carolinas. we have six total. shepard: but six do not a law make and with the decider in chief says he s for the other plan, there s a lot of republicans that are for the other one that says what you re doing is dividing things and mucking up the works. to what you say? number 1, we had our bull out there. the house bill has the same features we have getting rid of mandates and penalties. they reform medicaid in the same fashion that we would treat the medicaid expansion population. a lot of the ideas are constant. i ll point out an earlier interview, mark meadows said, the leader of the house freedom caucus says we should take provisions from all the plans and maybe come up with a combination bill. we don t think we re the dividing. we re furthering the conversation.
to politics. he s been doing this over a year. i think a lot of the things he says, you guys sometimes take literally. sometimes he doesn t have 27 lawyers and staff looking at what he does, which is i think at times refreshing and at times can also lead us to have to be sitting in a press conference like this answering questions that two guys are asking. sandra: he said the president was actually asking a question in that tweet and the press are taking him too literally. when i first heard about the series of tweets, i thought this makes no sense. there s no evidence to support it. i have never been one to like outlandish charges, saying your predecessor is a criminal. somebody brought to my attention a new york times story that came out the day before the inauguration which did say american law enforcement, intelligence agencies are examining communications of financial transactions as part of an investigation of trump and russian officials. then it said one official said intel
been praised from the right to the left. a way to give states control over how it s administered. a state may choose that folks would have their choice of a narrow network or broader. that s the state choice. it s easier for a patient to complain to their state legislator than it is to the director of cms. shepard: i was going to say, you d admit that state rules are less stringent and regulatory standards would go down, right? we don t know that. new york had stricter regulatory controls than did washington. louisiana has less strict. our point is, the states should make that choice. why is the federal government telling states what to do unless it said under the constitution they should be. that was the problem with obamacare. we get away from that. shepard: you would eliminate the employer mandate and the individual mandate, correct? correct. shepard: so with no mandate, how do you spread the costs around? what we suggest is states have the option to auto enroll
28% said trump s tweets are a good way for him to communicate directly with americans. should he be tweeting? he should tweet, but he should tweet with more judiciousness. what really gets me, donald trump has all the ingredients there. very successful presidency. but he counter punches and hits himself. he stands in his way to being more popular. he s already improved america dramatically since election day, but he s hindering the am of growth he can accomplish because of some of the outlandish things he says and tweets. sandra: very interesting to get your perspective. thanks for hanging on. long press conference. but thank you. all right. senators lindsay graham and sheldon white house sending a letter to the justice department and the fbi requesting copies of any warrant applications relating to president trump s wire tapping accusations. let s bring in ben carton. he is the ranking democrat on
i really wouldn t be surprised if it ends up that there s something that doesn t that can t stand up to judicial review. they worked on it for weeks. they delayed it many times and they said that after the first one, they knew what their mistakes were and they weren t going to run into this buzz saw again. shepard: because the court laid out the mistakes and the new plan, they were able to not make the same mistakes. that s what will be interesting, if it runs into trouble. even if not, what is interesting is that the states are taking up a lot of new activity in a sort of a new separation of powers, exercised against any potential overreach of the executive. that s something that we wrote about recently and i recommend the read. it was called the revolts of the attorney general and how the obama administration states learned to make sure they could