ever been in the history of our country. except for one senator who came into a room at 3:00 in the morning and went like that, we would have had health care too. we need the wall. we started building the wall. i ve had the head of u.s. steel call me the other day and he said we re opening up six major facilities. our country lost last year 817 billion dollars in terms of deficit. $450 billion worth of things ordered from a very rich country. saudi arabia. no russia. it was all made up by the democrats. the mexican border is very unprotected by our laws. we have very horrible and unsafe laws in the united states. coming up from bob mueller to christine blasey ford we preview the short list yesterday for time magazine s person of the year. we ll find out who took the top spots straight ahead on morning joe .
will guarantee you we will do it immediately nobody pay anymore tax, everybody take down your barriers, no barriers, no tax. everybody are you all set? no more tax. cana canada, you are not going to get 275% for your dairy and you are going to take down your barriers k we will take down the barriers and the taxes. do you know what happened? everybody said can we go on to another subject? because america, our country lost last year 817 billion dollars in terms of deficit. we had a trade deficit, maria of 817 billion, with a b, dollars last year. before that it was 800. this has been going on for years. we have rebuilt china. i have a great relationship with china. great relationship with president xi. i have tremendous respect for him, but i said we have to straighten this out. we can t continue to do this. you decided to not go forward with the investment restrictions on china. back down on the tariffs ? no, look, 250 billion dollars
for democrats, literally challenging them to meet in the middle with a plan. white house correspondent kevin cork has more from washington. indeed more political intrigue here at the nation s capital as the trump administration has now declared it cannot lawfully continued so called cost sharing reduction payments otherwise known as csr s so it is going to end that practice entirely and that is a major development because in doing so, the president s decision slashes some 7 billion dollars in payments to insurance companies, meant to depending on your point of view either subsidize care for those who are most in need or that money is going to insurance companies to lift up their stock price, and that s not what i m about. take a look at who those insurance companies support, and i guarantee you one thing, it is not donald trump. meanwhile, the attorneys general for the states of new york, california, and more than a dozen other states have all decided to sue the trump administr
arthel: president trump is ending obama care subsidies to insurance companies. the move now setting up another showdown in congress. lawmakers will have to strike a deal to keep subsidies in place or see premiums skyrocket next year. caroline shively joins us live from washington with the latest. hi, caroline? hi, arthel. today democrats are slamming the move and attorneys general general in 18 states are suing to make sure the money keeps flowing. here s senator chris murphy on fox. this is the equivalent of healthcare arson. he s literally setting the entire healthcare system on fire just because the president is upset that the united states congress won t pass a repeal bill. the federal government pays 7 billion dollars to insurance companies to help decrease the
arthel: president trump s decision to end obama care subsidies sparking an intense debate on capitol hill as he looks to ramp up the pressure on lawmakers. white house correspondent kevin cork has the latest from washington. kevin? indeed, more political intrigue here the nation s capitol as the trump administration has now declared it cannot lawfully continue so called cost-sharing reduction payments, otherwise known as csr s, and so it is going to end that practice entirely and that is a major development because in doing so, the president s decision slashes some 7 billion dollars in payments to insurance companies, meant to depending on your point of view either subsidize care for those who are most in need or that money is going to insurance companies to lift up their stock price, and that s