their other posts. it shows video of biden watching a parachuting demonstration with other world leaders. and if you only saw the moments that they decided to post of this video, the video makes it look like biden is confused or wandering off, the caption, what is biden doing adds to that impression. if you watch a longer version of that same moment or you watch it from other angles, you can see that biden is clearly watching other pair shooters out of frame and giving them a thumbs-up. but rather than include that context, 90 minutes after they posted their video, the new york post reposted it. making him seem even more out of it. and of course, hours later the video got the fox news treatment . during a parachute demonstration, biden got dazed and confused, how shocking and started to just wander off like that. as other leaders looked on in agony fox news, looked on in agony nevermind the fact that they are quoted on the record. the next morning, the story was the fro
welcome back. my apologies if you have heard this before, but house republicans are again working frantically on their latest last best chance to repeal obamacare, and after a motoring with president trump two key moderate republican holdouts now say they will vote yes. cnn congress a.m. correspondent phil mattingly is tracking the votes on capitol hill. phil, it s like groundhog day a little bit here. those two members were worried about allowing states to permit insurance companies to deny coverage for those with pre-existing conditions. there s a new amendment promising $8 billion over the next five years to finance the high-risk state pools that states can set up if they do do that with insurance company. $8 billion though. is that going to be enough money? look. there s no shortage of health policy analysts and even house republicans who don t believe that s enough. sean spicer the white house press secretary saying it s impossible to know just because of how the state is set up
billion that would be added to this bill to try to address these issues specifically. here s where we are right now as this is happening. vice president pence is on the hill all day. he s now departing. house leaders are currently meeting in speaker ryan s office to try to figure out if this blitz what, we ve seen over the course of the last 24 hours behind closed doors will actually get them to where they need to be. the key question though, wolf, remains on the pre-existing conditions. there are plenty of critics, health policy analysts, democrats and even some republicans, who don t believe it goes nearly far enough. take a listen to what democratic leader nancy please he to say. they think they can dupe the american people by saying, well, we were going to eliminate pre-existing conditions and now instead we ll give you $200 if you have a pre-existing medical condition. please. what you would need is about $200 billion over ten years. what they have done is $8 billion over five y
individual mandate to begin with? this used to be a republican idea, by the way, the whole idea of a individual mandate. suddenly some, like they got amnesia. jenna: so why is the president saying that? is there truth to that statement? according to the washington post the concept of the individual mandate dates back to the late 1980s. according to that report, health policy analysts at the heritage foundation led by our next guest picked up this idea and began developing it for lawmakers in congress. stuart butler, who is a distinguished fellow and director of the center for policy innovation at the heritage foundation joins us now. so, stuart, what do you make of the president s comments? did republicans really start this idea of a nationwide individual mandate? well, no, not at all. i think what is going on is an attempt to find a scapegoat for what is a very bad policy. it s true that 20 years ago the idea of trying to apply