Against the standardbearer. One big league donor saying theyre going to work to elect the democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton. Not to be outdone, trump is pulling ranks within his own party, the nominee refusing the back john mccain and paul ryan. Ryans primary in wisconsin is six days away. Our political team, i want to get to nbcs katy tur who has been following the Trump Campaign from the beginning. Shes outside trump tower in manhattan. Katy, youre reporting the rnc chair Reince Priebus who is also very close with paul ryan is about apropos plek tick. How are they characterizing. Reporter the rnc and Trump Campaign dont seem to have good relations. I spoke with jason miller, one of trumps aides, and he brushed that off, saying they have a great relationship with the rnc, also brushed off there was any internal squabbling and brushed off the idea that there might be a bit of a crisis going on between the party and donald trump. He said repeatedly donald trump is antiestablishment an
Allstar panel reflecting on 2016, our stories and politics and culture and reasons to be hopeful for the holidays. We begin with a major development, though. President obama taking Decisive Action today to block donald trump from creating a Muslim Registry. While obama has mostly focused on paving a smooth transition, todays move reflects the first use of his powers as president to thwart trump. The message from obama today is clear. He is still president and if Donald Trumps even thinking about religious profiling, president obama is going to make that not a smooth transition at all. Obama is basically blocking potential religious profiling by ending an obscured government Registration System. Well explain it to you. Basically, the Obama Administration issued an official notice today and it states this Registration System ends now, with an immediate effective date. That means the program is dead. But the notice also says the system had proven to be quote, redundant and ineffectively a
Lets talk about the goal here. Reporter good afternoon, so weve got probably several hundred people at the moment. They are projecting they can see several thousand people within an hour or so. And if the issues, really, are no ban, in other words no ban on muslims and no wall. Those are the predominant themes youve gotten from people who are really very vocal. A couple of other points, look how close we are to the white house. The white house is right across the street. You can see we still have the chain length fence up following the inauguration. So they have still not brought those down. President trump actually isnt here right now, hes down in florida. But this is a very vocal crowd. The wall all the way up to capitol hill and eventually the Supreme Court. Their message is one of inclusion. They want to encourage the administration not to go forward with the ban. We have met people from around the country and around the world. They are concerned they may be forced out. Well see ho
President s actions for making sure we put a system in place. Our team of correspondents and analysts are here to break it down. Lets start with nbcs Hallie Jackson. She was inside that Briefing Room talking to sean spicer, asking him a couple questions. Talk to me specifically about the town halls, though. Donald trump tweeted theyre liberal activists. What is the white houses official line . Reporter well, you just played it. Sean spicer saying these protests may be loud but not many. You heard sean spicer say, hey, listen, we believe some of these folks showing up at republican town has around the country may be a little confused about what kind of coverage they actually have. So, the white house not not particularly concerned about these sort of Grassroots Energy of protests you are seeing at these town halls, which have become a big story with members out on recess, out on break this week. Donald ump would always talk about how loud his supporters were. How it was a silent majorit
Will be worse off financially in the process were going through understanding that theyll have choices that they can select the kind of coverage that they want for themselves and for their family, not the government forcing them to buy. Okay. And those choices may include being worse off. Here is the estimates of how many people could lose their Health Insurance, best Case Scenario is 6 million, goes up to 15 million. Tomorrow, cbo scores ryans bill, counting up what it costs. That could rebuke the replin plan and some of the claims. Meanwhile, senator cotton, a conservative, saying today, that even passing that bill would actually cost potentially the majority for the republican caucus. Im afraid that if they vote for this bill, theyre going to put the House Majority at risk next year. But the bills author paul ryan is confident the process he says this whole republican replace plan is actually historic. Suggesting this is moving fast, going through four committees, going through regu