Carried political and potentially legal peril. The strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for donald trump jr. To release a statement to get ahead of the story. They wanted to be truthful, so their account Couldnt Be Repudiated later if the full details emerged. But within hours, at the president s direction, the plan changed. Flying home from germany on july 8th aboard air force one, trump personally dictated a statement in which trump jr. Said he and the russian lawyer had primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. When they met in june 2016, according to multiple people, with knowledge of the deliberations, the statement, issued to the New York Times, as it prepared a story, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was, quote, not a Campaign Issue at the time. The claims were later shown to be misleading. Further down in the washingtwa post story, quote, as special Counsel Robert Mueller investigates potential obstruction as part of his broader probe of russian
interference in the 2016 election, these advisers worry that the president s direct involvement leaves him needlessly vulnerable to allegations of a coverup. Quote, this was unnecessary, said one of the president s advisers, who like many other people interviewed for the story spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations. Now, someone can claim hes the one who attempted to mislead. Someone could argue the president is saying he doesnt want you to say the whole truth. Now, just in the past few minutes, nbc news has got an statement from one of the president s outside lawyers. Responding to this reporting from the Washington Post. Attorney john dowd calls the report, fake news, incorrect, and misinformed and of no consequence. Joining us now is carol lining, and shes one of the reporters who broke this story for the Washington Post tonight. Carol, thanks very much for joining us. So the president s lawyer is saying that your story is fake news. First of all, can you tell us how many people are corroborating that this account occurred, saying that donald trump was the one dictating the Talking Points . You cant tell us who, but tell us how many, maybe . I can tell you, its multiple people from lots of different walks of life, joy, and these people have put themselves in the line, in a way, to tell the full story. I think its a fairly simple story. Its that the president who believes that hes the best politician, hes the best advocate for himself. And now its becoming clear he thinks that he has the best sort of legal strategy, took this dilemma, as he viewed it, by the horns, and decided he would decide how it was going to be handled. And how the public would learn about this meeting. And how it would be characterized. And did the people that you talked with explain how donald trump settled on the idea of adoptions as the excuse for the meeting . Well, you may remember, joy, that this meeting was a place where the russian lawyer,
president did not want to describe the actual story of what happened. And he had not just a hand in it, but the most important hand in it. And we know that donald trump did, hilmself, use the adoption Talking Point in his New York Times interview, when hes asked a question about melania sitting next to Vladimir Putin, he sort of spontaneously brings it up. So obviously he believed in that Talking Point. According to your reporting, did anyone in trumps inner circle maybe push back on this idea of using adoptions, a, because at some point the actual contents of the donald trump you know, discussions, the trump junior discussions about setting up this meeting could leak out and they could be proven to be wrong, or saying the word adoptions would trigger questions about the Magnitsky Act . I dont think there was a lot of concern about what words would trigger what. It was, you know, remember that the attorneys for Jared Kushner are the people who first find this information. Theyre trying to respond to
than they did, but the president decides he can handle it. And he issues this statement that doesnt provide a fulsome argument. Doesnt explain what the meeting was really about. Doesnt explain, in a clear way, why donald trump jr. Showed up that day and why he asked Jared Kushner and pfraul manafort, th Campaign Manager at the time, also to attend. Well, they dont have the benefit of their lawyers, but the benefit of each other. And two know exactly why they have a meating. It is shocking that he would all agree, but just invent a different reason. Carol leonning, thank you very much. In terms of how this Washington Post reporting relates to the Obstruction Investigation thats underway at the fbi, i want to bring in barbara mcquaid, former u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of michigan. All right, well, miss mcquaid, first of all, thank you so much for joining us. My pleasure, joy. Least, and his advisers knew the actual contents knew what that meeting was about and decided to use a different story, unless he simply didnt talk to donald trump jr. , didnt talk to Jared Kushner, and invented a reason and imposed it on trump junior. Does that make any sense . I would think that Robert Mueller would want to try to get to the bottom of it by talking to as many people as he could. But the fact that donald trump is out there, misleading the public, is what prosecutors refer to as consciousness of guilt effort. If youre out there telling a story that later turns out to be not true, you know, people begin to ask, what were the motives for that . And one motive might be, you were trying to conceal the truth, because you know you are guilty of a crime. And does this now set up a potential for Robert Mueller to want to interview donald trump, to find out whether he knew the contents of those emails when he invented this Talking Point . Well, im sure he would love to ask him that question, but my guess is he will refrain from doing so. Typically what you want to do in
an investigation is gather as much information as you can from documents and lower level participants in a conspiracy to learn as much as you can, so if and when you have the opportunity to confront someone who might be considered the very big fish in a case like this, you would have it. So my guess is he would refrain from doing that at this point. But at some point, he may very well want to ask those questions. The four people who are involved here. You have paul manafort, the Campaign Chairman at the time. Jared kushner, whos in charge of the digital and other aspects of the campaign, and you have donald trump jr. All three received this email. It was in their inbox. It bounced back and they all got it and it had that headline, russ russia, clinton, highly confidential. Would Robert Mueller want to interview each of them and look for discrepancies in their stories or in what donald trump says later. And if there are sbrediscrepanc what would be the consequences . I know Jared Kushner gave the statement, he receives many
emails a day and didnt read all the way down through the chain. But the subject line itself said russia, campaign, personal and confidential, so it had some red flags there that i think is very difficult for people to ignore. And i think someone who is seeking to learn the truth would want to ask all three of them about that. And, you know, it is a crime to provide a false statement to investigators or to commit perjury. And so if the stories dont match up, that would certainly be cause for further investigation, to try to figure out which ones true. And which one might be making a false statement. Wow, the heat just got hotter. Barbara mcquade, thanks so much for your time tonight. Thank you very much, joy. To recap where we are right now on this meganews tonight, a bombshell report from the Washington Post this evening, reporting that donald trump thi himself dictated the misleading statement initially released by his son, donald jr. , about his meeting with a russian lawyer last summer. During the campaign. But thats not the only big Breaking News tonight out of the white house. We also learned today of a staffing shake up that set a new record. We are quite literally in unprecedented territory right now. The very latest on the shortestserving White House Communications director ever is coming up next. Stay with me, mr. Parker. When a critical patient is far from the hospital, the hospital must come to the patient. Stay with me, mr. Parker. The at t network is helping First Responders connect with medical teams in near real time. Stay with me, mr. Parker. Saving time when it matters most. Stay with me, mrs. Parker. Thats the power of and. The allnew volkswagen atlas. Seats seven, sleeps six. Lifes as big as you make it. So it only made sense to create a network that keeps up. Introducing xfinity mobile. It combines americas largest, most reliable 4g lte with the most wifi hotspots nationwide. Saving you money wherever you check your phone. Yeah, even there. See how much you can save when you choose by the gig or unlimited. Call, or go to xfinitymobile. Com. Xfinity mobile. Its a new kind of network designed to save you money. So tonight we got the Breaking News from the Washington Post that President Donald Trump himself is the one who dictated his son, don juniors, misleading statement about his meeting with a russian lawyer during the campaign. That Breaking News is the second Major Development today, hinting at the chaotic world that is the trump white house. And we learned earlier today that the brandnew White House Communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, is out, after less
than a week on the job. A tenure so short it sets a new record. Seizing the title from the reagan era, and another time of chaos and crisis, at the highest levels of government. Ronald reagan was the first elected republican president since watergate. For his supporters, he would come to symbolizes the renaissance and recovery of the party from its darkest hour. Almost to a one, republicans today claim reagan as a hero and a role model. But while he was in office, Ronald Reagan endured some genuine scandals. And with those, his presidency suffered seriously difficult moments. One of those was the iran Con Tr Tra Scandal which famously involved the secret sale of weapons to iran, so the foundation could fund their preferred side in nicaraguas civil war. The idea was to get money from iran and possibly the release of u. S. Hostages, while also achieving the white house goals in central america. It was a huge scandal at the time, with Congressional Testimony ByLieutenant Colonel oliver north. You may know him now as a pundit on cable tv, but at the time, he
was right at the center of this epic white house scandal. As part of the unfolding of that monumental tale of possible criminality in the white house, in late february 1987, just days before a devastating Kone Inini Congressional report on iran contra, the white house was beset with infighting between the president s top staffer and the first lady. It was also dealing with a surprise revelation about The Dark Past of its newly lly appod White House Communications director. Were saving the best stuff for the last act. Reporter but the president s closest friends are worried that there may never be any best stuff. Theyre blaming his problems on Chief Of Staff, donald regan. The first lady isnt denying that regan that has hung up the phone on her twice. Friends say she is furious with the Chief Of Staff and that her husband knows it. Regan was in his usual place today, riding alongside his boss. He told aides he will not resign and blamed others for the latest problem. Questions raised about the new White House Communications
director, john koehler. Press secretary Marlin Fitswater said colin did not tell the white house that a 15yearold he belonged to a hit group. Today the revelation that the Chief Of Staff directly blames the first lady as pushing through the nochlgs of john koehler. As a 10yearold, koehler was briefly a member of a nazi youth group. Although koehler has been defended by many prominent jewish organizations as a victim of the circumstances of his youth, it was another embarrassing piece of news the white house didnt need. Well, it came as a great surprise to me that the white house didnt know it. I firmly felt that they had that security file. And it seems to me that if the fbi tells the white house the guy is clean, hes clean. Reagans Chief Of Staff was fighting with nancy reagan and then his Communications Director tupp turned out to have been in the
hitler youth as a gradeschooler. Within days, both men would have been out of the administration. John koehler lasted just 12 days on the job, making him the shortest serving White House Communications director up to that time. Meantime, Chief Of Staff, don regan got the boot in a process that was anything but organized. But the sequence of events that led to regans resignation shows even that effort was bungled. Thursday night at 6 30, President Reagan called howard baker to offer him the job. Baker, according to an aide, had already decided he would accept if asked and did not hesitate. At 10 30 friday morning, President Reagan told republican congressional leaders they would be pleased with his new Chief Of Staff. He did not reveal the name of his choice. Dennis thomas, a top aide to regan, was at that meeting. Regan quickly learned that his replacement was set, which was news to him. Regan was furious. According to that white house aide, it was regans understanding that his resignation would come on monday, at his own instigation. Regan stormed out of the white house. When he got home, he notified the white house he no longer needed the Secret Service or a car. This morning, the white house sent a car to pick him up anyway. Regan rejected it and drove his own car in. No, thank you, i can drive myself. White house infighting and shake ups are as old as the presidency itself. But what weve seen in the past few weeks from the Current White House is raising the bar for infighting and shake ups. Today we learned the White House Communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, is out after less than a week on the job. His firing came at the hands of the new white house Chief Of Staff, john kelly, apparently in his First Official act on the job. Axios reports, shortly after he was sworn in this morning, he brought scaramucci into his office and said he had to go. This comes a week after he told ryan lizza in an
obscenityfilled rant that he wanted everybody everyone out. Beating even john koehler, the guy who served in the hitler youth. Thats even less than Michael Flynns brief 24 days of National Security adviser, the shortest tenure of anyone in that post. Its certainly less than Reince Priebus whose 189 days on the job made him the shortest serving Chief Of Staff. And much less than the six months of White House Press secretary, sean spicer, himself one of the shortest serving people in that job. This recent staff shake up resembles less of a merry go around than a circular firing squad. After sean spicer hits the ejector seat, Scaramuccis First Task was to get rid of Reince Priebus, and get him fired. And now priebus replacement, john kelly, has fired scaramucci. It all makes perfect sense. Joining us now is john swan. What a hot mess. Explain to us first of all, this sort of question that was left hanging in the briefing today. Does Anthony Scaramucci still
have a job at the Export Import Bank . Im not clear on that. Yeah, nor am i. They left it open, friends of his believe that hes going to be looked after in some way, shape, or form, but i dont know what that means. I know that he wants a job in the mirpgs. Again win just have no confirmation that he has one. Yeah, so walk us through how this happened. Because, obviously, General Kelly came in and wanted to have some authority. What did it come down to in terms of him being able to get rid of the newly hired mr. Scaramucci . Well, i think you have to go back to thursday night with ryan lizza, the conversation that Anthony Scaramucci had with him, where he suggested that steve bannon do various things to himself and said horrendous things about Reince Priebus. Now, theres a lot of like history being rewritten today. I can tell you, its complete nonsense that the president was offended by those comments or
that the trump women somehow this was some sort of apostasy and they all rose up in anguish. Thats just not true. In realtime, with we know from our reporting that the president found the remarks amusing, at first, and then later in the evening, as the negative coverage pailpiled on, he got q angry and told Anthony Scaramucci and told him off a little bit. But the next day, he was joking about it. This was really john kelly. And for General Kelly to take the job, he made the demand that he gets complete authority. And that everything goes through him. And the way to demonstrate that is to fire someone who, by official decree in the press release, Doesnt Report to him, reports directly to the president , and had been causing, from kellys perspective, all sorts of problems, both cultural problems and, you know, credibility problems, by the comments hed made to the press. So this was a signal that kellys in charge, hes been fully empowered in a way that Reince Priebus was never empowered. So this was as much a symbolic act as anything else. But you mentioned the question of who Anthony Scaramucci would have reported to had he remained. Did that become an issue where he was told, you can report to kelly and stay, or no no, never even had the opportunity. No. Anthony scaramucci, my understanding, from my conversations today, would have happily reported to General Kelly. And this was not some sort of a stand down, where he said, i only report to the president , that just doesnt mesh with the conversations ive had today. And you also reported that steve bannon, who i like to always remind people, is the altright representative in the white house, also kept pushing to have scaramucci let go. Is that explain that a little bit. Oh, steve bannon was working to undermine and destroy scaramucci to the very end. Him and Reince Priebus, at the end of Reince Priebuss tenure, he was basically in the bunker with steve bannon and a few midlevel communications staffers. There was really no one else defending him. And together they were skechemi to undermine. First it was to block scaramucci. And once scaramucci was in, it was working with various people to get messages to the president that he was unacceptable. They saw the new Yorker Interview was a great interview to try to undermine him. And bannon, my understanding, from sources close to him, is that hes delighted by todays news. Im sure he is. I mean, because otherwise, he was called a contortionist in not a nice way. Who likes that. Jonathan swan, National Political reporter with axios, thank you very much. All right, the thing about making big change, like hiring a new Chief Of Staff, is that it does create other staffing opportunities and changes inside the white house, like firing scaramucci. 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What donald trump cannot do without potentially causing a political earthquake inside his own party is fire Jeff Sessions. And what he cannot do by law is fire special counsel, Robert Mueller. At least not directly. Only muellers boss at the Department Of Justice can do that. Which is why, just as a matter of whatif strategery, if trump did want to get another Attorney General in place without having to actually fire Jeff Sessions, one thing he could theoretically do is Move Sessions to General Kellys old job at homeland security. After all, sessions is a famously superhard liner on immigration, so deporting people would be a natural fit. He already got confirmed by the
senate when he became Attorney General, so the law would allow him to run a new agency for at least six months. And with sessions out of the way, trump could shuffle someone else into the role of acting Attorney General. And that person could potentially wait for it fire bob mueller. The white house today got asked about the possibility of sessions changing jobs. The answer made news in two different ways. There are no conversations about any Cabinet Members moving in any capacity and the president has 100 confidence in all members of his cabinet. So news item number one. For today, at least, Jeff Sessions is not changing jobs. And news item number two, despite everything hes said about this ag, the president has 100 confidence in him. At least for today. Joining us now is michael beschloss, nbc news president ial historian. Always good to talk to you. Same here. What do you think of this strategery theory, that donald trump could pick up his toeratty
general, drop him into, and free himself to fire bob mueller. Its in character. The question is whether Jeff Sessions would go along with it. Sessions, by all accounts, has for decades wanted to be Attorney General. You know, one of the most prestigious jobs in that cabinet. Department ofho homeland securi, not so much. So whether sessions would accede to that, hard to say. I doubt it. Is there a historical precedent for a president moving the cabinet around in this way, you know, that you know of. It happens sometimes, for instance, in 1945, Franklin Roosevelt had fired, essentially, Henry Wallace from his ticket. He had been Vice President , needed a place to put him, wallace wanted to be secretary of commerce, so roosevelt fired the secretary of commerce, jesse jones, to create some space for that. But the difference was, if Donald Trumps objective here is to shut down the independent prosecutor, bob muellers investigation, in order to save
his protest, theres is no historical precedent for that. And speaking of that, tonight we have this huge Washington Post story that donald trump in the service of trying to end this investigation or curtail it, actually came up with the Talking Points that his son, donald jrunior, used to excuse this meeting involving eight people, including multiple russians tied to the kremlin. What do you make of that . It sounds very much in character for donald trump. Very much like richard nixon. John ehrlich, nixons aide, who finally went to prison for a year and a half in the Watergate Scandal said in retrospect, nixon couldnt keep his hands off a coverup. He wanted to be involved. Theres no way you would have gotten him away from this. So the suggestion that donald trump is, you know, trying to pull the strings, to keep russia from being investigated, doesnt sound so hard to believe. And the question, of course, comes back to, what is it is that hes afraid of . What is so terrible in terms of
his involvement in russia and that of his campaign, that he is so terrified to have it investigated . And taking advantage of your president to ask you about everything in the world. I have to also ask you about this appointment of General Kelly. The idea in most white houses, in the jim baker, for example, you bring in someone with stature and gravitas and they get things together. Do you think that that sort of method and methodology applies with this particular president . You were talking very rightly about Ronald Reagan and jim baker, probably the best Chief Of Staff of modern times. That worked, because reagan was modest. He said, theres all sorts of things i dont know, especially because i havent been in washington, i dont know how to deal with congress. Jim baker was an expert in that. Reagan allowed himself to be managed for four years. Can you imagine donald trump allowing himself to be managed . Plus the fact is that john kelly, General Kelly has many qualities, but politically experience, he does not have. The last general to be Chief Of Staff was alexander haig, one of
the interesting questions was whether haig would, you know, resist nixons effort to coverup watergate or would he essentially tell nixon not to do it. Haig was the one as Chief Of Staff on the night of the Saturday Night Massacre and during a day or two before then, he called up the Attorney General, Eliot Richardson and his deputy and said, nixon wants you to fire archibald cox, the special prosecutor, this is an order from your commander in chief. I hope thats not a precedent we see here. Thats a pretty chilling precedent. Michael bebeschloss, thank you. Moscow has retaliated bigtime against u. S. Sanctions and so far silence from the president of the United States. That story is next. Plp blp
state dinner. That was 1988. But two years earlier, things were not as friendly. Today it was the soviets turn once again. They kicked out of moscow five american diplomats, their retaliation for the 55 soviet diplomats who are expelled from the United States yesterday. They also withdrew more than 250 soviet citizens who helped run the American Embassy in moscow. Drivers, maids, and so on. Reporter in moscow, not one of the embassys 260 soviet employees showed up for work today. Diplomats began doing the maintenance jobs, which will now take up much of their time. How about a hammer . Volunteers staffed the embassy snack bar, the only place in moscow to get a hamburger or a pizza. In addition to expelling five u. S. Diplomats, the soviets declared were spies, gorbachev banned locals from working at the u. S. Embassy in retaliation. Coincidentally enough, in 1986, donald trump was reportedly angling to get President Reagan to name him as an envoy to the soviet union, to negotiate
nuclear disrmment. The Reagan Administration said no, so we never got to find out how that would have worked out. But in 1986 episode when the soviets expelled our diplomats and banned local soviets to working for the u. S. Is the closest historical president to what happened this weekend, when russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the dismissal of 755 people from the u. S. Embassy in russia. The u. S. Has approximately 345 americans currently in moscow, and at consulates and in other russian cities. According to a 2013 State Department report, a big chunk of the people who will be dismissed will be russians. The locals, who have jobs at the American Embassy and those consulates. Putin claimed that this was in response to new economic sanctions, passed by the senate and the house, and set to be signed by the president. But these are also a delayed response to the Obama Administration seizing two russian compounds in december, and expelling 35 russians, who president obama said were spies. On friday, putin seized two u. S. Diplomatic properties, and ordered the u. S. Embassy in moscow to downsize its staff. Now were learning that putin also wants the local Staff Members out. Last week, we learned that donald trump plans on signing that sanctions bill into law. He hasnt done it yet, but the white house says he plans on doing so. In the meantime, the president and the State Department have made no official public statements about putins retaliation. And joinings us now is michael mcfaul, former cedambassador to russia. Thanks so much for being here. Great to be here, joy. So ambassador, how unusual is it for the president of the United States or the warehouse or the State Department to have made no statement about what russia has done, in terms of telling those 575 staff to stand down. Well, first, ive been trading emails and meeting with other ambassadors today. And i think this is the largest expulsion in the history of
american diplomacy. Im glad you brought up 1986 in your setup piece, but this is much bigger and nobody can think of another expulsion this size. And yet, the white house, the president of the United States, is silent. Its extraordinary. I think its outrageous. When i worked at the white house, i worked there for three years. We made statements on all kinds of things, much lesser things that we had in the voice of the president. He needs to begin to push back on this, because it looks like a very weak signal that hes sending if he doesnt say anything. What do you make of the delay in signing the now overwhelmingly passed those new russian sanctions. Because that is what putin is reacting to, but donald trump havent even yet signed the legislation. You know, perhaps hes trying to cut some kind of deal, you know, maybe give back those two properties that the russians have in the United States, in
return for lowering the number that they need to go home. And the russians that will be fired, im glad you mentioned that, because thats the real people that will be hurt by this. Those russians, by the way, are going to have a really hard time finding new jobs, having worked at the American Embassy. But to be honest, i dont understand it, because i dont really understand president trumps policy towards russia in general. He talks nice to mr. Putin, president putin, this is the result, maybe its time to tray a new strategy. You know, i have to also get your take on this new Washington Post story that donald trump dictated the Talking Points to his son, for the meeting that donald trump jr. Had with several russian nationals. And what do you make of the fact that what he chose to use as the excuse was this issue of adoptions. He also brought it up in his New York Times interview, spontaneously, when asked a question about melania sitting next to putin. He again brings up adoptions. What do you make of that . That means that the russians were talking about lifting sanctions. Because back in 2012, when i was
the u. S. Ambassador in russia, we adopted a set of sanctions, a Human Rights Sanctions against Human Rights Violators in russia. Its call the Magnitsky Act, and in response, putin not only put americans on a sanctions list, but then he went further. And he banned adoptions by american citizens. So when you hear adoptions, you should think this is a discussion about sanctions. All right. Well, former ambassador michael mcfaul, thank you very much. Really appreciate your time tonight. Sure, thank you. And if you thought the republican mission to repeal obamacare was over, think again. Inside the latest efforts to bring trumpcare back from the dead. Plus, the Stealth Group thats been meeting behind the scenes, all along. Next. Mom, i have to tell you something. Dad, one second i was driving and then the next. They just didnt stop and then. Im really sorry. I wrecked the subaru. I wrecked it. Youre ok. Thats all that matters. vo a lifetime commitment to getting them home safely. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Atmore than one flavor, oruch texture, or color. Ing. A good clean salad is so much more than green. And with panera catering, more for your event. Panera. Food as it should be. If you have moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis or crohns, and your symptoms have left you with the same view, it may be time for a different perspective. If other treatments havent worked well enough, ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohns. Entyvio works by focusing right in the gitract to help control damaging inflammation and is clinically proven to begin helping many patients achieve both Symptom Relief as well as remission. Infusion and serious allergic reactions
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sabotage the Affordable Care act in ways that the Executive Branch uniquely can, including a threat to stop paying the costsharing subsidies that help millions of americans buy insurance and a new threat to cancel the insurance subsidies for members of congress and their staff unless they repeal obamacare. Trumps Budget Director is also out publicly saying that the senate must repeal Health Care First before Congressional Republicans can pursue the trillions of dollars in tax cuts that the Trump Administration is seeking in their new budget. The huge cuts to medicaid that republicans were seeking in the various versions of the Obamacare Repeal bills were supposed to help offset those tax cuts. Meanwhile, a group of republican senators led by south carolinas Lindsey Graham are already trying to revive the Repeal Effort by working on legislation they think could get the 50 votes needed to pass. So the fight to repeal the Affordable Care act is not yet over in the senate. But over in the house, a mildmannered bipartisan approach to fixing the parts of
the Affordable Care act that everyone agrees need fixing is under way. Theyve apparently been meeting for weeks behind the scenes in case the repeal of obamacare really did fail. Now that it has, theyve unveiled their proposed repairs. Joining us now is one of the members of congress who is part of that working group, congresswoman Elizabeth Esty of connecticut. Congresswoman esty, thanks so much for being here tonight. Great to be with you. Please explain to us what your Bipartisan Group how many of you first of all . Its about 40. 42 i think. Maybe 44. Whats the balance . Its supposed to be even. Were right about even. Its pretty evenly divided, 20, 22 on each side. Why dont you explain to us what are the priorities in your proposal to repair the Affordable Care act . Well, we focused on an area that everyone agrees really needs work and thats the individual marketplace. Weve seen premiums going up through the roof in certain states. A lot of uncertainty and its
really hurt by the president s announcements that hes just going to cut off the costsharing subsidies basically, the costsharing reductions. So we know this needs to be fixed, and the uncertainty is causing premiums to go through the roof. Right now Insurance Companies are getting ready to set premiums for next year, and so we know we need to fix this. So a group of us had decided a few months ago we wouldnt even touch health care. Too difficult. Wed work on some easier topics. But when it was clear this might crater in the senate, we thought we might as well start trying, see what we can do in this area. Weve got a list of those priorities if we can put them up on the screen. There are these five planks of what youre trying to do. One is, as you said, fund those costsharing Reduction Payments through congress, create dedicated Stability Fund for states to lower premiums and limit losses, exempt Small Businesses from the employer mandate, repeal the medical device tax and provide changes and clear guidelines for
insurers to sell across state lines. Lets go to the employer mandate piece for just a minute. A lot of people are wondering why would you let out companies with fewer than 500 employees from getting their employees insured, and what would happen to those employees . A number of us, we dont all support all of these provisions. But what we found is this. Almost all Big Companies provide Health Insurance plans because its an attractive thing for their employees. But Smaller Companies have often found that its very expensive for them to do it and, in fact, their employees might be better off if they joined the individual pool and got subsidies that way. Got it. So the bottom line is what were trying to do is get everybody insures. The more people who are insured, their health care is better, and a bigger pool, more people in the insurance pool means costs are lower for everybody. Thats really the bottom line. Weve got a find a way to get everybody in the system. That will lower costs across the board, and make sure nobody has to worry about, you know,
getting hit by a car tomorrow or like a friend of mines son who was diagnosed with a brain tumor at age 22 this year. Yeah. You Havenshouldnt Have To W about that. This is really just 3 to 10 of the group were talking about. Its the individual market. Thats really where its so volatile. We need to fix it. Its just fairer for people. Good luck. We hope that you succeed. Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty of connecticut, thank you so much for your time. Thank yos, joy. Thank you. Well be right back. Youre going to be hanging out in here. So if you need anything, text me. Do you play . Use the chase mobile app to send money in just a tap, to friends at more banks then ever before. You got next . Chase. Helping you master whats now and whats next. This Timyou Haveis turn. 4. 3 minutes to yourself. This calls for a taste of cheesecake. New philadelphia cheesecake cups. Rich, creamy cheesecake with real strawberries. Find them with the refrigerated desserts. Rethink your Allergy Pills. Flonase sensimist allergy relief helps block 6 key inflammatory substances with a gentle mist. Most Allergy Pills only block one. And 6 is greater than one. Flonase sensimist. That the president was joking when he suggested last week that Police Officers not treat people theyre arresting too nicely. Speaking before an audience filled with members of Law Enforcement, the president said that officers putting suspects into a squad car should not take care to avoid banging the arrested persons head on the car door. He told them, quote, you can take the hand away, okay . Regardless of how unfunny it was when he said that, Law Enforcement agencies around the country have come out and said the president should not talk like that, which is why the white house has out again today claiming it was a joke. But heres something to watch for. Tomorrow at noon, Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions travels to atlanta to address Law Enforcement leaders. Sessions has been under lots of heat from donald trump for not recusing himself in the russia investigation. But sessions is also the nations top Law Enforcement official. Does he bring up what the president said about not handling suspects too nicely . Does he answer questions about it if he gets asked . Well, that happens tomorrow at noon, and you can expect people to be watching. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow