november, but performing more poorly there than in neighboring iowa or ohio. each of those three blue states voted blue in every election since 2000 and trump won them by a total of 77,000 votes. look, we re in the midst of a political realignment but how quickly this shift happens is something to watch. if you look at this as a snapshot the 2020 map could be looking very different than the 2016 map we re all starting to get used to. when we come back, journalists and everyday voters weigh in on donald trump presidency so far. donald trump could have been a successful president. he had his party had control of both houses of congress, and yet he s accomplished almost nothing. i think with him god has hi.
to make sure that people have access to insurance. are you confident, though, that secretary price at hhs is implementing is trying to keep this law afloat, that is doing everything he can to create certainty, or are you concerned that there are some aspects of hhs implementation right now that are actually undermining the law, attempting to create more problems in order to, say, force congress to act? i m troubled by the uncertainty that has been created by the administration when it comes to the subsidies that are given to very low income people to help them with their co-pays and their deductibles. i hear this described by some as an insurance company bailout. that s not what it is. it is vital assistance to people who make between 100% and 250%
very close, you were you had a front row seat to that at times. the tense relationship between when he was chairman at the rnc and your campaign and with candidate trump. in hindsight was it a mistake for the president to hire somebody he wasn t personal lly very close to? i think what the president decided when he was president-elect and to bring reince onboard was to bring someone in to help him staff his team and achieve his legislative agenda. unfortunately where we are right now if you look at the ups and downs of the presidency so far, the single most important thing the president has been able to achieve is getting neil gorsuch on the supreme court, a very important thing he s been able to achieve. but the major issues have not been accomplished in congress and he s decided to make a change at the top to move his agenda forward. and he believes that it s all reince priebus fault? no, look that he doesn t have a major legislative victory, that that s at the feet of r
american people understand is that their health and well-being is being harmed right now by the current law. and so our goal is to make is to put in place as well as the president s goal, is to put in place a law, a system that actually works for patients. you can t do that under the current structure. you can t do that just with regulation. it requires an act of congress. that s why the president has been so passionate about making certain that the congress of the united states repeals and replaces obamacare. but secretary price, i understand that. but it s clear the votes aren t there. so if they come up with a fix that helps essentially gives some certainty to the insurance companies to go into rural markets, are you then going to implement the affordable care act as it was meant to be, including encouraging people to sign up, encouraging enrollment, encouraging medicaid expansion? well, our as i said, our responsibility is to follow the law. and again, we take that responsi
somebody he wasn t personally very close to? i think what the president decided when he was president-elect and to bring reince onboard was to bring someone in to help him staff his team and achieve his legislative agenda. unfortunately where we are right now if you look at the ups and downs of the presidency so far, the single most important thing the president has been able to achieve is getting neil gorsuch on the supreme court, a very important thing he s been able to achieve. but the major issues have not been accomplished in congress and he s decided to make a change at the top to move his agenda forward. and he believes that it s all reince priebus fault? no, look i wouldn t say that, chuck. but what i would say he has an aggressive agenda. repeal and replace of obamacare was at the top of the list. we re now moving to tax reform. we can double middle class