americans as his national security adviser mike flynn, general flynn got traded in for general mcmaster. seems to have a great foreign policy team together, one that john mccain, who doesn t like trump, says is the best of his lifetime. and also i ve got to say, yes, his tweets he is tweeting, but they are not as hyperbolic. they are cleaned up. not as damaging he s not tweeting about allies as much anymore. that s right, joe. there san improvement in that area. big improvement. it s interesting he s having dinner, i think, tonight with john mccain and lindsey graham, who love the way this is heading. whether he got there by accident or design may be debatable. you talk to everybody across the board in the national security realm, including democrats, and they are very happy with the leadership that s there now. you know, i think the interesting thing i talked to joe barton about this. he was talking about the different styles in the room in the white house between bara
unless you re careful you end up turning into what you started off scorning. you, donald, are getting a reputation of a sucker, and a sucker that is the tool of the d.c. establishment. your whole campaign was mocking your rivals, jawing about how americans had turned into losers with their bad deals and obamacare disaster and you were going to fly in on your gilded plane and fix all that in a snap. you mused that a good role model would be ronald reagan. as you saw it, he was a big, good-looking guy with a famous pompdachlt our. he had also been a democrat and an entertainer. hold on one second. i want us to slow down and read this in slow motion because this is the money line. but reagan had one key quality that you don t have. he knew what he didn t know. you both resembled macy s thanksgiving day balloon. i just want to stop.
even better bill. i ll tell you what s going to come out of it is a better bill. i really believe a better bill. there were things in this bill i didn t particularly like. i think it s a better bill. both parties can get together and do real health care. that s the best thing. obamacare was rammed down everyone s throat 100% democrat. i think having bipartisan would be a big, big improvement. this health care plan was rammed down everybody s throat in shorter order. they didn t have time to cut it up. but here is the thing though, you said the democrats wouldn t work with them on anything, what you do is make a bill they have to vote yes on. i remember during contract with america, it s a contract on america. the republicans we drew up legislation that was 80/20 legislation. something like 0% of the house voted on all of that stuff.
remain. how do you move forward with that in terms of, you know, the tax code? i think it s going to be a challenge and i think one of the reasons why they try to prioritize the repeal and replace of the affordable care act is for that reason. medicare tax, medical device tax and a number of the taxes that are rolled into the aca in addition to that they were counting on some of the cost-saving to be able to pay for some of the tax reforms. and speaker ryan actually owned up to that fact on friday at his press conference. heather: so is now the time that we need to have a new coalition with democrats, listen to this? i think having bipartisan would be a big, big improvement. i think that this is going to end up being a very good thing. it s time for both parties to come together and get to real reforms in this country.
together and do real health care. that s the best thing. i think having bipartisan would be a big, big improvement. secretary, americans across the country will be watching this political fighting and worrying about their costs increasing. are they right to worry? absolutely they re right to worry. the bill that the republicans put on the floor, as i say, would have eliminated health coverage from about 24 million americans and the congressional budget office said everybody s premiums would go up, so that s a lose-lose situation. i think the were some things in the bill that are really valuable and worth looking . for instance, they have a stability fund so that states with a less competitive market can encourage insurers to