i think government does big things really well. i m for more of the step-by-step, starting with the first step of people with pre-existing conditions. many democrats believe that judge o connor s ruling may come back to haunt republicans. now this issue is alive and well again. the republicans have no alternative to the affordable care act, they have been refusing up until this point even to sit down with us. whatever appeals lie ahead, obamacare room remains deeply dependent on healthy young people to support less all the patients. absolved of paying the individual mandate penalty, the log really is struggling to maintain itself. harris? doug mckelway, thank you very much. let me bring the republican commerce and louie gohmert. for this discussion, is worthy to note a former texas state judge. he has considered things like this in his history. great to see you, congress and predicts her being with me. let s jump in. why can t you keep people what
posture he s taking? certainly not the first president of the mode federal reserve raising rates but he s on it again and again and again. i wish trump was like reagan. reagan told the fed your job is to make sure the inflation genie doesn t get out of the bottle and i worry that trump is more of a populist who just likes the continuation of the easy money, artificially low interest rates which that s what gives you bubbles. i worry about it. but it s good news that we are back in the top of the competitiveness ranking. it s good that we are up to number six in the economic freedom in the world ranking. i will give trump credit if he continues to move in the right direction but if that s going to happen, he better get serious about spending. neil: they are already talking about trying to do some of that spending. the president with the idea of trimming 5% from the budgets. looks like defense will be absolved of it. i don t know how far will go but other presidents have tried simila
tradition, i declare that all midshipmen on restriction for minor offenses, you are here by absolved. [applause] that sounds like a lot of people. [laughter] the admiral will define exactly what that means, so admiral, please go easy, please. okay? please go easy. it s a great group of people here, admiral. i m told that this class led navy athletics to the highest win percentage in your 172 year history. think of that. [applause] that includes taking the
if i was a betting person, i would say you should probably expect tweets about jeff sessions this week because that s kind of what happens in these scenarios is the president lashes out at the doj and at the attorney general. i think that again, we have to circle back to the point that while people like devin nunes are saying all of these documents should be released, you have democrats saying that compromising the identity of this inform pant would ant wouly bad thing. every side has something to take and run with when they want to talk about this and that s why as much as the mueller probe is progressing, when i talk to voters, they are able to latch on to whatever narrative they feel most comfortable with and that jives with what they believe. the ones on the side who believe this mueller probe is a witch hunt and that the president should be absolved, we should hear what the inform is and the
relating troll farm, that s a trump-appointed judge, you are in the weeds of legalese and that s not my area of expertise. rob: we have gina haspel, mike pompeo secretary of state. she has a confirmation hearing coming but she s been tie today this water-boarding enhanced interrogation, how do you think this goes? well, i think if it was any other administration that had chosen gina haspel, they would be praised for rock-solid choice. she has 30-plus years of operational and have solid management experience, she knows the intel community, independent-minded, very strong-minded, excellent choice for this, because we are in the times that we are in, the democrats want to relitigate this, they view it politically as good for them to relitigate the rendition program, she s already been absolved of any responsibility by a number of