Trust the president. New reporting on the president s humiliation of Jeff Sessions in the wake of the mueller appointment. And the Treasury Secretarys new excuse for asking the government to subsidize his honeymoon. They had to give up a lot to take these jobs. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The most prominent voices of the trump base discovered today what many of his Business Associates and customers learned long ago. If youre in business with donald trump, eventually youre going to end up on the wrong side of the deal. This afternoon in an offcamera session with reporters on Board Air Force one, the president defended his decision to work with democrats on a deal to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children. In exchange for increased Border Security. Im a republican through and through, but im also finding that sometimes to get things through, its not working that way. And, you know, we got very poorly treated on the hea
administration is within its rights to bypass and miss this deadline, or is it stonewalling, do you think, to try and protect the saudis? no, the administration s between a rock and a hard place. the administration wants to protect our relationship with the saudis as the saudis are our key bulwark against iranian expansion, and nobody in the administration wants to destabilize or push away saudi arabia right now. millions of lives are at stake. now, with that said, the administration is clearly in violation of the 2016 global magnitsky act. i read that stem to stern today, and they really do are compelled to issue a report to congress. eric: and what does it mean if the administration doesn t do it as they have failed to do? well, they ought they have to do it statutorily. there s, obviously, the contempt of congress and various mechanisms to deal with that, but there is a way out, and if i was advising the administration and perhaps some are watching today the
find ourselves. any proposal will have to reckon with that decision and making sure that we re working around it statutorily or making the constitutional change so the courts won t even get involved. trish: congratulations on the beautifully boy. thank you. trish: thanks. the fight against california s sanctuary city laws are heating up. more cities are stepping up and wanting out. the latest mayor leading the charge is here and he s next.
individual human beings with lives and but that s been the case throughout. i mean, it s not like the politics are a sideshow. the reason barack obama had to issue daca as an executive order is because the votes weren t there with the republican congress to do it statutorily. i agree with that. i think that the republicans have been reluctant to do it. but now they have a republican president hopefully who will be pressing them to do it. he s gone a little bit back and forth on it through the course of the day. but he seems to settle in the evening again on the idea that these young people need relief. and he s promised to give to it them. and i think that if that means, you know, angering a couple of breitbart readers and some talk radio hosts, then he should go ahead and do it. because these people need that relief. i think, as i said, he made the deal. now we can see if he is a person who, you know it surprises me to say this, but we ll see
the president says the process could take longer. obamacare doesn t work. we are putting in a wonderful plan. it statutorily taking a long time to getwe put in fairly soon and i think yes, i would like to say by the end of the year . at least the rudiments that we have something within the year and the following year. we will be done legislating with respect to the healthcare this year. our next guest has been working on one of those replacement plans. congressman has been the member of the house reformcommittee. the house budget committee and the house freedom caucus , the former governor of south carolina ãgood to have you with us. my pleasure. now, before we have you in the overview of the state of healthcare ãi want to get to some of the specifics. the house companion bill. senator rand paul ãa couple things i was looking at and mentioning starting with the health insurance from employment through tax deduction. does it mean that employers will no longer pay for them