President trump going out of his way to undo the obama legacy on carbon emissions, Foreign Policy issues like iran, and then health care. After repeated failures in congress to repeal obamacare, the president is attempting to do the same from the oval office. The very Health Insurance that millions of americans count on to cover their medical costs is where were going to start today. President trump has put a stop to costsharing reductions. Csrs, youll hear them called. These are the federal government payments to the insurers to bring down health deductibles and copayments for low income americans. The effects on premiums for next year have already been baked into the rates, so its not going to affect 2018 premiums. They are expected to increase about 20 on average. That was already the case. Now, premiums are going to be about 25 higher in 2020 and beyond because of this. This is a dramatic move. Its going to send obamacare into that death spiral that President Trump used to talk about all the time and he seemed to relish that fact in this tweet. Obamacare is imploding. Massive subsidy payments to their pet Insurance Companies have stopped. Dems should call me to fix. So heres what you need to know about this. For low income americans, nothing changes because the law says the government still has to subsidize their health care. So not only there is no saving to the federal government, its actually going to end up costing the government more in the long run. But for everybody else who uses the private market to get Health Insurance, those premiums will go up. Thats not a guess. The Insurance Companies did the math with the costsharing reductions and without it. They are much higher without it. If you analyze this executive order, what is stunning to me is it doesnt provide anybody with Better Health care. It costs the government more money. It seems that the sole purpose and what its actually doing is simply gutting obamacare. This isnt the first time weve seen this. I want you to pull up on the screen things that have already been happening across the board. Since President Trump has been in office, they created changes allowing for cheaper, nonaca plans for fewer benefits and protection. The website will be taken down during open enrollment. Every sunday for maintenance. And the open Enrollment Period has been cut in half and they also cut outreach and advertising budgets. So across the board they are taking efforts not to repeal and replace with something better, simply to gut this thing. After two attempts to do it, there is no if its not going to be repealed by congress, there are things that the executive branch can do. Thats what were seeing the president do. Hes taking away all the things its basically starving the plant of food and water. Rand paul likes it. All right. Well, we have to talk about this because i lost my mind over it. During a live sitdown interview on wednesday night with fox host and trump booster sean hannity, this is what the president said about the stock market and public spending. The country, we took it over, it owed 20 trillion. As you know the last eight years they borrowed more than they did in the whole history of our country. So they borrowed more than 10 trillion, right . And yet we picked up 5. 2 trillion just in the stock market. So you could say in one sense were really increasing values and maybe in a sense were reducing debt. But were very honored by it. Wrong ready . One more time, wrong the businessman president just flunked a basic finance test and his key interviewer did as well. The stock market has nothing to do with the u. S. Debt, which continues to go up, not down, despite the president s best wishes. And i want to remind our viewers that there are only two ways to bring down the National Debt. Either we cut spending or raise taxes. And guess what were doing . Neither of those things. The president , he wants to cut taxes across the board, which could add another 2. 7 trillion to National Debt over the next ten years. I mean this is a weird one because either the president hes a businessman so he cant not know this is the case so the assumption becomes that was deliberately false. But lets say he didnt know. Lets say he actually thinks that the stock market increasing, which is private money, that goes to companies and their shareholders, somehow relates to the debt. Then i dont know whats worse, that he was being misleading or what he didnt know. But either way, this is really serious. Now heres the thing about the stock market. If the president wants to take credit for that 5 trillion since hes become president , lets actually look at the stock market going back to when it bottomed out in march of 2009. Like i say all the time, stephanie, that looks like a pretty Straight Line to me. If you want to blame the Obama Administration for all that debt, give him credit for all that growth. It has been a 113month rally. Last i checked, the president hasnt been in office that long. I want to share some of the things President Trump had said on the campaign trail about the stock market specifically. You see the bubble, little bubble. Were in trouble. Theres a bubble. Believe me, were in a bubble right now. And the only thing that looks good is the stock market. But if you raise Interest Rates even a little bit, thats going to come crashing down. We are in a big, fat, ugly bubble. Hmm. Big, fat, ugly bubble. Now its a beautiful bubble. So heres the thing. Lets say again, lets just give the president of the benefit of the fact that he has come into office and somehow his policies have benefited the stock market. There are lots of arguments for why the stock market is up but thats the one he uses. And guess what, ceos big and small will tell you that deregulation and the promise of tax reform does have companies excited. Take a look at the rest of the world. The stock markets in most other developed countries are up. And in fact they are all up in the same time period since donald trump has taken office by more than americas are. So somehow this magic of donald trump is helping the entire developed world stock market go up. The whole thing is a very shady operation. Its neither magic nor is it true. And just for the record, this has happened in past president s and will happen for future president s. Careful about president s taking too much credit or giving them too much blame for stock markets. There are some animal spirits that cause stock markets to go up. Whats the point you always make . Who should get credit for the stock market . The Previous Administration who set the policies. You cant actually give credit to anyone. People make their own decisions, companies do it. The fed keeping Interest Rates low is what drives people into the stock market. The fed has been buying up bonds. People are searching for yield and thats how this happens. Lets talk about immigration for a minute. Bipartisan efforts to reach a deal on immigration, one that helps the socalled d. R. E. A. M. Ers stay in the united states, those deals seem to be coming undone. Last month Democratic Leaders said they were optimistic about reaching a compromise with the white house, but this week the Trump Administration issued a list of demands, including billions of dollars of funding for a border wall. Some of these demands can be found in the raise anxiety, a bill President Trump has endorsed but democrats oppose. Stephen miller insists that the bills provisions will directly help American Workers. Here he is selling it last august. Weve seen significant reductions in wages for blue collar workers, massive displacement of africanamerican and hispanic workers as well as the displacement of immigrant workers from previous years who oftentimes compete directly against new arrivals who are being paid even less. All right. He had a lot of information in there. For fact sake, is he right . President trump rescinding future protections for 800,000 d. R. E. A. M. Ers in september and his vacillating since is part of a larger plan to rework the immigration system as we know it. The president wants to cut the number of legal immigrants coming in by half and only admit those with highlevel skills. Thats because the administration argues that low skilled immigrants flood the labor market and drive wanlz down. For proof, senior white house advisor Stephen Miller cites a harvard economist who studied the large influx of cuban immigrants into south florida in 1980. He recorded local wages dropped as much as 30 among High School Dropouts as a result of the influx. But a rival study disputes that. David card now at cal berkeley says he studied a bigger sample of low skilled workers and card found almost no effect on local wages and unemployment rates after the immigrant influx. One is a conservative and one is a liberal and you could chalk up their differences to ideology, except the Libertarian Cato Institute weighed in. They found a net wage increase for nativeborn workers in south floridas largest city, miami, after the immigrant influx. Now cato is defending the d. R. E. A. M. Ers program warning that rescinding it would cut tax revenues by 280 billion over ten years. Whatever the case, the Trump Administration is calling for a sea change in americas immigration policy based on a premise that just doesnt stand up to scrutiny. The truth is that low skilled immigrants continue to work jobs that most americans dont want to do. Whether its meat processing, food delivery or agriculture, these industries depend on immigrants to function. Saying you want to cut the number of immigrants into this country is one thing, lets have that debate. But insisting that you want to do that to help American Workers is something else. Thats the definition of a false premise. We have to note demographics. This country is getting older fast. By 2030, over 20 of our population is going to be over 65 years old. You know what they need . Support. Young workers to pay taxes. In order to support you need young and immigrant workers. Theres something called the worker replacement rate. For every worker that retires, do you have one to replace them . We have a flat worker replacement rate so we cannot do this without immigration. When you talk about gdp increases, which the president likes to talk about, getting us from 2. 2 to 3, he has set 4, 5 and 6, you have to have immigrants and have those immigrants getting more productive. Were getting productivity gains with our phones. But you cant do it without immigrants because americans dont have enough babies. Thats the issue you have to think about. Coming up, President Trump promised aid to stormravaged puerto rico until the job is down. Now he says relief wont last forever. Whats behind his change of heart . And the president lashing out at the nfl. He says the league is losing fans because players are disrespecting the National Anthem. Is he right . Our recent online sales success seems a little. Strange . Nk na. Ever since we switched to fedex ground business has been great. Theyre affordable and fast. Maybe too affordable and fast. What if. People arent buying these books online, but they are buying them to protect their secrets . . hi bill. If that is your real name. Its william actually. Hmph affordable, fast fedex ground. If they knew just howers rich they were. Ed the average American Home value has increased 40,000 over the last 5 years. 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Its this moment pro Football Players taking a knee during the National Anthem that has ignited a battle. President trump versus the nfl. Over the past few weeks, trump has taken to twitter and blasted the players anthem protest, calling on the league to, quote, fire or suspend them. Adding, nfl attendance and ratings are way down. But is he right . In the first three weeks of this years season, tv ratings took a doubledigit dip compared to last year. While the ratings appear to have stayed put in week four. Measured another way the total number of viewing hours of americans watching nfl games actually shot up 17 that week. Really surprisingly or maybe not surprisingly, the last two weeks have seen a pretty significant increase in viewing. You could call it a trump bump in nfl viewing. Some analysts say the boost may be a counter response to trumps complaints about player protests. But there are many factors to consider when it comes to americas favorite sport. Certainly including the kneeling concerns but also including the nature of the games, the lineups, the players, other distractions. Last years distraction was of course the election. This years distraction was weather. Nfl viewship also declined from 2015 to 2016. Meanwhile the drop in ratings could also be attributed to tv cord cutting. Alternative viewing choices like twitter and amazon, and even the uproar over head injuries afflicting Football Players. But its also important to note that viewership for most televised sports is down across the board. The nba, College Football and motor sports like nascar have all seen significant drops in viewership so the decline in nfl viewers may just be part of a larger trend. Stadium attendance at nfl games is also down by 3 compared to last season. But analysts say that could just be related to bad weather or teams changing cities. This year the chargers moved from san diego to los angeles and currently have the worst home attendance in the league, down 56 from last year. In fact the chargers rank even lower in attendance than the miami dolphins, who postponed their first home game because of hurricane irma. So like trumps claim about ratings, the attendance drop may have nothing to do with the kneeling protesters. Now, it is still too early to really judge this. Were only five weeks into the season. But vintage trump, he likes to focus on one specific thing and make ascertains and cant back it up. What he said about tax breaks, President Trump put this tweet out. Why is the nfl getting massive tax breaks while at the same time disrespecting our anthem, flag and country . Change the tax law so this tweet was from President Trump. And obviously upset people, enraged people. Well, heres what im enraged, because its not true. 31 of the 32 teams out there are privately owned. And guess how those owners are taxed . Just like passthroughs. And you remember what President Trumps tax plan is doing for passthroughs . Lowering their tax bases from 39. 6 to 25 . So President Trump doesnt like the tax breaks . Hes giving them better ones in his new plan. So this is a didngood point. When we talk about those tax breaks and the administration likes to tell you these passthrough businesses tend to be small businesses. I guess you could call a Football Team a small business, but those owner, thats how they take their income. So if you make money off of a Football Team, youll see your taxable rate go from 35 to 25 . Im sure that made for a really smart, great tweet for the president to send out, except of course its not true. So these ratings are down one way or the other. It is having some effect. Credit suisse lowered its price target for the network that broadcasts a lot of these games, for fox, citing poor sunday ratings that were caused. But in that case because of the hurricane. Because of the hurricane. Like hurricane was a big factor, youve got cord cutters. It is simply too early to assess. And to say that football isnt king, give me a break, it certainly is. I dont think super bowl ads are going on sale any time soon. Coming up, harvey weinsteinsdo downfall is a learning moment for everybody. One lesson that is not talked about enough, the role of a companys board to protect workers from the excesses of their executives. If the board didnt know, what were they doing as the board . And President Trump says federal relief efforts in puerto rico post maria cannot last forever. We want to know what happened to until the job gets done, his words, not ours. Next. So thats the idea. What do you think . Hate to play devils advocate but. I kind of feel like its a game changer. I wouldnt go that far. Are you there . Hes probably on mute. Yeah. Gary wont like it. Why . Because hes gary. phone ringing what . 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Not a time to get cute. Trump said that three weeks ago. Mike pence said it last week when he was in puerto rico. On sunday, yeah. We will stay here until we rise together. And id like to remind the president , those 3. 5 million Puerto Ricans living there are u. S. Citizens. Many of whom who are going to florida at this point. If their Living Conditions dont improve, they will move here to florida, to texas, to new york. Where they will get a president ial vote. The president s message to texas and florida has been much more consistent. Do you know there are still fema workers in louisiana from katrina in 2005 . So this is its just strange that the president is doing this. And the president keeps harping on the massive debts that puerto rico is facing. So is the state of illinois. What do you think would happen if tornados ripped through the state of illinois . There wouldnt be any pause. Well stay on that story as well. Weve got to talk about this one, though. Two bombshells. Is there a bigger word than bombshell . Massive bombshell reports from the New York Times and the new yorker exposed dozens of sexual allegations against harvey weinstein. He has since been fired from his own name sake company and onethird of its all male board has now resigned. The weinstein companys board did issue a statement saying the allegations of misconduct toward female actresses and other workers was, quote, new information and an utter surprise to its members. However, it has come to light to Board Members did know about at least three confidential payouts to settle harassment claims back in 2015. The board denies prior knowledge of allegations of rape and assault that have surfaced since the initial times report. This is just stunning to me. While we havent been inside this company, we do understand that a Corporate Board is in charge of corporate oversight. And when somebody does something bad that they knew he had done back in 2015, it is an opportunity for a board to take a microscope and say is Everything Else okay here . That is the responsibility. For those on the board who have resigned, it doesnt let you off the hook for doing that. The board didnt shine a light but now we are. That does it for velshi ruhle. We will see you on monday. Have a good weekend. Give up, skeletor youre finished curse you, heman, you interfering imbecile give us one good reason we shouldnt vanquish you to another dimension ok, guys, hear me out. Switching to geico could save you. Hundreds on Car Insurance. Huh, he does make a point. I do like to save money. Catch you on the flip, suckas geico. Because saving fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance is always a great answer. I had purpose and i loved it. You never told me you were a hero. You are my hammer out there. Dont let these young guys see you fold. 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