Inside politics, the biggest stories source the by the best reporters now. Welcome to inside politics, im john king. To our viewers around the world, thank you. Frustrated his party unable to repeal and replace obamacare, prrlt uses executive power to dismantle key parts of the law. They caused turmoil in the Insurance Markets and some say a giant shift in politics. Which the gop will try to blame the Affordable Care act but they have brazenly, cruelly acted to sabotage the law and the health care it provides. Its a matter of life and death. Plus, the president angers key european ally by throatening to rip up the Iran Nuclear Deal if congress cant come up with more sanctions or restrictions. Well see what they come back with. They may come back with something thats very satisfactory to me. If they dont within a very short period of time, ill terminate the deal. And just what does it tell us when the white house chief of staff feels compelled to hold a rare public briefing to refute th
Criticized the president s condolence call to the widow of a us soldier killed in niger. In an exclusive interview with maria bartiroma, he said kelly disapproved of those comments. He was so offended because he was in the room when i made the call and so were other people. The call was a very nice call. He was so offended that a woman somebody would be listening to that call. He couldnt believe it. He said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. This is not. I was so nice. I have called many people and i would think every one of them appreciated it. I was surprised to see this to be honest with you. Investigation is underway about the niger ambush resulting in the death of those four american soldiers. Kristen fisher live from the white house with more. Where does that investigation stand . The white house is a wont rest until he gets answers. The secretary of defense was on capitol hill meeting with senator john mccain after mccain complained that the senate had not been briefed about wh
Their living within the support of the deal. nikki haley said, president, if you re going to do this, let me help you. the president made it very clear in july he did not want to recertify this and secretary mattis and tillerson told him, look, you have not made a public case for dessert fiction. that s very important if you want to decertify. it was after that ambassador nikki haley came and said, i ll make the public case if you want to decertify. what s interesting is so many of the president s aides and advisers are trying to check his impulses and keep him under control. this is an adviser in haley that said, let me channel your impulse and help do what you want to try to do, lay the groundwork. i see shaping up in congress, the question to me is does this become another health care fiasco where majority of republicans have campaigned on undoing the deal, all the presidential candidates said,
Place to look for the more i guess establishment conservative way of thought these days, here s what they said. he talking about the president still needs a gop majority to pass his agenda as much as republicans need him to sign it. they need each other in particular this autumn to raise the debt ceiling, press deregulation and pass a budget and tax reform. failure on that agenda after the health care fiasco opens the door to a democratic house meaning nonstop anti-trump investigations and perhaps impeachment. the best defense against mutual assured political destruction is legislative success in the fall. a point you were making. exactly. this is, before we even talk about the things the president s talking about, like tax reform and infrastructure, finishing health care. they need to get through the fall. they have not passed any of the appropriation bills, the fiscal year begins october 1st and raise the debt ceiling or default on our obligations. these are must-pass. if congr
Can t help themselves. donald trump basically ran on the idea like all those foreign policy things they can go behind us, i m going to put america first and we need to bring back jobs and change the economy. that s what his fundamental message was. this isn t his dough dojo why is he doing this? because presidents when they take the oval office one of the few levers of power they have unchecked by is making military decisions. i think donald trump has figured out after the health care fiasco he can make decisions in foreign policy and nobody can tell him not to. that s part of what s going on. syria wants some bipartisan support. he wants to stay on this road? i actually think part of the thing i think matt is right. 90% of most president s time is spent on foreign policy. those are the emergencies and the things that have to be dealt with right away. trump has no clue. tillerson whose reputation is a smart business guy doesn t know anything about foreign policy. it s a real