support of senate candidate accused of sexual miss misconduct, roy moore. will it help or hurt his approval rating? i don t know if roy moore will lose. to the point that we were originally talking about, i don t see how the president s support for a man facing those kind of serious allegations expands his support beyond where it already is. so let s talk about politics and policy. if president trump does not have a win in the legislation column by the end of this year, which is almost here, how will that impact his approval ratings? i think that would really sort of strengthen the doubts that some people have about his capacity to work with congress. but i do think we have to emphasize that there is really a pretty good chance that he and republicans in congress will get tax reform through. that i think would help him in terms of the policy. i also think it would help him
false pretenses a healthcare system destined for failure. the promises that were made by barack obama were lies and we know that now. you can t keep your doctor. it costs too much. now republicans are going to change that. this is a tax on every american family who cannot afford the premiums, deductibles,, co-insurance and co-pays. that s a fact. when we talk about 13 million americans millions of americans who don t do it. they rather pay the penalty than get the healthcare. we have to unleash the burden on these families and that will be a great setup in 2018 for full repeal and replace and fix healthcare once and for all. let me say what i m thankful for today. i suffer from a pre-existing condition. i m thankful for the fact that under obamacare people with pre-existing conditions like myself will always have access to healthcare. that s something i don t think americans will ever be willing to go back to. our insurance fix does that, too. we ll cover pre-existing
it will blow a hole in the deficit of about $1.5 trillion dollars over 10 years as we just heard, the tax breaks will expire in 10 years anyway and it will put pressure on social programs because of the need to make up for expanding and exploding deficits. i don t think we re anywhere close to passage. i would put in a plea on thanksgiving. we democrats want to work with republicans not on this bill but a true bipartisan bill that would offer tax relief to all americans and corporations. you can do that by reducing the corporate rate less, reducing individual rates more, and i would say on a day of thanksgiving for all americans it would be a great day for the republicans to start reaching out. chris, is that a possibility? i think it s pretty unlikely. i believe people want to work
with republicans on this. the leaders of the democrat party in power right now their base is determined to not give president donald trump or the republican party any wins. there is no real incentives to democrats to work with republicans to get legislation passed. there is an incentive. the good of this great country. i wish that counted. it does count. if we can stop fighting one another and stand together against our adversaries overseas as we heard with north korea and china and russia and pull together here at home, we will have an infinitely better thanksgiving and certainly holiday season overall. maybe it s a vain plea but i think we should all hope we can work together. i hope schumer and pelosi are watching. i hope all i hope all good people of goodwill are watching. that s what i m asking for.
republicans or democrats like al franken as more people continue to come out. what is the white house s strategy on this? we ve seen the president at times address it but in a pretty distant way and pivot to these issues, foreign policy, tax reform, the economy. fair to say the white house feels that is a winning strategy and try to keep the president on message with that? that s what they ve tried to do throughout a lot of different controversies that have reflected poorly on the republican party. it is interesting to see the white house evolution on how to deal with roy moore. at first there was total silence by the president when the allegations first surfaced. he was in asia when the scandal was unfolding. by the time they got back to washington and were confronted with the scandal it had mush roomed into something pretty big. a lot of women, more than a half dozen on the record by the time the president returned. the white house at first tried to walk a thin line saying the