have every american covered, and that there are steps that we can take to achieve this, i hope, shared value in america that everyone should be able to afford quality coverage. there are a number of different proposals out there that would allow you to buy into medicare, to buy into medicaid. and senator sanders is tomorrow going to be introducing a medicare for all. we are mostly on a bipartisan basis really big fans of medicare. why shunt we look at expansion of that program as an added path forward? i m all for it. senator, always a pleasure to talk with you. thank you for being with us. thank you. senator tammy baldwin of wisconsin. this just in, the first lady tweeting she will join the president when he goes to florida later this week. the tweet reads my concern continues for all impacted by the hurricanes. we will fly to florida on thursday with potus to survey
will this be one of those alternative facts fights nobody agrees what s really in the bill? it will be to some extent. their solution is shunt people into preexisting conditions special pools that only sell policies to people who are very sick. those pools have never worked. they ve always been underfunded. they have a small number of people and they have terrible limits. limits who can get in and how much money can be spent on them and waiting lists and all kinds of problems and they don t have money to make that a workable solution. the two sides will argue whether it works. people are cynical about washington and i think they won t believe republicans they will take care of sick people because they don t believe republicans like to do things like that because they don t.
republicans today saying we fixed that, taking account of that. we know you like that in obamacare and keeping that here. they ve been saying that from president trump to paul ryan all the way on down. what s the rebuttal to that and will this be one of those alternative facts fights nobody agrees what s really in the bill? it will be to some extent. their solution is shunt people into preexisting conditions special pools that only sell policies to people who are very sick. those pools have never worked. they ve always been underfunded. they have a small number of people and they have terrible limits. limits who can get in and how much money can be spent on them and waiting lists and all kinds of problems and they don t have money to make that a workable solution. the two sides will argue whether it works. people are cynical about washington and i think they won t believe republicans they will take care of sick people because they don t believe republicans like to do things like that
joining us ishunt. kasie, thank you for your time. great to see you. i noticed scott walker s speech was interrupted by union members. this is as his numbers are on decline. what are folks saying about governor walker. melissa, of all of the candidates i ve seen so far and i ve been here since last thursday, if that gives you a chance of how much fried food i ve managed to con snum the last 72 hours, but of all the candidates i ve seen the situation with walker was the most tense. he has this pretty intense group of protesters that follow him from event to event, a lot of these people were bussed in, but he was the only person who stood up there and had a really aggressive confrontation. that was guy flight the front row and i was standing behind walker as he did it and walker said i refuse to be intimidated. and the scrum of reporters that followed walker after that was
charges. today s hearing is on local louisiana charges that came about last tuesday, which would be a convicted felon in possession of a weapon. this is a detention hearing whether or not he should get bail. it s a constitutional issue. the defense is saying we don t expect him to get bail. what s interesting here is his medical conditions. first of all hydrocephalis is what they are saying. a shunt has been inserted under his scalp allowing for fluid drainage. he had cancer of the esophagus and cervical surgery. if the defense wants to assert that he s not a danger to the community and there s no risk of flight he may bring that up. i think what s interesting is are they going to at all discuss