we re optimistic that inserting the individual mandate repeal would be help fful, and that s obviously the view of the senate finance committee republicans as well. health care is back. that was senate majority leader announcing a plan to include a repeal of the individual mandate to help pay for the senate tax reform bill. it comes just a day after president trump called for the move. senate intelligence and appropriations committees, republican senator james langford of oklahoma. thank you very much for being on the show this morning. glad to be with you. good morning. is this going to make it more difficult to get this passed now with the health care element? i don t think it will, actually. have you pretty strong agreement among republicans that we don t like the individual mandate. the reason is that it s a tax
clearly as i can. we are going to keep radical islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. now, that line can be heard from the president yesterday is exactly what he said a week ago today at that campaign rally in melbourne. it s a phrase he used repeatedly in the campaign and not just president trump, but a lot of other republicans like the senator, ted cruz from texas. lieutenant general hr mcmaster say that is jihadist terrorists aren t true to their religion and that use of the term isn t help fful for u.s. goals of working with allies to defeat terrorist groups. that is what the new national security adviser told an all hands meeting of the national security council. just a couple of days ago on thursday night. and so you can see the disconnect there. it s a pretty clear one and let s remember that president trump repeatedly criticized his predecessor, president obama,
it a novel, a fictional version. the book is called monday mornings. i put my character will no doctor wants to be, confronting mistakes. the mistakes are often avoidable. that s what i want to talk about today. joining me, my colleague elizabeth cohen. you have been talking about these issues. the empowered patient i red it, it was terrific. mistakes that happened in my family, myself and my children. nobody talks about this. i wanted to talk about people to find out what their experiences are. ift s one of the reasons your book resinated with me so much. these mistakes really do happen. by writing about it so beautifully and openly, i think you are going to help people confront what s happened. when it happens as a patient, you feel terrible and no one talks to you about it. i don t know if you knew about these, you probably did. i read about what happened with your family. there was probably a version of that, a gathering of doctors. not lawyers or administrators b