doug mckelway who can break down what he did this afternoon. i will tell you what he did tonight. yeah, brian, politico is reporting tonight that he plans to cut off subsidy payments, two insurers known as csr s. that would be the administration s most aggressive move you have to dismantle obamacare and ife it is true, we reached out to the white house and no comment yet. it is another side that the president s frustration with congressional inaction to dismantle obamacare. something the chief of staff john kelly acknowledged today. since the big bill did not pass, and we probably won t have a health care bill until the spring, this was a way to take care of as many americans as he could legally with an executive order.me most importantly, this order allows small businesses to pool together to buy health care coverage across state lines.
actual legal one. brian: no doubt about it, it seems like the cities have dug in like many others haven t. they re going to put these things in the court again.e doubling down on fox & friends, does ethan have a point? no, he does not at all. brian, we ve seen the movie before. it was in the 1960s when southern governors like governor wallace decided theygo were going to flout federal law for their own narrow political agenda and disregard the safety of their people and the civil rights of theirag people. that s what we see right now. i am here in chicago where i live today, in chicago, we have a city where wide swaths of they city are practically war zones. our mayor, rahm emanuel, rather than focus on the public safety of the citizens of chicago, he would posture and cater to liberal elites and declare that we are a sanctuary city. i hate the term, by the way.
disbelieve an official like john kelly speaking on the record? why is that? brian: i think they have a problem when their stories blow up before their eyes, there s a little bit of a problem. the only way to do that is to bring the people out there. if you have a problem with the budget release, why don t you do that? that s what the president does. if you have a problem with thehy foreign policy department, bring out the secretary of state.th if you have rumors about the chief of staff, why don t we bring himtm out? he said he didn t want to dodo a lot of press. a i wanted to get my sea legs on this position. when he comes out and says he s in control,is he also said i hae no problem with the president tweeting and he said i m creating some order. that s all i m doing. of course, that s what his job is. it s one of the toughest jobs in the world. no matter who the president isha and who the chief of staff is. he was very clear about the fact that he was made chief of staff to co
permanent solution for daca people. they are a different category. they did not choose to break our laws. i have great empathy and i want them to stay.. i disagree with a lot of my allies on team trump on that. this is also very important. we have a right as a country and it is not phobic or racist, we have a right to determine the processes and rules for becoming an american citizen. we are sick and tired andng part of why trump won is a revolt against the idea that we don t have that right to determine those values and rules. we do. we quite simply do. brian: and fortifying the border/barrier. it s something obama and clinton and schumer were in support of. but this debate happens every two weeks here on this show. thanks so much for joining us. i appreciate it. maybe they will get things done at washington and make our lives a little bit easier. steve, good job.at coming up straight ahead, is
war stories now on dvd. colonel, is that the man you know? that s the john kelly i know, that i ve admired for years. he s on the record, calm, cool, confident. i do not know what they expected, brian. he is a united states marine. he knows what it s like to be shot at. like by bad people shooting real bullets. w not just a bunch of blowhards. he lost his son. as he pointed out in the last segment. his whole demeanor exudes confidence. he is not quitting. not getting fired or frustrated. except by an accurate new stories, that s fair. the fact is, he ought to be frustrated. i thought his general chiding, he s constituting about getting better sources, it was spot on. you ve got to ask yourself this, why is it that so many of our colleagues in the media business believe anonymous sources and