inside the republican party, mr. bannon says that mitch mcconnell owes his job to donald trump. let s see what donald trump owes mitch mcconnell, 12 circuit judges by the time this year is over with, one supreme court justice, a complete rollback of the obama regulatory state, and oh, by the way, the tax reform plan that mcconnell and trump have been working on together for months and months and months. for all the us versus them in the party, the congressional republicans and the president are going to end the year unified and having accomplished quite a lot when that seemed not probable a few weeks ago. maria? here s the danger for the republican party. yes, trump won in november 2016. he didn t win by a lot. the coalition that he put together isn t sustainable. the guy is at 35% approval rating which is a record low. for the republican party and frankly for the democratic party too to grow you have to be able to expand your base. he has been completely unable to expand his base.
that is desperately needed. what obamacare did is to say that the states to the governors, enroll as many people as you can and the federal government will pick up the entire tab. so of course, they irresponsibly expanded medicaid way beyond what is affordable to rake in all of those federal dollars. not only that, but they didn t even pay attention to how the money was spent. astounding, 9.8%, 10% of medicaid spending are wrong payments. any business with that record would be out of business. neil: the bottom line, when it s characterized as mean i see it in the media. there s not an attempt to balance it out. a great sense of this person will be deprived of this or this person is deprived of this. we re all stuck with the costs that have accelerated because of this. when people are sold a bill of goods, it s incumbent on us to step back, look at the numbers. i don t care if you re right or left, republican or democrat, look at the math and the math isn t sustainable.
sustainability, is being used and it s not about the environment. it s this isn t sustainable. for spicer, especially, when you re running out ahead of melissa mccarthy s material, when as he did tonight, he got in a twitter war with glenn thrush of the new york times. for how long can this go on? i m not entirely sure. it was sustainable during the campaign. the sort of i don t want to call it controlled chaos but the chaos of the campaign worked in donald trump s to his advantage. he was at the front of the headlines every single day. he dominated the news cycle. all the conversation was about him. it worked in his favor. in the white house, it is a different story because you can t just talk, you ve also got to get things done. and so far, they re not getting things done. the biggest loser of today was neil gorsuch. nobody s talking about neil gorsuch. his supreme court nominee. that is a huge story that played second, third, fourth, fifth fiddle to the news of the day,
republicans say are the failings of obamacare, the cost of premiums didn t go down, it went up for most people. most couldn t keep their doctor if they liked their doctor. what would you say are the biggest flaws of the affordable care act? well, i think you mentioned two of the biggest. the fact that people couldn t keep their own doctor and hospital, but i think the much bigger one was the exploding costs. i think that s what one of the leading factors that won donald trump the election. it was a couple of weeks before the election when the news came out that under obamacare premiums were going up 20 to 25% in some cases. some say 50 to 75%. that isn t sustainable. obamacare was supposed to save families money and instead the costs were exploding. the other thing that was happening, patti ann, that i think was one of the reasons that donald trump really wants to get rid of obamacare is there are so many counties in the united states right now, episcopal fly a lot of rural areas whe
relief workers in austria are providing food, clothing and encouragement. and in germany they are receiving warm greetings and support. the leaders of austria and germany are warning that the support is unsustainable. they say the level of aid will be pulled back. cnn s fred pleitgen joins us from vienna, austria with more. talk about the situation with the migrants and the refugees and also we re hearing from austrian and german leaders, that this isn t sustainable and yet we see so many volunteers and so many people from those countries who want to help these refugees and migrants. reporter: yeah, you re absolutely right. there has been an outpouring of support and we saw great scenes here at the vienna west train station yesterday and this morning. this place here, vienna west was a focal point of the effort to help these refugees get from