Working on this war without trying to negotiate an end. I had come back from paris, we were trying to do the exact thing. But you couldnt mention it. Couldnt mention it. Whose decision was it to make these talks secret . So was it so you could advance more who had the courage to do it. We felt you cannot make progress, propaganda, with the whole world watching. Youve got to do it secretly. I think the North Vietnamese werent that interested in negotiations, except as a tactic to wear us out or to see whether we could make the kind of deal they could live with. They didnt want to accused by the vietcong and others of being overly soft. What do you think, joe . I think here winston and i may differ slightly. I think its important to have secret negotiations. They accompany almost any negotiation about a serious issue. But i think henry had a somewhat expansive view of that, which is keeping it secret. Thats a different issue. I meant the public. I understand. My point is, for him secret
At can also send us a tweet cspan wj or join the conversation at facebook. Com cspan. Good morning. We will get to your thoughts are just a minute. First, let me show you the National Journal headlines. House republicans really think that they can amend obamacare this fall. The health care legislative package is tentatively expected to move in the coming months. The inside of the story dylan scott reports that while congressional leaders continue to debate whether to pursue near full repeal of the act and gop president ial candidates layout replacement proposals, republicans are looking at smaller changes. It to theey can make president s desk. The ways and means subcommittee chairman said that his panel could mark up Health Care Tax legislation later this year. The bills related to overthecounter drugs, Health Savings accounts, and perhaps most ambitiously, a repeal of cadillac taxopular on highend insurance plans. It goes on to say the Health Care Agenda will be determined in part by
Senate side for next week. Can you give us a sense of the white house role in what they would like to see happen . The timeline is that is expected this week and then potentially vote on thursday. The white house says it is not yet aware it has the 50 votes they need but they will have a better sense at the end of the week and their confident things are heading in the right direction. Give us a sense of that confidence. What is this based on . Are they willing to take a gamble even if the votes arent there . A they were looking at a vote towards march. They pulled it at the last minute. They realize they do not have the votes and do not want to puts up a bill only to fail. Its still an unknown whether we could see a similar scenario play out in the senate. Right now things feel very talk unknown as we havent seen the w bill tax. Which talk about the objections but once we get this bill which is coming on thursday or friday of this week and will have a better sense of what issues senato
Must the communicators, monday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan two. Next reporters and scholars familiar with house and procedures discussed the legislative process for the 115th congress. From the brookings institution, this is an hour and a half. Thank you for joining us. For those of you standing in the back, there is an overflow. Thank you very much, i am sarah bender, the senior fellow in studies, i have the pleasure of moderating today. I will introduce our speakers, just a bit about the book. Then we will get it going. To my left is molly reynolds. A fellow here in government studies. The author to except as to the role. Pointl be the launching for us in politics and applications for policy and him particularly health and tax today. Vox. H cliff, from bo just a very, very brief comment to get us going here. I have to say that if you have not seen mollys will get. You should. It strikes me as the very best of what bookings has to offer. Which is twofold. In politicalrooted science
Wants to lower Prescription Drug prices. Hes with stat news. And for viewers unfamiliar with stat news, what is it . Were a national publication. We Cover Health Care and medicine. Were based out of boston, owned by the boston globe, but we have reporters across the country including us here in d. C. That cover the politics. Stat news. Com is the website for viewers who want to follow along and look at some of your reporting. What did President Trump claim when it came to Prescription Drug prices . He said he wants to bring down Prescription Drug prices. How had ewants to do that is whats unusual. He says he wants to change how the federal government pays for its Prescription Drugs that it buys through medicare and medicaid. He wants more direct negotiations between the federal government and the Drug Companies. Thats usually what you hear from democratic politicians, not republicans. Whether hes able to rangle his party to do what he wants to do will be interesting to watch. Special p