Health care not as an urgent daily concern for the people hes supposed to be serving, but as a political bargaining chip. Here he was after the first Gop Health Care bill fell apart. The best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode. It is exploding right now. I think what will happen is obamacare unfortunately will explode. Its going to have a very bad year. So what would be really good, with no democrat support, if the democrats, when it explodes, which it will soon, if they got together with us and got a real Health Care Bill. The Affordable Care act is not exploding. According to analysis by the congressional budget office, the exchanges despite their problems arent in the much touted death spiral. So the president has been essentially threatening to make the aca explode himself. Floating a plan to withhold those payments to insurers, likely causing markets to collapse. In order to extract concessions from democrats or, put another way, the president of the Uni
Again on social media. After that tax rally in pennsylvania, as hes making his way to the white house, hes tweeting again, talking about what he was talking about earlier, about fake news, as he often does, but shes escalating that, going after the idea of network licenses, broadcast licenses, which, of course, are the purview of the public air waves. This is what he said in a tweet. Lets lack at this, with anderson. He says this. Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and if appropriate, revoked. Not fair to public. Anderson, this has echoes of the nixon administration, when similar things were tried in the nixon white house, with some local licenses of tv stations owned by the Washington Post at the time, that was breaking all of those stories. Of course, this is difficult to do. The president is largely just venting frustration. His aides said earlier. But, again, extraordinary for a president to go after network tv licenses. Preside
Stepped up like nobody. This has been going on for decades, many president s but no other president brought it up like i bring it up. Dana the pressure is leading to more military spending, the president also accusing germany of hypocrisy for relying on russia for energ energy. I think its very sad when germany makes a massive and oil and gas deal with russia. You are supposed to be guarding against russia and germany goes out pays billions and billions of dollars a year to russia. Germany as far as im concerned is captive to russia because its getting so much energy from russia. Dana that tough talk is not sitting well with some critics. Its infuriating to see this happen. It is diplomatic malpractice. Hooton made great investments in the 2016 election and its paying off for him and brussels. Is a disgrace for the United States to open a meeting like this. Its unprecedented language and its a threat to the alliance. It is a transparent way to carry out Vladimir Putins deepest wish. Da
Democrats next month but stumping for gop candidates, he is telling his base a vote for them is a vote for him. Joining me, darren sands, political reporter at buzz feed, republican strategist and National Editor of accuracy in media, carrie sheffield, and tiffany cross, cofounder, managing editor of the beat d. C. , who by the way is at the politicon event under way in los angeles. Let me go to you first, darren. Vote for jobs, not mobs. The president is clearly trying to depict the democrats as mobs, similar to how in many ways theyve criminalized protesters and even those of us in civil rights. Will this work, is this sticking, is this continuing this dividing the American Public . You know, i spoke with a well known consultant in nevada about the rally today. Trump was talking about Maxine Waters being a low income individual, he was talking about wacky jackie rose and this idea that he gives everyone a nickname and dean heller obviously repaid the favor basically saying everything
Good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, President Trump dangling a pardon. He says hes got the emails to prove it. Now, two powerful congressional committees, the chairman and federal prosecutors think that those emails may prove something. I take that as the president or people on his behalf may have been dangling the possibility of a pardon in front of mr. Cohen to say to him dont tell the truth, you know, dont implicate the president. Well be looking to koobt i corroborate the evidence we received and this is very much a key interest of ours. And were learning tonight the federal prosecutors in the Southern District of new york want to review those emails as well. Heres why. The emails were sent after cohens home and office were raided by the fbi, okay . After that, okay, but before cohen pleaded guilty, sent during a time that trump knew information was in investigators hands that he did not want out. He didnt want them to have it. During a time that trump needed cohen to