Saying if you could find a solution now, repeal obamacare straight up, but dont let this take effect for a year and use the momentum to get a real deal done. We should do repeal with a delay, lets be clear, i dont want to see anybody thrown off the coverage they have now. A delay so we can we can get straight to work, and i think the president could call on the senate to cancel our august and democrats frankly need to stop pretending that obamacare is working. Garrett hake is with us. While the rest of us having sitting around for a deal to be made that didnt happen on friday, something that is happened. The cbo has two new versions of the bit. Thats what im hearing. This is part and parcel of mcconnells efforts and try to find some form the calculus to get to 50 votes. My understanding of what the cbo is looking at is two different updated versions, one that includes a new amendment from senator ted cruz and mike league, two of the more conservative members. Its to allow insurance provider to sell plans that are not compliance with the aca, that dont necessarily have all the essential benefit that were guaranteed in marks, so long as they also sell a plan that is compliant. The idea is they would let people who are younger, healthier, who maybe dont want to spend ago much on a plan, buy into a system at a lower level, so you still get more people getting insured. This is one of two options, a plan that include that is amendment and a plan that disabilities. And that sort of lines up with what were hearing from the white house here. Legislative Affairs Director mark shot was out on some of the tv shows saying the white house is open to working with mcconnell. They like this idea of the cruz amendment, but theyre not going to rule out supporting splitting this entire effort up and having repeal done first with a long runway until it goes into effect and then a replacement plan. Inch dean heller voted no that repeat effort, and if a replacement part is too difficult, lets take care of the first step. If you repeal it. It could be more bipartisan. Thats at least the Trump White House and allies like about this, they can do the repeal part, keep a big part of the promise to its voters, and then maybe include the democratic votes as they try to get to the replace part. Lots of political problems can doing it that way. Interesting theres movement. Garrett, that i can you for being here with us. Were not used to seeing garrett at the white house, but hes there today. Taking to the streets all across the country this year, health care workers, doctors, nurses, patients protested in Southern California this afternoon. One of medical professionals detailing her concerns with our own steve patterson. Take a listen. Reporter theres millions who will lose their shall if the Affordable Care acts, and if the new bill passes, so for us as physicians, i see this every day in the clinic, in hospital, those people able to get on the aca they now get Preventative Care. Well lose a lot of the things we achieved and well have people who are more sick. Joining me from texas is congressman al green. Good to see you again. Its been a while. Thank you for being with us. My honor to be with you. Thank you. I think theres a misconception that health care was working just final before obamacare, a misconception with some democrats there are things to fix with obamacare and misconception with the republicans that all democrats would like to do is end up with a singlepayer system. Were all talking Politics Around each other, but i think americans just want an improved health care system. I absolutely agree. Most americans want what i want and what people in my district want, and that is health care. And they want to make sure they have good policy such that when they need the health care they wont find if they had a policy they paid much into, but will get little from. We should not rob the poor of health care to reward the rich. Weve got to make sure that people get what they want, which is Good Health Care when they knee it. What is the mechanical way to do this . How do we go ahead to this place . The house and vat have struggled remarkably with getting the remale through. I think you have a Record Number of republicans for recent years saying reach out to democrats and get something done. This may be an historic opportunity for democrats to saying lets 23409 get tied up in thinking that obamacare wasnt perfect. Ask there be a compromise . There can be a compromise if were not defining it as capitulation. People are willing to talk. I think we have to do more than talk. We have to walk the talk. We have to be willing to start with the notion that, first, we will not eliminate preexisting conditions as a means by the way persons can receive coverage. Weve got to let people with preexisting conditions have coverage. Let me mention one story to from you medicate town hall meeting that we had. There was a young man who said he was born with cancer in both eyes. It was predicted he would not live nearly as long as he has. It was because of medicaid he has survived and able to thrive. What we have to do is realize that people out there really need this health care and 50 votes are not as nearly important as the millions who need the health care that we can provide in the richest country in the world. We can do it if we would butt only recognize that preexist conditions have been to be covered, that we have to make sure there are no caps on coverage and make sure everyone gets couldnt when they need it. Are you prepared to consider options . Many republicans are saying if we let this go, it will become a singlepayer system. Railroad prepared yourself to look at other options . Of course i am i voted for the Affordable Care act, because it was an option available to us. I would prefer something else, but i dont get my preferences. I was born into a world that didnt cater to me. I have not always had my way. Ive had to compromise. I am where i am because im willing to compromise and im still willing to do this. I think we both have to compromise, mean both sides. We cannot require capitulation of one side and call it compromise. Each side has to get something to give something. I want to ask about a different topic, the voter integrity commission, sending letters to secretaries of state asking for a lot of voter information, much of which is not public. A number of secretaries of state have rejected this. I dont have the tweet in front of me, but a number of states have refused to provide a whats your take on this . Well, my take is that the president is eager to do much more to chase voter fraud that, according to most studies is nonexistent in the United States than it is to deal with the russian intrusion into our elections. Were talking about elections in both circumstances, and why he puts more emphasis on nonexistent voter fraud than he does on the russian intrusions is beyond my thinking the my hope is that well end this chase for this voter fraud that doesnt exist and put emphasis on the russian intrusion into our democracy. Tell me, representative, for our audience that doesnt comprehend why asking for more positive i. D. Is necessarily a negative thing, whats the problem with greater requirements on i. D. For voting . Well, let me address first this notion that you have to have an idea to board a plane, but you dont have to have an i. D. To board a plane. You can board a plane if you can present yourself to be properly scrutinized, properly searched, and then you can still board a plane. But this notion that you have to have an i. D. , there are many people who do not have proper i. D. S. A good many of them are from minority communities. In fact, the studies are showing that it will harm minority communities more than others. Given that a good many dont have i. D. S, we believe the system that allowed you to identify yourself in other credible ways is still an efficacious system. I think allowing to secure i. D. S is wonderful as long as the state pays for t clear example i voted without an i. D. Was it was a conditional ballot. To security my proper i. D. , i had to send back to the state of louisiana, where i was born to get my birth certificate. I have to pay for that birth certificate. While it was a bit of money for me, for a good many people in this country, it is a lot of money and a lot of time to go through that effort. This is why a good many people have said this is in the form of a poll tax when i have to pay to get that birth certificate to get that i. D. Finally i show the my proper texas i. D. So i could vote, but not many people have the money i have, and not a lot of people are living where i live in life, and i recognize this. Im blessed so i can be a blessing to those who are less fortunate. This is why im going to fight this notion when you have to have an i. D. When weve had forms of acceptable i. D. S in the past when persons dont have the proper i. D. Representative, good to talk with you. Thank you for joining us. May i mention one additional things . Sure. I probably ill be terse. Weve had an impeachment march in texas, and i want to say these are patriotic americans. To be a patriotic american doesnt mean that you have to show up at a protest march with a rebel flag and a long gun and a belief that the south will rise again. We sang God Bless America that was patriotic. We said the pledge of allegiance to the flag and we were there to exercise or Constitutional Rights under the United States of america to protest. Im grateful you allowed me to say this, and thank you. Always a pleasure to talk with you. Al green from texass ninth district. Joining mu ises hes now a Senior Adviser for the bipartisan policy center. Andy, good to talk with you. Thank you for being with us. Thanks for having me back on, ali. You heard a lot of the conversations this hour. What is your sense of what our next logical step is with health care as things stand . Were not sure theres going to be a deal that the senate can get on either side of this to move forward with. I think the reason were in a situation we are in is because we have a bill that the senate is consideration that is not only politically not accomplishing what folks needed to accomplish, but its become massively unpopular to the point ofb yond politics. Generally speaking, democrats and centrist republicans are going to be focused on steps to increase coverage for more people, and more conservative and right leaning folks already focused on how to reduce costs. We have a big that does neither. I think thats why were having such a difficult time. It needs accomplishes either of the two important aims that help policy generally on tries to solve. Let me ask you this, though. When i study health care around the world and the rich countries, 34 out of 35 with the exception of the United States that have a form of yul health care, there are a number of way toss skin this cat. They dont all have to be singlepayer system, but the once thing they have in common is they offered similar outcomes for substantially lower costs, sometimes up to 60 lower per individual. Is there something to that . Think. I think theres two things that are done in other systems that arent done routinely in the United States. I think we all need to learn a lesson from. One is other countries generally speaking invest 2 to 1 in social programs to health care. In other words they invest in nutrition, housing, they invest . All the things that keep People Safety and healthy, mentality health, so forth. We in the United States are 1 to 2. We underinvest and people get sick and we have a much more expensive system. The other thing is most health care systems, two thirds is primary care, Preventative Care and so forth. The third is when they get sick. Again were flipped. We only invest a third in primary care and two thirds when people get sick. When we take a bill that just cuts 35 over the next two decades for care for the largest part of our population, that will exacerbate problems, not make it better. We cant figure out a wray thats nod idea logically that can result in better primary care without actually increasing the amount we spend per individual in the United States. Its as high as it is anywhere in the world. Yeah, i think states can do a job with this, and i think we came close in nevada to having a medicate for all buyin option. Im sure over the next couple years well soo it latch on. I think were seeing a sentiment across the country for people to want to take a step in that direction more broadly. So particularly if this bit were to pass, i think you would be in a situation where there would be a fairly strong reaction. I always learn something when youre on, andy slavin, former acting administration for the centers for medicare and medication services. Governor christie is defending himself. What hes now saying about the photos of him lounging in the sun just hours after he ordered beaches closed to public. And President Trump not letting up on the war against the media. Hes again taking to twitter today to call out the, quote, fake media. Is this only doing more damage to his agenda . The fake media is trying to silence us. 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Reporter no, its been very busy. We havent seen the president. We dont know if hes playing golf. Hes preparing to go back to d. C. Later at some point. Im not quite sure how to measure this output, but the day began with a pushback at his critics attacking him for the wrestling video, who called it juvenile, beneath the dis knit of the office. The president at some point saying the fake news will be forced to success with isis, the border, and so much. Then as they went on, we hearty mo tweets about calls with foreign leaders, and the white house says hes preparing for the summit in ham burg, tweeting about calls to the leaders of great britain, germany, france, italy, saudi arabia, china and japan. He had phone calls with the leaders of those cunning last night, so the message that the president is preparing, which of course covers a wide range of issues. And would he will bring. That the white house, of course tried to steer away from. There was even mention today of a really heartbreaking case whose parents want to bring him to the United States for treatment. A very complicated case but the president tweeted that the United States that court decisions, why the president chose to intervene is unclear. He will sigh theresa may in ham burg later this week as well, something they may perhaps discuss. Thats something i imagine she wont be happy that he is talking about. A very busy day here on a number of fronts, and as i said, he heads back to washington later in the evening. If you we his people, tell them to check in, with ste talk jobs and those issues all the time. Chris christie, the new jersey governor defending himself after much backlash. He told people he amend his family would be at the beach this holiday weekend, so no one should be shocked, but he was at Island Beach State Park, that is the relevant part of the conversation, where staterun beaches are close. South jersey reporters sydney long is in trenting with more. Sydney, when the governor was asked if he got any sun, he brazenly said no, and then he spokesman said he was wearing a hat. Where is this story now . Reporter good afternoon. We know that governor christie is not big on apologies, so he certainly didnt apologize for being at the beach. He said he was there for a mere 45 minutes and was clear with the reporters a week ago that thats precisely where he would be, at the beach. Number one, it is his home. Hes enjoying a stateowned beach park. Number two, he had family visiting from all over the country. He did not apologize for planting his toes in the stand. The governor is allowed to go to his residences. Ill tell you this, i want last month, a week ago today, that no matter what happens we were coming here as a family this weekend. This is where we live. Reporter i know his chief of staff responded earlier saying the optics simply does not look good. I believe he back pedaled on that question, and then today when the question was asked, he said, well, you know, he was wearing a shirt, a hat, covered up and so forth. So the governors also, ali, his latest Approval Rating is about 15 , very low Approval Rating for the governor here in north carolina, i believe the lowers for any governor in the state. In the entire time that quinnipiac has polling position its the lowest. Some Harsh Criticism from an unlikely source, his second in command, the Lieutenant Governor. Reporter thats right. She was hand picked by christie. She visited berkeley, the area where Island Beach State Park is located today. She was checking in on businesses essentially losing moment money and basically the Lieutenant Governor says she cant speak for the governor herself, but she can say what she would do in a situation like this, and called it pretty appalling he was sitting on a beach taxpayers werent able to go to. 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This is held many by Sam Brownback as what conservative governance could do. What conservatives to could do, and he even said that President Trump and the Republican Congress should follow suit. In one of the most extraordinary setbacks that we have seen in recent years, these tax cuts were largely repealed a few months ago. What you have right now, not only that, a situation in tennessee and in South Carolina where conservatives are agreeing to raise taxes, in some cases like South Carolina rejecting a series of tax cuts that were supposed to go along with the tax increases. Theres only so far you can go, only so much you can cut. When i talk to art laugher or grover norquist, they say the cuts werent pure enough, not deep enough. So their point is, no, no, the idea that if you lower taxes on people, they will take the money they save and spend it in a way thats stimulating to the economy is still correct, nobody has just done it the right way. Maybe, but if you look at where tax rates were when republicans and president reagan cut them in the 80s youre looking at rates that were approaching 70 . When you go from 70 to 45 or 40, thats huge. Huge. Thats a big piece of money youll saving, that youll buy a car or washing machine in a way thats very different from 36 to 35 or whatever. Absolutely. Now, theres just not that much more blood you can draw from the stone. A lot of economists would argue. It willy some of the people i interviewed for my piece, club one of reagans top economic advisers is saying that largely what the individual income tax cuts that supplyside economists wanted to see in place back then, its all been accomplished. You cant really do all that much more with cutting individual income tax rates today. I think that thats going to be a tough realization for a lot of republicans as they approach tax reform on capitol hill in the weeksal. Let me ask you this, jeremy. Americans dont want to pay the taxes they pay, right . Theres a sense that we pay high taxes, people say that all the time. Are we suggesting this is as low as we can go . Or are there ways in which the americans pay to their state and government can be lower over time . I think they will go lower. With republicans control of both houses, of congress and the white house, i think youll likely get some type of cut. I think the question is not that. Its what is the economic benefit from that at this point, and right now youre having a lot of economists say that the benefit will not be that great, and indeed it may come at a steep cost, a cost to the deficit. Thats right. It will have to be paid for somehow. How that is, republicans have yet to explain. After laughers and steven moore, two of the economists who consulted with kansas, have helped President Trump devise his policy . They said the same thing back in kansas that Steve Mnuchin is saying now, these tax cuts would pay for themselves. That was not the case in kansas. If your tax rate tunnel stimulate growth, you end up with a bigger deficit, that becomes a problem especially for states that cant go into that deficits. Thank you for the conversation wonkier that i usually get to do. Still ahead, a major step in the war against isis, iraqi troops are pushing deeper into mosul. Richard engel takes us into the fight to reclaim that city, up next. Or your digestion. So why wouldnt you take something for the most important part of you. Your brain. With an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is now the number one selling brain Health Supplement in drug stores nationwide. Prevagen. The name to remember. And its also a story mail aabout people and while we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. 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Theres smoke rising from almost everywhere in the skyline. Most of that is where theres been air strikes called in by u. S. Forces. Americans are backing up this operation, but theres iraqi troops who are doing the frontline fighting, clearinghouse to house. Its been difficult. Some of the houses are boobytrapped. We room to room fighting. Some soldiers who were with us were injured and had toss evacuated, carried out across this rubble. It is a tough fight but iraqis says they are winning it. Tlnl still a bit more to clear before all of mosul is free from isis control. Theres still people here, still some civilians. A lot of the 1i68ance have previously level, but many of them were trapped. They were so close to isis fighters they were effectively hostages, now as the iraqis are advancing, its opening the way for some of the civilians to leave the area. The american commander weve been speaking to think this operation could be finished in just a matter of days. Magic we from richard engle. U. S. Official say pushing isis out of the another strong keyhold is another key, malcolm nance is the author of defeating isis. Malcolm first of all the, that last might, the just a few the bar barracks stuff that eye says has been doing today, they are welding people using the metal gates, welding people inside their homes, these suicide bomber attacks. In the not easy. The last mile is never easy. No, its not. This is howtohouse warfare. Ive been in urban warfare, but warfare in the last tightest section of the old city with civilians in the way and isis determined to kill. Theyre sending out female suicide bombers, black widows we call them, children, and using human shields. Isis is finished in mosul. They know it. Theyre all wearing suicide bomb belts but theyre trying to take their last stand. But malcolm, theyre a death cult. Yes, they are. When people talk about them being fundamentalists, i remind them that people who believe in islam is not part of a death cult. Its not part of the religion to think that you are meant to die in battle, but if theyre prepared to die, it makes it different for the iraqi forces and the coalition to get them out of the last few houses. Sure for isis, this is the equivalent of iwo jima. They cannot get out. All these can do is kill themselves or die in combat trying to kill the iraqi forces. Let me Richard Engel made a great point. This is not an american fight. The iraqis have 100,000 forces surrounding, occupying that city of every branch. They have really good ground war fighters now. You say now, because a few years they cut and ran. Thats why isis got the territory. Its a different better trained other theyre tough. Theyre going to defeat them within the next few day. That will be it for isis in iraq form the militia forces and the iraqi army, theyre determined not to push to the iraqi syrian border. They may actually cross it since isis eliminated it. Theyre determined to get rid of isis entirely. At the best the border was berms and fences. And when isis took over, theres no border. You would be hardpressed to find it. Malcolm, let me ask you this one thing does the end of isis having territorial space, and they still have a lot in syria, but thats coming to an end as well. When thats gone, does it have a material effect on terrorism if isis doesnt have physical land over which to govern . Thats difficult to project. Isis as a command post, as a Central Organization will be eliminated in iraq and syria, but isis has been transitioning over the last year into another form, what we call a ghost caliphate. Thats where they keep their materials and propaganda in cyberspace, and pushing these selfstarting, zero dollar attacks, like you saw in london, like you saw in europe, in france. And with that youre still going to have terrorism, but youre talking about a group that will cease to exist as ma inforce body. It will still by around in very small pockets, like afghanistan and somalia, and boko haram in nigeria, but theyre going to have to dissipate. But youre talking about 45,000 of the hardcore will be dead, with the exception of the wives, and we dont know whats going to happen with that refugee flow. That may allow or may infiltrate themselves back into europe with a maybe a different column of terrorism. Mall ccolm nance, thank you y much. Coming up, President Trump is facing a consequential week ahead. Hes set to head to the g20 summit in ham burg. Hes finally going to meet facetoface with Vladimir Putin. How the white house is preparing for that big meeting, coming up. 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The white house is trying hard to stay focused on this trip form the president has been up in new jersey, not here at the white house, sort of segregated, if you will, from some of the distractions, where im told hes been focused on these calls over the last few days, leaders from china, japan, this morning france, italy and germany, all g20 members, all of whom theres significant business frankly with the chinas and japanese leaders focused in some good measure how north korea, a threat to all three countries, within the president has tried to address. German relationship is something off to a fraught start with Angela Merkel upset about the u. S. Pulling out of the accord. We know that it is something that President Trump will be pressed on and we know white house aides are keenly aware they need to be ready for when the president arrives later this week. Garrett talked about a fraught start to that relationship. A fraught start to the relationship with emanuel macron. He seems to have done something about that, inviting him. How is it with all the tweeting and everything going on, i remember back to the nato meeting where those leaders were in awe of President Trump and not necessarily in a good way. Meeting with european leaders, the tweet storm in the last couple days will be the least of his worries. Just like the american public, these Global Leaders have gotten used to the unpredictable behavior that comes from donald trump. When the president comes to europe and meets with these leaders, he can expect a newly emboldened political elite here. It wasnt so long ago that i was talking to you about how they were parrying and fending off what they considered to be their own trump style right wing populist insurgencies within their open country. Since then, thats no longer been the case. Angela merkel, you were just talking about, she expects to win big come september. At least remain in her position. And Emmanuel Macron has managed to get a huge majority in the parliament. Were talking about two Global Leaders who have taken up the mantra of the barack obama liberal elite that donald trump and so many of his followers are constantly maligning. There were a couple of small examples in the netherlands and austria where they were pushed back but they werent big countries until it happened in france. Everybody was wondering what will happen in france. France has had a very horrible history with right wing governments so they stepped back from that. But it is an interesting point you make. That there is a essential of empow empowerments in these democracies when dealing with donald trump. Does it help them in the end . This is still a President Trump who has been tepid in his commitmentes to nato which is what these youre penal countries are so concerned about. He scolded them very publicly about how they werent living up to their commitments for defense with nato. Were talking about a 2 of gdp that is supposed to go to defense spending. Donald trump publicly scolded they will for not doing that. In the last couple months, all of these Emmanuel Macron and lank merkel, they have really learned that there are political points to be gained by publicly beating up on donald trump. As garrett mentioned, we can expect Angela Merkel to come down on donald trump. And Emmanuel Macron has been on twitter in an antitrump posture and appealed to the American People and climate scientists. And said if climate scientists didnt feel welcome in america, they should come to france. This is the talk that the american president would do in speaking to the people of third world dictatorships. President s in general, this president goes overseas, he sometimes enjoys it more than when hes here. He gets to enjoy the agenda little more. He likes to do so in a position of strength. This health care loss, the ability the inability to have a bill by friday that the cbo could look at and find a real bill, a real agreement wlaflt is the white house going to try to get done in the three days preceding the first meeting to try to make President Trump look like hes there talking on other World Leaders from a position of strength . Well, with the senate out, that job is a little easier. You dont have the distraction of the fighting going on around capitol hill. Matt said something about the scolding in the last meeting. Well see the flip side. The president is going to poland which has been the Central European country that conservatives love to love. Poland has been a steadfast nato ally, theyre a major presence in afghanistan and we expect to hear the president go and praise the polish people and thank them for their role in americas are dual roles over the past decade. Maybe they were scolding last time but this is what we would like the see. We would like the see france and germany step up and he is expected to get a warm welcome. The he president feeds off the reaction he gets from crowds and from people react to him positively. That will be a big part of this trim. He is expected to get a welcome in poland. And matt bradley, splifg with respect to the united kingdom, thats actually unusual. That relationship has been a little bit better ever since theresa may and post brexit. I think a lot of people will be learning a very serious lesson. Remember, she saw the far right populist movement make big gain here. They got brexit about a year ago. And that was attributed by many to the same right wing populism that brought trump to power. She tried to play it from both ends. She tried to cozy up with donald trump very publicly. In a way, trying to move to the right to sponge up some of the bomb later on the far right. 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