keep obamacare. harris: that s executive authority. one way or another, executive authority to put pressure on the system when he couldn t even go to members of his own party to delay and change his legislatio legislation, 45 times. that tells you that it had issues. he knew even when they had a bicameral majority, he couldn t get stuff done either. so i m curious at this point if you ve got that 50, and you ve got vice president pence waiting in the wings, why republicans can t get it done. john: i think that s what they re aiming at. if they can get it done, i don t like this bill either but i think it s inadequate. i d repeal it much, much more. harris: continue to repeal. jessica: i think they ll get it on taxes, but we will se see. the fbi warned president trump about russian connections of some of his top campaign officials. one senator says they ve heard this before.
ambassador? john: i think if the number of countries covered by the ban is expanded, it will help. buttresses argument and the supreme court. the argument for the travel pan is the countries in it before had inadequate systems to prevent entrance from those countries. there are a lot of countries from around the world. harris: that list could be longer. john: think he s got a substantial chance of prevailing in the supreme court. using a number of procedural decisions by the court allowing his modified executive order to go forward, is not deposited by any stretch of the means but within the authority of the president that s been granted by congress statutorily, his discretion is controlling and the lower decisions trying to restain the travel ban are just administered of decisions. trish: i would totally agree with that. i don t think that you can put the president of the united states in our country in a position with the president is not able to make a decision based on inte
president trump will. but that doesn t take you out of the deal. the president has to decide he s going to exit the deal. some people are saying let s not certify, but stay in the deal. that s a big mistake. that is a one shoe on, one shoe off approach to diplomacy. president has got to be very clear here. one said to ferdinand marcos as he was asking should i resign as president of the philippians, he said cut and cut clean. and that s what presidential leadership is about. he needs to not certify and to get out. harris: i wanted to ask this follow-up question. just real quickly to what you re saying, ambassador. it sounds like you are saying that we have reached a point with iran now and certainly from what the lead inside to the story that i told the audience, they may do what they want to do regardless of the deal that s on the table. john: they are doing what they want to do. harris: so why not threaten to take it off the table? is it problematic? the president s critics are
what they want. i m thinking they re already doing it. john: they re already doing it. and there s a myth out there the international atomic energy agency is certified that iran is in compliance with the deal. it s simply not true. they have said that they observe in the places that are allowed to observe this past three months, no violation. they are not allowed into iran s military facilities. particularly those controlled by the revolutionary guards who are in control of the nuclear weapons program. where do you think the good stuff is happening in iran a? s tickled but the secretary of state rex tillerson a saying we should be looking at the deal but he is saying that they are g the expectations of it. john: he is wrong. because the president has said he s already made a decision. harris: we don t know what it is. jessica: do you have any sense of what his decision would be and who he is listening to when he is surrounded by his advisors, who is giving him what he needs to
going to be any different this time? i don t think they re going to get any democratic votes. i would be shocked if they did. i talked to joe manson who is a democrat that if you think anyone could get on board would be somebody like joe mansion of west virginia he said i can t do that because of pre-existing conditions for the people in my state. but i will say lindsey graham is someone who has about the most connections you can have on the senate. he also have to realize that they ve handled it very differently than the past bills. they tried to bring it sort of high and close doors. you haven t seen the bickering between as much but also mitch mcconnell has said we are not going to bring this to the floor and unless we are absolute the positive have every single that we need to have. harris: it got more complicated today when the report came out that every out of all 50 states, every single state medicaid director has signed on with these advocacy groups. so more power to your par