amanda, let lena respond to the points. it s really important to respond. it s very important to recognize that there are individuals on cable news networks that spend their entire career, morning, noon and night, earning a living by criticizing president trump. i agree what ana said earlier, it hurts the office of the president of the united states and hurts the american people. as a woman who has interacted with the president, i have been treated with nothing but kindness, grates f grace and respect by a man who surrounds himself with wonderful women who work well with him. how many times have we heard this, and then he undermines it? hold on a second. tell me why. lena, let me remind you that for the last eight years we had barack obama in office. i can tell you that right wing media, i can tell you people like me criticized him very strongly and vehemently. eight years before that we had george w. bush.
disastrous for a lot of people. what do you make of this idea that, if they can t get a deal done, they should just repeal and move forward with replacement from there? chris, that literally makes no sense. what i ve heard from business leaders the whole time i ve been an elected official is they want predictability so they can figure out what the path forward is. i recently met with the ceo of the health insurance company that provides health insurance to more delawareans than any other. he said the on going sabotage by the trump administration of t affordable care act, that s my word, sabotage, the unpredictability of the path forward is making it impossible for them to figure out how to price insurance. let s talk about that. it doesn t hit for a lot of people. you ve made this point which is, he s been hanging the subsidies that the federal government has to give to different providers in different marketplaces to