of ohio saying, you know what . Maybe we can wind down that expansion, lets just do it over a longer period of time. Were going to have those committee hearings. Look, theyre not going to pass this bill on Christmas Eve like harry reid did with obamacare. I just dont think thats deny. Maria sounds like youre a little bit more optimistic. I am. Theres a big difference, democrats had about 25 more house members than we have today. We basically have a very narrow shot. Any two senators going south on us on this particular bill, its dead and gone. Maria yeah. They need ever vote. They need every single vote. And now with the tragedy of scalises injury this week, i dont think we have enough votes to pa it in the house. But theres more political pressure, because the exchanges are deteriorating. Republicans are going to have to pass something, either the repeal and replace reform that they want or pass a bill to shore up obamacare because the pressure from the public will be sum my too great. Maria yeah. Not to mention the pressure of next years election which i think is starting to exert more influence i would rather take a little bit more time and let this be a bill that can be fixed in the future and move forward than pass a bad bill that becomes the republican bill that ends up being maria and thats what marco rubio said. When we come back, more with o my business was built with passion. But i keep it growing by making every dollar count. Thats why i have the spark cash card from capital one. With it, i earn unlimited 2 cash back on all of my purchasing. 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Well, weve moved from investigating whether russians were involved in our election, which they were, to basically investigating the president , and this president is terribly distracted by all of this, as he should be. Its unfair, and the reality is hes got four big posts in the cabinet treasury, state, attorney general and defense and now we dont have the Political Leadership in the attorney general. We need a new attorney general, and i have Great Respect for sessions. What i would do is id ask him to resign and make him a counselor to the president. Let him come to the white house and advise the president on how to deal with the congress and the justice department, and hes free of all this stuff. Maria wow. Put one in who had nothing to do with the campaign who could run that department. Maria wouldnt that be a huge blow, to ask Jeff Sessions to resign, ed . The bottom line is hes going to be inwe ineffective. If you cripple him as he is today, i think to a certain extent he cant lead the department effectively. Let him, basically, advise maria wow. I dont know why he recused himself in the beginning. He shouldnt have. Clearly he wasnt involved with the russians can be. Maria thats a big statement. The alternative you just let the special counsel go off and to his investigation and start focusing more on getting big achievements done in Congress Rather than defending your honor through twitter. Now, i understand why the president is upset. I would be upset too given what we learned from the vip comey hearing jim comey hearing, not to mention the fact that he was leaking and if he felt he was given an incorrect order by the president or inappropriate order, he should have stepped forward at that time. Maria and not be a leaker. And how about Loretta Lynch being an on to instructionist . Telling him to call it a matter we need the administration to be disciplined, and it simply is not. The American People did not focus, for instance, on the big Financial Market reform that Congress Passed, theyre not focusing on the cuba announcement maria thats a good point. I have Great Respect for sessions, he just cant do the job at this point in time. Job at this point in time. Maria great panel. Many of my ps still clean their dentures with toothpaste. But they have to use special care in keeping the denture clean. Dentures are very different to real teeth. Theyre about 10 times softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can multiply. Polident is designed to clean dentures daily. Its unique microclean formula kills 99. 99 of odor causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains, cleaning in a better way than brushing with toothpaste. Thats why i recommend using polident. Polident. Clner, fresher,. I did active duty 11 years. My in july of 98. And two in the reserves. Our 18 year old was in an accident. When i call usaa it was that voice asking me, is your daughter ok . 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