president trump wipes out subsidies to insurance companies. taking crucial steps toward saving the american people from the nightmare of obamacare. and pressuring democrats to get on board or else. they re like obstructionists. if they came over, maybe we could make a deal. even some republicans say it s the american people who will pay the price. key republican senator susan collins is here to react. hell loeshgs i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is changing course. this week president trump moved to undue to cornerstones of the obama policy. the president disavowing the nuclear deal saying iran is not in compliance with the terms of the agreement but president trump fell short of terminating the deal all together. though the president did leave that option on the table. in the event we are not able to reach a solution working with congress and our allies, then
won t get behind the bipartisan plan. he s against the action that s the problem. there are many bipartisan plans that will be brought to the fore. . you should be less defer ren deferential to the president. one interpretation of what president trump did is he is trying to force pelosi and schumer to come to the table. do you think that s accurate and do you think that they should go to the white house and try to make a deal? well, i m all for trying to make a deal and be diplomatic and bring us together because i don t want to be in a congress that people say what people think of you is very low. not in that tcontext.
crossing in mexico. a supreme court justice that, bill, i think, it would agree a lot. i m still going. well, you this will be an interesting panel. well, just take it easy here. you there s a laundry list. i agree. do you achieve with what he s achieved but do you think he achieved thing? i think donald trump has done a lot through executive actions. i think he has failed utterly in the legislative process, heretofore he has passed no major legislation. the only bill that has passed the congress is one that was over his objection, russia sanctions. the reason he took action this week to raise people s premiums, essentially, which is what he did on friday by killing the subsidy. by killing the subsidies
and in the iran deal, i m hopeful because i think h.r. mcmaster and others have done a better job than we ve seen so far in the trump administration of trying to think things through, work with members of congress, so forth. but you need to actually legislate in place of things you re removing. congress also does deserve some blame. look, trump removed those cost subsidie subsidies. a lot of republicans are for it. they should do it. force trump to veto it. congress is more passive than i would have expected. there is a democratic and republican bipartisan working group on this. and i think they will have a bill. the problem is, what s weird about what the president has done, is he s taken action that drives up premiums for people by 20% to 25% according to the cbo. there s a bipartisan plan and he won t get behind that bipartisan plan. he s against the bipartisan
things and congress will work them out. we need change. i believe we need change from president trump s policy, which mostly failed. it s weird. it s unusual to defend the president and not he has a strategic vision, here is how we re implementing it. instead he tosses hand grenades into the room and that forces change. what did you make, congresswoman, of the fact he still will not answer the question as to whether or not he called president trump a moron in a private meeting over the summer? i m sure he s embarrassed. it was to be a private meeting and got out to the press. he reminds me of a soldier just remaining committed and dedicated to his general. and he s not going to step out of line, no matter what he may think personally. interesting. president trump spoke to the values of voter summit here in washington, d.c., on friday. in the last ten months we have followed through on one