monetary fines. that gets tricky if they re going to ask for him to be held in custody. i imagine they re going to ask for more in the way of fines, and a stern admonition. if the judge does that and trump continues to violates order, we re in unchart ed territory and the judge really has his work cut out for him in terms of maintaining order. trump doesn t care about fines. he just lost a half a billion dollars, he borrowed it from some guy in l.a. it s just not going to the fact is that because he wages, you know, this daily assault on rules and then we re surprised because normal, healthy people aren t unhinged enough to violate every sort of civic norm in the way that he does, it empowers him to keep doing it, and unless there s just a hard penalty on the other side of rule breaking, the rules don t matter. it will not be finings. he won t even pay for the fine himself, whatever the amount is, and it could be $100,000 or
it is as if the 2,000 pages of obamacare which nobody has read anyway are completely irrelevant. it is simply authorization for the president and hsa to do anything required. today it wasn t even announced, it was leaked, it was anonymous, like watergate. like woodward and bernstein. wasn t even announced to insurance companies. they asked for plan b and krauthammer says it is obvious, in a free market, they would have to go bust, healthy people aren t signing up, it is older, unhealthy people, but it doesn t seem like there s any way around it. i have a prediction. remember when the iraq war was going and the president was pushing saying we have to get together with some experts on both sides of the aisle, like jim baker and future secretary of defense and get a better strategy going forward, fired generals, redid it, we had an
we re asking about accountability tonight. that s sort of the theme of tonight s show. where is the accountability for the debt, where is the accountability that really gives the short end to the military, and where is the accountability for this rollout because we paid for it. you and i and the viewers paid $100 million to make sure the web sites worked, and they didn t, and now they have traffic plunging 88% at healthcare.gov since its launch. apparently 10 million people tried to go look at it, kristen, but only 35,000 actually registered. the timeline of a month to six weeks or so is almost a generous timeline. the real problem here is if young people, healthy people aren t signing up on these exchanges, if they re being deterred because they heard what a disaster this is, it can t work without young people in the system. we need about 7 million people in these exchanges, and about 40% of them would have to be the young and healthy people.