investment and it certainly turned out to be so. you saw the stories in politico, the washington post saying you were bragging to your friends how many millionaires emerged from this company. well, i wouldn t use the word, bragging. it was kind of a factual somebody called, i got off the house floor, i was speaking to him on the phone. he was talking about the price of the stock and how many of our good friends, i mean, 50 good friends, all investors, for 11 years. this is not like they all became millionaires as a result of this one stock? many of them did. buying it at 15 cents and trading at $1.10. that was a big return. could make some pretty good money. you presumably made a lot of money on that stock as well. that s public knowledge. you understand why to the average person out there, something sort of smelly in all of this. you understand why people are complaining and why it seems a little sloppy, if you will, why the democrats, a lot of democrats are going
bill: it is coming up on tax season now, right? people are collecting their paperwork and getting everything together. the irs if you haven t paid the penalty is sending out letters saying you owe x amount of dollars. now the president is saying ignore it. correct. do not tax somebody, charge somebody or set off on money the federal government owes a state. the rules may be different will be different by april 15th. bill: but they should proceed expecting the law to be repealed soon. is that what is said or our interpretation? that s what is said in the executive order without giving a date. you have senator cassidy and speaker ryan and a variety of proposals and congressman price is not installed yet. he is the lynch pin here. the congressman from ga, an orthopedic surgeon who by the end of the week i think will be the head of the department of health and social services and
on that yet. reporter: later in the week, trump will travel to philadelphia to meet with house and senate republicans at a party retreat. at the top of the agenda, getting on the same page over plans to repeal and replace obamacare, already some republicans are pushing back on trump s recent call to provide everybody with health insurance. the problem is is that you can t do it and make over promises on everything. so we have to be very careful. because there is a limit to what we can do. and the health care fight in a lot of ways is tied to the nomination of congressman price to lead the health and human services department. and one of trump s first move as presidents, he actually signed an executive order that would give price, if he s confirmed, more discretion to weaken the law. and republicans expect him to issue new regulations, as part of their overall replacement plan. price, however, continues to face questions about some of his financial transactions. he s going to unde
deal with this issue, right? the bronze plans, making those more options within that. increased options to decrease costs. this executive order that president trump signed in yesterday will help have the secretary of hhs deal with that. congressman price, nominee for hhs, has a lot of ideas about what he will do when he gets there. congressman, we appreciate your time as always, sir. legal land, thanks for having me on. fair and balanced now to liz. let s continue our coverage and conversation about an executive order using federal requirements of individual mandate of affordable care act. congressman john garamendi, former california insurance commissioner. a strong supporter of the health care law. congressman, thanks for joining us. good to be with you. exciting day with noise in the streets. background noise behind us that folks at home may not be able to hear and we will talk about that march.
for not making an effort to get the gang of 6 or 8 through as was done. let s take a beat on this and we ll get into the other feelings of the day. president obama got a group through but if they vote today and vote tomorrow and get something done by monday they re not off in terms of that stall and you do have a different dynamic this time. you have ethical considerations and different complexion for who has been put up for cabinet positions. even members of your own party suggested there s real ethics questions here and those take time. ethics questions are always called by one side more than the other and there are concerns and that explains some of the individuals. some of them like congressman price there s no question that his trades were legal. you can have a discussion about it but the fact is he did nothing wrong. legal and wrong are very