woman in prison where she belongs. martha: thank you very much for telling your story today. we appreciate it. bill: a powerful case indeed. 10 minutes before the hour. jon scott is coming up next on happening now. republicans are set to dismantle obamacare. a leading republican said the law can t be replaced all at once. a texas senator joins us with his thoughts. president obama writes a letter to americans days before he leaves the white house but are the claims he makes all true? and are the mainstream media ignoring some glaring errors? we ve heard about the dangers of overprescribing pain medication. now the reserves problem arises. why many doctors say under prescribing oepiads is hurting some patients.
brennan and others, yesterday no one testified on the record that the russian president vladimir putin was pulling the strings. no one said publicly the intent was to help donald trump win and make sure hillary clinton lost. the nation s spy chief did confirm russia wants to expand its influence. the russians are bent on establishing both a presence in the western hemisphere and they are looking for opportunities to expand military cooperation. the unclassified version is expected monday and he was forward leaning and to include information who was pulling the strings and their motive. bill: what are we learning about the controversy with the dnc server? in this statement to fox news a dnc spokesman confirmed they cooperated with the f.b.i. investigation but the bureau did not do its own forensic
140 characters. bill: juan. sounds like you have a lot of agreement. here is the problem. i don t like the bullying part when he calls the leader of the democrats chuck schumer the helped clown. oh my gosh. i agree with mercedes. i think it s coming directly from donald trump. when he goes after president obama says and obama s inflammatory rhetoric, schumer as head clown or spicer go on tv. hang on, when you see spicer go on tv and try to explain away something and trump comes back and contradicts his own spokesman, it s coming from donald trump. i think the democrats have called donald trump so many different names. the list goes on and on and on. for donald trump to make this comment about schumer, let s be real. the name calling has been going both ways. it s gotten ugly. i don t like it.
effort to restore the intelligence agencies. he came out and said lying press and undercut that story. my feeling about this is it s bigger than what joe biden has to say because you have to think about it. it is only 140 characters. can you really make policy as the american president in 140 characters? are you going to be at times misunderstood and taken as bullying and acting childish? donald trump has accused me in terms of my criticism of being childish about him. i don t know if i can come on and say anything about that. he is a guy that will be president of the united states. he is not going through a press secretary or communications director. he is issuing a blast. shouting at somebody on a street corner through a bull horn is what a tweet is. bill: you don t have to wait for a press conference or anything. you don t know what the full policy is. you don t have to wait for
we think are too expensive and extravagant from the standpoint and keep the good parts that even president-elect trump has talked about. the pre-existing conditions, caps on illness, 26-year-old staying on, many things that both democrats and republicans like. bill, what happens is you repeal this thing without a replacement and replacing each part as you repeal it you throw the baby out with the bath water. what paul ryan said we won t do that. we ll keep everything for at least two years. that politicized things to the point they want to get past the 2018 election. here is what really happens. they ll repeal all the bill: maybe it s not about politics but doing it the right way and giving millions of people the opportunity to have a net of safety perhaps if you call it that. i m just saying the perception and appearance and timing. we made the democrats made many mistakes but their intention was honorable because