something that conservatives have been working against for a general raegz, ever since ronald reagan s administration, they have built an infrastructure is and movement to up pose such policy outcomes. they have really worked to promote free trade, which some view as essentially a tax on goods coming into the united states. when the president in just a moment erodes some of the work that they have been working on 30, 40 years, it s a real big thing. it will have real impacts on the economic outcomes in the united states nor everyone. yeah. and i just want to double-check. this came out of the blue, right? there were no prepared statements when the president went into that, quote, listening meeting. the names of those coming to this meeting were not even on the list specifically for the white house. i mean, john kelly had no idea who was going to be in that meeting, right? policywise, from a process
it was a listening meeting with governors. by the way there is an article that shows the number one driver of people enrolled in the obamacare system, if you will, was based upon governors, their leadership. this is a listening system as to what governors would need. how does washington meet the needs of the governor to help the governor meet the needs of the people in their state. what are you looking at? block grants to the states to allow governors greater power and figure out how insurance is done in their state? yeah, flexible block grants if you will. based upon the temporary assistance to needy families that reformed welfare that really did a lot to both modernize the program, but to improve the situation of the families who are in the program. so similarly if the states are given this flexible block grant, the governors can then approve it. then we can get there. there is a group of about 40
meeting but note this we appreciate the trump administration listening at the meeting. we encourage people we encourage the administration elect to listen to the country. that is to say to reject senator sessions as attorney general. you ll go back to alabama january 30th and plead guilty? i won t plead guilty and we will suffer the consequences, pay the fine, or go to jail because we re clear about this. people lost their lives for the right to vote. and this is not the last step but the fist step, continuing step of opposition. cornell william brooks of the naacp, thanks for coming in. thank you. to our viewers, stay with cnn for two very important upcoming town halls, vermont senator, former democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders takes questions from a live audience monday night with our own chris cuomo moderating. then house speaker paul ryan joins jake tapper for a town