members of congress. he comes to our conferences quite a bit, classic free-market economist and thinker and advocate. he s somebody that house republicans are extraordinarily comfortable with. are you with the president on going ahead with 25% steel tariffs, importing steel at 25%, aluminum at 10%, you want all thee tariffs to go forward? no, i don t, not across the board. i think this is where you target bad actors. again, if this is used as a negotiating ploy, because sometimes even our friends are not so friendly when it comes to trade questions, that s fine. but i wouldn t want to slide into an all-out trade war. in my home state, frankly, we re a big agricultural producer. that s an easy place to retaliate. we re an exporter. we also use an awful lot of steel and aluminum in everything from aviation to oil field activity. so metals are very important to us. obviously if you make them more expensive, you re going to
good morning. i m john berman. 30 minutes from now the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare faces a new hurdle, a showdown inside the house budget committee. this as 19 republicans say they re leaning against or planning to vote no. my next guest is one of them, congressman dave bratt of virginia who sits on the budget committee. you get to vote on this bill as it s written today. just checking, you re a no vote today. no vote, yep. nothing is going to change that? we want to get to a yes. the major issue we have today on the front page of the national journal, both the right and the left policy experts concede that this plan still has too many elements of obamacare in it at the structural level. you have the federal government running health care for 300 million people. as a free market economist, i could get sued for malpractice
speaker and the president to vote in favor of this legislation? my major problem is the federal nature of it. the big problem is we re going to vote on bucket one, right? it s relying on bucket two. i just heard your clips on trump. trump wants people to shop across state lines. that s bucket two. lowering the regs. if he wants to reduce cost from the 20% tra jec story right now that s in bucket two. all of that is very hard to do. we kind of have the cart before the horse. we re doing bucket one like obama did eight years ago, we re talking coverage only, massive coverage. but the free market stuff comes in bucket two under secretary price. if you can do that, let s do it now. we re putting up the scaffolding and architecture for one-fifth of the economy. as a free market economist what the federal government runs isn t going so well. we re 100 trillion light on
brat, he is a free market economist. he is trained in a disciplined, understanding, of what works and what does not work and an economy and he wants to make policy innovations that were releases, the power, of freedom, in, in, enterprise in the economy. he has got an idea that goes beyond himself, beyond politics, and beyond political party. that s what we need. we have three, four, policy innovative thinkers in the house of representatives. that are identifiable on the side. brat will be one. cantor was not. i don t know kevin mccarthy. but it sound to me that once again, it is all about, gee, what about me and my politics and my place in the sun. and my position. this is nonsense. grown adults sthunt be worrying abut such stuff. strong criticism.
if you would, walk us through what the house caucus meetings are like. after that if you want to do gingrich history, you are more than welcome. it seems to me that that meeting, and probably because of the nature of it, is, about personalities. what you have to do is get beyond personalities. get beyond political parties. and get to the great principles that govern this nation. one of the things i like about brat, he is a free market economist. he is trained in a disciplined, understanding, of what works and what does not work and an economy and he wants to make policy innovations that were releases, the power, of freedom, in, in, enterprise in the economy. he has got an idea that goes beyond himself, beyond politics, and beyond political party. that s what we need.