in colorado. when we expanded medicaid, with the support from the affordable care act, those folks, a lot of those folks have jobs. when you are starting up a business, for people to get affordable healthcare, that s part of your startup cost. this afternoon the governors held a closed door meeting at the national conference to discuss the health care debate and how it might impact their state. you mention the republican governors, and they have a plan of their own. one of the details on that? they are pushing for the federal government to give them more freedom in how they use the federal funding for medicaid prayer this afternoon, two of the governors, scott walker and rick scott met with trump to this discuss those plans. i clearly believe, just give me the opportunity to work on healthcare my state, don t give me all these federal roles. if the federal government wants
alabama. hundreds of people gathering at city hall for a town hall hosted by republican gary palmer. nearly all inside were liberals, topics that came up include obama care, planned parenthood, parenthood, immigration and more. other republicans like congressman leonard lance of new jersey are also choosing to face the town hall heat had on. in fact lance knocked on the fact that these town halls are being filled with paid protesters. not to my knowledge, and this is the 41st in person town hall meeting i ve held and i ve never experienced paid protesters, and i don t think that was true the other night. i think it s important for my constituents to hear from me, perhaps a majority in the audience, not those who voted for me previously that i tried to represent everybody. lance had another town hall meeting today. some lawmakers are choosing not to show up. that s right.
it comes as the leak draft showing a possible gop replacement plan. it could weaken the coverage for many americans. garrett joins us live in washington with more. what can you tell us. one of the biggest concerns is the issue of medicaid how any plan will affect it . under the affordable care act, 31 states and the district expanded medicaid to make more people eligible and since then ithas added up to about 11 million more people on medicaid . governors from those states are growing concerned about the obamacare replacement plans that scale back the funding that they have received. one of those is john kasich from ohio who met with the president yesterday to discuss the concerns. the president was responsive to my concerns about the affordable care act, medicaid expansion. he said he was intrigued with the idea. i don t know where it will all go but i will tell you that the
to be involved in who they want covered, give the money to me and let me figure out if i can do better. the republican governors have indicated they intend to present congress with their own plan to repeal and replace obamacare on monday. it will be a big week. thank you. republican lawmakers are facing hostile crowds at town hall meetings. now some constituents are challenging legislatures on everything from the gop plan to repeal and replace obamacare to questions about the presidents relationship with russia. some lawmakers now have actually pulled out of town hall meetings and that is causing some of their constituents to become even angrier. brian joins us live with more on the story. brian, were there any rally town hall today. there were, but none none more active than in hoover,
more optimistic. on the party front, they just tweeted they could hold the correspondents dinner without him.he has decided not to attend that epic roast. christianfisher is live at the white house . i guess the president decides to back out of the reshuffling the event coming up it s a historic move. maybe even unprecedented. there s a lot going on here. president trump met with governors about repealing obama care. he is preparing for his first big speech to obama care. getting all the attention right now is what president trump just postedon twitter . the big announcement. he will not be attending the white house correspondents association dinner this year. please wish everyone well and have a great weekend. in doing this, he is really