for people with preexisting conditions would be about $25,000 a year. that doesn t seem accessible. that seems like no, you won t be covered. one thing i ve learned about washington, too, in my short six-year tenure is every time you put something out, everyone has a reason of why or why not you should vote for something. in the end, we have to make the health care system better. i think this does. i also am a big believer in moving it out of the one size fits off federal mentality to the individual states. if a governor wants to change this the plans and go for a waiver, then he or she will have certain requirements to meet the waiver. part of that waiver requirement, they ll have to have the high risk pool so nobody will lose coverage. coverage will continue. that s the thing we have to make sure people understand. now, might it change? might even be better. when you have 50 states with an opportunity to waiver by the way, none of the states may take the waiver but at least the
ninth circuit court of appeals in san francisco on president trump s travel ban. right before the break attorney general cuccinelli asked a question, attorney general, could you not only if you could explain why that question is important to you, about washington, whether washington made the argument that they that there was harm done by the president. whenever an attorney general comes in to federal court to challenge action of the federal government, the first issue to be demonstrated is that the state itself is somehow injured. and even the attorney general s answer with respect to state employees was suing on behalf of state employees, the history in this area is individuals are the only ones with standing, and that s also why a district court in massachusetts on the same day, last friday, that what we ve been talking about was going on, ruled that the president s order was facially
lot of people didn t like about washington. you saw donald trump win. i think this was such a classy moment. the former first lady before her and the next first lady. it was a wonderful visit. this is a really great job, you know. did you have any advice for mrs. trump? we didn t we talked about the kids, but my offer to melania was, you really don t know what you don t know until you re here, so the door is open as i ve told her. and as laura bush told me. as other first ladies told me. i m not new on this going high thing, i m modelling what was done for me by the bushes. and laura bush was nothing but
welcome back to hardball. the breaking news we are following is the release of a new isis video that suggests pretty dramatic terms that a terror target is now in new york city. a highly produced propaganda video does not contain details and there is no specific threat information yet. late today high level officials from the department of homeland security, fbi, pentagon and state department briefed u.s. senators on capitol hill on the latest development of the terror threat, the paris attacks and the refugee crisis and issue. i am joined by senator al franken, democrat from minnesota. senator, what can you share about new york, about washington, about france and how goes the fight against terrorism? well, there is no known threat, actionable threat that we know about or that they knew about. a lot of what we discussed is the refugee question. you know, these refugees are vetted.
up. the most consequential deal facing probably next 30 to 40 years in the world. it got very little attention. well, trump is also receiving criticism from some on the right for failing to give any specific policy ideas so far though the trump campaign says it will put out its first policy positions later this week. joining us now from washington, republican communications strategist adam goodman and from dallas, presidential historian jayne hampton cook. adam, let me start with you. is it safe to say that donald trump is hitting a nerve with americans who feel disfranchised by the established plul class in washington so maybe policy isn t their biggest concern right now? no question. he is breaking every rule in the book. is he thinking at people instead of to people. he boasts of his success. is he putting solutions out there without evidence that he has got the remedy at hand. and he is trying to and he is basically right now successfully commanding the bully pulpit. while be